In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
POSTPUNK
Etymology
Adjective
postpunk (not comparable)
(music) Of or pertaining to the period following the punk period
Noun
postpunk (countable and uncountable, plural postpunks)
(uncountable) A rock music genre that followed punk rock and was more artistic and experimental, laying the foundations for alternative rock.
(countable) A performer or aficionado of postpunk music.
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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