Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RANKIN
Rankin, Jeannette Rankin
(noun) leader in the women’s suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973)
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