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.
RECONSTRUCTIONS
Noun
reconstructions
plural of reconstruction
Source: Wiktionary
RECONSTRUCTION
Re`con*struc"tion (-strk"shn), n.
1. The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
2. (U.S. Politics)
Definition: The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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