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.
RESUSCITATION
resuscitation
(noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness; “although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
resuscitation (countable and uncountable, plural resuscitations)
The act of resuscitating.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sus`ci*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. resuscitatio.]
Definition: The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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