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.
RIMROCK
Etymology
Noun
rimrock (plural rimrocks)
(geology) An outcrop of hard rock, often in the form of a cliff at the edge of a plateau, that forms the margin of a gravel deposit
Verb
rimrock (third-person singular simple present rimrocks, present participle rimrocking, simple past and past participle rimrocked)
(transitive) To drive (animals) over a cliff edge.
Source: Wiktionary
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