Roberts, Bartholomew Roberts
(noun) a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722)
Roberts, Kenneth Roberts
(noun) United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957)
Roberts, Oral Roberts
(noun) United States evangelist (born 1918)
Roberts, Richard J. Roberts, Richard John Roberts
(noun) United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
