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.
SQUEAKERS
Noun
squeakers
plural of squeaker
Anagrams
• Quakeress
Source: Wiktionary
SQUEAKER
Squeak"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, squeaks.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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