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.
STEINWAY
Steinway, Henry Steinway, Henry Engelhard Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinway
(noun) United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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