Styx, River Styx
(noun) (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Styx, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Myth.)
Definition: The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
