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.
TIDEWATER
Tidewater, Tidewater region
(noun) the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia
tidewater
(noun) low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tidewater (countable and uncountable, plural tidewaters)
Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams.
The seaboard.
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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