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.
TRENT
Trento, Trent
(noun) a city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige; the site of the Council of Trent
Trent, River Trent, Trent River
(noun) a river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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