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.
VELES
Proper noun
Veles
A city in central North Macedonia.
Veles, the pagan Slavic god of the fertile earth, waters, and the underworld, often visualized as a chimera
Synonym: Volos
HD 75898 b, an exoplanet approximately 2.71 times the mass of Jupiter in the Stribor system, ~255 ly from Earth
Anagrams
• elves, veels
Noun
veles
plural of vele
Anagrams
• elves, veels
Source: Wiktionary
VELE
Vele, n.
Definition: A veil. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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