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.
VOLTS
Noun
volts
plural of volt
Anagrams
• STOVL, V/STOL, VTOLs, lov'st
Source: Wiktionary
VOLT
Volt, n. Etym: [F. volte; cf. It. volta. See Vault.]
1. (Man.)
Definition: A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
2. (Fencing)
Definition: A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
Volt, n. Etym: [After Alessandro Volta, the Italian electrician.] (Elec.)
Definition: The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampère. It is practically equivalent to
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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