An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VULCAN
Vulcan
(noun) (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Vulcan
(Roman god) The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, principally blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.
(astronomy, historical) A hypothetical planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis.
A town in southern Alberta, Canada.
A volcano in Papua New Guinea.
A commune in Brașov County, Romania.
A city in Hunedoara County, Romania.
A village in the commune of Apold, MureÈ™ County, Romania.
A village in the commune of Ciuruleasa, Alba County, Romania.
A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
An unincorporated community in Norway Township, Dickinson County, Michigan.
An unincorporated community in Iron County, Missouri.
An inactive volcano in New Mexico.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Vulcan
(fiction) An inhabited planet, the homeworld of the Vulcan species.
Noun
Vulcan (plural Vulcans)
(fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Vulcan.
(slang, pejorative) A person who seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring (like the fictional Vulcans).
Synonyms
• (slang): Spock
Source: Wiktionary
Vul"can, n. Etym: [L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. ulka a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano.] (Rom. Myth.)
Definition: The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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