In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
WERGELD
Etymology
Noun
wergeld (countable and uncountable, plural wergelds)
(historical, especially in Germanic legal) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.
(historical, especially in Germanic legal) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.
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POLE
(noun) one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions; “they are at opposite poles”; “they are poles apart”
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