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  2. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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    Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

  3. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Snugli and Weego were invented by nurse and peacekeeper Ann Moore first in the 1960s. Pertussis Vaccine A pioneering female American doctor, medical researcher and an outspoken voice in the pediatric community, the supercentenarian Leila Alice Denmark (1898–2012) is credited as co-developer of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. [citation ...

  4. History of coffee - Wikipedia

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    Studies of genetic diversity have been performed on Coffea arabica varieties, which were found to be of low diversity but with retention of some residual heterozygosity from ancestral materials, and closely related diploid species Coffea canephora and C. liberica; [8] however, no direct evidence has ever been found indicating where in Africa coffee grew or who among the local people might have ...

  5. Coffeehouse - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th century, coffee appeared for the first time in Europe outside the Ottoman Empire, and coffeehouses were established, soon becoming increasingly popular. The first coffeehouse is said to have appeared in 1632 in Livorno , founded by a Jewish merchant, [ 23 ] [ 24 ] or later in 1640, in Venice . [ 25 ]

  6. English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674. The Mens Answer to the Womens Petition Against Coffee, 1674. Historians disagree on the role and participation of women within the English coffeehouse. Bramah states that women were forbidden from partaking in coffeehouse activity as customers. [72]

  7. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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    Loo tables were very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries as candlestands, tea tables, or small dining tables, although they were originally made for the popular card game loo or lanterloo. Their typically round or oval tops have a tilting mechanism , which enables them to be stored out of the way (e.g. in room corners) when not in use.

  8. Roberta Williams - Wikipedia

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    Roberta Lynn Williams (née Heuer; born February 16, 1953) [1] [2] is an American video game designer and writer, who co-founded Sierra On-Line with her husband, game developer Ken Williams. In 1980, her first game, Mystery House , became a modest commercial success; it is credited as the first graphic adventure game .

  9. List of women in the video game industry - Wikipedia

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    Dona Bailey. Dona Bailey - American game programmer who, along with Ed Logg in 1981, created the arcade video game Centipede. [4] [5]Laura Bailey - American voice actress.; Ellen Beeman - American fantasy and science fiction author, cofounder the industry group Women in Games International, and computer game designer/producer since the 1990s. [6]