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  2. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, with the letters F-U ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Coffeehouse - Wikipedia

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    The word coffee in various European languages [10]. The most common English spelling of café is the French word for both coffee and coffeehouse; [11] [12] it was adopted by English-speaking countries in the late 19th century. [13]

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

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    Europeans first learned about coffee consumption and practice through accounts of exotic travels to "oriental" empires of Asia. [2] According to Markman Ellis, travellers accounted for how men would consume an intoxicating liquor, "black in colour and made by infusing the powdered berry of a plant that flourished in Arabia."

  6. George Washington (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    After his coffee business was established in 1910, Washington resided at a Park Slope mansion, occupying half of a city block, at 47 Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, [5] and also at an 18-bedroom country home, later known as "Washington Lodge", on a 40-acre waterfront estate at 287 South Country Road in Brookhaven, New York, near Bellport in Suffolk County, which included the largest concrete ...

  7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  8. Viennese coffee house culture - Wikipedia

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    Coffee house culture: the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop Café Central in Vienna. The social practices, rituals, and elegance create the very specific atmosphere of the Viennese café. [2] Coffee houses entice with a wide variety of coffee drinks, international newspapers, and pastry creations.

  9. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp) Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy; Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup