Or are we expecting them to go from a coffeehouse to a coliseum?

I took this picture because this turns out to be the first coffeehouse to open in England, in 1650.

And the coffeehouse played such a big role in the birth of the Enlightenment in part because of what people were drinking there.

And so, effectively, until the rise of the coffeehouse, you had an entire population that was effectively drunk all day.

But the other thing that makes the coffeehouse important is the architecture of the space.

And an astonishing number of innovations from this period have a coffeehouse somewhere in their story.

And what I've done is, I've looked at both environments like the coffeehouse, I've looked at media environments like the World Wide Web, that have been extraordinarily innovative; I've gone back to the history of the first cities; I've even gone to biological environments, like coral reefs and rain forests, that involve unusual levels of biological innovation.

When I was chairman of our college's coffeehouse, one of our jobs was to review groups and films for student activities.

The film is the story of Charlie MacKenzie, a commitment phobic who performs in a coffeehouse as a poet.

Coffeehouse in sentence

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