1 4/2 and 4/8 are also simple quadruple. 2  Notice that a time signature in simple meter will always have a 2, 3, or 4 for the top number. 3  While beats in simple meter are divided into two notes, beats in compound meter are divided into three. 4  To demonstrate this, we will examine 6/8 time.
The Discovery and Isolation of Caffeine. Caffeine has been used as a medicinal and recreational drug since before recorded history, by consumption of caffeine bearing plants. However, the discovery of the chemical did not occur until a young physician called Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge isolated and purified the white crystalline substance in 1819.
Baldwin started scooping coffee beans at the original Peetâs store in California. That knowledge helped him when he started Starbucks in 1971; he was the coffee giantâs first roaster. âAll of my early coffee knowledge came from Alfred and what we learned there,â Baldwin says.