A clickable INDEX of more than 300 outstanding names in Croatian history, culture and science. Every nation in the world has something characteristic by which it is recognizable. This is also the case with the Croats: If you wear a tie (la cravate, die Krawatte), then remember its Croatian origin. Croatian coat of arms during centuries. A remarkable Address given by a Croatian Minister to those going to war, and due to its excellency translated into German, Dutch (in the Hague!), Swedish in 1778, and into Latvian in 1804.
Coffee tea leaves. Coffee tea leaves or coffee leaves are the leaves from the coffee plant (either Coffea robusta or Coffea arabica), prepared as an herbal tea. These leaves, after being roasted, can be ground up or crumpled, then brewed or steeped in hot water in a form similar to tea. The resulting liquor is similar in taste to green tea, but with less caffeine content than either regular tea or coffee. Coffee leaves closely resemble the leaves and stalks of Paraguay tea (llex paraguariensis).
Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, where the coffee bean would be wrapped in animal fat by the locals and used as sustenance on long hunting and raiding expeditions over a thousand years ago. It was the Arabians that took the plant away, farmed it heavily, and began the first coffee monopoly. In 1453, the Turks were the first people to actually make a drink out of coffee beans, and the worldâs first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opened there 22 years later. At the same time, Turkish law made it legal to divorce a man if he fails to provide his wife with enough coffee to last her the day.