In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AACHEN
Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle
(noun) a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne’s northern capital
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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