In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ARRHENIUS
Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius
(noun) Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)
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CRAZY
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
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