In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BULLETWOOD
Etymology
Noun
bulletwood (countable and uncountable, plural bulletwoods)
A tropical hardwood tree, Manilkara bidentata, grown commercially in Puerto Rico.
The timber of this tree.
A flowering tree, Spanish cherry or medlar (Mimusops elengi), whose flowers are used in Thai herbal medicine.
Synonyms
• bully tree
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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