In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
(noun) French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
Curie, Pierre Curie
(noun) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
curie, Ci
(noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
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curie (plural curies)
3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
• urcei, ureic
Curie
A surname, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
• urcei, ureic
Source: Wiktionary
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.