In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HALLEY
Halley, Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley
(noun) English astronomer who used Newton’s laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
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ELOQUENCE
(noun) powerful and effective language; “his eloquence attracted a large congregation”; “fluency in spoken and written English is essential”; “his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police”
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