In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HUXLEY
Huxley, Thomas Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley
(noun) English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin’s theory of evolution (1825-1895)
Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley
(noun) English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
Huxley, Andrew Huxley, Andrew Fielding Huxley
(noun) English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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