In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
KLAMATHS
Kla"maths, n. pl.; sing. Klamath (Ethnol.)
Definition: A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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