In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MANGANIN
Noun
manganin (countable and uncountable, plural manganins)
Any of several alloys of copper, manganese and nickel used in the manufacture of electrical resistors because of the thermal stability of their resistance
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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