In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer
(noun) Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.