In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PESTIS
plague, pestilence, pest, pestis
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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31 March 2025
IMPROVISED
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
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