In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SHOPHAR
shofar, shophar
(noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
shophar (plural shophars or shopharot or shopharoth or shophroth)
Alternative spelling of shofar
Source: Wiktionary
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PARSEC
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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