In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
THOMPSON
Thompson, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
(noun) English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
Thompson, Homer Thompson, Homer A. Thompson, Homer Armstrong Thompson
(noun) United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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