In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
YUMAS
Yu"mas, n. pl.; sing. Yuma (. (Ethnol.)
Definition: A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc.
Note: The a wider sense, the term sometimes includes the Mohaves and other allied tribes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FOCUS
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
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