tidbits cross time

In Turkey, insufficient coffee was regarded as legal reason sufficient for a woman to divorce her husband.

One medieval romance recounts how tales were told of heroes of old, such as Julius Caesar, who was so brave he once crossed the sea without invoking the name of Christ.

An attempt was made to deny Finnish immigrants to the United States naturalization on the grounds they did not qualify -- they needed to be white, not "Mongolian."
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