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  • Black Widow is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed...
    244 KB (20,180 words) - 07:40, 26 May 2024
  • A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died and has usually not remarried. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed...
    26 KB (2,678 words) - 12:23, 23 May 2024
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    Sati was a historical practice in Hindu communities in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. Although...
    148 KB (18,367 words) - 11:06, 4 June 2024
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    At least four widows of veterans of the American Civil War (fought 1861–1865) are known to have survived into the 21st century. All were born in the 20th...
    20 KB (1,897 words) - 22:06, 18 November 2023
  • Huaxia, a futuristic reinterpretation of Medieval China. Iron Widow is a New York Times Best Seller; as of July 2022[update], the book has remained on the...
    26 KB (2,916 words) - 21:55, 9 May 2024
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    Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II. It was the first operational U.S. warplane designed as a night...
    101 KB (13,748 words) - 14:58, 26 May 2024
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    deposits her eggs in a globular silken container in which they remain camouflaged and guarded. A female black widow spider can produce four to nine egg sacs...
    18 KB (2,020 words) - 10:06, 24 May 2024
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    The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act 1856, also Act XV, 1856, passed on 16 July 1856, legalised the remarriage of widows in all jurisdictions of India under...
    14 KB (1,613 words) - 16:03, 28 May 2024
  • upon the death of Germanus, she determined to remain a widow." According to Patrick Amory, she was forced to marry Witigis after the murder of her mother...
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    for the black widow and other spiders in the genus Latrodectus. It is often referred to as the false widow, although "false widow" is a more general term...
    31 KB (3,545 words) - 19:30, 23 December 2023
  • Widow inheritance (also known as bride inheritance) is a cultural and social practice whereby a widow is required to marry a male relative of her late...
    28 KB (3,716 words) - 14:50, 29 December 2023
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    marking on the underside of the black widow spider further reinforcing the unofficial nickname "Black Widow II" given to the YF-23 because of its 8-lobe radar...
    45 KB (5,479 words) - 17:34, 6 June 2024
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    Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow spider or western widow, is a venomous spider species found in western regions of North America. The female's...
    24 KB (2,961 words) - 10:11, 24 May 2024
  • The Chinese Widow (Chinese: 烽火芳菲), also known as In Harm's Way and The Hidden Soldier, is a 2017 Chinese war drama film directed by Danish director Bille...
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  • 1262. He died five years later at the age of thirty-six and Agnes remained a widow. John's daughter by Agnes, Beatrice, after the death of her mother...
    4 KB (429 words) - 06:41, 12 October 2022
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    Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the...
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  • of Badr in March 624,: 37  and Zaynab remained a widow for nearly a year. There are conflicting reports as to whether Zaynab was "beautiful" and refused...
    8 KB (854 words) - 07:53, 30 April 2024
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    sage Socrates, who had another woman but took up this one as she remained a widow due to her poverty and lacked the necessities of life." Athenaeus and...
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    John II died the same year as his second and last known son. Jeanne remained a widow for seven years. On 11 January 1495, Jeanne married her second husband...
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  • (born 1992). Hervey died in May 1875, aged 37. Lady Augustus Hervey remained a widow until her death in January 1920. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of...
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