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The widowhood effect is the increase in the probability of a person dying a relatively short time after a long-time spouse has died. It can also be referred to as "dying of a broken heart ." Being widowed increases the likelihood of developing severe mental disorders [1] along with psychological and physical illnesses.
t. e. Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. [1] Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
In common parlance, the wives of Henry VIII were the six queens consort of King Henry VIII of England between 1509 and his death in 1547. In legal terms ( de jure ), Henry had only three wives, because three of his marriages were annulled by the Church of England. He was never granted an annulment by the Pope, as he desired, however, for ...
A Solo 401(k) (also known as a Self Employed 401(k) or Individual 401(k)) is a 401(k) qualified retirement plan for Americans that was designed specifically for employers with no full-time employees other than the business owner(s) and their spouse(s). The general 401(k) plan gives employees an incentive to save for retirement by allowing them ...
Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi ( née Chimanlal Modi; [4] [5] born 1952) is a retired Indian school teacher. She is the estranged wife of Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. The couple were married in 1968 when she was about 17 and Modi was 18. [6] [7] [8] A short time into the marriage, her husband and her had decided to divorce.
v. t. e. In Islam, iddah or iddat ( Arabic: العدة, romanized : al-ʿidda; "period of waiting") is the period a woman must observe after the death of her husband or after a divorce, during which she may not marry another man. [1] : 472 [2] One of its main purposes is to remove any doubt as to the paternity of a child born after the divorce ...
Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series. He was born in 1947 in Fife and left school at the age of fifteen to join the Army.After serving in Northern Ireland he applied to undergo selection for the SAS, but after a horrendous ordeal in training, left the army and joined the Lothian and Borders Police.