Widow conservation was a practice in Protestant Europe in the early modern age, when the widow of a parish vicar (or sometimes her daughter) would marry...

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...

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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...

frontier could offer them. Most of these women were single, but some were widows, divorcées or runaways. Mail-order marriages gave Black women an escape...

Latrodectus bishopi is the scientific name for the red widow spider, which is endemic to the Florida scrub habitat of central and southern Florida, where...

Sati was a historical practice in Hindu communities in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. Although...

Posthumous marriage, a marriage in which at least one party is dead Widow conservation "Levirate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster". Why Polyandry Fails:...

the parish social welfare, a position maintained by the system of Widow Conservation until the 19th century. From the Magnus Erikssons landslag of 1350...

1963) is an American billionaire businesswoman and executive. She is the widow of Steve Jobs, who was the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., and...

The widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) is one of the group of dragonflies known as king skimmers. The nymphs live in the water, molting and growing until...

in both directions. List of people who remarried the same spouse Widow conservation Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 - UK law barred remarriage...

vicar by the customary method of widow conservation, in which a clergyman succeeded to a parish by marrying the widow or daughter of his predecessor. In...

The chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) is a nocturnal bird of the nightjar family Caprimulgidae. It is mostly found in the southeastern United...

Yibbum forms the plot of the Hallmark movie Loving Leah. Takkanot Shum Widow conservation Leviticus 18:16; 20:21 Mishneh Torah Laws of Yibbum and Halizah 1:3;...

Dingana fraterna, the Stoffberg widow, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is only known from one hillside to the south-west of the Stoffberg...

Dingana clara, the Wolkberg widow, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is only known from the Wolkberg in the Limpopo Province. The wingspan...

resulted in the phenomenon called widow conservation, in which the newly appointed pastor was expected to marry the widow of his predecessor. The Bible study...

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization based in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington...

the successor of her late spouse, Uno Troilus (1586-1654), through Widow Conservation. Stormor was known and loved for her great kindness: upon her death...

death, and the renaming was endorsed by his widow Terri. The ship and her crew, and their efforts for conservation, were the subject of the Animal Planet show...

Vágar, and in 1706 (by widow conservation) to the vicar Peder Ditlevsen Arhboe (1675–1756), of Vágar. In contrast to most of the widows of vicars in the period...

The widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), or brown bomber, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes...

Janice Cousteau (née Sullivan; 5 April 1939) is the widow of undersea explorer Philippe Cousteau and joined the Cousteau team on 20 expeditions over 12...

Christopher Hall. Lee Durrell, Gerald Durrell's widow and director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, acted as consultant. The series was partly...

#freeflaco on social media and circulated a petition to the zoo. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the organization which runs the Central Park Zoo and other...

a deteriorating effect on staff recruitment. - The preference of Widow Conservation for the candidates of parish vicars is dropped: informally, however...

zookeeper who is the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland. She is the widow of Steve Irwin. Born in Oregon, she began working for an independent animal...

common custom of Widow Conservation by stating that a parish vicar is to be chosen first by those candidates willing to marry the widow or daughter of his...

2023. Rayner, Gordon (6 November 2014). "Prince Harry meets Afghan war widow at Fields of Remembrance event". The Telegraph. Archived from the original...