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- 451: Alexander Hamilton
- ... she married a Danish proprietor of St. Croix named John Michael Levine. Ms. Levine left her husband and was later divorced from him on June 25, 1759. Under Danish law, the (the court ordering the divorce) Ms. Levine was forbidden from remarrying. Thus, Hamilton's birth was illegitimate. Alexander Hamilton had one brother, James Hamilton. Heavy burdens fell upon Hamilton's shoulders during childhood. Business failures caused Hamilton's father to ...
- 452: Agatha Christie
- ... fascinated her, thus prompting her to use them as factors in several of her Graham 2 works. Her marriage to Christie lasted only twelve years, and they were divorced in 1926. Not long after her divorce from her first husband, Christie disappeared without a trace for a short period of ten days. She was found at a resort hotel, claiming to be a victim of amnesia caused by emotional stress. Agatha ...
- 453: The Marriage
- ... have decided that the day you sell a computer to a customer , is the day that you marry them.I wake up each day with the hopes that ,at least one of my customers will divorce me today.
- 454: Warren G. Harding
- ... for the League. But Harding interpreted his election as a mandate to stay out of the League of Nations. Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, became the publisher of a newspaper. He married a divorce, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises. He organized the Citizen's ...
- 455: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... finished with her studies, and a trained anthropologist was unwilling to follow her husband. Both parties were not willing to give of their prestigious careers. Hence, the marriage only lasted eight months, ending in a divorce in 1931 (Lyons 62). However, Zora and Sheen remained life long friends and continued to write letters and back forth where Zora once wrote him, "Your own mother has never loved you to the depth ...
- 456: Queen Elizabeth
- ... miscarried twice before delivering a stillborn son. When Elizabeth was two her father had her mother beheaded for adultery and treason, this was just a way to rid himself of her rather then get a divorce. This was not Henry s first wife; this was his second wife. His first wife had also born him a female child. He had divorced her in hopes that he would get an heir from ...
- 457: Prophet Muhammad
- ... four. This is the first time in the history of revealed scriptures that a limit on the number of wives was imposed and the terms of conduct were specified. The Prophet was instructed not to divorce any of his wives after this revelation. All of the ladies he took as wives were either widowed or divorced, except Aishah r.a. The disbelievers proposed a 10-year treaty with Muhammad (s). The ...
- 458: Peter The Great 3
- ... Menshikov. When Peter fell in love with Martha, he was still married to Evdokia, whom he never loved. So, to get rid of her, he sent her to a convent in 1698, the same as divorce, when Peter was 26 (4:96-97). On November 8, 1707, Peter and Martha were married (she now took the name of Catherine). Together they had 12 children, including 6 sons, 3 named Peter, and ...
- 459: Pompey
- ... Africanus. Pompey tried to hold on to his connections to Republic families. Pompey divorced his wife, Mucia, who was Metellus half sister, because of claims of adultery whilst he was in the East. After the divorce, Pompey hoped to retain links with the optimates by marrying Cato s niece. However Cato refused, calling it a form of bribery (Cicero, Selected Political Speeches , p97.). In conclusion, from appreciating Pompeys transcend to political ...
- 460: Napoleon 5
- ... control over their children and husbands over their wives. Inheritance of property was distributed among all children, males and females. Married women could only dispose of their own property with the consent of their husbands. Divorce remained more difficult for women than for men. The Napoleonic Code embodies the ideas and reforms of the French Revolution, similarly the Napoleonic Code exemplify the nature of Napoleon Bonaparte s character of being a ...
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