America's involvement in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II left a population of widows and orphans in its wake. Faced with rebuilding their lives alone, many wives and mothers confronted great emotional and financial...

. When a medieval woman was widowed, she was able to act independently for one of the few times in her life, rather than being under the tutelage of a father, brother, or husband. Since women normally married men much older than themselves, widows were...

(vidhavā) widowhood has always had a certain stigma of guilt attached to it in Hinduism and there has always been at the very least an ambiguous attitude to the remarriage of widows. In Vedic times, and up to the epic time, levirate...

A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered. (Spanish) A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. (Portuguese) A young widow is not long a widow. (Spanish) Do not trust a widow three times married. (Spanish) He who marries a...

WIDOW is a full-length album recorded by British rock band Ritual released in 1983. The album gained notability for the band when it was mentioned by Alan Freeman on the Friday Rock Show. Several hundred copies of the album were pressed without the band...

As a distressed Corina Turcinovic sat in a white van bound for the airport, it seemed her worst fear was about to become reality — she would be deported from the country she considers home.Instead, the van suddenly turned around, making Tuesday one of the...

Louisiana bug experts say the poisonous brown widow spider, a cousin to the well-known black widow, is increasingly being spotted in Louisiana.The spiders are generally found in tropical areas but were reported along the Mississippi Gulf Coast last year.Entomologists with the Louisiana State University AgCenter...

Marie Jordan Speer and Jessica Byrd each sent a husband to war. Each became a widow in her early 20s. Speer had a 1-year-old son. Byrd was pregnant with her son. Suddenly on their own, both women were again dependent on their families. The biggest...

It's been a year since Coretta Scott King received thunderous applause when she surprised guests at the annual Salute to Greatness Dinner and appeared on stage, smiling and waving with her children.On Saturday, guests again applauded the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., as she...