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Its most concise telling is in Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae (1450), where it is titled "The man who searched in the river for his dead wife": A man, whose wife had drowned in a stream, went up the river against the current to look for the body. A peasant who saw him marvelled greatly at this, and advised him to follow the flow of the current.
A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died and has usually not remarried.The male form, "widower", is first attested in the 14th century, by the 19th century supplanting "widow" with reference to men. [1]
A widow is a woman whose husband has died; a widower is a man whose wife has died. Widow, The Widow, Widow's, or Widower may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media
BOSTON (AP) — A man whose wife collapsed outside a locked hospital emergency room door and later died has received a face-to-face apology from the chief executive of the hospital's parent company.
A Corbin man accused of kidnapping his wife was reportedly shot and killed by police in Mississippi Sunday afternoon. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety identified the man who died as ...
The wife of Stanley Kotowski, the Massachusetts man whose body was found this week on Hilton Head Island, S.C. — 10 days after he disappeared — is sharing her heartache.. Kotowski, 60, was ...
The 60-year-old called officers on Dec. 16 and said someone was inside his home and he believed his wife was dead, according to an arrest affidavit from the Panama City Beach Police Department ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...