The word 'wife' originally meant 'woman'
1. Marguerite de Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre, was born on April 11, 1492; Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi was born on April 11, 1869…
2. Rachele Mussolini, wife of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was born on April 11, 1890; and Ethel Kennedy, wife of US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, was born on April 11, 1928.
3. The average age at which women first become wives in England and Wales is 28.9.
4. In 1966, the average was 22.5.
5. In 2008, Bello Abubakar of Nigeria who had 86 wives advised other men not to follow his example.
6. The word ‘wife’ originally meant ‘woman’ but was later restricted to ‘a woman of humble rank’.
7. Timon Of Athens is the only Shakespeare play that does not include the word ‘wife’, though it does refer to nature as ‘the bounteous housewife’.
8. In 2008, Mrs Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book was published, revealing some of the recipes Emma Darwin liked to cook for her husband.
9. King Solomon, according to 1 Kings 11 in the Old Testament, had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
10. Despite this, the words ‘wife’ and ‘wives’ are totally absent from the Song of Solomon.
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