His first two marriages ended in divorce — to June Ernst from 1935 to 1946, and to Norma Anderson from 1946 to 1969.

The book detailed her first three marriages:

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Many European monarchs were related due to political marriages, sometimes resulting in distant cousins ( and even first cousins ) being married.

In modern secular law, notably some US states, prohibit marriages between first cousins.

He took a bride in the town of Sfax, the first in a series of marriages that would feature in his travels.

If pregnancies of different marriages overlapped, the twelve births could have occurred within seven years ( the first eleven births occur within six years-Genesis 31: 38 ).

Lex Luthor has been married eight times, though the first seven marriages occurred off-panel in Luthor's past.

* 2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D. C., take place.

On average, first marriages that end in divorce last about eight years.

She was Queen consort of England by successive marriages: first as second wife to Æthelred the Unready of England ( 1002 – 16 ); and then second wife to Cnut the Great of Denmark ( 1017 – 35 ).

Her first three marriages ended in divorce ; the last ended with the death of husband Al Steele.

Before these royal marriages, Darius married a commoner with whom he had three sons, Artobarzanes ( the first born ), Arabignes and Arsamenes, while daughters are not known.

This was accommodated by Perthe's Almanach de Gotha ( which categorised princely families by rank until it ceased publication after 1944 ) by inserting the offspring of such marriages in the third section of the almanac under entries denoted by a symbol ( a dot within a circle ) that " signifies some princely houses which, possessing no specific princely patent, have passed from the first part, A, or from the second part into the third part in virtue of special agreements.

Although a womanizer, it was revealed in the final episode of Season 2 that his last four of five total marriages failed because he never got over losing his first wife Beth, the only woman he ever loved.

Of these 200 marriages, five were between men and women who had been reared together for the first six years of their lives which would argue against the Westermarck effect.

Anthropologists have documented a great number of societies where marriages between some first cousins are prohibited as incestuous, while marriages between other first cousins are encouraged.

Benigna had two marriages, the first to Pedro Briceño Méndez and the second to Pedro Amestoy.

She had two sisters, a brother and many half-siblings ( from her father's first, second and third marriages ) including a half-brother, retired naval captain Henry Jocelyn Davison, who gave evidence at her inquest.

Victor Amadeus organised the first two marriages of Charles Emmanuel the first one being to Anne Christine of Sulzbach, daughter of the Count Palatine of Sulzbach which produced a son which died in infancy.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

For ten minutes they ran beneath the squall, raising their arms and, for the first time, shouting and capering.

He returned to Germany for the first time in 1953, where he has since conducted in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

He had taken out first papers for American citizenship ; ;

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

As a groundwork for the proposal I give some attention to the first task enumerated above, the clarification of goal.