A Calipha is either a female caliph or the wife or widow of a caliph.

* Ella T. Grasso ( 1919 – 1981 ), first female governor of Connecticut, first woman to be elected governor in the United States who was not the wife or widow of a governor, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993

According to the report by Russian investigators, Zura Barayeva, the widow of Arbi Barayev, led the female members of the group, while a man known as Yasir, identified by his documents as Idris Alkhazurov, was said to be the group's " ideologist " believed to be trained in Saudi Arabia.

Particular religious practices are recognized by the WHO and UN as unethical, including female genital mutilation ( FGM ), sati ( burning the widow on the husband's burial pyre ), polygamy, child brides, and human sacrifice.

In collaboration with writer-producer Peter S. Fischer, with whom they had previously worked on Columbo, Link and Levinson changed the sex of their protagonist from male to female and transformed the character from a good-looking, absent-minded young pedant to a middle-aged, down-to-earth widow.

When George Forrest, the MP for Mid Ulster, died, she fought the subsequent by-election on the " Unity " ticket, defeating a female Unionist candidate, Forrest's widow Anna, and was elected to the Westminster Parliament.

A female black widow spider can produce four to nine egg sacs in one summer, each containing about 100-400 eggs.

* Black widow, is a term for female serial killers who murder a succession of husbands or boyfriends

The common name, widow spiders, is sometimes applied to members of the genus due to a behavior seen in some species in which the female eats the male after mating.

The female black widow has unusually large venom glands and its bite is particularly harmful to humans ; however, Latrodectus bites rarely kill humans if proper medical treatment is provided.

The prevalence of sexual cannibalism in female Latrodectus has inspired the common name black widow spider.

The bite of a male black widow is not considered dangerous to humans ; it is the bite of the adult female black widow from her much larger venom sacs that has given this spider its dangerous reputation.

While there is great variation in specifics by species and by sex, any spider exhibiting a red hourglass or a pair of large red round spots on the ventral abdomen with an otherwise black shiny body is an adult female black widow.

Newspapers then reported, based on the questionable wording of an order from J. Edgar Hoover ("... find the woman and give her no quarter "), that the FBI had issued a " death order " for Nelson's young widow, who wandered the streets of Chicago as a fugitive for several days, described in print as America's first female " public enemy ".

Governance under the established “ Punjab School ” of Henry and John Lawrence was initially successful, partially due to the system of local cultural respect, while still maintaining British values against acts of widow burning, female infanticide, and burning of lepers alive by small segments of the Indian populace.

* That it is permissible for a female widow or divorcée to wear a wig as a head covering, despite prohibiting it for married women ( see below ).

The Rajput practice of female infanticide and sati ( widow immolation ) was another matter of concern to the British colonialists.

According to halakha, when a married man dies without having any children, male or female, from any relationship ( including premarital and extra marital ), his widow and his brother must perform either yibbum or halizah.

The strained relationship between mother and son improved though, and thanks to the new Tsar, Maria Feodorovna, only forty-two years old when she became a widow, kept the highest female position at court.

* 29 September-Kathleen Clarke, widow of Tom Clarke, Sinn Féin and later Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin ( born 1878 ).

The scene of his books is a fictional small farm-the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo ( loosely translated as the Yellow Woodpecker Estate ) owned by the central character to all of M L's books, one Dona Benta, a cultivated widow living alone in the farmlet with her black female servant Nastácia.

They also have the power to change their shapes — usually to a comely drow female or to a spider ( usually a black widow ).

Ranade was a founder of the Social Conference movement, which he supported till his death, directing his social reform efforts against child marriage, the shaving of widows ' heads, the heavy cost of marriages and other social functions, and the caste restrictions on traveling abroad, and he strenuously advocated widow remarriage and female education.

In open class poultry, Donald Wacklin of Sherwood had the champion male and female bird and grand champion bird.

The female lays her eggs in nests of other species of bird, always smaller than the cuckoo, one per nest.

A docile bird the size of a bantam, it stands high and the female weighs.

Gimbutas did identify the diverse and complex Paleolithic and Neolithic female representations she recognized as depicting a single universal Great Goddess, but also as manifesting a range of female deities: snake goddess, bee goddess, bird goddess, mountain goddess, Mistress of the Animals, etc., which were not necessarily ubiquitous throughout Europe.

With most color morphs, if the cere is brown or pinkish, the bird is female.

If the cere has white rings around the nostrils, the bird is likely female.

Every ya has a gender ( male ya are called haya ; female ya, otoya ); being made from feathers from alternate sides of the bird, the haya spins clockwise upon release while the otoya spins counter-clockwise.

Underlying the world-view is an account of the creation and re-creation of this middle-earth where the Dayak dwell, arising out of a cosmic battle in the beginning of time between a primal couple, a male and female bird / dragon ( serpent ).

The female is a much browner bird, with a buff stripe above the eye.

For example, male zebra finches appear to prefer mates with the appearance of the female bird that rears them, rather than that of the birth parent when they are different.

Then he courts a suitable imprint female bird ( including offering food, if it is part of that species's normal courtship ); at " copulation " he puts the flat of one hand on her back, and with the other hand uses a pipette, or a hypodermic syringe without a needle, to squirt the semen into her cloaca.

The female is a browner bird, but has the characteristic lower back, and her seasonal changes are less marked.

Gimbutas argued that the thousands of female images from Old Europe ( archaeology ) represented a number of different groups of goddess symbolism, notably a " bird and snake " group associated with water, an " earth mother " group associated with birth, and a " stiff nude " group associated with death, as well as other groups.

In this movie, Panja and his mate, Eliza, are still alive, Coco is an unspecified female bird, and Sylvester, the black panther, serves as a secondary antagonist until he changes his ways when a young boy mends his leg.

The male is striking in the typical oriole black and yellow plumage, but the female is a drabber green bird.

This bird nests in isolated places with the female building the nest and the male guarding it.

The female Gadwall ( A. strepera ) has an orange-lined bill, white belly, black and white speculum which is seen as a white square on the wings in flight, and is a smaller bird.

Furthermore, on January 14, 2002, a bird reminiscent of a female Bachman's Warbler was filmed at Guardalavaca, Cuba.

A female Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest non-stop flight for a land bird.

The female adopts a begging posture and vocalises like a young bird.

Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a chicken, other poultry, game bird, octopus, or lobster.

In another study, a female Kite was seen to struggle back to fledglings in the nest with a three-quarters grown rabbit, a heavy load for such a small bird.