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Перевод: bigamy

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бигамия ; двоеженство; двоемужие
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Тезаурус:

1. A marriage celebrated between two persons, one of whom is at the time validly married, is in any case void; and any person knowingly entering into such a marriage is guilty of bigamy.
2. On this day: Saladin entered Jerusalem, 1187; the Duke of York captured Alkmaar in the Netherlands, 1799; Rome became the capital city of Italy, 1870; Brigham Young, Mormon leader, was arrested for bigamy, 1871; the first Royal Naval submarine was launched at Barrow, 1901; the first rugby football match was played at Twickenham, 1909; Italy invaded Ethiopia, 1935; the liner Empress of Britain, bound for Canada with refugees, was sunk, 1940; the British Council received a Royal Charter, 1940; 338 people died when the Queen Mary liner collided with the British cruiser Curacao, which sank off the coast of Donegal, 1942; a new island, with a volcano at the centre, appeared off Fayal Island, Azores 1957; Guinea became an independent republic, 1958; the first London performance of the musical show Promises, Promises was presented, 1968.
3. For the male pied flycatcher, bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations.
4. The marriage ceremony involves a couple in a public contract - a legal commitment to each other and only to each other, bigamy being a punishable crime.
5. Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.
6. The fact that bigamy charges were pending against the defendant in the forum Province was accepted as a valid reason in one case; not surprisingly, a Saskatchewan judge was markedly unimpressed by a defendant's assertion that he could not travel from Oregon because the trial would occur at "a very busy period in the building industry".
7. It is in such conditions that we should look for an explanation of the outcrop in the 1860s of sensational popular fiction, replete with desertion, adultery, bigamy and sudden death; much of it was written from the woman's point of view by women writers, such as Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Mrs Henry Wood.
8. After a brief engagement to a man later convicted for bigamy and fraud, in 1929 she married American-born Robert Woodward Hathaway (second of three sons of Charles Hathaway, a Wall Street banker).
9. On this day: Captain Cook landed in New Zealand, 1769; the Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser newspaper was first issued, US 1796; the Rainhill trials of railway locomotives began, 1829; the Mormons in Utah renounced bigamy, 1890; Sir Henry Wood began Promenade Concerts at the Queen's Hall, London, 1895; Manchester University was opened, 1903; Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1908; 243 people died when the US freighter Ticonderoga was sunk by a German U-boat, 1918; the Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talking film, began showing in New York, 1927; Chiang Kai-shek became president of China, 1928; the first production of the musical show Nymph Errant was presented, London, 1933; the Berlin airlift ended, 1949.
10. The divorce act of 1857 evinced a flurry of interest in the next decade in stories of bigamy and adultery: a special paper, The Divorce News and Police Reporter , was founded to cater for specialised tastes, but other Victorian papers, like their more familiar twentieth-century offspring, were full of divorce cases and other sexual scandals.
11. Mr Justice Maule pointed out the absurdity of them when he came to his summing-up at the end of a trial for bigamy:
12. What is different about the pied flycatcher, and what makes this species so interesting, is that the male achieves his bigamy by deceit.
13. BIGAMY BIRDS