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He asked his wife, Hadi Rani, for some memento to take with him to the battlefield. Thinking that she was an obstacle to his doing his duty for Mewar, she cut off her head and put it on a plate. A servant covered it with a cloth and presented it to her husband.
Nur Jahan ( lit. ' Light of the world '; c. 1577 – 18 December 1645), [1] born Mehr-un-Nissa was the twentieth wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor Jahangir . More decisive and proactive than her husband, Nur Jahan is considered by certain historians to have been the real power behind the throne for more than a decade.
" The Romance of Certain Old Clothes " is a short story by American-British author Henry James, written in February 1868 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly.
Snider's two roommates had left in the morning, so the couple was alone when Stratten stepped into the house that she had shared with her husband until just a few months earlier. [11] [21] By all appearances, Stratten had spent some time in the living room, where her purse was found lying open, before she and Snider went into his bedroom. [22]
Cupid and Psyche is a story originally from Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass ), written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). [2] The tale concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche ( / ˈsaɪkiː /; Ancient Greek: Ψυχή, lit.
Mandodari was the daughter of Mayasura, the King of the Asuras (demons), and the apsara (celestial nymphs) Hema. She marries Ravana and bears three sons: Meghanada ( Indrajit ), Atikaya and Akshayakumara. According to some Ramayana adaptations, Mandodari is also the mother of Rama 's wife Sita, who is infamously kidnapped by Ravana. Despite her husband's faults, Mandodari loves him and advises ...
Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great. She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, among such women as Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut, and one of the most prominent not known or thought to have reigned in her own right.
Esther, [a] originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. [1] His grand vizier Haman is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian Mordecai because of his ...