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Since the law was laid down in the regime of Queen Juana the Crazy* back in 1505, Spanish women have made few advances in their rights and privileges. Only married or widowed Spanish women may vote. Without her husband's written consent, a senora may not inherit property, may not manage money or businesses, may not witness a will, or may not take a job. She may get a legal separation from her husband only if she leaves her home (it belongs to the man, even if purchased with the wife's-dowry), and surrenders all children older...
...Juana, the third of five children born to Ferdinand and Isabella, became heir to the throne after her only brother died and her older sister married the King of Portugal. Another sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella...
...Died. Juana Sosa de Perón Canosa, 78, mother of Argentine Dictator Juan Domingo Perón; in Argentina...
After eight months of marriage to Cinemactor Bruce Cabot (born Etienne Jacques Pelisner de Bujac), Venezuela-born Franchesca Juana Soffa Arnaudt (his third wife) decided that life with him was cruel by California definition, signed divorce papers...
...corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent men in the government will die, and two great plagues will sweep the world." A couple of women hastily crossed themselves...