The ‘saddest bride I have ever seen.’ Child marriage is as popular as ever in Bangladesh. Thirty-two-year-old Mohammad Hasamur Rahman with his new bride, 15-year-old Nasoin Akhter, in Manikganj, Bangladesh. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images) On her wedding day, 15-year-old Nasoin Akhter looked “melancholic,” according to photographer Allison Joyce, who documented the teenage girl’s wedding to her 32-year-old husband, Mohammad Hasamur Rahman, last week in Manikganj, Bangladesh. “It’s tradition for the bride to look shy and coy during the wedding,” Joyce told The Washington Post in an e-mail. “But I noticed this sadness and unspoken fear and uncertainty even when she was in her room with her friends before the ceremony or at the parlor with her sister (who was also married around the same age). She was withdrawn and quiet. ” Akhter is consoled by a friend on the day of her wedding.
(Allison Joyce/Getty Images) Although Nasoin Akhter’s marriage is technically illegal in Bangladesh, laws against child marriage are rarely enforced. Akhter has her makeup done. Akhter poses for a video . ‘Calibration error’ changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois county.
US Gov't Reps. State Government Reps. Campaign Finance. Every Vote Counts!!! Political Parties. PA voting districts. PA candidates. Find Your Municipality. Registering to Vote PA. Voter Registration Deadlines. CNN Explains: Electoral College. History's nastiest presidential elections - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience. Reading the political news, you'd think this election is the nastiest, most contentious and most important our nation has ever faced. No doubt the outcome matters, but in the annals of American elections, this one barely registers for sheer strangeness. In fact, electoral politics have always been a down-and-dirty business, starting at least as early as 1800, when our founding fathers proved themselves adept at bitter battles. Other elections have featured nasty accusations, bizarre happenstance and even the death of one of the candidates. Read on for five of the strangest presidential elections in U.S. history. 1.
The very first one, 1788-1789 The first presidential election in our nation's history was one-of-a-kind in that it was literally no contest. The real question in 1788 was who would become vice president. 2. At the time, states got to pick their own election days, so voting ran from April to October (and you thought waiting for the West Coast polls to close was frustrating). 3.