Word: elinore
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...year 1137, Elinor, grand-daughter of William IX of Aquitaine, married Louis VII of France. The marriage was not a happy one. It was ended by a divorce allowed on the grounds of propinquity, she being his cousin seven times removed. Being freed thus, Elinor was again married, this time to Henry, Count of Anjou. The alliance is significant to us from its social rather than its political effects. By far the most important part of Elinor's dowry was the new conception of society which she brought with her from the south of France to the northern provinces...
...Miss Elinor Buckingham, a senior in the Harvard Annex, has been appointed an instructor in the Royal Normal College for the Blind at London...