Who won is not revealed, but Winslow's daughter Eleanor says they got up to 1,212 words.

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

There is, however, an earlier Eleanor on record: Eleanor of Normandy, William the Conqueror's aunt, who lived a century earlier than Eleanor of Aquitaine.

This vase is the only object connected with Eleanor of Aquitaine still surviving.

It is Eleanor ’ s court in Poitiers that some believe to have been the ‘ Court of Love ’, where Eleanor and her daughter Marie meshed and encouraged the ideas of troubadours, chivalry, and courtly love into a single court.

That is not to say that Eleanor invented courtly love, for it was a concept that had begun to grow before Eleanor ’ s court arose.

Still, because we do not have much information about what occurred while Eleanor was in Poitiers, all that can be taken from this episode is that her court there was most likely a catalyst for the increased popularity of courtly love literature in the Western European regions.

Amy Kelly, in her article “ Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Courts of Love ”, gives a very plausible description of the origins of the rules of Eleanor's court: “ in the Poitevin code, man is the property, the very thing of woman ; whereas a precisely contrary state of things existed in the adjacent realms of the two kings from whom the reigning duchess of Aquitaine was estranged .”

She is identified as Eleanor, by the Grace of God, Queen of the English, Duchess of the Normans.

He finally adopted the nom de plume George Orwell because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, " It is a good round English name.

* The 2005 film A Different Loyalty is an unattributed account taken from Eleanor Philby's book, Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved.

In this, his legend is similar to that of King Arthur, which morphed from a dangerous male-centred story to a more comfortable, chivalrous romance under the troubadours serving Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Richard is often depicted as having been the favourite son of his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine.

* 1930 – 1931 – Crazy Horse's lifelong friend, " He Dog ", is interviewed by the journalist Eleanor Hinman and the writer Mari Sandoz.

* 1275 – Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to Llywelyn the Last, prince of Wales ; she is used as a bargaining chip over the coming years in Edward's attempts to subjugate Llywelyn and Wales.

* John Rykener, known also as Johannes Richer and Eleanor, a transvestite prostitute working mainly in London ( near Cheapside ), but also active in Oxford, is arrested for cross-dressing and interrogated.

* May – Hugh the younger Despenser, favourite of King Edward II of England, is married to heiress Eleanor de Clare.

* Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to Llywelyn the Last, prince of Wales ; she is used as a bargaining chip over the coming years in Edward's attempts to subjugate Llywelyn and Wales.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

Others, such as Polly Schoyer Brooks ( the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor ), suggest that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously and that the acts of Courtly Love were just a “ parlor game ” made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there.

Eleanor spent the next few years conspiring against her husband Henry and neither parent played a part in John's very early life.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

Segregation was still very much in existence during the war, but it was not supported by Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt.

When the town was developed, the houses were built to look very similar to one another and are now referred to as old Eleanor houses.

Peckham was very strict in his interpretations of canon law, and once wrote to Queen Eleanor that her use of loans from Jewish moneylenders to acquire lands was usury and a mortal sin.

In a 1967 interview, however, Townshend complimented one of The Beatles ' songs: " I think " Eleanor Rigby " was a very important musical move forward.

The period at which Cercamon lived is determined by a piece where he alludes very clearly to the approaching marriage of the king of France, Louis VII, with Eleanor of Aquitaine ( 1137 ).

Her romance and marriage to Simon de Montfort are very much romanticized in this novel, especially since in real life Simon is killed the year following the Battle of Lewes and the pair had already had all 7 of their children ; in the book, Eleanor and Simon have only just had their first two sons.

Henry's mother was Princess Eleanor of England ( daughter of King John ), whose marriage to Simon further increased the foreign influence begun by the king, which was to result in great hostility by those very barons who later revolted against the king.

Henry II emerged victorious: because of his wealth he could recruit very large amount of mercenaries, and he had captured and imprisoned Eleanor early on as well as captured William the Lion and forced him into the Treaty of Falaise.

He was murdered by his nobles, but left a very devoted wife Eleanor of Aragon ( supposedly he took her nightgown with him on his campaigns ), who with the help of the Italians pursued the assassins.

Linda Vista was home of the very first mall-type shopping center in the United States, which was dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Due to this, her father very much wants Eleanor to marry into the wealthier, but lower class, Jones family.

Peter did not lead the resistance against Genoese, but left it to his uncles, John and James I. Oppositely, the young king, who was with his mother Eleanor on Famagusta, he only managed to lose a very important city-harbour and to be arrested as captive.

The Glanville Fritillary is named for Lady Eleanor Glanville, an eccentric 17th and 18th century English butterfly enthusiast – a very unusual occupation for a woman at that time.

This made Eleanor a very attractive offer to Ferdinand.

The General goes off to London, and Eleanor becomes less inhibited and shy away from his imposing presence.

In the first season, the show introduced The Chipettes, three female versions of the Chipmunks — Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor, who each paralleled the original Chipmunks in personality except for Brittany being vainer than Alvin, with Jeanette smart like Simon, and Eleanor shy and kind like Theodore, with their own human guardian, the myopic Miss Beatrice Miller ( who arrived for the 1983 season ).

The story concerns four main characters: Dr. John Montague, an investigator of the supernatural ; Eleanor Vance, a shy young woman who resents having lived as a recluse caring for her demanding invalid mother ; Theodora, a flamboyant, bohemian, possibly lesbian artist ; and Luke Sanderson, the young heir to Hill House, who is host to the others.

" Another stone, dated 1598, indicated that Eleanor had married the " king " of the tribe, while another said she had borne the chief a daughter, the tribe was angry, and asked for White to send the infant girl to England.

She then worked — again briefly — for Eleanor Adair, an early beauty culturist, as a " treatment girl ".

At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Billy Rose's Aquacade starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called " a brilliant girl show of spectacular size and content ".

Unlike their male counterparts the Chipmunks, the Chipettes have no fur covering their entire bodies but instead possess humanlike hair on their heads, which can be styled into different hairstyles for each girl ; a stylized ponytail for Brittany, a bun for Jeanette, and two pigtails for Eleanor.

* Eleanor Savage-a girl Amory meets in Maryland.

Dirty Dancing is in large part based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood: She is the younger daughter of a Jewish doctor from New York, spent summers with her family in the Catskills, participated in " Dirty Dancing " competitions, and was herself called " Baby " as a girl.

Eleanor later recalled that on his many horseback riding expeditions with the young children in Virginia, he became attached to " one girl in particular of whom I was jealous.

The same year Margaret gave birth to a girl, Eleanor, named in honour of Edward's first queen, a choice of which surprised many, and showed Margaret's unjealous nature.