When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

Police said the children's mother, Mrs. Eleanor Somerville, was visiting next door when the fire occurred.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Eleanor of Aragon.

During his lifetime a dynastic marriage with Princess Eleanor of England, daughter of King Edward I of England, was arranged.

After being widowed in 1327, Alfonso married in February 1329 Eleanor of Castile ( 1308 – 1359 ), who was betrothed to his brother James, who had refused to consummate the marriage.

Born at Medina del Campo, he was the son of Ferdinand I of Aragon ( known as Ferdinand of Antequera ) and Eleanor of Alburquerque.

The claim of the now deceased Philippa of Toulouse was pressed again when Louis VII besieged Toulouse in 1141, in right of his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, the granddaughter of Philippa, but without result.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either by Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Louis, or Melisende, the mother of Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

De Amore was written at the request of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

One of the circles in which this poetry and its ethic were cultivated was the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine ( herself the granddaughter of an early troubadour poet, William IX of Aquitaine ).

He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.

Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587 ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Ananias and Eleanor White Dare in the short-lived Roanoke Colony.

In 1392 the Carta de Logu was legal code of the Giudicato of Arborea promulgated by the giudicessa Eleanor.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was also opposed to Executive Order 9066.

Eleanor of Aquitaine () ( 1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204 ) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

Soon after the Crusade, Eleanor sought an annulment of her marriage but was rejected by Pope Eugene III.

As soon as the annulment was granted, Eleanor became engaged to Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, who became King Henry II of England in 1154 ; he was her cousin within the third degree and was nine years younger than she.

Eleanor was widowed on 6 July 1189.

Her birthplace may have been Poitiers, Bordeaux, or Nieul-sur-l ' Autise, where her mother died when Eleanor was 6 or 8.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Both Lister and Eleanor Butler were considered masculine by contemporary news reports, and though there were suspicions that these relationships were sapphist in nature, they were nonetheless praised in literature.

The historian Eleanor Searle describes William's invasion as " a plan that no ruler but a Scandinavian would have considered ".

3 ) declared Edward's and Elizabeth's children illegitimate on the grounds that Edward had made a previous promise ( known as a precontract ) to marry Lady Eleanor Butler, which was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid.

His first post-Ginger dance partner was the redoubtable Eleanor Powell — considered the finest female tap-dancer of her generation — in Broadway Melody of 1940 where they performed a celebrated extended dance routine to Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine ".

Such a pre-contract with Eleanor would have meant that the king's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was bigamous and therefore invalid, and that any children born to Edward and Elizabeth would be considered bastards.

A year later he married Eleanor Dixon, which was considered hasty.

Ralph Bunche along with Eleanor Roosevelt were considered instrumental in the creation and adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

While often considered in popular literature as evidence for retrocognition, the book was immediately dismissed by Eleanor Sidgwick, a leading member of the British Society for Psychical Research, in an article published in its Proceedings, as the product of mutual confabulation.

They had six surviving children: Eleanor Susan ; Mary Harriett ; William Penn ( named after the founder of Pennsylvania, who was considered a friend to American Indians ); Sarah Parkhill, Elias Cornelius ( August 1, 1835 — September 27, 1890 ); and Franklin Brinsmade Boudinot.

Eleanor founded the hospitals Hospital de Todos os Santos and Rossio de Lisboa, considered the best in contemporary Europe.

The king of Denmark had first intended to marry Eleanor of Austria, but the Habsburgs considered Eleanor too valuable for the throne of Denmark, and therefore, Isabella was selected for the Danish king.

Initially Eleanor considered giving the baby up for adoption, but was convinced otherwise by Francis Ford Coppola.

John had considered to marry Eleanor to a loyal subordinate, but he never did ; there were rumors that the princess was starved to death by orders of King John, but that was impossible as John predeceased her as long as 25 years.

" According to Joseph P. Lash's book " Eleanor and Franklin ," the president considered Jones too conservative and shot down a strong movement to make Jones the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1940.

Their home, Pickfair, an estate on 56 acres in Beverly Hills, which hosted famous and powerful guests, including President Franklin D. and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Charles Lindbergh, was considered as " a gathering place only slightly less important than the White House, and much more fun ".

* on his death, his sister Eleanor was considered by some to have succeeded to the Earldom.

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same optimistic outlook.

She was initiated into Wicca by Gerald Gardner in 1960 and is considered one of the " early mothers " of this religion, like Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, and Eleanor Bone.

Though for religious reasons Eleanor considered herself " unmarried ", she was not legally divorced from Hector at the time of her " celestial marriage " to Pratt.

In fact he considered a second marriage as early as 1293, but this does not mean he did not mourn Eleanor.

Helena Sickert was the only daughter of the painter Oswald Sickert ( technically of Danish nationality, though he always considered himself German and did not speak Danish ) and the Englishwoman Eleanor Louisa Henry, an illegitimate daughter of astronomer Richard Sheepshanks, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and an Irish dancer.

Prototype theories, investigated by Eleanor Rosch, have given some reason to suppose that many natural lexical category structures are graded, i. e., they have prototypical members that are considered to be " better fit " the category than other examples.

* Eleanor Bron was originally considered for the role of Sorasta