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2. In 1137, a 14-year-old girl named Eleanor became the "greatest heiress in the known world." She was, in her own right, the Duchess of Aquitaine and ruled it independently through her two marriages.

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What wasn't known at the time of the issue of the bull was just how far east South America extends into the Atlantic. The east coast of Brazil lies over 2,000 miles east of the Bahamas, where Columbus ...