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Also Known As matrimony

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Euthymius I
Orthodox patriarch
Dayananda Sarasvati
Hindu leader
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer
Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay
Soviet revolutionary and diplomat
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Indian politician
Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
Indian educator
Nicholas I
Byzantine patriarch of Constantinople
Lindsey, Ben B.
Ben B. Lindsey
American jurist
Edward Westermarck
Finnish sociologist
Maurice Freedman
British anthropologist
Ernest Watson Burgess
American sociologist
Jessie Bernard
American sociologist
Ellen Key.
Ellen Key
Swedish writer
Gail Godwin
American author

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