Beatrix was educated by three able governesses, the last of whom was Annie Moore ( née Carter ), just three years older than Beatrix, who tutored Beatrix in German as well as acting as lady's companion.

Bixby made his last acting appearance in 1992, guest starring on an episode of Diagnosis: Murder.

The primary function of a central bank is to manage the nation's money supply ( monetary policy ), through active duties such as managing interest rates, setting the reserve requirement, and acting as a lender of last resort to the banking sector during times of bank insolvency or financial crisis.

Central banks, such as the Federal Reserve System banks in the United States and Bank of England in the United Kingdom, are strong players in public finance, acting as lenders of last resort as well as strong influences on monetary and credit conditions in the economy.

Her last acting role before becoming a director was the 1933 U. S .- German co-productions of the Arnold Fanck-directed, German-language SOS Eisberg and the Tay Garnett-directed, English-language SOS Iceberg.

While searching for the energy of the Black Lantern simultaneously dispatching various Doomsday ' clones ' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes by sending them after the other members of the Superman family with the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor encountered Brainiac in space while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his.

The last hypothesis was that the bombing was done by Christian fascists acting on conspiracy theories.

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

He served briefly as the first head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life.

Fonda continued stage acting throughout his last years, including several demanding roles in Broadway plays.

In a 1980 stage play by Royce Ryton, Motherdear, she was portrayed by Margaret Lockwood in her last acting role.

The last of the great actor-managers, Donald Wolfit, played Lear on a Stonehenge-like set in 1944 and was praised by James Agate as " the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting since I have been privileged to write for the Sunday Times ".

The last remaining obstacle to his marriage to Hérminie was the difference in their professed religions ; he converted to Roman Catholicism, with the comtesse de Vaux acting as his sponsor.

The series was introduced with a pilot TV movie that aired on November 8, 1969, and featured the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg, as well as one of the last acting performances by Joan Crawford.

Quillworts are considered by some to be the last remnant of the fossil tree Lepidodendron with which they share some unusual features including the development of both wood and bark, a modified shoot system acting as roots, bipolar growth, and an upright stance.

The term of the last acting Italian Viceroy of East Africa, including Eritrea and Somalia, ended 27 November 1941 upon surrender to the allies.

Andre Sennwald, who reviewed the film for The New York Times upon its April 1931 release, called it " just another gangster film at the Strand, weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and, like most, maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire "; Woods and Cagney give " remarkably lifelike portraits of young hoodlums " and " Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother, Robert Emmett O ' Connor as a gang chief, and Donald Cook as Tom's brother, do splendidly.

Haig has been largely credited with keeping the government running while President Nixon was preoccupied with Watergate, and was seen as the " acting president " in Nixon's last months.

In it he promised " more Afghan War ," and said the over one hundred suicide bomb attacks in Afghanistan in the last year had been carried out by bombers acting on religious orders from the Taliban – “ the mujahedeen do not take any action without a fatwa .” In April 2007, Omar issued another statement through an intermediary encouraging more suicide attacks.

It would be their last film together, as well as Ashley's last acting role.

Her last appearance, before retiring from acting, was the title role in The Countess Alice ( 1993 ) with Zoë Wanamaker.

One major exception was the situation comedy Home Improvement's Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played Randy Taylor from 1991 – 1998 ; " JTT " ( as he would come to be known during this time ), uncomfortable with his teen idol status, left the show ( and, for the most part, the entire acting scene ) one year shy of the show's last year on the air.

And when that time came, all but one of the ' souls ' became plants or animals, with the last one becoming human and acting as a custodian or guardian to the natural world around them.

Shunted aside by the rampant organizers for John F. Kennedy last year, who relegated it to a somewhat subordinate role in the Presidential campaign, the CDC plainly intends to provide the party's campaign muscle in 1962.

In the last two of these functions he has an important ecumenical and interfaith role, speaking on behalf of Anglicans in England and worldwide.

The delaying of the engraving of St Philip, completed in 1523 but not distributed until 1526, may have been due to Dürer's uneasiness with images of Saints ; even if Dürer was not an iconoclast, in his last years he evaluated and questioned the role of art in religion.

" It was Beethoven's last performance in the role of pianist.

This was Bela Lugosi's last speaking role in a feature film.

The last such director, Ben Hayes, was elected in 2006 to serve until 2008, when the role was discontinued as a result of legal issues.

On Dietrich's role, he characterized, " It's difficult to reconcile Miss Dietrich's Frenchy, the cabaret girl of the Bloody Gulch Saloon, with the posed and posturing Dietrich we last saw in Mr. Lubitsch's ' Angel '.

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

The film Alpha and Omega, which was his last movie role, was dedicated to him.

One of Edmund's last political movements of which there is some knowledge is his role in the restoration of Louis IV of France to the throne.

" The Federal Reserve System's role as lender of last resort has been criticized because it shifts the risk and responsibility away from lenders and borrowers and places it on others in the form of inflation.

In October 2008 de Klerk spoke at Brigham Young University concerning the global politics and role of the United States as the world's last remaining superpower.

In this last role, they often compete with the carbine, a short, light rifle, which is also usually issued to airborne infantry because of its small size.

He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

The tertiary sector accounted for 64 % of GDP in 2007 and its role in the Hungarian economy is steadily growing due to constant investments into transport and other services in the last 15 years.

Dark Victory ( 1939 ) was one of the last films in which he played a supporting role

The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster ( his final gangster role was in The Big Shot in 1942 ).

Cagney made a rare TV appearance in the lead role of the movie Terrible Joe Moran in 1984, his last work.

The Killers was also the first film in which Marvin received top billing and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain, rendering an extremely convincing performance in his last movie role before entering politics.

Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One ( 1980 ), a war film based on Fuller's own war experiences.

Ferrigno continued playing the Hulk role until 1981 — although the last two episodes were not broadcast until May 1982.

Apart from Fierce Creatures, Palin's last film role was a small part in The Wind in the Willows, a film directed by and starring Terry Jones.

However, such climate changes were nothing new ; numerous very similar warming episodes had occurred previously within the ice age of the last several million years without producing comparable megafaunal extinctions, so climate alone is unlikely to have played a decisive role.

However, a mounted reserve was often kept, and the heavy cavalry continued to be an important battlefield arm of European armies until the 19th century, when new and more accurate weapons made the mounted soldier too easy a target, with WWI being the last instance where cavalry played a major role in the war.