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She and became
She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.
She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.
She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.
She converted to Islam and became known as Umm Habiba ( Little Mother of the Beloved ).
She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.
She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.
She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).
She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3: 3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.
She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.
She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings.
She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.
She also drew Manet into the circle of painters who soon became known as the Impressionists.
Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.
She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.
She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.
She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street ( for which she received an Academy Award nomination ) and Annie Hall.
She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.
She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938, and married Deng a year later in front of Mao's cave dwelling in Yan ' an.
She became the top-ranking female box office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers ( male and female ), as of 2012.
She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Titan goddess Luna.
She also became the goddess of childbirth and ruled over the countryside.
She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).
She made headlines and became part of the national debate over troubled child stars, particularly given the difficulties of her Diff ' rent Strokes co-stars, Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.

She and fairy
She was a student of the classic fairy tales of Western Europe.
She is the principal fairy goddess of the Dál gCais and O ' Brien dynasty.
She is associated with the MacCarthy dynasty of Desmond, who adopted her as their fairy woman, and the O ' Keeffes and FitzGerald dynasty, with whom she has had amorous affairs ( MacKillop 1998 ; Monaghan 2004 ).
She and her sister contributed folk tales from Westphalia to the Grimms ' famous collection of fairy stories.
She feels insulted and says this is not the " fairy tale " she wants.
She played Cinderella's fairy godmother in The Slipper and the Rose, which was chosen as the Royal Film Première for 1976.
She is believed to have inspired three of his fairy tales: " Beneath the Pillar ", " The Angel " and " The Nightingale ".
She is actually a wisteria tree fairy and her abilities are sufficiently powerful enough for her to know that Shuichiro's father will die relatively soon.
She believed there to be a direct connection between the belief in and accounts of familiar spirits with these folk tales because " These fairy stories and myths originate from the same reservoir of folk belief as the descriptions of familiar-encounters given by cunning-folk and witches ".
She attempts to attract a fairy in the hope that they will grant her wish, but when she succeeds in drawing the Amadan to her, she accidentally challenges him to a contest to see who is the greatest fool.
She is mentioned by Wendy and the rest of the Lost Boys to Fireflyer, a silly blue fairy, who when he reaches the top of Neverpeak, makes the wish to meet her.
She doesn't like being called a fairy and would much rather be called " birdwoman " because of her origins.
Although Paul still played the violin on occasion, when he did “ even Zilla was silent as the lonely man who lost his way … spun out his dark soul in music .” Even though Babbitt and Paul abandoned their former goals and ideals, Babbitt still dreams of afairy child .” She is an imaginary woman, full of life and gaiety, who does not see him as a stogy old businessman, but a “ gallant youth .” He imagines various women as his fairy child, including his secretary, a manicurist, his son ’ s girlfriend Eunice Littlefield, and finally Tanis Judique.
She possesses a unique perspective on life, in that she lacks the normal human ability to ignore things which do not fit in with a logical world-view: in Soul Music, she is able to acknowledge the enormous size of the rooms in Death's Domain, whereas most humans can only deal with the incomprehensible vastness by pretending it is not there ; Hogfather reveals that she shares the ability of witches, wizards and young children to see things which are invisible to most people, such as the tooth fairy, monsters and bogeymen ; in Thief of Time, she is able to identify the historical anomalies created by the History Monks ' reconstruction of the shattered timeline.
She guesses that they are in a " fairy country " because lunch pails do not normally grow on trees and animals like Billina do not talk, but it's not Oz because that country has no seashore.
She is able to summon the powers of " all the good fairies " when restoring Princess Ozma to her rightful form, almost making her equal to L. Frank Baum's Queen Lurline ( whereas Baum's Glinda is a stately sorceress showing no association with fairy magic or " unscrupulous " witchcraft, insisting that the witch Mombi herself disenchant Ozma unlike in this film ).
She swore that she was merely attempting to drive the fairy out of him, and the jury acquitted her of murder.
She had a greater tendency toward the use of romantic love stories ( which Baum usually avoided in his fairy tales, with about 4 exceptions ).
She recruits Jez with a spell due to the girl's abilities as a fairlie ( almost like a fairy ) could reveal her plans.
She is a very powerful witch, and is reckoned to be more powerful than the most well-known witch on the Discworld, Black Aliss ( real name: Aliss Demurrage ), who is responsible for any number of witcheries in fairy tales, such as putting a castle to sleep and getting pushed into her own oven by naughty kids.
She stands at one meter in height ( said to be three feet in US editions ), one centimeter shorter than the fairy average ( an inch shorter in US editions ), and has a gymnast-like stance.
She is subsequently framed for the Commander's death and is forced to flee from fairy authorities.
She later collaborates with Artemis Fowl, Butler, and Mulch Diggums to expose Koboi and prevent her plans for destroying fairy civilization.

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