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 was born Erin Pattee in Lawrence, Kansas, to Frank Pattee, an industrial engineer and Betty Jo O ' Neal-Pattee, a journalist.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.

She commented to a journalist that the record company was " putting Manson up on a pedestal for young people who don't know who he is to worship like an idol.

She co-founded the Red Army Faction ( Rote Armee Fraktion ) in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine Konkret.

She also appeared on South African television, depicting the role of South African journalist Jani Allan in a comedy spoof.

She worked for 58 years as a journalist, writing a weekly column for the Toledo Blade and continuing to work full time ( mostly writing obituaries ) until a few months before her death, from lung cancer, in 2002 at the age of 96.

In 1987, Burton played Dave Robinson, a journalist ( sports writer ), in the third season of Murder, She Wrote, episode 16 " Death Takes a Dive " starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.

She was asked to write the introduction to a re-edition in November 2007 of the book called The Magic Key To Charm written by the pioneering female journalist Eileen Ascroft.

She writes the group's lyrics, which tend to lean towards Marxist social commentary rather than " affairs of the heart " ( in the opinion of music journalist Simon Reynolds ).

She worked as a barrister and also worked as a journalist with RTÉ.

She left this position in 1979 to join RTÉ as a journalist and presenter during one period as a reporter and presenter for their Today Tonight programme.

She subsequently became a journalist as well as a social worker and discusses " The Night of the Meek " at length in her partially autobiographical book about child actors, Pretty Babies, published in 1983 by McGraw-Hill.

She married the journalist Peter Fleming in 1935, and in 1939 gave birth to their first child, a son.

She posed naked for Penthouse in 1979, just before she became a music journalist, writing a column called " Natural Blonde " in the Record Mirror.

She started her career soon after graduating university as a journalist, working firstly for the Daily Mirror and then for the Financial Times.

She left school aged 16, and became a journalist with a local newspaper in Fulham, covering births, marriages and deaths.

She worked as an actress in repertory and as a journalist in the Netherlands, learning fluent Dutch, before suffering a bout of tuberculosis.

She later posed for a nude centerfold with a male action-hero TV actor, and was seduced by a scheming female journalist.

She began her career as a journalist in the 1970s.

) She is an award-winning journalist who has a regular column titled " Pop Rocks " in the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail and is a regular contributor to Toronto Life Fashion.

She worked as a newspaper journalist, both with the Hamilton Spectator and the Ottawa Citizen.

She had been living in Iran for six years, working as a journalist and writing a book about modern Iran based on interviews with a broad cross-section of society, when she was detained.

She subsequently married journalist Matthew Fraser, former Editor-in-Chief of the National Post and television host.