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 one of the first women to explore fully the realm of erotic writing, and certainly the first prominent woman in the modern West to write erotica.

She had no idea his fling had been with Becky Granger, a supporting character who slowly rose to more prominent status.

She was married to Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter, a prominent rabbi who was chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ).

She became Jesus ' close friend and most prominent during his last days, being present at the cross after the male disciples ( excepting John the Beloved ) had fled, and at his burial.

She became the first woman to be recognized as a prominent leader of a learned profession.

She publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community ( EEC, later European Union ) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists.

She was accorded a more prominent place in charters than his first wife.

She supposedly lived in luxury and became a prominent philosopher, socialite and Roman matron.

She also provided a prominent, but uncredited, vocal on John Denver's " Fly Away " single which was succeeded by her own single, " Let It Shine "/" He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother ," at No. 1 on the AC chart.

She was also a prominent patron of architecture, being responsible for the building of the Place Louis XV ( now called Place de la Concorde ) and the École Militaire in Paris, both built by her protégé Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

She was recruited in 1924 by the prominent Swedish director, Mauritz Stiller, to play a principal part in his classic film The Saga of Gosta Berling, a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf.

She contributed articles, reviews and stories to various magazines and newspapers on art, literature and prominent people.

She shows up in The Enemies of Jupiter, is mentioned in The Assassins of Rome and plays a fairly prominent role in Lion Feuchtwanger's historical novel, Josephus ( The Jewish War ).

She is very frequently shown attending on the Virgin and Child, and is usually prominent in scenes of the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, showing a group of virgin saints surrounding the Virgin and Child.

She was discovered by a prominent civil servant when, aged 14, she was performing at a market in Ljungby.

She is often spoken of as " the great physician ," and accordingly plays a specially prominent role in incantations and incantation rituals intended to relieve those suffering from disease.

She appears in a prominent position on the designs accompanying the Kudurrus boundary-stone monuments of Babylonia, being represented by a statue, when other gods and goddesses are merely pictured by their shrines, by sacred animals or by weapons.

She had arrived in Springfield via the Lost Wagon Train of 1853goes that a group of prominent Eugene businessmen paid railroad financier, Ben Holladay, $ 40, 000 to bypass Springfield by crossing the Willamette River near Harrisburg instead of Springfield.

She was personally acquainted with prominent men and women of pioneer days and named one of her children after General Sam Houston in memory of his victory at San Jacinto.

She was the most prominent woman member during this period.

There are also some obvious differences: the jug on ' She Lives ( In A Time Of Her Own )' is far more prominent ; ' Levitation ' has a double tracked vocal ; Roky's harmonica solo on ' I Had To Tell You ' is far clearer.

She also managed to boost the school's involvement in international and public interest law, and hired a significant number of prominent new faculty members.

She was prominent in the celebrations at the law's repeal.

She also became a writer and a prominent figure in the Transcendental movement.