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 is Marianna Blavatsky's pupil and a firm believer in the occult.

A fellow pupil at one of Wallis's schools recalled, " She was bright, brighter than all of us.

She was a pupil of Franz Berwald for two years.

She makes children stay after school and write lines for saying the word " frindle ", but this proves to be a problem, as almost every pupil has to stay after school.

She had a close relationship with her father, Joseph Constantine, who was successful in the property and shipping sectors, was an Old Etonian pupil and served in the Coldstream Guards.

She survived until 31 December 1830, and saw her former pupil, Louis Philippe, seated on the throne of France.

She discovers quickly that Martha and Lettie have switched places, but accepts Lettie as her apprentice anyway and encourages her to accept Howl's advances and become his pupil, though she eventually chooses Suliman instead.

She also taught Jules so well that at the age of 11 he became a pupil of Adolphe-Francois Laurent ( piano ), Henri Reber ( harmony ) and Ambroise Thomas ( counterpoint ) at the Conservatoire de Paris.

She is first introduced as a sixteen-year-old pupil at the Quirm College for Young Ladies in Soul Music, shortly after the death of her parents.

She was a pupil of the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street, Dublin where her family moved after the death of her father, a R. I. C.

She also acted as a mentor to the young Richard Rodney Bennett, though he was never a formal pupil.

She joined the Fife Health Board in 1975 as a nursing assistant, becoming a pupil nurse in 1977, before becoming a State Enrolled Nurse in 1978 working at the Lynebank Hospital in Dunfermline.

She has close ties to Bonus Pastor Secondary School in Bromley, accepting one pupil every year for work experience, which includes work within the constituency and the Houses of Parliament.

She became his pupil, and eventually taught his method at her School of Eye Education in Los Angeles.

She closed St David Lewis Roman Catholic school because of claimed ' falling pupil numbers ', saying it was ' no longer financially or educationally viable '.

She remained there for eight years as a student, and another two years as a graduate pupil, during which she learned to play the piano, organ, harp, and guitar, and became a good soprano singer.

She was a singing pupil of soprano Ada Adini.

She was a pupil at the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School in Brentwood, Essex, during her time in the UK and boarded there.

She was a pupil at Walsingham Girls ' School in Clapham ( now Thomas's Preparatory School, Clapham ), but left at age 16 after passing her " O " level examinations to pursue acting.

She has been called the pupil, daughter and wife of Pythagoras, although others made her the wife of Brontinus.

She was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1947 but retained little influence of his style from the 1950s onwards.

She hears also about Alan Lomax, who was becoming too attached to Ishmael as a pupil and not seeming to understand his own need to become a teacher.

She refuses to allow herself or Oracle's team to be involved, and instead trusts her former pupil to handle the situation.

She studied with Ryszard Bakst ( a Heinrich Neuhaus pupil ) at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Lancashire and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna.