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 went on to remark that she had encountered pagans in jobs that ranged from " fireman to Ph. D. chemist " but that the one thing that she thought made them into an " elite " was as avid readers, something that she found to be very common within the pagan community despite the fact that avid readers constituted less than 20 % of the general population of the United States at the time.

She has two siblings ; an older brother named Todd, an actor and avid cyclist, and a younger brother named Schuyler.

She is an avid practitioner of yoga, cooking, and gardening.

She is an avid supporter of the Essendon Football Club.

She was an avid reader and critic of contemporary literature, reviewing for publications such as the London Evening Standard, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Sunday Times and Books & Bookmen.

She and her husband were both devout Roman Catholic converts, Lady Longford having been raised a Unitarian, and avid social reformers.

She is a frequent visitor of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame annual induction ceremonies, and an avid autograph signer.

She is an avid supporter of the ASPCA and animal welfare.

She met, fell in love with and married Knut Kvikne who was an avid mountain man.

She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and became one of Olivier Messiaen's most avid pupils.

She began elementary school one year earlier than usual for her age, in 1932, and became an excellent student and an avid reader.

She is an avid collector of watches and clothes.

She is an avid supporter of charities, and stands as a trustee of the British charity The Chemical Dependency Centre, having also supported the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care and The Elton John AIDS Foundation.

She proclaims herself as Paul's " number one fan ," being an avid reader of the Misery Chastain series.

She was an avid gambler and often dressed like a man in order to gamble in the males-only establishments that dotted North Beach.

She is also an avid bowler.

She is an avid theatre-goer and reader of detective fiction.

She was an avid reader, and loved Hollywood magazines.

She is also an avid New York Giants, New York Mets, New York Knicks and New York Rangers fan.

She was adopted as a baby by a Sunderland couple, John and Maud Adie, and grew up there ; she is an avid fan of the city's football team, Sunderland A. F. C.

She was an avid reader until her death in 1983.

" She admitted that she used to be an avid reader until she started getting too busy.

She is an avid Hollywood movie lover who enjoys re-enacting particular love-scenes from movies.