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 didn't want to be the only one with a stove in her room, especially as her life span was nearly run out anyway, and she insisted that Hope have the heater.

" She is an expert on nearly everything and plans to create the perfect filing system.

She left nearly all her property to the National Trust, including over of land, sixteen farms, cottages and herds of cattle and Herdwick sheep.

She also starred in the nearly universally panned film remake of Lost Horizon in 1973.

She was nearly ten years his junior and was said by More's friends to be quiet and good-natured.

She did nearly a year at the University of Minnesota's Graduate School of Psychology, where she published two articles, and worked in the psychology department's animal research laboratory, before dropping out and moving to attend Berkeley for a few courses, when she began writing the SCUM Manifesto.

She remained in space for nearly three days and orbited the earth 48 times.

She contracted pneumonia, lingering for nearly a month before dying one month short of her fortieth birthday.

She and her father determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses ( then North Sunderland ), so they took a rowing boat ( a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble ) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile.

She has been a queen for nearly 46 years and while possessing feminine qualities, she is thoroughly capable of holding her own in a man's world.

She nearly dislocated his thumb repelling a friendly grope at a house-party.

She nearly succeeds in taking over the galaxy, but is foiled by New Republic pilots Wedge Antilles and Lando Calrissian in the final entry, Champions of the Force.

She was forcibly isolated twice by public health authorities and died after nearly three decades altogether in isolation.

She is often portrayed as Mario's love interest and has appeared in nearly all the Mario games to date ; with the most notable being in Super Princess Peach where she is the main protagonist.

She last appeared in the 1991 episode, " Menage a Luke " after missing the two prior episodes where her problem is very obvious in some scenes, and did not return until the last two shows of the series in the late spring of 1992, although she was not nearly recovered at this point.

She kills their captors and is nearly killed herself, but survives ; she permanently loses contact with her spirit guide Louise in the process.

She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda: the verse " Daksha sprang from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha " is seen by Theosophists as a reference to " the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine Essence " and divine wisdom.

She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch.

She becomes increasingly frightened of him, and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her.

She corresponded with Hitler for nearly two decades.

She returned to the Dominican Republic after nearly ten years of living abroad, when her parents reconciled.

She poured all her repressed maternal feelings on her youngest daughter to the point of nearly smothering her.

She also said via her website that her material was not comprehensible among producers ; this statement would only prove true nearly a decade later when the loosely based film adaptation for The Queen of the Damned was released.

She also brought nearly 100 " dower slaves " for her use during her lifetime ; they and their descendants reverted to her late husband's estate at her death and were inherited by their heirs.