She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

She has donated more than $ 140, 000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300, 000.

She sponsored writers and artists and donated much of her personal wealth, including her royal insignia, to charity, for purposes including the founding of hospitals.

She has donated both her time and money to charities.

She donated her salary from her first Hollywood movie, The Hi-Lo Country, to Mother Teresa's mission.

She donated most of the money from speaking to civil rights causes, and lived on her staff salary and her husband's pension.

She co-founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for college-bound high school seniors, to which she donated most of her speaker fees.

She donated five ambulances and 37 trucks to the army in Shanghai and the air force, along with 500 leather uniforms.

She had also donated a kidney to Lauda when the kidney he received in a transplant from his brother years earlier failed.

She also donated her time to civic organizations such as D. A. R. E ..

She spent the rest of her life defending his reputation and managing his art and effects, much of which eventually was donated to Glasgow University.

She donated the gift from the nation which she received on her seventieth birthday to the " International Year of the Child.

She donated Château de Chaumont to the government in 1938.

She has donated signed books for the literacy and international development charity Book Aid International.

She donated $ 1 million to SUNY in his memory after his death in 1994.

She voluntarily donated more than 60 gifts given to her over the 14 years, and worth about € 100, 000, to the Irish state.

" She donated her share of the prize money to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

She donated all proceeds from the book to literacy charities.

She has also donated short stories to a number of charity anthologies, notably Piggybank Kids and Breast Cancer UK.

She donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

She donated $ 3 million to her campaign, but later took back $ 100, 000, fueling speculation that she would be unable to donate the promised amount.

She donated the money needed to purchase the house and make it a museum, agreed to make significant contributions each year for its upkeep and also gave many of the family's belongings to help establish what became a popular museum that still draws thousands of visitors each year to Mansfield.

She donated the money needed to purchase the house and make it a museum, agreed to make significant contributions each year for its upkeep and also gave many of the family's belongings to help establish what became a popular museum which still draws thousands of visitors each year to Mansfield.

She survived him by 17 years, and after her death in 1953, it was donated by Queen Elizabeth II for use by the Commonwealth Secretariat, which continues to use it today.

She attended the church from her favourite place in the church tower, to which she had once donated a bell ; according to tradition, she often lived in this tower during insecure times.

She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.

She further states another tradition that when the last Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Baldwin II, was leaving Constantinople in 1261 he took this original circular portion of the icon with him.

She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.

She entered and won a talent contest on the television program Sing, Sing, Sing, hosted by 1960s Australian icon Johnny O ' Keefe, performing the songs " Anyone Who Had a Heart " and " Everything's Coming Up Roses ".

She also modelled for a number of her husband's works, notably Peace Concluded ( 1856 ), which idealises her as an icon of beauty and fertility.

She was considered as a pop and music icon in Japan and her concerts there were met with almost unprecedented enthusiasm.

She became an American icon of the 1950s, starring in two highly successful television series.

She was unapologetic about her sexuality, and thus became an icon for both the gay rights and feminist movements when her poems, plays, letters and essays were rediscovered during the 1970s and 1980s.

Parks had virtually become an American icon, singing the show's signature song, " There She Is, Miss America ", as the newly-crowned Miss America took her walk down the ramp at the end of each year's pageant.

She is considered a sex symbol and an icon of 1960s feminism.

She was also instrumental in launching the spin-offs Melrose Place and 90210, with the character of Kelly becoming a continuity icon by appearing in the most franchise episodes.

She was an icon of the 1920s — dubbed by her husband " the first American Flapper ".

She made her third and final appearance as Leia in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, for which she became a sex symbol due to her appearance wearing a golden metal bikini ( the slave girl outfit which almost immediately rose to pop culture icon status ).

She is an unfashionably dressed, highly intellectual, seemingly cynical and sarcastic teenage girl who is portrayed as an icon of sanity in an insane household in an equally insane upper middle class suburb.

She also symbolizes the Panch Bhuta ( the five classical elements ) in the icon.

She also became a fashion icon, for instance starting a trend by wearing a neckerchief to keep from getting ill.

She was a home economist and businesswoman under whose supervision the image of Betty Crocker became an icon for General Mills.

* Dana International – She achieved fame in Europe and North America, and became a gay icon after winning the " Eurovision Song Contest " in 1998 with her song " Diva ".

She carried with her the Raghuvir Shila, a stone icon representing Ram and all Vaishnava deities.

She invited punk bass icon Mike Watt ( the Minutemen, Iggy Pop ) to perform on " It Takes You There ", while " Ugly Man " was a direct aim at the George Bush ' regime ' evoking, with an anthem-like Hugh Masekela arrangement, what she termed ' the Black Panther horns ', and calling for ' revolution, everywhere that you're not looking, revolution.

She played the blonde icon Marilyn Monroe in the drama-comedy feature film Mister Lonely, which was first screened in 2007 at the Cannes Film Festival.

She is most commonly represented by the image of Black Madonna of Częstochowa whose origins are believed to be in copies of the icon of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, brought to Haiti by Polish soldiers fighting on both sides of the Haitian Revolution from 1802 onwards.

She is perhaps best known, however, for being a cultural icon and the unofficial face of Australian news broadcast.

She portrayed Bianca Montgomery on the daytime drama All My Children, and propelled the character into a gay icon, as well as a popular figure within the medium.

She must purchase an icon of this saint and scented candles.