She enjoyed a happy marriage and in later life, devoted time to Alde House and gardening, travelling with younger members of the extended family.

She and Alice had an extended lecture tour in the United States during this decade.

She played supporting roles in Burnt Offerings ( 1976 ) and The Disappearance of Aimee ( 1976 ), but clashed with Karen Black and Faye Dunaway, the stars of the two respective productions, because she felt that neither extended her an appropriate degree of respect, and that their behavior on the film sets was unprofessional.

She also cared for a niece and nephew for an extended period.

She did not criticize X3D ( though extended from VRML as well as XML ), because X3D already had this integration.

She removes the kitchen from the home leaving rooms to be arranged and extended in any form and freeing women from the provision of meals in the home.

She and Washington did not have children but they reared two children of her late son John Custis, who died during the Revolutionary War, as well as helping both of their extended families.

She has suffered with severe extended depression that has never been treated.

She was offered three film contracts, entailing her to work for an extended period of time in the United States, while she was still at RADA.

She kept in touch with her large extended Hemings family, still enslaved at Monticello, and aided her children there.

She is the niece of Jermaine Jackson through extended family.

She returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed a three-year ( later extended to almost five years ) contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada.

She objected to the film's production numbers that, she said, turned a village festival into " an extended opera bouffe peopled by musical comedy characters ," but still told the New York Times that it was " a valuable and true picture which tells a good deal of the truth about fascism.

She then moved back to Canada for an extended period, writing and promoting her work.

She served as resident dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre from 1974 – 1975, and later began collaboration with theatre companies such as Joint Stock Theatre Company and Monstrous Regiment ( a feminist theatre union ) which used an extended workshop period in their development of new plays.

She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl, who are currently on extended hiatus.

She sold her song " And When I Die " to Peter, Paul and Mary for $ 5, 000, and made her first extended professional appearance, at age 18, singing at the " hungry i " coffeehouse in San Francisco.

She supported the renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and expansion of that act to cover language minorities ; this extended protection to Hispanics in Texas and was opposed by Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe and Secretary of State Mark White.

She then devoted herself to the development of an extended plan for the physical, social, intellectual, and moral education of women, to be promoted through a national board.

She has voted against government policy on the war in Iraq, foundation hospitals, university tuition and top-up fees, ID cards and extended detention without trial.

She was traditionally associated with the moon ( see Selene ), as in Michael Drayton's Endimion and Phœbe, ( 1595 ), the first extended treatment of the Endymion myth in English.

She also extended Educational Maintenance Allowances to support pupils from low income families to complete their schooling.

An extended live version of " Savage Earth Heart ", a song which had eventually become a " live show stopper " was re-released as a B-side on the single for " Is She Conscious?

She recently completed an extended terms on the Board of Directors of Canada Post and the Governor General's Order of Canada Advisory Council.

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

She contributed to the resurgence of the Russian nobility that began after the death of Peter the Great.

She and Russian GM Vladimir Epishin finished with 5½ – 3½.

She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.

She explored the commercial potential of Russian, African, and Baltic markets, revised the customs system, worked to counter the currency debasements of her predecessors, amalgamated several revenue courts, and strengthened the governing authority of the middling and larger towns.

She was a Russian immigrant ten years his senior, who at that time was married to surrealist poet Paul Éluard.

She remains one of the most popular Russian monarchs due to her strong opposition to Prussian policies and her abstinence from executing a single person during her reign.

She was commonly known as the leading beauty of the Russian Empire.

She hated bloodshed and conflict and went to great lengths to alter the Russian system of punishment, even outlawing capital punishment.

She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.

She explained that she forgot her mother had been born in Germany because she thought of Alexandra as only Russian.

" She was occasionally called by the French version of her name, " Anastasie ," or by the Russian nicknames " Nastya ," " Nastas ," or " Nastenka.

She is commemorated on 3 October in the Catholic Church ( although this has been transferred from Saint Candidus of Rome ), and on 18 July ( NS ) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.

In 2002, the video for " All the Things She Said " by Russian duo t. A. T. u.

She earned a certificate in Russian, a Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, writing her Master's thesis on the Soviet diplomatic corps, and her doctoral dissertation on the role of journalists in the Prague Spring of 1968.

She was one of the first Latina celebrities to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe, when she and Manny Arvesu adopted a one-year old Russian boy in 2000.

She raised funds for the preservation of Russian cultural heritage, for the fostering of new talent, and for treatment programs for children's blood cancer.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

She married a rich Russian tycoon, Anatole Demidov, on November 1, 1840 in Rome.

She was raised in the Russian Orthodox religion.

She became fluent in French, English, and Romanian in addition to her native German ( to these she later added Spanish, Russian and Chinese ).