She retired to a nunnery she had founded in c. 991 at Selz in Alsace.

She founded The New York Baroque Dance Company ( http :// www. nybaroquedance. org /) in 1976 with Ann Jacoby, and the company has since toured internationally.

She also founded The Doris Day Animal League, which merged into The Humane Society of the United States in 2006.

She invited numerous German religious people from the Holy Roman Empire into the Silesian lands, as well as German settlers who founded numerous cities, towns and villages in the course of the Ostsiedlung, while cultivating barren parts of Silesia for agriculture.

She financed a scholarship for twenty Lithuanians to study at Charles University in Prague to help strengthen Christianity in their country, to which purpose she also founded a bishopric in Vilnius.

She was from a prosperous business family that later founded the company Philips Electronics: she was great-aunt to Anton and Gerard Philips, and great-great-aunt to Frits Philips.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

She founded two Cambridge colleges.

She subsequently founded and worked with the Sauvé Foundation until her death, caused by Hodgkin's lymphoma, on January 26, 1993.

She founded the gender unit at the International Centre for Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ) in Kathmandu and was a founding Board Member of the Women's Environment & Development Organization ( WEDO )

She had twelve sons, and on the death of one of them Romulus took his place, and with the remaining eleven founded the college of the Arval brothers ( Fratres Arvales ).

She was the mother of Evander and along with other followers they founded the town of Pallantium, which later was one of the sites of the start of Rome.

She is currently the executive director of both Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project, which she founded at White Earth Reservation in 1989.

She is the great-great-granddaughter of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, who in 1851 founded the Louis Dreyfus Group, a commodities and shipping multinational, which members of the family control to this day.

She was a descendant of Thomas James, who founded the Meramec Iron Works, and as such was a member of one of the most eminent local families.

She later became an author and founded the publishing company Pomegranate Press in 1986.

She is the author of the movement's textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founded the Christian Science Publishing Society ( 1898 ), which continues to publish a number of periodicals including The Christian Science Monitor ( 1908 ).

She also founded the Christian Science Sentinel, a weekly magazine with articles about how to heal and testimonies of healing.

She also founded the Christian Science Journal in 1883, a monthly magazine aimed at the church's members and, in 1898, the Christian Science Sentinel, a weekly religious periodical written for a more general audience, and the Herald of Christian Science, a religious magazine with editions in many languages.

She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891.

She also founded the organizations Kong Frederik og Dronning Ingrids fond til humanitære og kulturelle formål, Ingridfondet for South Jutland, Det kgl.

She also received much firsthand information about Dutch life from her immigrant Dutch neighbors, the Scharffs, and Dodge noted in her preface to the 1875 edition of the book that the story of Hans Brinker's father was " founded strictly upon fact ".

She subsequently published her memoirs, founded the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, and became Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

She was later a partner in the Washington, D. C. office of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.

She had a major exhibition of 35 paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., in 1912.

She studied for her Bachelor of Arts degree at American University ( 1957 – 59 ), going on to achieve a doctorate at George Washington University in Experimental Psychology in 1967.

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

She is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.

She later expanded her work with the organization after arriving in Washington, and wrote about her experiences in her 1982 book To Love a Child.

She traveled to Washington, D. C. in June 2009 to unveil a statue of her late husband in the Capitol Rotunda.

She was the opening act in Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia and Washington D. C.

She laid out a tennis court at the Staten Island Cricket Club at Camp Washington, Tompkinsville, New York.

She went through the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington, beginning on October 1, 1996.

She and Marshall had been unable to have children, and when she brought the baby home, Marshall told her that she could " keep him, provided he did not squall ..." Marshall grew to love the boy and wrote that he " never walked the streets of Washington with as sure a certainty as he walked into my heart ", and, as the boy grew older, that he was " beautiful as an angel ; brilliant beyond his years ; lovable from every standpoint.

She was born at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D. C.

She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers on October 18, 2006.

She was born in Paris and moved with her family to Washington, D. C. in 1966.

She went on to star in several other plays in Washington.

She and the freedman Washington Ferguson were formally married in West Virginia, and Booker took the surname Washington at school after his stepfather.

She was featured in a UFO documentary that Williams did for BBC Radio 4 in April and took part in a field investigation he did in Trout Lake, Washington in August 2008.

She subsequently endorsed Washington for the general election, in which he faced three white opponents.

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She spoke of her ambition to study psychiatry, and also stated her intention to compete in the " Miss Washington " pageant in 1960, but before she could follow either course of action, Paul Tate was transferred to Italy, taking his family with him.

Minnelli began as a nightclub singer as an adolescent, making her professional nightclub debut at the age of 19 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C .. She later appeared in other clubs and on stage in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York City.

She studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City.

She received her undergraduate degree from Chapman College in Orange in 1982, obtained her MBA from American University in Washington, DC in 1984, and was a financial analyst until entering the House.