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She and headed
She appeared headed for a first place victory in the tournament, but lost her game against compatriot Péter Lékó.
She was better known than her three sisters during her lifetime and headed Red Cross committees during World War I.
She also created two awards for students entering the field of special education and subsequently created the Sauvé Foundation, which was dedicated to the cause of youth excellence in Canada and is today headed by Jean-François.
She also created Caras in 1992, which she headed until 2002.
She served as publisher from 1969 to 1979 and headed The Washington Post Company into the early 1990s as chairman of the board and CEO.
She recovered and headed back home for a Thanksgiving dinner with Peter, her doctor, Gwen and Captain George Stacy at the end of the first season, where May informed the others that she was writing a cookbook and had already received an advance from a publisher.
She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by Richard Burchett.
She replaced John Kennedy OBE, who had headed the organisation since 2005 and was also one of the co-producers of Live Aid and Live8.
She founded the American Field Hockey Association in 1901, and headed it for 20 years.
She headed the " Go Spadina " public campaign that was successful in persuading Metro, against the wishes of the City of Toronto, to pave the ditch and opened the road to Eglinton in 1976.
She then headed back to India, fortified with a $ 10, 000 grant from a Mr. Schell, a Manhattan banker, in memory of his wife.
She also published The ChildCare Sourcebook and headed the Tauscher Foundation, which provided funds for elementary schools to buy computers and Internet access.
She also supported the de facto government in Honduras, headed by Roberto Micheletti, that emerged after the military coup against President Manuel Zelaya.
She supported charities and headed the Garfield Hospital Aid Society.
She headed Birkbeck College, University of London, for a decade as Master ( from 1987 to 1997 ) until her appointment to the new Labour government in 1997.
She sent a special mission July 1883 to the United States headed by Min Yeong-ik, one of her relatives.
She also headed the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972 ; headed the unsuccessful campaign to get NAACP President Byrd Brown the Democratic nomination to Congress ; and was co-chairman with Mayor Joseph M. Barr of the unsuccessful U. S. Senate campaign of Jeanette Reibman in 1976.
She became an advisory planning commissioner for Rancho Mirage, California, and headed an organization dedicated to preserving development on the fragile desert hillsides.
She headed to Boston, U. S. for a three-month language course at Boston University's CELOP program in January.
She was also a composer, credited with the song " Witch's Egg " in Forbidden Zone, in which she starred, a 1982 low-budget indie film directed by Richard Elfman with musical group Oingo Boingo ( known then as The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo ), headed by Richard's younger brother Danny Elfman.
She studied to be a teacher in Melbourne and then headed north in the mid-1990s.
She headed a convoy of three other ships: the storeship Loire, the brig Argus and the corvette Écho.
She headed for Rome with her followers and persuaded the Pope, Cyriacus ( unknown in the pontifical records ), and Sulpicius, Bishop of Ravenna, to join them.

She and Troy
She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.
She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.
She got her knowledge of Troy from the Histoire ancienne jusqu ' à César, and chose an anti-Trojan position.
She previously dated football player Troy Aikman, Austin musician Bob Schneider ( for two years ), and actors Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling.
She had been brought up by Blanche Herbert Lady Troy.
My arms are like the twisted thornAnd yet there beauty lay ; The first of all the tribe lay thereAnd did such pleasure take ; She who had brought great Hector downAnd put all Troy to wreck.
She draws comparisons with Thetis ' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis, which presents a strikingly similar relationship — that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon ; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eros and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.
She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, but dropped out to become a fashion model.
She came to Troy for two reasons: firstly, to prove to others that her people, the Amazons, are great warriors and can share the hardships of war and, secondly, to appease the Gods after she accidentally killed her sister, Hippolyta, while hunting.
She later kills Agamemnon ( Brian Cox ) during the Sack of Troy ; in classical mythology Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
She was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave in the 1971 film version of Euripides ' The Trojan Women, and by Saffron Burrows in the 2004 film Troy.
She also appears as a character in David Gemmell's Troy series.
She also appears as a main character in After Troy, a play written by Glyn Maxwell premiered at the Playhouse Theatre Oxford in March 2011.
She was at first overjoyed, thinking he had returned from Troy, but after the gods returned him to the underworld, she found the loss unbearable.
She went to Troy with Helen and remained there until found by her grandson, Acamas, during the fall of the city.
She fought with Penthesilea at Troy and was killed by Achilles.
She was the mother, by Hippasus, of Hippomedon ( a defender of Troy ), to whom she gave birth on the banks of River Sangarius.
She had a very minor role in the Carole Lombard / Frederic March vehicle Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), in which she appeared as the wife of a shoeshine man ( Troy Brown ) masquerading as a sultan.
She was the mother of Helen ( Ἑλένη ) of Troy, Clytemnestra ( Κλυταιμνήστρα ), and Castor and Pollux ( Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκης, also spelled Kastor and Polydeuces ).
She is known for playing the title role in the TV miniseries, Helen of Troy, her portrayal of Jill Valentine in the science fiction action horror film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and as elf princess Arya Dröttningu in fantasy-adventure film, Eragon.
She later bore the egg in which Helen of Troy was found.
She explains her mistake, but Troy, humiliated at being left waiting at the altar, angrily calls off the wedding.
She also tells him that if he does not go to Troy, he will live a long, happy life and have children, but after he dies, his name will be forgotten and nobody will remember him.
* Saffron Burrows as Andromache She is the princess of Troy and wife of Hector.
She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women ’ s higher education, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.

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