She invented a stick figure notation for her own personal use.

She is visited by ' Starmen who claim the Reegs invented JJ-180 as a chemical weapon against the ' Starmen and Terrans, also stating that there is no known cure for the drug's addiction and ' That's why we put you on it '.

She never washed dishes herself and invented the dishwasher because her servants were chipping her fine china.

She was also said to have invented the Latin alphabet.

She told them she was a VJ, the term she invented with a staff member to put on her first payslip.

She also invented the ' girl detective ': in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth.

She regularly takes anti-depressants, but no longer uses a squeeze-box ( hug machine ) that she invented at the age of 18 as a form of stress relief therapy, stating in February 2010 that: “ It broke two years ago, and I never got around to fixing it.

She had invented a fictitious language out of imaginary and gypsy words and created an exotic character.

She invented it to be a tool of healing.

However, Antonia Gransden in ‘ Historical writing in England c. 550 to c. 1307 ’ argues that because William of Poitiers as a panegyrist, looking to praise the Conqueror at every opportunity, William of Poitiers ‘ suppressed, distorted and probably invented facts ... tediously elaborated his hero ’ s praises .’ She goes on to say that because he as in service to William the Conqueror, William of Poitiers produced a ‘ biased, unreliable account of events, and unrealistic portraits of the two principle protagonists .’

She was launched by a spring-style cannon invented by Canadian William Leonard Hunt (" The Great Farini ").

The review described the narrative as " very stirring " and " exciting " and of " remarkable imaginative power ", adding: " The ingenuity of the story ... is as subtle as ever romancer invented, and from the day when Leo and Holly land on the coast of Africa, to the day when the pillar of fire is revealed to them by the all but immortal ' She who must be obeyed ', the interest of the tale rises higher and higher with every new turn in its course ".

She invented a style called " Butoh-vocal theatre " which incorporates singing, talking, mudras, sign language, spoken word and experimental vocalizations with butoh after the traditional dance styles of the Edo people of West Africa.

She invented the Berkley Horse, an apparatus that reportedly earned her a fortune in flogging wealthy men and women of the time.

She invented a stick figure notation for her own personal use.

She was strangled to death by a jealous roommate in 1982 with leg warmers, which Roxy had invented.

She has been a painter, photographer, collagist ( having invented a number of surrealist collage methods including the " landscapade " and " insect music " which cut-out shapes are placed on the background of a musical score.

She also invented the commonly used variables from algebraic math.

She was the daughter of Christopher Sholes, the man who invented the first practical typewriter.

She asks him whether he can name who invented the telephone.

She wrote that for her poetry was " not something invented but given … Brought up as I was in a household where poets were so regarded it naturally became my ambition to be a poet ".

She did what we would have done if we invented the New Yorker from scratch.

She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly.

She also invented the color gauge, a method to measure the molecular coatings on the glass to one millionth of an inch.

She was a supporter of the Philosophy of the Enlightenment, and tried to win the king to its new ideas, albeit not quite as successfully as she hoped.

She contends that the Fathers of Confederation were motivated by the values of the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

" She continues, " The Enlightenment was not a game, and the salonnières were not simply ladies of leisure killing time.

She writes, " Under the guidance of Marie-Therese Geoffrin, Julie de Lespinasse and Suzanne Necker, Parisian salons became the civil working spaces of the project of Enlightenment.

She goes on to conclude that " The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment " ( 129 ).

She advocates the values of ' Enlightenment liberalism ', including secularism and equality of women.

She then became a reporter for the Guangming Daily ( 光明日報 ) ( also called Enlightenment Daily in English ) and she remained as a columnist from 1982 to 1989.

She has also performed as soloist and director with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

She explored many fundamental principles of the French Revolution, and touched upon the intellectual debates of the Age of Enlightenment, particularly the equality of all men -- and women.

She says it challenges American exceptionalist literary frameworks by presenting itself within the European Enlightenment historical tradition, reflecting Ramsay's belief that the United States would have no historical destiny beyond typical patterns of European political and cultural development.

She was heard as a singer in the 1966 serial The Gunfighters, appeared in front of the cameras as Captain Wrack in the 1983 serial Enlightenment, and again in 2011 in Closing Time as Val.

She, however, soon left her husband for an interesting life as a salon hostess in Vienna ( and sometime mistress of Metternich ).

She became close friends with writer Natalie Barney and artist Romaine Brooks, and was a regular at Barney's stylish salon.

She may also have been influenced by the role-models of her great-aunts Fanny von Arnstein and Sarah Levy, both lovers of music, the former the patroness of a well-known salon and the latter a skilled keyboard player in her own right.

She founded her own salon, at Étiolles, and was joined by many philosophes, among them Voltaire.

She was completely devoted to the management and organization of her salon, and of the patrons that frequented it.

She visited Coppet once or twice, but for the most part in the early days of the revolutionary period she was in Paris taking an interest in, and attending the Assembly, and holding a salon on the Rue du Bac, attended by Talleyrand, Abbé Delille, Clermont-Tonnerre, and Gouverneur Morris.

She then moved to Coppet, and there gathered round her a considerable number of friends and fellow-refugees, the beginning of the salon which at intervals during the next 25 years made the place so famous.

She was a Russian convert to Catholicism who had a famous salon in Paris which Montalembert, the Earl of Falloux, and the Reverend Father Félix Lamennais also frequented.

She worked for 35 years as a manicurist at a local Chicago beauty salon.

She received her visitors in a salon painted in blue, the chambre bleue.

She was at once admitted to the Hôtel de Rambouillet coterie, and afterwards established a salon of her own under the title of the Société du samedi ( Saturday Society ).

She revised discourse to be modeled on conversation rather than public speaking, favoring that as a means of rhetoric, the speaker in the salon built on the ideas of the speaker before them, opting for consensus rather than argument.

She is one of the central figures associated with the " salon " conversation and letter writing.

She did, however, became a noted patron of artists, and her salon became its own little court that rivaled that of the religious Queen ; one of her favorites was the poet Olof von Dahlin, who was regarded as somewhat of the Court Poet.

She first met him about two years after establishing her salon, and then met him again when he returned to Paris two years later.

She was part of the inner circle of the influential salon hostess Natalie Barney, who would become a lifelong friend and patron, as well as the central figure in Barnes's satiric chronicle of Paris lesbian life, Ladies Almanack.

She stayed in Paris long enough to collaborate with Chaussemiche on a project for Harriet Fearing, an ex-New Yorker who contracted for a " grand salon " design for her residence in Fontainebleau.

She also became one of the foremost members of the so-called bluestocking group of women engaged in polite conversation and literary and intellectual pursuits, attending the salon of Elizabeth Montagu, where she also met and became acquainted with Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Vesey and Hester Chapone, some of whom were to become lifelong friends.

She became a prominent figure in Parisian society, and her salon was frequented by men of eminence in French political and social circles, including Gounod, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Rene Lalique, Jules Massenet, François Coppée, Émile Zola, and Pierre Loti.

She opened her own beauty salon on October 21, 1997, the same year that the group released their final album Brand New.

She also began to invite many prominent figures to her salon at 3 Królewska Street.

She had a sort of literary salon dedicated to encouraging young Chicago writers, among whom was Dunne.

She established the rules of etiquette of the salon which resembled the earlier codes of Italian chivalry.

She maintained a salon, a social gathering of artistic and personal acquaintances, at her Sniffen Court studio for many years.