She claims jumping over the broom was definitely a feature in both European and African wedding ceremonies, but believes that the slave practice likely originated in Africa and not Europe.

She originated the role of Kendall Hart on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, winning the 1995 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.

She proved that animals, plants, and fungi all originated from protists.

She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle.

She may have originated from the Roman god Februus.

She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg / Austria where her family originated.

She originated from Khanh Hoa province, in a peasant family in the mountains of Dai An.

She played a new song titled " How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart " and explained that it originated from newly-found Hank Williams lyrics she was asked to put to music.

She toured the United States in Stephen Sondheim's well-reviewed musical A Little Night Music, then took the show to London, and thus originated the role of Desirée Armfeldt on the West End.

She originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a young hustler named Chance Wayne, played by Newman.

" She emphasizes that CI is directed not at all hostile actions against one's own countries, but those originated by foreign intelligence services ( FIS ), a term of art that includes transnational and non-national adversaries.

She also originated the wartime hit " Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet ", which was later popularized by Nancy Walker in the film, Broadway Rhythm.

She did in fact try to rescue her favourite sister, the countess of Mar, who was mentally deranged, from the custody of her brother-in-law, Lord Grange, who had treated his own wife with notorious cruelty, and the slander originated with him.

She then originated the role of Florence for the 1984 concept album of Chess, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Ulvaeus and Andersson.

She originated the role of Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

She originated the roles of Blanche DuBois in the world première André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire with the San Francisco Opera.

She is perhaps best known for playing Jennifer Horton, a role she originated in 1985 on the long-running NBC series Days of our Lives ( 1985 – 1995, 2000 – 2006, 2010 -)

She originated the role of the adult Jennifer Horton ( later Jennifer Deveraux ) on Days of our Lives in 1985 ( prior to which the character had been a young child played by a young actress ) and Reeves remained in the role until 1995.

She played Beth Raines on the CBS series Guiding Light from ( 1983 – 1986 ), but is best known for playing Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis a role she originated in 1986 on NBC's long running Days of our Lives.

She was a regular cast member from 1986 until 1991, then returned in 2003 to play Bonnie Lockhart, another role she originated and played until early 2007.

She originated the role in 1990, and still continues to play it today.

She later originated the role of Nettie in The Color Purple, the Broadway musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name, from November 2005 to mid-January 2006.

She continued her theatrical career throughout the 1980s and originated the role of Mary in the Off-Broadway production of Brownstone in 1985.

She befriended Link until she learned he was a descendant of the Knights of Hyrule, as she believed that the Knights had killed her parents, but in time she learned that the bandit who raised her had in fact lied to her, as she originated from Hyrule as a descendant of the Hylian Knights herself, carrying an arrowhead, part of the Silver Arrow.

She has authored over fifty-six novels and she has a great dislike of people taking and modifying her story characters.

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 argued that these terms denigrated the proper and natural function of sexuality, and that such language was inappropriate for female characters such as Madame Raison.

She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.

She is the only player class to have a ranged starting weapon, whereas all other characters start with melee weapons.

She uses examples, dating back to the text-based MUDs of the mid-1990s, showing college students who simultaneously live different lives through characters in separate MUDs, up to three at a time, all while doing schoolwork.

She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She also made the annual presentation of engraved silver cigarette cases ( with DeBeck's characters etched on the cover ) to the eight winners spanning the years 1946 to 1953.

She also appeared in The Good Night, playing two characters, Anna and Melody.

She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two " families ".

She and other members of this group were descendants of an immortal youth named Agamemnon and were named after characters in Greek mythology.

She is, however, consistently labeled as dependable and reliable by the other characters and thus to the audience, making her appear to be stable.

She also confesses her love to a disbelieving Spike before he sacrifices himself to save the world ; as he dies, Buffy escapes Sunnydale's destruction with the surviving characters.

She has limited interactions with the other characters.

She briefs the characters on most mission but not all.

She kills, among other villainous characters, Jabba the Hutt, choking him with the very chain that bound her to him ; Leia is also responsible for Grand Admiral Thrawn's death, since she turns the Noghri against him.

She also appeared as the main characters of films such as Mama's Back and Annie: A Royal Adventure!

She is eventually rescued by Lazarus Long and other characters drawn from various novels in the ship " Gay Deceiver " ( from The Number of the Beast ), and after rescuing her father from certain death in the Battle of Britain, is united with her descendants in a massive group marriage in the settlement of Boondock, on the planet Tertius.

She engages in charitable works and attempts to guide her girls ' morals and to shape their characters, usually through experiments.

She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several characters: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for battered prostitutes and is pregnant by Lola ; Rosa's mother ; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired ; and the drug-addicted Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover.

She developed a new form of art called the Eight model plays which depicted the world in simple, binary terms: the positive characters (" good guys ") were predominantly farmers, workers and revolutionary soldiers, whilst the negative characters (" bad guys ") were landlords and anti-revolutionaries.

She returned to acting after being cast in June 2007 in Disney's live-action-animated film, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, co-starring opposite Piper Perabo as one of three live-action characters in the film.

She particularly singled out for praise that all the characters were heading " to very different paths in life, based on their economic prospects ", giving the show an ambiguous end ; " finale is a bit of a classic: a sharply funny exploration of social class most teen films would render, well, cartoonish.

She performed " Into the Nightlife " and dedicated a rendition of " True Colors " to one of the show's characters, Luke Snyder.