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She and witnessed
She witnessed inoculation being practiced by physicians in Istanbul, and was greatly impressed: she had lost a brother to smallpox and bore facial scars from the disease herself.
She coordinated this as a result of her many trips abroad where she witnessed how literacy benefited children in poorer nations.
She surely witnessed an improved Oman since the last time she visited the country as the Sultanate was ranked the most improved nation in the past 40 years ( 1970-2010 ) by the UNDP just a few weeks prior to her visit.
She was gang-raped by six government soldiers, and witnessed seven executions before being sold to a Sudanese Arab.
She helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.
She was appalled by the conditions she witnessed first-hand in the Manchester workhouse: Pankhurst immediately began to change these conditions, and established herself as a successful voice of reform on the Board of Guardians.
She witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement, and " saw roving Nazi gangs randomly beating Jewish men and women in the streets " of Vienna.
She got the idea from her father, who had witnessed hangings when he lived in the West and was unnerved by the creaking sound of the rope bearing the weight of the hanging body.
She witnessed her mother's emotional unraveling that caused her to be institutionalized, and even long after her mother returned to live with her, she exhibited bizarre, childlike behaviors.
She worked as a market researcher in Watts and witnessed the riots in the summer of 1965.
She returned to France, became a nurse and witnessed the country fall to the Germans.
As the Victorian scholar Patrick Brantlinger notes in his introduction to She: " Little that Haggard witnessed matched the romantic depictions of ' the dark continent ' in boys ' adventure novels, in the press, and even in such bestselling explorers ' journals as David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ( 1857 ).
She attended Black Bolt's release from his isolation cell at the age of eighteen, and witnessed the first confrontation between Black Bolt and his insane brother Maximus the Mad.
She contracted and survived smallpox in 1720, and two years later her mother helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation against smallpox ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.
She also learns a little bit more about Henchard, specifically, the details of how he sold his first wife become public knowledge when the furmity vendor who witnessed the sale makes the story public.
She said she witnessed Trinidad ordering a subordinate to collect a ransom payment for the kidnapped former mayor of Valledupar, Elías Ochoa, in 1998.
She stopped briefly in England, then visited her mother in France, and then travelled on to Iceland where she witnessed the eruption of Mount Hekla.
She witnessed his assassination the following year.
She was moved to take action by the poverty she witnessed during a trip to Puerto Rico in 1946.
She seemed somewhat taken with him as well, at least until she witnessed him brutally subduing Othar Tryggvassen ( though when the self-proclaimed hero tried to kill her after she helped him escape, she decided she owed Gil an apology ).
She considers herself responsible for the welfare of the Syndicate as a whole because she has witnessed ( and reversed ) their deaths and severe injuries on multiple occasions.
She does not wish for her son to know the horror she has witnessed.
She played the role of the warm-hearted aunt of a young deaf girl who witnessed a murder.
She tells the others Jack stayed behind to aid their escape, unaware Will witnessed their encounter.

She and tumultuous
She was off the big screen for another four years, due mainly to a tumultuous marriage to the singer Dick Haymes.
She met director Mack Sennett while at D. W. Griffith's Biograph Company and embarked on a tumultuous affair with him ; he later brought her across when he founded Keystone Studios in 1912.

She and celebrations
She remained interested in Arthurian legends and jewellery ; in 1358 she appeared at the St George's Day celebrations at Windsor wearing a dress made of silk, silver, 300 rubies, 1800 pearls and a circlet of gold.
She was present at official celebrations and ceremonies, visited the market places where she made large purchases, and was much liked by the public, which annoyed her husband.
She was prominent in the celebrations at the law's repeal.
She attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953 and later represented the Queen at the independence celebrations of Trinidad and Tobago in 1962, and Zambia in 1964.
She also sang at the World Youth Day celebrations held in Paris ( 1997 ), in Toronto ( 2002 ), and in Sydney ( 2008 ).
She was built to take part in the celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.
She regularly attends important social events in Monaco related to the Monegasque Princely Family, such as the National Day celebrations, the annual Rose Ball, the Red Cross Ball and the Formula One competition Monaco Grand Prix.
She also refused to hold any birthday celebrations as she felt that it would be costly.
" She wrote that a victory for Democratic Party challenger, John Kerry, would prompt " victory celebrations among those who want to destroy liberal democracies.
She also presided in public celebrations over the arrival of new relics of Christian martyrs to the city and joined nightly vigils over the remains by herself.
She helped to found the Royal Western Australian Historical Society in 1926 and assisted in the planning of Western Australia's 1929 Centenary celebrations.
She lost her European title to Italian jumper Sara Simeoni in 1978, when they both cleared the world-record height of 2. 01 m. However, Ackermann's early celebrations caused the rod to fall, leaving her with second place.
She entered Russia with a grand entourage and was welcomed in the city of Pskov, where she was officially celebrated — it was noticed that she thanked the public herself for the celebrations.
She married Mao Zedong that winter, without any wedding ceremony or other celebrations.
She debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in March 2007, and played in Vatican City as part of the celebrations for Pope Benedict XVI together with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Dudamel, also in 2007.
She was awarded an MBE in 1970, returning it in 1987 to protest the Australian Bicentenary celebrations, and to make a political statement at the condition of her people.
She was taken to Swindon's GWR Museum in 1962 where, renumbered back to 3717 and in plain green livery with black frames, she stayed until 1984, when she was restored for the GWR's 150th anniversary celebrations the following year.
She enjoyed flirting with him at the balls and celebrations that marked the coronation.
She performed in Samuel Beckett's Not I in London's Battersea Arts Centre in 2005, and was interviewed with Billie Whitelaw as part of the Beckett celebrations on BBC Radio 3.
She held national positions in the Women's Co-operative Guild and was one of the speakers at its diamond jubilee celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall in 1943.
She also presented the National Lottery and presented coverage of Northern Ireland's celebrations on the Millennium eve party and was for a brief period a reporter for GMTV.
She arrived for the celebrations on 18 February 2002, nine days following the death of her sister, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ; the Queen established a short period of private, though not state, mourning.
She has also played the violin at the 150th Anniversary Gala Concert of the Queen Silvia Children's Hospital in Sweden and on behalf of Unicef during the White Turf celebrations on the frozen Lake St. Moritz in Switzerland.
She was involved in high profile storylines, such as a wedding to Ian Beale to mark the Millennium Eve celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999, and later a problematic marriage to Steve Owen.

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