She was almost sick when Bobbie came home with the news that Poor John had won the job.

She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.

She also won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light.

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

She won what would become her most famous acting role, that of Kimberly Drummond on Diff ' rent Strokes.

She won the titles of Miss Arkansas in 1981 and Miss America in 1982.

She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets.

She has won the U. S. Championship on three other occasions, in 2007, 2010, and 2012.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

She won her first seven games before drawing the final game.

She also won the brilliancy prize for her game against Pavlina Angelova.

She won the match 5½ – 4½ and won the largest prize money to that point in her career of $ 110, 000.

She won the match 5 – 3 by winning two games with the remaining ending in draws.

She won the game with exceptional positional play.

She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia ( 2011 ).

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 won five Grand Slam singles titles ( three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open ).

She spoke of the progress of other reform movements and so framed for her listeners the social and moral context for the struggle for women's rights.

She is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners, as the chair of The News Quiz, having replaced Simon Hoggart in September 2006.

She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted " Wittiest Living Person " by listeners in 2002.

She co-hosted the Saturday lunchtime show with Emma B from 1pm-3pm and she launched the hugely popular Sunday Surgery with Dr. Mark Hamilton, a health and welfare show where listeners called in about their problems, with Sara acting as " Nurse Coxy ".

She became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program.

She was known for her distinctive soulful vocals which initially caused many listeners to believe she was African-American.

She drew great controversy from listeners, programmers, and station staff, after she and the board attempted to modify programming in order to expand the listeners of the stations and to attract a more diverse audience.

She and her accomplice ( program director Robert Goldfarb ) fired most of the staff announcers in the hope that new talent would attract new listeners.

She felt listeners ' hearing her rags-to-riches story might inspire them to pursue their dreams.

She had a regular audience of around 4. 5 million listeners on Radio 2.

She frequently read out the expression " SW's to you " from listeners who wrote in.

She blamed the incident on a lack of sleep the previous night and apologised to listeners.

She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual responsibility.

She, and listeners, call her two co-hosts ' the Mooks '.

She takes the listeners on a journey through her thoughts and beliefs.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

She was also runner-up to Lynn Redgrave in the Motion Picture Heralds poll for " The Star of Tomorrow ", in which box-office drawing power was the main criterion for inclusion on the list.

She also incurred some criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy by taking communion in an Anglican ( Church of Ireland ) Cathedral in Dublin on 7 December 1997, although 78 percent of Irish people approved of her action in a following opinion poll.

She contested the 2011 general election, but was defeated on the poll.

She argued against Aurangzeb's strict regulation of public life in accordance with his conservative religious beliefs and his decision in 1679 to restore the poll tax on non-Muslims, which she said would alienate his Hindu subjects.

She was the only Indian actress nominated for the poll and eventually did not make it to the final list, ranked at 144.

It was reported that in October 2010 Jackson Lee was “ asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether tea party groups are intimidating black and Hispanic voters in her district .” She requested that Attorney General Eric Holder send poll monitors to make sure that a local group wasn't stopping people from voting.

She received several nominations at the 1993 ADISQ awards, and a poll published around that time voted her Quebec's most promising singer.

She topped the poll in the five-member electorate, receiving 23. 3 % of first preferences, helping ensure that Bass was the only seat to record a swing to Labor.

She had already changed her name to Hammond by deed poll.

* " She Sees My Monsters Now " ( 2002 ) ( Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story )

She was nearly shut out in the New Glasgow metropolitan area, where she won just one poll.

She topped New Straits Times reader ’ s poll four consecutive years between 1987 to 1990.

She topped the poll in the Northern Ireland constituency of the European Parliament in the 2009 European elections, resulting in a first for a nationalist or republican party.

She was re-elected to the European Parliament at the 2009 European Parliament election topping the poll in her constituency.

She was the top box-office draw four years in a row ( 1935 – 38 ) in a Motion Picture Herald poll.

She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1 July 1915. She established a reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines.

She became nationally recognized in the 2000s after appearing in several high-profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines, reaching # 14 in the FHM " Sexiest Women 2008 " poll, and having appeared on the cover of various international women's magazines including Vogue, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar.

She was voted the " Most Attractive Female Voice on National Radio " in a poll by the BBC's Radio Times publication in 2002.

She topped the poll in her constituency at the 2002 general election and was appointed to the position of Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach ; also a junior ( non-cabinet ) ministry, but with special responsibility as Government Chief Whip.

She also anchored exit poll coverage during CNN's coverage of the primaries and caucuses in the 2008 United States presidential race.

She apparently died in Leiden Holland sometime after the 1622 poll tax listing ..

She has been a strong advocate for early voting, paper ballots and better training for Election Day poll workers.