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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 won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.
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 and women's
She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.
Over the years, Hill has provided commentary on gender and race issues on national television programs, including 60 Minutes, Face the Nation and Meet the Press She has been a speaker on the topic commercial law of law as well as race and women's rights.
She was transformed by her therapy with Otto Rank, who broke with Freud over his failure to appreciate the power of women's sexuality, the value of art, and the meaning of the mother-child relationship.
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 the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.
She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote, as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
She was transferred from Mauthausen to the notorious women's concentration camp at Ravensbruck, located 50 miles from Berlin, where unbeknownst to Gemma at the time, her daughter Yolanda ( whose husband also died in the camps ) and baby grandson were also held for a year in a separate barrack.
She also advanced women's causes through The Heart Truth and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.
She was also a pioneer campaigner for women's rights.
She was educated at Stradbroke Primary and Pembroke School and, later, the University of Adelaide where she graduated B. A .. She was active in student politics, becoming president of the Students ' Association of the University of Adelaide ( SAUA ) and serving as state women's officer for the National Union of Students in South Australia.
She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The Revolution.
She was one of the important advocates in leading the way for women's rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government.
She and Matilda Joslyn Gage both made their first public speeches for women's rights at the convention.
She was the first woman to start a weekly newspaper ; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms.
She is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.
She is one of the most famous Tennessee State University Tigerbelles, the name of the TSU women's track and field program.
She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
She became active in the women's suffrage movement in New York until illness overtook her.
She described her actions during and after the Civil War, and used the sacrifices of countless women throughout modern history as evidence of women's equality to men.
She closely examines many aspects of women's and men's relations, including unrequited feelings of women for men, based on her own experience.
" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.
She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

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