Of all of Gauss's children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to his talent, but she died young.

Sobel states she is a chaser of solar eclipses and that " it's the closest thing to witnessing a miracle ".

She was viewed as beholden to whoever was closest to her at court, and the people of Spain believed that she cared little for them.

The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

The closest she ever came to preserving her stage performances were her famous television appearances as Peter Pan.

Like Queen Ælfthryth, she acted as patroness of the clergy and abbot Ælfsige of Peterborough was one of her closest advisors.

Later, she met the rest of the family, including her husband's youngest sister, Madame Élisabeth, who at the end of Marie Antoinette's life would become her closest and most loyal friend.

In terms of style, the closest to Hals ' work is the handful of paintings that are ascribed to Judith Leyster, which she often signed.

On her right arm, the side closest to the spectators on an athletics track, she had the words " Cos I'm Free " tattooed mid-way between her shoulder and elbow.

Before long a pro-French party took shape among the nobility, urging that she should be replaced by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the closest male relative to the infant prince, and now third in line to the throne.

After her arrival, she is picked up by Beverly's closest neighbour Lige Hightower ( Lars Hanson ), who lives 15 miles from her cousin.

But Ulrika Eleonora asserted that she was the closest surviving relative of the late king ( the idea of proximity of blood ) and cited the precedent of Queen Christina.

The character Minako is closest to being friends with is Rei Hino, with whom she has a conflicted relationship.

Her closest adult companion and friend was Mary Rozet Smith, who supported Addams's work at Hull House, and with whom she shared a romantic friendship.

Of all of Gauss ' children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to her father's talent, but regrettably, she died young.

Not realizing that this encounter was her audition, she is surprised when a station representative meets her and tells her " Your performance this afternoon came closest to what Villeridge wants.

She is one of the boys, and despite the troubles they go through as a group, she remains the closest female friend to the main male cast throughout the entire series.

In addition, she made two appearances on Seinfeld, including one in the 1998 series finale in which four of her former Fridays co-stars were also involved, making it the closest thing to a Fridays cast reunion to date.

: Miho Shinohara's classmate, and closest friend, she dreams of becoming an actress.

She is shown as youthful for two reasons ; God is the source of all beauty and she is one of the closest to God, also the exterior is thought as the revelation of the interior ( the virgin is morally beautiful ).

On 17 March 1680, she had the grief of losing La Rochefoucauld, the most eminent and one of her closest friends.

" Marie Larisch, an illegitimate cousin of the Empress ' and one of Vetsera's closest friends, claimed she had confided: " Mamma has no love for me ... Ever since I was a little girl she has treated me like something she means to dispose of to the best advantage.

Under Andronikos the Byzantine Empire came closest to regaining a position of power in the Balkan Peninsula since the Fourth Crusade.

Not only does the ensuing crisis rank with the Berlin Blockade, the Suez Crisis and the Yom Kippur War as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, it is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict, or possibly World War III, where it is estimated that 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians would have perished.

Among these was the devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák, the closest Brahms ever came to having a protégé.

Egyptologist Jan Assmann concludes that Strabo was the historian " who came closest to a construction of Moses ' religion as monotheism and as a pronounced counter-religion.

The possibility of a minority SPD-Green government tolerated by the Left Party was the closest the Left Party came to potential participation in government at this election.

It turned out, for certain temperaments, a seductive book .” For biographer David King Dunaway, The Doors of Perception, along with The Art of Seeing, can be seen as the closest Huxley ever came to autobiographical writing.

No Vice President has ever been impeached, least of all convicted ; in 1973, Spiro Agnew came the closest.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches fully adopt this position ; among Radical Reformation groups, the early Anabaptists came close, and modern Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and Hutterites come closest.

Ironically in view of Byrd's own religious beliefs, it was his Anglican church music which came closest to establishing a continuous tradition, at least in the sense that some of it continued to be performed in choral foundations after the Restoration and into the eighteenth century.

Bentham claimed to have borrowed this concept from the writings of Joseph Priestley, although the closest that Priestley in fact came to expressing it was in the form " the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined ".

This show was the closest Novello came to fulfilling his mother's early ambitions for him to write operas ; he played an Austrian composer-conductor at the Wiener Hofoper.

It was also during this time that Proudhon formed one of his closest friendships, with Gustave Fallot, a scholar from Montebéliard who came from a family of wealthy French industrialists.

Another wave of reforms came in 1988 with the arrival at the helm of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Vadim Bakatin, one of Mikahil Gorbachev ’ s closest allies.

That was the closest he came to winning another trophy with Chelsea until 1970, by which time Docherty had been succeeded by Dave Sexton.

The closest he came to matching it was with Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ) featuring future wife Jennifer Jones in the role of the primary character Pearl.

The closest he came to a major tactical decision was his fleeting intention to withdraw from the Henry Hill line when he briefly mistook advance of Johnston's reinforcements for the arrival of fresh Union troops.

Balakirev's sympathies and closest contacts were in the latter camp, and he frequently made derogatory comments about the German " routine " which, he believed, came at the expense of the composer's originality.

He came second to George Weah for the FIFA World Player of the Year Award in 1995, the closest a defender had ever reached to winning the award, until Fabio Cannavaro, a fellow Italian won the award in 2006.

Some historians maintain Ferdinand had also been touched by the reformed philosophies, and was probably the closest the Holy Roman Empire ever came to a Protestant emperor ; he remained nominally a Catholic throughout his life, although reportedly he refused last rites on his deathbed.

The closest the Treaty came to passage came in mid-November 1919, was when Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-Treaty Democrats, and were close to a two thirds majoriy for a Treaty with reservations, but Wilson rejected this compromise.

The amendment came closest to overcoming a discharge petition on January 10, 1938, when it was defeated in the House by a vote of 209 to 188, far short of the two-thirds vote required.

The most recent German Transrapid line project, and the one that came closest to being built, having previously been approved, was an airport connection track from Munich Railway Station to Munich Airport, which was eventually cancelled in early 2008 due to dramatically increasing cost projections.