Sentences with phrase «extraordinary woman in the history»

But it was not until she lost her fortune that Betty Parsons found her fate, to be, as Ellsworth Kelly said, «an extraordinary woman in the history of modern art.»

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The embroiderers were known for being particularly extraordinary; Guo Pei has changed history because, during the Cultural Revolution, that skill was stopped, so people in the area lost the skill of embroidery; and now that she's brought it back, there's even a woman in her studio whose great grandmother was one of the embroiderers in the last dynasty.

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

I was privileged to be invited to Westminster Hall, where, in an extraordinary moment of British history, the Pope was to address Members of Parliament and a great gathering of men and women in public life from across Britain.

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The Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.

The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.

As a 57 - year - old woman, you have a 25 % change of living until age 94, so barring something extraordinary in your personal health or family history, I think you need to plan for a 30 + year retirement.

Call of Duty: WWII will take players to the front lines of war - torn Western Europe during one of history's greatest conflicts, where the stakes were high and the only thing standing in the way of Nazi oppression was a generation of ordinary men and women willing to make extraordinary sacrifices to preserve our way of life.

Five extraordinary contemporary women artists and their trademark artworks that made history in an exhibition at Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin!

3 The gendered narrative of women as dangerous temptresses is ubiquitous throughout history — as in the extraordinary prosecution of women as witches across the U.S. and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries — but in Mutu's narrative, it is complicated further by the colonialism, slave trade, and identity endemic to African history.

The story of Af Klint's life and work is not simply the tale of an extraordinary woman, but a study in how art history has been traditionally written: bluntly put, a reflection of the market, by men.