Don't create Mary-Sue characters based on yourself and possibly fulfilling your personal aspirations for fan fiction.
At his first departure from 10 Downing Street in 1868, Disraeli had had Victoria create Mary Anne Viscountess of Beaconsfield in her own right in lieu of a peerage for himself.
In 1934 she was named honorary president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation, and in 1944 the National League for Nursing Education created the Mary Adelaide Nutting Medal (modeled by Malvina Hoffman) in her honour and awarded the first one to her.
Their lawyer and de facto manager, Robert Thorne, capitalized on their popularity and squeaky-clean image to create a series of Mary-Kate and Ashley videos and a host of spinoff products, including books, CD's and clothes.
At the same time, Yahoo devoted just a couple of slides to important strategies, like its costly Hail Mary project to create an entirely new mobile search experience to leapfrog competitors like Google, Apple and Amazon.
The scheme will also provide a more prominent entrance to the Art Gallery and Museum and create a new footpath to Cheltenham's oldest building, medieval St. Mary's Church.
Mary greedily created the ultimate travel team, booking games coast to coast, entering into lucrative television deals.
Like the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary last year created a Web site, and for the last two years the community has run advertisements in Catholic newspapers.
While Mary Shelley created trans-European scandal with Percy, and Anne Radcliffe "caverned" and "waterfalled" her readers with wild Gothic tales, Austen never married, never travelled far, and wrote books in which high drama was a loaded conversation or a twisted ankle.
Equally unnerving are the sculptures, including a field of flowerlike objects made of knives and machetes welded together; outsize drill bits carved from black marble; and, most impressively, a model of the luxury cruise ship the Queen Mary, above, created out of thousands of empty tin cans.
Every time we think we've seen the most insane Bloody Mary ever created, another bar puts the title to shame.
