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  City of Victoria - Fort Victoria Brick Project Name List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mitchell, Maud A. Maud A. Mitchell was born in Victoria on December 24, 1894, the daughter of Charles and Ada Alexander.
Wanda Flumerfelt Ritchie was born in Victoria in 1908.
Doanld Mowat was born in Victoria in 1913.
www.victoria.ca /archives/archives_refbrk_md-mz.shtml   (1032 words)

  
 Baby Name Victoria - Origin and Meaning of Victoria (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Victoria was a goddess who smiled on the ancient Roman people for many centuries.
Victoria is a very popular female first name, ranking 116 out of 4275 for females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Victoria is a very popular surname, ranking 6829 out of 88799 for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
www.thinkbabynames.com.cob-web.org:8888 /name/0/Victoria   (249 words)

  
 Queen Victoria
The Duke of Kent was the fourth son of George III and Victoria Maria Louisa was the sister of King Leopold of Belgium.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent selected the name Victoria but her uncle, George IV, insisted that she be named Alexandrina after her godfather, Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
Victoria shared Salisbury's imperialist views and was thrilled when General Kitchener was successful in avenging General Gordon in the Sudan in 1898.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRvictoria.htm   (2245 words)

  
 Victoria
The second Victoria (AO-46) was named for the river in the western part of the Northern Territory of Australia.
The third Victoria (T-AK-281) was named for the city in Victoria County, Texas, established in 1824 and incorporated in 1839.
Victoria and her escorts reached that port on the 3d, concurrently with the first assault echelon slated to land on the Huon Peninsula near Lae, New Guinea.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/v3/victoria-ii.htm   (4067 words)

  
 HISTORY OF MEXICO - Guadalupe Victoria - PRESIDENTE DESCONOCIDO - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
Victoria escaped and took command of the forces in Veracruz rebelling against Iturbide's imperial rule.
Victoria's main distinction as president was that of being the only chief executive in the first fifty years of Mexico's history to serve out his full term.
During Victoria's reign there was a political struggle that was remarkably similar to that waged in the American colonies between supporters of independence and Tories, or, as they preferred to be called, Loyalists.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtfirstpres.html   (935 words)

  
 Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victoria, the stage name of Lisa Marie Varon (born 1971), professional wrestler
Victoria Harbour, the Harbour in between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula.
Victoria Terminus, the former name of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on the Mumbai Suburban Railway
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria   (533 words)

  
 Who Is Victoria Woodhull?
According to her contemporaries, Victoria Woodhull was a woman 100 years ahead of her time.
Victoria California Claflin was born September 23, 1838 in Homer, Ohio, to a down-on-its-luck family.
Victoria faced many obstacles to election besides the obvious one of running when most women couldn't even vote.
www.victoria-woodhull.com /whoisvw.htm   (723 words)

  
 Queen Victoria
ictoria, the daughter of the duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, was born in 1819.
Albert was moralistic, conscientious and progressive, if rather priggish, sanctimonious, and intellectually shallow, and with Victoria initiated various reforms and innovations -- he organized the Great Exhibition of 1851, for example -- which were responsible for a great deal of the popularity later enjoyed by the British monarchy.
Eventually, however, she succumbed to the flattery of Disraeli, and permitted him (in an act which was both symbolic and theatrical) to have her crowned Empress of India in 1876.
www.victorianweb.org /vn/victor6.html   (516 words)

  
 History of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Historical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Victoria was incorporated as a City on August 2, 1862.
The life of the little community of Victoria, numbering 450 men, women and children in 1853, centered in the business of the Hudson's Bay Company until 1858 when gold was discovered on the mainland of British Columbia.
With the Fraser Valley gold rush in 1858, Victoria grew rapidly as the main port of entry to the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
www.victorialodging.com /victoria/index.html   (1481 words)

  
 City of Victoria - Fort Victoria Brick Project Name List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He was also the president of the Victoria Sealing Co. and served as M.L.A. for the Victoria region, as an alderman for the Victoria City Council and for the School Board.
Madge Hamilton was born in Victoria in 1894.
Mary Porter was born in Victoria in 1852.
www.victoria.ca /archives/archives_refbrk_ha.shtml   (707 words)

  
 The Life & Times of Queen Victoria
Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg.
In 1887 Victoria’s Golden Jubilee was a grand national celebration of her 50th year as Queen.
Victoria's long reign witnessed an evolution in English politics and the expansion of the British Empire, as well as political and social reforms on the continent.
www.victorianstation.com /queen.html   (672 words)

  
 Guadalupe Victoria.History.Mexico for Kids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He was originally named José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, and studied at the seminary in Durango.
However, Victoria proposed modifying this plan so as to bring an ex-insurgent soldier to the government, as opposed to a foreigner.
Victoria attempted to implement a policy that would attract the other Independence groups, and so formed his first cabinet with their most outstanding members.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/history/html/independ/biovictoria.html   (462 words)

  
 Woodhull Web Bios
Incorrectly states that Victoria's name did not appear on the ballot because of her age.
Victoria was not the first to produce her own newspaper.
Victoria was married by the time Tennessee began her career as the "wonder child." The "thinly veiled flmail" is a matter of opinion.
www.victoria-woodhull.com /bios.htm   (400 words)

  
 Victoria Pratt Photos - Victoria Pratt News - Victoria Pratt Information
Victoria began her career not as an actor, but as a fitness expert.
Victoria finds that the Mutant X crew, the producers, the staff and the cast are all great.
Victoria took two years of classes before looking for an agent, but on her first dramatic audition ever she hit gold (edit)
www.tv.com /victoria-pratt/person/18781/summary.html   (615 words)

  
 wcbstv.com - Pablo Guzman's Gotti Files: The Victoria Interview
By the way, and I brought this up with Victoria when we sat down later: her son, John A. Gotti, was never known as “Junior” to his family and friends, and she confirmed that.
And, Wednesday night, Victoria had to be cheered by the gathering at her home: her surviving four children, daughters Angel and Victoria, sons John and Peter, and most of the 15 grandchildren (a fifth child, Frank, 12 at the time, was accidentally killed by a neighbor of the Gottis in Howard Beach, John Favara.
Victoria Gotti speaks out exclusively to CBS 2's Pablo Guzman, after her son John Gotti's third racketeering trial ended just as the first two, in a mistrial; September 2006.
wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_273175611.html   (1532 words)

  
 Making a Name Change or Choosing a Baby Name - What you need to know about name meanings
Although the name Victoria creates an interest in the deeper aspects of life, we emphasize that it limits self-expression and friendly congeniality with a moody disposition.
This name, when combined with the last name, can frustrate happiness, contentment, and success, as well as cause health weaknesses in the heart, lungs and bronchial area.
The name of Victoria gives you a clever, quick, analytical mind, but you suffer with a great deal of self-consciousness, lack of confidence, and much aloneness because of misunderstandings.
www.kabalarians.com /female/victoria.htm   (440 words)

  
 Protected Areas Programme -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Victoria Falls was proclaimed a National Monument in 1935, and in 1937 the Victoria Falls Reserve (an area extending some five miles from the falls) came under the control of the Historic Monument Commission.
Victoria Falls forms a geographical barrier between the distinct fish faunas of the upper and middle Zambezi River, with fish species including breams Oreochromis mossambica, T.
There is an extensive literature covers the archaeology, history, geology, fauna and flora of Victoria Falls and environs with more specific reports and papers dealing with planning development, the management of the biological resources, and reclamation of the Falls rain forest area.
www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/victoria.html   (1322 words)

  
 Victoria Pizza Recipes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
At the end of the first millennium, the name "pizza" became the accepted term although it looked nothing like the genuine Neapolitan pizza we're familiar with today.
VICTORIA produces and packs a wide variety of products which are ideal as pizza toppings.
VICTORIA Marinated Mushrooms, Pickled Mushrooms, and Giardeniara add a distinctive touch to create a zesty vegetable pizza.
www.victoriapacking.com /pizza.html   (419 words)

  
 City of Victoria - Fort Victoria Brick Project Name List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Norman Parfitt was born in Victoria on December 27, 1917.
Lily Bertha Parson was born in Manchester, England in 1886 and came to Victoria in 1898.
Carl Pendray was born in Victoria in 1879.
www.city.victoria.bc.ca /archives/archives_refbrk_pa-pe.shtml   (1001 words)

  
 Victoria History
The Victoria at Kew was under the care of James Gurney, who would later become superintendent of Tower Grove Park in St. Louis, Missouri.
The largest Victoria that we have found reported was grown in 1891 at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. under the care of George W. Oliver.
In historical references and sometimes modern-day usage, Victoria regia and Victoria amazonica are terms used inaccurately in place of the stand-alone genus name Victoria.
www.victoria-adventure.org /victoria/victoria_history.html   (918 words)

  
 City of Victoria - Fort Victoria Brick Project Name List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Robert Henry Brackman Ker was born in Victoria in 1895.
Gladys Mildred Hoyt Knott was born in Victoria on October 13, 1908.
Grace Fusa Koyama was born on February 16, 1912 in Victoria, the daughter of Harry and Lydia Koyama.
www.city.victoria.bc.ca /archives/archives_refbrk_k.shtml   (643 words)

  
 British Royalty, Queen Victoria's Not So Victorian Writings
Perhaps if she had not had an empire over which to preside, Queen Victoria's name would be linked with the exact antithesis of what we now think of as "Victorian" if she had spent her time challenging a woman's role more publicly than in her letters to her daughter.
Queen Victoria sneers at marriage repeatedly in her letters, even challenging the then accepted (and "Victorian") idea that a woman could only be truly fulfilled through marriage.
Queen Victoria did, however, acknowledge that marriage in the mid nineteenth century was one of the few "career" options a woman had and seemed to feel that it was better to bow one's head to this fate without too much fuss.
www.victoriana.com /doors/queenvictoria.htm   (1768 words)

  
 Waterlily Names Main Page
To be strictly correct, a name is comprised of the genus and the epithet, i.e.
Additional names that are not accepted for various reasons or that refer to other genera are in a separate list, "Names Not Accepted", numbering almost 200.
Those names which are synonyms, that have been published but are not the correct names for the lilies in question, are expressed in Plain Print; they should not be reused in Nymphaea.
www.victoria-adventure.org /waterlilies/names/names_main.html   (906 words)

  
 Victoria (name) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the best known Victorias, the 19th century UK queen: the Victorian era was named after her.
Victoria is the female form of Victor, but it is also the original Latin word for Victory.
Boudicca (1st century), was, in the Victorian era, praised as "namesake" of Queen Victoria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_(name)   (179 words)

  
 Victoria West Community Association Public Walk
The building originally housed the Victoria Men's Brotherhood, established after World War I as a social and veterans' group.
After women got the vote in 1919, the organization changed its name to Victoria Brotherhood and then, in the 1930's, to the Victoria West Community Association.
Burleith took its name from the mining town in Ayrshire, Scotland, where James's father Robert had been born.
www.victoriawest.ca /GooseWalk.htm   (320 words)

  
 Victoria Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Victoria Theatre Association is located in the historic Victoria Theatre, at 138 North Main Street in downtonw Dayton.
Victoria Theatre Association is the very first recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award from The League of American Theatres and Producers, the association representing Broadway theatre throughout North America whose members vote on the Tony Awards.
Victoria Theatre Association is proud of its alliances with the Dayton Opera Association and the Arts Center Foundation and its collaboration on the Humana Loft Series 1 with The Human Race Theatre Company.
www.victoriatheatre.com /about/about.html   (272 words)

  
 Victorian Softball Association
Softball Victoria is the peak body for softball in Victoria, with 17 affiliated associations and an ever fluctuating number of clubs.
Victoria is one of the more successful states in the national competition, with Victoria's Under 23 Women and Under 19 Men both winning national titles in 2006.
Victoria has a huge tradition of supporting Masters events both in Australia and overseas.
victoria.softball.org.au   (314 words)

  
 buy domain name registration victoria bc registrar victoria bc
Persons seeking to register a domain name need not prove that they have used the domain name in any way or that they have any particular connection to or trade-mark rights in the name they seek to register.
If the domain name registered by the cybersquatter utilizes a gTLD or a ccTLD that is subject to the UDRP or an equivalent dispute resolution policy, that policy may be used relatively expeditiously and inexpensively and without jurisdictional concerns.
If the top level domain of the domain name is not subject to the UDRP or an equivalent policy, or if the circumstances do not fall within the scope of an applicable dispute resolution policy, or if an immediate injunction is needed to stop the cybersquatting, court action may be the only alternative.
www.northstudio.com /domain   (2371 words)

  
 Business Victoria - Starting a Business - Registering a Business Name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A business name is not a legal entity like an individual or corporation and cannot sue, be sued or hold property.
Any disputes over the naming rights are dealt with by legislation or through the legal system, so you should contact your solicitor if you require assistance in such matters.
Tips for choosing an appropriate business name, including ways to check if your business name is unique and what to do if the name you choose is already registered.
www.business.vic.gov.au /BUSVIC/STANDARD/1001/PC_50021.html   (448 words)

  
 Picture of Statue of Queen Victoria name by Thomas Brock. - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Picture of Statue of Queen Victoria name by Thomas Brock.
The statue that gave Victoria Square its name is by Thomas Brock and was made from marble.
Statue of Queen Victoria name by Thomas Brock.
freefoto.com /preview.jsp?id=1046-18-56&k=Statue+of+...+Thomas+Brock.   (484 words)

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