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- duke of Aosta, duke of Savoy, and king of Sardinia (1802-21) on his brother Charles Emmanuel IV's abdication. [3 Related Articles]
- Victor Emmanuel II
- king of Sardinia-Piedmont who became the first king of a united Italy. [9 Related Articles]
- Victor Emmanuel II, Monument to
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...appropriate in a country that was home to the Renaissance. It thus blended well with the growth of Italian nationalism, of which the most conspicuous architectural expression is Giuseppe Sacconi's Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, Rome (1885-1911). This amazingly confident, ...
- Victor Emmanuel III
- king of Italy whose reign brought the end of the Italian monarchy. [10 Related Articles]
- Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
- (from the article "Gollancz, Sir Victor") ...officer training courses at Repton, a well-known public school (1916-18). From 1920 to 1928 he worked in the publishing house of Benn Brothers, and in the latter year he founded his own firm, Victor Gollancz, Ltd. He quickly set the ...
- Victor Gruen Associates
- (from the article "Gruen, Victor") ...the United States, where he began designing projects in various cities, beginning with the Lederer Store (New York City, 1939). He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943. In 1950 he established Victor Gruen Associates, a firm composed of professionals ...
- Victor Harbor
- town and coastal resort, South Australia, situated at the mouth of the Inman River, on the northwest shore of Encounter Bay (so called for the chance meeting of the British explorer Matthew Flinders and the French navigator Nicolas Baudin, in ...
- Victor I, Saint
- pope from about 189 to 198/199. [2 Related Articles]
- Victor II
- pope from 1055 to 1057. [2 Related Articles]
- Victor III, Blessed
- pope from 1086 to 1087. [2 Related Articles]
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- (from the article "Camden") ...pen company, the first of its kind in the country, was established in Camden in 1860; the Campbell Soup Company plant was opened there in 1869 and started marketing condensed soups in 1897. The Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in ...
- Victor, Frances Auretta Fuller
- American writer and historian who wrote prolifically, and sometimes without acknowledgement, on the history of the western United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest. [1 Related Articles]
- Victor, Geraldo Bessa
- Angolan lyric poet whose work expresses the dream of racial harmony and the need to recapture the openness and purity of childhood.
- Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
- American writer of popular fiction who is remembered as the author of many impassioned works on social ills and of a number of "dime novels," including one of the country's first detective novels.
- Victor, Paul-Emile
- French polar explorer and ethnologist who led more than 60 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic regions (b. June 28, 1907--d. March 7, 1995).
- Victor, Sextus Aurelius
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...Rome was Ammianus Marcellinus, a Greek who wrote in Latin for the Roman aristocracy; of his Res gestae, the most completely preserved part describes the period from 353 to 378. The works of Sextus Aurelius Victor and Eutropius, who ably ...
- Victor-Perrin, Claude, Duc De Bellune
- a leading French general of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, who was created marshal of France in 1807.
- Victoria
- queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). She was the last of the House of Hanover and gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age. During her reign the English ... [14 Related Articles]
- Victoria
- in Roman religion, personification of victory, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike. She was often associated with Jupiter, Mars, and other deities and was especially worshipped by the army. In later times she had three or four sanctuaries at ...
- Victoria
- capital of British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island, overlooking Juan de Fuca Strait. One of the province's oldest communities, it was founded in 1843 as a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post known as ...
- Victoria
- (from the article "Labuan") island, East Malaysia, 6 miles (10 km) off northwestern Borneo in the South China Sea. Commanding the entrance to Brunei Bay, it is roughly triangular. Its chief town, Victoria, on the southeastern coast, is a free port whose deep, well-sheltered ...
- Victoria
- town and capital of the Republic of Seychelles, located on the northeastern coast of Mahe Island, the largest island in the Seychelles group. Victoria is the only port of the archipelago and the only town of any size in Seychelles. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Victoria
- (from the article "water lily") The largest water lilies are those of the tropical South American genus Victoria, comprising two species of giant water lilies. The leaf margins of both the Amazon, or royal, water lily (V. amazonica, formerly V. regia) and the Santa Cruz ...
- victoria
- French carriage, named for Queen Victoria at least by 1844, and renowned for its elegance. It was first imported into England by the Prince of Wales in 1869, where it rapidly gained popularity. It was usually pulled by one or ...
- Victoria
- city, seat (1836) of Victoria county, southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the Guadalupe River, some 85 miles (135 km) northeast of Corpus Christi. Founded in 1824 by Spanish settlers under Martin de Leon, it was named to honour both ...
- Victoria
- (from the article "Gozo") ...km) northwest of the nearest point of Malta. It is 9 mi long and 4 12 mi wide and has an area of 26 sq mi (67 sq km). Its principal town, Victoria, formerly called Rabat, stands near the middle ...
- Victoria
- densely populated urban area in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. It lies on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, across a strait from Kowloon on the Chinese mainland, with which it is connected by ferry and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Victoria
- state of southeastern Australia, occupying a mountainous coastal region of the continent. Victoria is separated from New South Wales to the north by the Murray River for a length of about 1,065 miles (1,715 km) and by an additional boundary ... [9 Related Articles]
- Victoria
- consort of the German emperor Frederick III and eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Great Britain. [1 Related Articles]
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- British museum that houses what is generally regarded as the world's greatest collection of the decorative arts. It is located in South Kensington, London, near the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. [3 Related Articles]
- Victoria Basin
- (from the article "Cape Town") The opening of the Alfred Dock in 1870 led to renewed development along the shore. The breakwater was lengthened and piers were built in 1890-95, and the newly sheltered area was named Victoria Basin. Dredging for the Duncan Dock, built ...
- Victoria College
- (from the article "Ryerson, Egerton") ...later, missionary to American Indians. He founded the first non-Anglican school to receive a royal charter in Canada, the Upper Canada Academy at Cobourg, Ontario, in 1836. The school was renamed Victoria College in 1841, and he was its principal.
- Victoria College
- (from the article "Alexandria") Prior to 1952, Alexandria had a large number of private schools supported by various national and religious communities. Perhaps the most notable among these was Victoria College, an elite British institution founded in 1902. Its many famous students have included ...
- Victoria Cross
- the highest decoration for valour in the British armed forces, awarded for extreme bravery in the face of the enemy. It was instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria at the request of her consort, Prince Albert. The first crosses were ... [2 Related Articles]
- Victoria Cross
- (from the article "New Zealand") ...the 9,000-metric-ton, 131-m (1 m = 3.28 ft) multipurpose vessel HMNZS Canterbury, to be supplemented by two new 85-m offshore patrol vessels and four 55-m inshore patrol craft. The first Victoria Cross for gallantry to be awarded to a New ...
- Victoria Day
- Canadian holiday on which the British sovereign's birthday is celebrated. In 1845, during the reign of Queen Victoria, May 24, the queen's birthday, was declared a holiday in Canada. After Victoria's death in 1901, an act of the Canadian Parliament ...
- Victoria de las Tunas
- city, eastern Cuba. It is principally a commercial and manufacturing centre for a rich agricultural and pastoral hinterland, whose major yields are sugarcane, bananas, oranges, and cattle; beeswax and honey are also produced. Deposits of both iron ore and marble ...
- Victoria Falls
- spectacular waterfall located about midway along the course of the Zambezi River, at the border between Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the south. Approximately twice as wide and twice as deep as Niagara Falls, the waterfall spans the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Victoria Falls
- township, northwestern Zimbabwe. It is located on the south bank of the Zambezi River adjacent to Victoria Falls, the greatest waterfall in Africa. The town faces Livingstone (Maramba), Zambia, across the river. The first storage and rest huts in the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Victoria Falls Bridge
- (from the article "Freeman, Sir Ralph") In 1901 Freeman joined a London firm of consulting engineers, later known as Freeman, Fox & Partners. His works include the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi River, on the border of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia; the Royal Naval Propellant ...
- Victoria Fossil Cave
- (from the article "Naracoorte") ...and dairy products. Limestone quarrying and lumbering are also undertaken, and tourism based on nearby Naracoorte Caves National Park (established 2001) is an added source of income. In the park's Victoria Fossil Cave, a rich deposit of fossil bones was ...
- Victoria Harbour
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...Peak and 2,851 feet on Sunset Peak. Extending southeastward from Mount Tai Mo, the Kowloon Peak attains an elevation of 1,975 feet, but there is an abrupt drop to about 650 feet at Devil's Peak. Victoria (Hong Kong) Harbour is ...
- Victoria Island
- second largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Divided administratively between the Northwest Territories and the territory of Nunavut, it is separated from the mainland on the south by Dolphin and Union Strait, Coronation Gulf, Dease Strait, and Queen Maud ...
- Victoria Land
- physical region in eastern Antarctica, bounded by the Ross Sea (east) and Wilkes Land (west) and lying north of the Ross Ice Shelf. It was discovered in 1841 by a British expedition led by Sir James Clark Ross, and it ... [2 Related Articles]
- Victoria Lines Fault
- (from the article "Malta") The main physical characteristic of the island of Malta is a well-defined escarpment that bisects it along the Victoria Lines Fault running along the whole breadth of the island from Point ir-Raheb near Fomm ir-Rih Bay to the coast northeast ...
- Victoria Memorial
- (from the article "Calcutta") ...has Corinthian columns. The beautiful column of the Sahid Minar (Ochterlony Monument) is 165 feet high-its base is Egyptian, its column Syrian, and its cupola in the Turkish style. The Victoria Memorial represents an attempt to combine classical Western influence ...
- Victoria Nile
- river that forms the upper section of the Nile River and issues from the northern end of Lake Victoria at Ripon Falls (now submerged), west of Jinja, Ugan. The river flows 260 miles (420 km) northwest over the Nalubaale and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Victoria Peak
- highest point (3,681 ft [1,122 m]) in the Cockscomb Range, a spur of the Maya Mountains in central Belize, 30 mi (48 km) southwest of Stann Creek. [3 Related Articles]
- Victoria Peak
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...Peak attains an elevation of 1,975 feet, but there is an abrupt drop to about 650 feet at Devil's Peak. Victoria (Hong Kong) Harbour is well protected by mountains on Hong Kong Island that include Victoria Peak in the west, ...
- Victoria River
- longest river in Northern Territory, Australia. The river rises in low sand hills at 1,200 feet (370 m) elevation north of Hooker Creek. It flows north and northwest for about 350 miles (560 km) across a region of hills and ...
- Victoria Station
- railway station in the borough of Westminster, London. It stands just south of Buckingham Palace. Victoria Station is actually two 19th-century stations combined into one unit. The eastern portion was built for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, and the ...
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