Rolls-Royce PLC: …Holdings Limited was acquired by Vickers Ltd., becoming a subsidiary of the latter. A British manufacturing and engineering company with a long history as a defense contractor, Vickers was converted to a public limited company the following year. In 1983 Rolls-Royce Ltd. joined with four other European, American, and Japanese…

tank: Interwar developments: An early example was the Vickers-Armstrong six-ton model of 1930, copied on a large scale in the Soviet Union (as the T-26). The most successful example was the BT, also built in large numbers in the Soviet Union. The fastest tank of its day, the BT was based on designs…

tank: Configuration: This configuration, introduced by the Vickers-Armstrong A.10 tank designed in 1934, became almost universal after World War II, but after 1960 it was abandoned in some cases in favour of novel configurations. One widely adopted configuration retained the turret but replaced the human loader by an automatic loading mechanism. The…

Maxim machine gun, first fully automatic machine gun (q.v.), developed by engineer and inventor Hiram Maxim in about 1884, while he was residing in England. It was manufactured by Vickers and was sometimes known as the Vickers-Maxim and sometimes just Vickers. These guns were used by every major

Sir John William Alcock: …became a test pilot for Vickers Aircraft, which was preparing an airplane to fly the Atlantic Ocean nonstop for a £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail. Alcock and Brown left St. John’s, Nfd., at 4:13 pm GMT, on June 14, 1919. They landed the next day in a…

Howard Leroy Vickery was a U.S. naval officer and an outstanding merchant shipbuilder of World War II. Vickery graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., in 1915 and became assistant to the chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1937. He was appointed a commissioner in 1940 and

William Vickrey: … (now known as a “Vickrey auction”), which, through sealed bidding, awards the auctioned item to the highest bidder but at the price submitted by the second highest bidder. This method, said Vickrey, benefits both buyer and seller by guaranteeing bids that reflect the fair value of the item. Vickrey…

William Vickrey was a Canadian-born American economist who brought innovative analysis to the problems of incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics with British economist James A. Mirrlees. Vickrey’s family moved from Canada to New York when he was three

William Vickrey was a Canadian-born American economist who brought innovative analysis to the problems of incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics with British economist James A. Mirrlees. Vickrey’s family moved from Canada to New York when he was three

Vicksburg, city, seat (1836) of Warren county, western Mississippi, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Yazoo River, 44 miles (71 km) west of Jackson. Frenchmen settled there and built Fort-Saint-Pierre (1719) on the high bluffs, but the settlement was wiped out by Native

Vicksburg Campaign, (1862–63), in the American Civil War, the campaign by Union forces to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lay on the east bank of the Mississippi River, halfway between Memphis (north) and New Orleans (south). The capture of Vicksburg divided the

Vicksburg: Vicksburg National Military Park, established in 1899, occupies 2.7 square miles (7 square km) and partially encircles the city. It preserves the site of the Civil War campaigns and contains Vicksburg National Cemetery, the restored Union gunboat USS Cairo, numerous monuments and reconstructed trenches, and…

Vicksburg: Vicksburg National Military Park, established in 1899, occupies 2.7 square miles (7 square km) and partially encircles the city. It preserves the site of the Civil War campaigns and contains Vicksburg National Cemetery, the restored Union gunboat USS Cairo, numerous monuments and reconstructed trenches, and…

Woody Allen: 2000 and beyond: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) reestablished Allen’s momentum. It functioned simultaneously as a compelling romantic drama, a magnificent travelogue, and a deft comedy of manners. Javier Bardem played a supremely confident Barcelona-based artist and ladies’ man who seduces a pair of tourists (Johansson and Rebecca Hall);…

police: Criminal profiling: …the most elaborate is the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS), which is managed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ViCLAS collects extensive data on all homicides and attempted homicides, sexual assaults, missing persons, unidentified bodies of persons known or thought to be homicide victims, and nonparental abductions and attempted…

Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher of cultural history and law, who is recognized today as a forerunner of cultural anthropology, or ethnology. He attempted, especially in his major work, the Scienza nuova (1725; “New Science”), to bring about the convergence of history, from the one

crime: Characteristics of victims: Knowledge of the types of people who are victims of crime requires that they report their crimes, either to the police or to researchers who ask them about their experiences as a victim. Some crimes are greatly underreported in official statistics—rape is an example—but…

criminology: Descriptive statistics: …in many countries have utilized victimization surveys, in which random samples of the population are generally asked whether they have been victims of crime within a specified period of time. Although these surveys have methodological problems (e.g., they rely entirely on the memory of victims), they have generally been more…

American literature: Realism and metafiction: In novels such as The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970), and Humboldt’s Gift (1975), Saul Bellow tapped into

restorative justice: Victim-offender reconciliation: Victim-offender reconciliation is another important part of restorative justice. The victim and the offender discuss the crime and the harm it caused. Often, with the aid of a specially trained mediator, the victim and the offender develop a course of action that allows…

sexting: Sexting, victimization, and exploitation: , computer-based) and offline victimization, including dating violence and being coerced into sexting with strangers. These coercive sexting situations are traumatic to the individuals who experience them, and they can leave the victims open to other types of exploitation, such as nonconsensual pornography (the use of sexual content of…

criminology: Descriptive statistics: …in many countries have utilized victimization surveys, in which random samples of the population are generally asked whether they have been victims of crime within a specified period of time. Although these surveys have methodological problems (e.g., they rely entirely on the memory of victims), they have generally been more…

crime: Measurement of crime: …what are known as “victimless crimes,” such as the possession of drugs. These crimes are not discovered unless the police endeavor to look for them, and they do not figure in the statistics of reported crime unless the police take the initiative. Thus, a sudden increase in the reported…

victimology, branch of criminology that scientifically studies the relationship between an injured party and an offender by examining the causes and the nature of the consequent suffering. Specifically, victimology focuses on whether the perpetrators were complete strangers, mere acquaintances,

groupthink: … in his classic 1972 study, Victims of Groupthink: A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, which focused on the psychological mechanism behind foreign policy decisions such as the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Vietnam War, and the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Victor (IV) was an antipope from 1159 to 1164 and the second antipope designated as Victor IV. He was the first of four antipopes established against Pope Alexander III by the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. (In adopting his papal name, he ignored the antipope Victor of 1138.) Made

submarine: Attack submarines: …vessels were of the three Victor classes. The Victor I vessels, which entered service beginning in 1968, introduced the "tear-drop" hull configuration to the underwater Soviet navy. These and the 6,000-ton Victor II and III classes of the following decades were fitted with rocket-launched torpedoes or nuclear depth bombs, giving…

Victor (IV) was an antipope from March to May 29, 1138. He was a cardinal when chosen pope by a faction opposing Pope Innocent II and led by King Roger II of Sicily and the powerful Pierleoni family. Victor succeeded the antipope Anacletus II (Pietro Pierleoni), but the renowned mystic abbot St.

Victorville, city, San Bernardino county, southwestern California, U.S. Located nearly 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Los Angeles, it lies along the Mojave River in the Victor Valley at the edge of the Mojave Desert, just north of the San Bernardino Mountains. The settlement was founded in 1885 by

Victor Amadeus I was the duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637, son of Charles Emmanuel I. The French were again occupying Savoy when his father died in 1630, but by an alliance with France (his wife Christine was a daughter of King Henry IV), Victor Amadeus managed to recover Savoy and obtain one-third

Victor Amadeus II was the duke of Savoy who through his diplomacy became the first king of Sardinia-Piedmont and thus established the foundation for the future Italian national state. Victor Amadeus grew up under the protection of a regency that was headed by his mother, Marie de Savoie-Nemours (d.

Victor Amadeus III was the Savoyard king of Sardinia (Piedmont-Sardinia) from 1773 to 1796. Victor Amadeus, the son of Charles Emmanuel III, was incapable and extravagant, and he chose equally incapable ministers. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he sided with the royalists and was

Sir Frederick Handley Page: The Handley Page Victor B.2, a long-range medium bomber, was deployed with the Royal Air Force Bomber Command beginning in 1962. Page was knighted in 1942.

television: Magnetic tape: …Sony and then by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC), both using 12-mm (one-half-inch) tape packaged in a cassette. Two incompatible standards could not coexist for home use, and today the Sony Betamax system is obsolete and only the JVC Video Home System (VHS) has survived. Narrower 8-mm tape is…

Victor Emanuel Range, section of the central highlands, east of the Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The rugged range, rising sheer from the south to over 10,000 feet (3,000 metres), is composed of coralline limestone, which is so porous that water falling on it quickly

Victor Emmanuel I was the duke of Aosta, duke of Savoy, and king of Sardinia (1802–21) on his brother Charles Emmanuel IV’s abdication. He participated in the First Coalition against Revolutionary France (1792–97). All his dominions save Sardinia were occupied by the French during 1802–14. His

Victor Emmanuel II was the king of Sardinia–Piedmont who became the first king of a united Italy. Brought up in the court of his father, Charles Albert, and given a conventional monarchical education emphasizing religious and military training, he was married to his cousin Maria Adelaide, daughter

Victor Emmanuel II Monument, massive structure at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy, that was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885 and inaugurated in 1911. The monument celebrates the unification of Italy and honors Victor Emmanuel II, who was for many years a leader of the movement

Victor Emmanuel III was the king of Italy whose reign brought the end of the Italian monarchy. After a mainly military education, he came suddenly to the throne in 1900 on the assassination of his father, King Umberto I. A tractable constitutional monarch, he accepted a Liberal cabinet and readily

Daniel Radcliffe: Later films: Lost City and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: In the thriller Victor Frankenstein (2015), based on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic horror novel, Radcliffe played the doctor’s assistant, Igor. In 2016 he appeared in the heist flick Now You See Me 2. That year he also won plaudits for his portrayal of a corpse who befriends a…

Sir Victor Gollancz: …he founded his own firm, Victor Gollancz, Ltd. He quickly set the pattern that was to mark his entire career as a publisher, issuing both best sellers and works supporting his favoured causes. Among his better known authors were Harold Laski, John Strachey, A.J. Cronin, Dorothy Sayers, and John Le…

Victor Gruen: In 1950 he established Victor Gruen Associates, a firm composed of professionals from all fields of engineering, architecture, and planning, and turned his attention to solving problems of modern urban areas for mass population. Besides Northland, his significant shopping centres include Southdale (Minneapolis, Minn.), Randhurst (Mount Prospect, Ill.), and…

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 1802). Founded in 1839, the town was

Auguste Rodin: Discords and triumphs of Auguste Rodin: The conflicts over the Victor Hugo and the Balzac were even more serious.

Auguste Rodin: Discords and triumphs of Auguste Rodin: … of Argentina, and the writers Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, and each of the four monuments was challenged. In Nancy, France, the Claude statue and, in Buenos Aires, the President Sarmiento caused riots. The conflicts over the Victor Hugo and the Balzac were even more serious.

St. Victor I ; feast day July 28) was the pope from about 189 to 198/199. After succeeding St. Eleutherius in 189, Victor tried to assert Roman authority in the early Christian church. Most notably, he tried to sanction the Roman date for Easter over that celebrated by the Quartodecimans of Asia

Victor II was the pope from 1055 to 1057. Victor was of noble birth and was appointed bishop of Eichstätt in 1042. He eventually became chief adviser to the Holy Roman emperor Henry III, who in 1054 nominated him as Pope St. Leo IX’s successor. After his consecration on April 13, 1055, Victor

Blessed Victor III ; beatified July 23, 1887) ; feast day September 16) was the pope from 1086 to 1087. Of noble birth, Dauferi entered the Benedictine monastery of Montecassino, where he changed his name to Desiderius and where in 1058 he succeeded Pope Stephen IX (X) as abbot. His rule at

Camden: The Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1894 and purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1929, further developed the phonograph in Camden and manufactured it there for more than three decades. Shipbuilding on the waterfront began about 1899.

Frances Auretta Fuller Victor was an American writer and historian who wrote prolifically, and sometimes without acknowledgement, on the history of the western United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest. Frances Fuller grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, and in Wooster, Ohio. She and her younger

Geraldo Bessa Victor was an Angolan lyric poet whose work expresses the dream of racial harmony and the need to recapture the openness and purity of childhood. Victor’s poetry in Portuguese includes Ecos dispersos (1941; “Scattered Echoes”), Ao som das marimbas (1943; “To the Sound of the

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor was an 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. Metta Fuller grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, and from 1839 in

ancient Rome: The remnants of pagan culture: The works of Sextus Aurelius Victor and Eutropius, who ably abridged earlier historical works, are fairly accurate and more reliable than the Scriptores historiae Augustae, a collection of imperial biographies of unequal value, undoubtedly composed under Theodosius but for an unknown purpose. Erudition was greatly prized in aristocratic…

Claude Victor-Perrin, duke de Bellune was a leading French general of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, who was created marshal of France in 1807. In 1781 he entered the army as a private soldier and, after 10 years’ service, received his discharge and settled at Valence. Soon afterward

Blake Edwards: Later films: …with their general praise for Victor/Victoria (1982), which received a clutch of Academy Award nominations. It was based on a 1933 German film and starred Andrews as a starving performer in 1930s Paris who poses as a female impersonator to get work. When a Chicago mobster (James Garner) falls in…

Labuan: Its chief town, Victoria, on the southeastern coast, is a free port whose deep well-sheltered harbor is the principal transshipment point for the state of Brunei, northern Sarawak, and much of western Sabah. Low-lying and well-cultivated, the island has an extensive road network and a large airfield. Its…

Limbe, town and port located in southwestern Cameroon. It lies along Ambas Bay in the Gulf of Guinea, at the southern foot of Mount Cameroon, just south of Buea. The town was founded in 1858 by Baptist missionaries, and several historical monuments dating from the colonial 1890s have been

Victoria was the 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 British monarchy took on its modern ceremonial character. She and her

water lily: Major genera and species: …three species of the genus Victoria. The taxonomy of the giant water lilies has been contentious, with the group sometimes placed in the genus Nymphaea. The leaf margins of the Amazon, or royal, water lily (V. amazonica, formerly Victoria regia) and the Santa Cruz water lily (V. cruziana) have upturned…

Gozo: Its principal town, Victoria, also called Rabat, stands near the middle of the island on one of a cluster of steep hills in an intensively cultivated area. The megalithic temple Ggantija, to the east of Victoria, is noteworthy. Considered to be more fertile than Malta, Gozo depends heavily…

Victoria, town and capital of the Republic of Seychelles, located on the northeastern coast of Mahé 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. Some one-third of the people of Mahé Island live in

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 Martín de León, it was named to honour both Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Jesus Victoria (Our Lady

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 Rome, including a temple on the Palatine

Victoria was the consort of the emperor Frederick III of Germany and the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Great Britain. Well-educated and multilingual from childhood (spent largely at Windsor and Buckingham Palace), Victoria remained all her life strongly devoted to England and,

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 of some 110 miles (180 km) linking Cape Howe and

Victoria, city, capital of British Columbia, Canada, located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island between the Juan de Fuca and Haro straits, approximately 60 miles (100 km) south-southwest of the province’s largest city, Vancouver. Victoria is the largest urban area on the island. It has the

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 two horses. The victoria was a low, light, four-wheeled,

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 by automobile and mass transit railway tunnels. Victoria is

Victoria was the consort of the emperor Frederick III of Germany and the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Great Britain. Well-educated and multilingual from childhood (spent largely at Windsor and Buckingham Palace), Victoria remained all her life strongly devoted to England and,

water lily: Major genera and species: The leaf margins of the Amazon, or royal, water lily (V. amazonica, formerly Victoria regia) and the Santa Cruz water lily (V. cruziana) have upturned edges, giving each thickly veined leaf the appearance of a large shallow pan 60 to 180 cm (about 2 to 6 feet) across and accounting…

Stephen Frears: He followed with Victoria and Abdul (2017), about the unlikely friendship between the aging Queen Victoria and her young servant from India, Abdul Karim.

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. The foundation of the museum dates from 1852, when the

Cape Town: The city layout: …newly sheltered area was named Victoria Basin. Dredging for the Duncan Dock, built between 1938 and 1945 to accommodate larger vessels, and for the Ben Schoeman Dock in 1977, resulted in the reclamation of 480 acres (194 hectares) along the shore, referred to as the Foreshore. Adderley Street was extended…

Peter the Great Bay, inlet, Sea of Japan, northwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Maritime (Primorye) region of far eastern Russia. The bay extends for 115 miles (185 km) from the mouth of the Tumen River (on the Russian-Chinese border) northeast across to Cape Povorotny. The bay reaches inland for 55

Alexandria: Education: …most notable among these was Victoria College, an elite British institution founded in 1902. Its many famous students have included the Arab nationalist historian and advocate George Antonius (1891–1942) and King Ḥussein of Jordan.

Egerton Ryerson: The school was renamed Victoria College in 1841, and he was its principal.

Mars Exploration Rover: Opportunity entered Victoria crater, an impact crater roughly 800 metres (2,600 feet) in diameter and 70 metres (230 feet) deep, on September 11, 2007, on the riskiest trek yet for either of the rovers. On August 28, 2008, Opportunity emerged from Victoria crater and set off on…

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 awarded during the Crimean War. In 1858, new statutes

water lily: Major genera and species: …formerly Victoria regia) and the Santa Cruz water lily (V. cruziana) have upturned edges, giving each thickly veined leaf the appearance of a large shallow pan 60 to 180 cm (about 2 to 6 feet) across and accounting for its common name, water platter. The fragrant flowers of these species…

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 established Victoria Day as a legal

José Joaquín Olmedo: …which he is best remembered, La victoria de Junín: Canto a Bolívar (1825; “The Victory at Junín: Song to Bolívar”), commemorates the decisive battle won there by the forces of the liberator Simón Bolívar against the Spanish armies. Neoclassical in form, yet Romantic in inspiration and imagery, the Canto a…

Victoria de las Tunas, city, eastern Cuba. It is located about 45 miles (72 km) west of Holguín. The city 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

Sebastian Klonowic: …satirical and didactic Latin poem Victoria deorum (1587; “The Victory of the Gods”) Klonowic contends that true nobility depends not upon birth but upon character.

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 original village were built in

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 entire breadth of the Zambezi River at one

Sir Ralph Freeman: His works include the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi River, on the border of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia; the Royal Naval Propellant factory built during World War II; the Furness shipbuilding yard in Lancashire; and five major bridges in southern Africa. He also prepared designs for the bridge…

Victoria Falls: It is surrounded by Victoria Falls National Park. The township has an international airport 14 miles (22 km) away. Pop. (2002) 31,519; (2012) 33,660.

Naracoorte: In the park’s Victoria Fossil Cave, a rich deposit of fossil bones was discovered in 1969; the fossil chamber is estimated to contain more than 5,000 tons of bone-laden sediment, including the remains of the giant diprotodon and some 100 other species, many of which are now extinct.…

Hong Kong: Relief: Victoria (Hong Kong) Harbor is well protected by mountains on Hong Kong Island that include Victoria Peak in the west, which rises to 1,810 feet (552 meters), and Mount Parker in the east, which reaches a height of about 1,742 feet (531 meters).

Crown Princess Victoria is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia. If crowned, Victoria would become the first reigning queen in the house of Bernadotte, the royal family of Sweden since 1818. Although Victoria was firstborn, her younger

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 Gulf. It is

Kaʿiulani was the final heir apparent to the Hawaiian throne. Princess Kaʿiulani was the only child of Scottish businessman Archibald Scott Cleghorn and Princess Miriam Likelike. Likelike was the sister of King Kalakaua and of the future queen Liliuokalani, both of whom were childless, making it

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 was named for Queen Victoria. It consists largely of snow-covered

Maeve Binchy: …Line (1983; also published as London Transports), are closely observed portraits of the struggles of contemporary women.

Malta: Relief: …that bisects it along the Victoria Lines Fault running along the whole breadth of the island from Point ir-Raħeb near Fomm ir-Riħ Bay to the coast northeast of Għargħur at Madliena Fort. The highest areas are coralline limestone uplands that constitute a triangular plateau; Ta’ Żuta, which rises to 830…

Mary of Teck was the queen consort of King George V of Great Britain and the mother of kings Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor) and George VI. Mary was the only daughter of Prinz (Prince; or, after 1871, Herzog [Duke]) von Teck, who was a member of the royal house of Württemberg. She was also

Victoria Memorial, a majestic white marble edifice situated in the middle of 64 acres (25 ha) of sprawling gardens, dominating the centre of the Kolkata, India. Architecturally, it seems to reflect contemporary British civic classicism, but there are deliberate Eastern references as well. The

Victoria Memorial, a majestic white marble edifice situated in the middle of 64 acres (25 ha) of sprawling gardens, dominating the centre of the Kolkata, India. Architecturally, it seems to reflect contemporary British civic classicism, but there are deliberate Eastern references as well. The

Victoria Nile, river in Uganda that forms the upper section of the Nile River, flowing some 300 miles (480 km). It issues from the northern end of Lake Victoria at Ripon Falls (now submerged), west of Jinja, and flows northwest over the Nalubaale and Kiira dams at Owen Falls, through Lake Kyoga,

Lake Victoria, largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya. Its area is 26,828 square miles (69,484 square km). Among the freshwater lakes of the world, it is exceeded in size only by Lake Superior in North America. It is an