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Specialty Definition: British penny part 3

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Victoria

The penny of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) is one of the most intricate denominations of British coinage, with most of the varieties emerging after the switch from copper to bronze coinage in 1860.

Between 1839 and 1860, the penny was made of 18.8 grams of copper and was 34 millimetres in diameter. From 1860 onwards, bronze (an alloy of 95% copper, 4% tin, and 1% zinc) was used instead -- the bronze penny weighed 9.4 grams and was 31 millimetres in diameter. This article can only mention the gross differences between different varieties of penny, but a very great number of small differences appeared, especially between 1860 and 1883.

Only two major portraits of the Queen were used on the penny in the whole of her reign, the Young Head designed by William Wyon (who died in 1851, and whose eldest son Leonard Charles Wyon (1826-91) designed the bronze coinage of 1860), and the Old Head designed by Thomas Brock which was used on the penny from 1895. Unlike the silver coinage, the Jubilee Head was not used on the bronze coins.

The first obverse showed the Young Head of the Queen, facing left, with the inscription VICTORIA DEI GRATIA with the date beneath the head; this obverse was used (with a slight alteration in 1858) until the end of the copper penny issue in 1860. Copper pennies were issued for all years between 1839 and 1860 except 1840, 1842, 1850, and 1852. The reverse of the coin for the whole of this period was similar to the William IV issue, with a seated right-facing Britannia holding a trident, except that most year the head of the trident was ornamented; the inscription read BRITANNIAR REG FID DEF.

The bronze coinage of 1860 for the first time stated the value of the coin on the reverse. The obverse was mostly unchanged between 1860 and 1894 except for some variations in the border (whether toothed or beaded), and whether or not there was an "L.C. Wyon" between the bust and the rim. The inscription read VICTORIA D G BRITT REG F D. The reverse shows a seated Britannia holding a trident with the words ONE PENNY to either side of her, and the date in the exergue beneath her; until 1895 there was a lighthouse to Britannia's left and a ship to her right; variations in the reverse include different levels of the sea around her feet, and an "H" below the date in some years indicated that the coin was produced at Messrs Ralph Heaton's mint in Birmingham. Pennies were produced in all years between 1860 and 1894.

For all years from 1895 to 1901 the "Old Head" bust was used, with the inscription VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP, while the reverse was similar to before (although the level of the tide seemed to increase as the years went on).

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Penny

Next chapter: The Twentieth Century Penny (1901-1970)

For other denominations, see British coinage.

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Manchester Victoria station

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Manchester Victoria railway station is the second of Manchester's mainline railway stations, now being much less important than Manchester Piccadilly station. It is located to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, virtually adjacent to Manchester Cathedral. Originally it was a small single storey single platform building designed by George Stephenson and completed in 1844 to serve the Manchester and Leeds Railway. By this time there were six railways connecting Manchester to the cities of London, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bury and Bolton. Victoria Station came to dominate the Long Millgate area and was one of the biggest passenger stations in Britain. It was enlarged by William Dawes, who is responsible for most of the remaining facade, in 1909.

The present Edwardian building has a 160 yard facade, which still carries an iron and glass canopy bearing the names of the original destinations which it served, and a tile map depicting the routes of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway which operated from the station until 1923. These canopies served as covered waiting porch for taxi cabs until they were severely damaged in the 15 June 1996 IRA bomb blast - they have now been completely restored to their former glory. The cast iron train sheds behind the facade run back for some 700 yards. Initially the station was approached by a wooden footbridge over the River Irk which has subsequently disappeared beneath culverting alongside the Cathedral, where it makes its way un-noticed into the River Irwell.

Nowadays, largely serving destinations north and east of Manchester and some trains to Liverpool, it is the main terminus for the adjacent Manchester Evening News Arena, which was effectively joined onto the original station between 1992 and 1996 by means of a "raft" above the through rail platforms - the principal access to the MEN Arena is via stairs from the main station concourse. The line from Bury was converted to light rail operation in the early 1990s when the Metrolink tram system was created, and the trams switch to on-street running once they emerge from the side wall of Victoria Station. Current plans for Phase 3 of Metrolink involve the conversion of the rail routes from Victoria to Oldham and Rochdale to light rail.

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Nike (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Nike (Greek Νικη, pronounced Nee-kay, meaning "Victory") (Roman equivalent: Victoria), was a goddess who personified triumph and victory. She was a companion of Athena. She was capable of running and flying at great speeds. Nike was the daughter of Pallas and Styx and the sister of Cratos, Bia, and Zelus. She was depicted as having wings and wearing a billowing robe, carrying a wreath and a staff. Nike and her siblings were all companions of Zeus.

The most famous representation of Nike is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, in the Louvre, Paris.

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University of Victoria

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The University of Victoria (usually known as UVic) is located on southern Vancouver Island in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is a relatively small university, with approximately 18,000 students, as of 2003.

It attracts many students in part because of its size, its location in the beautiful city of Victoria, and co-op program - which is the third largest in Canada. Despite its small size, it has one of the best law schools in Canada.

The University is one of Canada's younger universities, having been given its charter in 1963. Before that time, it existed as Victoria College from 1903.

The current president of the university is David H. Turpin, and its chancellor is Ronald Lou-Poy.

Current faculties:

• Business
• Education
• Engineering
• Fine Arts
• Graduate Studies
• Human & Social Development
• Humanities
• Law
• Science
• Social Sciences

UVic Presidents (Past & Present):

• W. Harry Hickman, 1963-1964 (Acting)
• Malcolm G. Taylor, 1964-1968
• Robert T. D. Wallace, 1968-1969 (Acting)
• Bruce J. Partridge, 1969-1972
• Hugh E. Farquhar, 1972-1974
• Stephen A. Jennings, 1974 (Acting)
• Howard E. Petch, 1975-1990
• David F. Strong, 1990-2000
• David H. Turpin, 2000-present

External Link:

• http://www.uvic.ca

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Victoria

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State of Australia

Victoria is a state of Australia, the southernmost in the east of the mainland. See Victoria (Australia)

City of Victoria

Victoria is the name of several cities:

• Victoria, British Columbia
• Victoria, Malta
• Victoria, Romania
• Victoria, capital of the Seychelles, pop. 23,000, on the main island Mahe
• Victoria, Minnesota, United States of America
• Victoria, Texas, United States of America
• Victoria, Indiana, United States of America
• Victoria, Virginia, United States of America

Victoria National Golf Club

• Victoria National Golf Club, Victoria, Indiana

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is the name of a lake in East Africa.

Victoria Peak

Victoria Peak is a mountain on Hong Kong Island.

Victoria Harbour

Victoria Harbour is the body of water between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula.

British Monarch 1837-1901

See Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Empress of India, etc

The goddess Victoria

In Roman mythology, Victoria was the goddess of victory. See Nike (mythology).

Transport

• Victoria coach station in London
• Victoria railway station in London
• Victoria tube station in London
• Victoria railway station in Manchester

Professional wrestler

Victoria is the stage name of Lisa Marie Varon.

Waterlily

• Victoria (waterlily)

Submarine

Victoria (submarine) is a class of Canadian submarine

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Victoria (Australia)

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Victoria

State flag (In detail) Coat of Arms (In detail)
Capital	Melbourne
Area — Land — Marine — Total	227 416 km² 10 213 km² 237 629 km²
Population (2002) Density	4 888 200 21.5/km²
Time zone	UTC+10 (except during daylight saving time—UTC+11)
Highest point	Mt Bogong (1 986 m)
ISO 3166-2 code:	AU-VI

Victoria is Australia's geographically smallest mainland state, in the south-eastern corner. Population 4,644,950 (census 2001). Sharing the Murray River as a border with New South Wales to its north, and a border with South Australia to the west. It covers an area considerably larger than the British Isles. In this space are topographically, geologically, and climatically diverse areas ranging from the wet, temperate climate of Gippsland in the southeast, to the snow-covered Victorian alpine areas which rise to almost 2000 metres, (with Mount Bogong the highest peak at 1986 metres), and extensive semi-arid plains to the west and north-west.

The state's capital, Melbourne, contains approximately 70% of the state's population and dominates its economy, media, and culture.

Other cities and towns include:

Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, the Latrobe Valley, Wodonga, Mildura, and Swan Hill, Portland, Warnambool, Echuca, Yarrawonga, Wangaratta, Bright, Mt Beauty, Benalla, Wodonga, Shepparton, Castlemaine, Lorne, Apollo Bay, Barwon Heads, Queenscliff, Portsea, San Remo, Sale, Bairnsdale, Omeo, Moe, Morwell, Tyers, Traralgon, Warragul

Outside the manufacturing and service centre of Melbourne, agriculture dominates the Victorian economy, with its comparatively rich soils and temperature, wet climates compared to the rest of Australia. Major export agricultural activities include beef and dairy cattle, wool and lamb production, and wheat (primarily in the drier western half of the state), with irrigated fruit and vegetable growers around Melbourne and along the Murray River. Wine grape production has been growing rapidly in the past decade or so.

Victoria is generally regarded as the home of Australian Rules Football, with most cities and towns having at least one team.

The state flower of Victoria is the Pink heath.

• Politics of Victoria
• History of Victoria
• National Parks (Victoria, Australia)

Tourism in Victoria

Skiing in Victoria, Fairy penguins, Melbourne Casino, Ballarat, Sovereign Hill, Puffing Billy, Maldon, Beechworth, Gippsland Lakes, Buchan Caves, Bendigo, Echuca, Murray river Golf Clubs, Hang-gliding, Gliding, Hot air balloons, Whale watching, Port Fairy Folk concert

Geology

Vulcanism and geology, Gold mining, Brown coal, Offshore oil drilling

Rivers in Victoria

Murray River, Ovens River, King River, Campaspe River, Lodden River, Wimmera River, Elgin River, Barwon River, Thompson River, Snowy River, Latrobe River, Yarra River, Maribynong River, Mitta River, Kiewa River

• Local Government Areas of Victoria

External links

• Government website
• Official tourism website
• Railway map

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Victoria (waterlily)

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Victoria regia is the largest of all the waterlilies, with leaves sometimes over eight feet in diameter on stalks 20 to 25 feet in length. It is native to the shallow waters {oxbow lakes, bayous etc} of the amazon basin. The flowers are white the first night they are open and become pink the second night. They are up to seventeen inches in diameter, and pollinated by beetles. There is a second species, V. cruziana, in the Parana-Paraguay basin which is only slightly smaller, with the underside of the leaves purple rather than the red of V. regia, and covered with a peachlike fuzz lacking in V. regia. A third type, V. mattogrossensis or V. cruziana var. mattogrossensis, found in the pantanal region, resembles V. cruziana except in having huge seeds.

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Victoria Beckham

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Victoria Caroline Adams (born April 17, 1974) is a British singer, originally in the girl band The Spice Girls, where she was known as Posh Spice.

Adams married the ex-Manchester United and present England footballer David Beckham, on July 4, 1999, with whom she has two sons, Brooklyn, born March 4, 1999, and Romeo, born September 1, 2002.

An alleged plot to kidnap Victoria on November 1, 2002, was revealed by the News of the World. The court case against the alleged kidnappers collapsed after the original informant admitted that he "made the whole thing up".

Learning to Fly

Victoria Beckham wrote a book called Learning to Fly. In it, amongst other things, she detailed the first incident of the football chant Posh Spice Takes it Up the Arse being sung by the opposing fans at a Manchester United game. The fans chanted this when David Beckham gained possession of the ball

External links

• excerpt from Learning to Fly

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Victoria Bridge, Brisbane

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Victoria Bridge, Brisbane

The Victoria Bridge is the fifth crossing of the Brisbane River.

The current bridge, opened in 1969. is the third permanent crossing erected at this location.

It is shared by vehicular traffic, pedestrians and cyclists. It connects the Southbank Parklands to the city.

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Victoria County, Ontario

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Merged with Lindsay to form City of Kawartha Lakes.

Major Towns:

• Lindsay, Ontario

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Victoria Island

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Victoria Island is one of the largest islands of the world. It is located in the Arctic Sea and is one of the Canadian Arctic Islands. The west part belongs to the Northwest Territories and the east part to Nunavut. To the North lies Melville Sound. Eastwards are Clintock Channel and Victoria Strait. The Northwest Territories continue on the mainland to the South across Pease Strait. On the West are Amundsen Gulf and Banks Island.

The settlement of Cambridge Bay lies on the southeast coast. Holman is on the west coast.

Roughly the eastern two-thirds of the Island are located in Nunavut, the western part is in the Northwest Territories.

Mercator projection: Online Map Creation

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Victoria Line

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The Victoria Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured light blue on the Tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line which runs from the south-west to the north-east of London. It was built in the 1960s, to relieve congestion on other lines, in particular the Piccadilly Line. The Victoria line was designed to maximize the possible interchanges, yet keep a large distance between stations for trains to build up speed.

Many stations on the route were rearranged for so-called "cross-platform interchange": each Victoria Line platform was placed adjacent to and parallel with that of the equivalent direction track of the other line, thus making them essentially two faces of a single platform (though they were in different tunnels). This allows quick transfer between lines at stations. For example, at Oxford Circus, switching from a northbound Victoria line train to a northbound Bakerloo train is a matter of a 20 metre walk no matter how far along the platform you are; likewise for southbound. In some cases this was achieved simply by placing the Victoria Line tubes on either side of the existing station; in other places the Victoria Line uses one of the old platforms while the older line was diverted into a new platform. At Euston station the track layout is particular in that while northbound Victoria and Northern Line (City branch) trains run along adjacent platforms, they are going in opposite directions along them.

Map

Geographically accurate map of the Victoria Line (Large)

Stations

in order from north to south

• Walthamstow Central, opened: September 1, 1968.
• Blackhorse Road, opened: September 1, 1968.
• Tottenham Hale, opened: September 1, 1968.
• Seven Sisters, opened: September 1, 1968.
• Finsbury Park, opened: September 1, 1968.
• Highbury & Islington, opened: September 1, 1968.
• King's Cross St. Pancras, opened: December 1, 1968.
• Euston, opened: December 1, 1968.
• Warren Street, opened: December 1, 1968.
• Oxford Circus, opened: March 7, 1969.
• Green Park, opened: March 7, 1969.
• Victoria, opened: March 7, 1969 (railway station)
• Pimlico, opened: September 14, 1972.
• Vauxhall, opened: July 23, 1971.
• Stockwell, opened: July 23, 1971.
• Brixton, opened: July 23, 1971.

External links:

• http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/victoria.html

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Victoria of the United Kingdom

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Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) of the Royal House of Hanover or, after her marriage, possibly Wettin ¹ (May 24, 1819 - January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for a record sixty-three years, seven months, and two days (June 20, 1837 - January 22, 1901). She was also Empress of India.

Birth and background

She was born on May 24, 1819, to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (fourth son of King George III) and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of HSH Emich, 2nd Prince of Leiningen. King Leopold's first wife, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, was the only legitimate child of the Prince Regent (future King George IV). After Princess Charlotte's death in 1817, there was a scramble by George III's younger sons to abandon their mistresses, marry, and beget an heir to the realm. The Duke of Kent, marrying at the age of fifty, became the father of the ultimate heiress. (In later years, it was rumoured that Victoria's biological father was Sir John Conroy, an Irish soldier who served as private secretary to Victoria's mother. See footnote 2 below.)

Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland

At the tender age of eighteen, she ascended to the throne following the death of King William IV on June 20, 1837. Victoria was to prove Britain's longest reigning monarch. In her early days, she was largely dependent for advice on the Prime Minister, William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, with whom she forged a strong relationship.

Victoria and Albert

Victoria met her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha when she was just sixteen, and found him appealing even then. The families' desire to unite the two happened to coincide well with the desires of Victoria and Albert themselves, and they were married on February 10, 1840. However, there was some friction between them at first, because Albert wished to take an active role in the administration of the realm. Eventually, they reached a compromise, and their marriage became an outstandingly happy one, with the result that Victoria was completely devastated by his early death in 1861.

Victoria
Cartoon of Queen Victoria receiving
the imperial crown of India
from Disraeli

Victoria blamed Bertie, her eldest son, for the death of Prince Albert. She continued to regard him as unfit to take responsibility, even though he was the heir to the throne, and never allowed him the kind of role that would have helped him prepare for kingship. With the extra time on his hands he became an aging playboy, whilst the queen withdrew into semi-permanent mourning and was popularly known as "the widow of Windsor". Her withdrawal from public life increased the profile of her children, most notably, Bertie and his wife Alexandra. She was known to keep dachshund dogs.

Mrs Brown

As well as being known as the Widow of Windsor, Queen Victoria was also known as "Mrs Brown" because she relied increasingly on a Scottish retainer, John Brown. The nickname was long perceived as a joke. The recently discovered diaries of Lewis Harcourt, a politician of the time, may lend credence to the story. The diaries contain a report that one of the Queen's chaplains, Rev'd Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession to Harcourt repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to John Brown. Debate continues over whether the marrige actually happened. Some scholars insist that Victoria would never have married a servant and even doubt that the relationship was even romantic. They doubt the veracity of Harcourt's account and question why a royal chaplain would confess to a politician. Others are equally certain that Victoria was in love with Brown and regard Harcourt's account as confirmation that a marriage actually occured. Supporters of the Brown marriage theory regard Harcourt as a well-placed source with no obvious reason to place a false story in his private diaries. In the final analysis there is no way to be absolutely certain of the truth. (Victoria requested that mementos of both Prince Albert and John Brown be placed in her coffin, a request which horrified her family, who disliked Brown intensely).

Empress of India

Her favourite Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, persuaded her to assume, by Royal Proclamation of April 28, 1876, the title of "Empress of India," reflecting the fact that she had presided over a massive expansion of the British Empire and the continued rise of Britain as an industrial power. On January 1, 1877, at the first Imperial Assemblage (or Durbar) in Delhi, Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. She was not present, and she never visited India. Later in 1887, her golden jubilee brought her to new heights of popularity, and she went on to celebrate a diamond jubilee ten years later.

Grandmother of Europe

Victoria was known as the Grandmother of Europe. She was the first known carrier of hæmophilia in the royal line. It remains unclear how she acquired it. One theory is that it came about as a result of a sperm mutation from her father, who was 52 when Victoria was conceived. Alternately, she may have acquired it from her mother, though there is no known history of hæmophilia amongst her mother's family or her maternal ancestors. A third is that it came via Sir John Conroy, her mother's Irish secretary and reputed lover², who was rumoured to be Victoria's actual father. This theory is not perceived as credible, however, as a male who is not a hæmophiliac cannot carry the gene for hæmophilia.

Victoria R
Signature of Victoria R(egina)
before becoming Empress of India

What is clear is that she passed it on to at least two of her daughters (Princesses Alice and Beatrice) with tragic consequences for the heirs to the Russian and Spanish thrones who were the descendants of these two daughters. The most famous victim of this disease was Alexei, the son of Nicholas II of Russia, who inherited the disease from his mother Alexandra of Hesse, a granddaughter of Victoria. Queen Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold, was also born with hæmophilia and died a young man because of it.

Queen Victoria died in 1901, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight and was buried at Frogmore, Windsor Castle. She was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.

Quotations

"We are not amused." - This quotation is attributed to Victoria, with varying stories. One has her saying it after viewing a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. Other stories describe it as a reaction to a groom-in-waiting of hers, the Hon. Alexander Grantham Yorke, either to a theatrical production he put on, or to a risqué joke he told to a German guest and which the Queen asked him to repeat after the guest laughed loudly. In this account, she was not using the royal "we" but speaking for the affronted ladies of the court. [1]

"I will be good." - 11-year-old Victoria's spoken response in 1830 when her governess let her know that one day she would be Queen.

"Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young, and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure, that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have." - her response in her diary upon becoming Queen in 1837 at age 18.

Children of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert

• Victoria, Princess Royal (November 21, 1840 - August 5, 1901), married Friedrich III (1831 - 1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia
  
• Albert Edward (November 9, 1841 - May 6, 1910), Prince of Wales (later, Edward VII), married Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844 - 1923), elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark
  
• Alice (April 25, 1843 - December 14, 1878), married Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892)
  
• Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and later reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (August 6, 1844 - July 31, 1900), married Grand Duchess Marie of Russia (1853-1920)
  
• Helena (May 25, 1846 - June 9, 1923), married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1831-1917)
  
• Louise (March 18, 1848 - December 3, 1939), married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll 1845-1914
  
• Arthur, Duke of Connaught, (May 1, 1850- January 16, 1942) married Princess Louise of Prussia (1860-1917)
  
• Leopold, Duke of Albany (April 7, 1853- March 28, 1884), married Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861-1922)
  
• Beatrice (April 14, 1857- October 26, 1944), married Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858-1896)
  

Footnotes

¹ Victoria's actual surname remained a mystery for much of her life until she had her aides check it out. They concluded that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was only the Royal House name of Prince Albert, not as is often presumed, his surname. The general conclusion was that his actual surname, were he to have to use one, would be Wettin, which by marriage became Victoria's also and that of her children. Victoria was less than happy with the name and all mention of the name she hated was hidden for decades until rediscovered during the First World War. In 1917, both the Royal House name and the personal family surname was changed to Windsor.
² According to the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Victoria as a young girl caught her widowed mother in a compromising position with Conroy. It was widely rumoured at court that their sexual relationship predated the Duke of Kent's death, and that Conroy rather than the Duke may well have been Victoria's natural father. However the continuing existence of particular genetic illnesses in the Royal Family after Victoria that existed before her conception and which did not exist in Conroy's family suggest that her natural father almost certainly was the Duke of Kent, who would have passed on the genes to illnesses that struck as late as the Prince William of Gloucester, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1972. Source: report of a conversation with Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom in which she talked of the health problems of Prince William of Gloucester.

Preceded by: William IV

List of British monarchs

Succeeded by: Edward VII

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Victoria Station (London)

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Victoria Station is a London Underground and railway station in London, in the borough of Westminster.

The eastern side services Kent, and the western side is the terminus for lines running from Surrey and Sussex, including Gatwick Airport and Brighton.

The London Underground station lies to the north of the mainline station concourse. There are two ticket halls. The hall closer to the mainline station serves the Victoria Line. The other, further north along a tunnel, serves the District and Circle Lines.

History

It was originally two stations, the eastern one for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and the western for the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. The South Eastern and Chatham station is a baroque building designed by Alfred Bloomfield and completed in 1908. The London, Brighton, and South Coast building, completed in 1898, is in a Renaissance style. These stations replaced two built in 1858 and 1861.

The stations were merged in 1924 when a passage from one to the other was created by removing part of a wall. The architecture of the two stations is clearly visible from outside. The station was redeveloped in the 1980s.

The Victoria line didn't come to Victoria itself until the third phase of deployment - the platforms were opened on March 7, 1969, six months after it had started running in outer London.

See also

• Manchester Victoria station

• Charing Cross
• Euston
• Fenchurch Street
• Kings Cross
• Liverpool Street
• London Bridge
• Marylebone
• Paddington
• St Pancras
• Waterloo

• British railway system
• UK topics

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Victoria, Arkansas

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Victoria is a town located in Mississippi County, Arkansas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 59.

Geography

Victoria is located at 35°45'26" North, 90°3'23" West (35.757332, -90.056384)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 59 people, 21 households, and 14 families residing in the town. The population density is 73.5/km² (191.7/mi²). There are 30 housing units at an average density of 37.4/km² (97.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.31% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.69% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 1.69% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 21 households out of which 28.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.1% are married couples living together, 0.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% are non-families. 23.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.81 and the average family size is 3.50. In the town the population is spread out with 33.9% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 22.0% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 5.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 30 years. For every 100 females there are 126.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 129.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $28,750, and the median income for a family is $28,750. Males have a median income of $19,500 versus $11,667 for females. The per capita income for the town is $8,721. 5.3% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

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Victoria, British Columbia

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Victoria is a Canadian city, and the provincial capital of British Columbia.

It is near the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island, overlooking the Juan de Fuca Strait. Greater Victoria has a population of approximately 326,000. It is the largest city on the island. The chief industry is tourism. The district of Esquimalt, which forms part of greater Victoria, is the base for the Pacific Fleet of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Founded in 1843 as Fort Camosun, a Hudson's Bay Company post, the city was later called Fort Victoria. When Vancouver Island became a crown colony, a town was laid out on the site and made the capital of the colony. With the discovery of gold on the British Columbia mainland in 1858, Victoria became the port, supply base, and outfitting center for miners on their way to the Cariboo gold fields. In 1866, when the island was united with the mainland, Victoria remained the capital of the colony and became the provincial capital in 1871.

Victoria's climate is reasonably temperate, with very few daily temperatures above 30°C (86°F) or below 0°C (32°F). In January, the average daily high and low temperatures are 6.9°C (44.4°F) and 0.7°C (33.3°F), respectively. In July, Victoria enjoys considerably warmer temperatures, averaging a daily high of 21.9°C (71.4°F) and low of 10.8°C (51.4°F). The record daily high temperature was 36.1°C (97.0°F) on July 16, 1941, and the record daily low temperature was -15.6°C (3.9°F) on January 28, 1950.

Concerning precipitation, Victoria is fairly wet during the winter, but suffers from several weeks of drought-like conditions during the summer. In July, Victoria only recieves an average of 19.5 mm (0.8 in) of rain. In January, Victoria recieves an average of 121.8 mm (4.9 in) of rain, but only an average of 15.2 cm (6.1 in) of snow, a figure skewed by the Great Blizzard of 1996, where Victoria was buried under 1.2 m (4 ft) of snow and recieved 64.5 cm (25.8 in) of snow in one day. However, with a mean snow depth of 1 cm in December and January only, Victoria is called by many the "Land of No Snow", where people phone up their relatives on the Prairies and in Ontario and Québec to make a practical joke about how they're digging themselves out of 6 ft of snow while Victorians bike to work and play outdoor sports.

It is the seat of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and the University of Victoria. The oldest Chinatown in Canada is also within Victoria.

See also: Canada, Canadian provinces and territories, Canadian cities

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Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

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Crown Princess Victoria, (Victoria Ingrid Alice Desirée Bernadotte, born July 14, 1977), Duchess of Västergötland, is the royal heir apparent of Sweden. She is the first-born child and heir of King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden and Queen Silvia. She was born a Royal Princess, however constitutional reform, reportedly enacted over the objections of her father, created her Crown Princess and heir apparent on January 1, 1980. She is a descendant of Napoleon's marshall Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who was adopted by the childless Swedish king Charles XIII and made his heir, and of Napoleon's former lover, Desirée Clary, who married Bernadotte. She is also a direct descendant of Napoleon's wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais, whose granddaughter married the Bernadottes' son, King Oscar I of Sweden.

The old principle of agnatic primogeniture, which meant that the throne was inherited by the eldest male child of the preceding monarch, was replaced by the principle of full cognatic primogeniture. This meant that the throne would be inherited by the eldest child without regard to sex, and Sweden was the first country to adopt it. King Carl XVI Gustav himself, born in 1946, had been a fifth child, with four older sisters.

As a princess, and as heir to the throne, Victoria is prohibited by the Swedish constitution from becoming the regent and head of another state, either by election, succession or marriage, unless approval is granted by the King and the Parliament, by forfeit of all rights of succession for herself and her heirs. The Bernadotte monarch has alone and ex-constitutionally had the right to exclude members of the Royal House from the rights of succession, commonly caused by disapproval of marriage.

Victoria's namesday on March 12 and her birthday on July 14 are official flag days in Sweden.

See also: Constitution of Sweden, Politics of Sweden

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Victoria, Illinois

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Victoria is a village located in Knox County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 323.

Geography

Victoria is located at 41°1'59" North, 90°5'49" West (41.033192, -90.096997)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 323 people, 117 households, and 87 families residing in the village. The population density is 189.0/km² (486.9/mi²). There are 133 housing units at an average density of 77.8/km² (200.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 99.07% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.93% from two or more races. 0.31% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 117 households out of which 33.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.7% are married couples living together, 7.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% are non-families. 22.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.76 and the average family size is 3.26. In the village the population is spread out with 30.3% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 97.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.5 males. The median income for a household in the village is $30,000, and the median income for a family is $32,083. Males have a median income of $28,281 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the village is $13,446. 7.3% of the population and 3.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.7% are under the age of 18 and 12.1% are 65 or older.

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Victoria, Kansas

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Victoria is a city located in Ellis County, Kansas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,208.

Geography

Victoria is located at 38°51'13" North, 99°8'51" West (38.853588, -99.147456)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²). 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 1,208 people, 492 households, and 324 families residing in the city. The population density is 804.2/km² (2,095.1/mi²). There are 513 housing units at an average density of 341.5/km² (889.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.50% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.50% from two or more races. 0.83% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 492 households out of which 28.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.1% are married couples living together, 7.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.1% are non-families. 31.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 18.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.27 and the average family size is 2.86. In the city the population is spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 24.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 93.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $30,313, and the median income for a family is $39,375. Males have a median income of $27,569 versus $20,179 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,567. 9.7% of the population and 8.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.4% are under the age of 18 and 15.3% are 65 or older.

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Victoria, Minnesota

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Victoria is a city located in Carver County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,025.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.1 km² (8.5 mi²). 18.1 km² (7.0 mi²) of it is land and 4.0 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 17.94% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 4,025 people, 1,367 households, and 1,141 families residing in the city. The population density is 222.3/km² (575.4/mi²). There are 1,410 housing units at an average density of 77.9/km² (201.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.91% White, 0.27% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.84% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.37% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. 0.99% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,367 households out of which 47.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.0% are married couples living together, 5.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 16.5% are non-families. 11.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.90 and the average family size is 3.17. In the city the population is spread out with 31.7% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 6.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.8 males. The median income for a household in the city is $86,772, and the median income for a family is $91,681. Males have a median income of $60,931 versus $34,519 for females. The per capita income for the city is $38,929. 2.3% of the population and 1.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 2.1% are under the age of 18 and 2.2% are 65 or older.

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Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick

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Victoria, the Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, later Crown Princess of Prussia (and of Germany from 1871) and the Empress Friedrich (21 November 1840-5 August 1901) was the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. She married Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, who briefly reigned as the German Emperor Friedrich III in the spring and summer of 1888. Her eldest son, Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia. She was the last Princess Royal to date to marry into a foreign royal house.

Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa was born at Buckingham Palace. Styled Princess Royal from birth, she was heir presumptive to the British throne until the birth of her brother, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on 9 November 1841. She was always known to her family as Vicky.

The education of the Princess Royal was closely supervised by her parents. She was precocious and intelligent, unlike her brother the Prince of Wales. She was taught to read and write before the age of five by her governess Lady Lyttelton and to speak French by her French nursery maid. The Princess Royal learned French and German from various governesses and science, literature, Latin, and history by Sara Ann Hildyard. Prince Albert tutored her in politics and philosophy.

In 1851, the Princess Royal met her future husband, His Royal Highness Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (18 October 1831-15 June 1888), when he and his parents were invited to London by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to attend the opening of the Great Exhibition. At the time, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, was third in line to the Prussian throne. The couple were engaged in 1855 when Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, known to his family as Fritz, was on a visit to Balmoral. The Prussian Court and Buckingham Palace publicly announced the engagement on 19 May 1857. The couple were married, at Queen Victoria's insistence, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, on 25 January 1858. The marriage was both a love match and a dynastic alliance. The Queen and Prince Albert hoped that Vicky's marriage to the future king of Prussia would cement close ties between London and Berlin, and possibly lead to the emergence of a unified and liberal Germany.

Prince and Princess Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia had eight children:

• Prince Wilhelm, later Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia (27 January 1859- 4 June 1941); m. 1st Berlin 27 February 1881Princess Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (22 October 1858-11 April 1921) and had issue; m. 2nd Doorn 5 November 1922 Princess Hermine Reuss zu Greiz (17 December 1887-7 August 1947).
• Princess Charlotte (24 July 1860- 1 October 1919); m. 18 February 1878 Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1 April 1851- 16 January 1928).
• Prince Heinrich (14 August 1862-20 April 1929); m. his first cousin, Princess Irene of Hesse and the Rhine (11 July 1866-11 November 1953); and had issue.
• Prince Sigismund (15 September 1864-18 June 1866).
• Princess Viktoria (12 April 1866-13 November 1929); m. 1st 19 November 1890 Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe (20 July 1859-9 July 1916); m. 2nd 21 November 1927 Alexander Zoubkov (25 September 1901-28 January 1936).
• Prince Waldemar (10 February 1868-27 March 1879).
• Princess Sophie (14 June 1870-13 January 1932); m. 27 October 1889 King Constantine I of the Hellenes (2 August 1868-11 January 1923).
• Princess Margarete (22 April 1872-22 January 1954); m. 25 January 1893 Friedrich Karl, Landgrave of Hesse (1 May 1868-28 May 1940).

In January 1861, on the death of his childless uncle Frederick William IV of Prussia and the accession of his father as King Wilhelm I, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm became Crown Prince of Prussia. The new Crown Prince and Crown Princess, however, were politically isolated; their liberal and Anglophile views clashed with the authoritarian rule of the Prussian minister-president, Otto von Bismarck.

During the three Wars of German Unification--the 1864 Prussian-Danish War, the 1866 Austro-Prussian War, and the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War -- the Crown Prince and Crown Princess strongly identified with the cause of Prussia and the North German Confederation. Their sympathies created a rift among Queen Victoria's extended family, since the Prince of Wales was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, who was also reigning duke of the disputed territories of Schleswig and Holstein. At Versailles on 18 January 1871, the victorious princes of the North German Confederation proclaimed a German Empire with King Wilhelm I of Prussia as the hereditary German Emperor (Deutscher Kaiser) with the style Imperial and Royal Majesty (Kaiserliche und Königliche Majestät); Fritz and Vicky became Crown Prince and Crown Princess of the German Empire with the style Imperial and Royal Highness (Kaiserliche und Königliche Hoheit). On the death of his father on 9 March 1888, the Crown Prince ascended the throne as the Emperor Friedrich III and Vicky adopted the title and style of the Empress Friedrich. Friedrich III, however, was terminally ill with throat cancer and died after reigning 88 days.

The widowed Empress Friedrich lived in retirement at Friedrichshof, a country house she built near Kronberg. Politically, she remained a liberal and because of this, her already strained relationship with Emperor Wilhelm II deteriorated. In Berlin, the Empress Friedrich established schools for the higher education of girls and for nurses' training. She patronized the arts and learning, becoming one of the organizers of the 1872 Industrial Art Exhibition.

Throughout her married life and widowhood, the Empress Friedrich kept in close touch with other members of the British Royal Family, particularly her eldest brother, the future Edward VII. She maintained a regular correspondence with her mother. According to the Royal Encylopedia, some 3,777 letters from Queen Victoria to her eldest daughter have been catalogued, as well as more than 4,000 from daughter to mother.

The Empress Friedrich died of cancer of the spine at Friedrichshof in August 1901. She was interred next to her husband at the royal mausoleum of Friedenskirche at Potsdam on 13 August.

Sources

Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (New York: Atlantic International: 1997).

"The Marriage of the Princess Royal," The Times, 26 January 1858, p. 7, column A.

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Victoria, Texas

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Victoria is a city located in Victoria County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 60,603. It is the county seat of Victoria County⁶.

Geography

Victoria is located at 28°49'1" North, 96°59'36" West (28.816866, -96.993462)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 85.8 km² (33.1 mi²). 85.4 km² (33.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.45% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 60,603 people, 22,129 households, and 15,755 families residing in the city. The population density is 709.7/km² (1,838.3/mi²). There are 24,192 housing units at an average density of 283.3/km² (733.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 71.18% White, 7.59% African American, 0.51% Native American, 1.01% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 17.31% from other races, and 2.35% from two or more races. 42.92% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 22,129 households out of which 36.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.4% are married couples living together, 14.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.8% are non-families. 24.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.68 and the average family size is 3.21. In the city the population is spread out with 28.8% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 92.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 88.8 males. The median income for a household in the city is $36,829, and the median income for a family is $42,866. Males have a median income of $34,184 versus $21,161 for females. The per capita income for the city is $19,009. 14.7% of the population and 12.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 20.4% are under the age of 18 and 12.2% are 65 or older.

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Victoria, Virginia

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Victoria is a town located in Lunenburg County, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,821.

Geography

Victoria is located at 36°59'36" North, 78°13'30" West (36.993365, -78.224891)¹.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.4 km² (2.9 mi²). 7.3 km² (2.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.05% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 1,821 people, 803 households, and 517 families residing in the town. The population density is 248.4/km² (644.6/mi²). There are 903 housing units at an average density of 123.2/km² (319.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 76.22% White, 21.47% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.05% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other races, and 1.70% from two or more races. 1.37% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 803 households out of which 26.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% are married couples living together, 15.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35.6% are non-families. 33.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 18.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.27 and the average family size is 2.85.

In the town the population is spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 85.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 80.4 males.

The median income for a household in the town is $24,694, and the median income for a family is $32,311. Males have a median income of $26,797 versus $17,054 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,693. 24.6% of the population and 18.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 38.9% are under the age of 18 and 18.2% are 65 or older.

History

Victoria was the location of a large equipment maintenance operation on the Virginian Railroad. It was strategically located about half way between the coal mines of western Virginia and the shipping centers of eastern Virginia.

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	View of Lake Victoria from Clementine. Credit: NASA.		Sir Raymond Priestly after spending nine months in a snow cave at Terra Nova Bay in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Grounded tabular iceberg at Cape Washington, Victoria Land. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Many lives are being saved by this ambulance specially equipped to deal with severe heart attack cases ... / WHO/Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	St. Thomas's Hospital, London. : Edward VI Square and The Victoria Ward after an air raid. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Closeup view of some of the airship's wreckage, including a leg and foot of one of the 44 victims of the tragedy, soon after it broke up in the air, exploded and crashed into the Humber River off Victoria Pier, Hull, England. Credit: NAVY.
	Queen Victoria. Credit: Library of Congress.		The marriage of Queen Victoria, in the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932. Credit: Library of Congress.		Prinzessin Victoria Louise [sic]. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Costa Victoria 4" by Igor Beres Commentary: "She was the biggest European cruise ship .."	"Fountain in Victoria Square" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Water rushing down the steps in victoria square. I guess you could use it with some kinda plumbing article of disaster theme."
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