The group comprised five members, who each later adopted nicknames initially ascribed to them: Melanie Chisholm (" Sporty Spice "), Emma Bunton (" Baby Spice "), Melanie Brown (" Scary Spice "), Victoria Beckham ( née Adams ) (" Posh Spice "), and Geri Halliwell (" Ginger Spice ").

Victoria Adams sang " Mein Herr ", Melanie Brown sang " Greatest Love of All ", Melanie Chisholm sang " I'm So Excited ", Michelle Stephenson sang " Don't Be a Stranger ".

The women chosen were Suzanne Tinker ( who did not attend ), Melanie Laccohee, Lianne Morgan, Tracey Shield, Michelle Stephenson, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm ( who did not attend ), Victoria Adams, and a few others.

Victoria Caroline Beckham ( née Adams ; born 17 April 1974 ) is an English singer, fashion designer and businesswoman.

Victoria Adams is the name of:

* Victoria Beckham ( born 1974 ), née Adams, English pop singer and businesswoman

* Victoria Gray Adams ( 1926 – 2006 ), civil rights activist

* Victoria Gray Adams, the first black woman to run for U. S. Senate from Mississippi, as well as co-chair with Fannie Lou Hamer in founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, lived here near the end of her life.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* Victoria Jackson Gray Adams, educator and civil rights leader

Following this, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria ; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Edith Roosevelt ; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York.

In 1996, Chisholm, with Melanie Brown, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, and Victoria Beckham ( at that time Victoria Adams ), released " Wannabe " which was a big hit in United Kingdom and United States.

Brown, along with Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, and Victoria Adams responded to an advertisement in The Stage magazine.

Hill, Pee Wee Crayton, Harry Choates, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thorton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mance Lipscomb, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, Gene Ramey, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Ella Mae Morse, Charles Brown, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Leon Payne, Tex Ritter, Roger Miller, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Johnny Horton, George Strait, Jim Reeves, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet / Texas Tornados, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Burnett, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Taylor, Lydia Mendoza, Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez Sr., Beto Villa, Narcisco Martinez, Archie Bell & the Drells, Dustin Adams, Johnny Guitar Watson, Yolanda Adams, Ornette Coleman, King Curtis, Mickey Newbury, Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Selena Quintanilla, Pantera, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Sexton, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Johnson and many others.

Adams was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of Congregational Church minister the Reverend Charles Adams.

James William Adams VC ( 24 November 1839 – 24 October 1903 ) was born in Cork and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Photo of Victoria Cross recipient James William Adams, migrated from the Victoria Cross Reference site with permission.

Encouraged by the reaction they had received at the showcase, all five members delayed signing contracts on the legal advice from, amongst others, Victoria Beckham's father, Anthony Adams.

" After receiving hundreds of replies, the management had narrowed their search to a group of five girls: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, and Michelle Stephenson.

James William Adams, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan ( 1879 ) ( born 1839 ).

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

" Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria of 1878 devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but concluded " in truth little is known among the blacks respecting its form, covering or habits ; they appear to have been in such dread of it as to have been unable to take note of its characteristics.

The monument was given by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1819 in recognition of the battle of 1798 and the campaign of 1801 but not erected on the Victoria Embankment until 1878.

In July 1878, he walked from Dundee to Balmoral, a distance of about over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm, " wet to the skin ", to perform for Queen Victoria.

* April 25 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria ( d. 1878 )

* John William Williams, elected for Victoria City, British Columbia in 1878

In October 1878, at Beechworth court, Mr Justice Sir Redmond Barry presided over a case in which Mrs. Ellen Kelly ( King ) and two other men in aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a Victoria Police Constable named Alexander Fitzpatrick.

Before the stadium was opened in 1997, the club was based at the Victoria Ground, which had been their home ground since 1878.

In 1878, the club merged with Stoke Victoria Cricket Club, and became Stoke Football Club.

Stoke were to stay at Sweetings Field until a merger with the Stoke Victoria Cricket Club in March 1878, when Stoke moved to the Victoria Ground.

The first match to be played at the Victoria Ground was a friendly against Talke Rangers in the 28 March 1878 ; Stoke won 1 – 0 in front of 2, 500 fans.

The hamlet is named for the nearby Lake Louise, which in turn was named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta ( 1848 – 1939 ), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and the wife of John Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.

* Campbell, John ( 1878 ), Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Qeen Victoria, 7th ed.

His eldest son Reverend Canon Frederick Alfred John Hervey ( 1846 – 1910 ) was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 1886 to 1901, and Domestic Chaplain to King Edward VII from 1878 to 1910.

After working as a journalist, public servant and miner in Victoria and Queensland, Archibald arrived in Sydney in 1878, where he formed a partnership with John Haynes and William McLeod, and on 31 January 1880 they launched The Bulletin as a weekly paper of political, business and literary news.

Queen Victoria created him a Knight of the Garter on 1 August 1878.

In 1878 the inaugural first class cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground was played between New South Wales and Victoria.

In December 1878 Victoria Embankment became the first street in Britain to be permanently lit by electricity.

After a wooden model of the obelisk had been placed outside the Houses of Parliament but the location had been rejected, it was finally erected on the Victoria Embankment on 12 September 1878.

On erection of the obelisk in 1878 a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, it contained: A set of 12 photographs of the best looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in erection, a 3 ' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the strange tale of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the bible in several languages, a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers.

* Princess Alice of the United Kingdom ( Grand Duchess of Hesse, 1843 – 1878 ), member of the British royal family, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

William Thomas, a Protector of Aborigines in Victoria witnessed Wurundjeri people playing the game of Marn grook in 1841, according to Robert Brough-Smyth, in The Aborigines of Victoria, ( 1878 ):