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Napolean ordered it for the Corso in Milan ; Emperor Franz I bought it for the Theseus Temple in the Volksgarten in Vienna ; moved to Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1891.
The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.
For nineteen consecutive years, from 1891 through 1909, Cy Young was in his leagues ' top ten for innings pitched ; in fourteen of the seasons, he was in the top five.
Already during czarist Russian rule, two editions appeared of the Latvian Konversācijas vārdnīca ( 2 volumes, 1891 – 1893 ; 4 volumes, 1906 – 1921 ).
Eastman Kodak made celluloid film commercially available in 1889 ; Thomas Henry Blair, in 1891, was its first competitor.
* 1891 17 March – America-bound steamer Utopia slammed in heavy weather into the iron-plated British battleship HMS Anson and sank in the Bay of Gibraltar ; 576 people died.
In 1890, Cantor was instrumental in founding the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung and chaired its first meeting in Halle in 1891, where he first introduced his diagonal argument ; his reputation was strong enough, despite Kronecker's opposition to his work, to ensure he was elected as the first president of this society.
In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells ; the couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ), whom he married in 1895.
In 1801 its population was a mere 3, 175 ; by 1831 it had reached over ten thousand ; by 1891 it was almost sixty thousand, and the 2001 census reported over 85, 000 inhabitants.
In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; from 1878 to 1891 he was president of the Royal Historical Society ; and in 1881 he became president of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Girls ' Day School Trust.
In the period from February 1888 and until 1891, a detailed analysis of photoeffect was performed by Aleksandr Stoletov with results published in 6 works ; four of them in Comptes Rendus, one review in Physikalische Revue ( translated from Russian ), and the last work in Journal de Physique.
Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.
A three tier belvedere built in 1891 survives ; it was built on the site of a camera obscura, probably built in the 1830s, which showed views of the harbour.
Queen Victoria's profile was a staple on 19th century stamps of the British Empire ; here on a half-penny of the Falkland Islands, 1891.
The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891 ; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927.
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 ) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.
Until 1891 Canna, Rùm and Muck were historically part of the counties of Argyll ; Eigg was historically part of Inverness-shire, and all of the Small Isles were in Inverness-shire, from 1891 to 1975.
Thomas Hare ( born in England, 28 March 1806 ; died 6 May 1891 ) was a British proponent of electoral reform.
In the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and what to Drink, author William Schmidt listed the Tom Collins as including :< u > Tom Collins Gin ( 1891 )</ u > The juice of half a lemon in a large glass, a bar-spoonful of sugar, a drink of Tom gin ; mix this well ; 2 lumps of ice, a bottle of plain soda. Mix well and serve.

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In 1867 he was the first Ottoman sultan to visit Western Europe ; his trip included a visit to the United Kingdom, where he was made a Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria and shown a Royal Navy Fleet Review with Ismail of Egypt.
In 1895, the Amir found himself unable, by reason of ill-health, to accept an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit England ; but his second son Nasrullah Khan went instead.
Locations include the Cyclopean Islands east off Sicily and near Trentino in northern Italy ; Victoria in Australia ; Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean ; in the Lake Superior copper district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, and at Searles Lake, California in the United States ; and at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in Canada ; and in Iceland.
" 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 royals decorated Balmoral with tartans and attended highland games at Braemar ; Queen Victoria expressed an affinity for Scotland, even professing herself to be a Jacobite.
The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.
Due to lack of budget and care, the 389 km Temuco to Puerto Montt section was abandoned in 1992 but after a $ 44m upgrade it has been back in use since 6 December 2005 with daily service between Victoria ( north of Temuco ) and Puerto Montt ; today, however only the service between Victoria and Temuco still operates.
Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).
However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.
In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.
The opening of the Dandenong, Victoria, production facility in 1956 brought further jobs ; by 1959 Holden employed 19, 000 workers country-wide.
Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.
However, he was wrecked on HMS Victoria when it collided with HMS Camperdown ( the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon ) off Tripoli on 22 June 1893 ; the Admiral, 21 officers and 350 men drowned.
Two officers from the regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross ; Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts and Lieutenant Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies.
During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking linguistic field work on Plains Cree ; this position was arranged by Edward Sapir, who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Museum, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Department of Mines.
However, some groups proceeded north ; entering Tanzania and settling around Lake Victoria.
* Victoria Day ; celebrated on Monday on or before May 24.

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Charles, anxious to secure such a famous fighter, gladly assented to Albert's demands and gave the imperial sanction to his possession of the lands taken from the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg ; and his conspicuous bravery was of great value to the Emperor on the retreat from Metz in January 1553.
At first, according to Riefenstahl ’ s memoir, she resisted and did not want to create further Nazi films ; instead, she wanted to direct a feature film based on Hitler ’ s favourite opera, Eugen d ' Albert's Tiefland.
In 1967, Riots broke out in Freetown against Sir Albert's policies ; in response Margai declare a state of emergency across the country.
Albert's freedom in choosing Elizabeth, legally a commoner though the daughter of a peer, was considered a gesture in favour of political modernisation ; previously, princes were expected to marry princesses from other royal families.
The royal family stayed at Osborne for lengthy periods each year: in the spring for Victoria's birthday in May ; in July and August when they celebrated Albert's birthday ; and just before Christmas.
Princess Alexandra tries to gain Albert's attention ; he is otherwise taken with sleeping late, shooting duck and playing football with Alexandra's two younger brothers.
Upon Albert's return from the Empire, he called for a meeting of the peasants in a field, whereupon he surrounded them with loyal troops and had them arrested without incident ; the leaders of the rebellion were subsequently executed.
The couple met for the first time in August 1869 at a ball hosted by the Emperor and Empress of France ; their marriage had been arranged by Albert's grandmother Caroline.
Adele Herter died at " The Creeks " in 1946 ; the estate was sold to Alfonso A. Ossorio in 1951 by Christian Herter after his father Albert's death in 1950.
From the birth of her only brother until his accession to the throne as Albert II, she was legally Princess Caroline of Monaco ; at Albert's accession she resumed the position of heiress presumptive and Hereditary Princess.
Pollokshields Primary Junior and Senior schools is one school split into two buildings on different streets for different age groups ; Glendale Primary located on the south edge of Polloksheilds ; St. Albert's Primary to the west ; and the private Craigholme School for Girls on Nithsdale Road.
Motivated no doubt in part by some of the same issues raised by Albert and Shalom, UFPJ has been, from the start, a broad coalition of organizations ; NION itself is a member of UFPJ, as are MoveOn, the National Council of Churches, and Albert's own Z magazine.
These early years also featured the characters of Josie's beatnik boyfriend Albert ; Pepper's strong but dull-witted boyfriend Sock ( real name Socrates ); Albert's rival Alexander Cabot III, who chased after both Josie and Melody ; and Alex's obnoxious twin sister Alexandra Cabot.
The princes ' relationship experienced phases of closeness as well as minor arguments as they grew older ; after Albert's death in 1861, Ernest became gradually more antagonistic to Victoria and her children, as well as increasingly bitter toward the United Kingdom, publishing anonymous pamphlets against various members of the British royal family.
This connection would have many implications upon Ernest in the future ; for instance, he was selected as godfather for Albert's second daughter Princess Alice, and would eventually come to give her away at her wedding.
He grew tired of the advice he received from Albert on the subject however ; as Ernest " was by no means inclined to consent to an energetic rule such as I adopted immediately afterwards for the perfection of the constitutional system ", according to Albert's letters.
Lehzen and Albert soon developed a dislike for each other ; she sought to thwart Albert's will in various ways and he found her personally repugnant and unworthy of befriending the queen, referring to her as " the hag " and a " crazy stupid intriguer ".
He appeared in the West End in The Odd Couple ( as Felix ); in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End ; and as Albert Einstein in a critically lauded performance in 2005 in a new play, Albert's Boy at the Finborough Theatre.
Peto employed Prince Albert's architect John Thomas ; the clock tower houses a clock designed by Benjamin Vulliamy.
His father, Victoria's consort, was Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ; hence Queen Elizabeth is a patrilineal descendant of Albert's family, the German princely House of Wettin.

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