Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

Suspended during World War II, the BBC service was re-established in June 1946, and had only one transmitter, at Alexandra Palace, which served the London area.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

Beatty was instead appointed to HMS Alexandra, flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron commanded by Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh's, Queen Victoria's second son.

Stanley Colville was placed in command of the gunboats attached to the British expeditionary force in Egypt and as Beatty's former commander in Trafalgar and superior in ' Alexandra ' he requested that Beatty join him.

In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, Alexandra Robbins alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its proper setting in Wrexham, and is displayed in a glass case, in a room with purple walls, which belongs to a building called the Tomb of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( ) ( – ) was a Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son, Alexei.

Although Mitchell refused to write a sequel to Gone with the Wind, Mitchell's estate authorized Alexandra Ripley to write a sequel, which was titled Scarlett.

Queen Alexandra was the first Queen Consort to use the diamond in her crown, followed by Queen Mary and then Queen Elizabeth.

Marxists such as Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai however, though supporters of radical social equality for women, opposed feminism on the grounds that it was a bourgeois ideology.

Princesses Alexandra and Dagmar of Denmark. Princess Marie Sophie Fredrica / Frederikke Dagmar was born at the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen.

" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.

During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

Although Queen Alexandra never treated her sister badly and they spent time together at Marlborough House in London and at Sandringham House in Norfolk in Great Britain, Maria felt that she was now " number two ".

She was portrayed by Irene Worth in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra,

His Tsarina, the loving German princess Alexandra Fyodorovna, was also a liability.

All these emperors ( except Alexander III ) had German-born consorts, a circumstance which damaged their popularity during World War I. Nicholas's wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, although devoutly Orthodox, was particularly hated by the populace, largely because of her German origins.

Alexandra was a carrier of the gene for hemophilia, which she inherited from her maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria.

The event was also highlighted by the appearance of four winners of the Miss Indonesia beauty pageant: Nadine Alexandra Dewi, Inda Adeliani, Alessandra K Usman, and Reisa Kartikasari.

Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War.

Alexandra was much impressed by the station keeping of the much larger warship, so much so that her signal to the ship, ' Princess is much pleased ', was inscribed into the ship's wheel.

Despite the misgivings of crew, intern Mina Murry ( Alexandra Kamp ) and vice-captain Aurora ( Erika Eleniak ), van Helsing claims salvage rights and decides to tow the ship back to Earth.

Nevertheless, she did not get along well with her daughter-in-law, Alexandra Feodorovna ( the former Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt ), holding her responsible for many of the woes that beset her son Nicholas and the Russian Empire in general.

On 13 October 1928 at Hvidøre near Copenhagen, in a house she had once shared with her sister Queen Alexandra, Maria died at the age of 80, having outlived four of her six children.

In October 1916, while based in New York City, he edited the newspaper Novy Mir ( New World ) with Leon Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai.

Having fled Russia from the Crimea in 1919, she spent her remaining years in exile firstly in the United Kingdom with her sister, Queen Alexandra and later in her native Denmark mainly at Villa Hvidore.

Elizabeth Magnotta and Alexandra Strohl analyze the success of Seinfeld with recourse to the incongruity theory of humor: " The Incongruity Theory claims that humor is created out of a violation of an expectation.

* In Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind, Alexandra Ripley mentions several times that Scarlett O ' Hara is an extremely skillful whist player.

On 3 November 1936, from Alexandra Palace located on the high ground of the north London ridge, the BBC began alternating Baird 240-line transmissions with EMI's electronic scanning system which had recently been improved to 405 lines after a merger with Marconi.

The beginning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager Queen Alexandra.

* In 2007, Alexandra Fuller reported on the rising crime rate, influx of roughnecks and methamphetamine, the decline in ranching, and environmental damage associated with recent oil boom.

On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became king-emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as queen-empress consort.

Alexandra shared a draughty attic bedroom with her sister, Dagmar ( later Empress of Russia ), made her own clothes and waited at table along with her sisters.

Alexandra was not their first choice, since the Danes were at loggerheads with the Prussians over the Schleswig-Holstein Question and most of the British royal family's relations were German.

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

Most of these were with the full knowledge of Alexandra, who later permitted Alice Keppel to visit the King as he lay dying.

Alexandra ( right ) with Louise of Hesse-Kassel | her mother ( centre ) and eldest daughter, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife | Princess Louise ( left ), 1893

Alexandra ( right ) with her daughter Victoria

Privately, Alexandra disagreed with the bill.