The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

This instantly broke Victoria's stranglehold over state titles and Western Australia and South Australia began to win many of their games against Victoria.

Victoria began a policy of commissioning artists to record Balmoral, its surroundings and its staff.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, Carlyle S. Beals and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Wolf von Engelhardt of the University of Tübingen in Germany began a methodical search for impact craters.

It began with only one anchor, Victoria Sinclair ( who is still with the program ), and has currently grown to eight female anchors, plus guest anchors.

In 1920, as a result of local demands, Victoria College began the second stage of its development, reborn in affiliation with the University of British Columbia.

Direct flights between Victoria and the San Francisco Bay Area ( San Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley ) began service on June 5, 2008 ( Victoria Times Colonist, February 6, 2008 ).

Dunedin ( ship ) | Dunedin, the first commercially successful refrigerated ship Meanwhile in Australia, James Harrison began operation of a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria.

Models like Victoria Silvstedt left the fashion world began modeling for men's magazine.

In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto.

From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth ( his third cousin through Queen Victoria and the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI ) whom he had first met in 1934.

Skiing began at Mount Buffalo in the 1890s and the Mount Buffalo Chalet in Victoria was constructed in 1910.

Benalla Airport YBLA ( BLN ) began life as a major RAAF training base during World War II and now also serves as the home of the Gliding Club of Victoria as well as a ballooning & ultralight centre and the Benalla Aviation Museum.

Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the site into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Bytown was chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the Province of Canada.

The RSN began as the School of Art Needlework in 1872 founded by Lady Victoria Welby.

It may be the case that originally, Hapi ( or a variation on it ), was an earlier name used for the Nile itself, since it was said ( inaccurately ) that the Nile began between Mu-Hapi and Kher-Hapi, at the southern edge of Egypt where the two tributaries entered the region ( its sources are two lakes, one of which is Lake Victoria ).

Before irrigation farming began, dense thickets of mallee characterized most of northwestern Victoria, and areas of south-western New South Wales.

Passenger service from Victoria to Norfolk began on June 17, 1907.

Soon, coal and other commodities began rolling through Victoria.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

The Victoria County History of England began to document the country's castles on an unprecedented scale, providing an additional resource for historical analysis.

( now Toronto, Ontario ), the son of Daniel McDougall and Hannah Matthews, McDougall received his education at Victoria College in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and in 1847, began practicing law as an attorney and solicitor in Upper Canada.

He would have told her, but Victoria was yodeling.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

Annual sunshine hours vary from 2200 near Cranbrook and Victoria to less than 1300 in Prince Rupert, located on the North Coast, just south of the Alaska Panhandle.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

Due to their diminutive size and the introduction of new predators, some colonies have been reduced in size by as much as 98 % in just a few years, such as the small colony on Middle Island, near Warrnambool, Victoria, which was reduced from 5000 penguins to 100.

There are cycle racks just inside the Victoria Gate, Main Gate and Brentford Gate entrances, and a 300-space car park outside Brentford Gate.

Italian is well known for its geminate stops, as the double t in the name Vittoria takes just as long to say as the ct does in English Victoria.

The highest mountains in Victoria ( just under 2000 m ) are the Victorian Alps, located in the northeast of the state.

As of 2008, the country has just under 350 growers, annually producing around 1, 200 metric tons of chestnuts, of which 80 % comes from northeast Victoria.

No permanent European settlements were made in Canada before 1605, when Samuel Champlain founded Port Royal in present day Victoria Beach just outside of Annapolis Royal.

The city itself is named after the St. Victoria Church, built on of land just north of Lake Bavaria in 1857.

The first modern cruise, which defined the journey not just as transport but as the actual reward, commenced on 22 January 1891, when the SS Auguste Victoria ( named after the German empress ) set sail to cruise the Mediterranean for six weeks.

It occupies the corner of Tothill Street and Storeys Gate just off Victoria Street in London, near the junction with The Sanctuary next to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and facing Westminster Abbey.

Michell's guidance by George Weymoth ( Pty ) Ltd, for a centrifugal pump at Cohuna on the Murray River, Victoria, Australia, in 1907, just two years after Michell had published and patented his three-dimensional solution to Reynold's equation.

Victoria is located above sea level and at coordinates just north of the Tropic of Cancer.

The western grey kangaroo ( Macropus fuliginosus ) is a large and very common kangaroo or macropod, found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay to coastal South Australia, western Victoria, and the entire Murray – Darling Basin in New South Wales and Queensland.

The Queen Victoria " Gothic " crown of 1847 ( mintage just 8, 000 and produced to celebrate the Gothic revival ) is considered by many to be the most beautiful British coin ever minted.

The largest of the studios is called Studio A which is located in the BBC Blackstaff House on Great Victoria Street in Belfast ( just a few streets away from the BBC Broadcasting House ).

This helped foster a male ideology, and proved to women, such as Mary Gove Nichols and Victoria Woodhull that men were just as serious as they were about this issue.

The couple became engaged in 1855 while Frederick was on a visit to Balmoral ; Victoria was just fourteen, while her future husband was a young man of twenty-four.

Port Phillip ( also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or ( locally ) just The Bay ), is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia ; it is the location of Melbourne.

In her own riding of Victoria, Russow received just shy of 3000 votes and 6 % of the popular vote.

In 2006, retail sales of the Crown Victoria dwindled to just 3, 000, compared to 38, 280 of its stablemate Mercury Grand Marquis in the first nine months of 2007.

She is sometimes credited as Jane Esther Hamilton, Jane Hamilton, V. Hart, Veronica Heart, Victoria Holt, Kathryn Stanleigh, Randee Styles or just Veronica.