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Victor's and death
Following his mother's death, he moved house near the end of the series, but only went as far as the other side of Victor's house, into the Trenches '/ McVitie's old house claiming he'd always wanted to live in an " end house, without leaving the area ".
At Leo's death, the new Pope, Victor II, confirmed him as legate, while Victor's successor Stephen IX sent him and Anselm of Lucca to Germany to obtain recognition from the Empress Agnes de Poitou.
After several failed marriages and Albert Victor's death, Margery came to England and claimed the Prince was the father of her son, Clarence Haddon.
Conspiracy theories surrounding Albert Victor's death — that he died of syphilis or poison, that he was pushed off a cliff on the instructions of Lord Randolph Churchill or that his death was faked to remove him from the line of succession — are fabrications.
Albert Victor's mother, Alexandra, never fully recovered from her son's death and kept the room in which he died as a shrine.
James Kenneth Stephen, Albert Victor's former tutor, refused all food from the day of Albert Victor's death and died 20 days later ; he had suffered a head injury in 1886 which left him suffering from psychosis.
On the day of Albert Victor's death, the leading Liberal politician, William Ewart Gladstone, wrote in his personal private diary " a great loss to our party ".
Albert Victor's posthumous reputation became so bad that in 1964 Philip Magnus called his death a " merciful act of providence ", supporting the theory that his death removed an unsuitable heir to the throne and replaced him with the reliable and sober George V. In 1972, Michael Harrison was the first modern author to re-assess Albert Victor and portray him in a more sympathetic light.
Victor's only son William James Cavendish-Bentinck ( 1925 – 1966 ) predeceased him, childless, and on Portland's death in 1990 at the age of 93 the marquessate of Titchfield and the dukedom of Portland became extinct.
Victor's death left Valentinian II, Theodosius and Arcadius as the sole Augusti in the Empire.
The film depicts Victor's death and shows a nurse throwing Victor's few possessions into a garbage bag because she fears that the items could be contaminated.
There is no proof that Stephen was ever in love with Albert Victor, although he did starve himself to death very shortly after hearing of Albert Victor's death.
Gull died before Albert Victor, and so could not have known about Albert Victor's death.
In describing the progress of his investigation, Knight reveals a series of coincidences: both Albert Victor's mother and Alice Crook were deaf ; both Albert Victor's mother and Walter Sickert were Danish ; Sickert is obsessed by the Ripper ; the murders ended with the death of Mary Kelly ; there was growing republican sentiment at the time of the murders, as well as anti-Catholic prejudice ; a woman named " Elizabeth Cook ", who Knight claims could be Annie Elizabeth Crook misspelt, did live at 6 Cleveland Street ; Annie Crook was institutionalised ; rumours of the time link Prince Albert Victor to a scandal in Cleveland Street ; Gull was fond of grapes, and one of the victims may have been eating some at the time of her death ; Gull matches the description of an unnamed physician accused by clairvoyant Robert James Lees, who claimed to have identified the Ripper by using psychic powers.
* Warren Henry — Victor's son continues to serve as a naval pilot until his death on the last day of the Battle of Midway.
This ultimately leads to Victor's death at the conclusion of a vendetta between himself and his embittered creation.

Victor's and by
She sums up her relationship with Victor in this episode by telling Ben ( her admirer ) " Victor's the most sensitive person I know-and that's why I love him.
Desiderius, abbot of Monte Cassino was first chosen pope as Victor III when Gregory VII died in 1085, but after Victor's short reign, Otho was elected Pope Urban II by acclamation ( March 1088 ) at a small meeting of cardinals and other prelates held in Terracina in March 1088.
Victor's only existing literary work " Dialogues ," is on the miracles wrought by St. Benedict and other saints at Monte Cassino.
Victor's story was also dramatized through puppetry in an ensemble theater performance also called The Wild Child by Hand2Mouth Theatre, a nonprofit theatre group in Portland, Oregon, in 2004.
Victor's life has been fictionalized in the 2003 novel, Wild Boy by Jill Dawson, and in the title novella of the 2010 collection Wild Child and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle.
The stirring main theme was included in RCA Victor's collection of classic Bogart film scores, recorded by Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra.
This image continued to be used as a trademark by Victor in the USA, Canada and Latin America, and then by Victor's successor RCA.
These recordings were produced by Victor's Oakland plant, which had opened in 1924.
Mardi Gras ( from Mississippi Suite ) was recorded in the radio transcription series Shilkret Novelties in 1931. and again by Nathaniel Shilkret in RCA Victor's transcription series His Majesty's Voice of the Air in 1932.
His entire catalog of commercial recordings was issued by RCA Victor, save for two single-sided recordings for Brunswick in 1926 ( his first by the electrical process ) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a series of excellent recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 for EMI's HMV label ( which was RCA Victor's European affiliate ).
First, at 8 am, Melas hurled FML Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak's division ( four battalions ) at Victor's defences, supported by Frimont ’ s advance guard battery along the stream.
Kellermann's heavy cavalry brigade and the 8th Dragoons took up a covering position on the left, smashing an attempt by GM Giovanni Pilatti's light dragoon brigade which attempted to cross the steep-sided Fontanone at its southern end to envelop Victor's flank.
* May 1 – The music to John Alden Carpenter's ballet Skyscrapers is recorded by the Victor Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret ; in addition to be being issued as six sides on 78 rpm discs, the recording is made available as one Victor's early 33⅓ rpm LP releases.
* May 21-RCA Victor's first commercially issued 33⅓ rpm record, " Salon Suite, No. 1 " by The Victor Salon Orchestra, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, was recorded
One of Albert Victor's instructors said he learnt by listening rather than reading or writing and had no difficulty remembering information, but Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, had a less favourable opinion of him, calling him " an inveterate and incurable dawdler ".
In recent years, Andrew Cook has continued attempts to rehabilitate Albert Victor's reputation, arguing that his lack of academic progress was partly due to the incompetence of his tutor, Dalton ; that he was a warm and charming man ; that there is no tangible evidence that he was homosexual or bisexual ; that he held liberal views, particularly on Irish Home Rule ; and that his reputation has been diminished by biographers eager to improve the image of his brother, George.
Victor expanded its American orchestral recording program by making recordings of the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl Muck and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski in 1917 ; Victor's relationship with Stokowski and Philadelphia remained firm for decades.
However, throughout the 1930s, Victor's involvement in jazz and blues slowed down and by the time of the musicians ' strike and the end of the war, Victor was neglecting the R & B ( race ) scene, which is one of the reasons so many independent companies sprang up so successfully.

Victor's and hit
The second wave of missiles are coated with teflon, so they are unaffected by Victor's magnetic powers and hit him.

Victor's and run
At various points-often when the plot appeared to be flagging, this dog would run up one of Victor's trouser legs, remove his underpants and run off with them down his other leg.
After speaking with Victor's father who says Victor wants to spend one night alone before leaving, Hilary goes back to the house they rented only to find Victor packing clothes, ready to run away and not go with his father to the hospital.

Victor's and final
From the middle of the eighteenth century, even if staging Shakespeare's original play ( as opposed to Victor's rewrite ) it was common for directors to cut the lines in the final scene where Valentine seems to offer Silvia to Proteus, who has just attempted to rape her, as a sign of his forgiveness and friendship.
Weems was a Victor band from 1923 through 1933, although the final 3 sessions were released on Victor's newly created Bluebird label.

Victor's and episode
This aspect of the character came to a head in the episode " The Executioner's Song " where his face transforms into an apparition of Victor's as he gazes into a mirror.
Victor's story was retold through dramatizations in a fourth-season episode of In Search Of ..., titled " Wild Children ", in 1980.
In the second episode of series 3, " Dreamland ", he played a tramp who took a fancy to Victor's shoes, but drew the line at his Noel Edmonds sweater.

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