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 ").

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 Adams ( 1878 – 1943 ), wife of inventor Leon Douglass

* 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 ).

In 1830 he sang in front of the future Queen Victoria in a duet with her mother, and later composed a song Sovereign Woman in her honour.

On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albani travelled to London and sang the solo role at her final service.

( During his London seasons, he also sang privately for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

The show transferred to London's West End on April 10, 2006, at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, where James Fox played lead piano and sang, with Darren Reeves as second piano man.

It became her signature tune during concerts and in fact, Catherine Hayes sang it for Queen Victoria and over 500 royal guests during a concert performed at Buckingham Palace in June 1849.

The French-American soprano Zélie de Lussan sang the heroine, Marie, and Aynsley Cook " vastly amused Queen Victoria as Sergeant Sulpice ".

" The British press reported a triumphant royal command performance ; The Illustrated London News wrote, " Herr Jacques Offenbach, the astonishing Violoncellist, performed on Thursday evening at Windsor before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with great success.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

* Phillips Brewing Company, Victoria, BC: " Instigator ", a seasonal doppelbock ( 8. 5 % abv )

* Vancouver Island Brewery, Victoria, BC: " Hermannator ", a seasonal eisbock ( 9. 5 %)

Victoria found the house " small but pretty ", and recorded in her diary that: " All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils ".

During the European scramble for Africa, Queen Victoria signed a Treaty of Protection with the King and Chiefs of Akwa Akpa, known to Europeans as " Old Calabar ", on 10 September 1884.

This was because his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, suggested the nickname of " Nicky ", however it got mixed up with the many Nickys of the Russian Imperial Family (" Nicky " was particularly used to refer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar ) so they changed it to Dickie.

* 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the " Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

The " Drake Jewel ", Victoria & Albert Museum, London

On 18 May 2005, " Holden Ltd " became " GM Holden Ltd ", coinciding with the resettling to the new Holden headquarters on 191 Salmon Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria.

An example of a ternary relation ( i. e., between three individuals ) is: " X < tt > was-introduced-to </ tt > Y < tt > by </ tt > Z ", where ( X, Y, Z ) is a 3-tuple of persons ; for example, " Beatrice Wood was introduced to Henri-Pierre Roché by Marcel Duchamp " is true, while " Karl Marx was introduced to Friedrich Engels by Queen Victoria " is false.

Malcolm Fraser's father, John Neville Fraser, was a pastoralist at Deniliquin in the Riverina region of New South Wales and later at a property called " Nareen ", near Hamilton in the Western District of Victoria.

Disraeli, who expanded the Empire to protect British interests abroad, cultivated the image of himself ( and the Conservative Party ) as " Imperialist ", making grand gestures such as conferring the title " Empress of India " on Queen Victoria in 1876.

Holmes also tells Watson, in " A Case of Identity ", of a golden snuff box received from the King of Bohemia after " A Scandal in Bohemia " and a fabulous ring from the Dutch royal family ; in " The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ", Holmes receives an emerald tie-pin from Queen Victoria.

* Coifman, Victoria Bomba, " History of the Wolof state of Jolof until 1860 including comparative data from the Wolof state of Walo ", p 276, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969

* Tudor, Victoria, " Reginald's Life of St Oswald ", in C. Stancliffe and E. Cambridge ( eds ), Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint ( 1995, 1996 ).

Canon Chasuble ", Celia Imrie as " Miss Prism ", Victoria Hamilton as " Gwendolen " and Emma Fielding as " Cecily ", with music composed by Dominic Muldowney.

There is little distinction between " streets " and " avenues " in Victoria as there is in other cities such as Vancouver or Edmonton where " streets " run north-south and " avenues " run east-west, and Victorians are unlikely to use the terms " north ", " south ", " east ", or " west " when giving directions.