A tradition may be deliberately created and promulgated for personal, commercial, political, or national self-interest, as was done in colonial Africa ; or it may be adopted rapidly based on a single highly publicized event, rather than developing and spreading organically in a population, as in the case of the white wedding dress, which only became popular after Queen Victoria wore a white gown at her wedding to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

Victoria University may refer to:

Victoria College may also refer to:

Others, such as Queen Victoria ( born Alexandrina Victoria of Kent ), may never have been known by their original first name.

* The Victoria Cross is the highest military award that may be received by members of the armed forces in the British Army and other Commonwealth countries for valour " in the face of the enemy.

He may have had further unacknowledged illegitimate offspring as well, such as Karl Eugin von Mühlfeld by Victoria Kraus ; Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte ( 1816 – 1910 ) by Albine de Montholon ; and Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, whose mother remains unknown.

Lake Victoria has, during its geological history, gone through changes ranging from its present shallow depression, through to what may have been a series of much smaller lakes.

In light of this, an unofficial ' twelfth VC ' may be added to those listed: Private Joseph Williams, B Coy, 2nd / 24th Foot, who was killed during the fight in the hospital and for whom it was mentioned in despatches that " had he lived he would have been recommended for the Victoria Cross ".

She may be the same as Andate, mentioned later by the same source, and described as " their name for Victory ": i. e., the goddess Victoria.

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 ).

In the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( lower house ) may also use the post-nominal " MP ".

The route was not certain and there were differences between the plans proposed by the Greater London Council and the Ministry of Transport, however the section may have run east alongside the Regent's Canal and the north side of Victoria Park to an interchange at Hackney Wick where it would have connected to the North Cross and East Cross Routes at the north-east corner of the Ringway 1 ( London Motorway Box ) of the London Ringways plan.

Victoria class may refer to:

A shorter water approach from Port McNeill, British Columbia, a northern community of Vancouver Island accessible by scheduled daily air connections and / or road from Victoria, reducing the water journey to less than a day may be undertaken.

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In Florence in 1899, Victoria appears again, briefly, but so does the place name " Vheissu ", which may or may not stand for Vesuvius, Venezuela, a crude interpretation of wie heißt du, translating into who are you in the German language, or even ( one character jokes ) Venus.

An unnamed long-legged harvestman was reported from the Early Cretaceous of Koonwarra, Victoria, Australia, which may be a Eupnoi.

It was later said that von Tempsky felt slighted by this and determined to win a Victoria Cross for himself, a decision that may have caused his subsequent unnecessary death.

It may also, depending on the speaker, refer to the headwaters of Lake Victoria.

( A factor in this acceptance may have been premier Glen Clark's backing of this deal and a similar one in Victoria.

In Victoria, kindergarten is a form of preschool and may be referred to interchangeably as preschool or kindergarten.

He would have told her, but Victoria was yodeling.

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.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

" 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.

Currently there is only one borough in Australia, the Borough of Queenscliffe in Victoria, although there have been more in the past.

Victoria and New South Wales have yardings of up to 8, 000 weaners ( calves ) for auction sale in one day.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

Dachshunds have been kept by royal courts all over Europe, including that of Queen Victoria, who was particularly enamored of the breed.

However, a number of Local Governments in Victoria have taken steps to recognize the cultural heritage value of some examples of graffiti, such as prominent political graffiti.

" As a result, composers like Lassus and Byrd as well as Tomas Luis de Victoria have increasingly come to enjoy comparable reputations.

Past concerts have featured such notable artists as Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, John Molo, Jack Royerton, Gib Guilbeau, Counting Crows, Bob Warford, Rosie Flores, David Lowery, Barry & Holly Tashian, George Tomsco, Jann Browne, Lucinda Williams, Polly Parsons, The " Road Mangler "- Phil Kaufman, Ben Fong-Torres, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Sid Griffin, as well as a variety of many other bands that had played over the 2 or 3 day event.

Queen Victoria is the first reigning monarch to have worn the gem.

These notebooks — originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death — have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from its notebook BL Arundel MS 263 online.

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.

The building is marked by its high level of light transparency, as all 3500 workers have a view to Victoria Peak or Hong Kong bay and the Chinese mainland.

Garth Jowett and Victoria O ' Donnell have provided a concise, workable definition of the term: " Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.

These shells have been used in the UK and recently at a club in Victoria BC, Canada.

All gaming machines in Victoria have an information screen accessible to the user by pressing the ' i key ' button, showing the game rules, paytable, return to player percentage, and the top and bottom five combinations, with the odds shown.

For about 80 years the famous Lake Victoria ferries have carried rail wagons and vehicles from Uganda to Tanzania.

Blue and gold have been retained as the official colours of the University of Victoria.

Undergraduates at the University of Victoria have full access to research and learning at this facility.

The Fraternity / Sorority have no affiliation with the University of Victoria itself, however, they continue to thrive with membership growing yearly.