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06/02/11 NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - 06/02/11) - The American Institute for Stuttering (AIS) will host its Fifth Annual Freeing Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala on Tuesday, June 7th. Actress Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, Queen Victoria), also an AIS board member, will host the event. The evening will honor Arthur Blank, Co-founder of The Home Depot and Owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. Both ...
05/23/11 She was the 19th century monarch who signed Canada into existence in 1867, but as of late, Queen Victoria is perhaps best known on this side of the Atlantic as the namesake of the long weekend that symbolizes camping, cottages and the kickoff to summer.
04/19/11 The Bayeux Tapestry in France shows William the Conqueror being crowned king by Archbishop Ealdred. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their wedding day.
04/15/11 So much goes back to Queen Victoria, for good and for ill.Her descendants have sat on the thrones of 10 European countries - and still do in five cases.There are trails of her genes throughout, it seems, about 90 per cent...
03/29/11 On March 29, 1871, Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London.
02/28/11 "It's rather snooty in here, isn't it?" Emily Blunt asks with a laugh as she works her way down the dimly lit hallway of a private club in Los Angeles. It's not exactly the kind of observation you'd expect from a British actress best known for playing chicks who are--to put it frankly--stuck up (an assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine in The Devil Wears Prada, Queen Victoria in The ...
02/23/11 A royal rendezvous is coming to Long Beach next week when the Queen Victoria luxury ocean liner will meet up with the Queen Mary.
02/22/11 On 3 March maritime history will be made, once again in Long Beach Harbor, when Queen Victoria and Queen Mary meet for the first time during a Cunard Royal Rendezvous. At approximately 6:00pm, Queen Victoria will sail into Long Beach Harbor to meet Queen Mary, and the two ships will exchange whistle salutes amidst a sparkling fireworks display.
02/22/11 SOUTHAMPTON, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On 3 March Cunard Line's Queen Victoria will meet Queen Mary for the first time, in Long Beach Harbor. Free admission to Queen Mary for the best viewing location of fireworks display, at 6:00pm.
02/03/11 Vicky, Vicky, how could you? "What Was So Victorian About the Victorians?" is the title of a program at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave. Join Mary Finn as she discusses how the notion of "Victorian" emerged as the result of strategic "branding" by Queen Victoria's monarchy, along with other intriguing topics. Admission is free. For more information call (847) 448 ...
01/30/11 With haunting strains of bagpipes in the air and the glorious Scottish Highland gardens of Balmoral Castle in view, the Krewe of Victoria welcomed guests to the 18th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria at the Frem Boustany Convention Center. The evening was ripe for moonlight and romance. And Albert, her prince, bid all, "Come, Let's Dance."
01/06/11 Cunard's new Queen Elizabeth, on her inaugural tour of North America and first visit to New York, will depart Jan. 13 from New York Harbor with her sister ships Queen Victoria and Queen Mary.
01/02/11 Of all the balls held in the River Region throughout the year, none is more unique in its traditions than the one hosted by the Mystic Order of Minerva. Since 1950, the organization has patterned its annual introduction of debutantes after the presentations at court established by Queen Victoria after her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840.
12/16/10 TORONTO - Toronto native Marian Cheney has received the teacher of the year award from MusiCounts. For the past 20 years, Cheney has taught at Queen Victoria Public School in the Parkdale neighbourhood in Toronto's west end.
12/06/10 Decorating the Christmas tree is an age-old tradition of German descent that became popular in England in the 1830s during the reign of Queen Victoria, who was married to the German Prince Albert. However it took many years for the tradition to gain speed in America.
11/13/10 Galveston Convention and Visitors Bureau Queen Victoria, the Town Crier and various other Victorian characters open two days of festivities at Galveston's Dickens on the Strand.Are you looking for new ways to celebrate the holidays? We have found 16 cheery festivals in Texas and our neighboring states that are spiced by the flavors of eight cultures.
09/23/10 Annie Abrams and painting V.L. Cox says her painting of Annie Abrams' mother, Queen Victoria Reed, who Cox knew in Arkadelphia, inspired Cox's series of paintings, "Origins." Yesterday Cox called on Abrams, a longtime activist, and gave her the painting. Cox's exhibit "Images of the American South" is just a couple of weeks off. The Thea Foundation and the Oxford American Magazine are sponsoring ...
07/17/10 The British royal family's name was changed to Windsor because of strong anti-German sentiment. The German Saxe-Coburg Gotha stemmed from Queen Victoria who was married to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ...
07/11/10 It has been educating some of Norfolk's finest minds since Queen Victoria was on the throne. But, after 113 years, Thorpe House School girls' school is joining that great monarch in the history books.
06/30/10 The section of the St. John River granted to the City of Fredericton by Queen Victoria in 1848 was added to the city's Local Historic Places Register during a meeting of city council this week.
06/14/10 An outdoorsy Niagara Falls vacation offers everything from hiking the Niagara River Recreational Trail to strolling the gardens of Queen Victoria Park | 
