Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggested by Napoleon, in 1802, to Charles James Fox. For nearly three-quarters of a century it remained merely an idea. In 1867 a French engineer, Thomé de Gamond, exhibited the first practical drawings. In 1881 what became the still existent Channel Tunnel Company Ltd. was launched. Queen Victoria, who got seasick on the Channel crossing, gave it her blessing. Bores were started from Shakespeare Cliff on the English side of the stormy passage, and Sangatte, near Calais, on the French...
...VICTORIA GRANDOLET-Henry Bellamann-Simon & Schuster...
...plantation of the Grandolets had never had a mistress so seemingly well fitted for it as Victoria. It had never had an owner so seemingly well equipped to run it as her pleased, practical, 26-year-old husband, Niles. The generations of Grandolets who had cleared its thousands of acres, raised sugar on it, gone broke with it, fought for it, ruined it, restored it, improved it, mortgaged it, worked its Negroes, battled its quicksands, floods, fevers, snakes and heat, had never had such seemingly promising successors...
...When Victoria looked out of the buggy and saw the swampy bayou country for the first time, a sickening wave of emotion swept over her-at the cypresses growing from the still, dark water, the abandoned, sagging-roofed cabins, the wilderness perfumes of Louisiana that were first intoxicating and then dizzily cloying. When she first saw the gleaming white colonnades of White Cloud flashing through the grove beyond the hedges, the terraces, the live oaks trailing mournful banners of moss, her heart pounded at its ancient, mirage-like beauty...
...nationwide intoxication with applied mechanics. Hiram Maxim's new improvements on electrical devices made equipment obsolete so fast that the electrical companies sent him abroad for ten years, with a contract not to invent anything electrical during that time. Restless, he invented the machine gun (for which Queen Victoria knighted him). When he demonstrated it before the Kaiser, Wilhelm asked to try it out, swung it in a circle, almost killed the whole General Staff of the German Army...