Victoire, Daughter of France was born at the Palace of Versailles in 1733. As a daughter of the king of France she had the title of "daughter of France" which was highly prized within the royal family. She was the seventh child of ten. From birth she was known as "Madame Quatrième", as she was not baptised. She was however eventually named Victoire Louise Marie Thérèse, being known simply by her first name. Unlike the older children in the royal family, Victoire was raised at the Palace of Versailles but only till the age of five when she left Versailles to live at "Abbey of Fontevraud" in northern France. Leaving in 1738 with her sisters Sophie and Thérèse. The princesses left Versailles on 6 June 1738 accompanied by furniture and a military escort.
At the age of 15, 1748, she was allowed to return to the royal court. Her religious education stayed with her all her life and she would always remain close to her siblings and mother. Victoire arrived to a court which was dominated by the powerful Madame de Pompadour who had become Louis XV's mistress in 1745. Victoire was often described as the most beautiful of the kings daughters. The only project for marriage arose in 1753 when it was suggested that she marry King Ferdinand VI of Spain as his wife was seriously ill at the time. However she recovered and there were never any other projects.
In 1765, her older brother died of consumption at Fontainebleau at the age of 36. Victoire, like all of her sisters, mourned their brother greatly. As a result of his death, the future Louis XVI became the heir to the throne and the family was pushed closer together. Three years later, 1768, Versailles was again mourning, this time for the death of Queen Marie. The sadness within the royal family was worsened by the kings new passion for "Madame du Barry". The princesses redused to acknowledge the Barry and this caused friction within the court. However, at the death of Louis XV in 1774, Madame du Barry was exiled and Louis XVI came to the throne. Victoire and her sister Marie Adélaïde were close to the young king but did not like his wife "Marie Antoinette" purely because she was Austrian.
Louis XV having died, Victoire and her sisters had to move out of their apartments and soon took up residence at the "Château de Bellevue" outside the capital. Victoire lived their with Marie Adélaïde and their younger sister Sophie and they redecorated the building to suit their tastes. Having no power at Versailles, the sisters began touring France at great expense which caused havoc for France's already bad finances. When Versailles was stormed, the sisters were at Bellevue and thus were not placed under house arrest. They quickly fled France and went to stay with their niece Marie Clotilde of France, (Turin) who was the wife of Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. They then traveled to Rome in 1791 and soon ended up in Naples in 1796, home of Marie Antoinette's sister, the Queen of Naples. Moving to Corfu in 1799 followed by Trieste where Victoire eventually died of breast cancer. Marie Adélaïde died the following year in Rome. The two sisters were bought back to France during the reign of their nephew Louis XVIII and buried at the Basilica of Saint Denis.
Natalya Bochkareva
Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva (; 25 July 1980) is an Russian stage and movie actress and television presenter.
Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva was born in Gorky [now Nizhny Novgorod]. Both her parents died, her mother died at age 54 from complications after strokes and her father died at age 52 several years later. She has one sibling, younger sister Nadezhda Bochkareva.
In 2000 she graduated from Nizhny Novgorod Theatre School, and in 2002 from Moscow Art Theatre School.
She started her career in 1999 when played a small role in movie "Chinese service". Since 2006 she play main role Darya Bukina in TV series "Happy Together". It is an adaptation of series "Married ... With Children". She has been an actress with the Moscow Art Theatre since 2002.
Since 2010, she also is a television presenter.
On September 28, 2007 she married lawyer Nikolai Borisov. They has a two children, son Ivan Borisov (born on January 4, 2007) and daughter Maria Borisova (born on February 22, 2008). Natalya also has a stepdaughter, Alysa Borisova.
Nissan Terrano II
The Nissan Terrano II was a automobile that was made by Nissan Motor Company, introduced in 1993. It was replaced by the Nissan Qashqai in 2006.
Buddleja
Buddleja is a genus in the figwort family, "Scrophulariaceae", although previously it had been placed the "Logania" family. They are commonly called butterfly bushes. "Buddleja davidii" is the type species. It is in the order "Lamiales" (previously "Gentianales").
Asteridae
Asteridae is a Linnaean term with the rank of subclass. By definition it always includes the family Asteraceae (Compositae). However, in the modern APG III system of classification, asterid and euasterid are names for clades. Their member families are similar to those of the Asteridae.
One of the better-known systems that recognized subclass Asteridae was the Cronquist system, which included the orders:
Most of the above orders as defined by Cronquist have been dramatically redefined on the basis of recent molecular systematic studies.
Lentibulariaceae
Lentibulariaceae is a family of plants, sometimes called the 'bladderwort family'. It only has three genera: "Pinguicula", "Genlisea", and "Utricularia". They are all carnivorous plants (plants which trap and digest insects). They are in the order Lamiales.
Klebsiella
Klebsiella is a dangerous bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is a main cause of pneumonia in children. A new drug resistant strain was discovered recently. The type species is "Klebsiella pneumoniae". It can also cause donovanosis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
Mesa
Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for "table") is a steep-sided, flat-topped hill or mountain. They are sometimes called "table mountains." These mountains are mainly found in Spain, Africa and in some parts of the United States.
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Tennant Creek is a small town in the Northern Territory of Australia, about 500 km north of Alice Springs and 1000 km south of Darwin. There are about 3,500 people living in the town. The area is part of the Barkly Tablelands, a large flat grassy plain the size of the United Kingdom, famous for its large cattle stations (farms). The first people to live in the area were the Warramunga people.
The explorer John McDouall Stuart was the first European to visit the area in 1860, but was attacked by warriors from the Warramunga at Attack Creek. In the battle at the creek, Stuart wrote that they "took steady aim" and fired their guns at the Warramunga, but he does not mention if any were killed or injured. Stuart named Tennant Creek after a John Tennant, of Port Lincoln, South Australia.
A repeater station for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line was built 11 km north of Tennant Creek in 1872.
There was a gold rush to Tennant Creek in 1930, Australia's last gold rush. Mining is still a major activity in the area, with gold, manganese and copper mines. In 2011 the Australian government proposed building a nuclear waste dump near the town despite protests from the traditional Aboriginal land owners. The traditional owners challenged the proposal in the Federal Court in June 2014, and the Northern Land Council dropped its plans.
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society (RGS), also known as the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), is a British professional society engaged in the moving forward of geographical knowledge.
The current president is Michael Palin.
RGS was established in 1830. The society started as a club where men could talk about geography while eating dinner.
Today the society has become a world centre for geography. RGS supports research, education, expeditions and fieldwork.