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Arnstein, Walter L. (2003), Queen Victoria, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-63806-4

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Queen Victoria

House of Hanover

Cadet branch of the House of Welf

Born: 24 May 1819 Died: 22 January 1901

Regnal titles

Preceded byWilliam IV

  Queen of the United Kingdom 

20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901

Succeeded byEdward VII

VacantTitle last held by

Bahadur Shah II 

as Mughal emperor 

  Empress of India 

1 May 1876 – 22 January 1901

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Pope Liberius (d. 366)

Howard Florey (b. 1898)

Esther Eng (b. 1914)

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)

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Aegirine is a member of the clinopyroxene group of inosilicate minerals. It is the sodium endmember of the aegirine–augite series, and has the chemical formula NaFeSi2O6, in which the iron is present as the ion Fe3+. Aegirine occurs as dark green monoclinic prismatic crystals. This photograph depicts aegirine crystals with minor feldspar found at Mount Malosa in Zomba, Malawi.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus