Opera singer Franziska Goldmann has fallen on hard times, but a chance encounter with Queen Victoria’s musically inclined second son seems to offer Franziska an opportunity to resume her career as a singer. But it is the other unpredictable characters in her life, including her German anarchist lover and a devious procurer, who may ultimately determine her destiny. The haunting story of a lone woman’s struggle to escape her fate, this story unfolds against the ironically observed background of colonial society, from the waterfront brothels to the mansions of the rich.

The objectives of this report are to document the methods developed at the National Center for Health Statistics to bridge the Census 2000 multiple-race resident population counts to single-race counts and to describe the resulting bridged population that are based on the 2000 census, namely, bridged April 1, 2000, population estimates, bridge postcensal estimates for July 1, 2000, through July 1, 2002, are bridged intercensal estimates for the 1990s.