Della Alexander is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Michelle Joseph 1994–1995. Della is the first lesbian character to be featured on the show. Della appeared in 80 episodes.^{[citation needed]}

Della arrives in Walford in March 1994 as a new assistant to the market trader, Sanjay Kapoor. Della is a former hairdresser, who had gone to the same school as the barman Steve Elliot. Realising that Della had a talent that could be a potential money spinner, Steve decides to go into business with her. He and Della make plans to open a hairdressing salon in George Street. The salon, Kool for Kutz, opens in April that year.

After some problems at home, Della comes to live with Steve at The Queen Victoria, and Steve soon begins seeing her as more than just his business partner. He actively pursues her, which she seems to encourage. However, Della is only leading Steve on in order to mask the fact that she was a lesbian, and days later he catches her in bed with her girlfriend Binnie. Steve throws Della out as a result, which prompted a feud between him and Binnie. Della is mortified that her sexuality had been uncovered and her shame is often a major source of conflict for her girlfriend, who is openly gay. Steve is eventually forced to come to terms with Della's homosexuality, although he harbours feelings for her for a long time after, and makes several attempts to convert her into a heterosexual.

Steve Elliot is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Mark Monero between 1991 and 1996.

Steve is first seen in Albert Square in October 1991 as an old school friend of Hattie Tavernier and Sam Mitchell. He initially works as a pizza chef, but his talents are noticed by Ian Beale who quickly gives him a job as head chef at his catering business, The Meal Machine.

In 1992, after much flirting, Steve and Hattie start dating. In contrast to Hattie, Steve is less keen on commitment, but nevertheless he accepts Hattie's marriage proposal on New Year's Eve 1992. Hattie makes plans for the wedding, but Steve begins to have second thoughts when he loses his job and begins to listen to Mandy Salter, who persuades him he is not ready for marriage. He decides to take a job as a chef on an ocean liner and neglects to tell Hattie to her face that the wedding is off. Unbeknown to him, Hattie is pregnant; she follows him and tries to persuade him to stay, although she refrains from telling him about the pregnancy, fearing he would stay out of obligation and not love. Steve decides to leave anyway. Hattie is heartbroken and has a miscarriage soon after.

Binnie Roberts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Sophie Langham.

Binnie was an out and proud lesbian, which was in stark contrast to her shy and retiring girlfriend.

Binnie arrived in Albert Square in June 1994. She was the secret girlfriend of hairdresser Della Alexander. Whilst Della preferred to keep her sexuality hidden, Binne was out and proud and wanted everyone to know. She refused to put up with anyone's bigotry and defended her choice of lifestyle to anyone that dared to pass judgement.

Della had been in Walford for a few months before Binnie's arrival, and in this time she'd sparked up a close, flirtatious relationship with the barman, Steve Elliot. Steve had become a partner in Della's hair salon and had begun to think that he and Della would soon be more than just friends. Binnie was adamant that Della should tell Steve about her sexuality, but Della found the prospect of 'coming out' extremely daunting. Several days later, the situation was brought to a head prematurely, when Steve accidentally walked in on Della and Binnie in bed together. Steve was furious, as he felt Della had been leading him on. He threw her out of his home, prompting several arguments between him and Binnie. Steve and Binnie were sworn enemies thereafter, although they did manage to put aside their differences later in the year.

Alexander Loyd (also Alexander Lloyd) (August 19, 1805 –May 7, 1872))) served one term as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1840 until 1841 for the Democratic Party.

Loyd was born in Orange County, New York. He arrived in Chicago in 1833, and opened a shop. Within four years, he was considered a principal contractor, carpenter and builder in Chicago.

He was elected to the Chicago Board of Trustees in 1835. By then, he was a member of the volunteer Fire Department, and was named Chief Engineer in 1838, serving for one year. He became the 4th Mayor of Chicago in 1840, defeating Benjamin Wright Raymond.

He served as a Trustee of the 2nd district of the Chicago Schools in 1842. When G. W. Snow, alderman of the 2nd ward, resigned in 1850. Loyd was elected to finish Snow's term.

He died in 1872, of “rheumatism of the heart” and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery.

Sir Alexander Fleming FRSE, FRS, FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

In 1999, Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his discovery of penicillin, and stated:

Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield , a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816–1888) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton (1848–1928), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second marriage, and died when Alexander (known as Alec) was seven.