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John Van Druten
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Kiliaen Van Rensselaer
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer , c.1580-1644, Dutch merchant and patroon, b. Amsterdam. He was a wealthy diamond and pearl merchant and helped found (1621) the Dutch West India Company, later becoming one of its directors. He was one of the first to develop a patroonship in New Netherland, having purchased... Read more |
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Maarten van Heemskerck
Maarten van Heemskerck , 1498-1574, Dutch painter. His family name was van Veen. He studied in Haarlem under Scorel and in Rome from 1532 to 1534. His Italianate paintings won him a high reputation in Haarlem, but his most valuable work is contained in his sketchbooks (Berlin), which include... Read more |
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Eger
Eger , Ger. Erlau, city (1991 est. pop. 62,474), NE Hungary, on the Eger River. It is the commercial center of a wine-producing region and has food- and tobacco-processing plants. Eger is a center for tourists drawn by the nearby mineral springs and the Mátra Mts. One of the first Magyar... Read more |
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Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt
Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt , 1567-1641, Dutch portrait painter. He was court painter to the house of Orange, working chiefly in Delft and at The Hague. Mierevelt had many pupils and assistants, whose numerous, and usually inferior, works bear his name. His thousands of portraits included those of... Read more |
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Van Valens law
Van Valen's ‘law’ When plotted as cumulative curves on a logarithmic scale, the duration frequencies of many species tend to show a more or less straight-line relationship with time. In effect, taxa generally become extinct regardless of their age. Duration frequencies vary greatly... Read more |
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Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles 1957— Actor, director Mario Van Peebles has established himself as one of a prolific new generation of black filmmakers. After the handsome actor appeared in films and on television for more than five years, he was asked to direct a small-budget movie about drug abuse in... Read more |
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J.H. Van Vleck
VAN VLECK, JOHN HASBROUCK(b. Middletown, Connecticut, 13 March 1899; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 27 October 1980)magnetism, quantum theory of solids, spectroscopy, chemical physics.Van Vleck was the only child of a wealthy family. Of Dutch extraction, the Van Vlecks had settled in America early in... Read more |
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 1899-1980, American physicist, b. Middletown, Conn., Ph.D. Harvard, 1922. As a professor at Harvard, Van Vleck developed fundamental theories on the quantum mechanics of magnetism and on molecular bonding (ligand field theory). For his contributions to the understanding of... Read more |
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Graaff-Reinet
Graaff‐Reinet, Eastern Cape/South Africa Founded in 1786 by, and named after, Cornelius van de Graaff, a Dutch governor of the Cape (1785–91), and his wife Cornelia, whose maiden name was Reinet.... Read more |
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