VAN

vän, city (1990 pop. 153,525), capital of Van prov., E Turkey, near the eastern shore of Lake Van, at an altitude of 5,659 ft (1,725 m). It is the trade center for a fruit- and grain-growing region. Van was the cradle of an ancient Armenian civilization. It was the capital of the old Vannic kingdom of Urartu or Ararat. The city fell to the Seljuk Turks (1071) and to the Ottoman Turks in 1543. Near the city is the mound of Toprakkale where excavations in the 19th cent. uncovered the remains of the town of Urartu. Many tablets with so-called Vannic inscriptions relating to early Armenian history were found. In 1939 archaeologists discovered fortifications and various materials dating from the 8th cent. b.c. Many of the Armenians living in the region were massacred by the Turks in 1895. Lake Van, c.1,450 sq mi (3,760 sq km), is the largest lake in Turkey. It is alkaline and has no apparent outlet.

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals": Being Some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and His Multifarious Discoveries in These Disciplines
Book by Clifford Dobell, Antony van Leeuwenhoek; Harcourt, Brace, 1922
Subjects: Bacteria, Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van--1632-1723, Protozoa
...Venezia. VANDEVELDE, A. J. J. 1922 . De brieven 1 tot 27 van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek , Delft 24 October 1632 26 Augustus 1723...VANDEVELDE, A. J. J. 1922a . De brieven 28 tot 52 van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek , 2e bijdrage tot de studie over...
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The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861-1931
Book by Peter Wild, John C. Van Dyke; University of Utah Press, 1993
Subjects: Art Historians--United States--Biography, Van Dyke, John Charles--1856-1932
...portion of the campus, as there were in Van Dykes day. For the wildlife about his house...outright quotes sprinkled throughout much of Van Dykes work, this paragraph is puzzling...paragraph, by his "first two publications" Van Dyke apparently means his first two articles...
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The Life of Peter Van Schaack, LL. D: Embracing Selections from His Correspondence and Other Writings during the American Revolution, and His Exile in England
Book by Henry Cruger Van Schaack; D. Appleton & Company, 1842
Subjects: New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources, Van Schaack, Peter--1747-1832--Correspondence
...XIX. No impediments interposed to Mr. Van Schaacks resuming his residence in the State...York --Its extreme severity.--Mr. Van Schaacks views in regard to the Banishing...This statute in force when Mr. Van Schaack returned from England.--Many...
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Hermeneutics and Empirical Research in Practical Theology: The Contribution of Empirical Theology by Johannes A. Van der Ven
Book by Johannes A. Van Der Ven, Chris A. M. Hermans, Mary E. Moore; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Theology, Practical--History--20th Century, Ven, J. A. Van Der--1940-
We start with the contribution of Van der Ven to specific subdis- ciplines in practical theology. In 1967, Johannes van der Ven wrote his master thesis about Thomas...role of hermeneutics in the theology of Van der Ven. The choice of Aquinas and Schleier...
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A Journey to Ohio in 1810: As Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight
Book by Max Farrand, Margaret Van Horn Dwight; University of Nebraska Press, 1991
Subjects: Atlantic States--Description And Travel, Dwight, Margaret Van Horn--1790-1834--Diaries, Ohio--Description And Travel, Pennsylvania--Description And Travel, United States--Description And Travel
...in-Publication Data Dwight, Margaret Van Horn, 1790-1834. A journey to Ohio in 1810: as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight / edited with an introduction...Description and travel. 5. Dwight, Margaret Van Horn, 1790-1834--Diaries. I. Farrand...
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Helden En Goden Van Sumer: Een Keuze Uit De Heroische En Mythologische Dichtkunst Van Her Oude Mesopotamie
Journal article by Marc Van De Mieroop; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie (Book)--Reviews
Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie by MARC VAN DE MIEROOP Helden en goden van Sumer: Een keuze uit de heroische en mythologische dichtkunst van her Oude Mesopotamie. By HERMAN...
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Driehonderd Brieven over Muziek Van, Aan En Rond Constantijn Huygens
Journal article by Kate Van Orden; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Driehonderd brieven over muziek van, aan en rond Constantijn Huygens, vols. 1-2 (Book)--Book reviews
Driehonderd Brieven over Muziek Van, Aan En Rond Constantijn Huygens. by Kate Van Orden Rudolf Rasch. Driehonderd brieven over muziek van, aan en rond Constantijn Huygens. 2 volumes. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2007. 1269 pp. index...
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The Nazi Collaborator with a Jewish Heart: The Strange Saga of Jaac Van Harten
Journal article by Randolph L. Braham; East European Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Businessmen--Political activity, Harten, Jaac van--Political activity, History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews--Political activity, Literature, Political crimes and offenses--History, Political crimes--History
...Jewish Heart: The Strange Saga of Jaac Van Harten. by Randolph L. Braham The literature...in 2000. It involves the story of Jaac van Harten, a German Jew, who emigrated to...chagrin of his family and many friends, van Harten was identified as a collaborator...
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Smith V. Van Gorkom: Insights about C.e.o.s, Corporate Law Rules, and the Jurisdictional Competition for Corporate Charters
Journal article by Jonathan R. Macey; Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 96, 2002
Subjects: Acquisitions & mergers, Boards of directors, Charters, Chief executive officers, Commercial law, Delaware, Duty of care, State court decisions, Trans Union LLC, Van Gorkom, Jerome
Smith V. Van Gorkom: Insights about C.e.o.s, Corporate...INTRODUCTION After fifteen years, Smith v. Van Gorkom remains intellectually frustrating...seems profoundly unjust. When Smith v. Van Gorkom was decided, the mergers and acquisitions...
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A. E. Van Vogt and the World of Null-a
Journal article by William Henry Sharp; et Cetera, Vol. 63, 2006
Subjects: Personal profiles, Science fiction & fantasy, Semantics, Writers, Writing, van Vogt, A E
A. E. Van Vogt and the World of Null-a by William...pursuit of a higher human purpose." IF A.E. VAN VOGT had written a story of his own life...could very well have served as his epitaph. Van Vogt spent much of his life as a professional...
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Philippe Van Snick
Magazine article by Yoann Van Parys; Artforum International, Vol. 49, November 2010
Subjects: Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Van Snick, Philippe--Exhibitions
Philippe Van Snick. by Yoann Van Parys Although providing an overview of Philippe Van Snicks practice, this survey of the Belgian abstractionists oeuvre at the new and remarkable M-Museum was modest, taking up only five rooms. In the first...
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Van Dyck Rediscovered
Magazine article by Susan Fegley Osmond; World and I, Vol. 14, October 1999
Subjects: Belgian painters--Criticism and interpretation, Belgian painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painters, Belgian--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Belgian--Criticism and interpretation, Van Dyck, Anthony--Criticism and interpretation
Van Dyck Rediscovered. by SUSAN FEGLEY OSMOND Born four hundred years ago, Anthony Van Dyck was a child prodigy who during his lifetime...seventeenth-century Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck, I met a fellow critic coming out of...
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Van
Magazine article by Brian Doyle; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Summer 2001
Subjects: Morrison, Van--Appreciation
...a song about a job Van had at sixteen near Hyndford...legs were longer than Vans. The B side, to everyones...in The Game," which Van, with his voice alone...makes his living as a Van Morrison impersonator. Vans song "Days Like This...
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Van Dyck beyond the Looking Glass
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 275, December 1999
Subjects: Painting, Flemish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Portrait-painters--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Van Dyck, Anthony--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
VAN DYCK BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS by Donald Bruce AFTER such dismal aberrations...the Antwerp Museum of Fine Art this summer, of the work of Anthony van Dyck. The last exhibition of van Dycks pictures, Van Dyck in England, more appropriately mounted...
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Van Dyck
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 252, February 4, 1991
Subjects: Artists--Criticism and interpretation, Van Dyck, Anthony--Criticism and interpretation
Van Dyck. by Arthur C. Danto In artist whom I...What one might call the world of Anthony Van Dyck is perhaps the single most striking feature...almost Platonic plane of exaled being. And what Van Dyck achieved was the portrayal of this world...
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Van Peebles' Picture-Perfect Career
Newspaper article by Mensah Dean; The Washington Times, August 23, 1996
Subjects: Van Peebles, Melvin
Van Peebles picture-perfect career by Mensah Dean Mario Van Peebles has come to town to promote his new cyborg action...in the films "Mo Better Blues" and "Malcolm X." Mr. Van Peebles, 39, is convinced that those actors roles in black...
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Van Horn Network Does in Wizards
Newspaper article by Ken Wright; The Washington Times, December 30, 1997
Subjects: Van Horn, Keith
Van Horn Network does in Wizards by Ken Wright...9 at MCI Center, but then again, Keith Van Horn had just started playing after missing...with an ankle injury. Last night, however, Van Horn and the Nets turned the tables. Matching...
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VAN MY LOVING OLD MAN; the Quiet Man of Music's Life with Daughter Shana and Her Mother Janet. His Two Brown Eyed Girls
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 18, 2000
Subjects: Morrison, Van
...friends parents would mention who Van was but they would get it mixed...Morrison?" or "Is your dad in Van Halen?" "I knew he was famous...has admitted that she found Vans personality difficult to cope...rift was traumatic for Janet and Van who fought a bitter custody battle...
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VAN MY LOVING OLD MAN; the Quiet Star of Music's Life with Daughter Shana and Her Mother Janet. His Two Brown Eyed Girls
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 19, 2000
Subjects: Morrison, Van
...friends parents would mention who Van was but they would get it mixed...Morrison?" or "Is your dad in Van Halen?" "I knew he was famous...has admitted that she found Vans personality difficult to cope...rift was traumatic for Janet and Van who fought a bitter custody battle...
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Celebrating Van Gogh; Museums Hold Vibrant Works of Swirl, Color in Netherlands
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 6, 2003
Subjects: Gogh, Vincent van
Celebrating van Gogh; Museums hold vibrant works of swirl...is the 150th anniversary year of Vincent van Gogh, the 19th-century Dutch painter whose...Kroller-Muller, are also being displayed. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the...
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Van Buren, Martin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VAN BUREN, MARTIN 1782 1862, 8th President of...state Democratic party. While still a senator Van Buren was made state attorney general in 1815...of Daniel D. Tompkins as Vice President. Van Buren served (1821 28) in the U.S. Senate...
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Eyck, Van
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EYCK, VAN van ik, family of Flemish painters, the brothers Hubert van Eyck, c.1370 1426, and Jan van Eyck, c.1390 1441. Their Lives Very little is known of Hubert, the older of the two brothers. He is said to have worked (1414 17...
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Van Gogh, Vincent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VAN GOGH, VINCENT van go, Dutch vinsent van khokh, 1853 90, postimpressionist painter, b. the Netherlands. Van Goghs works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life is thought...
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Van Dyck, Sir Anthony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VAN DYCK, SIR ANTHONY both: van dik, 1599 1641, Flemish portrait and religious painter and etcher...palaces of the Doria, Balbi, Durazzo, and Grimaldi families, show Van Dycks extraordinary gift for aristocratic portraiture. Van Dyck conferred...
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Velde, Van De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VELDE, VAN DE van d vel d , 17th-century Dutch family of artists. Jan van de Velde, 1593 1641, was a draftsman and engraver as well as a painter. His cousin Esaias van de Velde, c.1591 1630, a painter of genre and battle scenes, is best...
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