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van de Velde

(Encyclopedia)van de Velde: see Velde, van de. ...

Van Doren, Charles

(Encyclopedia)Van Doren, Charles: see under Van Doren, Mark. ...

Duong Van Minh

(Encyclopedia)Duong Van Minh: see Minh, Duong Van. ...

Pham Van Dong

(Encyclopedia)Pham Van Dong: see Dong, Pham Van. ...

Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

(Encyclopedia)Bad Homburg vor der Höhe bät hômˈbo͝ork fôr dĕr höˈə [key], Bad Homburg, or...

Doesburg, Theo van

(Encyclopedia)Doesburg, Theo van tāˈō vän do͞osˈbûrg [key], 1883–1931, Dutch painter, teacher, and writer. Together with Mondrian he founded the magazine De Stijl and successfully proselytized in Europe fo...

Hoek van Holland

(Encyclopedia)Hoek van Holland ho͝ok vän hôlˈänt [key] or Hook of Holland, district of Rotterdam, W Netherlands, on the North Sea. It is an outer port of Rotterdam, with which it is connected by the New Waterw...

Bynkershoek, Cornelius van

(Encyclopedia)Bynkershoek, Cornelius van kôrnāˈlĭs vän bĭngˈkərs-ho͞ok [key], 1673–1743, Dutch writer on international law. His De dominio maris [on the rule of the seas] (1702, tr. 1923) is a classic on...

Van Zeeland, Paul

(Encyclopedia)Van Zeeland, Paul pōl vän zāˈlänt [key], 1893–1973, Belgian political leader. He was a professor of law and later director of the institute of economic science at the Univ. of Louvain and vice ...

van Zweden, Jaap

(Encyclopedia)van Zweden, Jaap yäp vän zvāˈdĕn [key], 1960–, Dutch conductor and violonist, b. Amsterdam. An accomplished violonist, he was appointed concertmaster of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestr...