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Velde, van de

(Encyclopedia)Velde, van de vän də vĕlˈdə [key], 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...

Vere, Edward de

(Encyclopedia)Vere, Edward de: see Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th earl of. ...

Uyuni, Salar de

(Encyclopedia)Uyuni, Salar de sälärˈ dā o͞oyo͞oˈnē [key], salt flats (c.4,250 sq mi/11,000 sq km), Potosí dept., SW Bolivia, in the altiplano. The Río Grande de Lípez flows into the flats in the southeas...

Vaca, Cabeza de

(Encyclopedia)Vaca, Cabeza de: see Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez. ...

Val-de-Marne

(Encyclopedia)Val-de-Marne väl-də-märn [key], department (1990 pop. 1,219,300), N central France, adjoining Paris on the southeast. Créteil is the capital. ...

Valdés, Juan de

(Encyclopedia)Valdés, Juan de hwän ᵺā väldāsˈ [key], c.1500–1540, Spanish reformer, b. Cuenca. Suspected by the Inquisition, he went soon after 1530 to Naples, where he became the center of a circle of me...

Valdivia, Pedro de

(Encyclopedia)Valdivia, Pedro de pāˈdhrō dā väldēˈvyä [key], c.1500–1554, Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Chile. One of Francisco Pizarro's best officers in the conquest of Peru, educated, energetic, s...

Banville, Théodore de

(Encyclopedia)Banville, Théodore de tāōdôrˈ də bäNvēlˈ [key], 1823–91, French poet. He was one of the group known as the Parnassians. His many volumes of verse, including Odes funambulesques (1857) and L...

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