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Noot, Jan van der

(Encyclopedia)Noot, Jan van der yän vän dĕr nōt [key], b. 1539 or 1540, d. 1595?, Flemish poet. He wrote sonnets, odes, and other pieces in imitation of Petrarch and especially of Ronsard. ...

Van Heemskerck, Maarten

(Encyclopedia)Van Heemskerck, Maarten: see Heemskerck. ...

Veen, Maarten van

(Encyclopedia)Veen, Maarten van: see Heemskerck. ...

Beverloo, Cornelis van

(Encyclopedia)Beverloo, Cornelis van: see Corneille. ...

Van Diemen's Land

(Encyclopedia)Van Diemen's Land: see Tasmania, Australia. ...

Aeken, Jerom van

(Encyclopedia)Aeken, Jerom van: see Bosch, Hieronymus. ...

Fenwick, Sir John

(Encyclopedia)Fenwick, Sir John, 1645?–1697, English conspirator. A persistent Jacobite plotter, he was arrested in 1696 for conspiring to murder William III. In his confession he tried to implicate leading Whigs...

Ross, Sir John

(Encyclopedia)Ross, Sir John, 1777–1856, British arctic explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he went in search of the Northwest Passage but turned back after exploring Baffin Bay. Financed by Sir Felix Booth, he co...

Lewis, Sir Arthur

(Encyclopedia)Lewis, Sir Arthur (Sir William Arthur Lewis), 1915–91, British economist, b. St. Lucia. A graduate (1940) of the London School of Economics, he was later a professor of economics at the Univ. of Man...

Aytoun, William Edmonstoune

(Encyclopedia)Aytoun, William Edmonstoune āˈto͞on [key], 1813–65, Scottish poet. He was (1845–64) professor of belles-lettres at Edinburgh Univ. The Bon Gaultier Ballads (written with Sir Theodore Martin, 18...