…a covered motor vehicle, typically without side windows, used for transporting goods or people…
…the foremost part of a group of people moving or preparing to move forwards, especially the foremost division of an advancing military force…
…a cat of a long-haired breed, with a white body, auburn markings on the head and tail, and light orange eyes…
…a railway carriage or wagon from which the train’s brakes can be controlled by the guard…
…an industrial and residential section of northwestern Los Angeles in California, a center of aerospace manufacturing…
…(1910–71) US actor; full name Emmett Evan Heflin, Jr. He appeared in many movies, including Johnny Eager (1942), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Shane (1953), and Stagecoach (1966)…
…a large van used to transport furniture and other household goods from one house to another…
…a cat of a long-haired breed, with a white body, auburn markings on the head and tail, and light orange eyes…
…(b.1945), Northern Irish singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter; full name George Ivan Morrison. He developed a distinctive personal style from a background of blues, soul, folk music, and rock. Notable albums: Astral Weeks (1968) and Moondance (1970)…
…a motor vehicle in which the area behind the driver has been converted into a living space…
…a South African brandy-based liqueur made with naartjies (mandarin oranges)…
…the hero of a story in Washington Irving’s Sketch Book (1819–20), who fell asleep in the Catskill Mountains and awoke after twenty years to find the world completely changed…
…each of two regions of intense radiation partly surrounding the earth at heights of several thousand kilometres…
…(1925-), US actor and comedian; full name Richard Wayne Van Dyke. He starred in the television series The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66) and Diagnosis Murder (1993–2001). His movies include Bye Bye Birdie (1963), which he also did on Broadway 1960–61, and Mary Poppins (1965)…
…(circa 1370–1441), Flemish painter. He made innovative use of oils, bringing greater flexibility, richer and denser colour, and a wider range from light to dark. Notable works: The Adoration of the Lamb (known as the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432) in the church of St Bavon in Ghent and The Arnolfini Marriage (1434)…
…an aggressive male driver of a delivery or workman’s van (typically white in colour)…
…(circa 1494–1533), Dutch painter and engraver. He produced his most significant work as an engraver, including Ecce Homo (1510). His paintings include portraits, genre scenes, and religious subjects…
…(1918–2013), US journalist; born Pauline Esther Friedman. Author of the syndicated “Dear Abby” advice column from 1956, she competed with her twin sister, advice columnist Ann Landers. In 1987, Van Buren’s column became coauthored with her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who, by 2000, had assumed sole authorship…
…(1782–1862), American Democratic statesman, 8th President of the US 1837–41…
…(1853–90), Dutch painter; full name Vincent Willem Van Gogh. He is best known for his post-impressionist work, influenced by contact with impressionist painting and Japanese woodcuts after he moved to Paris in 1886. His most famous pictures include several studies of sunflowers. Suffering from severe depression, he cut off part of his own ear and eventually committed suicide…
…(fl.circa 1467–82), Flemish painter, born in Ghent. His best-known work is the large-scale Portinari Altarpiece (1475), commissioned for a church in Florence…
…(1610–85), Dutch painter and engraver. His work chiefly depicts lively genre scenes of peasants carousing or brawling in crowded taverns or barns…
…(circa 1628–82), Dutch landscape painter. His work demonstrated the possibilities of investing landscape with subtle intimations of mood…
…(1859–1941), US Supreme Court associate justice 1911–37. Appointed to the Court by President Taft, he was a conservative and stayed on the Court longer than he intended in hopes of blocking many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs…
…(1632–1723), Dutch naturalist. He developed a lens for scientific purposes and was the first to observe bacteria, protozoa, and yeast. He accurately described red blood cells, capillaries, striated muscle fibres, spermatozoa, and the crystalline lens of the eye…
…weak, short-range electrostatic attractive forces between uncharged molecules, arising from the interaction of permanent or transient electric dipole moments…
…(1863–1957), Belgian architect, designer, and teacher, who pioneered the development of art nouveau design and architecture in Europe; full name Henri Clemens van de Velde. His buildings include the Werkbund Theatre in Cologne (1914)…
…(1599–1641), Flemish painter. He is famous for his portraits of members of the English court, which determined the course of portraiture in England for more than 200 years…
…(1764–1839), US army officer and politician. He held various state positions in New York and participated in the War of 1812. A Federalist, he served in the US House of Representatives 1822–29. He also founded the technical school (1824) that became Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York…
…(1577–1644), Belgian chemist and physician. He made early studies on the conservation of matter, was the first to distinguish gases, and coined the word gas…
…(1908–2000), American philosopher and logician. A radical critic of modern empiricism, Quine took issue with the philosophy of language proposed by Rudolf Carnap, arguing that ‘no statement is immune from revision’ and that even the principles of logic themselves can be questioned and replaced…
…(1914–2006), American physicist. He used balloons and rockets to study cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere, showing that specific zones of high radiation were the result of charged particles from the solar wind being trapped in two belts around the earth…
…a machine devised to produce a high voltage by means of an endless belt collecting electrostatic charge from a source and transferring it to a large isolated metal dome, on which a large charge accumulates…
…(circa 1400–64), Flemish painter; French name Rogier de la Pasture. He was particularly influential in the development of Dutch portrait painting. Notable works: The Last Judgement and The Deposition in the Tomb (both circa 1450)…
