George Allen was a successful NFL coach who turned two struggling teams, including the Los Angeles Rams, into winners. He was named Coach of the Year in 1967 before being dismissed.

William Van Alen, a respected New York architect, worked on the Hotel Astor and studied in Paris after winning the 1908 Paris Prize, later designing the iconic Chrysler Building.

James John Van Alen, heir to Civil War officer James Henry Van Alen, funded Cleveland’s campaign but twice declined ambassadorships to Italy and Great Britain.

James Isaac Van Alen, baptized Jacobus, was a New York congressman and half-brother of President Martin Van Buren, born 1772.

James Henry Van Alen, a wealthy New Yorker, financed and equipped the Third New York Cavalry, earning appointment as colonel while the unit defended Washington in 1861.

James Van Alen, founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was also a poet, publisher, civic leader, and champion tennis player with deep knowledge of the game.

With assets at his death worth approximately $10,000,000, or 1/65 of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, Fortune magazine listed Stephen III as the tenth richest American of all-time. In 2006

In 1647, residents of Fort Orange were treated to a rare spectacle.

Set in the brick wall of the Steenschuur canal in Leiden is a plaque commemorating the catastrophic buskruitramp, or gunpowder disaster, of 1807. It says: Ligplaats van het Kruitschip Gesprongen 12 Januari 1807, or the mooring place of the gunpowder ship exploded 12 January 1807.