Don Van Vliet (1941–2010), known as Captain Beefheart, was an American experimental rock musician and visual artist who led The Magic Band. After a prolific recording career from 1965–1982, he retired from music to pursue painting.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate whose pioneering work in quantum magnetism and electron behavior in solids helped establish the modern theory of magnetism.
“The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: the First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun,” by Lisa Jardine (Harper Collins, 2006, 176pp, $21.95, pbk $12.95).
The Story of the Holland Society's journal de Halve Maen by its editor.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate whose pioneering work in quantum magnetism and electron behavior in solids helped establish the modern theory of magnetism.
Governors Island, landing place of the first colonists from the Dutch Republic.
January 31, 2009, was the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Amsterdamsche Wisselbank (Exchange Bank of Amsterdam), and with it the idea of a national bank, modeled on such a bank in Venice, reached northern Europe.
The Prayer before the Meal, by Dutch painter Jan Steen, 1660 A well-fed Dutch family sits down for a meal of bread with ham and...
Jan Vigne was among the earliest Europeans born in New Netherland, likely in 1624. The son of Huguenot immigrants, he later became a brewer, landowner, and civic official in New Amsterdam.
Buying and Selling Real Property in New Amsterdam.
