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* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land ( later renamed Tasmania ).
1663 map of Van Diemen's Land, showing the parts discovered by Tasman, including Storm Bay, Maria Island and Schouten Island.
Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.
In 1803, the island was colonised by the British as a penal colony with the name Van Diemen's Land, and became part of the British colony of New South Wales.
The demonym for Van Diemen's Land was ' Van Diemonian ', though contemporaries used Vandemonian, possibly as a play on words relating to the colony's penal origins.
From the 1800s to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation ( known simply as " transportation "), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia.
Following the suspension of transportation to New South Wales, all transported convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land.
In total, some 75, 000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land, or about 40 % of all convicts sent to Australia.
There were five female factories in Van Diemen's Land.
Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land.
Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the " Vandemonians " as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.
Complaints from Victorians about recently released convicts from Van Diemen's Land re-offending in Victoria was one of the contributing reasons for the eventual abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.
Eventually, in order to remove the unsavoury connotations with crime associated with its name ( and its homophonic connection to " demon "), in 1856 Van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman.
* The feature film Van Diemen's Land focuses on the true story of convict Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape from Macquarie Harbour in 1822.
* " Van Diemen's Land " is the title of the second track from the rock band U2's album Rattle and Hum.
* Van Diemen's Land is referenced in the song " The Helm of Ned Kelly " by the group Blackbird Raum on their third album titled " Under the Starling Host "
* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the Irish and Australian folk song " The Wild Colonial Boy ".
* Van Diemen's Land is often mentioned in the works of Flogging Molly, such as in the song " Every Dog Has Its Day.
* Among the Irish folk songs that mention Van Diemen's Land are " The Black Velvet Band ", " Back Home in Derry ", and " Van Diemen's Land ".

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* Jonathan auf der Heide, director of the 2009 film Van Dieman's Land

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The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").
* Seibel, " Data Entry Devices and Procedures ", in Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design, Van Cott and Kinkade ( Eds ), 1963
She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.
Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.
* Darugar, Maliha A ; Harris, Rebecca M ; and Frader, Joel E. " Consent and cultural conflicts: ethical issues in pediatric anesthesiologists ' participation in female genital cutting ", in Van Norman, Gail A ; Jackson, Stephen ; and Rosenbaum, Stanley H. Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology: A Case-Based Textbook.
Van Deinse points out that the " scrag whale ", described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.
Van Deinse points out the " scrag whale ", described by P. Dudley in 1725, as one target of early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.
Van Voorst states that the James passage fits well in the context in the Antiquities and an indication for its authenticity is the lack of the laudatory language that a Christian interpolator would have used to refer to Jesus as " the Lord ", or a similar term.
*" Old Kinderhook ", a name applied to U. S. President Martin Van Buren
The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ", Mies Van Der Rohe's " Less is more ", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's " It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ".
The phrase, which had previously been limited to regional usage with various possible references, was co-opted and popularized to mean " Old Kinderhook ", a reference to Van Buren based on the name of his home village in New York.
Martin Van Buren announced his intention " to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor ", and retained all but one of Jackson's cabinet.
In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called " Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman ", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS.
The Philadelphia Eagles Helmet Cart sat at Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr .' s ( Designer of the 74 Helmet ) " Joe's Gulf Gas Station " at Rising Sun Ave & Van Kirk St. 1974 off season year to raise money for " The Eagles Fly for Leukemia ", where every weekend Eagles NFL Team Members joined to help raise awareness and funds.
* Eddie Anderson ( comedian ) ( 1904 – 1977 ), an actor sometimes known as " Rochester ", after his character " Rochester Van Jones " on The Jack Benny Program
Will Vinton followed with several other successful short film experiments including " The Great Cognito ", " Creation ", and " Rip Van Winkle " which were each nominated for Academy Awards.
* ( VEW04 ) " Using a Decompiler for Real-World Source Recovery ", M. Van Emmerik and T. Waddington, the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, 9 – 12 November 2004.
Van Dyck noted that although " her eyesight was weakened ", Anguissola was still mentally alert.
Ginsberg cites Artaud's " Van Gogh -- The Man Suicided by Society " as a direct influence on " Howl ", along with Apollinaire's " Zone ", García Lorca's " Ode to Walt Whitman ", and Schwitters ' " Priimiititiii ".

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Characterized as a sociopath and a hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent and quick-witted, with sophisticated taste in music, being particularly fond of Beethoven, or " Lovely Ludwig Van.
Several small streams that empty into the Black Sea or landlocked Lake Van also originate in these mountains.
Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.
The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.
Van Houten also developed the " so-called " Dutch process of treating chocolate with alkali to remove the bitter taste.
Van der Heul is also noteworthy because he may have been African or of African-American descent.
The cast also comprised Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Du Val, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sheldon Leonard, William Conrad, Jeff Chandler, Lionel Stander, Sidney Miller, Olive Deering and Joe De Santis.
They are also held in smaller venues across the island, featuring bands such as Estopa, Van Gogh's Ear, and King Afrhica.
The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.
Van Johnson who also appeared in Pal Joey recalled: " I watched him rehearsing, and it seemed to me that there was no possible room for improvement.
Richard Van Voorst also states that the interpolation likely took place some time between Origen and Eusebius.
Van Voorst also states that the use of a neutral term " called Christ " which neither denies nor affirms Jesus as the Messiah points to authenticity, and indicates that Josephus used it to distinguish Jesus from the many other people called Jesus at the time, in the same way that James is distinguished, given that it was also a common name.
Van Voorst also states that calling Christians a " tribe " would have been very out of character for a Christian scribe, while Josephus has used it to refer both to Jewish and Christian groups.
Van Voorst also states that the neutral reconstruction fits better with the Arabic Testimonium discovered by Pines in the 1970s.
Van Goyen's troubles also may have affected the early business prospects of his student and son-in-law Jan Steen, who left The Hague in 1654.
Van Cleef also had a supporting role in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York.
In 1817, Van Lennep ( who was in the city council at the time ) had also placed the monument De Naald ( Heemstede ) at his own home in nearby Heemstede.
Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.
As a young man, Reagan raced boats and later also sold them at a Sea Ray boat dealership in Van Nuys, California.
In 1664, a second attempt was made, but this one also ended badly as the men chosen for the job abandoned their sick commander, Van Niewland, without proper treatment, and the latter eventually died.
Martin Van Buren was the first real American politician and was also the first to use grassroots campaigning in his presidential campaign.
To help secure Florida, Van Buren also pursued the Second Seminole War, which had begun while Jackson was in office.
Van Buren's rather elegant personal style was also an easy target for Whig attacks, such as the Gold Spoon Oration.
Philadelphia Eagles assistant Nick Skorich and a man with Minnesota ties who was working in the CFL, Bud Grant, were also candidates until a different Eagle, quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, was hired on January 18, 1961.

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