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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 ", also known
as " The Gallant Poachers ",
is a traditional Irish folk
song
* " 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 ".
* 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 ".
Van and Land

;
the duo Lange Frans & Baas B with their patriotic but introspective
" Het
Land Van "; and Yes-R
. Other notable groups are
" Opgezwolle
" ( consisting
of rapper Sticky Steez
, rapper Phreaco Rico and DJ Delic ) and Brainpower
.
* Jonathan auf der Heide
, director
of the 2009 film
Van Dieman's
Land
Van and is

This sense
of moderation and fairness
is superbly exemplified
in an exchange
of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee
, Peter
Van Schaack
.

However
, a major factor
in binding dirt
is the attraction between surfaces that goes under
the name
of Van der Waal's forces
.

Mrs. Harry K. Cohen
is chairman
of this phase and she
is getting an artistic assist from A.
Van Hollander
, display director
of Gimbel Brothers
.

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.

Turkey's largest lake
, Lake
Van, is situated
in the mountains at an elevation
of.

The main basin
is the Mus Valley
, west
of Lake
Van.

These results refined Ernest Rutherford's and Antonius
Van den Broek's model
, which proposed that
the atom contains
in its nucleus a number
of positive nuclear charges that
is equal to its ( atomic ) number
in the periodic table
.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it
is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up
in a cathedral close
, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth
Van Rydock and Caroline
" Carrie
" Louise Serrocold
.
Van Mahotsav
is an annual pan-Indian tree planting festival
, occupying a week
in the month
of July
. During this event millions
of trees are planted
.

Although gold has an atomic number
of 79
, immediately after Rutherford's paper appeared
in 1911 Antonius
Van den Broek made
the intuitive suggestion that atomic number
is nuclear charge
.

This
is philosophically unsatisfying to some and has motivated additional work
in set theory and other methods
of formalizing
the foundations
of mathematics
such as New Foundations by Willard
Van Orman Quine
.
Van Driessen
is a devoted hippie with a forgiving nature and gentle demeanor
.
Van Driessen
is fired from his job
in the " School Test
" episode by Principal McVicker
, who blamed him for Beavis and Butt-Head being
" so damn stupid
.

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
.
* Jessica
Van Sack
is an award-winning reporter who covers local innovation
, worldwide technology trends and social media
.

Broadway crosses
the Harlem River on
the Broadway Bridge to Marble Hill and then enters The Bronx
, where it
is the eastern border
of Riverdale and
the western border
of Van Cortlandt Park
.

The European Council
is similar to a configuration
of the Council
, it operates
in a similar way and but
is composed
of the national leaders ( heads
of government or state ) and has its own President
, currently Herman
Van Rompuy
.

Under some circumstances
, the signal radiated from
the electron guns
, scanning circuitry
, and associated wiring
of a CRT can be captured remotely and used to reconstruct what
is shown on
the CRT using a process called
Van Eck phreaking
.

Mark Bortz holds
the record for most Bear playoff appearances
, with 13 between 1983 and 1994
, and
is followed by Kevin Butler
, Dennis Gentry
, Dan Hampton
, Jay Hilgenberg
, Steve McMichael
, Ron Rivera
, Mike Singletary
, and Keith
Van Horne
, who have each played
in 12 playoff games
.

Stoker's Dr
. Abraham
Van Helsing
is a direct parallel to Le Fanu's vampire expert Baron Vordenburg: both characters used to investigate and catalyse actions
in opposition to
the vampire
, and symbolically represent knowledge
of the unknown and stability
of mind
in the onslaught
of chaos and death
.

It
is not clear
, however
, if
Van der Heul exercised this degree
of responsibility because Kidd was nominally a privateer
.
Van der Heul
is also noteworthy because he may have been African or
of African-American descent
.

According to
" Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by
Van Dine
in 1928:
" The detective story
is a kind
of intellectual game
.
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