Van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries follow in the long tradition of Chinese detective fiction, intentionally preserving a number of key elements of that writing culture.

Van Gulik's novels and stories made no direct reference to the original Chinese work and so Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee is not considered to be part of the Judge Dee series.

Several other authors have created stories based on Van Gulik's Judge Dee character.

Van Gulik's last two books, Poets and Murder and Necklace and Calabash, were not listed in the chronology, as they were written after Judge Dee at Work, but they are both set in the time when Judge Dee was the magistrate in Poo-yang.

Guerrero ( Van Heflin ), down on his luck and with a history of mental illness, buys life insurance with the intent of committing suicide by blowing up Trans Global Airlines Flight Two, known as The Golden Argosy, a Rome-bound Boeing 707 intercontinental jet, from a snowbound Chicago-area airport.

Van Gogh, initially at any rate, was more intent on recruiting models.

His intent regarding nullification, as communicated to Van Buren, was “ to pass it barely in review, as a mere buble, view the existing laws as competent to check and put it down .” He hoped to create a “ moral force ” that would transcend political parties and sections.

", an expression used by his fellows in Van Goyen's workshop whenever his father chased him there with the intent to beat him.

Cannon continues with the identity of " Charles Matthews ", the chauffeur of Janet Van Dyne, first with the intent of robbing her, later with the intent of hitting on her.

Van Vogt systematized his writing method, using scenes of 800 words or so where a new complication was added or something resolved.

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

According to Van Voorst, the statement " those that loved him at the first did not forsake him " has the characteristics of Josephus ' writing and points to the continuation of Christianity.

His fortunes began to improve when John Van Voorst, the leading publisher of naturalist writing, agreed, on the recommendation of Thomas Bell, to publish his Canadian Naturalist ( 1840 ).

In the dialect of Holland, it is, with a voiceless V. Van Gogh grew up in Brabant ( although his parents were not born there ), and used Brabant dialect in his writing ; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent:, with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh.

" Black Francis of the Pixies cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first writing songs for the band, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him among his notoriously eclectic range.

By December, 1834, Crockett was writing to friends about moving to Texas if Van Buren were elected President.

The Van Halen brothers continued writing at 5150 studios, Gary Cherone recorded an album and toured with new band Tribe of Judah.

In November, Eddie's spokesperson, Janie Liszewski, claimed the Van Halen family was writing / rehearsing for a Summer 2007 tour, which Billboard magazine's website shortly confirmed.

Van Peene is best known for writing the poem " The Flemish Lion " which came to be the Flemish anthem.

In interviews, Eddie and Alex Van Halen suggested they were jamming and writing / recording new material during this time period but appeared to be working without Anthony.

Directed by Prince and based on the John Van Druten play I Am a Camera ( which, in turn, was based on the writing of Christopher Isherwood ), the musical starred Jill Haworth as Sally Bowles, Bert Convy as Clifford Bradshaw, Lotte Lenya as Fraulein Schneider and Joel Grey as the emcee.

Three years after writing the expanded third edition of How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren did a series of thirteen 14-minute videos called How to Read a Book Video.

According to Ian Kershaw, writing in 1998, the consensus of nearly all historians is that Van der Lubbe did, in fact, set the Reichstag fire.

Van Morrison told Ritchie Yorke, one of his biographers, he wrote both of the songs " Madame George " and " Cyprus Avenue " in stream of consciousness: " George ' just came right out ... The song is just a stream of consciousness thing, as is ' Cyprus Avenue '... I didn't even think about what I was writing.

( Examples: Bravo Fox is a showman and encourages the talents of acting, Talkatoo Cockatoo enjoys reading, writing and speech, Van Go Lion enjoys art, Whazzat Kangaroo encourages kids to enjoy music and dance, Lookout Bear enjoys adventuring and travel, and Bill Der Beaver likes to invent and fix stuff.

Van Doesburg was also a writer, poet, and critic, who had been more successful writing about art than working as an independent artist.

His brother, Willard Huntington Wright, was a writer and critic who gained greater fame by writing the Philo Vance detective novels under the pseudonym S. S. Van Dine.

The European traveller Van de Velde visited " el-Bussa " in 1851, and stayed with the sheikh, Aisel Yusuf, writing that " The clean house of Sheck Yusuf is a welcome sight, and the verdant meadows around the village are truly refreshing to the eye ".

Van Zandt continued writing and performing through the 1990s, though his output slowed noticeably as time went on.

The two composed the song for Van Heusen's writing partner Johnny Burke, for his wife Bessie's birthday.

Van Peebles began writing about his experiences as a cable car driver.

In his teachings and writing on the philosophy of science, he drew heavily on those of his Harvard colleague Willard Van Orman Quine.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

Static electricity was the first form discovered and investigated, and the electrostatic generator is still used even in modern devices such as the Van de Graaff generator and MHD generators.

Besides being the first U. S. satellite, it is known for discovering the Van Allen radiation belt.

The first stable mathematical model of an electronic oscillator, the Van der Pol oscillator, was derived by Balthasar van der Pol in 1927.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

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.

Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first on the run, then in prison, and then, awaiting a change of the extradition treaty, then with house arrest, and finally in prison again.

The first electric guitarist of note to use a seven-string guitar was jazz guitarist George Van Eps, who was a pioneer of this instrument.

The first Board of Directors included Monica Hargraves, Dan Cogan, Margaret McCasland, Erica Van Etten, Greg Spence Wolf, Bob LeRoy, LeGrace Benson, Wally Woods, Jennifer Elges, and Donald Stephenson.

Van Buren won a simple majority on the convention's first ballot but did not attain the two-thirds supermajority required for nomination.

Van Buren was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president not of British or Irish descent — his family was Dutch.

Van Buren was the first president born a citizen of the United States, as all previous presidents were born before the American Revolution.

Van Buren married Hannah Hoes, his childhood sweetheart and first cousin once removed, on February 21, 1807, in Catskill, New York.

Van Buren at first favored internal improvements, such as road repairs and canal creation, therefore proposing a constitutional amendment in 1824 to authorize such undertakings.

No diplomatic questions of the first magnitude arose during Van Buren's service as secretary, but the settlement of long-standing claims against France was prepared and trade with the British West Indies colonies was opened.

Martin Van Buren was the first real American politician and was also the first to use grassroots campaigning in his presidential campaign.