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Van de Kamp returned to McCormick on October 1, 1925 to take up the position left vacant by Harold Alden, who had just taken up the directorship of the Yale University Observatory Southern Station in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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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.
Highlights of modern architecture are the university buildings ( the Boekentoren or Book Tower ) by Henry Van de Velde.
* Gustave Van de Woestijne, painter ( 1881 – 1947 )
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* Erland Van Lidth de Jeude ( 1953 – 1987 ), actor, wrestler and opera singer
In Japonisme, late-19th-century artists like the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler admired traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige and their work was influenced by it.
* Van de Graaf generators are another oft-appearing device on the Halfbakery.
* 1979 – Leire Martínez, Basque singer-songwriter ( La Oreja de Van Gogh )
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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 ".
* Van de Mieroop, Marc: A History of the Ancient Near East, 2nd ed., Oxford 2007.
A hall was opened by Le Normant de Tournehem and the Marquis de Marigny for public viewing of the Tableaux du Roy on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and contained Andrea del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael ; Titian ; Veronese ; Rembrandt ; Poussin or Van Dyck, until its closing in 1780 as a result of the gift of the palace to the comte de Provence by the king in 1778.
Discouraged, Deodati eventually gave up and his replacement would be Abraham Momber Van de Velde.
by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
* Van de Mieroop, Marc ; 2004.
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Ms. Van Amstel | HNLMS Van Amstel ( F 831 ); and Durand De la Penne class destroyer | MM Durand de la Penne ( D 560 ).
In French, the best introduction may be André Gounelle, Le Dynamisme Créateur de Dieu: Essai sur la Théologie du Process, édition revue, modifiée et augmentee ( Paris: Van Dieren, 2000, ISBN 2-911087-26-7 ).
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But in 1988 Texas hold ' em was declared legally distinct from stud-horse in Tibbetts v. Van De Kamp, 271 Cal.
* Bree Van de Kamp, on the American television series Desperate Housewives
Photographic plates from this observatory, taken at the same time, were used by Van de Kamp for his erroneous claim of a planetary system for Barnard's Star.
He was cast as Keith Watson on the seventh season of Desperate Housewives, playing the love interest of Bree Van de Kamp.
The trial lasted so long that Deukmejian was elected Governor and Van de Kamp was elected to succeed Deukmejian as Attorney General, so the Van de Kamp-led Attorney General's office won the case that the Van de Kamp-led District Attorney's office had declared unwinnable.
Bugliosi ran again in 1976, after Busch resigned, but lost to interim District Attorney John Van de Kamp.
* John Van de Kamp ( 1959 ), 28th California Attorney General
Van de Kamp studied at the University of Utrecht and started his professional career at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen working with Pieter Johannes van Rhijn.
The following year Van de Kamp went to the Lick Observatory in California as a Kellogg fellow.
Van de Kamp and Alexander N. Vyssotsky spent eight years measuring 18, 000 proper motions.
In the spring of 1937, Van de Kamp left McCormick Observatory to take over as director of Swarthmore College's Sproul Observatory.
In 1973 astronomers George Gatewood of the Allegheny Observatory and Heinrich Eichhorn of the University of Florida, using data obtained with improved equipment on the 30-inch Thaw Refractor telescope, did not detect any planets but instead detected a change in the color-dependent image scale of the images obtained from the 24-inch refractor telescope at the Sproul Observatory used by Van de Kamp in his study.
Van de Kamp never admitted that his claim was in error and continued to publish papers about a planetary system around Barnard's Star into the 1980s, while modern radial velocity curves place a limit on the planets much smaller than claimed by Van de Kamp.
From the 1940s on Van de Kamp and his staff made similar claims of planetary systems around the nearby stars Lalande 21185, 61 Cygni, and many others, based on the same flawed photographic plates.
All of these claims have been refuted. Throughout his life Van de Kamp was a strong promoter of the idea that planetary systems are common.
Van de Kamp was a talented musician, playing piano, viola, and violin, only forgoing a musical career in his youth because he considered this more difficult to achieve than a career in astronomy.
At Swarthmore Van de Kamp performed with Peter Schickele, a. k. a. P. D. Q. Bach, and made several films of Schickele's student performance, while on the occasion of his 70th birthday Schickele wrote a piano piece for him called The Easy Goin ' P. v. d. K. Ever Lovin ' Rag.
The house no longer exists in an easily recognizable form ( the Van de Kamp house in Desperate Housewives ) but the right façade does still have some features of the original style.
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Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman has returned to the capital with a collection of paintings that include Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, and Walt Kuhn.
Van Varner recently returned from Russia.
On the expiration of his term, Van Buren returned to his estate, Lindenwald in Kinderhook, where he planned out his return to the White House.
Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the cunning Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez.
In the new cabinet led by Van Agt, Den Uyl returned to cabinet, now as Deputy Prime Minister.
Isaac Van Nuys took his money, left nothing but his name on the town, and returned to his Los Angeles elite — with an office building built from the proceeds remaining downtown with his name.
Terl Bryant departed the band between these two albums, and Frank Van Essen returned to fill the vacant spot, playing drums as well as violin, which could be heard on the band's 2000 album, Open Sky.
The band returned to the studio in 1978 for Van Halen II, an album similar in style to their debut.
Shortly afterwards, Van Halen returned to the studio and in early 1999, they started work on a new album.
Van Doren also notes that he continued teaching, contrary to the film's epilogue which states he never returned to doing so.
The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter.
While on summer break in 1983, Lowery and Molla returned to Redlands and formed a new band, Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol.
" Sublime frequently covered other Camper Van Beethoven songs live, and Camper Van Beethoven eventually returned the favor by covering the Sublime song " Garden Grove " for the 2005 Sublime tribute album Look at All the Love We Found.
In 1996 David Lee Roth returned briefly and his replacement, former Extreme singer Gary Cherone, was fired soon after the release of the commercially unsuccessful 1998 album Van Halen III.
In 1986 Van Mierlo returned to politics.
*, was a Van Buren-class schooner built in 1832 for United States Revenue Service and was returned to the Treasury Department and later ( 1850 ) to the United States Coastal Survey.
He was sent to Van Diemen ’ s Land ( Tasmania ) in October 1831, only to be pardoned five years later, although he never returned home.
Recruitment was hurt, however, when the American government, headed by President Martin Van Buren, instructed the volunteers that they would be prosecuted as criminals if they participated in the planned invasion, and many volunteers returned home.
Although he soon realised that there was no immediate danger from Smyth in Buffalo, and returned to his headquarters in Niagara that night, it was mistakenly reported to Van Rensselaer that Brock had left in haste for Detroit, which Major General William Henry Harrison was attempting to recover.
Van Zandt returned to the E Street Band when it was reformed ( briefly in 1995, and on an ongoing basis since 1999 ) and remains with it.
* 1946: Discharged from the Navy, Van Allen returned to civilian research at APL.
In 2004, Sommers founded his own company ( along with editor / producing partner Bob Ducsay ), The Sommers Company, and returned to theater screens with Van Helsing, a film pitting legendary vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing against the triumvirate of Universal movie monsters: Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster.
Along with fellow ECW alumnus Tommy Dreamer, Van Dam returned to WWF television on the July 9, 2001 episode of Raw in Atlanta, Georgia as a heel, and attacking WWF wrestlers Kane and Chris Jericho.
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