Carel Vosmaer ( March 20, 1826-June 12, 1888 ) was a Dutch poet and art-critic, born at The Hague.

Vosmaer undertook the gigantic task of translating Homer into Dutch hexameters, and he lived just long enough to see this completed and revised.

Although the literary merit of Multatuli's work was widely criticised, he received an unexpected and most valuable ally in Carel Vosmaer who published a book ( The Sower 1874 ) praising him.

His temperament was starved in the very thin air of the intellectual the Netherlands of those days, and it was not until after the sensational appearance of Multatuli ( pen name of Edward Douwes-Dekker ) that Vosmaer, at the age of forty, woke up to a consciousness of his own talent.

The remarkable miscellanies of Vosmaer, called Birds of Diverse Plumage, appeared in three volumes, in 1872, 1874 and 1876.

Vosmaer died, while travelling in Switzerland, on the 12th of June 1888.

In 1866, Ward visited England, where he became exceedingly popular both as a lecturer and as a contributor to Punch.

Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.

He corresponded with other antiquarians in New England, where antiquarianism and genealogy were well established, and became a coordinator, booster, and contributor to the growing movement.

Starting in 1967, North became a frequent contributor to the libertarian journal The Freeman where he had first read their work.

He became part owner, chief editor, and an active contributor to the literary journal Magazin für Literatur, where he hoped to find a readership sympathetic to his philosophy.

" Solomon became a favorite author and contributor of different kinds of wisdom literature, " including not only the collections of Proverbs, but also of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon and the later apocryphal book the Wisdom of Solomon.

Tight end Ben Coates also became a major contributor as a favorite target of Drew Bledsoe.

Rampton is also a contributor to the Wikipedia open content project, and was the person who coined the name " Wikimedia " which later became the name of the foundation that manages Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Mad editor Al Feldstein and publisher Bill Gaines liked what they saw, and Aragonés became a contributor to the magazine in 1963.

Morris also became both editor and principal contributor to the League's monthly-soon to become weekly-newspaper, Commonweal, which became the first place where his published essays, poems, and other works appeared.

Claremont became the series ' longest-running contributor.

Even as animal domestication became relatively widespread and after the development of agriculture, hunting was usually a significant contributor to the human food supply.

He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 90s, initiating GNU Radio in 1998, starting Gnash in December 2005 to create a free software player for Flash movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU tar.

The 1970s was a period when video recording became a major contributor to the television industry.

* The European Community ( later European Union ) became an important economic contributor towards the nascent Palestinian Authority.

Though William Barbee died shortly after establishing himself and his family in North Carolina, one of his eight children, Christopher Barbee, became an important contributor to his father ’ s adopted community and to the fledgling University of North Carolina.

He has been giving lectures at Brown University, about Brazilian economic policy, urban development, and deforestation and taught as a guest lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris .. Also, in 2007 he became a member of the editorial board of the Latin American policy publication Americas Quarterly, for which he is a regular contributor.

He became an active contributor to the Third Stream movement in jazz music, ( which included such other notable musicians as Gunther Schuller and John Lewis ), and wrote a number of large-scale works which incorporated elements of both classical and jazz music.

McKnight joined Parliament-Funkadelic in the late 1970s and became a frequent contributor on guitar.

The Hassayampa community became a vital contributor to the US effort during World War II when the Army trained thousands of men to fly gliders at a newly constructed airfield west of Wickenburg.

As oil production waned, tank farms were dismantled, and agriculture became once again a major contributor to the Jenks economy.

Towards the end of his undergraduate degree he became a contributor to the Westminster Review with his first article entitled " Electrotype and Daguerreotype ," published in September 1840.

Holdheim now became a contributor to the Jewish periodicals ( e. g., Philippson's Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums and Jost's Israelitische Annalen ).

After a brief experience in a variety of trades, in his late teens George Banks became a contributor to various newspapers, and subsequently a playwright, being the author of plays, burlesques and lyrics.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

Pete frowned slightly, then became sad and moody.

To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m.p.h..

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

He started out as a stickman, then became a pit boss until the Club found him crossroading.

Hence, Apollo then became a master of the lyre.

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.