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Jean-Claude Van Damme Biography

Jean-Claude Van Damme(Jean-Claude Van Varenberg)actorBorn: 10/18/1960Birthplace: Berchem-Sainte Agathe, Belgium As a teenager, Van Damme won the European Professional Karate Association's…

Beaune

(Encyclopedia) Beaune Beaune bōn [key], town, Côte-d'Or dept., E France, in Burgundy. It is a noted…

intermolecular forces

(Encyclopedia) intermolecular forces, forces that are exerted by molecules on each other and that, in general, affect the macroscopic properties of the material of which the molecules are a part.…

Dutch art

(Encyclopedia) Dutch art, the art of the region that is now the Netherlands. As a distinct national style, this art dates from about the turn of the 17th cent., when the country emerged as a…

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

(Encyclopedia) Mies van der Rohe, LudwigMies van der Rohe, Ludwigl&oomacr;tˈvĭkh mēˈĕs vän dĕr rōˈə [key], 1886–1969, German-American architect. A pioneer of modern architecture and one of its…

Bilderdijk, Willem

(Encyclopedia) Bilderdijk, WillemBilderdijk, Willemwĭlˈəm bĭlˈdərdīk [key], 1756–1831, Dutch poet. He tutored Louis Bonaparte in Dutch and later conducted a small private college at Leiden, where his…

Frank, Anne

(Encyclopedia) Frank, Anne, 1929–45, German diarist, b. Frankfurt as Anneliese Marie Frank. In order to escape Nazi persecution, her family emigrated (1933) to Amsterdam, where her father Otto became…

functionalism, in art and architecture

(Encyclopedia) functionalism, in art and architecture, an aesthetic doctrine developed in the early 20th cent. out of Louis Henry Sullivan's aphorism that form ever follows function. Functionalist…

Fabritius, Carel

(Encyclopedia) Fabritius, CarelFabritius, Carelkärˈəl fäbrētˈsē&oobreve;s [key], 1622–54, Dutch painter; pupil and outstanding follower of Rembrandt. His early death in the explosion of a powder…

Monk, Thelonius

(Encyclopedia) Monk, Thelonius (Thelonius Sphere Monk), 1917–82, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, b. Rocky Mount, N.C. Monk is considered one of the most important, and eccentric,…