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Hendrik Willem van Loon [a] (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author. Life.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon was laid down on 5 May 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2482, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; sponsored by Eliza Helen van Loon, the widow of the namesake, and was launched on 14 June 1944.
Hannah Junghwa van Loon, known professionally as Tanukichan, is an American singer-songwriter based in San Francisco. [2] Her debut album Sundays was released on July 13, 2018 [3] via Company Records with production by Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi. [4] Following the release of Sundays, van Loon supported the musical act Kero Kero Bonito on their ...
Van Loon published an updated edition in 1926 which included an extra essay, "After Seven Years", about the effects of World War I and another update in 1938 with a new epilogue. Since Van Loon's death in 1944, extensive additions were included in The Story of Mankind , initially by van Loon's son, Gerrit van Loon.
Willem van Loon (15 August 1891 – 29 November 1975) was a Dutch tug of war competitor, who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Arnhem and died in Arnhem . In 1920 Van Loon won the silver medal as member of the Dutch tug of war team.
Arnold I (b. about 1045 – d. about 1125), Count of Loon (Looz) from about 1079, son of Emmo, Count of Loon, and Suanhildis, daughter of Dirk III, Count of Holland, and his wife Othelandis. He was an ally of Henry of Verdun and Otbert, both bishops of Liège. In 1078, he endowed the collegiate churches of Huy and of St. John at Liège.
Blaeu's world map, first published in the 1664 volume of the Atlas van Loon, later reprinted. The Atlas van Loon was commissioned by Frederik Willem van Loon of Amsterdam. It consists of a large number of maps published between 1649 and 1676: [1] Volumes I to IX: The Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (Grooten Atlas) of 1663-1665
Van Loon was possibly a direct descendant of Jan Van Loon, who had emigrated from Liège to New Netherland in the seventeenth century. He learned the remains of the Mohawk Dutch language, the taol, from his maternal grandfather, Walter Hill (1856-1925), a schoolteacher. At the age of ten he went to Reading, New York, for a journey to the Mohawk ...