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  2. van der Laan - Wikipedia

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    People with this name include: Arjan van der Laan (born 1969), Dutch former footballer and current manager; Cristoffel van der Laan (van der Laemen) (1607–1651), Flemish genre painter, son of Jacob; Eberhard van der Laan (1955-2017), Dutch lawyer and politician; Hans van der Laan (1904–1991), Dutch Benedictine monk and architect; Harry van ...

  3. Medy van der Laan - Wikipedia

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    Medy Catharina van der Laan (born 14 August 1968) is a Dutch businesswoman, former civil servant and retired politician who served as State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in charge of culture, media and art under Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's second cabinet (2003–2006).

  4. U and non-U English - Wikipedia

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    The discussion was set in motion in 1954 by the British linguist Alan S. C. Ross, professor of linguistics in the University of Birmingham.He coined the terms "U" and "non-U" in an article on the differences social class makes in English language usage, published in a Finnish professional linguistics journal. [2]

  5. van (Dutch) - Wikipedia

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    Less common are van het and van 't, which use the similar but grammatically neuter article het. The contraction ver-, based on van der, is also common and can be written as a single word with the rest of the surname; an example being Johannes Vermeer (van der meer "of the lake").

  6. Richard Padovan - Wikipedia

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    He visited van der Laan beginning in 1980, and continued to correspond with him afterward. [3] He became the translator of the book into English as Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat (1983), [ 5 ] and wrote the book Dom Hans van der Laan: modern primitive (1989) about van der Laan.

  7. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  9. Eternal feminine - Wikipedia

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    Although Goethe does not introduce the eternal feminine until the last two lines of the play, he prepared for its appearance at the outset. "Equally pertinent in this regard", writes J. M. van der Laan, "are Gretchen and Helen, who alternate with each other from start to finish and ultimately combine with others to constitute the Eternal-Feminine" [1] At the beginning of Part I, Act IV, Faust ...