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Chart of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) by the British navigator and cartographer, Matthew Flinders, (1774-1814). Chart drawn 1798-1799.

Former President Martin Van Buren, daguerrotype by Mathew Brady, around 1849-50. Yale University Library.

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) photographed during his retirement, circa 1860. Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

US President Martin Van Buren, oil on canvas by Henry Inman, circa 1837. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The memorial in Oude Learl, Delft, the Netherlands to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), the most important microscopist of the Scientific Revolution.

Martin Van Buren around the time he was serving as Andrew Jackson's secretary of state. Oil on panel portrait by Francis Alexander, 1830. White House Collection, Washington, D.C.

An 1888 oil on canvas portrait, Joseph Roulin Sitting on a Chair, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in August in Arles, France. Roulin was the artist's local postman, and the two became good friends...

A detail of The Madonna with Canon van der Paele painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441 CE). 1436 CE. (Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium)

The citadel of Tushpa (Van), capital of the ancient kingdom of Urartu (9th-6th century BCE) and later Armenian kingdoms. Lake Van, eastern Turkey.

The cuneiform inscription of Xerxes (486-465 BCE) on the rock cliffs of Van, a city on the shores of Lake Van, eastern Turkey. Written in the three official languages of the Achaemenid Empire: Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian, it proclaims...