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2 unusual facts about VEEN


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In August 2009, VEEN and Harrods launched a new VEEN Art campaign with Kaj Stenvall.

In June 2009, it was announced that VEEN was chosen to be the house water of Harrods department store.


A ribbon of poems

After he was notified Couperus wrote to Veen: If you like my poetry that much what would you say if we publish another book with verses; he wanted to include the poems called Fragment (renamed to Melancholy) Viviane, Williswinde, Ginevra, Semiramis and Fragments from the Apocapyps of John the Apostle.

Ambeon

The act's first and only album to date, Fate of a Dreamer, was recorded in 2001, when van der Veen was just 14 years old.

Designing with Web Standards

The Web Standards movement pioneered by Glenn Davis, George Olsen, Jeffrey Zeldman, Steven Champeon, Todd Fahrner, Eric A. Meyer, Tantek Çelik, Dori Smith, Tim Bray, Jeffrey Veen, and other members of the Web Standards Project in the 1990s replaced bandwidth-heavy tag soup with light, semantic markup and progressive enhancement, with the goal of making web content "accessible to all".

Ecstasy. A Study of Happiness

In a letter to L.J. Veen he wrote: I think of a large star with a single line of a cloud to the upper left and the title should be positioned at the bottom right. Do you happen to know anyone who could make a drawing like that? L.J. Veen thought that Jan Veth could be the right artist to make the book cover but his concept-drawing was rejected by Couperus.

Eelke van der Veen

Eelke (Eeke) van der Veen (born June 21, 1946 in Wûnseradiel) is a former Dutch politician.

Heusden-Zolder

De Veen, an athletics stadium that yearly hosts the KBC Night of Athletics, the second most important athletics meeting in Belgium after the world famous Memorial Van Damme in Brussels.

Jake and Amir

The show has featured many of their other co-workers such as Pat Cassels, Sarah Schneider, Jeff "Rosie" Rosenburg, Jeff Rubin, Dan Gurewitch, Rick Van Veen, Will Stephen, Paul Greenburg, Dave Rosenburg and Streeter Seidell.

Jandía

In the northwestern coast, Jandía has a small fishing village of Cofete and further up, the Villa Winter (pronunciation: VEEN-ter) (named after Gustav Winter) is near the mountain.

Lolita, Texas

In the Vladimir Nabokov novel Ada, or Ardor, in a letter to Marina after his duel with Baron D'Onsky, Demon Veen tells her that he had gone to his aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas.

Richard Vander Veen

Vander Veen was reelected in November 1974 to a full term in the 94th Congress, but lost his seat in 1976 to Republican Harold S. Sawyer.

After Gerald Ford resigned his House seat in 1973 to become Vice President of the United States, Vander Veen was elected in a special election on February 18, 1974, to fill Ford's seat in the 93rd Congress.

Ricky Van Veen

Ricky Van Veen is the co-founder of CollegeHumor, a popular comedy brand/website, and CEO of Notional, a television production company born out of CollegeHumor.

Rop Gonggrijp

While growing up in Wormer in the Dutch Zaanstreek area, he became known as a teenage hacker and appeared as one of the main characters in Jan Jacobs's book "Kraken en Computers" ("Hacking and computers", Veen uitgevers 1985, ISBN 90-204-2651-6) which describes the early hacker scene in the Netherlands.

Siegfried Reiprich

Hildigund Neubert: Siegfried Reiprich, in: Veen, Hans-Joachim/Knabe, Hubertus/Neubert, Ehrhart/Wilke, Manfred u.a. (Hrsg.): Lexikon Opposition und Widerstand in der SED-Diktatur, Propyläen Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-549-07125-6, S. 296.

Williswinde

He wrote to Veen: The book cover has a dirty colour and has something that reminds me of Gartenlaube am Rhine, where we drank Rhine wine.


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