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Val-de-Grace. Paris. 1645-1667. Built by Anne of Austria to thank God for birth of Louis XIV after 23 childless years of marriage. Mansart.
Valdemar I. 1131-82. King of Denmark 1157-. Conquered Norway. Allied with Sweden, France, Holy Roman Empire.
Valdemar IV. Atterdag. 1320-75. Danish king 1340-. Re-united Denmark. Opposed Hanseatic League. Sold Estonia to Teutonic Knights.
Valdivia, Pedro de. 1498-1554. Spanish conqueror of Chile, 1450. Founded Santiago.
Valentine, St. c270. 2 Christians martyred by Claudius II. Modern celebration derives from Roman Lupercalia fertility festival.
Valentinian III. 419-55. Roman Emperor 425-. Lost Africa to Vandals, Gaul to Huns.
Valéry, Paul. 1871-1945. French poet. La Jeune Parque 1917.
Valhalla. Scandinavian banquet hall for slain warriors. Odin.
Valkyries. Sisters of Odin, choosers of the doomed in battle.
Valla, Lorenzo. 1407-57. Italian Humanist scholar. Exposed Donation of Constantine, 1440.
Vallee, Rudy. 1901-86. US. First pop music star.
Valley Forge. 1777-8. Training camp of Washington’s Continental Army.
Valmy. Last French navy sailing ship.
Valmy, Battle. 1792. French revolutionaries defeat Austria-Prussia invasion.
Valois. 1328-1589. Second Capetian French dynasty. Tudor.
Van Buren, Martin. 1782-1862. US president 1837-41. Independent treasury, US neutrality. Barnburner. Called “Little Magician” for his political dexterity.
Van de Graaff, Robert. 1901-67. US physicist. Particle accelerator 1929. High voltage generator 1932.
Van Dyck, Anthony. 1599-1641. Flemish portrait painter. Subjects showed dignity, elegance. Charles I 1635.
Van Gogh, Vincent. 1853-90. Dutch expressionist painter. Passionate intensity revealed in colors. Sunflowers. Potato Eaters 1885. Starry Night 1889. Wheat Fields. Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889.
Van Goyen, Jan. 1596-1656. Dutch landcape painter of familiar, commonplace.
Van Loo, Carl. 1705-65. French Rococo portrait painter.
Van Rensselaer, Stephen. 1764-1839. US politician. Key to Erie Canal.
Vanbrugh, John. 1664-1726. English Restoration dramatist, Baroque architect: Castle Howard 1702. Blenheim Palace 1705.
Vancouver, George. 1757-98. English explorer to British Columbia 1791-4.