Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author. Van Loon was born in...
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SS Hendrik Willem Van Loon was a liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Hendrik Willem Van Loon, a Dutch-American...
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County of Loon Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944), Dutch-American historian and journalist Van Loon's Lives, his 1942 book Johan van Loon (1934–2020)...
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illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon. It was published in 1921. In 1922, it was awarded the Newbery...
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loosely based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. The film was directed and coproduced by Irwin Allen and released...
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Van Loon's Lives is a book by the Dutch-American writer Hendrik Willem van Loon published in 1942. Its full title, deliberately written in a manner already...
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translator and playwright Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944), Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author Hendrik Mande (1350s–1431),...
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loosely based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Wilson's last film was 1962's Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, based...
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Van Loon's law appears to be a poorly attributed statement drawn from a book published in 1929. It may originate in Hendrik Willem van Loon. "The amount...
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Mencken in 1920; David Allan Robertson in 1921; Dorothy Parker, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and Albert Payson Terhune in the 1930s; George Jean Nathan in...
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pianist Information Please episode 1939.01.17 with panelists Hendrik Willem van Loon and Ogden Nash MP3 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621790/ Ogden Nash...
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children's books is awarded by the American Library Association to Hendrik Willem van Loon for The Story of Mankind (1921). Ruby M. Ayres – The Street Below...
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Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762–1834), politician Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856), poet Willem Hendrik de Vriese (1802–1862), botanist Jacobus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)...
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be a version of Kennet or Wilford.) Hoyt Hopewell Hudson (1941) Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1942) Harry Carter (1952) R.A. Adams (1989) Clarence Miller (2003)...
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Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) Gerrit Krol (1934–2013), novelist, poet Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) Geert Mak (born 1946), writer of history books Harry...
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Shirazi, Guy de Maupassant, Maurice Maeterlinck (The Sightless) and Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind). Some of the translated titles include:...
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nominated by any librarian, then the jury voted for one favorite. Hendrik van Loon's non-fiction history book The Story of Mankind won with 163 votes out...
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such writers as Carleton Beals, Elsa Maxwell, Bernard Sobel, and Hendrik Willem van Loon. It covered a range of topics, including literature, music, sports...
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Thomas J. Lyons Raymond Clapper Hugh J. Kilpatrick Noah Brown Hendrik Willem Van Loon Stephen Beasley Jasper F. Cropsey William Crane Gray Ethelbert...
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New Amsterdam Trail. The Dutch-American historian and journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon wrote in 1933 a work of alternative history entitled "If the Dutch...
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on December 20, 1939 in New York: left to right: former President Herbert Hoover, Hendrik Willem van Loon and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
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Awards Preceded by Hendrik Willem Van Loon Newbery Medal winner 1923 Succeeded by Charles Hawes...
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mathematician Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944), Dutch-American historian and journalist Vincent Willem Van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter Dale Willem Steyn...
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Wendelin Van Draanen (born 1965) – Sammy Keyes series, Flipped Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – The Story of Mankind (nonfiction) Shreekumar Varma...
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film, The Story of Mankind (1957), a very loose adaptation of the Hendrik Willem van Loon book of the same name. It featured cameos from the Marx Brothers...
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previously uncollected ones: "If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" by Hendrik Willem van Loon. "If: A Jacobite Fantasy" by Charles Petrie (1926): Charles Edward...
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President of Antioch and chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority Hendrik Willem van Loon, historian, geographer, journalist, author Tony Conrad, American...
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Wharton Stork. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Van Loon, Hendrik Willem; Castagnetta, Grace (1939). The Last of the Troubadours. New York:...
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Bellman's work have been written by Charles Wharton Stork in 1917, Hendrik Willem van Loon in 1939, Paul Britten Austin, and the historian Michael Roberts...
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of slaves that happen to be at a country's disposal." Named for Hendrik Willem van Loon. Vegard's law, in metallurgy, is an approximate empirical rule...
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