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Vallee, Rudy (Film and Theatre)
Vallejo (city, California)
Valletta (capital, Malta)
Valley Forge National Historical Park (historical site, Pennsylvania)
Valois (Europe)
Valparaso (city, Chile)
Valry, (Ambroise-) Paul (-Toussaint-Jules) (French-Literary critic poet)
valve (mechanical device)
vampire (character)
vampire bat (mammal)
Van (city, Turkey)
Van Allen radiation belts (in astrophysics)
Van Buren, Martin (8th President of the United States)
Van de Graaff, Robert J(emison) (American physicist)
van der Waals forces (attractive force)
Van Doren, Carl (Clinton) and Mark (American editor & writer)
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony (Flemish painter & artist)
Van, Lake (lake, Turkey)
vanadium (metal, element)
Vanbrugh, Sir John (English dramatist, architect & military leader)
Vance, Cyrus (Roberts) (Lawyer / U.S. Secretary of State)
Vancouver (city, Canada)
Vancouver Island (island, Canada)
Vancouver, George (English navigator & explorer)
Vandal (people)
Vandenberg, Arthur H(endrick) (American politician)
Vanderbilt University (university, Tennessee)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (Business Personality / Entrepreneur)
Vanderlyn, John (American painter)
VanDerZee, James (Augustus Joseph) (American photographer)
Vane, Sir Henry (1613-62, English statesman)
vanilla (plant, spice)
Vanir (race of Norse gods)
Vanua Levu (island, the Pacific/Fiji)
Vanuatu (country)
vaporization (in chemistry)
Varanasi (city, India)
Vardon, Harry (English golfer)
Vargas Llosa, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro) (Peruvian novelist & politician)
Vargas, Getlio (Dorneles) (Brazilian president)