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Völkisch movement The völkisch movement is the German interpretation of the populist movement, with a romantic focus on folklore and the "organic". The term völkisch derives from the German word Volk, corresponding to people or nation, with connotations in German of "people-powered," "folksy," "folkloric," and "populist".
Völsa þáttr Völsa þáttr is a short story which is only extant in the Flatey Book, where it is found in a chapter of Ólofs saga Helga. It is probably from the 14th century but takes place in 1029 when Scandinavia was still largely pagan, and it appears to preserve traditions of a pagan phallos cult, the völsi (see also blót).
Völundarkviða Völundarkviða (Völundr's poem, the name can be anglicized as Völundarkvitha, Völundarkvidha, Völundarkvida, Volundarkvitha, Volundarkvidha or Volundarkvida) is one of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda.
Vörðr In Norse mythology, a vörðr ("["watcher" or "caretaker") is a warden spirit, believed to follow from birth to death the soul (hugr]) of every person. In [[Old Swedish, the corresponding word is varþer; in modern Swedish vård, and the belief in them remained strong in Scandinavian folklore up until the last centuries.
Vörnagar Vörnagar is a melodic viking death metal band that originated from Los Gatos, California. They were formed in late 2003 by guitarist Greg Larrenaga, bassist Eric Durante and drummer Geoff Frey under the name Arcanum.
Věra Čáslavská Věra Čáslavská (born May 3, 1942) is a Czech (formerly Czechoslovak) gymnast. Blonde, cheerful and possessing impressive stage presence, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles.
Věra Flasarová Věra Flasarová (born on December 19 1952 in Ostrava) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.
Věra Suková Věra Pužejová Suková (born June 13, 1931 in Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia – died May 13, 1982 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a tennis player from Czechoslovakia. She was the women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1962, losing to Karen Hantze Susman 6-4, 6-4.
Vācaspati Miśra Vācaspati Miśra (900–980 CE) was an Indian philosopher who founded one of the main Advaita Vedanta schools, the Bhāmatī school (named after his commentary on Śankara's Brahmasūtrabhāşya), and whose work was an important forerunner of the Navya-Nyāya system of thought.
Vāstoṣpati ("house-protector", an inflected compound of vāstos, the Genitive of vāstu "house" and pati "lord") is a Rigvedic deity presides over the foundation of a house or homestead, addressed in RV 7.65.
Vātsyāyana Mallanaga Vātsyāyana is the name of an Indian philosopher in the Cārvāka or Lokyāta tradition, who lived some time in the Gupta period (4th to 6th centuries CE ). He is known as the author of the Kama Sutra, and of the first commentary on Gotama's Nyāya Sutras.
Văn Cao Văn Cao (November 15, 1923 – July 10, 1995) was a noted Vietnamese composer whose works include Tiến Quân Ca, which became the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and its successor, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He was also a poet and a painter.
Văn Tiến Dũng Văn Tiến Dũng (May 2, 1917 – March 17, 2002) was a general in the Vietnam People's Army (VPA); VPA chief of staff (1954-1974); VPA commander in chief (1974-1980); and Socialist Republic of Vietnam defense minister (1980-1986). He was the only member of North Vietnam's political elite who was of peasant origin.
Vbuzzer Vbuzzer, or Vbuzzer Messenger, is a voice over IP and instant messaging software based on open protocols of XMPP (for instant messaging) and Session Initiation Protocol (for voice over IP). It competes against proprietary protocol based software like Skype, as well as other open standard based VoIP software.
VB Series 2004-05 The 2004-05 edition of the VB Series (so-called because of sponsor Victoria Bitter) was a three-team one-day international men's cricket tournament held in Australia in January and February 2005, between the hosting nation's team, Pakistan and West Indies. The teams played each other three times Cricinfo - VB Series 2005-06 - Schedule, URL retrieved 16 December 2006, with five points awarded for a win and a possible bonus point awarded either to the winners or losers depending on run rate.
VB Series 2005-06 The 2005–06 edition of the VB Series (so-called because of sponsor Victoria Bitter) was a three-team one-day international men's cricket tournament held in Australia in January and February 2006, between the hosting nation's team, South Africa and Sri Lanka. (Although all the matches were held in 2006, the convention is to refer to series using the name of the season, in this case the 2005–06 season).
VBL The Panhard Véhicule Blindé Léger ("Light armoured vehicle") is a wheeled 4x4 all-terrain vehicle offered in various configurations. It was designed to combine the agility of the Peugeot VLTT liaison vehicle with adequate protection against small arms fire, artillery fragments, mines and NBC weapons.
VBNS The vBNS (very-high-performance Backbone Network Service) came on line in April 1995 as part of a National Science Foundation sponsored project to provide high-speed interconnection between NSF-Sponsored supercomputing centers and select access points. The network was engineered and operated by MCI Telecommunications under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.
VBOT VBOT stands for Visual Basic Off Topic and is the premier mailing list for off topic discussions pertaining to Visual Basic. What this means practically is that any topic is valid for conversation, with the exception of the Visual Basic programming language or any issues that deal with the VB programming language.
VBScript VBScript (short form of Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsoft's Windows Script Host. The language's syntax reflects its pedigree as a variation of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language.
Vcu adcenter VCU Adcenter is the graduate advertising and branding program for the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University. The program offers four tracks: Art Direction, Copywriting, Creative Brand Management, and Communications Strategy.
VC 4000 The VC 4000 is an early 8-bit cartridge-based game console released in Germany in 1978 by Interton. The console is quite obscure outside Germany, but many software compatible systems can be found in many European countries (see 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System).
VC dimension The VC dimension (for Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension) is a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm, defined as the cardinality of the largest set of points that the algorithm can shatter. It is a core concept in Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, and was originally defined by Vladimir Vapnik and Alexey Chervonenkis.
VCamNow The Hasbro/Tiger Electronics VCamNow is a digital tapeless camcorder targeted to children. It is designed as a complement to the VideoNow series of personal video players, and comes with editing software (the VideoNow Media Wizard) allowing users to create VideoNow videos on Microsoft Windows systems.
VCard vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards. vCards are often attached to e-mail messages, but can be exchanged in other ways, such as on the World Wide Web.
VCAM-1 VCAM-1 (vascular cell adhesion molecule-1), also known as CD106, is a molecule with a considerable role in the human immune system. It contains six or seven immunoglobulin domains, and is expressed on both large and small vessels only after the endothelial cells are stimulated by cytokines.
VCAT VCAT (Volontaire Civil Ă  l'Aide Technique) is a voluntary service in the French overseas territories for citizens from France, citizens of other EU member states or citizens of countries belonging to the European Economic Area.
VCC-Clark Station VCC-Clark Station is a station on the Millennium Line of the SkyTrain system in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Named after the nearby Vancouver Community College, adjacent to Clark Drive, the station serves as the terminus of the Millennium Line.
VCN ExecuVision (Software) VCN ExecuVision was the first Presentation program for the personal computer. This program allowed users the ability to manipulate graphics and text not just for business data, but for all communication purposes.
VCON VCON is the acronym for the Vancouver Science Fiction Convention, hosted by the West Coast Science Fiction Association, since 1971. It is at VCON that the coveted Elron Awards for most dubious "achievements" in science fiction are presented, often with selected passages from the offending winners publicly read to the delight of attendees.
VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918 VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918 (ISBN 0-7509-2485-3) is a book by Gerald Gliddon which covers the end of the First World War from the perspective of Victoria Cross winners. It opens with the telling of the Battle of the Canal du Nord by seven Victoria Cross receivers, the battle led to the conquest of Cambrai by the Allied Powers.
VCSEL The VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser [v'ÉŞxl]) is a type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers (also in-plane lasers) which emit from surfaces formed by cleaving the individual chip out of a wafer.
VCY America Voice of Christian Youth America (more commonly known as "VCY America") is a Christian organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Originally known as Milwaukee Youth For Christ and later Greater Milwaukee Youth For Christ, it later left the national YFC organization in 1973 and became known as the Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth (WVCY), until 1995 when it changed to its present name.
Vdiff A visual diff finds differences between two files by eyeball search. The term optical diff has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences.
VDAX The VDAX-NEW Index expresses the variation margin – the implied volatility – of the DAX anticipated on the derivatives market. The VDAX indicates in percentage points the volatility to be expected in the next 30 days for the DAX.
VDL Groep Established in 1953, the VDL Groep is an international industrial and manufacturing company. From its head office in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, VDL supervises its subsidiaries, which have a high level of autonomy and responsibility for results.
VDL SB120 The VDL SB120 (previously known as the DAF SB120) is a low-floor light-weight midibus produced from 1999 by VDL Bus International (formerly DAF Bus International) of the Netherlands primarily for the UK market.
VDL SB200 The VDL SB200 (previously known as the DAF SB200) is a light-weight 12m citybus produced from 2001 by VDL Bus International (formerly DAF Bus International). It replaced the SB220, the longest of the DAF bus chassis in the UK before the renaming of DAF Bus International.
VDL SB250 The VDL SB250 (previously known as the DAF SB250) is a full-size low-floor city bus launched in 1997, which was designed specifically for Continental Europe market by the Dutch bus builder VDL Bus International (originally DAF Bus International).
VDM specification language VDM Specification Language (VDM-SL) is a model-oriented specification language, upon which the Vienna Development Method for computer software is based. An ISO Standard for the language was released in 1996 (ISO, 1996).
VDNKh (Metro) VDNKh (Russian: ВДНХ) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, named for the nearby All-Russia Exhibition Centre. When it opened, on May 1, 1958, it was the northernmost station on the newly completed Rizhskaja Line.
VDub As part of a 2006 advertising campaign for Volkswagen, Crispin Porter and Bogusky created a series of television commercials starring Swedish actor Peter Stormare as an effete German engineer named Wolfgang. The ads were created as a parody of MTV's Pimp My Ride] starring rapper [[Xzibit.
Ve arrondissement The 5th arrondissement (Ve arrondissement), located on the Left Bank, is one of the central arrondissements of Paris, France. This arrondissement is famous for being the location of the Quartier Latin, the Paris district which is dominated by famous universities, colleges, and high schools.
Veal (band) Veal's frontboy Luke Doucet, whose abilities on guitar are virtually without peer, was named Musician of the Year at the 2001 West Coast Music Awards. Luke has been touring steadily since the release of his debut solo album, Aloha, Manitoba, which earned him critical acclaim and truckloads of new fans in Canada, the US, and the UK.
Veale Gardens Veale Gardens is part of the Adelaide Parklands throughout and surrounding the City of Adelaide, and is located in the South Parklands surrounded by Greenhill and Peacock Roads, South Terrace, and Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue. The gardens can be entered by entrances on South Terrace or Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue.
Veøya Veøya (or Veøy) is an historic island outside Molde, Norway, located in Romsdalsfjord between Sekken and the mainland, at the junction of the three main branches of the fjord. It consists of one larger and two smaller islands.
Veľká Domaša Domaša is a dam situated in the mountains surroundings of The Low Beskids, in the north of the town Vranov nad Topľou, in Eastern Slovakia. The Domaša Dam Lake was built by blocking the Ondava river course at the village of Velka Domaša, Dobra nad Ondavou, Trepec, Kelča, Valkov and Petejovce as well as their environs were flooded.
Veľké Slemence Veľké Slemence is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia. There was a village named Slemence before 1945, in 1945 it was divided - Veľké Slemence is now a part of Slovakia and Malé Slemence is a part of Ukraine.
Veľké Straciny Veľké Straciny is a village and municipality in the Veľký Krtíš District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia. As of 31 December 2004, the municipality has an area of 6 km² and a population density of 24 persons per km².
VeÄŤernĂ­ÄŤek VeÄŤernĂ­ÄŤek (- in Czech and Slovak; literally Little Good-Nighter) is a television programme for the children in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (before 1993 two different versions in the Czech part and in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia). It is regularly broadcasted for over 40 years.
Veba (musician) Veba is a singer from Old Trafford in Manchester, UK. She has lent her soulful vocals to a number of tracks on the Grand Central Records independent record label, primarily on Rae & Christian's albums and Mark Rae's solo albums, but she has also appeared on releases by Only Child, Tony D, Fingathing and J-Walk.
Vebjørn Tandberg Electronics engineer Vebjørn Tandberg (September 16 1904 – August 30 1978), an alumnus of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, founded Tandbergs Radiofabrikk ("Tandberg's Radio Factory") of Oslo, Norway in 1933, and made it a great success.
Vecindad Vecindad (Spanish 'neighbourhood') is a Mexican term for a building containing several (often low-income oriented) housing units. Originally a form of housing created through the subdivision of vacated elite housing in historic centres in Mexican cities, where rooms around a central patio were let to families who shared facilities (such as lavatories and/or kitchens) with the other tenants.
Veckans nyheter Veckans nyheter is a Swedish satirical news and sketch comedy television program that aired on Kanal 5 for two seasons in 2006. Henrik Schyffert hosted the first season, with André Wickström taking over for season two.
Vecna In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Vecna was a powerful wizard who became a lich, and eventually achieved godhood. He is a member of the default pantheon of D&D gods (the pantheon of Oerth).
Vecrīga Vecrīga (Old Riga) is the historical centre of Riga, located on the left side of Daugava River. Vecrīga is famous for its unique Art Nouveau architecture and old churches and cathedrals, such as Doma Cathedral and St.
Vectis National Party The Vectis National Party was a minor political party operating in the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Formed in 1969 they sought the same status for Wight as the Isle of Man has (that is Crown dependency status).
Vector (band) Vector is a new wave rock band formed in Sacramento, California in the early 1980's by Jimmy Abegg, Steve Griffith and Charlie Peacock. The band had several drummers over the years, including Aaron Smith and Bruce Spencer, both also played drums for The 77s.
Vector (biology) Traditionally in medicine, a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another. Species of mosquito, for example, serve as vectors for the deadly disease malaria.
Vector (computing) A vector in computing, specifically when talking about malicious code such as viruses or worms, is the method that this code uses to propagate itself or infect the computer and this sense is similar to, and derived from, its meaning in Biology.
Vector 13 Vector 13 is a 2000 AD comic strip which featured the eponymous agency setup to investigate anomalous phenomena and conspiracy theories. It was influenced by The X-Files (which was at the height of its popularity at the time) and other events like the 1995 release of the alien autopsy film.
Vector autoregression Vector autoregression (VAR) is an econometric model used to capture the evolution and the interdependencies between multiple time series, generalizing the univariate AR models. All the variables in a VAR are treated symmetrically by including for each variable an equation explaining its evolution based on its own lags and the lags of all the other variables in the model.
Vector boson A vector boson is a boson with spin equal to one unit of hbar, or Planck's constant divided by 2 pi. In elementary particle physics, the vector bosons currently considered to be fundamental particles are all gauge bosons.
Vector bundle In mathematics, a vector bundle is a geometrical construct where to every point of a topological space (or manifold, or algebraic variety) we attach a vector space in a compatible way, so that all those vector spaces, "glued together", form another topological space (or manifold or variety). A typical example is the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold: to every point of the manifold we attach the tangent space of the manifold at that point.
Vector bundles on algebraic curves In mathematics, vector bundles on algebraic curves may be studied as holomorphic vector bundles on compact Riemann surfaces. which is the classical approach, or as locally free sheaves on algebraic curves C in a more general, algebraic setting (which can for example admit singular points).
Vector Burn Vector Burn aka Oliver Scott, is a Drum and Bass producer from Phoenix, Arizona, USA. With numerous releases on Drum and Bass labels of note in the USA and Europe, his music has been part of the burgeoning North American Drum and Bass scene since the turn of the millennium.
Vector flow In mathematics, the vector flow refers to a set of closely related concepts of the flow determined by a vector field. These appear in a number of different contexts, including differential topology, Riemannian geometry and Lie group theory.
Vector graphics Vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics) is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics. It is used by contrast to the term raster graphics, which is the representation of images as a collection of pixels (dots).
Vector graphics editor A vector graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on the computer screen (compare with MetaPost) and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats such as EPS, PDF, WMF or SVG.
Vector laplacian In mathematics and physics, the vector Laplace operator or vector Laplacian, denoted by nabla^2, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is a differential operator defined over a vector field. The vector Laplacian is similar to the scalar laplacian.
Vector Limited Vector Limited () is a multi-network infrastructure company in New Zealand. It is the number one provider of electricity distribution, number one provider of gas transmission and distribution, number one provider of electricity and gas metering, number two wholesaler of LPG and number three wholesaler of natural gas.
Vector Linux Vector Linux aims to be a user-friendly Linux distribution for Intel, AMD and x86 platforms based on the earlier Slackware distribution. Vector Linux was originally a Canadian distribution, and is now developed by an international community.
Vector Lovers Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records (his current label) is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music (IDM) and electro genres.
Vector magnetograph A vector magnetograph is a type of imaging telescope that can estimate the 3-D vector of the magnetic field on a distant body with a resolved line spectrum. Magnetographs are useful for studying the Sun because the surface magnetic field is important to the creation and maintenance of the solar corona, and gives rise to the phenomena of solar flares and space weather.
Vector M12 The Vector M12 was a vehicle designed by the Vector Aeromotive Corporation, and was the first vehicle produced after the buy-out of the company from Jerry Wiegert by the Indonesian company Megatech. The vehicles were produced from 1995 to 1999, when production was halted, partly due to slow sales of the cars and mismanagement of the company.
Vector processor A vector processor, or array processor, is a CPU design that is able to run mathematical operations on multiple data elements simultaneously. This is in contrast to a scalar processor which handles one element at a time.
Vector Pipeline Vector Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline which receives gas from multiple suppliers at a transportation hub in the Chicago area. The product is transported through Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, and into Canada.
Vector Prime (Transformers) Vector Prime is a fictional character from the Transformers: Cybertron toyline, animated series and comics. A singular entity within the multiverse, he is one of the original thirteen Transformers created by their deity, Primus, to combat the threat posed by his eternal foe, the world-eater, Unicron.
Vector quantization In data compression, vector quantization is a quantization technique often used in lossy data compression in which the basic idea is to code or replace with a key, values from a multidimensional vector space into values from a discrete subspace of lower dimension.
Vector signal analyzer The vector signal analyzer (VSA) is a powerful tool that can perform many of the same measurement and characterization tasks that the spectrum analyzer (SA) can, but it can also perform many more useful digital demodulation functions. The VSA is a tool that is replacing the SA as the tool of choice for RF designers working on these systems.
Vector space In mathematics, a vector space (or linear space) is a collection of objects (called vectors) that, informally speaking, may be scaled and added. More formally, a vector space is a set on which two operations, called (vector) addition and (scalar) multiplication, are defined and satisfy certain natural axioms which are listed below.
Vector space model Vector space model (or term vector model) is an algebraic model used for information filtering, information retrieval, indexing and relevancy rankings. It represents natural language documents (or any objects, in general) in a formal manner through the use of vectors (of identifiers, such as, for example, index terms) in a multi-dimensional linear space.
Vector synthesis Vector Synthesis is a type of audio synthesis introduced by Sequential Circuits in the Prophet VS synthesizer during 1986. The concept was subsequently used by Yamaha in the SY22/TG33 and similar instruments and by Korg in the Wavestation.
Vector Sigma In the fictional universe of the original Transformers animated series, Vector Sigma was the "mega-computer" that gave sentience ("Sparks" in later parlance) to non-sentient robots, and was used by the Quintessons to endow their robotic creations with the true life that eventually led to their rebellion. Vector Sigma attests that "before Cybertron was, I [it] was.
Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology The Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, also known as the Vector Institute is a highly sophisticated biological research center in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It is roughly analogous to both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command.
Vector W2 The Vector W2 was a concept car created by Vector Supercars in 1980. It has a twin-turbocharged 350cid Chevrolet V8 engine that produced over 600 hp (450 kW) of power and over 800 N·m (600 ft·lbf) of torque.
Vectored I/O Vectored I/O, also known as scatter/gather I/O, is method of input and output by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream or reads data from a data stream to multiple buffers. The buffers are given in a vector of buffers.
Vectorization Vectorization, in computer science, is the process of converting a computer program from a scalar implementation, which does an operation on a pair of operands at a time, to a vectorized program where a single instruction can perform multiple operations on a pair of vector (series of adjacent values) operands. Vector processing is a major feature of both conventional and modern supercomputers.
Vectorization (mathematics) In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the vectorization of a matrix is a linear transformation which converts the matrix into a column vector. Specifically, the vectorization of an mĂ—n matrix A, denoted by vec(A), is the mn Ă— 1 column vector obtain by stacking the columns of the matrix A on top of one another:
Vectrix The Vectrix is the first commercially available high performance electric scooter. It is capable of over 60 mph (50mph is reached in a little under 7 seconds) with maximum torque available from 0 revs, a characteristic of electric motors.
Vecuronium Vecuronium bromide is a muscle relaxant in the category of non depolarising neuromuscular blocking agents. Vecuronium bromide is indicated as an adjunct to general anesthesia, to facilitate endotracheal intubation and to provide skeletal muscle relaxation during surgery or mechanical
Ved Mehta Ved Parkash Mehta (Born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis.
Veda Runestone The Veda Runestone or U 209 is a flat rock in Uppland, Sweden, where a man named Thorstein has dedicated a rune inscription to his son Erinmund and states that he had bought the estate with money made in Gardariki (Kievan Rus').
Veda Slovena Veda Slovena (Веда Словена in Modern Bulgarian, originally written as Веда Словенахъ) is a collection of folk songs and legends of the Muslim Bulgarians in the Rhodopes and Aegean Macedonia, the first volume of which was printed in 1874 in Belgrade and the second 1881 in Saint Petersburg under the authorship of Bosnian Serb Stefan Verković. The collection was assembled by Bulgarian teacher Ivan Gologanov for 12 years and is famous for containing numerous elements of ancient Slavic mythology notwithstanding the conversions first to Christianity and then to Islam.
Vedanga Jyotisha The Vedanga Jyotisha, is an Indian text on Vedic astronomy, redacted by Lagadha (लगध), and which has been dated by most scholars to 1350 BCE but by Witzel much later, "to the last centuries BCE" in a journal that is not peer reviewed.Michael Witzel, "Autochthonous Aryans?
Vedanta Vedanta (Devanagari: , ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature of reality. The word Vedanta is a compound of veda "knowledge" and anta "end, conclusion", translating to "the culmination of the Vedas".
Vedapureeswarar temple Vedapureeswarar temple is a sacred place on the northern banks of the Cheyyar River in Tiruvannamalai District near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu state of South India. It isdevoted to Lord Vedapuresswarar who came here and imparted his spiritual knowledge regarding the Vedas.
Vedas The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद) are the main scriptural texts of Hinduism, also known as the Sanatana Dharma, and are a large corpus of texts originating in Ancient India. The Vedas, regarded as śruti ("that which is heard"), form part of an oral tradition in the form of an ancient teacher-disciple tradition.
Vedauwoo Vedauwoo is a collection of unique rock formations (Sherman Granite) located in south-eastern Wyoming, United States, near the city of Laramie. Its name (according to climbing guidebook authors Skip Harper and Rob Kelman) is an anglicized version of the Arapaho word "bito'o'wu" meaning "earth-born spirit".
Vedavågen Vedavågen is a Norwegian village with 5000 inhabitants, living in 900 households. It is situated between Åkrehamn and Kopervik in the municipality of Karmøy, neighbouring the municipality of Haugesund in Rogaland.

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