| Vanderbilt housesFrom the late 1870s to the 1920s the Vanderbilt clan employed America's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now Natio | Vatican BankThe Vatican Bank is a common name given to the Istituto per le Opere di Religione IOR or Institute for Religious Works the central bank for the Roman Catholic Church located in Vatican City. Several thoroughly documented books that appeared during the 199 | VaporsVapors may be: Vapors magazine A pop band from England, see The Vapors plural of vapor . |
| VariegationVariegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and sometimes the stems, of plants. This may be due to a number of causes. Some variegation is attractive and ornamental, and gardeners tend to preserve these. The term is also som | Variation of the fieldIn heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field (or a charge) may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division of the field. Patterning with ordinaries and subordinaries The diminutives of the o | Vanity of DuluozVanity of Duluoz (full title Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 is an autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac (ISBN 0140236392). The book describes the adventures of Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, covering the period of his life between |
| VasishtaVasishta in Hindu mythology was chief of the seven venerated sages (or Saptharishi) and the Rajaguru of the Solar Dynasty. He was famous for subduing the armies of Viswamitra. He had in his possession the divine cow Nandini who could grant anything to her | VanaprasthaA vanaprastha (from Sanskrit vana, forest, and prus, dwelling) is a person who is living in the forest as a hermit after partially giving up material desires. This word is generally used to denote a particular phase of life(next 20 years {60-80 years of h | VanaraVanara is a Sanskrit word meaning a monkey. It popularly refers to the race of monkeylike humanoids, in the Hindu epic Ramayana who are brave and inquisitive in nature. The characteristics of a Vanara as described in the epic are amusing, childish, mildly |
