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Herman Göring - a convicted Nazi war criminal - bought what he thought to be an authentic Jans Veermer painting for $625,000. The Dutch seller, Hans van Meegern, was initially tried for treason after WWII, but these charges were dropped after he proved the painting was of his own creation.

He studied digestion and opined that there was a chemical reagent which aided digestion within the body.

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1. Today scientists recognize the role of enzymes in digestion.

2. In 1624 he published a paper critical of the curative value of Spa.

3. He is known for his five year study on the growth of trees.

4. He traveled throughout Europe to increase his knowledge of medicine.

5. He received a doctorate of Medicine in 1599 from Catholic University of Louvain.

6. Throughout history only four men from the west were given the special honor of becoming a Samurai. These men were William Adams (an adventurer), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (Adams" colleague), Eugene Collahe (Navy officer), and Edward Schnell (arms dealer).

7. The 1436 painting by Jan Van Eyck "Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele" is so detailed it includes a self portrait of the painter in the reflection of the harness of one of the characters.

8. It is believed that Masolino was the first to create paintings using oil, in the 1420s. Some previously believed it was Jan van Eyck in the 1430s.

9. Van Helmont was born in Vilvoorde, Spanish Netherlands (present day Belgium) and was the youngest of five children.

10. He studied philosophy, the classics and law before changing his course of study to medicine.

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In 1941 Dutch minelayer Jan van Brakel (a hero of the Raid on the Medway in 1667, one of the worst defeats suffered by the British navy) accidentally hit a ship protecting the Medway in WW2. Signalling "Van Brakel damaged boom defence Medway" to authorities, the instant reply was: "What, again?"

During the remainder of his life he dedicated himself to chemical research and relief of suffering among the poor.

The brought him into conflict with other physicians and discouraged him from publishing other papers.

In 1621 he published "Of the Magnetic Curing of Wounds" which landed him in ecclesiastical court.

In 1609 he married into the nobility and retired to one of his estates in Merode.

Anthony Janszoon van Salee, son of Jan Janszoon van Haarlem (Murat Reis the Younger); a Dutch Barbary Corsair and Muslim convert. He is considered to be the first free Muslim in the New World. His descendants include the Vanderbilt Family and Warren G. Harding (the 29th president of the USA).

Painter Jan van Eyck was the first to use the "Jan van Eyck was here 1434" tag when he painted the Arnolfinis

In the Arnolfini Portrait, one of the most famous paintings by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck, was signed "Jan van Eyck was here 1434"

He coined the word "gas" from the Greek word for Chaos and was the first to discover that there are gases distinct from ordinary air.

South Africa used a supposed image of Jan van Riebeeck for most of their coins from the 1940's to 1993 only to later discover that they had used a picture of someone else