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# Van Phillips (inventor)

Van Phillips (born 1954) is an American inventor of prosthetics.

## Biography

He is known for the Flex-Foot brand of artificial foot and limbs that he created, and for his charity work for amputees. An amputee himself, having lost a leg below the knee at age 21, Phillips was motivated by the limitations of then-existing artificial limbs to attend the Northwestern University Medical School Prosthetic-Orthotic Center. After graduation, he worked as a biomedical design engineer at the University of Utah before starting his own company, Flex-Foot Incorporated in 1984.
Phillips ultimately created a workable artificial foot made from carbon graphite. Unlike all previous prostheses, it stored kinetic energy from the wearer's steps as potential energy, like a spring, allowing the wearer to run and jump. A prosthetic foot that he created, the Flex-Foot Cheetah, is used by double-amputee and Paralympics gold-medalist Oscar Pistorius, and about 90 percent of Paralympics participants use a variation of the original Flex-Foot design, as well as thousands of people around the world. Phillips sold Flex-Foot to Össur in 2000, which continues to manufacture the artificial foot.
In 1999 he established Second Wind, a non-profit organization to provide inexpensive and resistant prostheses to amputees around the world, and is now working to create a prosthetic leg for land mine victims in developing countries. In 1998 he received the Brian Blatchford Memorial Prize from the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics.
# Vasily Tikhonov

Vasily Tikhonov may refer to:
* Vasily Tikhonov (rower) (born 1960), Soviet rower
* Vasily Tikhonov (equestrian) (1909–1987), Soviet equestrian
* Vasily Tikhonov (ice hockey) (1958–2013), Russian ice hockey coach
# Veatrice Rice

Veatrice Rice (October 1, 1949 – January 21, 2009) was a nurse turned security guard and television personality, best known for her appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she served as a sidekick for comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Rice worked as a parking lot security guard in the building where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is taped. With the two other security guards on staff at the program, she performed in a variety of skits and the recurring segment "Worst Team on Television". Veatrice was characterized by her wry, sarcastic demeanor, with quiet moments punctuated by outbursts of obscene language.
Rice died of cancer on January 21, 2009. A montage of some of her funniest moments was played in her honor on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the following day.
# Vaughn Beals

Vaughn L. Beals Jr. (January 2, 1928 – August 19, 2018) was an American businessman who was a CEO of Harley-Davidson between 1981 and 1989, and chairman from 1981 to 1996. He was inducted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2008.

## Early life and education

An only child, Beals was born and raised in the Boston area. Although neither of his parents finished high school, Beals was a standout student and his high school guidance counselor encouraged him to apply to Massachusetts Institute of Technology instead of his first choice, Northeastern University.
Beals earned bachelor's aeronautical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his earning his degree, he worked for Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York where he met and married his wife, Eleanore Woods. Subsequently, he returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned his master's degree in aeronautics.
Beals then worked at North American Aviation and Cummins as engineer and executive. He was CEO, chairman, and president of Formac (Washington Iron Works) in Seattle, a company that made large engines and logging equipment. In 1975, Beals was recruited by the conglomerate American Machine and Foundry (AMF), where he was hired to oversee engineering of new products for Harley-Davidson.

## Harley-Davidson buyout and leadership

At the time Beals was hired, Harley-Davidson was struggling with quality control issues and sales of its motorcycles had decreased significantly, losing market share mostly to Japanese imports. Partly because AMF was unwilling to invest in the company, in 1981, Beals and 12 other investors, including Willie G. Davidson, initiated a highly leveraged $80 million buy out of Harley-Davidson that took the company private at the equivalent of 25 cents per share. After touring several Japanese motorcycle plants, Beals concluded that Harley-Davidson's problems were not foreign imports, but rather the company's own mismanagement. As a result, he initiated the use of just-in-time delivery and other manufacturing reforms, after seeing these practices in use at the Honda Marysville Motorcycle Plant in Ohio. Beals also directed a number of changes in the company's motorcycles designed to make them more comfortable to ride and operate. Beals also directed creation of Harley Owners Group in 1983, today the world's largest factory-sponsored motorcycle club.
Following the successful buyout and turn-around of Harley-Davidson, Beals purchased the Holiday Rambler company, a manufacturer of recreational vehicles. The acquisition did not prove profitable, and Beals eventually sold the company for $50 million in 1996.

## Retirement and later life

After his retirement from Harley-Davidson, Beals and his wife Eleanore Woods Beals, an alumna, established the Woods-Beals endowed chair at Buffalo State College in 2004. It was the institution's first endowed chair.
Beals died at the age of 90 in Gig Harbor, Washington where he and his wife spent their summers. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife of 67 years, their two daughters, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
# Velika Lukanja

Velika Lukanja is a village in the municipality of Pirot, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 17 people.
# Vernon R. Pederson

Vernon R. Pederson (September 11, 1919 – February 26, 2017) was an American attorney who served as a Justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court. He also served in a number of other government roles during his career.

## Early life and education

Pederson was born on September 11, 1919, on a farm in Ward County, North Dakota, near to Deering, North Dakota.
Pederson attended Minot State Teacher's College for two years. Following World War II, he earned his B.S., LL.B., and J.D. degrees at the University of North Dakota.

## Early career

Beginning in 1949, Pederson practiced law in Minot, North Dakota. He also began serving in various government roles while in Minot. He served a tenure as Minot City Justice. In 1951 and 1952, he spent two years serving as a special agent-attorney of North Dakota's Office of Price Stabilization (located in Fargo). On June 15, 1953, he was appointed a special assistant attorney general for North Dakota's State Highway Department and State Game and Fish Department. From 1966 to 1972, he was a member of North Dakota's original State Employee Retirement Board (PERS). From 1972 through 1975, he served as chairmen of North Dakota's inaugural State Deferred Compensation Committee.

## North Dakota Supreme Court

In 1974 Pederson was elected to the North Dakota Supreme Court. He was reelected in 1980. He retired from the court on January 7, 1985, after serving for ten years. During his tenure as a justice, Pederson served in a number of additional roles. This included serving in 1975 as the chairman of the Management Information System, which was responsible for designing the original computerization of the state's court records. He served as a representative of the state's judiciary as a director of the North Dakota Community Foundation from 1976 until 1983. He was also the inaugural chairman of the Judicial Planning Committee, which was formed in 1976.He served as chairman of the Supreme Court Personnel Advisory Board from 1982 until 1984.
From 1985 until 1999, Pederson served as a surrogate judge of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

## Personal life and death

In 1952, Pederson married Evelyn Kraby (1918–2007). Together they had children. His wife died in 2007 in Fargo, North Dakota. He died in on February 26, 2017, in Lakeville, Minnesota, at the age of 97.
# Vessels (Be'lakor album)

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Vessels is the fourth studio album by Australian melodic death metal band, Be'lakor, released on 24 June 2016. Vessels won “Best Heavy Album” in The Age Music Victoria, an Australian industry-voted music award, awards in 2016.
# Veronica Steele

Veronica Steele (26 November 1947 – 4 January 2017) was artisan cheesemaker from Eyeries, West Cork.

## Life

Steele pioneered the homegrown Irish artisan cheese industry with the introduction of Milleens cheese, which achieved national attention when it was picked up by Declan Ryan for use in the Arbutus Lodge, Cork. She was influenced by John Ehle. She started cheese making as a way to preserve excess milk, and develop jobs in rural areas.
Steele suffered from multiple system atrophy later in life and retired in 2003, passing ownership of the Milleens production to her son. In 2016, she was honoured with a "Best of the Decade" Good Food Ireland Award.
# Verrophone

A verrophone ("glass-euphonium") is a musical instrument, invented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, which, "uses tuned glass tubes," open at one end and arranged in various sizes (usually in a chromatic scale, arranged from large to small, like the pipes of a pipe organ). The sound is made by rubbing one end of one or more of the glass tubes, or also by striking them or rubbing them with a special mallet. The tubes are close together so that chords can be played by rubbing more than one at the same time. The instrument carries more acoustical volume than the glass harmonica and some other glass instruments and generally has a range from G3 to F6 (which can be extended in the higher register with wine glasses, giving it a range up to D7). Every piece composed originally for glass harmonica can be played on the verrophone.

## Predecessors

The term verrophone originally referred to a glass harp. Previous glass instruments include the glass harmonica and arrangements of ordinary drinking glasses (approximately glass tubes closed at one end). The verrophone is capable of louder dynamics than the glass harp due to its larger radiating surfaces.

## Related instruments

Modern artists such as Barry Prophet of the Music Gallery have produced glass instruments that work similarly to a glockenspiel or lithophone, i.e. by striking various glass tubes. An example can be heard in a work entitled "Crystal Bones" composed and played on Prophet's microtonally tuned glass instruments.

## Notable players

* Friedrich Heinrich Kern
* Philipp Alexander Marguerre
* Sascha Reckert
* Sebastian Reckert
# Verrucadithella

Verrucadithella is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Chthoniidae. There are at least three described species in Verrucadithella.

## Species

These three species belong to the genus Verrucadithella:
* Verrucadithella dilatimana (Redikorzev, 1924)
* Verrucadithella jeanneli Beier, 1935
* Verrucadithella sulcatimana Beier, 1944
# Vicente Álvarez Areces

Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces (4 August 1943 – 17 January 2019), also known as Tini Areces, was a Spanish politician. He served as the sixth President of the Principality of Asturias in Spain, and he was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party political party. He was also a member of the Committee of the Regions, working as a vice-president of the Party of European Socialists Group.
Areces was born in Gijón, and prior to his becoming President of Asturias in 1999, he had served as mayor of Gijón between 1987 and 1999. He died on 17 January 2019.
# Vian

Vian may refer to:

## Places

* Vian, Iran, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
* Vian, Oklahoma, a town located in the United States
* Vian, Norway, a hamlet located in Vestvågøy Municipality, Norway

## People
### Surname

* Boris Vian (1920–1959), French writer, poet, singer, and musician
* Dominique Vian (born 1944), French overseas civil servant
* Sir Philip Vian (1894–1968), admiral in the Royal Navy

### Given name

* Vian Smith (1919–1969), author from Devon, United Kingdom, who wrote extensively about horses and the Moors
* Marshall Vian Summers (born 1949), American spiritual leader and author

## Other

* Vian, a member of the fictional advanced alien species in the 1968 episode "The Empath" in the original Star Trek television series
# Viamonte

Viamonte may refer to:
* Juan José Viamonte, 19th century Argentine general.
* General Viamonte Partido, a political division in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
* Avelino Viamonte, 1908 Argentine film.
* Juan Bitrián de Viamonte y Navarra, colonial governor of Cuba.
* Town in Unión Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina.
* Carlos Sánchez Viamonte, member of the Argentine University Federation.
* Barão de Viamonte da Boa Vista, Portuguese baron.
* Modesto Sánchez Viamonte, member of the Civic Youth Union of Argentina.
* Viamonte FC, an Association Football club in Argentina.
* 6th "General Viamonte" Mechanized Infantry Regiment in Argentina.
* Florinda Viamontes, javelin throw competitor at the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games.
# Vick, Arkansas

Vick is an unincorporated community in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States, near Hermitage. It is situated at 148 feet (45 meters) above mean sea level.

## Education

The area was formerly within the Vick Consolidated School District No. 21.
As of 2021 it is in the Hermitage School District.

## History, 1800s

A post office for Blanchton, Arkansas (Godfrey's Landing near the Saline River) was established in Samuel Godfry's house in 1882 until 1895.
Blanchton, Johnsville, and Sumpter had post offices during 1885; Hermitage mail was delivered to Adamsville (south of Warren); Ingalls, Vick and Board were not listed in the 1885 edition of the Rand McNally Atlas.

## History, 1900s

Vick was a fairly large town in the 1930s. In June, 1906, the Rock Island Railroad was built thru Ingalls and Vick. The railroad established Ingalls at a railroad track distance of 8.2 km (5.1 mi) south of the Hermitage. The railroad thought having stops that were less than 5 miles apart was too close for the two towns to flourish. The railroad stop at Vick was 7.5 km (4.7 mi) by railroad track distance south of the Ingalls train depot station.
Large quantities of wood was loaded onto trains at Vick. The cutting of timber was the main source of income in the area.
W. T. Ferrell had a hotel in Vick that burned down in the 1930s. Some of the lumbermen working on the timber harvest slept in the Vick hotel.
Eventually the demand and supply of timber tapered off and the town slowly disappeared. The hotel burned down in the 1930s. There are no buildings remaining today, but there still is a sign labeled "Vick" and the railroad tracks still goes through the area.
# Vicirius

Vicirius is a name. Notable people with the name include:
* Aulus Vicirius Martialis, Roman senator
* Aulus Vicirius Proculus, Roman senator
# Victoria Cabello

Victoria Ellen Cabello (born 12 March 1975, in London) is an Italian television presenter, and actress.
She was born in London to an Italian father and an English mother, and grew up in Valsolda, a small town in the province of Como, just a few kilometers from Switzerland.
Cabello started her television career in 1997 as one of MTV Italy's original VJs, where she hosted Select MTV from London. She also appeared on Italia 1's Le Iene (the Italian version of Caiga quien caiga) where she performed comic interviews with famous Italian and international celebrities. Between 2005 and 2008, Cabello hosted the talk show Very Victoria on MTV Italy. In 2006, she hosted the 56th Sanremo Music Festival with Giorgio Panariello. In 2009, she moved from MTV Italy to La7, where she hosted the talk show Victor Victoria – Niente è come sembra.
From September 2011 to May 2013, she hosted a show about football Quelli che... il Calcio on Rai 2.
In 2014, she replaced Simona Ventura as judge on the eighth season of the Italian version of X Factor alongside Fedez, Morgan, and Mika.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1995 | Ragazzi della notte | Sylvie | |
| 2008 | Il cosmo sul comò | Lady with an Ermine | |
| 2011 | Rio | Gioiel (voice) | Italian dub; voice role |
| 2012 | Tell No One | Herself | Cameo appearance |
| 2013 | Border | None | Executive producer |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1997–1998 | MTV Select | Herself / Presenter | Musical program |
| 1998 | MTV on the Beach | Herself / Presenter | Special |
| 1998 | MTV Europe Music Awards | Herself / Interviewer | Annual ceremony |
| 1998–2008 | MTV Day | Herself / Presenter | Musical program |
| 2000 | MTV Video Music Awards | Herself / Interviewer | Annual ceremony |
| 2000 | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Herself / Interviewer | Annual ceremony |
| 2000 | World Pride Roma 2000 | Herself / Interviewer | Special |
| 2002–2007 | Le Iene | Herself / Reporter | Information program (seasons 6–10) |
| 2004 | Cuore contro cuore | Alice | Recurring role |
| 2004–2007 | Drawn Together | Toot Braunstein | Main role; voice |
| 2005 | Isle of MTV | Herself / Presenter | Annual event |
| 2005–2008 | Very Victoria | Herself / Presenter | Talk show |
| 2006 | Sanremo Music Festival 2006 | Herself / Co-host | Annual music festival |
| 2009–2010 | Victor Victoria | Herself / Presenter | Talk show |
| 2010 | A un pelo dalla Victoria | Herself | Web series; lead role |
| 2011–2013 | Quelli che... il Calcio | Herself / Presenter | Sports program (season 19–20) |
| 2014 | The X Factor | Herself / Judge | Talent show (season 8) |
| 2019 | Scoprire la Cina – Galà dell'amicizia Italia – Cina | Herself / Presenter | Special |
| 2022 | Pechino Express | Herself / Contestant | Reality show (season 9) |
| 2023 | Victoria Cabello: Viaggi pazzeschi | Herself / Host | Docuseries |
# Vesperus joanivivesi

Vesperus joanivivesi is a species of brown coloured beetle in the family Vesperidae that is endemic to Spain.
# Vespi Tower

The Vespi Tower (Chinese: 維士比大樓; pinyin: Wéi shì bǐ dàlóu) is a skyscraper office building completed in 1998 in Cianjin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The architectural height of the building is 149 m (489 ft), with a roof height of 130 m (430 ft), and it comprises 32 floors above ground.
# Vijay Kumar Datta

Major General Vijay Kumar Datta AVSM, SM, VSM, was the additional director general of the Territorial Army of the Indian Army.

## Biography

Major General Datta started his career in uniform when he was commissioned in the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Gorkha Rifles in March 1970. He volunteered and served in the first counter-terrorist and counter-hijack unit of the country. A black belt in karate, he introduced this art in the army.
One of Datta's major accomplishments was the designing and introduction of the bullet-proof patka for the army and para-military forces. He also designed and conceptualised the bullet-proof jacket (kavach) which is being produced by DRDO. The credit of designing the arms laser designator goes to him too. He was involved in the raising of the Special Protection Group and the National Security Guard.
He has commanded a mountain brigade in counterinsurgency operations under the Operation Rhino in Assam and an infantry division on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in Operation Rakshak. He was also posted as the chief of staff of 21 Corps (offensive formation of the Indian Army). He also became additional director general of the Territorial Army before he retired the army on 1 May 2008.
# Vigors (horse)

Vigors (1973–1994) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse known as "The White Tornado." Called by Bloodhorse.com in a 2011 article "the great California closer," Vigors earned the affection of racing fans because of his dramatic come-from-behind running style.

## Background

Vigors was bred in Kentucky by William R. Hawn, a Dallas, Texas businessman who was the president and a shareholder of Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California, and a founding partner of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. The horse was named for William Hawn's friend Tim Vigors, a World War II fighter ace and founder of Ireland's renowned Coolmore Stud.

## Racing career

Raced mainly on grass, in 1977 the late developing Vigors won the Hollywood Invitational Handicap and the Rolling Green Handicap. The following year, trainer Larry Sterling entered him in the San Marcos Handicap, a race of a mile and an eighth on dirt. Under jockey Darrel McHargue, Vigors won easily then with the same rider followed up with a win in the San Antonio Stakes in track record time on dirt. In the most important win of his career, Darrel McHargue brought Vigors from dead last to win the Santa Anita Handicap by two lengths, again on dirt. For jockey McHargue, the win topped off an extraordinary day in which he won six races. Vigors did not race again until early June when he won the Bel Air Handicap on dirt. Assigned top weight in the Hollywood Gold Cup, Vigors ran third in what was his final race before retiring to stud duty.

## Stud career

Vigors stood at Jonabell Farm, near Lexington Kentucky. He was the successful sire of numerous winners including multiple stakes winners, Royal Mountain Inn, Exemplary Leader and Lovlier Linda, among others. He also sired millionaires Hodges Bay and Real Connection and had five other of his progeny earn more than half a million dollars in racing. Vigors is also the damsire of Ginger Gold, the 2001 Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.
Vigors died at age twenty-three on September 27, 1994 due to health problems.

## Pedigree

Pedigree of Vigors :
| Sire Grey Dawn | Herbager | Vandale | Plassy |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Herbager | Vandale | Vanille |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Herbager | Flagette | Escamillo |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Herbager | Flagette | Fidgette |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Polamia | Mahmoud | Blenheim |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Polamia | Mahmoud | Mah Mahal |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Polamia | Ampola | Pavot |
| Sire Grey Dawn | Polamia | Ampola | Blue Denim |
| Dam Relifordie | El Relicario | Relic | War Relic |
| Dam Relifordie | El Relicario | Relic | Bridal Colors |
| Dam Relifordie | El Relicario | Saponite | Épinard |
| Dam Relifordie | El Relicario | Saponite | Soap Water |
| Dam Relifordie | Crafordie | Cranach | Coronach |
| Dam Relifordie | Crafordie | Cranach | Reine Isaure |
| Dam Relifordie | Crafordie | Maforte | Massine |
| Dam Relifordie | Crafordie | Maforte | Fox Tor |
# Vigoulant

Vigoulant (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Indre department in central France.