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16233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Maynard%20Smith | John Maynard Smith | John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in t... |
16238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Danforth | John Danforth | John Claggett Danforth (born September 5, 1936) is an American politician, attorney and diplomat who began his career in 1968 as the Attorney General of Missouri and served three terms as United States Senator from Missouri. In 2004, he served briefly as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Danforth is an or... |
16239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanes | Jordanes | Jordanes (), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat widely believed to be of Gothic descent who became a historian later in life. Late in life he wrote two works, one on Roman history and the other on the Goths. The latter, along with Isidore of Seville's Historia Gothorum, is... |
16240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Bakker | Jim Bakker | James Orsen Bakker (; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist and convicted fraudster. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club with his then wife, Tammy Faye, and developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
In the late 1980s, Bakk... |
16241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20and%20Dean | Jan and Dean | Jan and Dean was an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized by the Beach Boys.
Among their most successful songs was 1963's ... |
16243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal%20Nehru | Jawaharlal Nehru | Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's in... |
16245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis%20Joplin | Janis Joplin | Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock, soul, and blues music. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence.
In 1967, Joplin rose to fame following an appea... |
16247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20van%20Melle | John van Melle | John van Melle (11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author. His real name was Johannes van Melle.
Van Melle was born in Goes. He arrived in South Africa in 1906, and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies, settled in South Africa permanently in 1913. He wo... |
16249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fink | John Fink | John Fink (born February 11, 1940) is an American film and television actor.
In the 1970–1971 the NBC sitcom Nancy, Fink was cast as an Iowa veterinarian, Dr. Adam Hudson, who marries the daughter of the President of the United States. The short-lived series starred Renne Jarrett (born 1946) as the title character and... |
16252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Cousteau | Jacques Cousteau | Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie... |
16253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Philippe%20Rushton | J. Philippe Rushton | John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other purported racial cor... |
16254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Smith%20%28disambiguation%29 | Joseph Smith (disambiguation) | Joseph Smith (1805–1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which gave rise to Mormonism.
Joseph or Joe Smith may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Joseph Smith (art collector) (1682–1770), British art collector and consul at Venice
Joseph A. Smith (artist) (born 19... |
16261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana%20Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, along with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Philips, which was active i... |
16263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Political%20Military%20Group | Joint Political Military Group | On November 29, 1983 a memorandum of agreement was set up between Israel and the United States regarding political, military and economic cooperation. Part of the agreement was for a Joint Political Military Group (JPMG) as a high-level planning forum to discuss and implement combined planning, joint exercises, and log... |
16265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jug (disambiguation) | A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold a liquid.
Jug may also refer to:
Places
The Jug, an island in West Virginia, United States
Jug Rock, a natural geological formation outside of Shoals, Indiana, United States
Jug Sport Hall, an indoor arena in Osijek, Croatia
Cepotina, a Serbian Army base also kno... |
16266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20William%20Polidori | John William Polidori | John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published m... |
16267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke | Joke | A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be taken seriously. It takes the form of a story, usually with dialogue, and ends in a punch line. It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that th... |
16268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Lawrence | Jacob Lawrence | Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and col... |
16273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Stewart | James Stewart | James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military pilot. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in th... |
16274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalalabad | Jalalabad | Jalalabad (; Pashto/, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jalalabad is located at the junction of the Kabul River and the Kunar River in a plateau to the south... |
16275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta | Jakarta | Jakarta (; ), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (), is the largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta is the largest city in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The city is the centre of the economy, culture, and po... |
16277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Ruby | Jack Ruby | Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with both the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the incumbent United States president, and the murder... |
16278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Randi | James Randi | James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder of the James Randi Educatio... |
16279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Lind | James Lind | James Lind (4 October 1716 – 13 July 1794) was a Scottish doctor. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting one of the first ever clinical trials, he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy.
Lind argued for the health benefits of better ventilation aboard naval ships, the improve... |
16283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Clavell | James Clavell | James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born American novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. Clavel... |
16284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet | Joliet | Joliet may refer to:
People
Louis Jolliet, a 17th-century explorer of North America
"Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi), member of the Blues Brothers band
Places
Joliet, Illinois, United States, a city named after Louis Jolliet
Joliet Correctional Center, a prison in Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Montana, United States
Jo... |
16285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cade | John Cade | John Frederick Joseph Cade AO
(18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980) was an Australian psychiatrist who in 1948 discovered the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder, then known as manic depression. At a time when the standard treatments for psychosis were electroconvulsi... |
16286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20von%20Werth | Johann von Werth | Count Johann von Werth (1591 – 16 January 1652), also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years' War.
Biography
Werth was born in 1591 at Büttgen in the Duchy of Jülich as the eldest son of lesser noble Johann von Wierdt († 1606) and Elisabeth Streithoven. He had ei... |
16288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Habermas | Jürgen Habermas | Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's work focuses on the foundations of epistemology and social theory, t... |
16289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Watson | James Watson | James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "fo... |
16290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk%20%28physics%29 | Jerk (physics) | In physics, jerk or jolt is the rate at which an object's acceleration changes with respect to time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol and expressed in m/s3 (SI units) or standard gravities per second (g0/s).
Expressions
As a vector, jerk can b... |
16291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ambrose%20Fleming | John Ambrose Fleming | Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established the right-hand rule used in physics... |
16292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20George%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | John George, Elector of Brandenburg | John George of Brandenburg (11 September 1525 – 8 January 1598) was a prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571–1598).
A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the son of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, and his first wife Magdalena of Saxony.
Faced with large debts of 2.5 million guilder... |
16294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahangir | Jahangir | Nūr i Dīn Muḥammad Salīm (Persian: ), known by his imperial name, Jahāngīr (Persian: ) (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. His imperial name (in Persian) means 'conqueror of the world', 'world-conqueror' or 'world-seizer' (Jahan: world; gir: th... |
16295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah%20Wedgwood | Josiah Wedgwood | Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery.
The renewed classical e... |
16296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme%20Court%20of%20Judicature%20Act%201873 | Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 | The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 (sometimes known as the Judicature Act 1873) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1873. It reorganised the English court system to establish the High Court and the Court of Appeal, and also originally provided for the abolition of the judicial functions of the H... |
16300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20%28emperor%29 | Julian (emperor) | Julian (; ; 331 – 26 June 363) was Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. His rejection of Christianity, and his promotion of Neoplatonic Hellenism in its place, caused him to be remembered as Julian the Apostate in Christian tradition.
Julian was a member of the Constant... |
16302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cicero%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg | John II (2 August 1455 – 9 January 1499) was Elector of Brandenburg from 1486 until his death, the fourth of the House of Hohenzollern. After his death he received the cognomen Cicero, after the Roman orator of the same name, but the elector's eloquence and interest in the arts is debatable.
Life
John Cicero was the e... |
16305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20Frederick%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg | Joachim Frederick (27 January 1546 – 18 July 1608), of the House of Hohenzollern, was Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1598 until his death.
Biography
Joachim Frederick was born in Cölln to John George, Elector of Brandenburg, and Sophie of Legnica. He served as administrator of the Archbishopric ... |
16306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sigismund%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg | John Sigismund (; 8 November 1572 – 23 December 1619) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern. He became the Duke of Prussia through his marriage to Duchess Anna, the eldest daughter of Duke Albert Frederick of Prussia who died without sons. Their marriage resulted in the p... |
16307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20Pollock | Jackson Pollock | Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angl... |
16308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Li | Jet Li | Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.
After three years of training with acclaimed Wushu teacher Wu Bin, Li won his first national ch... |
16310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo%20Amigoni | Jacopo Amigoni | Jacopo Amigoni (ca. 1685 – September 1752), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
Biography
He was born in Venice. Amigoni initially pai... |
16312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Millet | Jean-François Millet | Jean-François Millet (; October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career he became increasingly interested ... |
16313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Callot | Jacques Callot | Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,4... |
16315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Campbell | Joseph Campbell | Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand ... |
16316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dowland | John Dowland | John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English or possibly Irish Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has unde... |
16317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20James%20Audubon | John James Audubon | John James Audubon (born Jean Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoral record of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his extensive stu... |
16319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Masefield | John Masefield | John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and "Sea-Fever".
Biography
Early life
Masefield was born in L... |
16321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20McCarthy | Joseph McCarthy | Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tens... |
16324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hancock | John Hancock | John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signat... |
16326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20W.%20Campbell | John W. Campbell | John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote super-science space opera u... |
16327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule | Joule | The joule ( ; symbol: J) is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units. It is equal to the amount of work done when a force of 1 Newton displaces a body through a distance of 1 metre in the direction of the force applied. It is also the energy dissipated as heat when an electric current of one ampere... |
16328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepster%20Records | Jeepster Records | Jeepster Records is an English, London-based independent record label, founded in 1995, and specializing in British indie and alternative bands, particularly Glasgow-based acts. It is most notable for its signing of Belle and Sebastian and Snow Patrol.
Early success
Jeepster Records was founded in 1995 by Mark Jones a... |
16329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Chrysostom | John Chrysostom | John Chrysostom (; ; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensib... |
16333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Heckman | James Heckman | James Joseph Heckman (born 1944) is a Nobel Prize winning American economist who is currently at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy; Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Devel... |
16334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20of%20Poland | Judith of Poland | Judith of Poland (, ; b. 1130/35 – died 8 July 1171/75) was a member of the House of Piast and by marriage margravine of Brandenburg.
Early years
Judith was the daughter of Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland by his second wife, Salomea of Berg. She was probably named after either her paternal grandmother, Judith of... |
16336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Archer | Jeffrey Archer | Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, life peer and former politician. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–1974), but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt. He revived his fortunes a... |
16339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Brahms | Johannes Brahms | Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music,... |
16340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul%20Sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of Existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Ma... |
16341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Paul%20Jones | John Paul Jones | John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends among U.S political elites (including John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin), as well as enemies (who accuse... |
16343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulting%20brothers | Boulting brothers | John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced man... |
16345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Frankenheimer | John Frankenheimer | John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Train (1964), Seconds (1966), Grand Prix (1966),... |
16346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Jellicoe%2C%201st%20Earl%20Jellicoe | John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | This page is about the Admiral for the Fleet. See John Jellicoe (disambiguation) for pages about others with the same or similar name.
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebel... |
16347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Woodward | Sandy Woodward | Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, (1 May 1932 – 4 August 2013) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Task Force of the Falklands War.
Early life
Woodward was born on 1 May 1932 at Penzance, Cornwall, to a bank clerk. He was educated at Stubbington House School, preparatory school in Stubbington, ... |
16352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIC | JIC | JIC may refer to:
IATA code for Jinchang Jinchuan Airport, China
John Innes Centre, centre for research and training in plant science located in Norwich, England
Joint Intelligence Center
Joint Industrial Council, British labour-management group for an industrial sector
Joint Information Center - see Incident Com... |
16354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Friedrich%20Endersch | Johann Friedrich Endersch | Johann Friedrich Endersch (25 October 1705 – 28 March 1769) was a German cartographer and mathematician. Endersch also held the title of Royal Mathematician to King Augustus III of Poland.
Life
Endersch was born in Dörnfeld an der Heide, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, but lived most of his life in Elbing (Elbląg),... |
16355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Blaylock | James Blaylock | James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his... |
16356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Pournelle | Jerry Pournelle | Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American polymath: scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually ... |
16360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam%20and%20Josaphat | Barlaam and Josaphat | Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are legendary Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, and tells of the conversion of Josaphat to Christianity. According to the legend, an Indian king persecuted the Christian Church in his realm. After astrologers predic... |
16362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggies | Jaggies | "Jaggies" is the informal name for artifacts in raster images, most frequently from aliasing, which in turn is often caused by non-linear mixing effects producing high-frequency components, or missing or poor anti-aliasing filtering prior to sampling.
Jaggies are stair-like lines that appear where there should be "smo... |
16364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial%20economy | Judicial economy | Judicial economy or procedural economy is the principle that the limited resources of the legal system or a given court should be conserved by the refusal to decide one or more claims raised in a case. For example, the plaintiff may claim that the defendant's actions violated three distinct laws. Having found for the p... |
16365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury%20instructions | Jury instructions | Jury instructions, directions to the jury, or judge's charge are legal rules that jurors should follow when deciding a case. They are a type of jury control procedure to support a fair trial.
Description
Jury instructions are the set of legal rules governing how jurors should behave when deciding a case, often addres... |
16366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence | Jurisprudence | Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and provide a deeper understanding of legal reasoning and analogy, legal systems, legal institutions, and the proper application and role of law in socie... |
16367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury%20trial | Jury trial | A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a lawful proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which a judge or panel of judges makes all decisions.
Jury trials are used in a significant share of serious criminal cases in many but not all common law judicial syst... |
16369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice | Justice | Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationality, la... |
16371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Abbott | Jacob Abbott | Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 – October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books.
Early life
On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine. He attended the Hallowell Academy.
Education
Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820. At some point during his years there, he supposedly added ... |
16372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stevens%20Cabot%20Abbott | John Stevens Cabot Abbott | John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
Early life
He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the pre... |
16373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Janus (disambiguation) | Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings.
Janus may also refer to:
Computing
Janus (concurrent constraint programming language)
Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform
Janus (protocol), a file transfer protocol for use on bulletin board systems
Janus... |
16374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brown | John Brown | John Brown most often refers to:
John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to:
Academia
John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Irish educator; third president of the University of Georgia
John Carter Brown (179... |
16376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20E.%20B.%20Stuart | J. E. B. Stuart | James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb,” from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of rec... |
16378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hanson | John Hanson | John Hanson ( – November 15, 1783) was a Founding Father of the United States, and a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland. He signe... |
16379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi | Jedi | Jedi (), Jedi Knights, or collectively the Jedi Order are the main heroic protagonists of many works of the Star Wars franchise. Working symbiotically alongside the Old Galactic Republic and later the Rebel Alliance, the Jedi Order is depicted as a monastic, academic, martial, and meritocratic peacekeeping organization... |
16380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tobin | James Tobin | James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention... |
16382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Lennon | Julian Lennon | John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is an English singer, songwriter, photographer and philanthropist. He is the son of Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, and he is named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. Julian inspired three Beatles' songs: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (... |
16383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA%20World%20Cup%20Trophy | FIFA World Cup Trophy | The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have been used: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
The first trophy, originally... |
16384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Belushi | John Belushi | John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor and musician, and one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). Throughout his career, Belushi had a personal and artistic partnership with his fellow SNL star Dan Aykroyd, whom he met ... |
16385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Philipp%20Abelin | Johann Philipp Abelin | Johann Philipp Abelin was a German chronicler whose career straddled the 16th and 17th centuries. He was born, probably, at Strasbourg, and died there between 1634 and 1637. He wrote numerous histories under the pseudonyms of Abeleus, Philipp Arlanibäus, Johann Ludwig Gottfried and Gotofredus.
Publications
He worked ... |
16386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Abendana | Jacob Abendana | Jacob Abendana (1630 – 12 September 1685) was hakham of London from 1680 until his death.
Biography
Jacob was the eldest son of Joseph Abendana and brother to Isaac Abendana. Though his family originally lived in Hamburg, Jacob and his brother were both born in Spain. At some point in time, his family moved to Amster... |
16388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hamilton%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Abercorn | James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn | James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn PC (S) (1575–1618) was a Scottish diplomat for James VI and I and an undertaker in the Plantation of Ulster, Ireland.
Birth and origins
James was born on 12 August 1575, probably at Paisley, Scotland, the eldest son of Claud Hamilton and his wife Margaret Seton. His father was the... |
16389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20virtual%20machine | Java virtual machine | A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally describes what is required in a JVM implementation. Having a specification ensures i... |
16390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Abercrombie%20%28physician%29 | John Abercrombie (physician) | John Abercrombie (10 October 1780 – 14 November 1844) was a Scottish physician, author, philosopher and philanthropist. His Edinburgh practice became one of the most successful medical practices in Scotland. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after James Gregory's death, he was "recognized as the fi... |
16391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement%20of%20Paris | Judgement of Paris | The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and in later versions of the story to the foundation of Rome.
Sources of the episode
As with many mythological tales, details vary depending on the source. The brief allusion to the Judgement in the Iliad... |
16392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction | Jurisdiction | Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'declaration') is the legal term for the authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. Colloquially it is used to refer to the geographical area (: location of the issue). In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federa... |
16393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Abernethy%20%28surgeon%29 | John Abernethy (surgeon) | John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered today for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion.
Life
He was a grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy. He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London on 3... |
16395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian | Judeo-Christian | The term Judeo-Christian is used to group Christianity and Judaism together, either in reference to Christianity's derivation from Judaism, Christianity's borrowing of Jewish Scripture to constitute the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible, or due to the parallels or commonalities in Judaeo-Christian ethics shared by... |
16397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Maroger | Jacques Maroger | Jacques Maroger (; 1884–1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters. He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and became an influential teacher. His book, The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the... |
16399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Greenberg | Joseph Greenberg | Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
Life
Early life and education
Joseph Greenberg was born on May 28, 1915 to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. His first great intere... |
16402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Goyen | Jan van Goyen | Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known.
Biography
Jan van Goyen was the son of a shoemaker and started as an apprentice in Leide... |
16403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Martyr | Justin Martyr | Justin Martyr (; c. 100 – c. 165) was an early Christian apologist and philosopher.
Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue did survive. The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life, and provides various ethical and philosophical arguments to... |
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