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16407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Tetzel | Johann Tetzel | Johann Tetzel (c. 1465 – 11 August 1519) was a German Dominican friar and preacher. He was appointed Inquisitor for Poland and Saxony, later becoming the Grand Commissioner for indulgences in Germany. Tetzel was known for granting indulgences on behalf of the Catholic Church in exchange for money, which are claimed to... |
16412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tiptree%20Jr. | James Tiptree Jr. | Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also used t... |
16413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherwise%20Award | Otherwise Award | The Otherwise Award, formerly known as the James Tiptree Jr. Award, is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon... |
16415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juventus%20F.C. | Juventus F.C. | Juventus Football Club (from , 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juventus and Juve (), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in 1897 by a group of Torinese students, the club has worn a black and white s... |
16417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20D%C5%82ugosz | Jan Długosz | Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first historian.
Life
Jan Długosz is best known for his Annales seu cronici incliti regni Polonia... |
16419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga%20of%20Poland | Jadwiga of Poland | Jadwiga (; 1373 or 137417 July 1399), also known as Hedwig (), was the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, reigning from 16 October 1384 until her death. She was the youngest daughter of Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland, and his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House ... |
16421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy%20Space%20Center | Kennedy Space Center | The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. Launch operation... |
16422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni%20Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter. Drawing from folk, pop, rock, classical, and jazz, Mitchell's songs often reflect on social and philosophical ideals as well as her feelings about romance, womanhood, disillusionment and joy. She has receive... |
16425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus | Justus | Justus (died on 10 November between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the fi... |
16426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Eccles%20%28neurophysiologist%29 | John Eccles (neurophysiologist) | Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Life and work
Early life
Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia.... |
16427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Scarlett%2C%201st%20Baron%20Abinger | James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger | James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844), was an English lawyer, politician and judge.
Early life
James Scarlett was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property. In the summer of 1785 he was sent to England to complete his education at Hawkshead Grammar School and afte... |
16429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20views%20on%20marriage | Jewish views on marriage | Marriage in Judaism is the documentation of a cleansing between a Jewish man and a Jewish woman in which God is involved. A marriage was ended either because of a divorce document given by the man to his wife, or by the death of either party. Certain details, primarily as protections for the wife, were added in Talmudi... |
16432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz%20Zajdel | Janusz Zajdel | Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (15 August 1938 – 19 July 1985) was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem. His major genres were social science fiction and dystopia. His main recurring theme involved the gloomy prospects for a space environment into which mankind carried totalitarian id... |
16433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi | Rumi | Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), (also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (, "my master")) more popularly known simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi myst... |
16437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Norris%20Memorial%20Trophy | James Norris Memorial Trophy | The James Norris Memorial Trophy, or simply the Norris Trophy, is awarded annually to the National Hockey League's top "defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-round ability in the position". It is named after James E. Norris, the longtime owner of the Detroit Red Wings. The James Norris ... |
16438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET | JANET | Janet is a high-speed network for the UK research and education community provided by Jisc, a not-for-profit company set up to provide computing support for education. It serves 18 million users and is the busiest National Research and Education Network in Europe by volume of data carried. JANET was previously a privat... |
16440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Harrison | John Harrison | John Harrison ( – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
Harrison's solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel... |
16441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Child | Julia Child | Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most... |
16442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Beard | James Beard | James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 23, 1985) was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, Oregon, and lectured widely. He emphasized American cooking, prepared with fresh, ... |
16447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Alan%20McPherson | James Alan McPherson | James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a pro... |
16449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20K.%20Jerome | Jerome K. Jerome | Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in ... |
16450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamine%20J%C5%8Dkichi | Takamine Jōkichi | was a Japanese chemist.
Early life and education
Takamine was born in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, in November 1854. His father was a doctor; his mother a member of a family of sake brewers. He spent his childhood in Kanazawa, capital of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, and was educated in Osaka, Kyot... |
16452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Neusner | Jacob Neusner | Jacob Neusner (July 28, 1932 – October 8, 2016) was an American academic scholar of Judaism. He was named as one of the most published authors in history, having written or edited more than 900 books.
Life and career
Neusner was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Reform Jewish parents. He graduated from William H. Hall ... |
16453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20I%20Nestor%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg | Joachim I Nestor (21 February 1484 – 11 July 1535) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1499–1535), the fifth member of the House of Hohenzollern. His nickname was taken from King Nestor of Greek mythology.
Biography
The eldest son of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, Joachim received an excell... |
16455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Keats | John Keats | John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been published for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but hi... |
16456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Nash | John Nash | John Nash may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
John Nash (architect) (1752–1835), Anglo-Welsh architect
John Nash Round, English architect active in the mid-19th-century Kent
"Jolly" John Nash (1828–1901), English music hall entertainer
John Nash (artist) (1893–1977), English painter and engraver
Johnny Nash (1940–202... |
16457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Defense%20League | Jewish Defense League | The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a Jewish religious-political organization in the United States, whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary". It has been classified as "a right wing terrorist group" by the FBI since 2001, and is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty ... |
16458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMS | JMS | JMS may refer to:
Buildings
EverBank Field, formerly known as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, a sports stadium in Jacksonville, Florida
Johannesburg Muslim School, a private school in Johannesburg, South Africa
John Mason School, a secondary school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Computing
Japanese MapleStory, a versi... |
16459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Propulsion%20Laboratory | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the city of La Cañada Flintridge in California, United States.
Founded in the 1930s, JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The laboratory's primary f... |
16460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rutsey | John Rutsey | John Howard Rutsey (July 23, 1952 – May 11, 2008) was a Canadian musician best known as a founding member and original drummer of Rush. He performed on the band's 1974 debut album, but left shortly after its release due to health problems which limited his ability to tour with the band. He was subsequently replaced by ... |
16461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20von%20Neumann%20Theory%20Prize | John von Neumann Theory Prize | The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
is awarded annually to an individual (or sometimes a group) who has made fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.
The Prize named after mathemati... |
16462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Richard%20%28actor%29 | Jean Richard (actor) | Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities.
Richard was born in Bessines, Deu... |
16466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Walker | John Walker | John Walker may refer to:
Politicians
American politicians
John Walker (Arkansas politician) (1937–2019), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
John Walker (Missouri politician) (1770–1838), State Treasurer of Missouri
John Walker (Virginia politician) (1744–1809), U.S. Senator, public official, and soldier... |
16467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Walker%20Lindh | John Walker Lindh | John Philip Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981) is an American who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001. He was detained at Qala-i-Jangi fortress, used as a prison. He denied participating in the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a violent uprising of the Taliban ... |
16472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20stream | Jet stream | Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth. On Earth, the main jet streams are located near the altitude of the tropopause and are westerly winds (flowing west to east). Jet streams may start, stop, split into two or more parts, combine into one str... |
16474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Interoperability%20of%20Tactical%20Command%20and%20Control%20Systems | Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems | Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems or JINTACCS is a United States military program for the development and maintenance of tactical information exchange configuration items (CIs) and operational procedures. It was originated in 1977 to ensure that the command and control (C2 and C3) and weapo... |
16475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamming | Jamming | Jamming (or variants) may refer to:
General
Jamming (knot), the tendency of knots to become difficult to untie
Interfering with communications or surveillance:
Radio jamming
Radar jamming and deception
Mobile phone jammer
Echolocation jamming
Radio-controlled improvised explosive device jamming, a counter-IED t... |
16476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ashcroft | John Ashcroft | John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, songwriter and former politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General in the George W. Bush Administration, Senator from Missouri, and Governor of Missouri. He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.
Ashcroft pre... |
16479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japheth | Japheth | Japheth ( Yép̄eṯ, in pausa Yā́p̄eṯ; ; ) is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, in which he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations as the ancestor of the peoples of the Aegean Sea, Anatolia, and elsewhere. In medieval and early ... |
16480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Alexander | Jason Alexander | Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, film director, and television presenter. An Emmy, Tony, and Grammy winner, he is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he was nominated fo... |
16483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wycliffe | John Wycliffe | John Wycliffe (; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; 1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, Catholic priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford. He became an influential dissident within the Roman Catholic priesthood... |
16485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20another%20Perl%20hacker | Just another Perl hacker | Just another Perl hacker, or JAPH, typically refers to a Perl program that prints "Just another Perl hacker," (the comma is canonical but is occasionally omitted). Short JAPH programs are often used as signatures in online forums, or as T-shirt designs. The phrase or acronym is also occasionally used (without code) f... |
16486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Orton | Joe Orton | John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known under the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous bla... |
16488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Jaynes | Julian Jaynes | Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American researcher in psychology at Yale and Princeton for nearly 25 years and best known for his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. His career was dedicated to the problem of consciousness, "...the difference betwe... |
16489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Kristeva | Julia Kristeva | Julia Kristeva (; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, ; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emerita at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more ... |
16493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20intonation | Just intonation | In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the attempt to tune all musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies. An interval tuned in this way is said to be pure, and may be called a just interval; when it is sounded, no beating is heard. Just intervals (and chords created by combin... |
16494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus | Josephus | Flavius Josephus (; , ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for The Jewish War, who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.
He initially fought against the Romans during the First Jewish–... |
16495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Borukowski | Jan Borukowski | Jan Borukowski of Bielin (1524–1584) was the Bishop
of Przemyśl, and was the royal secretary of Poland from 1553. In
1569, he signed the act of annexation of Podlaskie, Volhynia and Kyiv to the kingdom during Sejm in Lublin.
References
1524 births
1584 deaths
Bishops of Przemyśl |
16496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Blume | Judy Blume | Judith Blume (née Sussman; born February 12, 1938) is an American writer of children's, young adult and adult fiction. Blume began writing in 1959 and has published more than 25 novels. Among her best-known works are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), and... |
16498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Marangella | Joel Marangella | Joel Marangella is an American oboist who has performed in concert with many of the world's leading orchestras. A founding member of the Speculum Musicae, he was the principal oboist for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of the New Music Ensemble.
Biography
Marangella was born in Washington... |
16500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Pople | John Pople | Sir John Anthony Pople (31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004) was a British theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.
Early life and education
Pople was born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, and attended the Bris... |
16504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Falwell%20Sr. | Jerry Falwell Sr. | Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. (; August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967... |
16505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebus | Jebus | Jebus may refer to:
Jebus, the mispronunciation of 'Jesus' from the 2000 Simpsons episode "Missionary: Impossible"
Jebus, the pointed bow leader of the Tom Pudding tub boats
Jebusite, a Canaanite tribe that inhabited Jerusalem prior to the conquest initiated by Joshua
Jerusalem (historically Jebus), a city in the ... |
16506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Leno | Jay Leno | James Douglas Muir Leno (; born April 28, 1950) is an American television host, comedian, and writer. After doing stand-up comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009. Beginning in September 2009, he started a primetime talk show, The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknig... |
16507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroboam%20II | Jeroboam II | Jeroboam II (, Yāroḇə‘ām; ; ) was the son and successor of Jehoash (alternatively spelled Joash) and the thirteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years in the eighth century BC. His reign was contemporary with those of Amaziah and Uzziah, kings of Judah.
History
William F. Al... |
16509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20of%20Arc | Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc ( ; 1412 – 30 May 1431), who called herself "Joan the Maiden" ("Jehanne la Pucelle" in 15th century French) and is now nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. She is also a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.... |
16510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Nicolaus%20Br%C3%B8nsted | Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted | Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (; 22 February 1879 – 17 December 1947) was a Danish physical chemist, who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Martin Lowry.
Biography
Brønsted was born in Varde, Denmark on 22 February 1879. His mother died shortly after his birth and at t... |
16511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus%20kinase | Janus kinase | Janus kinase (JAK) is a family of intracellular, non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway. They were initially named "just another kinase" 1 and 2 (since they were just two of many discoveries in a PCR-based screen of kinases), but were ultimately published as "Jan... |
16514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Grimm | Jacob Grimm | Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics, the co-author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Gri... |
16516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai | Jamiroquai | Jamiroquai () are an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on their acid jazz sound in their early releases and later drew from rock, disco, electronic and Latin music... |
16517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sutter | John Sutter | John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant of Mexican and American citizenship, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. Although he b... |
16518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Adams%20%28composer%29 | John Adams (composer) | John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. Apart from opera, his o... |
16521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Voight | Jon Voight | Jonathan Vincent Voight (; born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo, in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder ... |
16522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Climacus | John Climacus | John Climacus (; ), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th–7th-century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
History
There is almost no information about John's life. The... |
16524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Callet | Jerome Callet | Jerome Callet (April 24, 1930 – May 13, 2019) was a brass embouchure clinician, and designer of brass instruments and mouthpieces.
Callet rediscovered the original brass embouchure technique utilized in Europe during the baroque era, which at the time was only passed on verbally from trumpet guild members to their son... |
16528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Java | History of Java | The History of Java can refer to:
The history of the island of Java
The History of Java, an 1817 book on the history of the Java by Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore
The version history of the Java programming language
The history of the Java platform |
16529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20%28board%20game%29 | Java (board game) | Java is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2000 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. It is illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel.
Java won the Deutscher Spiele Preis 9th place in 2001 and the Games Magazine Best Advanced Strategy Game in 2002. ... |
16530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Radcliffe%20%28physician%29 | John Radcliffe (physician) | John Radcliffe (1650 – 1 November 1714) was an English physician, academic and politician. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera (in Radcliffe Square), the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Radcliffe Science Library, Radcliffe Primary Care and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him. Th... |
16533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual | Joual | Joual () is an accepted name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for some. Joual is stigmatized by some and celebrated by others. While joual is often considered a sociolect of the ... |
16534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20and%20Esau | Jacob and Esau | The biblical Book of Genesis speaks of the relationship between fraternal twins Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac and Rebecca. The story focuses on Esau's loss of his birthright to Jacob and the conflict that ensued between their descendant nations because of Jacob's deception of their aged and blind father, Isaac, in orde... |
16535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Lister | Joseph Lister | | signature = Joseph Lister signature.png
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Joseph Lister, Baron Lister of Lyme Regis (5 April 182710 February 1912), was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of surgery in the same... |
16537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Homann | Johann Homann | Johann Baptist Homann (20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.
Life
Homann was born in Oberkammlach near Kammlach in the Electorate of Bavaria. Although educated at a Jesuit school, and preparing for an ecclesiastical career, he eventually converted t... |
16542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadavpur%20University | Jadavpur University | Jadavpur University is a public technical university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as Bengal Technical Institute and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2020, it was ranked fifth among universities in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NI... |
16543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel | Jewel | Jewel often refers to:
Gemstone
Jewellery
Jewel may also refer to:
Companies
Jewel (supermarket), a U.S. grocery store chain
Jewel Food Stores (Australia), an Australian grocery store chain
Jewel Records (disambiguation), the name of several record labels
Entertainment
Music
Jewel (singer) (born Jewel Kilcher),... |
16544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20L.%20Jones | James L. Jones | James Logan Jones Jr. (born December 19, 1943) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 22nd United States National Security Advisor from 2009 to 2010. During his military career, he served as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003, and Commander, Unite... |
16545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Lovelock | James Lovelock | James Ephraim Lovelock (born 26 July 1919) is a British independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
With a PhD in medicine, Lovelock began his career performing cryopreservation experim... |
16546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Akii-Bua | John Akii-Bua | John Akii-Bua (3 December 1949 – 20 June 1997) was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country. In 1986, he was a recipient of the Silver Olympic Order.
Biography
Akii-Bua was raised in a family of 43 children from one father and his eight wives. Akii-Bua started his athletic career as a short-di... |
16547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20von%20Ribbentrop | Joachim von Ribbentrop | Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.
Ribbentrop first came to Adolf Hitler's notice as a well-travelled businessman with more knowledge of the outside world than most senior Nazis and as a perceived... |
16550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%2C%20King%20of%20England | John, King of England | John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty... |
16551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jule%20Styne | Jule Styne | Jule Styne (; born Julius Kerwin Stein, December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was an English-American songwriter and composer best known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl.
Early life
... |
16552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Gray | Jean Gray | Jean Gray may refer to:
Jean Vivra Gray (1924–2016), Australian television and film actress
Jean Grey, a fictional superhero
Jean Grae, American hip hop recording artist |
16553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Roberts | Julia Roberts | Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, Roberts is known for her leading roles in films of several genres, from romantic comedies and dramas to thrillers and action films. Many of her films have earned over $100 million at the worldwide box office, and... |
16554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sealy%20Hospital | John Sealy Hospital |
John Sealy Hospital is a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States.
History
Sealy opened on January 10, 1890. It was founded by the widow and brother of one of the richest citizens of Texas, John Sealy after his death. Accompanied by the John Sealy H... |
16555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20the%20Evangelist | John the Evangelist | John the Evangelist (; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ; , ) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, or John the Presbyter, although this has been disputed by most modern scholars.
Identity
The Gospel of John refers to an... |
16556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Kirby | Jack Kirby | Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters... |
16558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Weissmuller | Johnny Weissmuller | Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an American actor, Olympian and swimmer. He was known for portraying Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man, five sequels produced by MGM, and six additional films by RKO. Weissmuller was also known for having one of the ... |
16559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Grey | Jean Grey | Jean Elaine Grey is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix and Dark Phoenix. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963).
Jean is a... |
16563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Dupuis%20%28Jesuit%29 | Jacques Dupuis (Jesuit) | Jacques Dupuis (5 December 1923 – 28 December 2004) was a Belgian Jesuit priest and theologian. He spent several decades in India and beginning in 1984 taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Career
Jacques Dupuis became a Jesuit in 1941. After early religious and academic training in Belgium he left f... |
16564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Brabham | Jack Brabham | Sir John Arthur Brabham (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in , , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.
Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop be... |
16565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%20calculus | Jones calculus | In optics, polarized light can be described using the Jones calculus, discovered by R. C. Jones in 1941. Polarized light is represented by a Jones vector, and linear optical elements are represented by Jones matrices. When light crosses an optical element the resulting polarization of the emerging light is found by tak... |
16567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip%20Broz%20Tito | Josip Broz Tito | Josip Broz (, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; , ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in German-... |
16568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stauber | John Stauber | John Stauber is an American progressive writer. Stauber has co-authored five books about government propaganda, private interests and the public relations industry. His work includes one book about how industry manipulates science (Trust Us, We're Experts), one about the history and current scope of the public relation... |
16569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20P.%20Hogan%20%28writer%29 | James P. Hogan (writer) | James Patrick Hogan (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science fiction author.
Biography
Hogan was born in London, England. He was raised in the Portobello Road area on the west side of London. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd jobs until, after receiving a scholarship, he bega... |
16570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Lynne | Jeff Lynne | Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who co-founded the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). The group formed in 1970 as an offshoot of the Move, of which Lynne was also a member. Previously, Lynne had been involved with the Idle Race a... |
16572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge%20Dredd | Judge Dredd | Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. He is the magazine's longest-running character. He also appears in a number of film and video game adaptations.
Judge... |
16573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Flynn%20%28academic%29 | James Flynn (academic) | James Robert Flynn FRSNZ (28 April 193411 December 2020) was a New Zealand intelligence researcher. Originally from Washington, D.C. and educated at the University of Chicago, Flynn emigrated to New Zealand in 1963, where he taught political studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin. He was noted for his publicatio... |
16578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hay | John Hay | John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodor... |
16579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Division | Joy Division | Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings were heavily i... |
16580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite | Jacobite | Jacobite means follower of Jacob or James. Jacobite may refer to:
Religion
Jacobites, followers of Saint Jacob Baradaeus (died 578). Churches in the Jacobite tradition and sometimes called Jacobite include:
Syriac Orthodox Church, sometimes colloquially known as the Jacobite Church
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church,... |
16581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Bench | Johnny Bench | Johnny Lee Bench (born December 7, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career, which lasted from through , with the Cincinnati Reds, primarily as a catcher. Bench was the leader of the Reds team known as the Big Red Machine that dominated the National Le... |
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