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16164 | John Macleod (physiologist) | | name | honorific_suffix
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| birth_place = Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland
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| death_place = Aberdeen, Scotland
| field = Medicine
| alma_mater = University of Aberdeen<br>University of Leipzig
| work_institutions = Case Western Reserve University<br />University of Toronto<br />University of Abe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macleod_(physiologist) | 2025-04-05T18:32:13.587330 |
16167 | Jackson, Mississippi | }}
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16168 | Jackson County, Michigan | , of which is land and (3.0%) is water.
Rivers
Grand River
The Grand River is Michigan's longest river. It starts in Somerset Township in Hillsdale County and Liberty Township in Jackson County. It then flows through a small part of Columbia Township, into Summit township, and then right through the Jackson city limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_County,_Michigan | 2025-04-05T18:32:13.685126 |
16175 | Jennifer Lopez | J.Lo (album)||JLO (disambiguation)}}
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16179 | July 21 | Events
Pre-1600
*356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became the first pope to resign his office.
* 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21 | 2025-04-05T18:32:13.955379 |
16181 | July 23 | Events
Pre-1600
* 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
*1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
1601–1900
*1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_23 | 2025-04-05T18:32:13.994798 |
16182 | Jock Taylor | | birth_place = Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland
| death_date
| death_place = Imatra Circuit, Finland
| GP Active years = 1978–1982
| GP Teams = 1 Fowlers of Bristol
| GP Championships = 1 <small>()</small>
| GP Race Starts | GP Race Wins
| GP Podiums | GP Total Points
| GP Poles | GP Fastest laps
}}
Jock Taylo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Taylor | 2025-04-05T18:32:13.998230 |
16186 | Jewish views on homosexuality | with the Star of David at a Pride parade.]]
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The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. The book of Vayikra (Leviticus) is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse between males as a (something abhorred or detested) that could be subject to capital punishment by the contempora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_homosexuality | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.062420 |
16187 | John Dewey | | birth_place = Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| alma_mater = University of Vermont<br />Johns Hopkins University
| school_tradition Pragmatism<br />Instrumentalism
| institutions =
* University of Michigan
* University of Chicago
**Laboratory Schools
* Teachers C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.106063 |
16188 | Jackal | Jackals are canids native to Africa and Eurasia. While the word "" has historically been used for many canines of the subtribe canina, in modern use it most commonly refers to three species: the closely related black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas) and side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta) of Central and Southern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackal | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.120044 |
16190 | Jumping the broom | ]]
Jumping the broom (or jumping the besom) is a phrase and custom relating to a wedding ceremony in which the couple jumps over a broom. It is most widespread among African Americans and Black Canadians, popularized during the 1970s by the novel and miniseries Roots, and originated in mid-19th-century antebellum slav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_broom | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.130228 |
16191 | January 13 | Events
Pre-1600
*27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13 | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.196816 |
16192 | January 14 | Events
Pre-1600
1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14 | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.337999 |
16193 | Jackie Robinson | |birth_place=Cairo, Georgia, U.S.
|death_date
|death_place=Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
|debut2league = MLB
|debutdate|debutyear1945
|debutteam=Kansas City Monarchs
|debutleague = NgL
|debut2date=April 15
|debut2year=1947
|debut2team=Brooklyn Dodgers
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=October 10
|finalyear=1956
|finalteam=Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.434009 |
16194 | JPEG Network Graphics | JPEG Network Graphics (JNG, ) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure (with a different signature) as a container format to wrap JPEG-encoded image data.
JNG was created as an adjunct to the MNG animation format, but may be used as a stand-alone format. JNG ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_Network_Graphics | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.439055 |
16196 | Jane Shore | Elizabeth Shaw}}
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Elizabeth "Jane" Shore (née Lambert; 1445 – c. 1527) was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England. She became the best known to history through being later accused of conspiracy by the future King Richard III, and compelled to do public penance. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Shore | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.452760 |
16200 | Jack Kemp | | office = 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
| president = George H. W. Bush
| deputy = Alfred A. DelliBovi <br> Frank Keating
| term_start = February 13, 1989
| term_end = January 20, 1993
| predecessor = Samuel Pierce
| successor = Henry Cisneros
| office1 = Chair of the House Republican Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.588551 |
16202 | January 18 | Events
Pre-1600
474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18 | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.710686 |
16203 | Jihad | Jihad (; ) is an Arabic word that means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", particularly with a praiseworthy aim. Literally meaning 'struggle', the term is most frequently associated with warfare.
Jihad is classified into inner ("greater") jihad, which involves a struggle against one's own passions and impulses, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.814885 |
16205 | Jacobin (politics) | A Jacobin (; ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799). The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. The Dominicans in France were called Jacobins (, correspon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(politics) | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.883038 |
16206 | Johann Tobias Krebs | Johann Tobias Krebs (7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762) was a German organist and composer, today best remembered as the father of Johann Ludwig Krebs, one of Bach's most accomplished pupils.
Krebs was born in Heichelheim and went to school in the nearby Weimar. Nothing is known about his early musical training, but at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tobias_Krebs | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.884869 |
16207 | Joseph Gurney Cannon | 1923}}
| signature = Joseph_Gurney_Cannon_signature.png
| order = 35th
| office = Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
| term_start = November 9, 1903
| term_end = March 3, 1911
| predecessor = David B. Henderson
| successor = Champ Clark
| office1 = Leader of the <br>House Republican Conference
| term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.896672 |
16208 | James G. Blaine | James Blain}}
| term_start5 = March 4, 1863
| term_end5 = July 10, 1876
| predecessor5 = Samuel C. Fessenden
| successor5 = Edwin Flye
| birth_name = James Gillespie Blaine
| birth_date =
| birth_place = West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| party = Republican
|... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Blaine | 2025-04-05T18:32:14.967186 |
16209 | Justinian I | The name Flavius became a courtesy title by the late 4th century and was no longer used as a personal name. Justinian's full titulature, as attested in his Institutes, was Imperator Caesar Flavius Iustinianus Alamannicus Gothicus Francicus Germanicus Anticus Alanicus Vandalicus Africanus pius felix inclitus victor ac t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.010872 |
16211 | John Martyn | John Martyn|the Swedish singer|John Martin (singer)}}
| birth_date
| birth_place = New Malden, Surrey, England
| death_date
| death_place = Thomastown, Ireland
| genre =
| occupation =
| instrument =
| years_active = 1967–2009
| label =
| associated_acts = Beverley Martyn
| website =
}}
Iain David McGeachy (11... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martyn | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.035632 |
16215 | John Milton | | birth_place = Bread Street, London, England
| death_date
| death_place = Bunhill Row, London, England
| resting_place = St Giles-without-Cripplegate
| occupation =
| alma_mater = Christ's College, Cambridge
| spouse =
*
*
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| children = 5
| module
| period =
| genres =
| subject = Religious and political fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.113485 |
16216 | Joris Ivens | | birth_place = Nijmegen, Netherlands
| death_date
| death_place = Paris, France
| other_names | occupation Documentary filmmaker
| years_active | spouse Marceline Loridan-Ivens
| known_for | notable_works
}}
Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris_Ivens | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.128528 |
16217 | Jaguar | }}
| image = Standing jaguar.jpg <!--Please do not change this image. See Talkpage for two (Feb 2021 & Jul 2021) consensus-based sections supporting this (original FA) image. Thanks!-->
| image_upright = 1.2
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref
| status2 = CITES_A1
| status2_system = CITES
| status2_re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.197285 |
16218 | Jeffrey Dahmer | | birth_date =
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Portage, Wisconsin, U.S.
| cause Homicide by bludgeoning (severe skull and brain trauma)
| victims = 17
| country = United States
| states =
| beginyear = 1978
| endyear = 1991
| apprehended = July 22, 1991
| conviction * First-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.304509 |
16219 | Joseph Cotten | | birth_place = Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Early life
(September 1931)]]
in Duel in the Sun'' (1946)]]
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was born on May 15, 1905, in Petersburg, Virginia, United States, the first of three sons born to Joseph Cheshire Cotten Sr., ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cotten | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.350081 |
16223 | Joel | Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" in Hebrew and may refer to:
Joel (given name), including a list of people named Joel or Yoel
Joel (surname), a surname
Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazilian football goalkeeper
Joel (footballer, born 1980), Joel Bertoti Padilha, Brazilian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.352718 |
16224 | Jonah | |rtlyes}}}}
|image=Sistine jonah.jpg
|imagesize=270
|caption=The Prophet Jonah ()<br />by Michelangelo (the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
|titles=Prophet
|birth_date=9th century BCE
|birth_placeGath-hepher, Kingdom of Israel|death_date8th century BCE
|death_place|feast_day 21 September (Catholicism)
|beatified_date|beatified... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.418691 |
16225 | Jacquard machine | was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched cards to create (1839). It was only produced to order. Charles Babbage owned one of these portraits; it inspired him in using perforated cards in his Analytical Engine. It is in the collection of the Science Museum in London, England.]]
The Jacquard mach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.428408 |
16226 | JUnit | | operating system = Cross-platform
| programming language = Java
| genre = Unit testing tool
| license Eclipse Public License 2.0 (relicensed previously)
| website =
}}
JUnit is a test automation framework for the Java programming language. JUnit is often used for unit testing, and is one of the xUnit frameworks.
J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.438723 |
16227 | Jerome Kern | thumb|250px|Jerome Kern in 1934
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Kern | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.510636 |
16228 | Jim Henson | | birth_place Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_cause = Toxic shock syndrome caused by Group A streptococcal infection
| resting_place = Cremated; ashes scattered in Taos, New Mexico in 1992
| alma_mater = University of Maryland, College Park (BS)
| occupation =
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.579664 |
16229 | Joystick | , 8. suction cups.]]
A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. Also known as the control column, it is the principal control device in the cockpit of many civilian and military aircraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.635361 |
16232 | Juan Fernández Islands | Juan Fernández}}
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| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Fernández_Islands | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.653672 |
16233 | John Maynard Smith | | image = John Maynard Smith.jpg
| caption = Maynard Smith in 1997
| birth_date
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date
| death_place = Lewes, East Sussex, England
| nationality = British
| field = Evolutionary biologist and geneticist
| work_institutions = University College London, University of Sussex
| educa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Smith | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.666707 |
16238 | John Danforth | July 23, 2000
| predecessor1 = Position established
| successor1 = Position not in use
| office2 = Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee
| term_start2 = January 3, 1985
| term_end2 = January 3, 1987
| predecessor2 = Bob Packwood
| successor2 = Ernest Hollings
| jr/sr3 = United States Senator
| state3 = Missouri
| term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danforth | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.684314 |
16239 | Jordanes | , whose capital was Constantinople, is shown in pink. Conquests of Justinian I shown in green.]]
Jordanes (; Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat,}} claimed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life.
He wrote two works, one on Roman hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanes | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.693517 |
16240 | Jim Bakker | | birth_place = Muskegon, Michigan, U.S.
| church = Assemblies of God (1960–1988)<br>Charismatic (2003–present)
| congregations = The PTL Club<br>Heritage USA<br>Heritage Village Church<br>Morningside Church
| spouse =
*
}}
| children = 7, including Jay Bakker
}}
James Orsen Bakker (; born January 2, 1940) is an Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.724843 |
16241 | Jan and Dean | | years_active =
| label =
| website =
| past_members = * Jan Berry
* Dean Torrence
}}
Jan and Dean were 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Dean | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.744672 |
16243 | Jawaharlal Nehru | | president =
| governor_general = }}
| deputy = Vallabhbhai Patel
| predecessor = Office established<!-- hence no predecessor -->
| successor = Lal Bahadur Shastri
| office2 = <!-- Do NOT add counts or ordinals, as per WP:CONSENSUS -->Union Minister of External Affairs
| term_start2 = 2 September 1946
| term_end2 = ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.871645 |
16245 | Janis Joplin | | birth_place = Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| death_cause = Heroin overdose
| signature = Janis Joplin Signature.svg
| occupation =
| mother | father
| awards =
| website =
| module
| instrument = <!--- If you think an instrument should be listed, a discus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.984352 |
16247 | John van Melle | |birth_place= Goes
|death_date
}}
Jan van Melle (11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African writer. 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 A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_van_Melle | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.986946 |
16249 | John Fink | | birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date | death_place
| years_active = 1951–2007
| occupation = Film, television actor
}}
John Fink (born February 11, 1940) is an American film and television actor.
He is known for his roles in two Batman movies, Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997), and his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fink | 2025-04-05T18:32:15.992128 |
16252 | Jacques Cousteau | | image = Cousteau1972 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Cousteau in 1972
| birth_name = Jacques-Yves Cousteau
| birth_date
| birth_place = Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France
| death_date
| death_place = Paris, France
| occupation = Oceanographer
| spouse | }}
| children =
| relatives = Pierre-Antoine Cousteau (brother)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.062227 |
16253 | J. Philippe Rushton | | birth_place = Bournemouth, England
| death_date =
| death_place = London, Ontario, Canada
| residence | nationality Canadian
| ethnicity | field Psychology, psychometrics
| work_institution = York University<br />University of Toronto<br />University of Western Ontario
| education = Birkbeck College (BA)<br /><br />... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Philippe_Rushton | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.091582 |
16254 | Joseph Smith (disambiguation) | Joseph or Joe Smith may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Joseph Smith (art collector) (1682–1770), British art collector and consul at Venice
Joseph A. Smith (artist) (born 1936), American artist and professor at the Pratt Institute
Joseph Lindon Smith (1863–1950), American painter
Joe Smith (comedian) (1884–1981), A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_(disambiguation) | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.095386 |
16261 | Juliana Hatfield | | birth_place Wiscasset, Maine, U.S.
| genre = Alternative rock
| occupation =
| instrument = Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards
| years_active = 1986–present
| label = Mammoth, Zoë, Ye Olde, American Laundromat
| associated_acts = Blake Babies, Some Girls, Evan Dando, The Lemonheads, Minor Alps, The I Don'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_Hatfield | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.121044 |
16263 | 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 lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Political_Military_Group | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.123002 |
16265 | 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 II, a city district of Osijek, Croatia
Jug Sport Hall, an indoor arena in Jug II
Cep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug_(disambiguation) | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.124449 |
16266 | John William Polidori | John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British 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 mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Polidori | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.147021 |
16267 | Joke | }}
and Bill Clinton enjoying a 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 interpreted literally. It usually takes the form of a story, often with dialogue, and ends in a punch line, whereby the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.184281 |
16268 | Jacob Lawrence | | birth_place = Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
| death_date =
| death_place = Seattle, Washington, United States
| nationality = American
| spouse =
| field = Paintings portraying African-American life
| training = Harlem Community Art Center
| movement | works The Migration Series
| patrons | influenced b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.224880 |
16273 | James Stewart | Jimmy Stuart (disambiguation)|and|James Stewart (disambiguation)}}
| birth_place = Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
| burial_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = Princeton University (AB)
| occupation =
| years_active =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.365937 |
16274 | Jalalabad | | other_name | settlement_type City
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| image_caption = From top counter-clockwise: An aerial view of a section of Jalalabad, Irrigation fields in Jalalabad, Jalalabad Cricket Stadium, Jalalabad in January 2011, Jalalabad Bridge, Governor's House in Jalalabad
| image_f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalalabad | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.387248 |
16275 | Jakarta | | nickname
| motto <br />"Victorious and Great"<br />Slogan: <br>"Jakarta a City of Collaboration"<!-- Each Governor has their own Slogan, but if a new governor is elected, usually the slogan will change too. Therefore, please change this slogan if there is a new governor and do not delete the Image of Wordmark Plus J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.520414 |
16277 | Jack Ruby | | criminal_penalty = Death (overturned)
| criminal_status = Conviction overturned on appeal, died before retrial
| occupation = Nightclub owner
}}
Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; on or around March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, the son of Joseph Rubenstein and Fannie Turek Rutkowski (or R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.558667 |
16278 | James Randi | | birth_name = Randall James Hamilton Zwinge
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| death_date =
| death_place = Plantation, Florida, U.S.
| death_cause | resting_place
| other_names = The Amazing Randi
| occupation =
| years active = 1946−2016
| networth | spouse
| parents | website
| citizens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.655822 |
16279 | James Lind | |image = James Lind by Chalmers.jpg
|caption |birth_date
|birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
|death_date
|death_place = Gosport, Hampshire, England
|profession = Military surgeon
|specialism = Naval hygiene
|research_field |known_for Prevention of maritime diseases and cure for scurvy
|years_active |education Royal Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lind | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.666347 |
16283 | James Clavell | | birth_place = Sydney, Australia
| death_date
| death_place = Vevey, Switzerland
| occupation =
| citizenship =
| period = 1958–1993
| spouse =
| partner | children
| module =
* Second World War
**Dutch East Indies campaign
|awards =
}}
}}
James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clavell | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.682136 |
16284 | Joliet | Joliet or Jolliet may refer to:
People
Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), French-Canadian explorer of North America
Oscar Joliet (1878–1969), Belgian scholar-priest and Catholic Auxiliary bishop of Ghent
Places in the United States
Joliet, Illinois, a city named after Louis Jolliet, seat of Will County
Joliet Correctiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.683525 |
16285 | John Cade | | birth_place = Murtoa, Victoria, Australia
| death_date
| death_place = Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
| occupation = psychiatrist; army medical officer; medical scientist; mental health practitioner; prisoner of war (Australian); public servant
| spouse = Estana Evelyn Jean Charles
| parents = Dr David & Ellen Cade
| ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.689452 |
16286 | Johann von Werth | Spain<br><br>
|branch|serviceyears 1610–1648
|rank= General of cavalry
|unit= Cuirassier
|commands|battles
'''Thirty Years' War
*Battle of White Mountain (1620)
*Siege of Jülich (1621–1622)
*Battle of Fleurus (1622)
*Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
*Battle of Tuttlingen (1643)
*Battle of Freiburg (1644)
*Battle of Herbstha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_von_Werth | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.694091 |
16288 | Jürgen Habermas | | birth_place = Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Germany
| death_date <!-- (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place | region Western philosophy
| era = Contemporary philosophy
| school_tradition
| education = University of Bonn (PhD)<br />University of Marburg (Dr. phil. hab.)
| main_int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas | 2025-04-05T18:32:16.726165 |
16289 | James Watson | | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date | death_place
| residence | citizenship <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT -->
| nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT -->
| fields = Genetics
| workplaces =
*
* Harvard University
*
* University of Cambridge
* National Institutes of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.143268 |
16290 | Jerk (physics) | , , }}
|baseunits = m·s<sup>−3</sup>, m/s<sup>3</sup>
|dimension = L T<sup>−3</sup>
}}
Jerk (also known as Jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol and expressed in m/s<sup>3</sup> (SI u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics) | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.181858 |
16291 | John Ambrose Fleming | | image = John_Ambrose_Fleming_1890.png
| caption = Fleming in 1890
| birth_date
| birth_place = Lancaster, England
| death_date
| death_place = Sidmouth, Devon, England
| alma_mater =
* St John's College, Cambridge (BA, 1881)
}}
| occupation =
| known_for = Inventing the Fleming valve (1904)
| spouses =
*
}}
| a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ambrose_Fleming | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.216298 |
16292 | John George, Elector of Brandenburg | *
*
}}
| issue =
| issue-link = #Family and Children
| issue-pipe = among others…
| birth_date
| birth_place = Cölln, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire
| death_date
| death_place = Cölln, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire
| burial_place = Berlin Cathedral
| religion = Lutheran
}}
John Geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George,_Elector_of_Brandenburg | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.247011 |
16294 | Jahangir | | succession = Emperor of Hindustan
| reign = 3 November 1605 – 28 October 1627
| coronation = 24 November 1605
| predecessor = Akbar I
| successor = Shah Jahan<br />Shahryar Mirza (de facto)<br />Dawar Bakhsh (titular)
| birth_name = Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
| birth_date
| birth_place = Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Sarkar, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahangir | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.308416 |
16295 | Josiah Wedgwood | | image = Josiah Wedgwood by George Stubbs, 1780, enamel on a Wedgwood ceramic tablet - Wedgwood Museum - Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, England - DSC09537.jpg
| caption = Josiah Wedgwood by George Stubbs, 1780, enamel on a Wedgwood ceramic tablet
| birth_date
| birth_place = Burslem, Staffordshire, England
| death_da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.352713 |
16296 | Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 | | repealing_legislation | related_legislation Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1877
| status | legislation_history
| theyworkforyou | millbankhansard
| original_text
| revised_text | use_new_UK-LEG
| UK-LEG_title | collapsed
}}
The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66) (sometimes known as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Judicature_Act_1873 | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.380099 |
16300 | Julian (emperor) | Julian}}
Iulianus }}.}}
| succession = Roman emperor
| reign = 3 November 361 – 26 June 363 (proclaimed in February 360)
| reign-type = Augustus
| predecessor = Constantius II
| successor = Jovian
| reign1 = 6 November 355 – 360
| reign-type1 = Caesar
| birth_date = 331
| birth_place = Constantinople, Roman Empire
| ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(emperor) | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.504269 |
16302 | John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg | | issue =
| birth_date
| birth_place = Ansbach
| death_date
| death_place = Arneburg Castle
| place of burial = Berlin Cathedral (tomb lost, 1750), originally at Heilsbronn Abbey
}}
John II (2 August 1455 – 9 January 1499) was Elector of Brandenburg from 1486 until his death, the fourth of the House of Hohenzollern.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cicero,_Elector_of_Brandenburg | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.549013 |
16305 | Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg | *
}}
| issue =
| birth_date
| birth_place = Cölln, Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire
| death_date
| death_place = Cöpenick, Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire
| burial_place = Berlin Cathedral
| religion = Lutheran
}}
Joachim Frederick (27 January 1546 – 18 July 1608), of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Frederick,_Elector_of_Brandenburg | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.576208 |
16306 | John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg | | issue =
| issue-link = #Issue
| issue-pipe = more...
| religion = Lutheran (until 1613)<br/>Calvinist (since 1613)
| birth_date
| birth_place = Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire
| death_date
| death_place = Berlin, Electorate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire
| burial_place = Berlin Cathedral
| ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sigismund,_Elector_of_Brandenburg | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.604797 |
16307 | Jackson Pollock | | birth_place = Cody, Wyoming, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = Springs, New York, U.S.
| spouse =
| known_for = Painting
| education = Art Students League of New York
| movement = Abstract expressionism
| signature = Jackson Pollock Signature.svg
| notable works = * Number 17A (1948)
* No. 5, 1948 (1948)
* Mural on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.664165 |
16308 | Jet Li | <!--PLEASE do not remove HIS FAMILY NAME -->
| birth_place = Beijing, China
| death_date <!-- (enter DEATH date then BIRTH date (e.g., ...|1908|31|8|1967|28|2}} use both this parameter and |birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) -->
| death_place | death_cause
| resting_pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.733940 |
16309 | Jianghu | Jianghu () is a Chinese term that generally refers to the social environment in which many Chinese wuxia, xianxia, and ''gong'an stories are set. The term is used flexibly, and can be used to describe a fictionalized version of rural historical China (usually using loose influences from across the ~1000 BC–280 AD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianghu | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.786441 |
16310 | Jacopo Amigoni | right|thumb|250px|Juno Receiving the Head of Argos (1730-32) Oil on canvas, 108 x 72 cm. Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
Jacopo Amigoni (c. 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 prol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Amigoni | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.819360 |
16312 | Jean-François Millet | | birth_name = Jean-François Millet
| birth_date
| birth_place = Gruchy, Gréville-Hague, Normandy, France
| death_date
| death_place = Barbizon, Île de France, France
| field = Painting
| training | movement Realism
| works | patrons
| awards =
}}
Jean-François Millet (; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a Fren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Millet | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.850128 |
16313 | Jacques Callot | thumb|Jacques Callot, Lucas Vorsterman the Elder after Anthony van Dyck
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 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Callot | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.884107 |
16315 | Joseph Campbell | | birth_place = White Plains, New York, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
| spouse =
| education = Dartmouth College<br />Columbia University (BA, MA)
| academic_advisors Roger Sherman Loomis
| influences }}
| discipline = Literature
| sub_discipline = Comparative mythology
| workplaces = Sar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell | 2025-04-05T18:32:17.974836 |
16316 | John Dowland | <!--Do NOT add a portrait with out a reliable source identifying it as Dowland-->
John Dowland for the last name, there is no consensus on the correct pronunciation. By analogy with the name Cowper and the Restoration poet Abraham Cowley, the pronunciation is suggested.<!--See the talk page for discussion of this issu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dowland | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.022912 |
16317 | John James Audubon | | birth_place = Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)
| death_date =
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| citizenship =
| occupation = Artist, naturalist, ornithologist
| spouse =
| signature = Audubon signature.svg
}}
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.104823 |
16319 | John Masefield | | birth_place = Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
| death_date
| death_place = Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
| occupation = Poet, writer
| nationality = English
| module =
| awards = Shakespeare Prize <small>(1938)</small>
| birth_name = John Edward Masefield
}}
John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Masefield | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.176051 |
16321 | Joseph McCarthy | | birth_place = Grand Chute, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
| resting_place = Saint Mary's Cemetery
| party = Republican (from 1944)
| otherparty = Democratic (1936–1944)
| spouse =
| children = 1
| education = Marquette University (LLB)
| signature = Joe Mccarthy Signature.sv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.266020 |
16324 | John Hancock | | alt = Half-length portrait of a man with a hint of a smile. His features suggests that he is in his 30s, although he wears an off-white wig in the style of an English gentleman that makes him appear older. His dark suit has fancy embroidery.
| order = 1st & 3rd
| office = Governor of Massachusetts
| lieutenant = Samu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.346885 |
16326 | John W. Campbell | | birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = Mountainside, New Jersey, U.S.
| occupation = Magazine editor, writer
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (no degree)<br />Duke University (BS, physics, 1934)
| nationality= American
| period = 1930–1971
| genre = Science fiction
| ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.411389 |
16327 | Joule | erg
| units3 = watt-seconds
| inunits3 = W⋅s
| units4 = kilowatt-hours
| inunits4 ≈
| units5 = kilocalories (thermochemical)
| inunits5
| units6 = BTUs
| inunits6
| units7 = electronvolts
| inunits7 ≈
}}
The joule ( , or ; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). In terms of SI bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.451745 |
16328 | 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepster_Records | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.483263 |
16329 | John Chrysostom | }}
| death_date = }}
| feast_day =
| Coptic Christianity
| Western Christianity
}}
| venerated_in
| caption = Byzantine mosaic at the Hagia Sophia, late 10th
cent.
| image = Johnchrysostom.jpg
| birth_place = Antioch, Roman Syria, Roman Empire
| death_place = Comana, Diocese of Pontus, Eastern Roman Empire
| titles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.547834 |
16333 | James Heckman | | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, US
| death_date | death_place
| institution = University of Chicago<br />University of Southern California<br />Columbia University<br />Chinese University of Hong Kong
| field = Microeconomics
| alma_mater = Colorado College (BA)<br>Princeton University (PhD)
| doctoral_advisors = H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heckman | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.584219 |
16334 | 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 B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_of_Poland | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.608846 |
16336 | Jeffrey Archer | | honorific-suffix | image Jeffrey Archer 20241127.jpg
| caption = Archer at Hatchards London in 2024
| office = Member of the House of Lords<br />Lord Temporal
| term_start = 27 July 1992
| term_end = 4 July 2024<br />Life peerage
| office1 = Member of Parliament<br />for Louth (Lincolnshire)
| parliament | majority
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.697100 |
16339 | Johannes Brahms | | birth_place = Hamburg
| death_date
| death_place = Vienna
| occupation =
| works = List of compositions
}}
Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.763446 |
16340 | Jean-Paul Sartre | | birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date
| death_place = Paris, France
| school_tradition Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, existential phenomenology, the imaginary, Sartrean terminology
| partner = Simone de Beauvoir (1929–1980)
| signature = Jean-Paul Sartre signature.svg
| signature_size = 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.829768 |
16341 | John Paul Jones | 1890, based on a work of c. 1781
| birth_name = John Paul
| birth_date
| birth_place = Arbigland, Kirkcudbrightshire
| death_date
| death_place = Paris, France
| placeofburial = Naval Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Maryland
| allegiance = (1775–1787) <br /> (1787–1792)
| branch = Continental Navy <br />
| serviceyears =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones | 2025-04-05T18:32:18.902152 |
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