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15,724 | # Juan de Nova Island
## Geology
### Important Bird Area {#important_bird_area}
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports a very large colony of sooty terns, with up to 100,000 breeding pairs. It also has a much smaller colony of greater crested terns -- w... | 148 | Juan de Nova Island | 3 |
15,740 | # Jan Berglin
**Jan Berglin** (born March 24, 1960) is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper *Ergo* in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion. He published his early strips in the local social democrati... | 420 | Jan Berglin | 0 |
15,747 | # Josef Terboven
**Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven** (23 May 1898 -- 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving *Gauleiter* of Gau Essen and the *Reichskommissar* for Norway during the German occupation.
Terboven was born in Essen, Germany, and attended *Volksschule* and *Re... | 454 | Josef Terboven | 0 |
15,747 | # Josef Terboven
## Nazi Party career {#nazi_party_career}
Terboven joined the Nazi Party in November 1923 with membership number 25,247 and participated in the abortive Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. As an early Party member, he later would be awarded the Golden Party Badge. When the Party subsequently was outlawed, he... | 523 | Josef Terboven | 1 |
15,747 | # Josef Terboven
## Reichskommissar of Norway {#reichskommissar_of_norway}
Terboven was named *Reichskommissar* for Norway on 24 April 1940 even before the military invasion\'s completion on 10 June. He moved into Skaugum, the official residence of Crown Prince Olav, in September 1940 and made his headquarters in the... | 441 | Josef Terboven | 2 |
15,747 | # Josef Terboven
## Reichskommissar of Norway {#reichskommissar_of_norway}
### Repression and crimes against humanity {#repression_and_crimes_against_humanity}
Terboven established multiple concentration camps in Norway, including Falstad concentration camp near Levanger and Bredtvet concentration camp in Oslo in lat... | 570 | Josef Terboven | 3 |
15,747 | # Josef Terboven
## Last months of the war and death {#last_months_of_the_war_and_death}
On 25 September 1944, Terboven, in his capacity as *Gauleiter* of Essen, was named commander of the *Volkssturm* units in the Gau. In reality, it was his Deputy *Gauleiter*, Fritz Schlessmann, who executed those duties as he had ... | 269 | Josef Terboven | 4 |
15,767 | # Jon Postel
**Jonathan Bruce Postel** (`{{IPAc-en|p|ə|ˈ|s|t|ɛ|l}}`{=mediawiki}; August 6, 1943 -- October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the... | 723 | Jon Postel | 0 |
15,767 | # Jon Postel
## Legacy
The significance of Jon Postel\'s contributions to building the Internet, both technical and personal, were such that a memorial recollection of his life and his work forms part of the core technical literature sequence of the Internet in the form of [RFC2468](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc... | 241 | Jon Postel | 1 |
15,768 | # Joyce K. Reynolds
**Joyce Kathleen Reynolds** (March 8, 1952 -- December 28, 2015) was an American computer scientist who played a significant role in developing protocols underlying the Internet. She authored or co-authored many RFCs, most notably those introducing and specifying the Telnet, FTP, and POP protocols.... | 411 | Joyce K. Reynolds | 0 |
15,769 | # Julmust
***Julmust*** (*jul* \"Christmas\" and **must** English: \'must\' \"not-yet-fermented fruit juice\") is a soft drink that is mainly consumed in Sweden around Christmas. During Easter, the name is ****påskmust**** (from **påsk**, \"Easter\"). During the rest of the year, it is sometimes sold under the name *m... | 417 | Julmust | 0 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
Joel Cohen}} `{{About|the shared career and activities of two American directors|the individuals|Joel Coen|and|Ethan Coen}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Use American English|date=March 2022}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Infobox person
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15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Background
### Early life {#early_life}
Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957) were born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Their mother, Rena (née Neumann; 1925--2001), was an art historian at St. Cloud State Univers... | 435 | Coen brothers | 1 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Career
### 1980s
After graduating from New York University, Joel worked as a production assistant on a variety of industrial films and music videos. He developed a talent for film editing and met Sam Raimi while assisting Edna Ruth Paul in editing Raimi\'s first feature film, *The Evil Dead* (1981... | 511 | Coen brothers | 2 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Career
### 1990s {#s_1}
*Miller\'s Crossing* (1990) is a gangster film inspired by Dashiell Hammett\'s *Red Harvest* (1929) and *The Glass Key* (1931). It stars Gabriel Byrne as Irish mobster Tom Reagan and features Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Steve Buscemi, Jon Polito and John Turturro. The ... | 609 | Coen brothers | 3 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Career
### 2000s {#s_2}
The Coen brothers\' next film, *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* (2000), was another critical and commercial success. The title was borrowed from the Preston Sturges film *Sullivan\'s Travels* (1941), whose lead character, movie director John Sullivan, had planned to make a film ... | 860 | Coen brothers | 4 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Career
### 2010s {#s_3}
*True Grit* (2010) is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Charles Portis. Filming was done in Texas and New Mexico. Hailee Steinfeld stars as Mattie Ross along with Jeff Bridges as Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin also appear in the movie. *True Gr... | 528 | Coen brothers | 5 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Career
### 2020s {#s_4}
It was announced in March 2019 that Joel Coen would be directing an adaptation of *Macbeth* starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. The film, titled *The Tragedy of Macbeth*, was Joel\'s first directorial effort without his brother, who was taking a break from film... | 254 | Coen brothers | 6 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Directing distinctions {#directing_distinctions}
Up to 2003, Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing, due to guild rules that disallowed multiple director credits to prevent dilution of the position\'s significance. The only exception to this rule is if the co-directors are ... | 314 | Coen brothers | 7 |
15,780 | # Coen brothers
## Personal lives {#personal_lives}
Joel has been married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984. In 1995, they adopted a son from Paraguay when he was six months old. McDormand has acted in a number of Coen Brothers films: *Blood Simple*, *Raising Arizona*, *Miller\'s Crossing*, *Barton Fink*, *Farg... | 525 | Coen brothers | 8 |
15,794 | # June 6
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15,796 | # June 11
| 3 | June 11 | 0 |
15,845 | # January 25
| 3 | January 25 | 0 |
15,854 | # June 3
| 3 | June 3 | 0 |
15,864 | # June 8
| 3 | June 8 | 0 |
15,866 | # January 27
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15,870 | # John Lynch (New Hampshire governor)
**John Hayden Lynch** (born November 25, 1952) is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 80th governor of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2013. Lynch was first elected governor in 2004, defeating first-term Republican incumbent Craig Benson -- the first tim... | 297 | John Lynch (New Hampshire governor) | 0 |
15,870 | # John Lynch (New Hampshire governor)
## Governor of New Hampshire {#governor_of_new_hampshire}
### Electoral history {#electoral_history}
In June 2004, Lynch launched his campaign for Governor of New Hampshire.
Lynch spent the five months preceding the election relentlessly criticizing Governor Craig Benson, the f... | 563 | John Lynch (New Hampshire governor) | 1 |
15,870 | # John Lynch (New Hampshire governor)
## Governor of New Hampshire {#governor_of_new_hampshire}
### Tenure
#### Taxes
As a candidate for governor, Lynch took \"The Pledge\" not to enact any broad-based taxes, especially a sales or income tax. As governor, Lynch kept his promise. Lynch does not support an amendment t... | 640 | John Lynch (New Hampshire governor) | 2 |
15,885 | # Jason
thumb\|upright=1.25\|Jason, between the jaws of the dragon which guards the Golden Fleece, is saved by Athena. The fleece hangs from a tree behind them. Attic kylix, c. lk=yes480--470 BC, attributed to Douris. `{{Greek mythology sidebar}}`{=mediawiki}
**Jason** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|eɪ|s|ən}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respe... | 410 | Jason | 0 |
15,885 | # Jason
## The Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece {#the_argonauts_and_the_quest_for_the_golden_fleece}
Jason assembled for his crew, a number of heroes, known as the Argonauts after their ship, the *Argo*. The group of heroes included:
- Acastus;
- Admetus;
- Argus, the eponymous builder of the Argo... | 957 | Jason | 1 |
15,885 | # Jason
## The return journey {#the_return_journey}
On the way back to Iolcus, Medea prophesied to Euphemus, the Argo\'s helmsman, that one day he would rule Cyrene. This came true through Battus, a descendant of Euphemus. Zeus, as punishment for the slaughter of Medea\'s own brother, sent a series of storms at the *... | 486 | Jason | 2 |
15,885 | # Jason
## The return journey {#the_return_journey}
### Treachery of Jason {#treachery_of_jason}
In Corinth, Jason became engaged to marry Creusa (sometimes referred to as Glauce), a daughter of the King of Corinth, to strengthen his political ties. When Medea confronted Jason about the engagement and cited all the h... | 370 | Jason | 3 |
15,885 | # Jason
## Family
### Parentage
Jason\'s father is invariably Aeson, but there is great variation as to his mother\'s name. According to various authors, she could be:
- Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus and Clymene
- Polymede, or Polymele, or Polypheme, a daughter of Autolycus
- Amphinome
- Theognete, daughte... | 516 | Jason | 4 |
15,893 | # Jeff Mills
**Jeff Mills** (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan), also known as \"**the** **Wizard**\", is an American DJ, record producer, and composer. In the late 1980s Mills founded the techno collective Underground Resistance with fellow Detroit techno producers \'Mad\' Mike Banks and Robert Hood but left t... | 992 | Jeff Mills | 0 |
15,893 | # Jeff Mills
## Art exhibits {#art_exhibits}
Mills is also an artist and has shown his works at exhibits internationally. His works have included \"Man of Tomorrow,\" a portrait of Mills that shows his perception of the future as well as \"Critical Arrangements\" exhibited at Pompidou Centre in 2008 as a part of \"Le... | 543 | Jeff Mills | 1 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
thumb\|upright=1.21\| *Canon triplex a 6*: first printed in 1747 (below), it appears on both versions of the portrait Haussmann made of Bach (1746, 1748 -- above). In the 19th-century Bach Gesellschaft edition the canon was published in Volume 45^1^, p. 138. In 1950 the ... | 660 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 0 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Listing Bach\'s compositions {#listing_bachs_compositions}
### BWV
In 1950 the *Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis* was published, allocating a unique number to every known composition by Bach. Wolfgang Schmieder, the editor of that catalogue, grouped the compositions by genre, ... | 1,140 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 1 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Listing Bach\'s compositions {#listing_bachs_compositions}
### BC
The Bach Compendium (BC), a catalogue covering Bach\'s vocal works was published in 1985. Occasionally works that have no BWV number can be identified by their BC number, e.g. BC C 8 for \"Der Gerechte... | 522 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 2 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Works in Bach\'s catalogues and collections {#works_in_bachs_catalogues_and_collections}
There are over 1500 works that feature in a catalogue of works by Bach, like the *Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis*, or in a collection of works associated with Bach (e.g. in one of the *N... | 1,478 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 3 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Works in Bach\'s catalogues and collections {#works_in_bachs_catalogues_and_collections}
\| data-sort-value=\"1524b\" \| Up ↑ \|- \| data-sort-value=\"0655.B00\" \| 655b \| data-sort-value=\"500.001\" \| -- \| data-sort-value=\"1748-12-31\" \| 1708--1789 \| chorale s... | 1,050 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 4 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Works in Bach\'s catalogues and collections {#works_in_bachs_catalogues_and_collections}
### By genre {#by_genre}
#### Cantatas (BWV 1--224) {#cantatas_bwv_1224}
: *See #BWV Chapter 1 in the table above*
In the 1950 first edition of the BWV the cantatas were larg... | 1,186 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 5 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Works in Bach\'s catalogues and collections {#works_in_bachs_catalogues_and_collections}
### 20th-century additions to the BWV catalogue and Anhang {#th_century_additions_to_the_bwv_catalogue_and_anhang}
Additions as published in BWV^2a^
#### Additions to the main c... | 616 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 6 |
15,910 | # List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
## Derivative works {#derivative_works}
There is not much system in the way works derived from Bach\'s compositions are listed. The \"R\" addition to the BWV number is only well-established for the reconstructions included in NBA VII/7 (e.g. solo violin reconstructions ... | 188 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | 7 |
15,935 | # June 16
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15,948 | # Jack L. Chalker
**Jack Laurence Chalker** (December 17, 1944 -- February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association an... | 330 | Jack L. Chalker | 0 |
15,948 | # Jack L. Chalker
## Science fiction {#science_fiction}
Chalker joined the Washington Science Fiction Association in 1958, and in 1963, he and two friends founded the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Chalker attended every World Science Fiction Convention, except one, from 1965 until 2004.
Chalker contributed a ch... | 613 | Jack L. Chalker | 1 |
15,954 | # January 24
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15,956 | # Journal of the Travellers Aid Society
***Journal of the Travellers\' Aid Society*** is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller, commonly abbreviated **JTAS**.
## History
Loren K. Wiseman created a magazine in 1979 to support *Traveller*, with Game Designers\' Workshop publishing *The Journal of the Trave... | 492 | Journal of the Travellers Aid Society | 0 |
15,956 | # Journal of the Travellers Aid Society
## Issues
### GDW
- 01 Annic Nova (1979) `{{ASIN|B004RI229S}}`{=mediawiki}
- 02 Victoria (1979) `{{ASIN|B0027DVL9C}}`{=mediawiki}
- 03 Asteroids (1979) `{{ASIN|B004RHU40I}}`{=mediawiki}
- 04 Gazelle Class Close Escorts (1980) `{{ASIN|B004RHZ2K0}}`{=mediawiki}
- 05 Im... | 571 | Journal of the Travellers Aid Society | 1 |
15,962 | # Jötunheimr
The terms **Jötunheimr** (in Old Norse orthography: **Jǫtunheimr** `{{IPA|non|ˈjɔtonˌhɛimz̠|}}`{=mediawiki}; often anglicised as **Jotunheim**) or **Jötunheimar** refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes ... | 952 | Jötunheimr | 0 |
15,962 | # Jötunheimr
## Position in cosmology {#position_in_cosmology}
, along with other lands such as Hel, constitute \"the otherworld\" in Eddic sources that is either journeyed to or from, often leading to a confrontation that forms the basis for the narrative. There is no single location that *jötunheimar* are found in ... | 391 | Jötunheimr | 1 |
15,963 | # Johann Friedrich Agricola
**Johann Friedrich Agricola** (4 January 1720 -- 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym **Flavio Anicio Olibrio**.
## Biography
Agricola was born in Dobitschen, Thuringia.
### Leipzig
While a stude... | 349 | Johann Friedrich Agricola | 0 |
15,966 | # Jakob Abbadie
**Jakob Abbadie** (`{{IPA|fr|abadi|lang}}`{=mediawiki}; c. 1654`{{snd}}`{=mediawiki}25 September 1727), also known as **Jacques** or **James Abbadie**, was a French Protestant minister and writer. He became Dean of Killaloe, in Ireland.
## Life
Jacques Abbadie was born at Nay, Béarn, probably in 1654... | 696 | Jakob Abbadie | 0 |
15,966 | # Jakob Abbadie
## Works
Abbadie is best known by his religious treatises, several of which were translated from the original French into other languages and had a wide circulation throughout Europe. The most important of these are *Traite de la verité de la religion chrétienne* (1684); its continuation, *Traité de l... | 758 | Jakob Abbadie | 1 |
15,966 | # Jakob Abbadie
## Works {#works_1}
- 1684 - [*Traité de la Vérité*](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_traite-de-la-verit-de-l_abbadie-jacques_1684)
- 1689 - [*Traité de la Divinité de Nôtre Seigneur Jésus-christ*](https://archive.org/details/Traite-de-la-Divinite-de-Notre-Seigneur/pag... | 146 | Jakob Abbadie | 2 |
15,970 | # Johannes Agricola
**Johann** or **Johannes Agricola** (originally Schneider, then Schnitter; 20 April 1494 -- 22 September 1566) was a German Protestant Reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He was a follower and friend of Martin Luther, who became his antagonist in the matter of the binding obligation of the ... | 658 | Johannes Agricola | 0 |
15,970 | # Johannes Agricola
## In literature {#in_literature}
In 1836, Robert Browning used him as the subject of an early poetic soliloquy, \"Johannes Agricola in Meditation\" | 25 | Johannes Agricola | 1 |
15,987 | # January 7
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15,995 | # Johann Heinrich Alsted
**Johann Heinrich Alsted** (March 1588 -- November 9, 1638), \"the true parent of all the Encyclopædias\",s:Budget of Paradoxes/O.
was a German-born Transylvanian Saxon Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology... | 934 | Johann Heinrich Alsted | 0 |
15,995 | # Johann Heinrich Alsted
## Works
### Theologian
From his Transylvanian period dates Alsted\'s *Prodromus* (printed 1641, but dated 1635). The *Prodromus* was a Calvinist refutation of one of the most influential anti-Trinitarian works, *De vera religione* of Johannes Völkel. This work was a compendium of the argumen... | 286 | Johann Heinrich Alsted | 1 |
15,998 | # Jean-Jacques Ampère
**Jean-Jacques Ampère** (12 August 1800 -- 27 March 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters.
Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775--1836). Jean-Jacques\' mother died while he was an infant. (But André-Marie Ampère had a daughter -- Albine (1807--18... | 335 | Jean-Jacques Ampère | 0 |
16,010 | # Joseph Severn
**Joseph Severn** (7 December 1793 -- 3 August 1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important... | 372 | Joseph Severn | 0 |
16,010 | # Joseph Severn
## Journey to Italy with John Keats, 1820--1821 {#journey_to_italy_with_john_keats_18201821}
On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail aboard the *Maria Crowther* from England to Italy with the English poet John Keats. Keats and Severn had known one another in England, but they were only passing acquainta... | 503 | Joseph Severn | 1 |
16,010 | # Joseph Severn
## Life and work after the death of Keats {#life_and_work_after_the_death_of_keats}
Until recently,`{{when?|date=June 2025}}`{=mediawiki} it was believed that Severn\'s life culminated in his association with Keats and that he lived on this fame for the rest of his long life. In reality, Severn launch... | 715 | Joseph Severn | 2 |
16,010 | # Joseph Severn
## Paintings
Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in The Fitzwilliam Museum (1819), the pen-and-ink sketch, *Keats on his Deathbed* (1821), in the Keats-Shelley house, Rome, and the oil painting of the poet reading, *John Keats at Wentworth... | 424 | Joseph Severn | 3 |
16,021 | # John Irving
**John Winslow Irving** (born **John Wallace Blunt Jr.**; March 2, 1942) is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of his fourth novel *The World According to Garp* in 1978. Many of Irving\'s n... | 350 | John Irving | 0 |
16,021 | # John Irving
## Career
Irving\'s career began at the age of 26 with the publication of his first novel, *Setting Free the Bears* (1968). The novel was reasonably well reviewed but failed to gain a large readership. In the late 1960s, he studied under Kurt Vonnegut at the University of Iowa Writers\' Workshop. His se... | 982 | John Irving | 1 |
16,021 | # John Irving
## Other projects {#other_projects}
Before the publication of *Garp* made him independently wealthy, Irving sporadically accepted short-term teaching positions (including one at his *alma mater*, the Iowa Writers\' Workshop). He also served as an assistant coach on his sons\' high school wrestling teams... | 800 | John Irving | 2 |
16,021 | # John Irving
## Works
### Novels
- *Setting Free the Bears* (Random House, 1968) `{{ISBN|0-345-21812-4|}}`{=mediawiki}
- *The Water-Method Man* (Random House, 1972) `{{ISBN|0-394-47332-9|}}`{=mediawiki}
- *The 158-Pound Marriage* (Random House, 1974) `{{ISBN|0-394-48414-2|}}`{=mediawiki}
- *The World Accord... | 422 | John Irving | 3 |
16,030 | # Juruá River
The **Juruá River** (*links=no* `{{IPA|pt|ʒuɾuˈa|}}`{=mediawiki}; *links=no*) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River. The Juruá emerges from highlands in east-central Peru, then winds its way through lowlands in Brazil, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland ... | 205 | Juruá River | 0 |
16,034 | # Johnson solid
In geometry, a **Johnson solid**, sometimes also known as a **Johnson--Zalgaller solid**, is a convex polyhedron whose faces are regular polygons. They are sometimes defined to exclude the uniform polyhedrons. There are ninety-two solids with such a property: the first solids are the pyramids, cupolas,... | 1,303 | Johnson solid | 0 |
16,069 | # Jonathan Demme
**Robert Jonathan Demme** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ɛ|m|i}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|DEM|ee}}`{=mediawiki}; February 22, 1944 -- April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productio... | 266 | Jonathan Demme | 0 |
16,069 | # Jonathan Demme
## Career
### Early films {#early_films}
Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman early in his career, co-writing and producing *Angels Hard as They Come* (1971), a motorcycle movie very loosely based on *Rashomon*, and *The Hot Box* (1972). He then moved on ... | 351 | Jonathan Demme | 1 |
16,069 | # Jonathan Demme
## Career
### Later films {#later_films}
Demme won the Academy Award for *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991)---one of only three films to win all the major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress). Inspired by his friend Juan Suárez Botas\'s illness with A... | 737 | Jonathan Demme | 2 |
16,069 | # Jonathan Demme
## Political activism {#political_activism}
Demme was involved in various political projects. In 1981, he directed a series of commercials for the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way. The spots, titled \"Eggs\", \"Music\", and \"Sports\", were produced by Norman Lear and featured Muham... | 662 | Jonathan Demme | 3 |
16,073 | # Juan Gris
**José Victoriano González-Pérez** (23 March 1887 -- 11 May 1927), better known as **Juan Gris** (`{{IPA|es|ˈxwaŋ ˈɡɾis|lang}}`{=mediawiki}; `{{IPA|fr|gʀi|lang}}`{=mediawiki}), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innova... | 848 | Juan Gris | 0 |
16,073 | # Juan Gris
## Designer and theorist {#designer_and_theorist}
In 1924, he designed ballet sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev and the famous Ballets Russes.
Gris articulated most of his aesthetic theories during 1924 and 1925. He delivered his definitive lecture, *Des possibilités de la peinture*, at the Sorbonne... | 266 | Juan Gris | 1 |
16,073 | # Juan Gris
## Gallery
<File:Juan> Gris, 1911, Maisons à Paris (Houses in Paris), oil on canvas, 52.4 x 34.2 cm, Guggenheim Museum.jpg\|*Maisons à Paris* (*Houses in Paris*), 1911, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York <File:Juan> Legua MET DT4462.jpg\|*Juan Legua*, 1911, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York <File:J... | 291 | Juan Gris | 2 |
16,075 | # January 9
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16,082 | # Jericho
**Jericho** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɛr|ɪ|k|oʊ}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|JERR|ik|oh}}`{=mediawiki}; *Arīḥā*, `{{IPA|ar|ʔaˈriːħaː|IPA|ArJericho.ogg}}`{=mediawiki}) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate. Jericho is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the e... | 290 | Jericho | 0 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
The first excavations of the site were carried out by Charles Warren in 1868. Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated Tell es-Sultan and Tulul Abu el-\'Alayiq between 1907 and 1909, and in 1911, and John Garstang excavated between 1930 and 1936. Kathle... | 1,449 | Jericho | 1 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
### Early Bronze Age {#early_bronze_age}
In Early Bronze I, the strategraphic layers are Sultan IIIA1 village (EB IA, c. 3500-3200 BCE) and Sultan IIIA2 rural town (proto-urban, EB IB, c. 3200-3000 BCE).
In Early Bronze II, the strategraphic layers are ... | 875 | Jericho | 2 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
### Hasmonean and Herodian periods {#hasmonean_and_herodian_periods}
After the abandonment of the Tell es-Sultan location, the new Jericho of the Late Hellenistic or Hasmonean and Early Roman or Herodian periods was established as a garden city in the vi... | 516 | Jericho | 3 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
### Roman province {#roman_province}
After the fall of Jerusalem to Vespasian\'s armies in the Great Revolt of Judea in 70 CE, Jericho declined rapidly, and by 100 CE it was but a small Roman garrison town. A fort was built there in 130 and played a role... | 779 | Jericho | 4 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
### Ottoman period {#ottoman_period}
#### 16th century {#th_century}
Jericho was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1545 a revenue of 19,000 Akçe was recorded, destined for the new Waqf for the Haseki Sultan Imare... | 794 | Jericho | 5 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
### 1967 and aftermath {#and_aftermath}
thumb\|upright=1.3\|2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements
Jericho has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 along with the rest of the West Bank. It was t... | 388 | Jericho | 6 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## History and archaeology {#history_and_archaeology}
### Important Bird Area {#important_bird_area}
A 3,500 ha site encompassing the city of Jericho and its immediate surrounds has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of black francolins,... | 110 | Jericho | 7 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## Demographics
In the first census carried out by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), in 1997, Jericho\'s population was 14,674. Palestinian refugees constituted 43.6% of the residents or 6,393 people. The gender make-up of the city was 51% male and 49% female. Jericho has a young populati... | 595 | Jericho | 8 |
16,082 | # Jericho
## Sports
The sports team Hilal Areeha plays association football in the West Bank First Division. They play home games in the 15,000-spectator Jericho International Stadium | 28 | Jericho | 9 |
16,092 | # Jan Karon
**Jan Karon** (born March 14, 1937) is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the *New York Times*-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, *To Be... | 359 | Jan Karon | 0 |
16,092 | # Jan Karon
## Career
Janice, age 18, was on her own with her daughter Candace. She took a receptionist job at Walter J. Klein Co., a Charlotte advertising agency. Bored with answering the phone, she submitted writing examples. Klein soon had her writing advertising copy. In her early 20s, Jan married Bill Orth, a Du... | 783 | Jan Karon | 1 |
16,092 | # Jan Karon
## Works
### Other books {#other_books}
- *The Trellis and the Seed: A Book of Encouragement for All Ages* (2003)
### Short works {#short_works}
\"The Day Aunt Maude Left\" in *Response* 1.4 (1961)
| 36 | Jan Karon | 2 |
16,092 | # Jan Karon
## Archive
Jan Karon\'s papers are held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, and regular additions are made to document Karon\'s new works. The papers include preparatory materials for all of Karon\'s books, personal correspondence and papers, extensiv... | 62 | Jan Karon | 3 |
16,110 | # Johnny Haynes
**John Norman Haynes** (17 October 1934 -- 18 October 2005) was an English association footballer who played as an inside forward. He made 56 appearances for his country including 22 as captain. He was selected for three World Cup finals squads playing in the latter two of those. Nicknamed \"the Maestr... | 796 | Johnny Haynes | 0 |
16,110 | # Johnny Haynes
## Death
On 17 October 2005, his 71st birthday, Haynes was driving his car, with Avril as passenger, on Edinburgh\'s Dalry Road when he suffered a brain haemorrhage, instantaneously effectively rendering him brain-dead. The vehicle veered across the road and crashed into a van. After being kept on a v... | 731 | Johnny Haynes | 1 |
16,132 | # Joseph Yoakum
**Joseph Elmer Yoakum** (c. February 22, 1891 -- December 25, 1972) was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American--descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was age 76 when he started to record his memories in the ... | 403 | Joseph Yoakum | 0 |
16,132 | # Joseph Yoakum
## Artistic work {#artistic_work}
Yoakum was again living and painting in Chicago by 1962. Tom Brand, owner of Galaxy Press on the south side of Chicago, in 1968 had some printing to deliver to a coffee shop called \"The Whole\". While there he noticed the colored pencil drawings of Yoakum and was imm... | 544 | Joseph Yoakum | 1 |
16,148 | # John Engler
**John Mathias Engler** (born October 12, 1948)`{{r|Whitney (2005)}}`{=mediawiki} is an American politician, lawyer, businessman, and lobbyist who served as the 46th governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. Considered one of the country\'s top lobbyists, he is a member of the Republican Party.
Engler was... | 386 | John Engler | 0 |
16,148 | # John Engler
## Career
### Governorship
Engler\'s administration was characterized by privatization of state services, income tax reduction, a sales tax increase, educational reform, welfare reform, and major reorganization of executive branch departments.
In 1996, he was elected chairman of the Republican Governo... | 985 | John Engler | 1 |
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