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- U.S. Academy Award-winning costume designer whose striking creations for Joan of Arc, Samson and Delilah, and Night of the Iguana merited her three Oscars (b. Jan. 11, 1914--d. Nov. 21, 1995).
- Jean
- (from the article "Luxembourg") ...its economic situation by obtaining a sound position within the European Coal and Steel Community (1952) and within the European Economic Community (1957; later the European Community). Prince Jean, Charlotte's son, was installed as lieutenant-representant of Charlotte ...
- Jean
- (from the article "Albret Family") ...The surname refers not to his deeds but to the vast domains over which he ruled as one of the last feudal lords. A daughter, Charlotte (1480-1514), was married to Cesare Borgia. Alain's son, Jean (d. 1516), became king of ...
- Jean Bernard
- the world's deepest known cave, located in the Alps near the town of Samoens, Haute-Savoie departement, Rhone-Alpes region, southeastern France. The highest of the limestone cave's eight entrances is located above Samoens at an elevation of 7,428 feet (2,264 m). ...
- Jean de Meun
- French poet famous for his continuation of the Roman de la rose, an allegorical poem in the courtly love tradition begun by Guillaume de Lorris about 1225. [5 Related Articles]
- Jean II
- (from the article "Bourbon, Charles I, 5e duc de") duke of Bourbon (from 1434) and count of Clermont. After having rendered notable services to Charles VII of France, he turned about and became-with Jean II, duke of Alencon-the leader of the short-lived Praguerie (1440), a revolt of nobles nominally ...
- Jean Le Bel
- the forerunner of the great medieval Flemish chroniclers and one of the first to abandon Latin for French.
- Jean Paul
- German novelist and humorist whose works were immensely popular in the first 20 years of the 19th century. His pen name, Jean Paul, reflected his admiration for the French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean Paul's writing bridged the shift in literature ... [4 Related Articles]
- Jean, Michaelle
- Former journalist and television broadcaster Michaelle Jean was officially installed as Canada's 27th governor-general on Sept. 27, 2005. She was the first black and the first Haitian immigrant ever to hold the prestigious post, in which she would serve as ... [3 Related Articles]
- Jeanmaire, Renee
- (from the article "Petit, Roland") ...made several tours of Europe and the United States. Dancers who rose to prominence in his companies include Jean Babilee, Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, and Renee ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, whom he married in 1954.
- Jeannel, Rene
- French biologist best remembered for his work on the subterranean coleopterans of the family Anisotomidae. His exploration of the caves of the Pyrenees and Carpathian mountains yielded many species of these small, shiny, round fungus beetles that were hitherto unknown. ...
- Jeanneret, Pierre
- (from the article "Corbusier, Le") L'Esprit Nouveau was the springboard for Le Corbusier's entrance into practice. In 1922 he became associated with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and together they opened a studio. The association of the two cousins lasted until 1940. It corresponds to the ...
- Jeannette
- city, Westmoreland county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. Built on six hills, it developed after the Pennsylvania Railroad came through in 1852 providing an outlet for local farm produce. The discovery of natural gas in ...
- Jeannin, Pierre
- statesman who served as one of King Henry IV's most influential advisers in the years after the French civil wars (ended 1598).
- Jeanrenaud, Cecile
- (from the article "Mendelssohn, Felix") ...his son should complete St. Paul. He accordingly plunged into this work with renewed determination and the following year conducted it at Dusseldorf. The same year at Frankfurt he met Cecile Jeanrenaud, the daughter of a French Protestant clergyman. Though ...
- jeans
- trousers originally designed in the United States by Levi Strauss in the mid-19th century as durable work clothes, with the seams and other points of stress reinforced with small copper rivets. They were eventually adopted by workingmen throughout the United ... [3 Related Articles]
- Jeans, Sir James
- English physicist and mathematician who was the first to propose that matter is continuously created throughout the universe. He made other innovations in astronomical theory but is perhaps best known as a writer of popular books about astronomy. [4 Related Articles]
- Jebb, John
- British political, religious, and social reformer who championed humanitarian and constitutional causes far in advance of his time.
- Jebba
- town, Kwara state, western Nigeria. It lies on the south bank and at the natural head of navigation of the Niger River, 550 miles (885 km) from the sea. It is populated by the predominantly Muslim Nupe people, whose kingdom, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Jebel Qafzeh remains
- (from the article "Homo sapiens") One of the best-preserved early fossils that bears all the anatomic hallmarks of Homo sapiens is a skull dated to about 92 kya from the Israeli site of Jebel Qafzeh. This part of the Middle East, called the Levant, is ...
- Jebeleanu, Eugen
- (from the article "Romanian literature") ...in stirring lyrics, celebrated achievements of the postwar period. Demostene Botez, whose prewar poetry described the sadness of provincial life, later revealed a vigorous optimism, and the poet Eugen Jebeleanu protested on contemporary events and themes. Among those who came ...
- Jebero language
- (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") ...has a future form and three past forms differentiated as to relative remoteness, while in Guarani the difference is basically between future and nonfuture. Other languages like Jebero express fundamentally modal categories. Very common are affixes indicating movement, chiefly toward ...
- Jeboda, Femi
- (from the article "African literature") A literary competition held at the time of Nigerian independence in 1960 was won by Femi Jeboda's realistic novel Olowolaiyemo ("Mr. People-Rally-Only-Around-the-Well-To-Do"), which deals with the hardships of urban life in Yorubaland. The trend of contemporary realism continued with Afolabi ...
- Jebusite
- (from the article "David") ...his city may be traced in II Samuel 5-8. When David took Jerusalem, he assumed the rule over its inhabitants and their religious institutions with the cult centred on Mt. Zion. The previous (Jebusite) ruler had been both king and ...
- Jedburgh
- royal burgh (town), Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Roxburghshire, southeastern Scotland. It is situated on Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, within 10 miles (16 km) of the English border.
- Jedburgh Castle
- (from the article "Jedburgh") Jedburgh Castle stood above the river at the southern end of the burgh. Also erected by David I, it was one of five fortresses ceded to England in 1174. It occasionally served as a royal residence but was so often ...
- Jeddart justice
- (from the article "Jedburgh") In October 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed at a house in Queen Street which is now arranged as a museum, with many relics relating to the Queen. The proverbial "Jeddart justice," according to which a man was hanged first ...
- Jednota
- (from the article "Czechoslovak Hussite Church") church established in Czechoslovakia in 1920 by a group of dissident Roman Catholic priests who celebrated the mass in the Czech vernacular. Its forerunner was the Jednota (Union of the Catholic Czechoslovak Clergy), founded in 1890 to promote such reforms ...
- Jedrzejczak, Otylia
- (from the article "Swimming") Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland lowered her own world record in the 200-m butterfly to 2 min 5.61 sec, finishing just four-hundredths of a second ahead of Jessicah Schipper of Australia. The thrilling finish was marred by controversy, however, as television ...
- jeep
- outstanding light vehicle of World War II. It was developed by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps and was an important item in lend-lease shipments to the Soviet Union and other allies. The jeep weighed 1 14 tons, was powered by ... [2 Related Articles]
- jeer
- (from the article "rigging") ...sails, and sails, such as jibs, are manipulated for trimming to the wind and for making or shortening sail are known as the running rigging. The running rigging is subdivided into the lifts, jeers, and halyards (haulyards), by which the ...
- Jeevanjee, A. M.
- (from the article "Standard Limited, The") English-language daily newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya. It was established in Mombasa in 1902 as a weekly, the African Standard, by A.M. Jeevanjee, an Indian merchant. Jeevanjee hired an English editor-reporter, W.H. Tiller, to oversee the newspaper's ...
- Jefferies, Richard
- English naturalist, novelist, and essayist whose best work combines fictional invention with expert observation of the natural world.
- Jeffers, Robinson
- one of the most controversial U.S. poets of the 20th century, for whom all things except his pantheistically conceived God are transient, and human life is viewed as a frantic, often contemptible struggle within a net of passions. [2 Related Articles]
- Jefferson
- county, west-central Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered by the Clarion River to the north. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau drained by numerous streams, including North Fork, Little Mill, Sandy Lick, Little Sandy, and Redbank creeks. Parklands include ...
- Jefferson
- county, northern New York state, U.S., mostly comprising a lowland region bounded by Lake Ontario to the west and Ontario, Can., to the northwest, the St. Lawrence River constituting the boundary. It is linked by bridge to Ontario and features ...
- Jefferson Airplane, the
- American psychedelic rock band best known for its biting political lyrics, soaring harmonies, and hallucinogenic titles such as Surrealistic Pillow and White Rabbit. The Jefferson Airplane was an important standard-bearer for the counterculture in the 1960s, but ...
- Jefferson City
- capital of Missouri, U.S., and seat of Cole county, on the Missouri River, near the geographic centre of the state. The site for the state capital was selected in 1821. The land had been donated under an act of the ...
- Jefferson College
- (from the article "Mississippi") Mississippi has a distinguished history of higher education, however. Although it closed in 1826 and again in 1863, Jefferson College, founded in 1802, was among the earliest public institutions of higher learning in the nation. Elizabeth Female Academy, which is ...
- Jefferson Medical College
- (from the article "Thomas Jefferson University") A group of physicians led by George McClellan created Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1824. It served as the medical department of Jefferson College (then located in Canonsburg) until the state granted the medical college an independent charter in ...
- Jefferson Memorial
- monument to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, situated in East Potomac Park on the south bank of the Tidal Basin, in Washington, D.C. Authorized in 1934 as part of a beautification program for the nation's capital, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
- (from the article "Saarinen, Eero") ...with institutional buildings for education and industry. He built only one skyscraper, the CBS Headquarters in New York City (1960-64), and one house, in the Midwest. His 1948 prizewinning Jefferson National Expansion Memorial design for St. Louis, Mo., was completed ...
- Jefferson River
- river, most westerly of the Missouri River's three headstreams, rising in the Gravelly Range in southwestern Montana, U.S., near the Continental Divide and Yellowstone National Park (where it is known as Red Rock River). It flows west through Red Rock ...
- Jefferson, Blind Lemon
- American country blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, one of the earliest black folk-blues singers to achieve popular success. [1 Related Articles]
- Jefferson, Fort
- (from the article "Dry Tortugas") ...abounded there. Later mariners added the accurate adjective dry. A lighthouse was constructed on Garden Key in 1825, and another was built on the largest key, Loggerhead, in 1856. Fort Jefferson is the largest all-masonry fortification in ...
- Jefferson, Joseph
- U.S. actor whose name became identified with the character of Rip Van Winkle. [2 Related Articles]
- Jefferson, Martha
- the wife of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States (1801-09). She was never a first lady because she died 19 years before her husband became president.
- Jefferson, Mount
- (from the article "Oregon") ...precipitation. The eastern section, less dissected, is crowned with a chain of volcanic peaks. Mount Hood, reaching 11,239 feet (3,428 metres) above sea level, is the highest peak in Oregon, and Mount Jefferson, rising to 10,497 feet (3,199 metres), is ...
- Jefferson, Roberto
- (from the article "Brazil") ...reais (R$1 = about U.S.$0.45) from two businessmen seeking a procurement contract with the state-run entity. Played to the nation on network television, the videotape also showed Marinho implicating Roberto Jefferson, a federal deputy and the president of the Brazilian ...
- Jefferson, Thomas
- draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation's first secretary of state (1789-94), second vice president (1797-1801), and, as the third president (1801-09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. An early advocate of total ... [62 Related Articles]
- Jefferson-Hemings paternity debate
- (from the article ""Tom and Sally": the Jefferson-Hemings paternity debate") Long before Americans learned about the sexual escapades of their 20th-century presidents-Warren Harding, John Kennedy, and Bill Clinton were the chief offenders-there was the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Until recently, when newly developed techniques in genetic research ...
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