Jay Gould, n.
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)
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Jayshullah, n.
an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999
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Jazz Age, n.
the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
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Jean Anouilh, n.
French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987)
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Jean Antoine Watteau, n.
French painter (1684-1721)
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Jean Arp, n.
Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, n.
French classical painter (1780-1867)
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, n.
French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875)
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Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, n.
French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, n.
French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
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Jean Baptiste Lully, n.
French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)
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Jean Baptiste Racine, n.
French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, n.
French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, n.
French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
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Jean Bernoulli, n.
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
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Jean Caulvin, n.
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
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Jean Cauvin, n.
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
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Jean Chauvin, n.
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
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Jean Cocteau, n.
French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)
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Jean Edouard Vuillard, n.
French painter (1868-1940)
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Jean Francois Champollion, n.
Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
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Jean Francois Millet, n.
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
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Jean Genet, n.
French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
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Jean Giraudoux, n.
French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)
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Jean Harlow, n.
United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)
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Jean Honore Fragonard, n.
French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806)
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Jean Laffite, n.
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
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Jean Lafitte, n.
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
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Jean Louis Charles Garnier, n.
French architect (1825-1898)
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, n.
United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
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