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more info Jakob Boehme, n.
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)
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more info Jakob Bohme, n.
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)
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more info Jakob Grimm, n.
the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
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more info Jakob Hermandszoon, n.
Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)
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more info Jakob Liebmann Beer, n.
German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)
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more info Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, n.
German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)
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more info Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm, n.
the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
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more info Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, n.
rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
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more info Jakobson, n.
United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982)
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more info Jalalabad, n.
a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)
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more info Jamaat ul-Fuqra, n.
an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics
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more info Jamaica, n.
an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti
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a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism
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more info Jamaica apple, n.
large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp
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more info Jamaica bayberry, n.
West Indian tree; source of bay rum
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more info Jamaica caper tree, n.
shrub of southern Florida to West Indies
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more info Jamaica dogwood, n.
small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons
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more info Jamaica honeysuckle, n.
West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit
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more info Jamaica quassia, n.
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia
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similar to the extract from Quassia amara
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more info Jamaica rum, n.
heavy pungent rum from Jamaica
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more info Jamaica shorts, n.
(used in the plural) short pants that end at the knee
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more info Jamaica sorrel, n.
East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
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more info Jamaican, adj.
of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants
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more info Jamaican, n.
a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
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more info Jamaican capital, n.
capital and largest city of Jamaica
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more info Jamaican cherry, n.
a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
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more info Jamaican dollar, n.
the basic unit of money in Jamaica
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more info Jambos, n.
used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos)
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more info James, n.
a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle
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a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri
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a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads
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(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
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writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
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United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
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United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
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the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
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the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
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a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
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more info James A. Garfield, n.
20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
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more info James Abbott McNeill Whistler, n.
United States painter (1834-1903)
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