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- (from the article "Bainbridge") ...First Seminole War (1817-18). The site was named for William Bainbridge, commander of the frigate Constitution, and developed as a lumbering town and river port. Downriver, the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam (1957) impounds Lake Seminole, generates ...
- Jima
- town, southwestern Ethiopia, 220 miles (353 km) by road southwest of Addis Ababa. It lies at an elevation of 5,740 feet (1,750 m) in a forested region known for its coffee plantations. Jima serves as the commercial centre for the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jimani
- city, southwestern Dominican Republic. It is situated in a hilly region between the western shore of Lake Enriquillo and the Haitian border. The city is a trade centre for the coffee, fruits, and timber produced in the region. Jimani is ...
- Jimenez
- (from the article "Osa Peninsula") ...The generally low-lying terrain, rising to an elevation of 2,566 feet (782 metres) at Tigre Hill, is used for livestock raising. The principal town on the peninsula is the port of Jimenez, on the Gulf of Dulce. No major highways ...
- Jimenez de Cisneros, Francisco, Cardenal
- (Cardinal) prelate, religious reformer, and twice regent of Spain (1506, 1516-17). In 1507 he became both a cardinal and the grand inquisitor of Spain, and during his public life he sought the forced conversion of the Spanish Moors and promoted ... [7 Related Articles]
- Jimenez de Quesada, Gonzalo
- Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that won the region of New Granada (Colombia) for Spain. [2 Related Articles]
- Jimenez de Rada, Rodrigo
- (from the article "Navas de Tolosa, Battle of Las") Immobilized for several years by his crushing defeat at Alarcos (1195) at the hands of the Almohads, King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leon gained the sympathy of the archbishop of Toledo, Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, who proceeded to stir ...
- Jimenez Lozano, Jose
- (from the article "Spanish literature") ...novel, science fiction, adventure novels, and the thriller. Despite this proliferation of modes, many novelists continued producing what might be considered "traditional" narrative. Jose Jimenez Lozano investigates Inquisitorial repression, recondite religious issues, and esoteric historical themes drawn from a variety ...
- Jimenez, Francisco
- (from the article "Popol Vuh") The original book was discovered at the beginning of the 18th century by Francisco Jimenez (or Ximenez), parish priest of Chichicastenango in highland Guatemala. He both copied the original Quiche text (now lost) and translated it into Spanish. His work ...
- Jimenez, Juan Ramon
- Spanish poet awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956. [2 Related Articles]
- Jimenez, Luis Alfonso, Jr.
- American Chicano sculptor (b. July 30, 1940, El Paso, Texas-d. June 13, 2006, Hondo, N.M.), created large-scale works in metal and fibreglass that he spray-painted in electric colours. Considered an important Hispanic artist, Jimenez usually chose as subjects icons from ...
- Jimeta
- town, Adamawa state, eastern Nigeria. It lies on the south bank of the Benue River, and on the highway between Zing and Girei. Merged with Yola in 1935 by the Fulani administration, Jimeta regained independent town status with its own ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jimi Hendrix Experience
- (from the article "Hendrix, Jimi") By November his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, had their first Top Ten single, "Hey Joe." Two more hits, "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary," followed before their first album, Are You Experienced?, was released in ...
- Jimmu
- legendary first emperor of Japan and founder of the imperial dynasty. [4 Related Articles]
- jimsonweed
- annual, herbaceous, tropical plant (Datura stramonium) of the potato family (Solanaceae) that has become an introduced weed throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere. The plant was used by Algonquin Indians in eastern North America as a hallucinogen and intoxicant. The ... [9 Related Articles]
- Jimyo Temple
- (from the article "Japan") ...from the military. The occasion was provided by the question of the imperial succession. In the mid-13th century two competing lines for the succession emerged-the senior line centred on the Jimyo Temple in Kyoto and the junior line centred on ...
- Jin dynasty
- (1115-1234), dynasty that ruled an empire formed by the Tungus Juchen (or Jurchen) tribes of Manchuria. The empire covered much of Inner Asia and all of present-day North China. [13 Related Articles]
- Jin dynasty
- Chinese dynasty that comprises two distinct phases-the Xi (Western) Jin, ruling China from AD 265 to 316/317, and the Dong (Eastern) Jin, which ruled China from AD 317 to 420. The Dong Jin is considered one of the Six Dynasties. [2 Related Articles]
- Jin Fu
- (from the article "Kangxi") ...that commanded Kangxi's attention. Long neglected, the river repeatedly flooded the land near where it joined the Huai River, causing great damage to northern Jiangsu. In 1677 Kangxi appointed Jin Fu superintendent of riparian works; in 1683 Jin finished embanking ...
- Jin River
- (from the article "Fukien") Fukien's rivers are still in use for transportation. The headwaters of the Chin River, a tributary of the Fu-t'un River, are navigable for small boats right up to the Wu-i Mountains, despite the river's rocky channel and many rapids; boats ...
- Jin Sun Yu
- (from the article "Ice Skating") ...Soo, triple gold medalist at the 2006 Olympics, won a fifth straight overall world title, cementing his place, at just 22 years old, as the most accomplished short-track speed skater in history. Jin Sun Yu of South Korea won her ...
- Jin, Ha
- Chinese American writer Ha Jin won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction in 2000 for his novel Waiting. When, a year earlier, the novel had won the 1999 National Book Award, critics noted that in certain respects the choice was an ... [2 Related Articles]
- Jinadiriyyah, Al-
- (from the article "Riyadh") Al-Jinadiriyyah, a national heritage and culture festival, is a major event held annually near Riyadh. One of the largest cultural festivals of its kind in the Arab world, Al-Jinadiriyyah hosts Arab, Muslim, and international celebrities participating in panel discussions, intellectual ...
- Jinan
- city and capital, Shandong sheng (province), China. It lies in the northern foothills of the Mount Tai massif, on the high ground just south of the Huang He (Yellow River), which provides the major route along the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Jinasena
- (from the article "Jainism") ...and poems, which were written in Prakrit, Kannada, and Sanskrit. A number of kings provided patronage for this literary activity, and some wrote various works of literature themselves. The monk Jinasena, for example, wrote Sanskrit philosophical treatises and poetry with ...
- jinbi shanshui
- style of Chinese landscape painting during the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) dynasties. [1 Related Articles]
- Jind
- city, central Haryana state, northwestern India, on road and rail routes to Delhi, 70 miles (110 km) southeast. Another rail line connects it eastward to Panipat. Jind is said to have been founded by the Pandavas of the Mahabharata epic, ...
- Jindrich of Lipa
- (from the article "Czechoslovak region, history of") ...Archbishop Petr of Aspelt, followed John to Prague and tried to uphold the royal authority. In the resulting conflict, a powerful aristocratic faction scored a decisive victory in 1318. Its leader, Jindrich of Lipa, virtually ruled over Bohemia until his ...
- Jindyworobak movement
- brief nationalistic Australian literary movement of the 1930s to mid-1940s that sought to promote native ideas and traditions, especially in literature. [1 Related Articles]
- Jing Hao
- important landscape painter and essayist of the Five Dynasties (907-960) period. [2 Related Articles]
- Jing River
- river in north-central China, the largest tributary of the Wei River. It rises in the Liupan Mountains of the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia and flows about 280 miles (450 km) through Gansu province to central Shaanxi where it empties ...
- Jingdezhen
- city, northeastern Jiangxi sheng (province), southeastern China. Situated on the south bank of the Chang River, it was originally a market town called Changnanzhen and received its present name in 1004, the first year of the Jingde ... [5 Related Articles]
- Jingdi
- posthumous name (shi) of the fifth emperor of the Han dynasty, during whose reign (157-141 BC) an attempt was made to limit the power of the great feudal princes, who had been enfeoffed in separate kingdoms during ...
- Jinggang Mountains
- (from the article "Hunan") ...from Hunan. Mao was largely responsible for encouraging the peasants and miners to make the abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927. He subsequently held the Communist forces together in the Ching-kang Mountains, where they withstood repeated attacks by the forces ...
- Jinghong
- city, southern Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is situated in a rich basin on the west bank of the Mekong (Lancang) River, near the borders of Myanmar (Burma) and Laos. A military-civilian administration of Cheli Region ...
- jinghu
- Chinese two-stringed fiddle that is the principal melodic instrument in jingxi (Peking opera) ensembles. The smallest (and therefore highest-pitched) of the Chinese spike fiddles (huqin), the jinghu is about 50 cm ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jingikan
- (from the article "Japan") ...government was headed by twin agencies-the Council of State (Dajokan), which combined within its functions the various practical aspects of administration, and the Office of Deities (Jingikan), a parallel bureaucracy for the worship of the deities. Prospective bureaucrats were required ...
- jingle shell
- any of several marine invertebrates of the class Bivalvia belonging to the family Anomiidae. In most species of these oysterlike bivalves, one shell valve (i.e., half) is closely appressed to a rock surface and has a large hole in its ... [1 Related Articles]
- jingling Johnny
- musical instrument consisting of a pole ornamented with a canopy (pavillon), a crescent, and other shapes hung with bells and metal jingling objects, and often surmounted by horsetails. It possibly originated as the staff of a Central Asian shaman, and ...
- jingoism
- an attitude of belligerent nationalism, the English equivalent of the term chauvinism. The term apparently originated in England during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 when the British Mediterranean squadron was sent to Gallipoli to restrain Russia and war fever was ...
- Jingpo language
- (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") ...in the widest sense of the word) comprises a number of dialects and languages spoken in Tibet and the Himalayas. Burmic (Burmese in its widest application) includes Yi (Lolo), Hani, Lahu, Lisu, Kachin (Jingpo), Kuki-Chin, the obsolete Xixia (Tangut), and ...
- Jingshan Park
- (from the article "Beijing") Jingshan (Prospect Hill) Park, also known as Meishan (Coal Hill) Park, is a man-made hill, more than a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, located north of the Forbidden City. The hill, offering a spectacular panorama of Beijing from its summit, ...
- Jingtai
- reign name (nianhao) of the seventh emperor (reigned 1449-57) of the Ming dynasty. He ascended to the throne after his brother, the Zhengtong emperor, was captured while leading the imperial forces against the Oryat (western Mongol) leader ... [3 Related Articles]
- Jingu
- semilegendary empress-regent of Japan who is said to have established Japanese hegemony over Korea.
- jingxi
- popular Chinese theatrical form that developed in the mid-19th century. It incorporated elements of huidiao from Anhui, dandiao from Hubei, and kunqu, the traditional opera that had predominated since the 14th ... [9 Related Articles]
- Jingzhou
- city and river port, southern Hubei sheng (province), south-central China. It is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) near Lake Chang. The city was established in 1994 by combining what was then ...
- Jinhua
- city, central Zhejiang sheng (province), China. Jinhua is the natural centre of the eastern half of the Jin-Qu (Jinhua-Quzhou) Basin, being situated at the junction of two of the tributaries of the Wu (Jinhua) River-the Dongyang River and the Wuyi ...
- Jining
- former city, south-central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. In 2003 it became part of the large and newly formed Ulanqab municipality. [1 Related Articles]
- Jining
- city, southwestern Shandong sheng (province), China. In early times the seat of the state of Ren, it later became a part of the state of Qi, which flourished in the Zhou period (1046-256 BCE). It underwent many ...
- Jinja
- town, southeastern Uganda, eastern Africa, where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria, at 3,740 feet (1,140 metres) above sea level. The second largest town in Uganda, it was founded in 1901 as a British administrative centre. When construction on ... [3 Related Articles]
- jinja
- in the Shinto religion of Japan, the place where the spirit of a deity is enshrined or to which it is summoned. Historically, jinja were located in places of great natural beauty; in modern times, however, urban shrines have become ... [2 Related Articles]
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