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- distinguished Christian theologian, historian, philosopher, exegete, and grammarian, who became bishop of Edessa (c. 684). His strict discipline giving offense, he retired and devoted himself to study and teaching. [1 Related Articles]
- Jacob Of Serugh
- Syriac writer described for his learning and holiness as "the flute of the Holy Spirit and the harp of the believing church."
- Jacob's coat
- (from the article "copperleaf") ...plants of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), but usually A. wilkesiana, a popular shrub of tropical gardens that has red, blotched reddish brown, and pink foliage. It is also known widely as Jacob's coat and as match-me-if-you-can. The copperleaf is native ...
- Jacob's ladder
- any of about 25 species of the genus Polemonium of the family Polemoniaceae, native to temperate areas in North and South America and Eurasia. Many are valued as garden flowers and wildflowers. They have loose, spikelike clusters of drooping blue, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...David Michalek into hyperslow-motion 10-minute huge projections shown three at a time. In September the installation, differently configured, traveled to the Los Angeles Music Center. The Jacob's Pillow festival, Becket, Mass., began its 75th anniversary season with debut appearances by ...
- Jacob, Francois
- French biologist who, together with Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod, was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning regulatory activities in bacteria. [3 Related Articles]
- Jacob, Georges
- founder of a long line of French furniture makers. He was among the first cabinetmakers in France to use mahogany extensively and excelled at carved wood furniture, particularly chairs.
- Jacob, John
- (from the article "Jacobabad") ...Sindh province, Pakistan. The city lies at a junction of the Pakistan Western Railway and main roads through Sindh. It was founded in 1847 on the site of the village of Khanghar by General John Jacob, the district's first deputy ...
- Jacob, Max
- French poet who played a decisive role in the new directions of modern poetry during the early part of the 20th century. His writing was the product of a complex amalgam of Jewish, Breton, Parisian, and Roman Catholic elements. [2 Related Articles]
- Jacob, Max
- (from the article "puppetry") ...Count Franz Pocci, a Bavarian court official of the mid-19th century, who wrote a large number of children's plays for the traditional marionette theatre of Papa Schmid in Munich. Important also was Max Jacob, who developed the traditional folk repertoire ...
- Jacob, Suzanne
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...of Living Things). Similarly, Louise Dupre established her reputation as a poet before writing the well-received novel La Memoria (1996; Memoria). Suzanne Jacob has excelled in poetry with La Part de feu (1997; "The Fire's Share") and in fiction with ...
- Jacoba Of Bavaria
- duchess of Bavaria, countess of Holland, Zeeland, and Hainaut, whose forced cession of sovereignty in the three counties to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, in 1428, consolidated Burgundian dominion in the Low Countries.
- Jacobabad
- city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The city lies at a junction of the Pakistan Western Railway and main roads through Sindh. It was founded in 1847 on the site of the village of Khanghar by General John Jacob, the district's first ...
- Jacobean age
- (from Latin Jacobus, "James"), period of visual and literary arts during the reign of James I of England (1603-25). The distinctions between the early Jacobean and the preceding Elizabethan styles are subtle ones, often merely a question of degree, for ... [3 Related Articles]
- Jacobean literature
- (from the article "English literature") ...confined to a single general statement that covers all cases, for each tragedy belongs to a separate category: revenge tragedy in Hamlet (c. 1599-1601), domestic tragedy in Othello (1603-04), social tragedy in
- Jacobellis v. Ohio
- (from the article "obscenity") ...years the court struggled to develop a more adequate definition. The difficulty of the task was reflected in Associate Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's concurring opinion in JacobellisOhio (1964), which dealt with the alleged obscenity of a motion picture: he ...
- Jacobellis, Lindsey
- (from the article "Skiing") American Lindsey Jacobellis, who lost the Olympic gold medal in 2006 with an ill-conceived celebratory move just before crossing the snowboardcross (SBX) finish line, bounced back strongly in 2007. She successfully defended her SBX world championship and grabbed the World ...
- Jacobi, Abraham
- German-born physician who established the first clinic for diseases of children in the United States (1860) and is considered the founder of American pediatrics. [1 Related Articles]
- Jacobi, Carl
- German mathematician who, with Niels Henrik Abel of Norway, founded the theory of elliptic functions. [2 Related Articles]
- Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
- German philosopher, major exponent of the philosophy of feeling (Gefuhlsphilosophie) and a prominent critic of rationalism, especially as espoused by Benedict de Spinoza. [2 Related Articles]
- Jacobi, Lotte
- German-American photographer noted for her portraits of famous figures.
- Jacobi, Mary Putnam
- American physician, writer, and suffragist who is considered to have been the foremost woman doctor of her era.
- Jacobi, Sir Derek
- English actor whose shy, self-effacing private demeanour belied his forceful, commanding stage presence. [1 Related Articles]
- Jacobin Club
- the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. [20 Related Articles]
- Jacobin Constitution
- (from the article "France") ...quickly drafted a new democratic constitution, incorporating such popular demands as universal male suffrage, the right to subsistence, and the right to free public education. In a referendum this Jacobin constitution of 1793 was approved virtually without dissent by about ...
- Jacobite
- in British history, a supporter of the exiled Stuart king James II (Latin: Jacobus) and his descendants after the Glorious Revolution. The political importance of the Jacobite movement extended from 1688 until at least the 1750s. The Jacobites, especially under ... [18 Related Articles]
- Jacobite
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...riddled with sects and heretical movements. After 431 the Syriac language and script split into eastern and western branches. The western branch was called Serta and developed into two varieties, Jacobite and Melchite. Vigorous in pen graphics, Serta writing shows ...
- Jacobs House
- (from the article "Wright, Frank Lloyd") ...Unlike the Prairie houses these "Usonians" were flat roofed, usually of one floor placed on a heated concrete foundation mat; among them were some of Wright's best works-e.g., the Jacobs house (1937) in Westmorland, Wisconsin, near Madison, and the Winckler-Goetsch ...
- Jacobs three-bladed windmill
- (from the article "turbine") ...higher rotor-tip speeds than windmills. Each blade is twisted like an airplane propeller. An automatic governor rotates the blades about their support axis to maintain constant generator speed. The Jacobs three-bladed windmill, used widely between 1930 and 1960, could deliver ...
- Jacobs, Aletta
- (from the article "contraception") ...practical purposes the education of the general populace on the subject of contraception was not initiated until the early 1800s. The first systematic work in contraception was begun in 1882 by Dr. Aletta Jacobs of The Netherlands.
- Jacobs, Bernard B.
- U.S. theatrical producer who wielded immense power and influenced the opening and closing of shows for 24 years as joint president of the Shubert Organization, which owned 17 of Broadway's 32 commercial theatres (b. 1916--d. Aug. 27, 1996).
- Jacobs, Dolly
- (from the article "circus") ...to a Spanish cadence thrilled American audiences from 1925 until his retirement in 1959; Antoinette Concello, who became the first woman to perform the triple somersault on the trapeze in 1937; and Dolly Jacobs, who began her career in 1976, ...
- Jacobs, Harriet A.
- American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative. [2 Related Articles]
- Jacobs, Helen Hull
- American tennis player and writer who, in the 1920s and '30s, became known for her persistence and her on-court rivalry with Helen Wills (Moody). [2 Related Articles]
- Jacobs, Hirsch
- U.S. trainer and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, the foremost trainer in the United States from 1933 until 1944. In 43 years as a trainer, Jacobs established a world record of winning horses in 3,569 races. In 1965 he won more ...
- Jacobs, Jane
- American-born Canadian urbanologist noted for her clear and original observations on urban life and its problems. [4 Related Articles]
- Jacobs, Joseph
- Australian-born English folklore scholar, one of the most popular 19th-century adapters of children's fairy tales. He was also a historian of pre-expulsion English Jewry (The Jews of Angevin England, 1893), a historian of Jewish culture (Studies in Jewish Statistics, 1891), ...
- Jacobs, Klaus Johann
- German-born Swiss entrepreneur and philanthropist took control of his family's coffee-trading business in 1969, moved (1973) the headquarters from Bremen to Zurich, and subsequently merged (1982) it with Suchard-Tobler to create the international coffee and confectionery giant Jacobs Suchard AG. ...
- Jacobs, Lawrence R.
- (from the article "public opinion") ...them as pandering to public opinion to curry favour with their constituents or as being driven by the latest poll results. Such charges were questioned, however, by public opinion scholars Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, who argued in ...
- Jacobs, Marc
- American star designer Marc Jacobs, known for his sartorial fashion interpretations of trends in contemporary art, modeling, and the rock music scene, teamed up with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami to produce the accessories for the spring-summer 2003 collection of Louis ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jacobs, W.W.
- English short-story writer best known for his classic horror story "The Monkey's Paw."
- Jacobsen, Arne
- Danish architect and designer of many important buildings in an austere modern style; he is known internationally for his industrial design, particularly for his three-legged stacking chair (1952) and his "egg" chair (1959), the back and seat of which were ... [1 Related Articles]
- Jacobsen, Erik
- (from the article "alcoholism") One of the popular modern drug treatments of alcoholism, initiated in 1948 by Erik Jacobsen of Denmark, uses disulfiram (tetraethylthiuram disulfide, known by the trade name Antabuse). Normally, as alcohol is converted to acetaldehyde, the latter is rapidly converted, in ...
- Jacobsen, Jens Peter
- Danish novelist and poet who inaugurated the Naturalist mode of fiction in Denmark and was himself its most famous representative. [1 Related Articles]
- Jacobsen, Josephine
- Canadian-born American poet and short-story writer. [1 Related Articles]
- jacobsite
- (from the article "jacobsite") manganese iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite (q.v.) series of spinels.structuremagnetite...sulfide veins. The magnetite series also cont
- Jacobson's organ
- an organ of chemoreception that is part of the olfactory system of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, although it does not occur in all tetrapod groups. It is a patch of sensory cells within the main nasal chamber that detects heavy ... [7 Related Articles]
- Jacobson, Dan
- South African-born novelist and short-story writer. [1 Related Articles]
- Jacobson, Israel
- (from the article "Judaism") ...had been shaped by the surrounding society and who desired above all to resemble their Gentile peers. Thus, the short-lived Reform temple established in Seesen in 1810 by the pioneer German reformer Israel Jacobson (1768-1828) introduced organ and choir music, ...
- Jacobson, Raymond
- (from the article "Western sculpture") In contrast to the macrocosmic concern of these two artists were the interests of sculptors such as Raymond Jacobson, whose "Structure" (1955) derived from his study of honeycombs. Using three basic sizes, Jacobson constructed his sculpture of hollowed cubes emulating ...
- Jacobssen, Per
- (from the article "international payment and exchange") ...deficit since 1958, and the United Kingdom plunged into one in 1960. It looked as if these two countries might need to draw upon continental European currencies in excess of the amounts available. Per Jacobssen, then managing director of the ...
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