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Jodl, Alfred German general who, as head of the armed forces operations staff, helped plan and conduct most of Germany's military campaigns during World War II. Jodo (Japanese: Way to the Pure Land), devotional sect of Japanese Buddhism stressing faith in the Buddha Amida and heavenly reward. See Pure Land Buddhism. Jodrell Bank Observatory location of one of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescopes, which has a reflector that measures 76 metres (250 feet) in diameter. The telescope is located with other smaller radio telescopes at Jodrellbank (formerly Jodrell Bank), about 32 kilometres (20 miles) south of Manchester in the county of Cheshire, ... Joe Turner's Come and Gone play in two acts by August Wilson, performed in 1986 and published in 1988. Set in 1911, it is the third in Wilson's projected series of plays depicting African American life in each decade of the 20th century. Joei Shikimoku (1232), in Japanese history, administrative code of the Kamakura shogunate (central military government) by which it pledged just and impartial administration of law to its vassal subjects. The shikimoku, or formulary (called Joei because of its promulgation during the year so named), was a collection of rules for the guidance ... Joel, Billy American singer, pianist, and songwriter in the pop ballad tradition. His greatest popularity was in the 1970s and '80s. Joel, Book of second of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets. The Jewish canon lumps all together as The Twelve and divides Joel into four chapters; Christian versions combine chapters 2 and 3. Joensuu city, southeastern Finland, at the mouth of the Pielis River, southeast of Kuopio. Chartered in 1848, the city is a rail junction and centre for lumber shipment and has connections by steamship, highway, and air. Local industry includes plywood and lumber mills. The University of Joensuu was established in 1969. ... Joffre, Joseph-Jacques-Cesaire commander in chief (1914-16) of the French armies on the Western Front in World War I, who won fame as "the Victor of the Marne." Joffrey Ballet American ballet company, founded in 1956 by Robert Joffrey as a traveling company of six dancers affiliated with his school, the American Ballet Center. Following six U.S. tours, the troupe took tours in the Middle East and Southeast Asia (1962-63) and in the Soviet Union and United States (1963-64), and ... Joffrey, Robert American dancer, choreographer, and director, founder of the Joffrey Ballet (1956). Jofre, Eder Brazilian professional boxer, world bantamweight and featherweight champion. Jog Falls cataract of the Sharavati River, western Karnataka state, southwestern India. The Jog Falls are located 18 miles (29 km) upstream from Honavar at the river's mouth on the Arabian Sea. As it plunges 830 feet (253 metres) into a chasm, the river splits into four cascades known as the Raja, ... Jog, V.G. Indian violinist who is credited with introducing the violin into the Hindustani classical music tradition. Jogan style Japanese sculptural style of the Early Heian period (794-897). Works of Buddhist sculpture are the most numerous monuments of the period. The figures are columnar icons, erect, symmetrical, and perfectly balanced, carved from single blocks of wood and displaying a keen sense of material, with no attempt to smooth over ... jogging form of running at an easy pace, particularly popular from the 1960s in the United States. There, an estimated 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 joggers sought fitness, weight loss, grace, physical fulfillment, and relief from stress by jogging. Joggers expend from 10 to 13 calories per minute in this exercise (compared with ... Jogues, Saint Isaac French-born Jesuit missionary who sacrificed his life for the Christianization of North American Indians. Johanan ben Zakkai Palestinian Jewish sage, founder of an academy and an authoritative rabbinic body at Jamnia, who had a decisive influence on the continuance and development of traditional Judaism after the destruction of the Temple (AD 70). Johannes von Tepl Bohemian author of the remarkable dialogue Der Ackermann aus Bohmen (c. 1400; Death and the Ploughman), the first important prose work in the German language. Johannesburg city, Gauteng province, South Africa. It is the country's chief industrial and financial metropolis. Johannesen, Knut Norwegian speed skater who was one of the outstanding competitors in the sport in the late 1950s and early '60s. Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig Danish botanist and geneticist whose experiments in plant heredity offered strong support to the mutation theory of the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries (that changes in heredity come about through sudden, discrete changes of the heredity units in germ cells). Many geneticists thought Johannsen's ideas dealt a severe blow to ... johannsenite silicate mineral in the pyroxene family. It has a molecular formula of Ca(Mn,Fe)Si2O6. A calcium-manganese-iron silicate mineral, johannsenite is produced either by metamorphic processes in altered limestones or is associated with pyrite or other minerals in copper, lead, and zinc ores. It is moderately hard, has a glassy lustre, and ... Johansson, Carl Edvard Swedish mechanical engineer. After passing part of his youth in Minnesota, he returned to Sweden and became a machine-tool engineer at a rifle factory. There he began work on the problem of precision measurement needed in the machine tools used for mass production. He devised a set of standard gauge ... Johansson, Christian Swedish-born ballet dancer and principal teacher at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, who made a fundamental contribution to the development of the Russian style of classical ballet. Johansson, Ingemar Swedish-born world heavyweight boxing champion. Johansson, Lars Swedish lyric poet, author of some of the most powerful poems of the Baroque period in Swedish literature. Johansson, Scarlett American actress and singer whose acting range and pinup-model good looks earned her popular acclaim in a variety of genres, from period drama to thriller and action adventure. Johar, Yash noted Bollywood film producer whose films often showcased Indian tradition. John antipope during January 844. John second duke of Burgundy (1404-19) of the Valois line, who played a major role in French affairs in the early 15th century. John elector of Saxony and a fervent supporter of Martin Luther; he took a leading part in forming alliances among Germany's Protestant princes against the Habsburg emperors' attempts at forced reconversion. John king of Denmark (1481-1513) and Norway (1483-1513) and king (as John II) of Sweden (1497-1501) who failed in his efforts to incorporate Sweden into a Danish-dominated Scandinavian union. He was more successful in fostering the commercial development of Danish burghers to challenge the power of the nobility. John king and counterking of Hungary (1526-40) who rebelled against the House of Habsburg. John king of Scotland from 1292 to 1296, the youngest son of John de Balliol and his wife Dervorguilla, daughter and heiress of the lord of Galloway. John margrave of Brandenburg-Kustrin and a German Protestant ruler who remained loyal to the Catholic Habsburg emperors; he fought against his fellow Protestant princes and was conspicuously successful in the government of his territories. John king of Saxony (1854-73) who was passionately interested in law and in the arts. Under the name Philalethes he published a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (1839-49). John king of England from 1199 to 1216. In a war with the French king Philip II, he lost Normandy and almost all his other possessions in France. In England, after a revolt of the barons, he was forced to seal the Magna Carta (1215). John king of Bohemia from 1310 until his death, and one of the more popular heroic figures of his day, who campaigned across Europe from Toulouse to Prussia. John count of Brienne who became titular king of Jerusalem (1210-25) and Latin emperor of Constantinople (1231-37). John (IV) claimant to the duchy of Brittany upon the death of his childless half brother, John III. He was the only surviving son of Arthur II. John (XVI) antipope from 997 to 998. John (XVII) pope from June to December 1003. Chosen by the patrician John Crescentius III, he succeeded Pope Sylvester II. John was merely a puppet of his relatives the Crescentii, then the most influential family in Rome. He approved an evangelical mission to the Slavs. John (XX) nonexistent pope. A confusion in the numbering of popes named John after John XIV resulted because Marianus Scotus and other 11th-century historians mistakenly believed that there had been a pope named John between antipope Boniface VII and the true John XV. Therefore they mistakenly numbered the real popes John XV ... John (XXIII) schismatic antipope from 1410 to 1415. John Bar Qursos monk and bishop of Tella (near modern Aleppo, Syria), a leading theological propagator of moderate monophysitism (see monophysite). John Bartholomew and Son former mapmaking and publishing company of the United Kingdom that was located in Edinburgh and specialized in the use of hypsometric (layer) colouring in relief maps. John Birch Society private organization founded in the United States on Dec. 9, 1958, by Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. (1899-1985), a retired Boston candy manufacturer, for the purpose of combating communism and promoting various ultraconservative causes. The name derives from John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence officer who was ... John Brown's Body epic poem in eight sections about the American Civil War by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928 and subsequently awarded a Pulitzer Prize. John Bull in literature and political caricature, a conventional personification of England or of English character. Bull was invented by the Scottish mathematician and physician John Arbuthnot as a character in an extended allegory that appeared in a series of five pamphlets in 1712 and later in the same year published collectively ... John Carroll University private, coeducational institution of higher learning in University Heights, Ohio, U.S., just east of Cleveland. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The university comprises the College of Arts and Sciences, the Boler School of Business, and the Graduate School. The university offers bachelor's and ...