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Jackson, Alan ... Jacobean age

Jackson, Alan American country music singer-songwriter, who was one of the most popular male country artists of the 1990s and early 21st century. Jackson, Andrew military hero and seventh president of the United States (1829-37). He was the first U.S. president to come from the area west of the Appalachians and the first to gain office by a direct appeal to the mass of voters. His political movement has since been known as Jacksonian Democracy. ... Jackson, Charles Thomas American physician, chemist, and pioneer geologist and mineralogist. Jackson, Glenda British actress and Labour Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons (1992- ). As an actress on stage and in motion pictures, she was noted for her tense portrayals of complex women. Jackson, Helen Hunt American poet and novelist best known for her novel Ramona. Jackson, Howell E. American lawyer and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1893-95). Jackson, Janet American singer and actress whose increasingly mature version of dance-pop music made her one of the most popular recording artists of the 1980s and '90s. Jackson, Jesse American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and politician whose bids for the U.S. presidency (in the Democratic Party's nomination races in 1983-84 and 1987-88) were the most successful by an African American until 2008, when Barack Obama captured the Democratic presidential nomination. Jackson's life and career have been marked by ... Jackson, John English bare-knuckle boxer who was influential in securing acceptance of prizefighting as a legitimate sport in England. Jackson, John Hughlings British neurologist whose studies of epilepsy, speech defects, and nervous-system disorders arising from injury to the brain and spinal cord helped to define modern neurology. Jackson, Lisa P. American public official who served as commissioner of New Jersey's department of environmental protection (2006-08) and as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; 2009- ) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama. Jackson, Mahalia American gospel music singer, known as the "Queen of Gospel Song." Jackson, Marjorie Australian athlete who won two Olympic gold medals and tied or set 13 world records. During the early 1950s, when Australians dominated women's sprint events, Jackson was the most outstanding Australian sprinter. Jackson, Maynard American lawyer and politician, who was the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, serving three terms (1974-82 and 1990-94). Jackson, Mercy Ruggles Bisbe American physician and educator, a pioneer in the struggle for the admission of women to the practice of medicine. Jackson, Michael American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was the most popular entertainer in the world in the early and mid-1980s. Reared in Gary, Indiana, in one of the most acclaimed musical families of the rock era, Michael Jackson was the youngest and most talented of five brothers whom his father, Joseph, ... Jackson, Milt African-American jazz musician, the first and most influential vibraphone improviser of the postwar, modern jazz era. Jackson, Peter an outstanding professional boxer. A victim of racial discrimination (Jackson was black), he was denied a chance to fight for the world heavyweight championship while in his prime. Jackson, Phil American professional basketball player and coach. Employing an unorthodox New Age coaching style grounded in Eastern philosophy and Native American mysticism, he coached his teams to 11 National Basketball Association (NBA) championships. Jackson, Rachel wife of U.S. Army general and president-elect Andrew Jackson, who became the seventh president of the United States (1829-37). She died less than three months before his inauguration. Jackson, Reggie professional baseball player. Jackson, Robert H. associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941-54). Jackson, Sheldon American Presbyterian minister and educator, generally regarded as the foremost apostle of Presbyterianism in America. Jackson, Shirley American novelist and short-story writer best known for her story "The Lottery" (1948). Jackson, Shoeless Joe American professional baseball player, by many accounts one of the greatest, who was ultimately banned from the game because of his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Jackson, Sir Henry Bradwardine British naval officer responsible for the development of radio telegraphy in the British Navy. Jackson, Sir Peter New Zealand director, perhaps best known for his film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Confederate general in the American Civil War, one of its most skillful tacticians, who gained his sobriquet "Stonewall" by his stand at the First Battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas by the South) in 1861. Jackson, Wanda American country singer who also achieved substantial success in rock and roll and earned the sobriquet "the Queen of Rockabilly." Jackson, William English composer and writer on music, whose opera The Lord of the Manor (1780) held the stage for many years. Jackson, William Henry American photographer and artist whose landscape photographs of the American West helped popularize the region. Jacksonville city, Pulaski county, central Arkansas, U.S., 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Little Rock. The locality was settled before the American Civil War but did not develop until the 1860s, when a local resident, Nicholas Jackson, offered land for a Cairo and Fulton (now Union Pacific) Railroad depot. The town, ... Jacksonville city, seat (1822) of Duval county, northeastern Florida, U.S., the centre of Florida's "First Coast" region. It lies along the St. Johns River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia border. Jacksonville consolidated (1968) with most of Duval county and thereby ... Jacksonville city, seat (1755) of Onslow county, southeastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies along the New River at the head of its estuary, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Wilmington. Originally settled as Wantland's Ferry (c. 1757), its name was changed to Onslow Courthouse and then Jacksonville in 1842 to ... Jacksonville city, Jackson county, southwestern Oregon, U.S. It lies along Jackson Creek, just west of Medford, in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains. It began in 1851-52 as a mining camp with placer gold discoveries along the creek (named for a prospector). By the 1920s mining activities had declined together with ... Jacksonville city, seat (1825) of Morgan county, west-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 35 miles (55 km) west of Springfield. Laid out in 1825 as the county seat by Johnston Shelton, the county surveyor, and named in honour of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (some have also said that the city's name ... Jacksonville Jaguars American professional gridiron football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, that plays in the American Football Conference (AFC) of the National Football League (NFL). Jacmel town and port, on the southern coast of Haiti, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince across the Tiburon Peninsula. Situated on a hillside overlooking palm-fringed Jacmel Bay, the town flourished under the French as a port for transshipment of sugar, coffee, and cotton. It continues as a commercial centre ... Jacob Hebrew patriarch who was the grandson of Abraham, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel. Stories about Jacob in the Bible begin at Genesis 25:19. Jacob ben Asher Jewish scholar whose codification of Jewish law was considered standard until the publication in 1565 of the Shulhan 'arukh ("The Well-Laid Table") by Joseph Karo. Jacob Joseph Of Polonnoye rabbi and preacher, the first theoretician and literary propagandist of Jewish Hasidism. Jacob Of Edessa 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. 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 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, violet, or white, funnel-shaped, five-petaled flowers and alternate, pinnately (featherlike) ... Jacob's Room novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922. Experimental in form, it centres on the character of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to synthesize his love of Classical culture with the chaotic reality of contemporary society, notably the turbulence of World War I. 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. 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, 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. 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 deputy commissioner. Jacob, who laid out the modern city, is ... 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 although the dynasty changed, there was no distinct stylistic transition.