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Juneau city and borough, capital (since 1906) of Alaska, U.S. The city, at the heart of the Inside Passage (Alaska Marine Highway), is located in the southeastern part of the state, on the Gastineau Channel. Sheltered from the Pacific Ocean by a belt of islands 75 miles (120 km) wide, it ... Junee town, south-central New South Wales, Australia, just north of Wagga Wagga in the fertile Riverina district. Founded in 1863 as Jewnee, it was known as Jewnee Junction or Loftus when proclaimed a town in 1883 and was gazetted a municipality in 1886. It became a shire in 1981. Its name ... Juneteenth holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. Jung Bahadur prime minister and virtual ruler of Nepal from 1846 to 1877, who established the powerful Rana dynasty of hereditary prime ministers, an office that remained in his family until 1951. Jung, Andrea Canadian-born American businesswoman who was chairman (2001- ) and CEO (1999- ) of Avon Products, Inc., a worldwide direct seller of women's beauty supplies. Jung, Carl Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and ... Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich German writer best known for his autobiography, Heinrich Stillings Leben, 5 vol. (1806), the first two volumes of which give a vividly realistic picture of village life in an 18th-century pietistic family. Junge, Alfred German motion-picture set designer who worked in England for more than 30 years and who was credited with doing more for the reputation of British set design than any Englishman. Junger, Ernst German novelist and essayist, an ardent militarist who was one of the most complex and contradictory figures in 20th-century German literature. Jungfrau well-known Swiss peak (13,642 feet [4,158 m]) dominating the Lauterbrunnen valley and lying 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of the resort of Interlaken. The scenic mountain separates the cantons of Bern and Valais and is in the Bernese Alps, two other peaks of which (the Finsteraarhorn [14,022 feet] and the ... Jungfrauenbecher (German: "maiden's cup"), silver cup shaped like a girl with a wide-spreading skirt (forming a large cup when inverted) holding a pivoted bowl above her head. The form apparently originated in late 16th-century Germany, but only a few examples survive from the 17th century. Jungfrauenbecher were used at nuptial feasts ... Junggar Basin extensive basin in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China. jungle tropical forest with luxuriant, tangled, impenetrable vegetation, generally teeming with wildlife; popularly associated with the tropics. See rainforest. jungle babbler any of about 32 species of songbirds constituting the tribe Pellorneini of the babbler family Timaliidae. Found from Africa to Malaysia and the Philippines, these drab birds with slender, often hook-tipped bills skulk in forest undergrowth. An example is the striped jungle babbler, or spotted babbler (Pelloreum ruficeps), of Southeast ... Jungle Book, The American animated musical film, released in 1967, that was the last feature film personally overseen by Walt Disney. (It was still in production when he died in 1966.) Jungle Book, The collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1894. The Second Jungle Book, published in 1895, contains stories linked by poems. jungle fowl any of four Asian birds of the genus Gallus, family Phasianidae (order Galliformes). (For Australian jungle fowl, see megapode.) Gallus species differ from other members of the pheasant family in having, in the male, a fleshy comb, lobed wattles hanging below the bill, and high-arched tail. The red jungle fowl ... Jungle, The novel by Upton Sinclair, published privately by Sinclair in 1906 after commercial publishers refused the manuscript. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an expose of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. Because of public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed ... Juniata county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a mountainous area in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley physiographic province located midway between State College and Harrisburg. The county lies between Blue, Blacklog, and Shade mountains on the northwest and Tuscarora Mountain on the southeast. The principal waterways are the Juniata and Susquehanna ... Junin city, northern Buenos Aires provincia (province), east-central Argentina, in the Pampa on the Salado River. The town grew up around Fuerte (fort) Federacion, founded in 1827 to protect colonists from Indian incursions; it was given city status in 1906. Junin is an agricultural (wheat, corn [maize], cattle), commercial, and manufacturing ... Junior Achievement international nonprofit educational organization that encourages early exposure of young people to business techniques through widely used curricula and after-school programs. By the early 21st century, Junior Achievement had offices in more than 120 countries. In 2004 the JA International branch, created in 1994, merged with the U.S. branch to ... junior college educational institution that provides two years of academic instruction beyond secondary school, as well as technical and vocational training to prepare graduates for careers. Public junior colleges are often called community colleges. Such colleges are in many ways an extension of the public-school system, providing terminal education (vocational and semiprofessional ... junior high school in some school systems in the United States, the two or three secondary grades (7, 8, 9) of school following elementary school and preceding high school. Children served by junior high school are approximately 12 to 15 years old. The junior high school may be in a separate building or ... juniper any of about 60 to 70 species of aromatic evergreen trees or shrubs constituting the genus Juniperus of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The juvenile leaves of a juniper are needlelike. Mature leaves are awl-shaped, spreading, and arranged in pairs or in whorls of three. Some ... Junius the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a series of letters contributed to Henry Sampson Woodfall's Public Advertiser, a popular English newspaper of the day, between Jan. 21, 1769, and Jan. 21, 1772. Junius' aims were to discredit the ministries of the Duke of Grafton and subsequently of Lord ... Junius, Franciscus, The Younger language and literary scholar whose works stimulated interest in the study of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and the cognate old Germanic languages. junk classic Chinese sailing vessel of ancient unknown origin, still in wide use. High-sterned, with projecting bow, the junk carries up to five masts on which are set square sails consisting of panels of linen or matting flattened by bamboo strips. Each sail can be spread or closed at a pull, ... junk bond Bond paying a high yield but also presenting greater risk than comparable securities. Junk bonds can be identified through the lower grades assigned by rating services (e.g., BBB instead of AAA for the highest quality bonds). Because the possibility of default is great, junk bonds are usually considered too risky ... Junker (German: "country squire"), member of the landowning aristocracy of Prussia and eastern Germany, which, under the German Empire (1871-1918) and the Weimar Republic (1919-33), exercised substantial political power. Otto von Bismarck himself, the imperial chancellor during 1871-90, was of Junker stock and at first was regarded as representing its interests. ... Junker, Wilhelm Russian explorer of the southern Sudan and Central Africa who determined the course of a major Congo River tributary, the Ubangi River, together with one of its branches, the Uele. Junkers, Hugo German aircraft designer and early proponent of the monoplane and all-metal construction of aircraft. Juno in Roman religion, chief goddess and female counterpart of Jupiter, closely resembling the Greek Hera, with whom she was identified. With Jupiter and Minerva, she was a member of the Capitoline triad of deities traditionally introduced by the Etruscan kings. Juno was connected with all aspects of the life of ... Juno U.S. space probe that is designed to orbit Jupiter. It is named for the Roman goddess who was the female counterpart to the god Jupiter. Juno was launched by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 5, 2011. In October 2013, it will fly by Earth for ... Juno and the Paycock tragicomedy in three acts by Sean O'Casey, produced in 1924 and published the following year. Set in the grim slums of Dublin during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, the play chronicles the fortunes of the impoverished Boyle family, into which O'Casey pours all of the strengths and shortcomings of ... Juno Beach The second beach from the east among the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion of World War II. It was assaulted on June 6, 1944 (D-Day of the invasion), by units of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, who took heavy casualties in the first wave but by the end ... Junod, Henri Alexandre Swiss Protestant missionary and anthropologist noted for his ethnography of the Tsonga (Thonga) peoples of southern Africa. Junot, Andoche, duc d'Abrantes one of Napoleon Bonaparte's generals and his first aide-de-camp. Junot, Laure, Duchess D'abrantes nee Permon French author of a volume of famous memoirs. Junqueiro, Abilio Manuel Guerra poet whose themes of social protest and reform, expressed in a blend of grandiloquence and satire, have identified him as the poet par excellence of the Portuguese Revolution of 1910. junta (Spanish: "meeting"), committee or administrative council, particularly one that rules a country after a coup d'etat and before a legal government has been established. The word was widely used in the 16th century to refer to numerous government consultative committees. The Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion (1808) was organized by ... junzi in Chinese philosophy, a person whose humane conduct (ren) makes him a moral exemplar. Jupiter the chief ancient Roman and Italian god. Like Zeus, the Greek god with whom he is etymologically identical (root diu, "bright"), Jupiter was a sky god. One of his most ancient epithets is Lucetius ("Light-Bringer"); and later literature has preserved the same idea in such phrases as sub Iove, "under ... Jupiter the most massive planet of the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant. Jupiter is designated by the symbol . Jupiter Dolichenus god of a Roman mystery cult, originally a local Hittite-Hurrian god of fertility and thunder worshiped at Doliche (modern Duluk), in southeastern Turkey. Later the deity was given a Semitic character, but, under Achaemenid rule (6th-4th century BC), he was identified with the Persian god Ahura Mazda, thus becoming a ... Jura canton, northwestern Switzerland, comprising the folded Jura Mountains in the south and extending northward to the hilly region of the limestone Jura Plateau, including the districts of the Franches Montagnes and the Ajoie. Bordering France to the north and west, it is bounded on the south by Bern canton and ... Jura fourth largest island of the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, Scotland. It is 27 miles (43 km) long, 2-8 miles (3-13 km) wide, and almost bisected by Loch Tarbert (a sea loch). A mountain range culminating in the Paps of Jura-with an elevation of ... Jura Mountains system of ranges extending for 225 miles (360 km) in an arc on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border from the Rhone River to the Rhine. It lies mostly in Switzerland, but a good part of the western sector lies in France. The highest peaks of the Jura are in ... Juran Chinese painter of the Five Dynasties (907-960) period, he was one of the most innovative artists working in the pure landscape tradition. Jurassic Period second of three periods of the Mesozoic Era, extending from 199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago. It immediately followed the Triassic Period (251 million to 199.6 million years ago) and was succeeded by the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago). The Morrison Formation of the United ... Jurgen novel by James Branch Cabell, published in 1919. The New York Society for the Prevention of Vice declared Jurgen obscene and banned all displays and sales of the book. Both Jurgen and Cabell achieved considerable notoriety during the two years the book could not be sold legally; when the case ... Jurgens, Curt German stage and motion-picture actor.