| | - Johnson, Pauline
- Canadian Indian poet who celebrated the heritage of her people in poems that had immense appeal in her lifetime.
- Johnson, Pete
- (from the article "boogie-woogie") Among the greatest popularizers of boogie-woogie were Jimmy Yancey, Pinetop Smith, who is generally credited with inventing the term itself, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Meade "Lux" Lewis. LewisLewis, MeadeDuring the late 1930s, Lewis appeared with Pete Johnson and Albert ...
- Johnson, Philip C.
- American architect and critic known both for his promotion of the International style and, later, for his role in defining postmodernist architecture. [6 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Prince
- (from the article "Liberia") ...multinational West African force, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Monitoring Group, attempted to restore order, but the leaders of two rebel groups, Charles Ghankay Taylor and Prince Johnson, contended for power after Doe's downfall and execution. The war dragged on for seven years as new factions arose ...
- Johnson, Rafer
- American athlete, who won a gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. [1 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Randy
- (from the article "Schilling, Curt") ...however, he struggled, posting losing records. In 1997 he returned to form with 17 wins. Schilling was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000, and the following year he teamed with left-hander Randy Johnson to form one of the most imposing pitching duos in baseball. In 2001 Schilling won 22 ...
- Johnson, Reverdy
- constitutional lawyer, U.S. senator from Maryland (1845-49, 1863-68), attorney general under President Zachary Taylor (1849-50), and minister to Great Britain (1868-69). Able to grasp either side of an issue, he was called "the Trimmer" for his ability to bring about compromises.
- Johnson, Richard M
- ninth vice president of the United States (1837-41) in the Democratic administration of President Martin Van Buren.
- Johnson, Robert
- American blues composer, guitarist, and singer whose eerie falsetto singing voice and masterful, rhythmic slide guitar influenced both his contemporaries and many later blues and rock musicians. [3 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Robert
- British composer and lutenist, who wrote music for a number of plays, including several by William Shakespeare, and was considered one of England's leading lutenists. [1 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Robert L.
- American businessman, founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), and the first African American majority owner of a major professional sports team in the United States. [2 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Robert Wood
- American manufacturer who helped further the cause of modern surgery by developing antiseptic bandages and dressings.
- Johnson, Samuel
- English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. [32 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Samuel Curtis
- American business executive (b. March 2, 1928, Racine, Wis.-d. May 22, 2004, Racine), served for more than 30 years, until 2000, as head of S.C. Johnson & Son, a company founded by his great-grandfather in 1886. Under his guidance the company, known for its Johnson Wax, enlarged its range of ...
- Johnson, Shawn
- (from the article "Gymnastics") ...1-9, 2007, the United States (with 184.40 points) won the women's team title over defending champion China (183.45 points) and Romania (178.10 points). The strong U.S. team-Ivana Hong, Shawn Johnson, Anastasia (Nastia) Liukin, Samantha Peszek, Alicia Sacramone, and Shayla Worley-came from behind after mistakes on the balance beam in the ...
- Johnson, Sir William, 1st Baronet
- pioneer in the Mohawk Valley, New York, whose service as colonial superintendent of Indian affairs was largely responsible for keeping the Iroquois neutral and even friendly to the British in the latter stages of the struggle with the French for control of North America. [2 Related Articles]
- Johnson, Thomas
- American Revolutionary War leader, first governor of Maryland (1777-79), and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1792-93).
- Johnson, Tom
- Canadian ice hockey player and coach played 15 seasons (1947-48, 1949-63) for the Montreal Canadiens, during which time he helped lead the team to six Stanley Cup titles (1953, 1956-60) with his superb puck handling; he received the Norris Trophy in 1959 as the National Hockey League's best defenseman. Johnson ...
- Johnson, Tommy
- African-American singer-guitarist, one of the most evocative and influential of blues artists.
- Johnson, U Alexis
- American diplomat who sat at numerous negotiating tables during his 42-year career in the Foreign Service, culminating in his role as chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (b. Oct. 17, 1908--d. March 24, 1997).
- Johnson, Uwe
- German author noted for his experimental style. Many of his novels explore the contradictions of life in a Germany divided after World War II.
- Johnson, Virginia E.
- (from the article "Masters and Johnson") ...N.Y. (B.S.), and the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester (M.D., 1943). In 1947 he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine of Washington University in St. Louis. Johnson studied at Drury College (Springfield, Mo.), the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the Kansas City Conservatory ...
- Johnson, Walter
- American professional baseball player who had perhaps the greatest fastball in the history of the game. A right-handed thrower with a sidearm delivery who batted right as well, Johnson pitched for the Washington Senators of the American League from 1907 through 1927. [2 Related Articles]
- Johnson, William
- associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1804 who established the practice of rendering individual opinions-concurring or dissenting-in addition to the majority opinion of the court. A deeply sensitive man and a learned, courageous jurist, he set himself against the dominance exercised over the court by Chief Justice ...
- Johnson, Zach
- (from the article "Golf") The four major men's golf championships in 2007 produced four different winners. For three men-American Zach Johnson, Argentina's Angel Cabrera, and Irishman Padraig Harrington-it was a first major success, but for Eldrick ("Tiger") Woods it was victory number 13, placing him just five short of the record set by fellow ...
- Johnson-Bovey Building
- (from the article "building construction") ...overloading. In 1930 the American engineer Hardy Cross introduced relaxation methods for the approximate analysis of rigid frames, which greatly simplified the design of concrete structures. In the Johnson-Bovey Building (1905) in Minneapolis, the American engineer C.A.P. Turner employed concrete floor slabs without beams (called flat slabs or flat plates) ...
- Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen
- Liberian politician and economist, who was president of Liberia from 2006. She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country. [7 Related Articles]
- Johnston Atoll
- unincorporated territory of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean, about 825 miles (1,330 km) southwest of Honolulu. It consists of four small islands on a raised coral atoll formation that are partially enclosed on the north and west by a 7.5-mile (12-km) semicircular reef. Two of the four-Johnston ... [1 Related Articles]
- Johnston, Albert Sidney
- Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861-65); his death in the second year of the war was considered an irreparable loss by the South. [4 Related Articles]
- Johnston, Benjamin
- (from the article "12-tone music") ...set while simultaneously writing tonal music; among them are Schoenberg himself, the Austrian-born Ernst Toch, the American Walter Piston, and the Russian Dmitry Shostakovich. The American composer Benjamin Johnston combined principles of 12-tone music with microtonality (use of intervals smaller than whole tones or semitones). There are no sufficient analytic ...
- Johnston, Bruce
- (from the article "Beach Boys, the") ...later members included David Marks (b. 1948Newcastle, Pa.) and Bruce Johnston (original name William Baldwin; b. June 24, 1944Chicago, Ill.). Initially perceived as...
- Johnston, David Claypoole
- American cartoonist who, strongly influenced by the English caricaturist George Cruikshank, produced imaginative and original drawings. [1 Related Articles]
- Johnston, Edward
- British teacher of calligraphy who had a widespread influence on 20th-century typography and calligraphy, particularly in England and Germany. He has been credited with starting the modern calligraphic revival. [1 Related Articles]
- Johnston, George
- (from the article "Rum Rebellion") ...of commodities prices. His arrest early in January 1808 seemed to augur ill for the colony's more prosperous settlers, including the corps officers. It appears likely that Macarthur convinced Maj. George Johnston of the corps to depose Bligh. The corps invaded Government House on Jan. 26, 1808, placed Bligh under ...
- Johnston, Henrietta
- early American portrait artist who was quite possibly the earliest woman artist in America.
- Johnston, Jennifer
- Irish novelist whose works deal with political and cultural tensions in Ireland, with an emphasis on the problems of the Anglo-Irish. Rich in dialogue, Johnston's novels often concern interpersonal relationships and the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Johnston, Joseph E
- Confederate general who never suffered a direct defeat during the American Civil War (1861-65). His military effectiveness, though, was hindered by a long-standing feud with Jefferson Davis. [8 Related Articles]
- Johnston, Ollie
- American animator was a member of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men," a group of top-notch animators. Johnston began his lifelong career (1935-78) with Disney working on such shorts as Mickey's Garden (1935). He soon advanced into feature animations, creating such memorable characters as the dwarfs in Snow White and the ...
- Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton
- British explorer, botanist, and pioneer colonial administrator. Widely traveled in Africa and speaking many African languages, he was closely involved in what has been called the scramble for Africa by 19th-century colonial powers. He published 40 books on African subjects and from 1891 to 1895 served as the first British ... [3 Related Articles]
- Johnston, Tom
- (from the article "Scotland") During World War II Scotland suffered some 34,000 combat deaths, and approximately 6,000 civilians were killed, many in air attacks on Clydeside. In 1943 Tom Johnston, a Labour member of Parliament who acted as secretary of state for Scotland in the wartime national government, helped to create the North of ...
- Johnston, Wayne
- (from the article "Literature") ...African warlord, was far distant from the starving fields of 1840s Ireland in Peter Behrens's The Law of Dreams and the low misery and sideways humour staining the ever-circling memories of Wayne Johnston's cantankerous Sheilagh Fielding in The Custodian of Paradise.Author Wayne Johnston continued his exploration of the ...
- Johnstown
- city, seat (1838) of Fulton county, east-central New York, U.S. It lies near the Mohawk River, adjoining Gloversville, 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Albany. It was founded in 1762 by pioneer and colonial administrator Sir William Johnson, whose baronial home, Johnson Hall (1762), is preserved. Drumm House and Tryon ...
- Johnstown
- city, Cambria county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Conemaugh River and Stony Creek, 76 miles (122 km) east of Pittsburgh. Johnstown is the centre of a metropolitan area comprising more than 60 townships and boroughs. [1 Related Articles]
- Johnstown
- (from the article "The Belmont Stakes") ...captured the three events in 1930, and Gallant Fox's colt Omaha, who won in 1935. Among his other successful horses were Happy Gal, Faireno, Granville, Vagrancy, and Nashua. In 1939 Woodward's horse Johnstown won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Woodward also entered horses in the English classic races. ...
- Johnstown Flood
- (from the article "Johnstown") The city was the victim of a disastrous flood in 1889. At 3:10 PM on May 31, the South Fork Dam, a poorly maintained earthfill dam holding a major upstream reservoir, collapsed after heavy rains, sending a great wall of water rushing down the Conemaugh River valley at speeds of ...
- Johor
- state of Malaysia, southernmost state of Peninsular (West) Malaysia. Its 250-mile (400-km) coastline along the Strait of Malacca and South China Sea also winds around the Republic of Singapore's northern border and is dotted with small islands. Johor is generally flat and jungle covered, with large swamps, but rises in ... [5 Related Articles]
- Johor Bahru
- city, southern West Malaysia. It lies at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula and is separated from Singapore Island by the Johor Strait. At this point, a short rail and road causeway (0.75 mile [1.2 km]) crosses the strait to link the mainland with Singapore. Founded by Temenggong Ibrahim, ...
- Johore Strait
- northern arm of the Singapore Strait, 30 mi (50 km) long and 34-3 mi wide, between the Republic of Singapore and the region of Johor at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It is crossed by a rail and road causeway linking Johor Baharu, Malaysia, with Woodlands, Singapore. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- join
- (from the article "feldspar") The most obvious differences between the high- and low-temperature diagrams are along the alkali-feldspar (Or-Ab) join (the boundary line between the phases). As indicated, sanidine and anorthoclase are high-temperature alkali feldspars, and perthite is their low-temperature analogue. Sanidine is a single-phase alkali feldspar; although frequently described chemically by the formula ...
- join operator
- (from the article "computer science") ...it is simply called a tuple. The relational approach also supports queries (requests for information) that involve several tables by providing automatic linkage across tables by means of a "join" operation that combines records with identical values of common attributes. Payroll data, for example, could be stored in one table ...
- joinder and impleader
- in law, processes whereby additional parties or additional claims are brought into suits because addressing them is necessary or desirable for the successful adjudication of the issues.
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