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Jazz In The Wilde "Jazz In The Wilde" is the name of a concert series and CD compilation recorded in the Wilde Auditorium at the University of Hartford. It was produced by WWUH, the University of Hartford radio station in West Hartford, CT, USA.
Jazz Interactions Jazz Interactions, Inc. is a non-profit-making organisation whose aim is "to stimulate a greater awareness of jazz by providing jazz information and educational services to New York metropolitan area"organisation was founded by a group of jazz musicians including Joe Newman], and apart from its educational activities it created the [[Jazz Interactions Orchestra.
Jazz Is Dead Jazz is Dead is a Grateful Dead cover-band composed of Jimmy Herring, Bobby Lee Rodgers and Jeff Sipe (guitar, bass, drums, respectively) that interprets classic Dead songs with jazzy influences and without vocals. Formerly, keyboardist T Lavitz and drummer Rod Morgenstein, both members of the Dixie Dregs, were members of the band.
Jazz Jackrabbit 3 Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (alternatively called Jazz Jackrabbit 3D or simply Jazz3D) was to be the third installment of the popular PC game series, Jazz Jackrabbit. Spear-headed by Dean "Noogy" Dodrill (an animator for Jazz Jackrabbit 2) and coded by World Tree Games, it was developed for the original Unreal Engine technology in 1999.
Jazz Jamaica In 1991, inspired by the rhythms of traditional Jamaican music and the largely improvisational nature of jazz, original Jazz Warrior, and veteran jazz double bassist, Gary Crosby turned a musical concept in to a joyful reality.
Jazz manouche Jazz manouche or Gypsy jazz(which means literally "Traveller jazz") is a form of music which blends jazz with traditional Rom (Gypsy) music forms. Important performers of this style of music are Django Reinhardt and Tchavolo Schmitt.
Jazz Mandolin Project The Jazz Mandolin Project, is a jazz jam band from Burlington, Vermont, led by mandolinist Jamie Masefield. The project was formed in 1993 through a gig every month at a coffee house in Vermont known as The Last Elm Cafe.
Jazz piano Jazz Piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. The instrument is also a vital tool in the understanding of jazz theory and arranging, because of its combined melodic and harmonic nature.
Jazz poetry Jazz poetry can be defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation," from an article by Pittsburg State University faculty. During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of rhythm and style; among these were Ezra Pound, T.
Jazz Profiles Jazz Profiles is a radio show produced by NPR and hosted by jazz singer Nancy Wilson. It features hour long retrospectives on the lives of famous jazz musicians, or sometimes on famous albums such as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.
Jazz rap Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and early 1990s. Known for intellectual, often socio-political or Afrocentric lyrics and jazz beats (sometimes performed by a live band, instead of sampled), jazz rap has not become a huge mainstream success; it instead sells primarily to a small specialized fan base.
Jazz Radio UK Jazz Radio UK is a group established in early 2006 to lobby for more jazz on the british airwaves. It was convened in anticipation of OFCOM advertising for the second national commercial digital radio multiplex which it sees as the best opportunity to increase the broadcast output of jazz in the UK.
Jazz Raycole Jazz Raycole (born February 11, 1989 in Stockton, California) is an American actress who played Claire Kyle in the popular sitcom My Wife and Kids during its first season. When season one ended, Raycole was pulled from the series by her mother who was concerned about a storyline in the second season premiere in which Claire and her friend Charmaine (Raven-Symone) discover Charmaine is pregnant.
Jazz scale A jazz scale is a musical scale used in jazz. Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from Western European classical music, possibly with an additional note inserted to add a jazz sound coloring, such as a particular chromatic passing tone as in the "bebop scales", or a blue note.
Jazz Semiconductor Jazz Semiconductor is a US based pure-play semiconductor wafer foundry that serves customers targeting wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, aerospace/defense and other high-performance applications. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Jazz is a privately held company with over 800 employees.
Jazz waltz A Jazz waltz is a composition played by jazz musicians in a syncopated 3/4, 6/4, or 6/8 time signature. Frequently a feeling of swing is created in the accompaniment by anticipating the second beat by a quaver.
Jazzanova Jazzanova is a German Berlin-based DJ/producer collective consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, JĂĽrgen von Knoblauch, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer. The group is one of the foremost proponents of the nu-jazz, chillout and jazz house styles of music associated with record labels such as Compost Records and Sonar Kollektiv.
JazzFest Berlin JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a jazz festival based in Berlin, Germany. Originally called the "Berliner Jazztage," it was founded in 1964 in West Berlin by the Berliner Festspiele.
Jazzkantine Inspired by Guru's Jazzmatazz project, the German formation Jazzkantine was founded in 1993 in Braunschweig. Their first album Jazzkantine won them the "Echo Award" in 1995, the most important German music prize.
Jazzland Records (1960) Jazzland Records is an American jazz label founded in 1960 by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews, as a subsidiary of their Riverside Records company. Originally used to re-package earlier Riverside releases; subsequently the label was used for original releases, in particular for a series of records produced by Julian Cannonball Adderley.
Jazzman Records Jazzman Record is a record label founded by London DJ Gerald Short in 1998, specialized in re-releasing hard-to-find jazz, funk and soul vinyl records. It also has two sublabels called Funk45 and Stark Reality.
Jazztrax Showcase of the Absolute Newest Jazztrax, formally known as the Jazztrax Showcase of the Absolute Newest, is a weekly countdown of America's Top 20 Smooth Jazz singles by Art Good. The show was founded in 1985 by Good in San Diego, and is currently broadcast out of the San Fernando Valley, the heart of smooth jazz.
Jazzwise Jazzwise magazine, launched in 1997, is the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly magazine and is available in most major territories worldwide. Jazzwise has a broad editorial view from the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, mainstream jazz, improv and jazz-rock to world jazz, and nu-jazz.
Jazzy Sensation Jazzy Sensation is a classic old school hip hop song released in 1982 performed by hip hop pioneers Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five. The song's lyrics consist mainly of routines from the Jazzy Five's stage shows along with a revamped chorus from Gwen McCrae's Funky Sensation.
Ja`far bin AbÄ« TÄlib Jafar ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: جعŮر ابن أبي طالب) (aka Jafar Tayyar) was the son of Abu Talib ibn 'Abdul Muttalib (the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad), and brother of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph. Jafar was raised by his uncle, Abbas ibn 'Abdul Muttalib, for his father was a poor man and had to support a big family.
JA Armentières Jeunesse Athletique Armentières is a French association football team founded in 1911. They are based in Armentières, France and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2 Group A, the fifth tier in the French football league system.
JA Prestwich Industries Ltd JA Prestwich Industries Ltd, was a British engineering company named after founder John Alfred Prestwich, produced cinematographic equipment, internal combustion engines (for which the company was generally abbreviated to "J.A.
JACK Audio Connection Kit The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server or daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications. It is created by Paul Davis and others and licensed under the GNU GPL.
JACKSNNZ In international diplomacy JACKSNNZs is the colloquial name of an informal grouping of the world's affluent non-EU countries, excluding the United States. The JACKSNNZ states are Japan, Australia, Canada, (South) Korea, Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand.
JAD Records JAD Records was a record label that was co-owned by Johnny Nash, producer Arthur Jenkins, and businessman Danny Sims, whose initials formed its logo. JAD Records was the label which signed Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Rita Marley to a non-exclusive long-term contract as both singers and song-writers.
JADE (programming language) JADE is an object-oriented programming language that exhibits a seamlessly integrated object-oriented database management system. It is designed to be an end-to-end development environment, which allows systems to be coded in one language from the database server right down to the clients.
JAGAL JAGAL is a natural gas pipeline, which connects Yamal-Europe pipeline with the gas grid of Wingas, a joint venture of Winthershall, the subsidiary of BASF, and Gazprom. JAGAL stands for Jamal-Gas-Anbindungs-Leitung, which means Yamal gas connection network.
JAGUAR JAGUAR is a quantum chemical ab initio package for both gas and solution phase calculations, with strength in treating metal-containing systems. It is commercial software marketed by the company Schrödinger Inc.
JAK-STAT signaling pathway The JAK-STAT signaling pathway takes part in the regulation of cellular responses to cytokines and growth factors. Employing Janus kinases (JAKs) and Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs), the pathway transduces the signal carried by these extracellular polypeptides to the cell nucleus, where activated STAT proteins modify gene expression.
JAM Message Base Format The JAM Message Base Format was the most popular file format for storing message bases on DOS-based BBSes in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the API Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, and Mats Wallin.
JAM Project JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animation song Makers") is an anime music genre (or anison) "supergroup" based in Japan, originally founded on July 19, 2000 by famous 1970s theme song artist Ichiro Mizuki. The group is comprised of many vocal artists well known in the genre; aside from the many anime and video game theme songs that this group has performed together, each member is famous for his or her own solo performances of anime-related music.
JAMA & Archives JAMA and Archives professional medical journals are published by the American Medical Association. JAMA has the largest circulation of any medical journal in the world and is received each week by physicians in virtually every specialty and practice setting.
JAMA & Archives For The Media JAMA & Archives For The Media provides free access to news releases and video news releases about the latest research published in JAMA and the 9 Archives Journals. For credentialed journalists, For the Media provides access to JAMA & Archives Journals content prior to official publication dates (pre-embargo content), as well as access to all related pre-embargo (pre-publication) news releases and video news release scripts.
JAMin JAMin is an open source (distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) tool for mastering audio recordings in a studio environment. It is based on the JACK low-latency audio server, which means that it can read master mix output from a digital audio workstation like Ardour and write back to it a new mastered track in real-time of freewheel mode.
JAMIC Japan Microgravity Center (JAMIC) is a site for microgravity experiments at a 710 meters deep abandoned coal mine at Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido. A capsule is dropped from the top to simulate "zero gravity".
JANET JANET is a private British government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research. All further- and higher-education organisations are connected to JANET, as are all the Research Councils; the majority of these sites are connected via 19 metropolitan area networks across the UK.
JANET NRS The JANET NRS (Name Registration Scheme) was a pseudo-hierarchical naming scheme adopted for use on United Kingdom academic and research networks before the superficially similar system used by the Internet DNS had been fully established.
JAPW New Jersey State Championship The JAPW New Jersey State Championship (formerly known as the JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship) is a title in the Jersey All Pro Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It became an official title on December 5, 1997.
JAQ Jeffery Allen Qaiyum, known as JAQ, is a professional b-boy, born and raised in Chicago to a German mother and Pakistani father. The DJ, emcee, beatmaker, producer, beatboxer then moved to NYC where he learned how to make beats and carefully craft rhymes.
JAS 39 Gripen The Saab JAS 39 "Gripen" (Griffin) is a fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. The aircraft is in service with the Swedish Air Force and the Czech Republic Air Force and has been ordered by the Hungarian Air Force and South African Air Force.
JASMS High School The Jose Abad Santos Memorial School High School (JASMS HS) is the High School department for boys and girls of the Philippine Women's University in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It is located in the same area as the JASMS Elementary School on Pilar H.
JAST USA JAST USA is a licensor and distributor of English-language BishĹŤjo games, some of which are as dating sims or eroge. Founded in 1997, it has released such titles as Three Sisters' Story, Runaway City, Hentai Anime Poker and many others.
JATO Rocket Car The famous account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a rocket engine on a common automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email.
JAUS Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems. Formerly JAUGS (Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems), JAUS was originally an initiative by the United States Department of Defense to develop an open architecture for the domain of unmanned systems.
JAWSAT The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FALCONSAT], [[OCSE (satellite)|OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat.
JAX-RPC JAX-RPC (Java API for XML-based RPC) allows invoking from a Java application a Java based Web Service with a known description while still being consistent with its WSDL description. It can be seen as Java RMIs over Web Services.
JĂbaro (Peru) It is impossible to speak about the Peruvian rainforest and its different tribes, without mentioning the one that most attracts the civilized world's attention by its peculiarity of reducing their victims' heads: the tribe of the JĂbaros. Most of them do not practise this ancient custom anymore.
Jüdenberg Jüdenberg is a community in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Jüdenberg lies about 4 km northwest of Gräfenhainichen on the edge of the Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe, and belongs to the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Tor zur Dübener Heide whose seat is in the town of Gräfenhainichen.
JĂĽdenstrasse (Berlin) The JĂĽdenstrasse (Street of the Jews), is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is in the borough of Mitte and runs between Rathausstrasse and GrĂĽnerstrasse, next to the Rotes Rathaus, the city hall of Berlin.
JĂĽlich JĂĽlich (Dutch: Gulik) is a medium-size town in the district of DĂĽren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. JĂĽlich is well known as location of a world-famous research centre, the Forschungszentrum JĂĽlich and as shortwave transmission site of Deutsche Welle.
JĂĽlich-Cleves-Berg JĂĽlich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of states of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1423 the duchies of JĂĽlich and Cleves were united, and in 1521 they united with the duchy of Berg and the county of Mark to form JĂĽlich-Cleves-Berg.
JĂĽrgen Bartsch JĂĽrgen Bartsch (born November 6, 1946 in Essen; died April 28, 1976 in Eickelborn; original name "Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski") was a German serial killer who murdered four children and attempted to kill another.
JĂĽrgen E. Schrempp JĂĽrgen Erich Schrempp (born September 15, 1944 in Freiburg) was until December 31, 2005, the CEO of DaimlerChrysler, a German-American car and truck manufacturer. Following a decision of the board taken on July 28 2005, he was succeeded on January 1, 2006, by Chrysler frontman Dieter Zetsche.
Jürgen Fanghänel Jürgen Fanghänel (born August 1, 1951) is a retired boxer, who won the bronze medal for East Germany in the Heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he was defeated in the semi finals by Piotr Zaev of the Soviet Union.
JĂĽrgen Flimm JĂĽrgen Flimm was born in GieĂźen, Germany. He studied theory of drama, literature and sociology at the University of Cologne and started his career with his first position as assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele in 1968.
JĂĽrgen Hingsen JĂĽrgen Hingsen (born January 25, 1958 in Duisburg) is a former (West) German decathlete who won several medals at international championships in the 1980s. He came second in the Olympic decathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles behind Daley Thompson.
JĂĽrgen Klute JĂĽrgen Klute is an Evangelical pastor and the head of the office of social ministry of the Lutheran diocese of Herne. Associated with the Christian Left, he was chosen as the main candidate of the new Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice for the 2005 state election of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and a stronghold of the Social Democratic Party, from which the new party split.
Jürgen Möllemann Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann (July 15, 1945 – June 5, 2003) was a German politician. Born in Augsburg, he used to be a member of the German government as minister of state in the department of foreign affairs (1982-1987), minister for education and science (1987-1991), and as minister for economy (1991-1993) and vice chancellor (1992-1993) under chancellor Helmut Kohl, but had to resign in 1993 when he used an official letterhead for advertising a relative's business idea (the so-called Briefbogen-Affäre).
JĂĽrgen Prochnow JĂĽrgen Prochnow [IPA: 'jĘŹĘgÉ™n 'pʀɔxnoË] (born June 10, 1941) is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as submarine Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune and the villain Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.
JĂĽrgen RĂĽttgers JĂĽrgen RĂĽttgers (born June 26, 1951 in Cologne) is a German politician (CDU) and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, widely known for his views on immigration and the famous phrase "Kinder statt Inder" ("children instead of Indians") which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer mĂĽssen unsere Kinder an die Computer" ("instead of Indians in front of computers, our children must be in front of computers"), at a time when immigrants from India were feared to come by the thousands to Germany. His opinions on the superiority of the Christian religion, which he expressed in a TV talk-show were also a reason for headlines lately.
JĂĽrgen Reil JĂĽrgen "Ventor" Reil (born June 26 1966) is the long time drummer for German thrash metal band Kreator. He is one of the only original members left in the band, although he has left it "at least twice" due to personal differences, but has come back.
JĂĽrgen Rieger JĂĽrgen Rieger (born 1947) is a Hamburg lawyer known for acts of Holocaust denial and repeated public outbursts against reporters, politicians and judges (see external link to IDGR). Rieger has also been convicted of tax crimes.
JĂĽrgen Schmidhuber JĂĽrgen Schmidhuber (born 1963 in Munich) is a computer scientist and artist known for his work on machine learning, universal Artificial Intelligence (AI), artificial neural networks, digital physics, and low-complexity art. His contributions also include generalizations of Kolmogorov complexity and the Speed Prior.
JĂĽrgen Schult JĂĽrgen Schult (born May 11, 1960 in Amt Neuhaus, Lower Saxony) is a German track and field athlete, who represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic competition in the discus throw on October 1, 1988, where he won the gold medal.
JĂĽrgen Straub JĂĽrgen Straub (born November 3, 1953 in Weitersroda) is a former middle distance runner who won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics over 1500 metres representing East Germany. In that race Straub surprisingly defeated Steve Ovett of the UK who came third.
Jürgen Stroop Jürgen Stroop, (born Josef Stroop, September 26, 1895 in Detmold – March 6, 1952 in Warsaw), was an SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, who served as the SS and Police Leader of the Poland-Warsaw area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
Jürgen Thorwald Jürgen Thorwald October 28, 1915 Solingen – April 4, 2006 Lugano was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his great works describing history of Forensic medicine and Second World War that are not only full of knowledge but also are really interesting even for people that are not interested in this subjects.
JĂĽrgen Trumpf JĂĽrgen Trumpf was Secretary-General for the Council of the European Union. When the Amsterdam Treaty came into force, he was officially the first High Representative for the CFSP, but was due to step down a month later.
Jürgen von Beckerath Jürgen von Beckerath (born 19 February 1920) is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen (GM), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO) and Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK) among others.
JĂĽrgen Vollmer JĂĽrgen Vollmer, with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voorman (the "Exy's"), befriended The Beatles during the band's time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. Vollmer was the son of a professional army officer who died during World War II.
JĂĽrgen Vsych JĂĽrgen Vsych (pronounced Yurgen VY-zick), born in 1966, is the writer-director-producer of 30 films, including Son for Sail, Ophelia Learns to Swim, Tyrannosaurus Tex, and Pay Your Rent, Beethoven, which won the Prince Charles Trust Award. Her films have been shown in forty film festivals in thirty countries.
JĂĽrgen Zimmerling JĂĽrgen Zimmerling (born February 17, 1952 in Oberhausen) was a German politician and a Member of the European Parliament during its 5th and 6th terms. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, which is affiliated with the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament.
Jüri Järvet Jüri Järvet (June 18, 1919 – July 5, 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri [Yevgenyevich]]Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian Юри [Евгеньевич] Ярвет
Jüri Tamm Jüri Tamm (born February 5, 1957 in Pärnu, Estonia) is a former Estonian hammer thrower. Representing USSR, he won a bronze medal in the 1980 and 1988 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics.
Jóannes Eidesgaard Jóannes Dan Eidesgaard (born April 19 1951), is the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands. He has held the position since 3 February 2004, shortly after his political party, Føroya Javnaðarflokkurin, became the leading party of the new coalition government which was formed after parliamentary elections.
Jóga "Jóga" is a song by Björk, and the first single from her 1997 album Homogenic. The chorus has repetition of the phrase "state of emergency" but does not feature the song title: it is a dedication to her close friend Jóhanna Jóhannsdóttir (nicknamed Jóga) and to her homeland Iceland.
JĂłhann Hafstein JĂłhann Hafstein (born in Akureyri September 19 1915 died May 15 1980) was elected to Althingi for Reykjavik in 1946 which he represented un til 1978. JĂłhann was the 14th Prime Minister of Iceland from 10 July 1970 to 14 July 1971, for the Independence Party.
JĂłhann JĂłhannsson JĂłhann JĂłhannsson is an Icelandic-born musician, composer and producer. He also runs the record label Kitchen Motors in ReykjavĂk, the art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in instigating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing films, books and radio shows based on the ideals of experimentation, collaboration and the search for new art forms.
JĂłhannes JĂłnsson JĂłhannes JĂłnsson is an Icelandic businessman and one of the founders and current owners of the investment company Baugur Group. He founded the BĂłnus stores in Iceland in 1989 with his son and president of Baugur Group, JĂłn Ăsgeir JĂłhannesson.
Jóhannes Karl Guðjónsson Jóhannes "Joey" Karl Guðjónsson (born in Akranes on 25th May 1980) is an Icelandic professional footballer currently playing for Burnley. His father, Guðjón Þórðarson, has managed Stoke City F.
Jón Arason Jón Arason (1484-1550) was an Icelandic bishop and poet. He became a priest about 1504, and having attracted the notice of Gottskálk Nikulásson, bishop of Hólar, was sent by that prelate on two missions to Norway.
JĂłn Arnar MagnĂşsson JĂłn Arnar MagnĂşsson (born July 28, 1969 in Selfoss) is a decathlete from Iceland. He has won silver and bronze medals at world indoor championships, all in heptathlon, as decathlon is unsuitable for indoor contests.
Jón Þór Birgisson Jón Þór Birgisson or Jónsi (born April 23, 1975) is a guitar player and lead singer of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. His trademark is the bowed guitar, that is, playing his electric guitar with a cello bow to create a high-feedback (previously used by Eddie Phillips and Jimmy Page), yet melodic sound.
JĂłn Ăžorláksson JĂłn Ăžorláksson (3 March 1877–20 March 1935) was Prime Minister of Iceland from 8 July, 1926 to 28 August, 1927. He was the first and only leader of the Conservative Party (ĂŤhaldsflokkurinn) which merged with the Liberal Party to form the Independence Party in 1929, and the Mayor of ReykjavĂk from 1933 to his death.
JĂłn Helgason JĂłn Helgason (June 30, 1899 - January 19, 1986) was an Icelandic philologist and poet. He was head of the Danish Ărni MagnĂşsson Institute from 1927 to 1971 and professor of Icelandic studies at the University of Copenhagen from 1929 to 1970.
Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson or Jónsi is an Icelandic singer and member of the band Í svörtum fötum ("In black clothing"). He participated on behalf of Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and finished 19th.
Jón Magnússon (politician) Jón Magnússon (January 16, 1859–June 23, 1926) was an Icelandic politician, and was Prime Minister of Iceland on two occasions. He served his first term, as a member of the Home Rule Party (Heimastjórnarflokkurinn), from 4 January 1917 to 7 March 1922.
Jónas Kristjánsson Jónas Kristjánsson (born 1924) is an Icelandic scholar and novelist. He is known for his works on the Icelandic sagas, laying emphasis on their literary nature and working on several stylistic and syntactic problems.
JĂłrunn skáldmær JĂłrunn skáldmær ("poet-maiden") was a Norwegian skald active in the first half of the 10th century. Only three stanzas and two half-stanzas of her SendibĂtr ("Biting message") were preserved, mostly in Snorri Sturluson's works Haralds saga hárfagra, Ă“láfs saga helga in sĂ©rstaka, Skáldskaparmál..
Jóvenes Clásicos del Son Jóvenes Clásicos del Son (Spanish for "young classics of Son") is a Cuban septet with double bass, tres-guitar, guitar, trumpet, congas, bongos and singer. The musical director is Ernesto Reyes Proenza.
Józef Andrzej Załuski Józef Andrzej Załuski (12 January 1702 – 7 January 1774) was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, sponsor of science and culture, and known bibliophile. A member of Polish nobility (szlachta) of Kościesza Coat of Arms, he is perhaps most famous as as the founder of the Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th-century collections of books in the world with his brother Andrzej Stanisław Załuski] he was raised by his uncles ([[Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski, bishop of Warmia, and Ludwik Załuski, bishop of Płock).
Józef Ankwicz Józef Ankwicz (1750-9 May 1794) of Awdaniec coat of arms (also kown as Józef z Posławic and Józef Awdaniec) was a politician and noble (szlachcic) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He held the office of castellan of Nowy Sącz from 1782.
Józef Bem Józef Zachariasz Bem, Bem József in Hungarian (March 14 1794, Tarnów in Galicia—December 10 1850, Aleppo, Ottoman Syria), was a Polish general and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms. Just as Tadeusz Kościuszko (who fought in the American War of Independence) or Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (who fought alongside Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and the Russian campaign), Bem fought outside Poland's borders for the future of Poland; he fought everywhere his leadership and military skills were needed.
JĂłzef Bilczewski Saint JĂłzef Bilczewski (1860-1923) was a Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school. Since 2005 he is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
JĂłzef Bury Jozef Bury (b. 1961 in Mielec, Poland, lives and works in Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist who articulates researches about space-and-time problems, polysensory perception, subcognitive attitude and memory of experience.
Jazz Interactions Jazz Interactions, Inc. is a non-profit-making organisation whose aim is "to stimulate a greater awareness of jazz by providing jazz information and educational services to New York metropolitan area"organisation was founded by a group of jazz musicians including Joe Newman], and apart from its educational activities it created the [[Jazz Interactions Orchestra.
Jazz Is Dead Jazz is Dead is a Grateful Dead cover-band composed of Jimmy Herring, Bobby Lee Rodgers and Jeff Sipe (guitar, bass, drums, respectively) that interprets classic Dead songs with jazzy influences and without vocals. Formerly, keyboardist T Lavitz and drummer Rod Morgenstein, both members of the Dixie Dregs, were members of the band.
Jazz Jackrabbit 3 Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (alternatively called Jazz Jackrabbit 3D or simply Jazz3D) was to be the third installment of the popular PC game series, Jazz Jackrabbit. Spear-headed by Dean "Noogy" Dodrill (an animator for Jazz Jackrabbit 2) and coded by World Tree Games, it was developed for the original Unreal Engine technology in 1999.
Jazz Jamaica In 1991, inspired by the rhythms of traditional Jamaican music and the largely improvisational nature of jazz, original Jazz Warrior, and veteran jazz double bassist, Gary Crosby turned a musical concept in to a joyful reality.
Jazz manouche Jazz manouche or Gypsy jazz(which means literally "Traveller jazz") is a form of music which blends jazz with traditional Rom (Gypsy) music forms. Important performers of this style of music are Django Reinhardt and Tchavolo Schmitt.
Jazz Mandolin Project The Jazz Mandolin Project, is a jazz jam band from Burlington, Vermont, led by mandolinist Jamie Masefield. The project was formed in 1993 through a gig every month at a coffee house in Vermont known as The Last Elm Cafe.
Jazz piano Jazz Piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. The instrument is also a vital tool in the understanding of jazz theory and arranging, because of its combined melodic and harmonic nature.
Jazz poetry Jazz poetry can be defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation," from an article by Pittsburg State University faculty. During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of rhythm and style; among these were Ezra Pound, T.
Jazz Profiles Jazz Profiles is a radio show produced by NPR and hosted by jazz singer Nancy Wilson. It features hour long retrospectives on the lives of famous jazz musicians, or sometimes on famous albums such as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.
Jazz rap Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and early 1990s. Known for intellectual, often socio-political or Afrocentric lyrics and jazz beats (sometimes performed by a live band, instead of sampled), jazz rap has not become a huge mainstream success; it instead sells primarily to a small specialized fan base.
Jazz Radio UK Jazz Radio UK is a group established in early 2006 to lobby for more jazz on the british airwaves. It was convened in anticipation of OFCOM advertising for the second national commercial digital radio multiplex which it sees as the best opportunity to increase the broadcast output of jazz in the UK.
Jazz Raycole Jazz Raycole (born February 11, 1989 in Stockton, California) is an American actress who played Claire Kyle in the popular sitcom My Wife and Kids during its first season. When season one ended, Raycole was pulled from the series by her mother who was concerned about a storyline in the second season premiere in which Claire and her friend Charmaine (Raven-Symone) discover Charmaine is pregnant.
Jazz scale A jazz scale is a musical scale used in jazz. Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from Western European classical music, possibly with an additional note inserted to add a jazz sound coloring, such as a particular chromatic passing tone as in the "bebop scales", or a blue note.
Jazz Semiconductor Jazz Semiconductor is a US based pure-play semiconductor wafer foundry that serves customers targeting wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, aerospace/defense and other high-performance applications. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Jazz is a privately held company with over 800 employees.
Jazz waltz A Jazz waltz is a composition played by jazz musicians in a syncopated 3/4, 6/4, or 6/8 time signature. Frequently a feeling of swing is created in the accompaniment by anticipating the second beat by a quaver.
Jazzanova Jazzanova is a German Berlin-based DJ/producer collective consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, JĂĽrgen von Knoblauch, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer. The group is one of the foremost proponents of the nu-jazz, chillout and jazz house styles of music associated with record labels such as Compost Records and Sonar Kollektiv.
JazzFest Berlin JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a jazz festival based in Berlin, Germany. Originally called the "Berliner Jazztage," it was founded in 1964 in West Berlin by the Berliner Festspiele.
Jazzkantine Inspired by Guru's Jazzmatazz project, the German formation Jazzkantine was founded in 1993 in Braunschweig. Their first album Jazzkantine won them the "Echo Award" in 1995, the most important German music prize.
Jazzland Records (1960) Jazzland Records is an American jazz label founded in 1960 by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews, as a subsidiary of their Riverside Records company. Originally used to re-package earlier Riverside releases; subsequently the label was used for original releases, in particular for a series of records produced by Julian Cannonball Adderley.
Jazzman Records Jazzman Record is a record label founded by London DJ Gerald Short in 1998, specialized in re-releasing hard-to-find jazz, funk and soul vinyl records. It also has two sublabels called Funk45 and Stark Reality.
Jazztrax Showcase of the Absolute Newest Jazztrax, formally known as the Jazztrax Showcase of the Absolute Newest, is a weekly countdown of America's Top 20 Smooth Jazz singles by Art Good. The show was founded in 1985 by Good in San Diego, and is currently broadcast out of the San Fernando Valley, the heart of smooth jazz.
Jazzwise Jazzwise magazine, launched in 1997, is the UK’s biggest selling jazz monthly magazine and is available in most major territories worldwide. Jazzwise has a broad editorial view from the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, mainstream jazz, improv and jazz-rock to world jazz, and nu-jazz.
Jazzy Sensation Jazzy Sensation is a classic old school hip hop song released in 1982 performed by hip hop pioneers Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five. The song's lyrics consist mainly of routines from the Jazzy Five's stage shows along with a revamped chorus from Gwen McCrae's Funky Sensation.
Ja`far bin AbÄ« TÄlib Jafar ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: جعŮر ابن أبي طالب) (aka Jafar Tayyar) was the son of Abu Talib ibn 'Abdul Muttalib (the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad), and brother of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph. Jafar was raised by his uncle, Abbas ibn 'Abdul Muttalib, for his father was a poor man and had to support a big family.
JA Armentières Jeunesse Athletique Armentières is a French association football team founded in 1911. They are based in Armentières, France and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2 Group A, the fifth tier in the French football league system.
JA Prestwich Industries Ltd JA Prestwich Industries Ltd, was a British engineering company named after founder John Alfred Prestwich, produced cinematographic equipment, internal combustion engines (for which the company was generally abbreviated to "J.A.
JACK Audio Connection Kit The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server or daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications. It is created by Paul Davis and others and licensed under the GNU GPL.
JACKSNNZ In international diplomacy JACKSNNZs is the colloquial name of an informal grouping of the world's affluent non-EU countries, excluding the United States. The JACKSNNZ states are Japan, Australia, Canada, (South) Korea, Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand.
JAD Records JAD Records was a record label that was co-owned by Johnny Nash, producer Arthur Jenkins, and businessman Danny Sims, whose initials formed its logo. JAD Records was the label which signed Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Rita Marley to a non-exclusive long-term contract as both singers and song-writers.
JADE (programming language) JADE is an object-oriented programming language that exhibits a seamlessly integrated object-oriented database management system. It is designed to be an end-to-end development environment, which allows systems to be coded in one language from the database server right down to the clients.
JAGAL JAGAL is a natural gas pipeline, which connects Yamal-Europe pipeline with the gas grid of Wingas, a joint venture of Winthershall, the subsidiary of BASF, and Gazprom. JAGAL stands for Jamal-Gas-Anbindungs-Leitung, which means Yamal gas connection network.
JAGUAR JAGUAR is a quantum chemical ab initio package for both gas and solution phase calculations, with strength in treating metal-containing systems. It is commercial software marketed by the company Schrödinger Inc.
JAK-STAT signaling pathway The JAK-STAT signaling pathway takes part in the regulation of cellular responses to cytokines and growth factors. Employing Janus kinases (JAKs) and Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (STATs), the pathway transduces the signal carried by these extracellular polypeptides to the cell nucleus, where activated STAT proteins modify gene expression.
JAM Message Base Format The JAM Message Base Format was the most popular file format for storing message bases on DOS-based BBSes in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the API Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, and Mats Wallin.
JAM Project JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animation song Makers") is an anime music genre (or anison) "supergroup" based in Japan, originally founded on July 19, 2000 by famous 1970s theme song artist Ichiro Mizuki. The group is comprised of many vocal artists well known in the genre; aside from the many anime and video game theme songs that this group has performed together, each member is famous for his or her own solo performances of anime-related music.
JAMA & Archives JAMA and Archives professional medical journals are published by the American Medical Association. JAMA has the largest circulation of any medical journal in the world and is received each week by physicians in virtually every specialty and practice setting.
JAMA & Archives For The Media JAMA & Archives For The Media provides free access to news releases and video news releases about the latest research published in JAMA and the 9 Archives Journals. For credentialed journalists, For the Media provides access to JAMA & Archives Journals content prior to official publication dates (pre-embargo content), as well as access to all related pre-embargo (pre-publication) news releases and video news release scripts.
JAMin JAMin is an open source (distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) tool for mastering audio recordings in a studio environment. It is based on the JACK low-latency audio server, which means that it can read master mix output from a digital audio workstation like Ardour and write back to it a new mastered track in real-time of freewheel mode.
JAMIC Japan Microgravity Center (JAMIC) is a site for microgravity experiments at a 710 meters deep abandoned coal mine at Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido. A capsule is dropped from the top to simulate "zero gravity".
JANET JANET is a private British government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research. All further- and higher-education organisations are connected to JANET, as are all the Research Councils; the majority of these sites are connected via 19 metropolitan area networks across the UK.
JANET NRS The JANET NRS (Name Registration Scheme) was a pseudo-hierarchical naming scheme adopted for use on United Kingdom academic and research networks before the superficially similar system used by the Internet DNS had been fully established.
JAPW New Jersey State Championship The JAPW New Jersey State Championship (formerly known as the JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship) is a title in the Jersey All Pro Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It became an official title on December 5, 1997.
JAQ Jeffery Allen Qaiyum, known as JAQ, is a professional b-boy, born and raised in Chicago to a German mother and Pakistani father. The DJ, emcee, beatmaker, producer, beatboxer then moved to NYC where he learned how to make beats and carefully craft rhymes.
JAS 39 Gripen The Saab JAS 39 "Gripen" (Griffin) is a fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. The aircraft is in service with the Swedish Air Force and the Czech Republic Air Force and has been ordered by the Hungarian Air Force and South African Air Force.
JASMS High School The Jose Abad Santos Memorial School High School (JASMS HS) is the High School department for boys and girls of the Philippine Women's University in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It is located in the same area as the JASMS Elementary School on Pilar H.
JAST USA JAST USA is a licensor and distributor of English-language BishĹŤjo games, some of which are as dating sims or eroge. Founded in 1997, it has released such titles as Three Sisters' Story, Runaway City, Hentai Anime Poker and many others.
JATO Rocket Car The famous account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a rocket engine on a common automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email.
JAUS Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems. Formerly JAUGS (Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems), JAUS was originally an initiative by the United States Department of Defense to develop an open architecture for the domain of unmanned systems.
JAWSAT The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FALCONSAT], [[OCSE (satellite)|OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat.
JAX-RPC JAX-RPC (Java API for XML-based RPC) allows invoking from a Java application a Java based Web Service with a known description while still being consistent with its WSDL description. It can be seen as Java RMIs over Web Services.
JĂbaro (Peru) It is impossible to speak about the Peruvian rainforest and its different tribes, without mentioning the one that most attracts the civilized world's attention by its peculiarity of reducing their victims' heads: the tribe of the JĂbaros. Most of them do not practise this ancient custom anymore.
Jüdenberg Jüdenberg is a community in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Jüdenberg lies about 4 km northwest of Gräfenhainichen on the edge of the Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe, and belongs to the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Tor zur Dübener Heide whose seat is in the town of Gräfenhainichen.
JĂĽdenstrasse (Berlin) The JĂĽdenstrasse (Street of the Jews), is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is in the borough of Mitte and runs between Rathausstrasse and GrĂĽnerstrasse, next to the Rotes Rathaus, the city hall of Berlin.
JĂĽlich JĂĽlich (Dutch: Gulik) is a medium-size town in the district of DĂĽren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. JĂĽlich is well known as location of a world-famous research centre, the Forschungszentrum JĂĽlich and as shortwave transmission site of Deutsche Welle.
JĂĽlich-Cleves-Berg JĂĽlich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of states of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1423 the duchies of JĂĽlich and Cleves were united, and in 1521 they united with the duchy of Berg and the county of Mark to form JĂĽlich-Cleves-Berg.
JĂĽrgen Bartsch JĂĽrgen Bartsch (born November 6, 1946 in Essen; died April 28, 1976 in Eickelborn; original name "Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski") was a German serial killer who murdered four children and attempted to kill another.
JĂĽrgen E. Schrempp JĂĽrgen Erich Schrempp (born September 15, 1944 in Freiburg) was until December 31, 2005, the CEO of DaimlerChrysler, a German-American car and truck manufacturer. Following a decision of the board taken on July 28 2005, he was succeeded on January 1, 2006, by Chrysler frontman Dieter Zetsche.
Jürgen Fanghänel Jürgen Fanghänel (born August 1, 1951) is a retired boxer, who won the bronze medal for East Germany in the Heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he was defeated in the semi finals by Piotr Zaev of the Soviet Union.
JĂĽrgen Flimm JĂĽrgen Flimm was born in GieĂźen, Germany. He studied theory of drama, literature and sociology at the University of Cologne and started his career with his first position as assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele in 1968.
JĂĽrgen Hingsen JĂĽrgen Hingsen (born January 25, 1958 in Duisburg) is a former (West) German decathlete who won several medals at international championships in the 1980s. He came second in the Olympic decathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles behind Daley Thompson.
JĂĽrgen Klute JĂĽrgen Klute is an Evangelical pastor and the head of the office of social ministry of the Lutheran diocese of Herne. Associated with the Christian Left, he was chosen as the main candidate of the new Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice for the 2005 state election of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and a stronghold of the Social Democratic Party, from which the new party split.
Jürgen Möllemann Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann (July 15, 1945 – June 5, 2003) was a German politician. Born in Augsburg, he used to be a member of the German government as minister of state in the department of foreign affairs (1982-1987), minister for education and science (1987-1991), and as minister for economy (1991-1993) and vice chancellor (1992-1993) under chancellor Helmut Kohl, but had to resign in 1993 when he used an official letterhead for advertising a relative's business idea (the so-called Briefbogen-Affäre).
JĂĽrgen Prochnow JĂĽrgen Prochnow [IPA: 'jĘŹĘgÉ™n 'pʀɔxnoË] (born June 10, 1941) is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as submarine Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune and the villain Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.
JĂĽrgen RĂĽttgers JĂĽrgen RĂĽttgers (born June 26, 1951 in Cologne) is a German politician (CDU) and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, widely known for his views on immigration and the famous phrase "Kinder statt Inder" ("children instead of Indians") which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer mĂĽssen unsere Kinder an die Computer" ("instead of Indians in front of computers, our children must be in front of computers"), at a time when immigrants from India were feared to come by the thousands to Germany. His opinions on the superiority of the Christian religion, which he expressed in a TV talk-show were also a reason for headlines lately.
JĂĽrgen Reil JĂĽrgen "Ventor" Reil (born June 26 1966) is the long time drummer for German thrash metal band Kreator. He is one of the only original members left in the band, although he has left it "at least twice" due to personal differences, but has come back.
JĂĽrgen Rieger JĂĽrgen Rieger (born 1947) is a Hamburg lawyer known for acts of Holocaust denial and repeated public outbursts against reporters, politicians and judges (see external link to IDGR). Rieger has also been convicted of tax crimes.
JĂĽrgen Schmidhuber JĂĽrgen Schmidhuber (born 1963 in Munich) is a computer scientist and artist known for his work on machine learning, universal Artificial Intelligence (AI), artificial neural networks, digital physics, and low-complexity art. His contributions also include generalizations of Kolmogorov complexity and the Speed Prior.
JĂĽrgen Schult JĂĽrgen Schult (born May 11, 1960 in Amt Neuhaus, Lower Saxony) is a German track and field athlete, who represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic competition in the discus throw on October 1, 1988, where he won the gold medal.
JĂĽrgen Straub JĂĽrgen Straub (born November 3, 1953 in Weitersroda) is a former middle distance runner who won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics over 1500 metres representing East Germany. In that race Straub surprisingly defeated Steve Ovett of the UK who came third.
Jürgen Stroop Jürgen Stroop, (born Josef Stroop, September 26, 1895 in Detmold – March 6, 1952 in Warsaw), was an SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, who served as the SS and Police Leader of the Poland-Warsaw area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
Jürgen Thorwald Jürgen Thorwald October 28, 1915 Solingen – April 4, 2006 Lugano was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his great works describing history of Forensic medicine and Second World War that are not only full of knowledge but also are really interesting even for people that are not interested in this subjects.
JĂĽrgen Trumpf JĂĽrgen Trumpf was Secretary-General for the Council of the European Union. When the Amsterdam Treaty came into force, he was officially the first High Representative for the CFSP, but was due to step down a month later.
Jürgen von Beckerath Jürgen von Beckerath (born 19 February 1920) is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen (GM), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO) and Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK) among others.
JĂĽrgen Vollmer JĂĽrgen Vollmer, with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voorman (the "Exy's"), befriended The Beatles during the band's time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. Vollmer was the son of a professional army officer who died during World War II.
JĂĽrgen Vsych JĂĽrgen Vsych (pronounced Yurgen VY-zick), born in 1966, is the writer-director-producer of 30 films, including Son for Sail, Ophelia Learns to Swim, Tyrannosaurus Tex, and Pay Your Rent, Beethoven, which won the Prince Charles Trust Award. Her films have been shown in forty film festivals in thirty countries.
JĂĽrgen Zimmerling JĂĽrgen Zimmerling (born February 17, 1952 in Oberhausen) was a German politician and a Member of the European Parliament during its 5th and 6th terms. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, which is affiliated with the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament.
Jüri Järvet Jüri Järvet (June 18, 1919 – July 5, 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri [Yevgenyevich]]Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian Юри [Евгеньевич] Ярвет
Jüri Tamm Jüri Tamm (born February 5, 1957 in Pärnu, Estonia) is a former Estonian hammer thrower. Representing USSR, he won a bronze medal in the 1980 and 1988 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics.
Jóannes Eidesgaard Jóannes Dan Eidesgaard (born April 19 1951), is the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands. He has held the position since 3 February 2004, shortly after his political party, Føroya Javnaðarflokkurin, became the leading party of the new coalition government which was formed after parliamentary elections.
Jóga "Jóga" is a song by Björk, and the first single from her 1997 album Homogenic. The chorus has repetition of the phrase "state of emergency" but does not feature the song title: it is a dedication to her close friend Jóhanna Jóhannsdóttir (nicknamed Jóga) and to her homeland Iceland.
JĂłhann Hafstein JĂłhann Hafstein (born in Akureyri September 19 1915 died May 15 1980) was elected to Althingi for Reykjavik in 1946 which he represented un til 1978. JĂłhann was the 14th Prime Minister of Iceland from 10 July 1970 to 14 July 1971, for the Independence Party.
JĂłhann JĂłhannsson JĂłhann JĂłhannsson is an Icelandic-born musician, composer and producer. He also runs the record label Kitchen Motors in ReykjavĂk, the art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in instigating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing films, books and radio shows based on the ideals of experimentation, collaboration and the search for new art forms.
JĂłhannes JĂłnsson JĂłhannes JĂłnsson is an Icelandic businessman and one of the founders and current owners of the investment company Baugur Group. He founded the BĂłnus stores in Iceland in 1989 with his son and president of Baugur Group, JĂłn Ăsgeir JĂłhannesson.
Jóhannes Karl Guðjónsson Jóhannes "Joey" Karl Guðjónsson (born in Akranes on 25th May 1980) is an Icelandic professional footballer currently playing for Burnley. His father, Guðjón Þórðarson, has managed Stoke City F.
Jón Arason Jón Arason (1484-1550) was an Icelandic bishop and poet. He became a priest about 1504, and having attracted the notice of Gottskálk Nikulásson, bishop of Hólar, was sent by that prelate on two missions to Norway.
JĂłn Arnar MagnĂşsson JĂłn Arnar MagnĂşsson (born July 28, 1969 in Selfoss) is a decathlete from Iceland. He has won silver and bronze medals at world indoor championships, all in heptathlon, as decathlon is unsuitable for indoor contests.
Jón Þór Birgisson Jón Þór Birgisson or Jónsi (born April 23, 1975) is a guitar player and lead singer of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. His trademark is the bowed guitar, that is, playing his electric guitar with a cello bow to create a high-feedback (previously used by Eddie Phillips and Jimmy Page), yet melodic sound.
JĂłn Ăžorláksson JĂłn Ăžorláksson (3 March 1877–20 March 1935) was Prime Minister of Iceland from 8 July, 1926 to 28 August, 1927. He was the first and only leader of the Conservative Party (ĂŤhaldsflokkurinn) which merged with the Liberal Party to form the Independence Party in 1929, and the Mayor of ReykjavĂk from 1933 to his death.
JĂłn Helgason JĂłn Helgason (June 30, 1899 - January 19, 1986) was an Icelandic philologist and poet. He was head of the Danish Ărni MagnĂşsson Institute from 1927 to 1971 and professor of Icelandic studies at the University of Copenhagen from 1929 to 1970.
Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson or Jónsi is an Icelandic singer and member of the band Í svörtum fötum ("In black clothing"). He participated on behalf of Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and finished 19th.
Jón Magnússon (politician) Jón Magnússon (January 16, 1859–June 23, 1926) was an Icelandic politician, and was Prime Minister of Iceland on two occasions. He served his first term, as a member of the Home Rule Party (Heimastjórnarflokkurinn), from 4 January 1917 to 7 March 1922.
Jónas Kristjánsson Jónas Kristjánsson (born 1924) is an Icelandic scholar and novelist. He is known for his works on the Icelandic sagas, laying emphasis on their literary nature and working on several stylistic and syntactic problems.
JĂłrunn skáldmær JĂłrunn skáldmær ("poet-maiden") was a Norwegian skald active in the first half of the 10th century. Only three stanzas and two half-stanzas of her SendibĂtr ("Biting message") were preserved, mostly in Snorri Sturluson's works Haralds saga hárfagra, Ă“láfs saga helga in sĂ©rstaka, Skáldskaparmál..
Jóvenes Clásicos del Son Jóvenes Clásicos del Son (Spanish for "young classics of Son") is a Cuban septet with double bass, tres-guitar, guitar, trumpet, congas, bongos and singer. The musical director is Ernesto Reyes Proenza.
Józef Andrzej Załuski Józef Andrzej Załuski (12 January 1702 – 7 January 1774) was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, sponsor of science and culture, and known bibliophile. A member of Polish nobility (szlachta) of Kościesza Coat of Arms, he is perhaps most famous as as the founder of the Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th-century collections of books in the world with his brother Andrzej Stanisław Załuski] he was raised by his uncles ([[Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski, bishop of Warmia, and Ludwik Załuski, bishop of Płock).
Józef Ankwicz Józef Ankwicz (1750-9 May 1794) of Awdaniec coat of arms (also kown as Józef z Posławic and Józef Awdaniec) was a politician and noble (szlachcic) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He held the office of castellan of Nowy Sącz from 1782.
Józef Bem Józef Zachariasz Bem, Bem József in Hungarian (March 14 1794, Tarnów in Galicia—December 10 1850, Aleppo, Ottoman Syria), was a Polish general and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European nationalisms. Just as Tadeusz Kościuszko (who fought in the American War of Independence) or Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (who fought alongside Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy and the Russian campaign), Bem fought outside Poland's borders for the future of Poland; he fought everywhere his leadership and military skills were needed.
JĂłzef Bilczewski Saint JĂłzef Bilczewski (1860-1923) was a Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school. Since 2005 he is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
JĂłzef Bury Jozef Bury (b. 1961 in Mielec, Poland, lives and works in Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist who articulates researches about space-and-time problems, polysensory perception, subcognitive attitude and memory of experience.
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