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Jif (lemon juice) Jif is a brand of lemon juice sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland, by Reckitt & Colman. Notable for its unique plastic lemon containers usually known as "jiffy lemons" or "jif lemons", it is also sold in bottles.
Jiffy steamer Jiffy Steamer is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of steaming equipment used for removing wrinkles from garments and fabrics. The advantages of using steam over traditional ironing are often cited as an ease of use and the elimination of the tendacy of ironing to damage and destroy fibers in clothing and fabrics over time.
Jig The jig is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type, popular in Ireland. It is sometimes seen in its French or Italian forms, gigue or giga, but these are more usually used for the baroque dance forms.
Jig borer The jig borer is a type of machine tool invented at the end of World War I to make possible the quick-yet-very-precise location of hole centers. It was invented independently in the United States and Switzerland.
Jigai Jigai (自害)was a traditional method of ritual suicide for women in Japan. Although the term literally means "self damage" and in principle can refer to suicide in general, in practice it normally refers to the ritual suicide of women by the cutting of the jugular vein with a short sword or dagger.
Jigar Moradabadi Ali Sikandar Jigar Moradabadi (1890–1960) (Urdu: جگر مراد آبادی), born "Ali Sikandar", was a poet who hailed from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, and is famous for his Urdu ghazals. He took on the takhallus (nom de plume) of Jigar.
Jigawa ethanol programme The Jigawa ethanol program is a program to produce ethanol from agricultural products in Jigawa, Nigeria. The ethanol programme was initiated by the Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to process sugarcane into biofuel.
Jigdo Jigdo (portmanteau of "Jigsaw" and "download") is a download utility designed for the Debian distribution of GNU/Linux that downloads files from several mirrors in order to build an optical disk image.
Jigg's dinner A traditional Newfoundland meal, sometimes spelled "jiggs" or "jigs" dinner. The meal consists of a combination of pickled salt beef (or salt riblets) with boiled potatoes, carrots, cabbage, turnip, and homemade peas pudding.
Jigglypuff are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Jigglypuff in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Jiggs McDonald John Kenneth 'Jiggs' McDonald (born 1938) spent nearly forty years as an NHL play-by-play announcer. He called his 3,000th regular season game in November 2003, and is believed to have called the most NHL games of any broadcaster.
Jigme Lingpa Jigme Lingpa (Jigmey Lingpa) (1730-1798) was one of the most important tertöns of Tibet. He was the promulgator of the Longchen Nyingthik, the Heart Essence teachings of Longchenpa, from whom he received it in visions.
Jigme Singye Wangchuck Jigme Singye Wangchuck (born November 11, 1955) was the fourth Dragon King (Druk Gyalpo) of Bhutan from 1972-2006. He acceded to the throne at the age of 17, in 1972, after the sudden death of his father, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.
Jignesh Desai Jignesh Harshadrai Desai (born 18 April 1974 in the United States of America) is a cricketer who represented the United States cricket team in four matches from 2003-04 to 2004. His record includes one first-class game in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup and three one-day games, the last one of which was in the first ever one-day international the US played, which was against New Zealand in the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy.
Jigokudani Monkey Park Japan's Jigokudani Monkey Park (地獄谷野猿公苑 Jigokudani Yaenkōen) is in Yamanouchi, Shimotakai District, Nagano Prefecture. It is part of the Joshin-etsu Kogen National Park, and is located in the valley of the Yokoyu-River, in the northern part of the prefecture.
Jigsaw A jigsaw is a type of saw used for cutting arbitrary curves, such as stenciled designs or other custom shapes, into a piece of wood or similar material. It is usually used in a more artistic fashion than other saws, which only cut in straight lines and exist mainly to cut pieces of wood to length for building structure.
Jigsaw (computer game) Jigsaw is an interactive fiction (IF) game, written by Graham Nelson in 1995. It begins at the turn of the 3rd milennium, with the player discovering a time machine enabling him or her to travel throughout the 20th Century, visiting many of its most historic moments.
Jigsaw (wrestler) Jigsaw is an American professional wrestler known for his work in Combat Zone Wrestling and CHIKARA among other promotions. He's also known for his mask which is red and has a large black puzzle piece on the front of it.
Jigsaw Classroom The Jigsaw Classroom experiment, was conducted by Elliot Aronson in 1971, compared traditional competitive classroom learning with interdependent cooperative learning. The experiment, conducted in the Austin, Texas school system following desegregation, was spurred by interracial fighting between students in the schools.
Jiha Lee Jiha Lee is the former keyboardist of the Good Life and has performed with Bright Eyes. Having left the Good Life after their second album, Black Out, she returned to record the track "Inmates" for Album of the Year.
Jihad Jihad, sometimes spelled Jawwad, Jahad, Jehad, Jihaad, Jiaad, Djehad, or Cihad, ( ) is an Islamic term, literally meaning struggle in the way of God and is sometimes referred to as the sixth pillar of Islam, although it occupies no official status as such.John Esposito(2005), Islam: The Straight Path, pp.
Jihadi Jihadi is a political neologism referring to an individual who participates in advancing Jihad politically or militarily, most often referring to the people directly engaged in Islamic terrorism or supporting it. In the West this term has an expressedly pejorative flavour.
Jihadistan The term Jihadistan, a portmanteau of "jihad" and "-stan", refers to the perceived borderless "nation" of Islamist terrorists, mainly inhabited by al-Qaeda and other extremists. As it is borderless, it can be said to be anywhere Islamic terrorists are active.
Jihlava Jihlava (German Iglau) is a city in the Czech Republic. Jihlava is a centre of the VysoÄŤina Region, situated on the Jihlava river (German Igel) on the ancient frontier between Moravia and Bohemia, and is the oldest mining town in the Czech Republic.
Jijiga Jijiga (also Jigjiga) is a city in eastern Ethiopia and the capital of the Somali Region (or kilil) of that country. It is located in the Jijiga Zone approximately 80 km east of Harar and 60 km west of the border with Somaliland (northern Somalia).
Jijiga (woreda) Jijiga is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Jijiga Zone, Jijiga is bordered on the south by Babille, on the southwest by Gursum, on the west by the Oromia Region, on the north by the Shinile Zone, on the northeast by Awbere and on the southeast by the Degehabur Zone.
Jijimon Jijimon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Mega Level Ancient Digimon that resembles an old man that has existed since the dawn of the Digital World. He is a wise Digimon who is said to know everything about the Digital World and protects those weaker than himself though he rarely fights.
Jika-tabi Jika-Tabi (地下足袋: "tabi that contact the ground") are a type of heavy-duty footwear worn in Japan. Also known outside Japan as tabi boots, they are modelled on tabi, traditional split-toe Japanese footware.
Jikawo Jicawo is one of the 8 woredas in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 3, Jicawo is bordered on the south by the Administrative Zone 2, on the west by Akobo, on the north by the Oromia Region, and on the east by the Administrative Zone 1.
JikesRVM JikesRVM is research project from IBM to create is an open-source Java virtual machine. The key difference from many other VMs in that it is implemented in Java and does not rely on any native code typically written in system languages like C/C++.
Jikininki In Japanese Buddhism, jikininki (Japanese: 食尸鬼, "man-eating ghosts") are the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses. They do this at night, scavenging for newly dead bodies and food offerings left for the dead.
Jikji Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Buddhist document, whose full title can be translated "Baegun Hwasang's Anthology of the Great Priests' Teachings on Identification of the Buddha’s Spirit by the Practice of Seon." Printed in Korea in 1377, it is the world's oldest extant movable metal print book.
Jikji prize The UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize is a UNESCO prize to further promote the objectives of the Memory of the World Programme and to commemorate the inscription of the Jikji, the oldest known book of movable metal print in the world.
Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū series Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū (実況パワフルプロ野球) Live Powerful Pro Baseball, simply called Power Pro to non-Japanese speakers, is a Japan-only baseball series created by Konami. It is known for its big-headed characters, and addictive arcade-style gameplay.
Jiko Linda Cutts Jiko Linda Cutts (1947 - present) was ordained as a Soto Zen priestess in 1975 and received Dharma transmission from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1996. She came to practice at San Francisco Zen Center just at the end of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi's life in 1971.
Jikyōshū The was a circa 1245 CE Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters. The "Mirror of Characters" title echoes the (circa 900 CE) Shinsen Jikyō, and the internal organization closely follows the (circa 1100 CE) Ruijū Myōgishō.
Jilib Jilib (other names: Gilib, Gelib, Jillib, Jillio) is a town in Somalia, with an estimated population of approximately 45,000. The Islamic Courts Union was defeated there in the Battle of Jilib (2006-12-31-2007-01-01).
Jilin (; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east, Heilongjiang to the north, Liaoning to the south, and Inner Mongolia to the west.
Jilin Self-Defence Army The Jilin Self-Defence Army was formed in late January 1932, as the Manchukuoan and Japanese troops closed in on Harbin. General Ting Chao, Li Du, Feng Zhanhai, Xing Zhanqing, and Zhao Yi organised the Jilin Self-Defence Army in order to prevent the fall and occupation of the city.
Jilin University Jilin University (JLU) is a leading national university under the direct jurisdiction of China's Ministry of Education. Located in Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province in Northeast China, the University has eight campuses in five districts which are home to thirty-nine colleges covering eleven academic disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, literature, education, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and management.
Jill (novel) Jill is a novel by English writer Philip Larkin, first published in 1946 by The Fortune Press, and soon reprinted by Faber & Faber (London). It was written between 1943 and 1944, when Larkin was twenty-one years old and an undergraduate at St.
Jill Atkins Gillian ("Jill") Atkins (born on May 30, 1963) is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988.
Jill Banner Jill Banner (November 8, 1946 - August 7, 1982) was an American film actress, possibly best recalled for her role as Virginia, the "spider baby" in the 1964 cult horror-comedy film Spider Baby. She also had roles as James Coburn's flower child friend in The President's Analyst (1967), and a couple of hippie girls in Jack Webb's television series, Dragnet.
Jill Cadreau Jill Cadreau became an activist for Native American rights at a young age while still attending Milford High School. Her first activist issue was over the word "Redskins" being used as the name for the school's mascot.
Jill Carnes Jill Carnes is an Elephant Six-related musician and artist. She was a contributor to the song "The Events Leading Up to the Collapse of Detective Dullight" on Of Montreal's album Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse, as well as with The Music Tapes.
Jill Carrington Jill Carrington (born 1956 in Virginia Water, Surrey) is a successful English businesswoman, working in the music industry during the '80s and '90s. She helped to develop the careers of artists and bands such as Duran Duran, Queen, Paul Weller, Talk Talk, Tina Turner, Van Morrison and Pet Shop Boys, whom she managed for 9 years.
Jill Carroll Jill Carroll (born 1977) is an American journalist who was kidnapped and ultimately released in Iraq. Carroll was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor at the time of her kidnapping, and she is currently a research fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Jill Craigie Jill Craigie (7 March 1914, Fulham—13 December 1999, Camden), was an English documentary film director, actor and writer, feminist and wife of distinguished Labour Party politician, Michael Foot, whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live.
Jill Crossland Jill Crossland is a British pianist, born in Yorkshire. She studied with Ryszard Bakst (a Heinrich Neuhaus pupil) at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna.
Jill de Jong Jill de Jong (born February 2 1982) is a Dutch model. She was born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands, and in 2002, she was selected by Eidos as the Lara Croft character model for the "next generation" Tomb Raider game; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.
Jill Dando Jill Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April, 1999) was a British television presenter who worked for the BBC for over fifteen years. Her murder led to a high-profile hunt for her killer, and the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science is named after her in recognition of her contribution to the fight against crime.
Jill Dando Institute The Jill Dando Institute (JDI) is the world's first university centre of crime science. It was inspired by the British broadcaster Nick Ross and founded in 2000 at University College London (UCL) with help from the British Home Office, support of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens, and with public donations raised after the murder of British TV presenter Jill Dando.
Jill Derby Jill Derby has served since 1988 as an elected Regent for the University and Community College System of Nevada. She served as the Democratic candidate for the open seat of Nevada's 2nd congressional district in the 2006 election.
Jill Emery Jill Emery (born 1962) is an artist and musician currently based in Los Angeles. She is best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Hole from 1989-1992; she left the band after the release of Hole's debut album Pretty on the Inside and was replaced by Leslie Hardy.
Jill Farren Phelps Jill Farren Phelps (born August 18, 1948 in Methuen, Massachusetts) and has been the executive producer of many American television soap operas: Santa Barbara (1987-1991), Guiding Light (1991-1995), Another World (1995-1996), One Life to Live (1998-2001), and currently General Hospital (2001-present).
Jill Forster Jill Forster (born 1936) is a British-born Australian actress, with several television credits, including Motel, Number 96, The Box, The Restless Years, Starting Out, Prisoner, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion and SeaChange. She also acted in hit sex-comedy film Alvin Purple (1973).
Jill Foster Abbott Jill Foster Brooks Abbott is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The part is currently played by Jess Walton since 1987 and was previously played by Brenda Dickson-Weinberg and Deborah Adair.
Jill Gibson Jill Gibson (born June 18 1942, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer, songwriter and artist. She is mostly known for having once been a brief member of the famous 1960s rock group The Mamas & the Papas.
Jill Goodacre Jill Goodacre Connick (born March 29, 1965) is a fashion model who appeared extensively in the 1990s Victoria's Secret catalogs. After directing one of his music videos in 1992, Goodacre married Harry Connick, Jr.
Jill Johnson Jill Johnson, born 1973 in Ängelholm, Sweden is a Swedish pop and country singer and songwriter. She won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1998 and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with the song Kärleken är, finishing tenth with 51 points.
Jill Ker Conway Jill Ker Conway (born 9 October 1934) is an Australian-American author, best known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoirs, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975-1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jill Kinmont Jill Kinmont (current name: Jill Kinmont Boothe) (born February 16 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is a former top skiier and was a shoo-in for the 1956 Winter Olympics until her downhill accident during the tryouts in Alta, Utah in 1955 resulted in paralysis.
Jill Knight Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, DBE (born on 9 July, 1927) was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. She became a Life Peer as Baroness Knight of Collingtree, of Collingtree in the County of Northamptonshire in 1997 after retiring from her seat before that year's general election.
Jill Lajdziak Jill Lajdziak (pronounced La-JekDealer magazine interview with explanation of the pronunciation of the Lajdziak name) is the General Manager of General Motors' Saturn division. In 2005, she was named one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry, along with 19 other GM colleagues, which made GM the most represented company on the list.
Jill Martinez Reverend Jill Martinez is the former Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in California's 24th congressional district. Her opponent in 2006, incumbent Republican, Elton Gallegly has been representing this district since 1987.
Jill McGill Jill McGill (born January 30, 1972 in Denver, CO) is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. McGill played college golf at the University of Southern California and won the United States Women's Amateur title in 1993.
Jill Metzger Major Jill Metzger is a United States Air Force personnel officer and successful athlete. She gained worldwide attention in September 2006 as the result of a still unexplained incident in Bishkek, capital of the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Jill Nelson Jill Nelson (born June 14, 1952) is a prominent African American journalist and novelist. She has written several books, including the autobiographical Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, which won an American Book Award, and is currently Professor of Journalism at the City College of New York.
Jill Nicolini Jill Nicolini (born 1978) is a native of Long Island, New York. The model, actress and reality TV show participant joined WPIX-TV as a traffic reporter for the WB11 Morning News in April 2004 (now called the CW11 Morning News as of September 18, 2006).
Jill of the Jungle Jill of the Jungle is a trilogy of platformer computer games released in 1992 by Epic MegaGames. It was intended to rival computer games from other shareware companies such as id Software and Apogee Software, Ltd..
Jill Orbinson Jill Orbinson (born September 13, 1978 in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a field hockey centre midfielder from Ireland, who made her international debut for the Women's National Team in 1998 against Scotland. She plays club hockey for the Pegasus team.
Jill Pike Jill Pike is a radio personality and political commentator, and is currently one of the hosts of the liberal talk radio show The Young Turks , airing weekday mornings from 6-9AM on Air America Radio as of September 18, 2006.
Jill Reeve Jill Reeve (born November 1, 1969 in Hoosick Falls, New York) is a former field hockey defender from the United States, who earned a total number of 134 caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored eight goals. The former student of the Old Dominion University recovered from injury suffered at the 2002 Champions Challenge to help the U.
Jill Robinson Jill Robinson is the Animals Asia Founder and CEO, Jill Robinson MBE, began tireless work within China after her horrific discovery of bear farming in 1993, resolutely building relationships and negotiating with government departments to bring an end to this cruel practice.
Jill Sobule Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1961 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the then-controversial song, "I Kissed a Girl", and for "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the hit 1995 film Clueless.
Jill Sparrow Jill Sparrow (born October 3, 1971), has been active as a socialist in Melbourne since 1991. She helped organise protests against the Gulf War and was involved in free education campaigns throughout the early 1990s, as well as participating in nearly every left-wing political cause over the past decade (including her own defence campaign as one of the Austudy Five).
Jill Stein Jill Stein (J-Lexington) is a physician and a three-time political candidate residing in Lexington, Massachusetts. She serves on the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and MassVoters for Fair Elections, and has been active recently with the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities.
Jill Sterkel Jill Ann Sterkel (born May 27, 1961) is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who won four Olympic medals during her career. She first did so at age fifteen, in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
Jill Thompson Jill Thompson (1966 - ) is a comic book writer and illustrator. Probably best known for her work on Neil Gaiman's Sandman characters and her own Scary Godmother series, she has also worked on The Invisibles, Swamp Thing and Wonder Woman.
Jill Townsend Jill Townsend, born 25 January 1945 in Santa Monica, California, USA, is an actress best known for her roles as Elizabeth Warleggan in Poldark and Dulcey Coopersmith in the 1967 western television series Cimarron Strip.
Jill Tweedie Jill Sheila Tweedie (22nd May 1936 - 12th November 1993) was an influential feminist, writer and broadcaster. She is mainly remembered for her column in The Guardian on feminist issues (1969-1988), 'Letters from a faint-hearted feminist' and for her autobiography 'Eating Children' (1993).
Jill Whalen Jill Whalen is owner of High Rankings, Search Creative, LLC and co-founder of SEMNE. She is an authoritative writer and speaker on the subject of search engine optimization, a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies Conferences put on by Danny Sullivan, and for the past few years has been holding High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Seminars.
Jill Whitlow Jill Whitlow is an American motion picture and television actress who achieved her greatest recognition during the 1980s. She is best remembered by American audiences for her role in the 1986 cult horror film Night of the Creeps.
Jill Yulo Jill Yulo (born December 28, 1989) is a Filipina actress who is part of Star Magic, ABS-CBN's Talent Management & Development Center. She starred in Star Cinema's D'Anothers and was a finalist, with Alwyn Uytingco on Qpids.
Jillian Manus Jillian Manus is a literary agent. She is president of Manus and Associates Literary Agencywhich has offices in Palo Alto], [[California, and New York City, and she has represented best-selling authors including Mark Victor Hansen, Doug Wead, Kenneth T.
Jillian Medoff Jillian Medoff is an American writer of literary fiction, born 1963. Her first novel, Hunger Point, was published by ReganBooks/HarperCollins in 1997, and became the basis for an original Lifetime movie, starring Barbara Hershey, which first aired in 2003.
Jillian Michaels (actress) Jillian Michaels is a Canadian voice actor who has done English dubs of Japanese anime like InuYasha, Hamtaro, and Silent Möbius. She is also the singing voice of Lacus Clyne in Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny.
Jillian Smith Jillian Clare Smith (born June 12, 1958 in Taumarunui) is a retired field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Jillian Windham Jillian Windham is an American actress notable for her role as co-host of the Encore Wam original entertainment series "Get Reel." Below is her official biographyJillian Windham's Biography, as posted on the now-defunct "Get Reel" Web site hosted by Yahoo!
Jilly Cooper Jilly Cooper (born February 21, 1937) is a British author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975.
Jiří Bělohlávek Jiří Bělohlávek (born February 24, 1946 in Prague) is a Czech conductor. He studied with Sergiu Celibidache and then held a series of appointments before becoming principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990.
Jiří Buquoy Georg Franz August Graf von Buquoy (Czech : Jiří František August Buqouy) (1781-1851) was a Bohemian aristocrat, mathematician, and inventor. He studied mathematics, natural science, philosophy, and economics at the Prague and Vienna univerisities.
Jiří Dopita Jiří Dopita (born December 2, 1968 in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia) is Czech professional ice hockey player who has played in the Czech Elite League most of his career. He briefly played in the National Hockey League.
Jiří Fischer Jiří Fischer (July 31, 1980 in Hořovice, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a professional ice hockey defenseman, currently playing in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings. He was selected in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the first round, 25th overall by the Red Wings, and was a part of the team that won the 2002 Stanley Cup.
Jiří Holeček Jiří Holeček (born March 18, 1944 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a prominent ice hockey goaltender who played in the Czechoslovak Elite League from 1964 to 1979, and on the Czechoslovak national team for many years.
Jiří Horák Jiří Horák (April 24, 1924 in Hradec Králové - August 25, 2003 in Englewood, Florida) was a Czechoslovakian politician. He was the first chairman of Czech Social Democratic Party after the Velvet Revolution (1989).
Jiří Hrdina Jiří Hrdina (Born January 5, 1958 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former NHL player from the Czech Republic. In 1984 he was a member of the Czechoslovak national hockey team which won silver medal at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo.
Jiří Hudler Jiří Hudler (born January 4, 1984 in Olomouc, Czech Republic) is an ice hockey player and current member of the Detroit Red Wings. The Red Wings drafted him with their first pick (58th overall) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.
Jiří Ignác Línek Jiří Ignác Linek (Georg Ignaz Linek) (1725-1791) was a renowned Bohemian late Baroque composer and pedagogue, said to have composed over 200 works in his lifetime. He is especially noted for his Christmas pastorals and for his initiation of a literary brotherhood within Bohemia.
Jiří Kulhánek Jiří Kulhánek (born December 31, 1967) is a popular Czech science fiction and fantasy writer. He is probably the bestselling author of the genre in the Czech Republic; the commercial success allows him to tolerate the illegal distribution of his works on the Internet.

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