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Jackson (crater) Jackson is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. Less than one crater to the northeast is the Mineur crater, and to the south-southwest lies McMath crater.
Jackson (song) "Jackson" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler about a married couple who find that the "fire" has gone out of their relationship. The song relates the desire of the husband and wife to travel to Jackson, where they each look forward to a new life free of the unhappy relationship.
Jackson and his computer band Jackson and His Computer Band is an IDM artist signed to Warp Records consisting of Jackson Fourgeaud, a 26-year-old Parisian composer. His style has been described as "a style orgy, a psychedelic celebration of conflict.
Jackson Anthony Jackson Anthony is one of the most celebrated actors in Sri Lankan cinema (refer to Cinema of Sri Lanka). Though he has won most of his fame from his bright career as an actor (in Television, Stage and cinema) his competence in other careers related to media and arts is impressive.
Jackson Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line) Jackson Avenue is an elevated station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Jackson and Westchester Avenues, it is served by the train (all times), and bu the train (all times except late nights and rush hours in the peak direction).
Jackson Beck Jackson Beck (July 23, 1912 in Manhattan, New York - July 28, 2004 in Manhattan) was an American actor best known as the voice of Bluto in over 300 Popeye cartoons. His father, Max Blank, was a silent-film actor.
Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist, whose introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the confessional Southern Californian singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Jackson Community College Jackson Community College (also known as JCC) is a community college located in Jackson County, Michigan. Originally established as Jackson Junior College in 1928, Jackson County electors voted to reincorporate the institution as a Community College District under Public Act 188 of 1955 in 1962.
Jackson Creek Jackson Creek is a stream in Amador County, California, which is linked to gold mining during the California Gold Rush era. There is a modern controversy associated with proposal of a water pipeline by the Amador Water Agency, which facility could detract from the flow on Jackson Creek.
Jackson Davies Jackson Davies is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as RCMP Constable John Constable in the television series The Beachcombers, which he reprised in the TV movies The New Beachcombers (2002) and A Beachcombers Christmas (2004).
Jackson Dinky The Jackson Dinky is a Superstrat-style double cutaway electric guitar built by Jackson Guitars. Usually fitted with a two humbucker pickup configuration, some models also include single coil pickups or (and) just one bridge humbucker.
Jackson Douglas Jackson Douglas (born Douglas Jackson in 1969) is best known for his role as Jackson Melville in the television series Gilmore Girls, for which he's also directed the Season 5 episode To Live and Let Diorama and Season 6 episode Welcome to the Dollhouse. He also wrote and directed the movie short Brown Eyed Girl.
Jackson Free Press The Jackson Free Press is an alternative weekly newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 2002 by Mississippi native Donna Ladd, author and technology expert Todd Stauffer and a group of young Jacksonians wanting a progressive voice in the state. It is currently the only member of the Association of Alternative Weeklies in the state of Mississippi.
Jackson Guice Jackson Guice (sometimes credited as Butch Guice) is an American comic book artist. Series to which he contributed include: Southern Knights, Eternal Warrior, X-O Manowar, Micronauts, New Mutants, X-Factor, The Flash, Doctor Strange, Badger, Iron Man, Resurrection Man, Birds of Prey, Ruse, Olympus and JLA Classified.
Jackson Guitars Jackson is a guitar manufacturer originally owned and operated by Grover Jackson, a partner of Wayne Charvel of Charvel Guitar Repair. It is probably best-known for its "Rhoads" V model guitar, originally designed and used by guitarist Randy Rhoads.
Jackson High School (Michigan) Jackson High School is a public high school located in downtown Jackson, Michigan. It was created in 1908 with the merger of Jackson's West Side and East Side High Schools, and they moved to their present location in 1927.
Jackson Hole National Monument Jackson Hole National Monument was a wildlife reserve in Jackson Hole, the majority of which is now a part of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was proclaimed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943, and met with considerable opposition.
Jackson King V The King V is a v-shaped, electric guitar made by Jackson Guitars based on the Gibson Flying V as well as the Jackson RR model, which was designed and built for the late Randy Rhoads. The Jackson King V was originally designed for Robbin Crosby of RATT.
Jackson Lake State Park (Colorado) Jackson Lake State Park is located northeast of Mancos, Colorado in eastern Montezuma County, Colorado. It is located on 224-acre Jackson Reservoir or Lake (originally named Lake Mancos) and built in the early 1950s as the major feature of the Mancos Project, a Bureau of Reclamation project furnishing irrigation water to the Mancos Valley and Weber and Mancos Canyon, and is reached via Colorado Highway 184 and County Road 42, approximately five miles north of Mancos and US-160.
Jackson Liberty High School Jackson Liberty High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, as part of the Jackson School District. It is the sister high school of Jackson Memorial High School.
Jackson Mac Low Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 - December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. During the last 25 years of his life, he often collaborated with Anne Tardos.
Jackson Melville Jackson Melville (or Jackson Belleville) is a fictional character on the television series Gilmore Girls, played by Jackson Douglas. Although Jackson's name has regularly been "Melville" (mentioned specificially in season 1's "Christopher Returns"); there are several episodes (most recently season 6's "Always A Godmother, Never A God") where it has been "Belleville".
Jackson Memorial High School Jackson Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, as part of the Jackson School District. It is the sister high school of Jackson Liberty High School, which first opened in the late summer of 2006.
Jackson Mendoza Jackson Mendoza was a short-lived Australian pop duo consisting of sisters Natalie and Rebecca Jackson Mendoza. Jackson Mendoza's debut single "Venus or Mars" (1999) was the first song penned by music production team the Matrix.
Jackson Nicolau Jackson Nicolau (born 6 December, 1987) is a Greek Australian Rugby League player. He was born in the North Queensland town of Innisfail, the same town that fellow NRL stars Billy Slater and Ty Williams are from.
Jackson Plan The Jackson Plan of 1822, also known as the "Plan of the Town of Singapore", was an urban plan for Singapore drawn up to maintain some order in the urban development of the fledgling but thriving colony founded just three years earlier. It was named after Lieutenant Philip Jackson, the colony's engineer and land surveyor tasked to oversee its physical development.
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Jackson Pollock: An American Saga is a 1989 biography of expressionist painter Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. It ran to 934 pages, was considered "well-researched" by Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal, and inspired Ed Harris to adapt it to film as Pollock in 2000.
Jackson Preparatory School (MS) Located in Flowood, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, and specializing in secondary education since 1970, Jackson Preparatory School (Prep) holds the state record with 461 National Merit semifinalists, including 16 from the class of 2006. Statewide, Prep offers the only Classical Heritage Program.
Jackson Purchase The Jackson Purchase is a region in the state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers to the east. It was technically part of Kentucky at its statehood in 1792, but did not come under definitive U.
Jackson ratio Researched and devised by Dr. Oliphant Jackson, the Jackson ratio is a method of determining whether a member of the tortoise species Testudo graeca or Testudo hermanni is maintaining its optimum bodyweight, which is necessary for a successful hibernation.
Jackson Rhythmist The Jackson Rhythmist is a fictional and highly sought companion model to the Soloist by Jackson Guitars. It is differentiated from the Soloist by having only a neck pickup, going up to nine frets on the neck and is used exclusively for rhythm guitar work.
Jackson Senators The Jackson Senators were a minor league baseball team that played in Jackson, Mississippi. The team was a member of the independent Central Baseball League from 2002 to 2005, a league that was not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
Jackson Scholz Jackson Volney Scholz (March 15, 1897-October 26, 1986) was an American track and field athlete, specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games.
Jackson School District The Jackson School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Jackson Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The district is comprised of six elementary school serving grades K-5, two middle schools and one high school, with a second opening in the Fall of 2006.
Jackson School of Geosciences The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin unites one of the largest and most respected academic departments of geological sciences with two world-renowned research units, the Institute for Geophysics and the Bureau of Economic Geology.
Jackson Soloist The Jackson Soloist is an electric guitar model by Jackson Guitars officially produced since 1984 (prototypes were available in early 1980s). Jackson was essentially the pioneer of the "Superstrat" design.
Jackson State Community College Jackson State Community College is a publicly-supported community college located in Jackson, Tennessee and operated under the auspices of the Tennessee Board of Regents. It is one of the largest community colleges in the Regents system and, along with the presence of the private Union University, Lambuth University, and Lane College, and the location of Freed-Hardeman University in nearby Henderson gives Jackson the deserved reputation of being a "college town.
Jackson State killings The Jackson State killings occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14-15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police.
Jackson State University Jackson State University, often abridged as Jackson State or by its initials JSU is a historically black university located in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 1877. Jackson State University has been especially noted for its successful business and computer departments, being among the highest ranked in the United States.
Jackson Structured Programming Jackson Structured Programming or JSP is a method for structured programming based on correspondences between data stream structure and program structure. The method is closely related in concept to creating a parser for a regular expression that describes the data stream structure, but tries to build a program structure that matches more than one data stream and provides guidance and techniques to compensate the limited lookahead and the clashes between the structures of the different data streams.
Jackson Township, Wood County, Ohio Jackson Township is one of the 19 townships that make up Wood County, Ohio. It is located in the southwestern corner of the county, and makes up the "four corners" boundary Wood County shares with Hancock, Henry, and Putnam Counties.
Jackson Vroman Jackson Vroman (born June 6 1981 in Laguna, California) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. After a career at Iowa State University, he was a second-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 NBA Draft.
Jackson Waters Jackson Waters is rock band, featuring Brian Meek on bass, David Leonard on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Ryan Hawk on drums and both Toby Friesen and Jesse Lafave on guitar. The band recently relocated from Siloam Springs, Arkansas to Nashville, Tennessee in order to pursue careers as full-time musicians.
Jackson's Landing Jackson's Landing is the name of a residential and commercial property development located on the northern peninsula of Pyrmont, an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is located on the former site of a major sugar refinery which was operated by CSR Limited and is being developed by the Lend Lease Corporation Limited group, a well-known real estate developer.
Jackson's Mill Jackson's Mill was a grist mill in western Virginia (near the present-day town of Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia). The center of the Jackson estate stood in the peninsula formed by the confluence of Freeman's Creek and the West Fork River.
Jackson's Sawmill Covered Bridge Jackson's Sawmill Covered Bridge or Eichelberger's Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the West Branch of the Octoraro Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States in the United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, it's official designation is the West Octoraro #1 Bridge.
Jackson-Gwilt Medal The Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded regularly since 1897 for the invention, improvement, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques; for achievement in observational astronomy; or for achievement in research into the history of astronomy.
Jackson-Pratt drain A Jackson-Pratt drain, JP drain, or Bulb drain, is a suction drainage device used to pull excess fluid from the body. A flexible bulb connects via plastic tubing to the the drain which installed inside the body.
Jackson-Triggs Jackson-Triggs is a leading Canadian winery with vineyards in the Okanagan Valley and the Niagara Peninsula. They have won the "Canadian Wine Producer of the Year" trophy four times since 1999 at the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
Jackson-Weiss syndrome Jackson-Weiss syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by foot abnormalities and the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull (craniosynostosis), which prevents further growth of the skull and affects the shape of the head and face.
Jackson, Queensland Jackson is a town in the Bendemere Shire Local government area in Queensland, Australia. The town was based around the rail industry and with the winding down of the railways the population has declined to around 30.
Jacksonia furcellata Jacksonia furcellata, commonly known as Grey Stinkwood, is a species of leafless broom-like shrub or small tree that occurs in the south west of Western Australia. One of the most common plants of the Swan Coastal Plain, it is an excellent colonizer of newly cleared land.
Jacksonia sericea Jacksonia sericea, commonly known as Waldjumi, is a species of low-spreading shrub or small tree that occurs in the south west of Western Australia. Found on the Swan Coastal Plain, it has a Priority Four conservation classification, grows to 0.
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy The Jacksonian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of the senior chairs in Natural and Experimental philosophy at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1782 by a bequest from the Reverend Richard Jackson.
Jacksonville Beach, Florida Jacksonville Beach is a city in Duval County, Florida, United States. When the majority of communities in Duval County consolidated with Jacksonville, Florida in 1968, Jacksonville Beach, along with Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach, and Baldwin, Florida, remained quasi-independent.
Jacksonville Beaches The Jacksonville Beaches, known in the area as "The Beaches" or simply "The Beach", is the collective name for the towns and communities on the northern half of San Pablo Island island between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean on Florida's First Coast. The Jacksonville Beaches are located in Duval and northern St.
Jacksonville College Jacksonville College is a junior college in Jacksonville, Texas and belongs to the Baptist Missionary Association of America. In addition, the Southern Baptists of Texas, the conservative state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, also provides financial support to the school.
Jacksonville Daily Progress The Jacksonville Daily Progress is a five-day daily newspaper published in Jacksonville, Texas, on weekday (Monday through Friday) afternoons and Sunday mornings. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Jacksonville Equestrian Center The Jacksonville Equestrian Center is an equestrian facility in Jacksonville, Florida. It consists of an indoor multipurpose arena (capacity at 4,000), two outdoor competition arenas, two outdoor warm-up arenas, a turf arena, 426 permanent stalls, and 70 Full Service RV spaces.
Jacksonville Generals The Jacksonville Generals were an indoor soccer club based in Jacksonville, Florida that competed in the American Indoor Soccer Association. The team only played in the postseason Challenge Cup following the 1987/88 season.
Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
Jacksonville Sharks The Jacksonville Sharks were a team that competed for part of the 1974 season in the World Football League, a failed attempt to lauch a second major professional football league in the United States in competition with the National Football League. The team played seven home games at the then-Gator Bowl stadium in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO), also known as Jacksonville Police, has primary responsibility for law enforcement, investigation, and corrections within the consolidated City of Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida United States . In 1967 a mandate was given by residents of Jacksonville and Duval County with 65 percent of the votes cast in favor of consolidating the city and county governments.
Jacksonville State University Jacksonville State University is a public, coeducational university in Jacksonville, Alabama in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama. Founded in 1883, as Jacksonville State Normal School, the university offers programs of study leading to Bachelor's, Master's, and Education Specialist degrees in business, communication, education, family sciences, liberal arts and sciences, and nursing, in addition to continuing education programs.
Jacksonville Suns The Jacksonville Suns are a minor league baseball team that play in Jacksonville, Florida. The team is a member of the Southern League, is the Class AA affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and won the AA championship in 2005.
Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra The Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra or the JSYO is an orchestra in Jacksonville, Florida that presently enrolls 220 young musicians between the ages of 7 and 22, who are admitted through competitive auditions
Jacksonville Tomcats The Jacksonville Tomcats were one of the original 15 teams to join the inaugural 2000 AF2 season. They originally played in the American Conference, then later went to the Southeast division in 2001, and then the Southern Division in 2002.
Jacksonville Transportation Authority The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is the body in charge of public transit for the city of Jacksonville, Florida and the surrounding area. It is in charge of the bus lines, trolleys, paratransit, and the city's monorail system, the Jacksonville Skyway.
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena The Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena is a 15,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Home to the Jacksonville Barracudas ice hockey franchise, it was built in 2003 as part of Mayor John Delaney's Better Jacksonville Plan to replace the outdated Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.
Jacksonville Zoological Gardens The Jacksonville Zoological Gardens (or Jacksonville Zoo) in Jacksonville, Florida, is the largest zoo between Atlanta, Georgia, and Orlando, Florida, on the eastern coast of the United States at the mouth of the Trout River. The zoo occupies approximately 110 acres (44.
Jacksonville, Arkansas Jacksonville is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 30,367, ranking it as the state's 11th largest city, behind Hot Springs.
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot The Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot (also known as the Chessie System Express or the Old Seaboard Coast Line Railroad) is a historic Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad depot in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is located at 918 Railroad Avenue.
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway was a railroad and steamboat network in Florida, USA at the end of the 19th century. Most of its lines became part of the Plant System in 1899 and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902.
Jacksoul Jacksoul is a Canadian band that plays soul, r&b, and jazz music with smooth, funky rhythms and melodies. It was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year, and a Canadian Urban Music Award in 2004.
Jackton Jackton is a small village lying just beyond the western periphary of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, on the road connecting it to Eaglesham. It is also adjacent to Thorntonhall, and the two villages share a newsletter, the Peel News, derived from the name of the road connecting the two.
Jackviper Jackviper are a sleaze rock band formed in London, UK during 2005, and have quickly risen to be one of the biggest bands on the UK's exploding sleaze rock scene: In just over a year, Jackviper have toured Germany with the LA Guns, and been on several major national UK tours supporting multiplatinum selling artists such as Vixen, House of Lords, and Slunt. Jackviper are the first unsigned band in history to have a full song pre-loaded onto half a million Creative Zen V MP3 players, and have recently landed an endorsement deal from amp giants Marshall Amplification.
Jacky Henin Jacky Henin (born 12 November 1960 in Douai) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the French Communist Party, which is part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius (December 1 1951 – September 21 1987) was a jazz bassist and composer remembered for his style and technique on fretless bass. His influence on modern electric bass playing is widely recognized.
Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael (born 1957, Ixelles, Brussels) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His complex and critically acclaimed films are especially noted for their respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.
Jaco, Costa Rica Jaco is a costal town in Costa Rica's Puntarenas province, located on the Pacific Coast. The town is known as a surfer's haven due to consistently high surf and proximity to other popular surfing beaches, including Playa Hermosa and Playa Herradura.
Jacob Jacob or Ya'akov, (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: يعقŮب, ; "holds the heel"), also known as Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָ×ֵל, Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: اسرائيل, ; "Struggled with God"), is the third Biblical patriarch. His father is Isaac, and his grandfather is Abraham.
Jacob (clothing retailer) Jacob (formally known as Boutique Jacob, Inc) is a Canadian affordable women's and girls' clothing store chain based out of Montreal, Quebec. Jacob stores, which number over 200, are all over Canada, usually in malls.
Jacob (prophet) In the Book of Mormon, Jacob (Hebrew יעקב YaĘżÄqōḇ "Holder of the heel; supplanter") is a younger brother of the prophet Nephi, and becomes the prophet himself after Nephi's death. The Book of Jacob is purportedly written by him
Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising is a reality television program originating on the LGBT network Logo. It follows identical twin brothers Jacob and Joshua Miller, who together comprise the pop duo Nemesis, as they seek success in the music business as openly gay artists.
Jacob and Zachary Handy Jacob Daniel Handy and Zackery Christopher Handy (born September 12, 1993 in Los Angeles, California) are two American child actors. Their biggest part was probably the role of "Duby" in the 1999 movie Baby Geniuses.
Jacob Albright Jacob Albright (originally German Jakob Albrecht) (1759 - May 17 1808) was an American Christian leader, founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical Church), born near Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Jacob Ammen Jacob Ammen (7 January 1807 – 6 February 1894) was a college professor, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His younger brother, Daniel Ammen, was an admiral in the United States Navy.
Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn was a philosopher and canonist, born at Bolzano, 26 July, 1735, died there, 11 January, 1813. He studied at Innsbruck and Munich, entered the Jesuit order on 9 October, 1753, was ordained priest on 1 June, 1765, then taught philosophy at Munich, Dillingen, and Innsbruck.
Jacob ben Asher Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew Ya'akov ben Asher, (1270-ca 1340) was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Baal ha-Turim ("Master of the Turim (Pillars)"), after his main work in halakha (Jewish law), the Arba'ah Turim.
Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah (17th century) was a Portuguese kabalist and physician. He received a medical training in his native country as a Marano, but fled about 1619 to Safed and devoted himself to the Talmud and the casuists ("poseḳim") until 1625; then he went to Damascus, where for eighteen years he studied the Cabala from the Zohar and the writings of Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital.
Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625) of Yanova (near Lublin, Poland) was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services. [Liptzin, 1972, 19]
Jacob ben Nathanael Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi was a rosh yeshiva of the Yemenite Jews in the second half of the twelfth century CE. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion of Solomon ha-Kohen, a pupil of Maimonides, he wrote to the latter asking his advice in regard to a pseudo-Messiah who was leading the Jews of southern Arabia astray.
Jacob ben Nissim Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin was a Jewish philosopher who lived at Kairwan in the 10th century; he was a younger contemporary of Saadia. At Jacob's request Sherira Gaon wrote a treatise entitled Iggeret, on the redaction of the Mishnah.
Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite) Jacob ben Reuben (יעקב בן ר×ובן) was a Karaite scholar and Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew language commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled Sefer ha-'Osher, because, as he says in the introduction, the reader will find therein sufficient information, and will not need to have recourse to the many voluminous commentaries which the author himself had consulted.
Jacob ben Samuel Taitazak Jacob ben Samuel Taitazak (Hebrew: יעקב בן שמו×ל ×××™××צק) was a Talmudist of the 16th century, and author of a responsum inserted in Samuel di Medina's collection entitled She'elot u-Teshubot MaHRaSHDaM (vol. iii.
Jacob Baart de la Faille Jacob Baart-de la Faille (1886—1959) was a lawyer who compiled the first catalogue raisonné of the work of Vincent van Gogh. In the same year he was involved in the big fraud affair concerning the Berlin art dealer Otto Wacker.
Jacob Bailey Jacob Bailey, (16 April 1731 – 26 July 1808), a Church of England clergyman and author, was born in the United States and was married with at least six children. He started his career in the ministry as a Congregational preacher in New Hampshire but converted and became an Anglican clergyman in 1760.
Jacob Bailey Moore Jacob Bailey Moore (1797-1853) was an American journalist and historical writer, born in Andover, New Hampshire. He learned the printer's trade at Concord, engaged in editorial work and edited the New Hampshire Journal from 1826 to 1829, when he was elected sheriff of Merrimack County.
Jacob Baradaeus Jacobus Baradaeus or James Baradaeus (other spellings of his surname include Al Baradai, Burdoho, Burdeono, Burdeana, or Burdeaya, also Phaselita, or Zanzalus), was ordained by the Monophysite bishop of Edessa (c. AD 541), with ecumenical authority over the members of their body throughout the East.
Jacob Barsimson Jacob Barsimson was one of the earliest Jewish settlers at New Amsterdam (New York City). He arrived at that port on the ship Pear Tree on July 8, 1654, it is believed from Holland, which country he seems to have left in company with another Jewish settler named Jacob Aboab (Aboast or Aboaf?
Jackson (song) "Jackson" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler about a married couple who find that the "fire" has gone out of their relationship. The song relates the desire of the husband and wife to travel to Jackson, where they each look forward to a new life free of the unhappy relationship.
Jackson and his computer band Jackson and His Computer Band is an IDM artist signed to Warp Records consisting of Jackson Fourgeaud, a 26-year-old Parisian composer. His style has been described as "a style orgy, a psychedelic celebration of conflict.
Jackson Anthony Jackson Anthony is one of the most celebrated actors in Sri Lankan cinema (refer to Cinema of Sri Lanka). Though he has won most of his fame from his bright career as an actor (in Television, Stage and cinema) his competence in other careers related to media and arts is impressive.
Jackson Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line) Jackson Avenue is an elevated station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Jackson and Westchester Avenues, it is served by the train (all times), and bu the train (all times except late nights and rush hours in the peak direction).
Jackson Beck Jackson Beck (July 23, 1912 in Manhattan, New York - July 28, 2004 in Manhattan) was an American actor best known as the voice of Bluto in over 300 Popeye cartoons. His father, Max Blank, was a silent-film actor.
Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist, whose introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the confessional Southern Californian singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Jackson Community College Jackson Community College (also known as JCC) is a community college located in Jackson County, Michigan. Originally established as Jackson Junior College in 1928, Jackson County electors voted to reincorporate the institution as a Community College District under Public Act 188 of 1955 in 1962.
Jackson Creek Jackson Creek is a stream in Amador County, California, which is linked to gold mining during the California Gold Rush era. There is a modern controversy associated with proposal of a water pipeline by the Amador Water Agency, which facility could detract from the flow on Jackson Creek.
Jackson Davies Jackson Davies is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as RCMP Constable John Constable in the television series The Beachcombers, which he reprised in the TV movies The New Beachcombers (2002) and A Beachcombers Christmas (2004).
Jackson Dinky The Jackson Dinky is a Superstrat-style double cutaway electric guitar built by Jackson Guitars. Usually fitted with a two humbucker pickup configuration, some models also include single coil pickups or (and) just one bridge humbucker.
Jackson Douglas Jackson Douglas (born Douglas Jackson in 1969) is best known for his role as Jackson Melville in the television series Gilmore Girls, for which he's also directed the Season 5 episode To Live and Let Diorama and Season 6 episode Welcome to the Dollhouse. He also wrote and directed the movie short Brown Eyed Girl.
Jackson Free Press The Jackson Free Press is an alternative weekly newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 2002 by Mississippi native Donna Ladd, author and technology expert Todd Stauffer and a group of young Jacksonians wanting a progressive voice in the state. It is currently the only member of the Association of Alternative Weeklies in the state of Mississippi.
Jackson Guice Jackson Guice (sometimes credited as Butch Guice) is an American comic book artist. Series to which he contributed include: Southern Knights, Eternal Warrior, X-O Manowar, Micronauts, New Mutants, X-Factor, The Flash, Doctor Strange, Badger, Iron Man, Resurrection Man, Birds of Prey, Ruse, Olympus and JLA Classified.
Jackson Guitars Jackson is a guitar manufacturer originally owned and operated by Grover Jackson, a partner of Wayne Charvel of Charvel Guitar Repair. It is probably best-known for its "Rhoads" V model guitar, originally designed and used by guitarist Randy Rhoads.
Jackson High School (Michigan) Jackson High School is a public high school located in downtown Jackson, Michigan. It was created in 1908 with the merger of Jackson's West Side and East Side High Schools, and they moved to their present location in 1927.
Jackson Hole National Monument Jackson Hole National Monument was a wildlife reserve in Jackson Hole, the majority of which is now a part of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was proclaimed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943, and met with considerable opposition.
Jackson King V The King V is a v-shaped, electric guitar made by Jackson Guitars based on the Gibson Flying V as well as the Jackson RR model, which was designed and built for the late Randy Rhoads. The Jackson King V was originally designed for Robbin Crosby of RATT.
Jackson Lake State Park (Colorado) Jackson Lake State Park is located northeast of Mancos, Colorado in eastern Montezuma County, Colorado. It is located on 224-acre Jackson Reservoir or Lake (originally named Lake Mancos) and built in the early 1950s as the major feature of the Mancos Project, a Bureau of Reclamation project furnishing irrigation water to the Mancos Valley and Weber and Mancos Canyon, and is reached via Colorado Highway 184 and County Road 42, approximately five miles north of Mancos and US-160.
Jackson Liberty High School Jackson Liberty High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, as part of the Jackson School District. It is the sister high school of Jackson Memorial High School.
Jackson Mac Low Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 - December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. During the last 25 years of his life, he often collaborated with Anne Tardos.
Jackson Melville Jackson Melville (or Jackson Belleville) is a fictional character on the television series Gilmore Girls, played by Jackson Douglas. Although Jackson's name has regularly been "Melville" (mentioned specificially in season 1's "Christopher Returns"); there are several episodes (most recently season 6's "Always A Godmother, Never A God") where it has been "Belleville".
Jackson Memorial High School Jackson Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, as part of the Jackson School District. It is the sister high school of Jackson Liberty High School, which first opened in the late summer of 2006.
Jackson Mendoza Jackson Mendoza was a short-lived Australian pop duo consisting of sisters Natalie and Rebecca Jackson Mendoza. Jackson Mendoza's debut single "Venus or Mars" (1999) was the first song penned by music production team the Matrix.
Jackson Nicolau Jackson Nicolau (born 6 December, 1987) is a Greek Australian Rugby League player. He was born in the North Queensland town of Innisfail, the same town that fellow NRL stars Billy Slater and Ty Williams are from.
Jackson Plan The Jackson Plan of 1822, also known as the "Plan of the Town of Singapore", was an urban plan for Singapore drawn up to maintain some order in the urban development of the fledgling but thriving colony founded just three years earlier. It was named after Lieutenant Philip Jackson, the colony's engineer and land surveyor tasked to oversee its physical development.
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Jackson Pollock: An American Saga is a 1989 biography of expressionist painter Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. It ran to 934 pages, was considered "well-researched" by Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal, and inspired Ed Harris to adapt it to film as Pollock in 2000.
Jackson Preparatory School (MS) Located in Flowood, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, and specializing in secondary education since 1970, Jackson Preparatory School (Prep) holds the state record with 461 National Merit semifinalists, including 16 from the class of 2006. Statewide, Prep offers the only Classical Heritage Program.
Jackson Purchase The Jackson Purchase is a region in the state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers to the east. It was technically part of Kentucky at its statehood in 1792, but did not come under definitive U.
Jackson ratio Researched and devised by Dr. Oliphant Jackson, the Jackson ratio is a method of determining whether a member of the tortoise species Testudo graeca or Testudo hermanni is maintaining its optimum bodyweight, which is necessary for a successful hibernation.
Jackson Rhythmist The Jackson Rhythmist is a fictional and highly sought companion model to the Soloist by Jackson Guitars. It is differentiated from the Soloist by having only a neck pickup, going up to nine frets on the neck and is used exclusively for rhythm guitar work.
Jackson Senators The Jackson Senators were a minor league baseball team that played in Jackson, Mississippi. The team was a member of the independent Central Baseball League from 2002 to 2005, a league that was not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
Jackson Scholz Jackson Volney Scholz (March 15, 1897-October 26, 1986) was an American track and field athlete, specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games.
Jackson School District The Jackson School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Jackson Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The district is comprised of six elementary school serving grades K-5, two middle schools and one high school, with a second opening in the Fall of 2006.
Jackson School of Geosciences The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin unites one of the largest and most respected academic departments of geological sciences with two world-renowned research units, the Institute for Geophysics and the Bureau of Economic Geology.
Jackson Soloist The Jackson Soloist is an electric guitar model by Jackson Guitars officially produced since 1984 (prototypes were available in early 1980s). Jackson was essentially the pioneer of the "Superstrat" design.
Jackson State Community College Jackson State Community College is a publicly-supported community college located in Jackson, Tennessee and operated under the auspices of the Tennessee Board of Regents. It is one of the largest community colleges in the Regents system and, along with the presence of the private Union University, Lambuth University, and Lane College, and the location of Freed-Hardeman University in nearby Henderson gives Jackson the deserved reputation of being a "college town.
Jackson State killings The Jackson State killings occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14-15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police.
Jackson State University Jackson State University, often abridged as Jackson State or by its initials JSU is a historically black university located in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 1877. Jackson State University has been especially noted for its successful business and computer departments, being among the highest ranked in the United States.
Jackson Structured Programming Jackson Structured Programming or JSP is a method for structured programming based on correspondences between data stream structure and program structure. The method is closely related in concept to creating a parser for a regular expression that describes the data stream structure, but tries to build a program structure that matches more than one data stream and provides guidance and techniques to compensate the limited lookahead and the clashes between the structures of the different data streams.
Jackson Township, Wood County, Ohio Jackson Township is one of the 19 townships that make up Wood County, Ohio. It is located in the southwestern corner of the county, and makes up the "four corners" boundary Wood County shares with Hancock, Henry, and Putnam Counties.
Jackson Vroman Jackson Vroman (born June 6 1981 in Laguna, California) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. After a career at Iowa State University, he was a second-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 NBA Draft.
Jackson Waters Jackson Waters is rock band, featuring Brian Meek on bass, David Leonard on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Ryan Hawk on drums and both Toby Friesen and Jesse Lafave on guitar. The band recently relocated from Siloam Springs, Arkansas to Nashville, Tennessee in order to pursue careers as full-time musicians.
Jackson's Landing Jackson's Landing is the name of a residential and commercial property development located on the northern peninsula of Pyrmont, an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is located on the former site of a major sugar refinery which was operated by CSR Limited and is being developed by the Lend Lease Corporation Limited group, a well-known real estate developer.
Jackson's Mill Jackson's Mill was a grist mill in western Virginia (near the present-day town of Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia). The center of the Jackson estate stood in the peninsula formed by the confluence of Freeman's Creek and the West Fork River.
Jackson's Sawmill Covered Bridge Jackson's Sawmill Covered Bridge or Eichelberger's Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the West Branch of the Octoraro Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States in the United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, it's official designation is the West Octoraro #1 Bridge.
Jackson-Gwilt Medal The Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded regularly since 1897 for the invention, improvement, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques; for achievement in observational astronomy; or for achievement in research into the history of astronomy.
Jackson-Pratt drain A Jackson-Pratt drain, JP drain, or Bulb drain, is a suction drainage device used to pull excess fluid from the body. A flexible bulb connects via plastic tubing to the the drain which installed inside the body.
Jackson-Triggs Jackson-Triggs is a leading Canadian winery with vineyards in the Okanagan Valley and the Niagara Peninsula. They have won the "Canadian Wine Producer of the Year" trophy four times since 1999 at the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
Jackson-Weiss syndrome Jackson-Weiss syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by foot abnormalities and the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull (craniosynostosis), which prevents further growth of the skull and affects the shape of the head and face.
Jackson, Queensland Jackson is a town in the Bendemere Shire Local government area in Queensland, Australia. The town was based around the rail industry and with the winding down of the railways the population has declined to around 30.
Jacksonia furcellata Jacksonia furcellata, commonly known as Grey Stinkwood, is a species of leafless broom-like shrub or small tree that occurs in the south west of Western Australia. One of the most common plants of the Swan Coastal Plain, it is an excellent colonizer of newly cleared land.
Jacksonia sericea Jacksonia sericea, commonly known as Waldjumi, is a species of low-spreading shrub or small tree that occurs in the south west of Western Australia. Found on the Swan Coastal Plain, it has a Priority Four conservation classification, grows to 0.
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy The Jacksonian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of the senior chairs in Natural and Experimental philosophy at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1782 by a bequest from the Reverend Richard Jackson.
Jacksonville Beach, Florida Jacksonville Beach is a city in Duval County, Florida, United States. When the majority of communities in Duval County consolidated with Jacksonville, Florida in 1968, Jacksonville Beach, along with Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach, and Baldwin, Florida, remained quasi-independent.
Jacksonville Beaches The Jacksonville Beaches, known in the area as "The Beaches" or simply "The Beach", is the collective name for the towns and communities on the northern half of San Pablo Island island between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean on Florida's First Coast. The Jacksonville Beaches are located in Duval and northern St.
Jacksonville College Jacksonville College is a junior college in Jacksonville, Texas and belongs to the Baptist Missionary Association of America. In addition, the Southern Baptists of Texas, the conservative state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, also provides financial support to the school.
Jacksonville Daily Progress The Jacksonville Daily Progress is a five-day daily newspaper published in Jacksonville, Texas, on weekday (Monday through Friday) afternoons and Sunday mornings. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Jacksonville Equestrian Center The Jacksonville Equestrian Center is an equestrian facility in Jacksonville, Florida. It consists of an indoor multipurpose arena (capacity at 4,000), two outdoor competition arenas, two outdoor warm-up arenas, a turf arena, 426 permanent stalls, and 70 Full Service RV spaces.
Jacksonville Generals The Jacksonville Generals were an indoor soccer club based in Jacksonville, Florida that competed in the American Indoor Soccer Association. The team only played in the postseason Challenge Cup following the 1987/88 season.
Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
Jacksonville Sharks The Jacksonville Sharks were a team that competed for part of the 1974 season in the World Football League, a failed attempt to lauch a second major professional football league in the United States in competition with the National Football League. The team played seven home games at the then-Gator Bowl stadium in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO), also known as Jacksonville Police, has primary responsibility for law enforcement, investigation, and corrections within the consolidated City of Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida United States . In 1967 a mandate was given by residents of Jacksonville and Duval County with 65 percent of the votes cast in favor of consolidating the city and county governments.
Jacksonville State University Jacksonville State University is a public, coeducational university in Jacksonville, Alabama in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama. Founded in 1883, as Jacksonville State Normal School, the university offers programs of study leading to Bachelor's, Master's, and Education Specialist degrees in business, communication, education, family sciences, liberal arts and sciences, and nursing, in addition to continuing education programs.
Jacksonville Suns The Jacksonville Suns are a minor league baseball team that play in Jacksonville, Florida. The team is a member of the Southern League, is the Class AA affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and won the AA championship in 2005.
Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra The Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra or the JSYO is an orchestra in Jacksonville, Florida that presently enrolls 220 young musicians between the ages of 7 and 22, who are admitted through competitive auditions
Jacksonville Tomcats The Jacksonville Tomcats were one of the original 15 teams to join the inaugural 2000 AF2 season. They originally played in the American Conference, then later went to the Southeast division in 2001, and then the Southern Division in 2002.
Jacksonville Transportation Authority The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is the body in charge of public transit for the city of Jacksonville, Florida and the surrounding area. It is in charge of the bus lines, trolleys, paratransit, and the city's monorail system, the Jacksonville Skyway.
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena The Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena is a 15,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Home to the Jacksonville Barracudas ice hockey franchise, it was built in 2003 as part of Mayor John Delaney's Better Jacksonville Plan to replace the outdated Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.
Jacksonville Zoological Gardens The Jacksonville Zoological Gardens (or Jacksonville Zoo) in Jacksonville, Florida, is the largest zoo between Atlanta, Georgia, and Orlando, Florida, on the eastern coast of the United States at the mouth of the Trout River. The zoo occupies approximately 110 acres (44.
Jacksonville, Arkansas Jacksonville is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 30,367, ranking it as the state's 11th largest city, behind Hot Springs.
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot The Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot (also known as the Chessie System Express or the Old Seaboard Coast Line Railroad) is a historic Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad depot in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is located at 918 Railroad Avenue.
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway was a railroad and steamboat network in Florida, USA at the end of the 19th century. Most of its lines became part of the Plant System in 1899 and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902.
Jacksoul Jacksoul is a Canadian band that plays soul, r&b, and jazz music with smooth, funky rhythms and melodies. It was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year, and a Canadian Urban Music Award in 2004.
Jackton Jackton is a small village lying just beyond the western periphary of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, on the road connecting it to Eaglesham. It is also adjacent to Thorntonhall, and the two villages share a newsletter, the Peel News, derived from the name of the road connecting the two.
Jackviper Jackviper are a sleaze rock band formed in London, UK during 2005, and have quickly risen to be one of the biggest bands on the UK's exploding sleaze rock scene: In just over a year, Jackviper have toured Germany with the LA Guns, and been on several major national UK tours supporting multiplatinum selling artists such as Vixen, House of Lords, and Slunt. Jackviper are the first unsigned band in history to have a full song pre-loaded onto half a million Creative Zen V MP3 players, and have recently landed an endorsement deal from amp giants Marshall Amplification.
Jacky Henin Jacky Henin (born 12 November 1960 in Douai) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the French Communist Party, which is part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius (December 1 1951 – September 21 1987) was a jazz bassist and composer remembered for his style and technique on fretless bass. His influence on modern electric bass playing is widely recognized.
Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael (born 1957, Ixelles, Brussels) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His complex and critically acclaimed films are especially noted for their respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.
Jaco, Costa Rica Jaco is a costal town in Costa Rica's Puntarenas province, located on the Pacific Coast. The town is known as a surfer's haven due to consistently high surf and proximity to other popular surfing beaches, including Playa Hermosa and Playa Herradura.
Jacob Jacob or Ya'akov, (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: يعقŮب, ; "holds the heel"), also known as Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָ×ֵל, Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: اسرائيل, ; "Struggled with God"), is the third Biblical patriarch. His father is Isaac, and his grandfather is Abraham.
Jacob (clothing retailer) Jacob (formally known as Boutique Jacob, Inc) is a Canadian affordable women's and girls' clothing store chain based out of Montreal, Quebec. Jacob stores, which number over 200, are all over Canada, usually in malls.
Jacob (prophet) In the Book of Mormon, Jacob (Hebrew יעקב YaĘżÄqōḇ "Holder of the heel; supplanter") is a younger brother of the prophet Nephi, and becomes the prophet himself after Nephi's death. The Book of Jacob is purportedly written by him
Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising is a reality television program originating on the LGBT network Logo. It follows identical twin brothers Jacob and Joshua Miller, who together comprise the pop duo Nemesis, as they seek success in the music business as openly gay artists.
Jacob and Zachary Handy Jacob Daniel Handy and Zackery Christopher Handy (born September 12, 1993 in Los Angeles, California) are two American child actors. Their biggest part was probably the role of "Duby" in the 1999 movie Baby Geniuses.
Jacob Albright Jacob Albright (originally German Jakob Albrecht) (1759 - May 17 1808) was an American Christian leader, founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical Church), born near Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Jacob Ammen Jacob Ammen (7 January 1807 – 6 February 1894) was a college professor, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His younger brother, Daniel Ammen, was an admiral in the United States Navy.
Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn was a philosopher and canonist, born at Bolzano, 26 July, 1735, died there, 11 January, 1813. He studied at Innsbruck and Munich, entered the Jesuit order on 9 October, 1753, was ordained priest on 1 June, 1765, then taught philosophy at Munich, Dillingen, and Innsbruck.
Jacob ben Asher Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew Ya'akov ben Asher, (1270-ca 1340) was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Baal ha-Turim ("Master of the Turim (Pillars)"), after his main work in halakha (Jewish law), the Arba'ah Turim.
Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah (17th century) was a Portuguese kabalist and physician. He received a medical training in his native country as a Marano, but fled about 1619 to Safed and devoted himself to the Talmud and the casuists ("poseḳim") until 1625; then he went to Damascus, where for eighteen years he studied the Cabala from the Zohar and the writings of Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital.
Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625) of Yanova (near Lublin, Poland) was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services. [Liptzin, 1972, 19]
Jacob ben Nathanael Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi was a rosh yeshiva of the Yemenite Jews in the second half of the twelfth century CE. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion of Solomon ha-Kohen, a pupil of Maimonides, he wrote to the latter asking his advice in regard to a pseudo-Messiah who was leading the Jews of southern Arabia astray.
Jacob ben Nissim Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin was a Jewish philosopher who lived at Kairwan in the 10th century; he was a younger contemporary of Saadia. At Jacob's request Sherira Gaon wrote a treatise entitled Iggeret, on the redaction of the Mishnah.
Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite) Jacob ben Reuben (יעקב בן ר×ובן) was a Karaite scholar and Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew language commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled Sefer ha-'Osher, because, as he says in the introduction, the reader will find therein sufficient information, and will not need to have recourse to the many voluminous commentaries which the author himself had consulted.
Jacob ben Samuel Taitazak Jacob ben Samuel Taitazak (Hebrew: יעקב בן שמו×ל ×××™××צק) was a Talmudist of the 16th century, and author of a responsum inserted in Samuel di Medina's collection entitled She'elot u-Teshubot MaHRaSHDaM (vol. iii.
Jacob Baart de la Faille Jacob Baart-de la Faille (1886—1959) was a lawyer who compiled the first catalogue raisonné of the work of Vincent van Gogh. In the same year he was involved in the big fraud affair concerning the Berlin art dealer Otto Wacker.
Jacob Bailey Jacob Bailey, (16 April 1731 – 26 July 1808), a Church of England clergyman and author, was born in the United States and was married with at least six children. He started his career in the ministry as a Congregational preacher in New Hampshire but converted and became an Anglican clergyman in 1760.
Jacob Bailey Moore Jacob Bailey Moore (1797-1853) was an American journalist and historical writer, born in Andover, New Hampshire. He learned the printer's trade at Concord, engaged in editorial work and edited the New Hampshire Journal from 1826 to 1829, when he was elected sheriff of Merrimack County.
Jacob Baradaeus Jacobus Baradaeus or James Baradaeus (other spellings of his surname include Al Baradai, Burdoho, Burdeono, Burdeana, or Burdeaya, also Phaselita, or Zanzalus), was ordained by the Monophysite bishop of Edessa (c. AD 541), with ecumenical authority over the members of their body throughout the East.
Jacob Barsimson Jacob Barsimson was one of the earliest Jewish settlers at New Amsterdam (New York City). He arrived at that port on the ship Pear Tree on July 8, 1654, it is believed from Holland, which country he seems to have left in company with another Jewish settler named Jacob Aboab (Aboast or Aboaf?
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