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Jane JacobsAge: 89 urban planner whose ground-breaking 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, criticized urban renewal—the concept of clearing cities of slums and building…Jacob Zuma, 2006 News
former deputy president of South Africa, was acquitted of rape charges in May. Once a rising star in South African politics, Zuma—the former leader of the country's National AIDS Council—…Jacob Kainen 2001 Deaths
Jacob KainenAge: 91 noted painter and printmaker whose styles included Social Realism, Expressionism, and Abstract Impressionism. He served as curator of prints at the Smithsonian Institution…Brewer's: Jacob the Scourge of Grammar
Giles Jacob, master of Romsey, in Hampshire, brought up for an attorney. A poetaster in the time of Pope. (See Dunciad, iii.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Jacob CALL, Congress, IN (1826)
CALL Jacob , a Representative from Indiana; born in Kentucky, birth date unknown; was graduated from an academy in Kentucky; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Vincennes and…Albright, Jacob
(Encyclopedia) Albright, Jacob, 1759–1808, American religious leader, founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical Church), b. near Pottstown, Pa. A German Lutheran, he was converted…Frank, Jacob
(Encyclopedia) Frank, Jacob, c.1726–1791, Polish Jewish sectarian and adventurer, b. Podolia as Jacob Ben Judah Leib. He founded the Frankists, a heretical Jewish sect that was an anti-Talmudic…Jordaens, Jacob
(Encyclopedia) Jordaens, Jacob or JacquesJordaens, Jacob or Jacquesyäˈkôp yôrˈdäns, zhäk [key], 1593–1678, Flemish baroque painter, b. Antwerp. After the deaths of Rubens and Van Dyck, by whom he was…Leisler, Jacob
(Encyclopedia) Leisler, JacobLeisler, Jacoblīsˈlər [key], 1640–91, leader of an insurrection (1689–91) in colonial New York, b. Frankfurt, Germany. He immigrated to America in 1660 as a penniless…Neusner, Jacob
(Encyclopedia) Neusner, Jacob, 1932–2016, American scholar and historian of Judaism, b. West Hartford, Conn, B.A. Harvard, 1953, M.A. Jewish Theological Seminary, 1960), Ph.D. Columbia, 1960.…Trending
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