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Brewer's: Jean Farine

[Jack Flour ]. A sort of Scaramouch, generally very tall, and representing a loutish boy dressed all in white, the hair, face, and hands being covered with flour. “Jean Farine s'en…

Jean M. Auel

Name at birth: Jean Marie UntinenJean Auel is the author of the Earth's Children series of six novels, the first of which is The Clan of the Cave Bear, published in 1980. The books tell the epic…

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard was a French movie critic who became one of the major filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) cinema, a movement that stressed experimental techniques and film as art in the 1950s…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mostly self-educated in Switzerland, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ended up in Paris, France in the 1740s and became acquainted with Voltaire and Denis Diderot. Rousseau published Discourse on the Origin…

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected twice to the presidency of Haiti, in 1990 and in 2000, and was forced into exile mid-term both times, in 1991 and 2004. Born into poverty near Port-Salut, Aristide…

Jean Harlow Biography

Jean Harlow(Harlean Carpenter)actressBorn: 3/3/1911Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri Film actress and archetypal pinup, known for her roles as a wisecracking sexpot. Her films include Hell's Angels…

Jean Anouilh Biography

Jean Anouilhplaywright, screenwriter, directorBorn: 6/23/1910Birthplace: Bordeaux, France His works, which include Le Voyageur sans Baggage (1938), Antigone (1946), and Beckett (1959), often…

Jeane Dixon Biography

Jeane Dixon(Jeane Pinckert)astrologer, psychicBorn: 1/5/1918Birthplace: Medford, Wisconsin A world renowned psychic and advisor to several presidents, she was the author of eight books and a…

Jean-Claude Killy

Jean-Claude KillyBorn: Aug. 30, 1943French alpine skier 2-time World Cup champion (1967-68); won 3 gold medals at 1968 Olympics in Grenoble; co-president of 1992 Winter Games in Albertville;…

Billie Jean King

Name at birth: Billie Jean MoffitBillie Jean King won 39 Grand Slam tennis titles in her career and dominated women's tennis for more than a decade in the 1960s and 1970s. Billie Jean King won her…