James L. Jones - James L. Jones General James L. Jones is the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) and the Commander of the United States European Command (COMUSEUCOM). From the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium, General Jones leads Allied Command Europe (ACE), comprising NATO’s military forces in Europe. Previously, Jones was the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003. Jones was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Having spent his formative years in France, he returned to the United States to attend the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps in January 1967. Upon completion of The Basic School, Quantico, Virginia, in October.
James Earl Jones - James Earl Jones James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is a well-known African-American actor who was born Todd Jones in Arkabutla, Mississippi and raised in Dublin, Michigan. His first film role was in Dr. Strangelove in 1964. He has appeared in many roles since, but is probably best known as the sonorous voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, Mufasa in The Lion King, a Disney animated feature, and CNN tagline, "This is CNN". He has performed considerable amounts of other voice-over work. He has also periodically performed guest voices on television's The Simpsons. He also starred in the television program Under One Roof as Neb Langston, a widowed police officer. He is a sponsor of Verizon Wireless. He won Tony awards in.
Jamestown, Virginia - Jamestown, Virginia Jamestown was a village on an island in the James River in Virginia, about 45 miles southeast of where Richmond, Virginia, is now. Both the river and the 1607 settlement there were named for King James I of England who had recently come to the throne then. That Jamestown Settlement was the first permanent English colony in the New World. Jamestown was founded in 1607 by the London Virginia Company. Three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery arrived at Jamestown on May 14, and their crews of 104 men and boys began the first permanent English settlement in North America. Upon landing, secret orders from the Virginia Company are opened which named John Smith as one of the councilors. Smith had been arrested on the voyage.
James Shirley - James Shirley James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 - October 29, 1666), English dramatist, was born in London. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke nearly the same language and had a set of moral feelings and notions in common." His career of play writing extended from 1625 to the suppression of stage plays by parliament in 1642. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' school, St John's College, Oxford, and Catherine Hall, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in or before 1618. His first poem,.
James Black - James Black James Black (1800-1872) was the creator of the original Bowie knife designed by Jim Bowie. James Black was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on 1 May 1800. James' mother died when he was very young and he had difficulty getting along with his step-mother. Black ran away from home to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at age 8 and was apprenticed to a silversmith. At age 18 he migrated westward and too jobs on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. About 1820 Black spent some time at Bayou Sara in Louisiana working as a ferryman and as a steamboat deckhand on the Red River which took him upstream to Fulton, Arkansas. Black left the boat and settled at a crossroads 14 miles northeast of Fulton that would later.
James Forten - James Forten James Forten (1766 - 1842), an African-American abolitionist and business man, was born a free man in Philadelphia. At the age of 14, he joined the navy to serve on the Royal Lewis in the Revolutionary War, where he invented a device to handle ship sails. He was aprenticed as a sailmaker and became a foreman in 1786. He became an advocate of temperance, women's suffrage and equal rights for African-Americans. James Forten and Richard Allen formed the Convention of Color in 1817. With the help of Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, he enlisted 2500 Blacks to guard Philadelphia during the War of 1812. William helped his friend William Lloyd Garrison form the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. His daughter, Harriet, married Robert Purvis,.
James Toney - James Toney James Toney (born August 24, 1968) is a professional boxer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since his career debut in 1988, he has held the IBF Middleweight Title, the IBF Super Middleweight Title, and the IBF Cruiserweight Title. His victory over former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield on October 4, 2003 cemented his legacy as an all-time boxing great. James "Lights Out" Toney continues to campaign as a heavyweight, where his good handspeed, effective inside defence, and exceptional counterpunching ability have permitted him to emerge victorious over physically larger opponents. As of January 1, 2004, his record stands as follows: 1988 10-26 -- Stephen Lee, Mt. Clemens, MI, TKO 2 12-06 -- Ronnie Yoe, Memphis, TN, KO 1 1989 01-10 -- Carl Penn, Memphis, TN, KO.
Jim Jones - Jim Jones James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1923 - November 18, 1978) was the founder of the People's Temple, a religious group that originally advocated social justice, but later turned into a cult when Jim Jones brought into it his dictatorship, and fanatical viewpoints and practice. Jones then founded Jonestown in Guyana; the town was a closed-in society of Jones' followers, where Jim Jones and all of Jonestown committed suicide on Jones's instructions by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor-aid (a Kool-aid imitation) in 1978. See also: Jonestown.
Grace Jones - Grace Jones Grace Jones (born Grace Mendoza, May 19, 1952 in Spanish Town, Kingston, Jamaica; 1948 and 1954 have also been listed as her year of birth) is a model, singer and actress. Jones is known for her post-modern costuming and performance, at which she dressed in men's clothing and gorilla suits. She gained a reputation for temperament after she physically attacked British chat show host, Russell Harty, because he turned his back on her to speak to another guest. Musically, she began singing disco, then moved on into quirky pop and reggae, featuring big names in Jamaican music on albums such as Nightclubbing. Later, she recorded hip-hop flavored dance music. She was a Bond girl in A View to a Kill, a 1985 movie in the.
Daniel Webster Jones - Daniel Webster Jones Daniel Webster Jones (15 December 1839 - 25 December 1918) was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas. Daniel Webster Jones was born in Bowie County, Texas. His family moved to Washington, Arkansas in 1840. Jones attended Washington Academy there and later studied law. During his childhood James Black, creator of the famous Bowie knife, lived with his family before moving to Washington, Arkansas. Black attempted to show Daniel his metallurgical secret in 1870, the only person known to have knowledge of Black's secret. When the American Civil War broke out, Jones enlisted in the Confederate States Army, was wounded in battle, and was captured and held as a prisoner of war. His highest rank was as Colonel of the 20th Arkansas Infantry Regiment..
Yalobusha - States in the treaties with both the Choctaws and the Chickasaws. The next Board meeting was held in the new town, and in 1837 the first courthouse in Coffeeville was built. Later that same year, one of the early settlers in the northeastern part of the county, G.B. Ragsdale, established a stagecoach stand near what is now Water Valley. In 1848 the town of Oakland was chartered. Yalobusha County had a population of 12,248 in its first census, taken in 1840. In 1844, a post office was opened at Ragsdale's Stand. Three years later, the post office and stagecoach stand were moved to land owned by William Carr, and the name of the post office was changed to Water Valley. One prominent early Yalobusha County landowner was Representative James K. Polk,.
Vertigo (movie) - is hired to follow the straying wife of an old friend, but falls in love with her -- he thinks. It stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones and Raymond Bailey. The movie was adapted by Samuel A. Taylor and Alec Coppel from the novel d'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The final script was entirely written by Samuel Taylor from notes by Hitchcock. However, a number of elements survive from an earlier script by Alec Coppel, including the opening rooftop sequence, the Cypress Point kiss, the two visits to San Juan Batista, and the famous nightmare sequence. When Taylor attempted to take sole credit for the screenplay, Coppel protested to the Writers Guild, who determined that both writers were entitled to credit..
King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis - It contains several celebrity narrators, including Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Clarence Williams III, Burt Lancaster, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando and Paul Winfield. The movie was directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Features. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
Knot polynomial - much more general sense than is usual. As functions in x, these are actually Laurent polynomials in x1/n for various n. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Justification 2 Alexander polynomial 2.1 Example 2.2 Example 2 3 Alexander-Conway polynomial 4 Jones polynomial 5 HOMFLY(PT) polynomial 6 BLM/Ho polynomial 7 Kauffman unary polynomial 8 Kauffman binary polynomial 9 Unworked examples 10 (Composing notes) Justification Why bother? For one thing, a polynomial is much easier to communicate than a knot, or even a drawing of a knot. For another, it's far easier to compare two polynomials for equivalence than two knots. If the knot-to-polynomial mapping can be calculated from elements of the knot and is sufficiently discriminating, two complicated knots can be checked for identity algorithmically. The latter condition is the harder to satisfy..
January 15 - a national mint and decimal coinage. 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana. 1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). 1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball. 1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people. 1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland. 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company). 1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal. 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia). 1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the.
January 28 - Villa. 1918 - Civil War in Finland begins. 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Shanghai. 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion. 1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont. 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road. 1946 - Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef. 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister. 1973 - Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS. 1982 - James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades. 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. 1994 - The first trial of accused.
January 30 - first assassination attempt against a President. 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements. 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill. 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. 1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time. 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1948 - Indian pacifist.
January 25 - be an attack on Russia. Norway had notified the world that it would be making the launch, but the Russian Defense Ministry had neglected to notify those monitoring Russia's nuclear defense systems. 1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. 2002 - Wikipedia switches to PHP software(Magnus Manske Day). Births 1627 - Robert Boyle, chemist (†1691) 1759 - Robert Burns, poet (†1796) 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (†1954) 1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (†1936) 1874 - William Somerset Maugham, (†1965) 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer 1882 - Virginia Woolf, writer (†1941) 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (†.
January 17 - 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1562 - Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain. 1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1781 - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina. 1819 - Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia. 1852 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal. 1873 - First Battle of the Stronghold in the US Modoc War 1893 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. 1899 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. 1912 - Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. 1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is.
January 16 - - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 1919 - The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States. 1938 - Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall. 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. 1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. 1957 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool. 1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract. 1964 - The first musical version of Hello, Dolly opens at New York City's St. James Theatre. 1966 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City. 1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. 1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran.
