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(jä´j ) (KEY) , fl. 1869–87, Nigerian merchant prince. A former slave, he became an important trader in Bonny in the 1860s as a middleman between ...
or Jehangir (both: j hän´´g r´) (KEY) , 1569–1627, Mughal emperor of India (1605–27), son of Akbar. He continued his father’s policy of expa...
(j k´ b ts´´) (KEY) , adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and S...
(j säl´m r) (KEY) , former principality, Rajasthan state, NW India. Its terrain is largely a sandy or stony waste and constitutes a section of the T...
(Philip Douglas Jackson), 1945–, American basketball player and coach, b. Deer Lodge, Mont. Jackson was an All-American at the Univ. of North Dakota...
common name for either of two minerals used as gems. The rarer variety of jade is jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate, NaAl(SiO3)2, usually white or g...