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J-OS
J-OS is a small operating system for computers equipped with an 8086 or faster CPU. It's easially fitted on one floppy. J-OS is partly written as an operating system tutorial, and is well commented (on Norwegian for now). Some features of J-OS: A Bootloader which loads the kernel and shell into mem..
Jos
Location of Jos in Nigeria Jos is a picturesque city, situated high on the Jos Plateau in Nigeria's middle belt (Lat:9°56' Long:8°53'). It is the administrative capital of Plateau State. Contents 1 City Facts2 History3 Features4 Chiefs of Jos5 External Links City..
Jos. Louis
Jos. Louis are a plastic wrapped dessert consisting of two chocolate sponge cake rounds with a cream filling in between, within a milk chocolate shell. They are a chocolate version of the May West dessert. They also come in a half-moon variety. However, the so-called "half-moon" variety is not a Jos..
Josaiah Ndubuisi Wachuku
Josaiah Ndubuisi Wachuku was the Paramount Chief Head of All Ngwa of the then Aba Division of Eastern Nigeria - during British Colonial times. He was the father of Jaja Wachuku, First Nigerian Speaker of the House of Representatives, First Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Unit..
Josaia Rayawa
Ratu Josaia Naulumatua Rayawa is a Fijian Chief, religious minister, and political leader. He was appointed to the Senate in 2001 as one of nine nominees of the Fijian government. He had previously been President of the now-defunct Christian Democratic Alliance (VLV), which won three seats in t..
Josaia Tavaiqia
Ratu Sir Josaia Tavaiqia (1931-17 November 1997) was a Fijian chief who served as one of two Vice-President of Fiji from 1990 until his death in 1997. (From 1990 to 1999, Fiji had two Vice-Presidents concurrently). Tavaiqia, who held the chiefly title of Tui Vuda, or Paramount Chief of Vuda, one o..
Josaia Waqabaca
Josaia Waqabaca (IPA: jo sa ja wa ŋga ba ða) is a Fijian public figure and former political organizer, who has become a police informant about the Fiji coup of 2000. Waqabaca was convicted and imprisoned in 2001 for plotting to kidnap the Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, in 2000. ..
Josaphat
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Josaphat (saint) — A legendary Christian saint of India.Josaphat (king)..
Josaphat Kuncevyc
Josaphat Kuncevyc (Belarusian: ) is a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, born in the little town of Volodymyr in the region of Volhynia, then part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in 1580 or — according to some writers — 1584; died at Vitsebsk in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwe..
Josaphat park
The Josaphat park is a public park located in the municipality of Schaerbeek, Brussels. The football stadium that was formerly used by the Crossing Club of Schaerbeek lies on the North-West corner of the park. There is also an elementary school (Chazal school), a tennis club (R.T.C. Lambermont) an..
Josateki Nawalowalo
Ratu Josateki Tuivanuavou Nacagilevu Nawalowalo, commonly known as Ratu Jo Nawalowalo, is a Fijian chief, businessman, and the Chairman of the Kadavu Provincial Council. He also chairs the Fiji Kava Council, which promotes the sale of yaqona locally and internationally. As Chairman of the Provinci..
Josateki Vula
Josateki Vula is a Fijian politician, who currently serves up the House of Representatives. He holds the Bua Fijian Communal Constituency, which he won for the Conservative Alliance (CAMV) in the parliamentary election of September 2001, defeating the incumbent, Mitieli Bulanauca of the United F..
Joscar
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. joscar is an open source implementation of AOL's OSCAR protocol, the protocol used to handle data transmission for AOL Instant Messenger and IC..
Josceline Amherst
Josceline Amherst Josceline George Herbert Amherst (7 June 1846–1 February 1900) was a member of Western Australia's first Legislative Council under responsible government. Josceline Amherst was born in Canterbury, Kent, England on 7 June 1846, the fifth son of William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Ear..
Josceline de Bohon
Josceline de Bohon, or Joscelyn fitz Richard de Bohon (c. 1111 - 1184), was an English religious leader. De Bohon was appointed Archdeacon of Winchester in 1139 and Bishop of Salisbury in 1142. His brother was Richard fitz Richard de Bohon, l'Êvêque de Coutanches, (b. 1109; d. 1179), who served ..
Joscelin I, Count of Edessa
Joscelin of Courtenay or Joscelin I (died 1131) ruled over the County of Edessa during its zenith, from 1118 to 1131. He maintained the large and unstable borders through his martial prowess. He was the son of Joscelin of Courtenay and Isabella (or Elizabeth), daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry. He ..
Joscelin II, Count of Edessa
Joscelin II of Edessa (died 1159) was the fourth and last ruling count of Edessa. The young Joscelin was taken prisoner at the Battle of Azaz in 1125, but was ransomed by Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem. In 1131, his father Joscelin I was injured in battle with the Danishmends, and Edessa passed to ..
Joscelin III of Edessa
Joscelin III of Edessa (died 1200) was the titular Count of Edessa 1159–1200. He was the son of Joscelin II of Edessa and his wife Beatrice. He inherited the title of "Count of Edessa" from his father, Joscelin II, although Edessa had been captured in 1144 and its remnants (including the Lords..
Joscelin Verreuil
In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, Joscelin Verreuil is a member of the Cassiline Brotherhood whom Anafiel Delaunay contracts to guard Phèdre. He is tall and well-proportioned, with clear blue eyes and wheat-colored hair that is generally caught in a club at the nape of his neck. He is ..
Joscelyn Godwin
Joscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England) is a musicologist, writer and translator. He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B...
Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born April 12, 1948) was German foreign minister and Vice Chancellor in the government of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. He was a leading figure in the German Green Party and according to opinion polls [link], he was the most pop..
Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre
Joscius, also Josce or Josias (died 1202), was Archbishop of Tyre in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the late 12th century. He was a canon and subdeacon of the church of Acre, and became Bishop of Acre on November 23, 1172. He was a member of the delegation from the Latin church of the Crusade..
Jose
You may be looking for the Spanish or Portuguese name José. Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew name Yose, which is etymologically linked to Yosef or Joseph. It was particularly common during the Mishnaic period. Some famous people with this name include: Jose ben JochananJose the G..
José
José may refer to: José Calderón, a basketball playerJosé Carreras, tenorJosé Jiménez, known as Joselito, a child star from SpainJosé Goméz, known as Joselito, a famous Spanish matadorJoseph I of Portugal, king of Portugal in the 18th centuryJosé José - Mexican SingerJosé González - Swe..
José, Prince of Brazil
Portuguese Royalty House of Braganza Joseph of Braganza (full name: José Francisco Xavier de Paula Domingos António Agostinho Anastácio de Bragança, pron. IPA /ʒu'zɛ/), (August 20 1761 - September 11 1788), was Duke of Braganza, Prince of Beira, Prince of Brazil and heir presumptive to th..
José-Filipe Lima
José-Filipe Lima (born 26 November 1981) is a professional golfer. He has a French father and a Portuguese mother and grew up mainly in France. His father worked at Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche, which was the host course of the Trophée Lancôme until that tournament ceased in 2003, and was his son's fir..
Jose-Karl Pierre-Fanfan
Jose-Karl Pierre-Fanfan (born 26 July 1975) is a French professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Rangers. The strong central defender was born in Saint-Pol-sur-Mer and began his career at USL Dunkerque, where he played for four seasons before earning a move to RC ..
José-María Celorio
José-María "Chema" Celorio (died 8 November 2003), was a Mexican programmer. He mostly worked on the GNOME project, where he was one of the creators of the gedit text editor, and also made large contributions to gnome-print, Gnome System Tools, Gnumeric, and Glade. From 2000 until his death in a ..
Joseba Beloki
Joseba Beloki (born August 12, 1973 in Lazkao (Guipúzcoa), Basque region, Spain) is a professional road bicycle racer. Beloki turned professional in 1998 with the Euskaltel team, joined Festina in 2000, and then Team ONCE in 2001. A strong climber in the high mountains and a top performer in indi..
Joseba Elosegui
Basque nationalist who self-immolated trying to embrace dictator Franco during a pelota game in San Sebastian September 19 1970 as a protest against the fascist Bombing of Guernica in 1937. As a youn Gudari (Patriot in Euzkera, name of the Basque military forces during the Spanish Civil War) Mayor..
Joseba Etxeberría
Joseba Andoni Etxeberría Lizardi (born 5 September, 1977, in Elgoíbar) is a Basque football (soccer) winger, who currently plays for Athletic Bilbao in Spain's La Liga. Etxeberría began his career with Real Sociedad in 1994, but after playing in only seven games for the first team, moved to Athl..
Josée Chouinard
Ms. Chouinard at the 2003 "Dreams in Ice" Event Josée Chouinard (born on August 21, 1969 in Rosemont, Quebec) is a Canadian figure skater. Josee is most notable for the black or satin gloves she often wore on the ice. She won the Canadian Ladies Championship three times. She also attained some..
Josée Verner
Hon. Josée Verner Josée Verner, PC, MP (born December 30 1959) is a Canadian politician. She represents the electoral district of Louis-Saint-Laurent in the Canadian House of Commons and is a minister in the Conservative cabinet. Political career A member of the provincial Action démocr..
Josefa Acevedo de Gomez
First civilian woman writer in Colombia. She was born in Bogotá and died in Pasca, Cundinamarca She was grandmother of colombian politician and poet Adolfo Leon Gomez. External links [Biografy of Josefa Acevedo de Gómez] ..
Josefa Bayeu
Josefa Bayeu was the sister of artist Francisco Bayeu and wife of artist Francisco Goya. The artworks below are by Goya. This charcoal drawing is of Josefa at a young age. This painting, named "Portrait of Josefa Bayeu", is suspected by some scholars to be of another woman. ..
Josefa Dimuri
Ratu Josefa Dimuri Ratu Josefa Nalumuialevu Dimuri is a Fijian chief and politician, who has been a Senator since 2001. On 3 April 2005, he was convicted of offenses related to the Fiji coup of 2000, and served an extramural prison sentence from 14 April to 13 September. He spent his sentenc..
Josefa Idem
Josefa Idem Guerrini (born September 23, 1964 in Goch, West Germany) is an Italian canoer. She has won four Olympic medals in kayak flatwater canoe racing, and 35 international medals during her career. She was the first Italian woman to win World Championships and Olympic medals in kayak. Josefa..
Josefa Iloilo
Ratu Josefa Iloilo Order 3rd President Term of Office 13 July 2000 – present Followed: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara Date of Birth December 29 1920 Place of Birth Vuda, Ba Province Wife Adi Salaseini Kavunono Occupation Teacher Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda CF MBE (..
Josefa Llanes Escoda
Josefa Llanes Escoda (bottom portrait) is featured on the 1000-peso bill redirect[[Template:Portal]] Josefa Llanes Escoda (September 20, 1898–c. January 6, 1945) was a well-known Filipino advocate of women's right of suffrage and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Escoda was..
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, La Corregidora, heroine of Mexican independence Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez (September 8, 1768 – March 2,1829) was a conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence. She is frequently referred to as La Corregidora. She was born to Juan José Orti..
Josefa Vosanibola
Josefa Vosanibola Josefa Bole Vosanibola is a Fijian politician, who has served as Minister for Home Affairs since 16 December 2004, when he was appointed by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to succeed Joketani Cokanasiga. Prior to his appointment as Home Affairs Minister, he had served as Mini..
Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur
Josefina is a 6th class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 8,758 people in 1,773 households. Barangays Josefina is politically subdivided into 14 barangays. Bogo CalabatDawa (Diwa)EbarleGumahan (Pob.)LeonardoLitapa..
Josefina de Vasconcellos
Josefina de Vasconcellos (1904 - 2005) was an English sculptor, from Brazilian origin. She was until recently the world's oldest living sculptor. She married the artist Delmar Banner in 1930. Has lived in Cumbria much of her working life. Her work includes 'Reconciliation' at Coventry Cathedral and..
Josefina Fierro de Bright
Josefina Fierro de Bright born, in 1920 as "Josefina Fierro", was a Mexican American who helped organize resistance against discrimination in the American Southwest during the Great Depression. She was the daughter of migrants who had fled revolution in Mexico to settle in California. Fierro Grew ..
Josefina Lopez
Josefina Lopez is an American writer. Alumni of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Her works include Confessions of Women From East L.A., Food For The Dead, Real Women Have Curves which one the Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ..
Josefina Pla
Josefina Pla (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain, 1909—Asunción, Paraguay, 1999) was a writer, potter and radio presenter from Paraguay. ''Nos habremos deseado tanto que el beso habrá muerto. :"Desnudo día," 1936 ''We will have wanted each other so much That our kiss will have been dead. :"..
Josefina Tanganelli Plana
Josefina Tanganelli Plana (Barcelona, 1904-1966) was a catalan painter. ..
Josefina Vázquez Mota
Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota (born January 20, 1961 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as Secretary of Social Development in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox. Education and professional career Vázquez Mota studied the bachelor in CECyT 9 of the IPN (National Pol..
Josefine Cronholm
Josefine Cronholm (born 1971) provided a cover of The Carpenters' Close to you for the movie MirrorMask. She is a celebrated jazz artist who has won numerous awards. ..
Josefine Mutzenbacher
Josefine Mutzenbacher is a famous fictional Austrian courtesan in an erotic fictional autobiography novel which was published in Vienna in 1906. The author is anonymous, but it is generally believed that it was Felix Salten, also known for having written Bambi, A Life in the Woods. The novel has b..
Josefin Lillhage
Josefin Lillhage (born March 15, 1980 in Gothenburg) is a swimmer from Sweden, who won the bronze medal in the 200 freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal. She represented her country three times at the Olympic Games: in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Lillhage is a highly respected mem..
Josefov
Josefov is name of several locations in the Czech Republic: Josefov was Jewish quarter in PragueJosefov is former fortress in Hradec Králové Region (east Bohemia) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to th..
Josefov (Prague)
See other places named Josefov. Josefov (also Jewish quarter; Josephstadt in German) is an area of central Prague, today Czech Republic, formerly the Jewish ghetto of the town. The quarter is often represented by the flag of Prague's Jewish community, a yellow Magen David (Star of David) on a red f..
Josefsplatz
The Josefsplatz is a city-centre public square in the city of Vienna, Austria. The Josefsplatz is centred on a full-sized statue and monument of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor mounted on a horse (1795-1806, by sculptor Franz Anton Zauner). The Square is enclosed by various buildings, once part of H..
Josefstadt
8th District of Vienna Coat of Arms Map Name: Josefstadt Area: 1.08 km² Population: 22,057 (as of 2001) Density: 20423.1 people per km² Postal code: 1080 Address of District Office: Schlesingerplatz 41080 WienandWipplingerstraße 81010 Wien Official Website: �..
Josef Abel
Josef Abel (1768, Aschach an der Donau–4 October 1818, Vienna) was an Austrian historical painter and etcher. Abel visited the Academy in Vienna, which was at the time directed by Friedrich Heinrich Füger, and was one of his best scholars. Abel developed an interest for the ancient world, re..
Josef Ackermann
Dr. Josef Ackermann (born February 7, 1948) is a Swiss banker. He has been Board Member of Deutsche Bank since 1996 and its CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee since 2002. Ackermann is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He was born in Mels, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland..
Josef Albers
Josef Albers (born March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia (Germany) - died March 26, 1976 in New Haven, Connecticut), was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 2..
Josef Aleš-Lyžec
Josef Aleš-Lyžec (1862 - 1927) is a Czech teacher and sportsman. He was descendant of known south-Bohemian Aleš family, cousin of well-known painter Mikoláš Aleš and father of famous writer Josef Váchal (J. Aleš-Lyžec never married his mother Anna Váchalová, so his son got mother's name..
Josef Allerberger
Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was a German sniper in the 3rd Mountain Division on the Eastern Front of the Second World War, and was credited with 257 kills. Sent to the Eastern Front in December 1942, Allerberger was wounded at Stavropol and experimented with a captured Soviet sniper-rifle while re..
Josef Alm
Josef Alm (1889–1957) was a Swedish weapon historian. He is most known - at least in Norway - for repeating and spreading a false rumour that there was a significant difference between the 6.5x55 ammunition used in Norway and Sweden, although the ammunition in reality is interchangeable. After..
Josef Anton Schobinger
Josef Anton Schobinger (January 30, 1849 - November 27, 1911) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1908-1911). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on June 17, 1908, and died in office on November 27, 1911. He was affiliated with the Christian Democratic P..
Josef Augusta
Josef Augusta (March 17 1903, Boskovice – February 4 1968, Prague) was a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer. During 1921 to 1925 Augusta studied at the university in Brno. Between 1933 and 1968 he worked at the Charles University in Prague as lecturer, professor, and faculty..
Josef August Schultes
Josef (Joseph) August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. Father of Julius Hermann Schultes. The standard author abbreviation Schult. may be used to indicate this ..
Josef Bachmann
Josef Erwin Bachmann (1945 - February 24, 1970) was a German unskilled worker. He became widely known in Germany for his assassination attempt on the leader of the German student movement, Rudi Dutschke, firing three bullets at him, on April 11, 1968. He was convicted of the attack and sentenced to ..
Josef Barák
Josef Barák (January 26, 1833, Prague – November 15, 1883, Prague) was a Czech politician, journalist, and poet. He was a member of the májovci literary group. See also List of Czech writers ..
Josef Bastian
Josef Bastian is Midwest author and poet whose sense of humor, depth of spirit and reflective imagination resonate within his poetry and prose. He is a fresh, new voice from middle America, in the footsteps of Carl Sandburg and Garrison Keillor. Mr. Bastian currently lives in the Metropoltian Detroi..
Josef Berger
Josef Berger, or Joseph Isadore Berger (May 12, 1903 - November 1971), was an American journalist and speechwriter. Berger was born in Denver, Colorado in 1903 and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1924. He worked as a reporter for the "Kansas City Star" for a time. ..
Josef Bican
Josef "Pepi" Bican (September 25, 1913 in Vienna - December 12, 2001) was arguably one of the greatest Austrian and Czech footballer ever. He was a 5x European Golden Boot winner. --> He was born to Ludmila, a Viennese Czech woman and Frantisek, who came from Sedlice in southern Bohemia. Josef's ..
Josef Bläser
Josef Bläser (born December 11, 1952) is a former German footballer. For three years Bläser played in the 1. Bundesliga with 1. FC Köln. However, during this time he only made 21 appearances, before moving to Alemannia Aachen in the 2. Bundesliga, where he could assure himself a regular slot in ..
Josef Block
Josef Block (November 27, 1863, Bernstadt, Silesia (today Bierutów, Poland), - December 20, 1943, Berlin, Germany) was a German painter. Life Block was a scholar of the Wrocław (then Breslau) Art Academy where the lifelong friendship with German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann was established...
Josef Blösche
Famous Warsaw Ghetto Photo. Josef Blösche is the last soldier on the right holding the gun. The boy with his arms raised has been identified as Tvsi C. Nussbaum. However, Nussbaum was arrested on July 13, 1943, several months after the ghetto had been destroyed. Josef Blösche (1912 – J..
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (December 30 1859 – May 29 1951) was a Czech composer of classical music. Foerster was born in Prague and studied in the conservatory there. He married the singer Bertha Lauterer in Hamburg, making his living as a critic, and in 1901 became a teacher at the conserv..
Josef Boumedienne
Josef Boumedienne (born January 12, 1978 in Stockholm) is a Swedish professional hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals. He was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, Fourth Round, Ninety-first Overall. He has played for the ..
Josef Božek
Josef Božek (1782-1835) was a Czech engineer and inventor considered one of founders of Czech mechanics. He put into operation one of the first steam engines in the Czech lands. His sons, Frantisek and Romuald, also became accomplished engineers. External Links [Short Biography] ..
Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer (January 15, 1842 – June 20, 1925) was an Austrian physician whose works lay the foundation of psychoanalysis. Born in Vienna, his father, Leopold Breuer, taught religion in Vienna's Jewish community. Breuer's mother died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his maternal gra..
Josef Bühler
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Josef Bürckel
Joseph Bürckel (March 30, 1895, Lingenfeld, Germersheim—September 28, 1944, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate) was a German National Socialist politician, a member of the National Socialist Reichstag. An energetic Nazi organizer in the Saar-Palatinate since 1925, the former ..
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek (IPA: [ˈjɔzɛf ˈʧapɛk]) (1887 – 1945), Czech artist. Gained highest esteem as a painter, but was also noted a writer and poet. Short biography He was born in Hronov, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary, later Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) in 1..
Josef Cardinal Beran
Josef Cardinal Beran (December 29, 1888-May 17, 1969) was the Archbishop of Prague. Beran was born in Pilsen and studied catholic theology and philosophy both in his native town and in Rome. He was consecrated a priest on June 10, 1911. Afterwards, he worked as a parish priest in his home dioces..
Josef Cardinal Frings
Josef Frings (6 February 1887 - 17 December 1978), previously also known as Joseph Richard Frings was appointed Archbishop of Köln,Germany, on 1 May 1942, and was elevated to Cardinal on 18 February, 1946. He retired on 10 February 1969. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Cardinal Fri..
Josef Chochol
Cubist house in Vyšehrad, Prague, Czech Republic Josef Chochol (December 13 1880, Písek - July 6 1956, Prague) was Czech architect. Chocol studied architecture at the polytechnic in Prague (1908-24), then at academy in Vienna, under guidance of Otto Wagner (1907-09). He was one of three gre..
Josef Clemens
Josef Clemens (born June 20, 1947 in Siegen) is a German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Biography Bishop Dr. Josef Clemens was born 1947 in Siegen (Archdiocese of Paderborn). After the studies of Theology, he was Member at Collegium Germanicum in Rome. At 1975 he was ..
Josef Dessauer
Josef Dessauer (1798 - 1876) was a Czech-born composer who wrote many popular songs, and also his less successful operas. Life Josef Dessauer was born in Prague on May 28 1798, and died in Mödling (near Vienna) on July 8, 1876. He was born into a wealthy Jewish family, and studied piano in Pragu..
Josef Dobrovský
Dobrovskýs bust on Kampa Island in Prague Josef Dobrovský (August 17, 1753 – January 6, 1829) was Bohemian philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Bohemian national revival. He was born at Gjermet, near Raab, in Hungary, when his father Jakub Doubravský was t..
Josef Drexler
Josef Drexler, Ph.D., often known as Patchman, is best known for creating and managing TTDPatch, a modification for the popular game Transport Tycoon Deluxe by Chris Sawyer. Dr. Drexler received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Western Ontario. He is also the creator of RCTPatch, an equiv..
Josef Duchac
Josef Duchac (born February 19, 1938) is a German politician (CDU). The studied chemical engineer became a member of the East German Christian Democratic Union in 1957. After the party merged with the West German CDU following the German reunification, he was elected Thuringias first post-reunifica..
Josef Dvořák
Josef Dvořák (born in Horní Cerekev, Czech Republic, April 25, 1942) is a Czech actor. He started his career in Kadaň from where Pavel Fiala took him to Kladivadlo in Ústí nad Labem. He was an external actor in Divadlo Semafor in 1972-1990. In 1990 he established his own theatre company Divade..
Josef Escher
Josef Escher (September 17, 1885 - December 9, 1954) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1950-1954). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on September 14, 1950 and died during his time in office on December 9, 1954. He was affiliated to the Christian Demo..
Josef Fares
Josef Fares (born September 19 1977 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Swedish-Lebanese film director. His brother is the actor Fares Fares, who has appeared in many of his films. Josef Fares moved to Sweden when he was 10 years old and lives in Örebro, Örebro län. Variety declared him one of ten upcomi..
Josef Felder
Josef Felder (August 24, 1900 - October 28, 2000) was a German politician. He was one of the 94 Social Democratic members of the Reichstag who voted against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933. He was also the last of the 94 who voted against this act. ..
Josef Ferdinand
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Josef Fiala
Josef Fiala (Joseph Fiala) (1748–1816) was a famous composer, oboist, cellist, and pedagogue of the Enlightenment. ..
Josef Florian
Josef Florian (February 9 1873 - December 29 1941, both in Stará Říše in Moravia) was Czech book publisher and translator. He was famous for high quality of books he published in his small publishing company in Stará Říše. Both local authors and foreign translations were published, in philo..
Josef František
Josef František Sergeant Josef František, (October 7 1914 - October 8 1940) was a Czech fighter pilot, a flying ace of the Polish Air Force of the World War II. Josef František joined the Czechoslovak airforce in 1936. In 1938 he became a fighter pilot, serving in the 40th squadron in Prag..
Josef Fuchs
Josef Fuchs, S.J. (1912-2005) was one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. A German Jesuit priest, he taught at the Gregorian University in Rome for almost thirty years. While serving on the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family, and Birth from 1963-66, Fuchs..
Josef Ganz
Josef Ganz was a German car designer born in Budapest, Hungary. From the early 1930s he designed several small cars including the Standard Superior and Bungartz Butz. The Standard Superior was claimed by some to be the inspiration behind the Volkswagen Beetle. As a Jew he was persecuted by the Na..
Josef Gauchel
Josef "Jupp" Gauchel (11 September, 1916–21 March, 1963) was a German football player. In the thirties, He played for TuS Neuendorf (now TuS Koblenz) and was an active member of the squad. Between 1936 and 1942, he played 16 times for Germany, and scored 13 goals. He went to the 1938 World Cup i..
Josef Gingold
Josef Gingold (1909-1995) was born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1920 where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman and Eugene Ysaye. In 1937 he won a spot in the NBC Symphony Orchestra, then was the concertmaster (and occasional soloist) of the Detroit Orchestra, a..
Josef Gočár
Josef Gočár March 13, 1880, Semín near Přelouč - September 10, 1945, Jičín), was a Czech architect, one of founders of modern architecture in Czechoslovakia. Works Wenke Department Store, Jaroměř, (1909-1911)House of the Black Madonna, Prague's Old Town (1911-1912)Bauer villa, Libodřice n..
Josef Goubeau
Josef Goubeau (born March 31, 1901 in Augsburg, Germany; died October 18, 1990 in Stuttgart) was a German chemist. Life and work Goubeau studied chemistry at the University of Munich starting from 1921 and attained a doctorate there 1926 over the atomic weight regulation of the potassium. Subseque..
Josef Greindl
"Josef Greindl" (Born Munich on 23 December 1912 - 16 April, 1993 in Vienna, Austria) was a German bass. Josef Greindl studied at the Munich Music Academy with Paul Bender. His debut was in 1936, as Hunding in Wagner's "Die Walkure" in the State Theatre in Krefeld. He is remembered mainly for his p..
Josef Grunger
Josef Grunger was a Grand Admiral in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. He was one of the original 12 Grand Admirals, elevated by the Emperor after the Battle of Yavin. Contents 1 After Endor2 The ''Aggressor'' mystery3 See also4 References5 External links After Endor A..
Josef Gusikov
Michal Josef Gusikov (also spelt Guzikow or Gusikow) (2 September 1806 - 21 October 1837) was a klezmer who gave the first performances of klezmer music to West European concert audiences on the 'wood and straw instrument' which he invented. Contents 1 Gusikov and his instrument2 Opi..
Josef Haas
Josef Haas was a Swiss cross country skier who competed in the late 1960's. He won the 50km bronze at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Haas was the first Swiss to earn a cross country skiing Olympic medal. External Links [FIS Profile (As J. Haas)] ..
Josef Hassid
Josef Hassid (December 28, 1923 - 1950) was a Polish violinist. He received an honorary diploma in the 1935 Wieniawski Competition in Warsaw, but his career was tragically cut short when he was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia later in the 1940s. He was lobotomised. He died prematurely in 1950 ..
Josef Herman
Josef Herman (1911-2000) was a highly regarded realist painter who had an undeniable impact on contemporary art, particularly in Britain. Herman was born in Poland to a Jewish family. He attended the Warsaw School of Art for two years before working biefly as a graphic artist. He left Poland for Br..
Josef Hickersberger
Josef Hickersberger (born April 27, 1948 in Amstetten, Austria) is a former professional football player and former coach of the Austrian soccer cult-club SK Rapid Wien. Since January 2006 he is coaching the Austrian national team. Hickersberger's career as a player began with FK Austria Wien. Late..
Josef Himmermann
Josef E. Himmermann, 29 may 1809-17 may 1864, German author and journalist Books The Sunday (1847)Beloved Brother (1852) ..
Josef Hiršal
Josef Hiršal (July 24, 1920 - September 15 2003) was a Czech author, poet and novelist. Hiršal was widely regarded as one of the most important Czech authors of experimental poetry; after early surrealistic writings, he made his literary debut with a collection of poems. Later on, he ..
Josef Hoëné-Wroński
Josef Hoëné-Wroński (August 23, 1778 – August 8, 1853), born Josef Hoëné, was a Polish eccentric philosopher of mathematics. Born in Wolsztyn, Poland, he moved to France in his early twenties, and gained French citizenship in 1800. In 1803, he joined the observatory in Marseille, and began ..
Josef Hoffmann
:For the Polish-American pianist, see Józef Hofmann. Josef Hoffmann (1902) Josef Hoffmann (December 15, 1870 – May 7, 1956) was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. He studied with Otto Wagner. He played a major part in the shaping of the aesthetic perception and aesthet..
Josef Hora
Josef Hora (1891-1945) was one of the most important figures in twentieth century Czech literature. He is famous mainly as a poet, but he also won recognition as a prose writer, literary critic, translator from Russian, German and Serbo-Croatian and as a literary and political publicist. His work cr..
Josef Horák
Josef Horák (d. November 23, 2005) was a Czech bass clarinetist. It was not until the 1950s that classical performers began to adopt the bass clarinet as their primary instrument. Horák is credited as having performed the first ever solo bass clarinet recital on March 23 1955. In October 2005, ..
Josef Hügi
Josef "Sepp" Hügi (born January 23, 1930 in Riehen, died April 13, 1995) was a Swiss football striker. He played for FC Basle from 1948 to 1962, and for the Swiss national football team. He scored six goals in the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and remains the all-time Swiss World Cup goalscorer with six. ..
Josef Hyrtl
Josef Hyrtl (December 7 1810–July 17 1894) was an Austrian anatomist. Hyrtl was born at Eisenstadt in Hungary. He began his medical studies in Vienna in 1831, having received his preliminary education in his native town. His parents were poor, and he had to find some means to help defray th..
Josef Issels
Dr. Josef Issels (November 21, 1907 - February 11, 1998) is known for having developed an alternative cancer therapy, the Issels treatment, that caused a great amount of controversy among medical professionals. He claimed to cure cancer patients who had otherwise been declared incurable by conventio..
Josef Jadassohn
See also Salomon Jadassohn, Jadassohn. Joseph(Josef) Jadassohn (September 10, 1863, Liegnitz - March 24, 1936, Zurich) was a German dermatologist. He taught as a professor at the Berlin University (1896-1917), Breslau University (1917-1932). Literary works Die venerischen Krankheiten, 1901Dermato..
Josef Jakobs
Josef Jakobs (30 June 1898 – 14 August 1941) a German agent, who was shot by firing squad in the Tower of London during the Second World War after conviction under the Treachery Act of 1940. He was the last person to be executed in the Tower. External links [Details of Jakobs trial and ..
Josef Jedlička
Josef Jedlička (1927 - 1990) was a Czech writer. --> Josef Jedlička in Munich 1982, in backround photography of Jan Zabrana Jedlička studied aesthetics and ethnography at Prague University, but after the communist revolution in 1948 he was kicked out of university for being an anticommunis..
Josef Jelínek
Josef Jelínek (born January 9, 1941) is a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 10 matches and scored 2 goals. He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where Czechoslovakia won the silver medal. In his country he spent his best years playing for Dukla P..
Josef Jindřich Šechtl
Josef Jindřich Šechtl (1877 Tábor – 1954 Tábor) was a Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography. When his father, photographer Ignác Šechtl died, Josef inherited the photographic studios Šechtl and Voseček. Work, an example Return of Tomáš G..
Josef Jireček
Josef Jireček (October 9, 1825 - November 25, 1888), Czech scholar, was born at Vysoke Myto in Bohemia. He entered the Prague bureau of education in 1850, and became minister of the department in the Hohenwart cabinet in 1871. His efforts to secure equal educational privileges for the Slav nat..
Josef Johann Adam of Liechtenstein
Johann Josef Adam (1690 – 1732) was a prince of Liechtenstein between 1721 and 1732. He was the only son of Anton Florian of Liechtenstein. Johann Josef Adam served under his father for a short time during the War of the Spanish Succession and later fought against the French under the Du..
Josef Jungmann
Josef Jungmann (born 16th July 1773 in Hudlice, near Beroun, died 14th November 1847 in Prague) was a Czech poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language. Contents 1 Lif..
Josef Kajetán Tyl
Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808–1856) was a significant Czech dramatist and songwriter. He wrote the Czech national anthem Kde domov muj. ..
Josef Kammhuber
General Josef Kammhuber General Josef Kammhuber (August 19, 1896–January 1, 1986) was the first General of the Night Fighters in the Luftwaffe during World War II. He is credited with setting up the first truly successful night fighter defense system, the so-called Kammhuber Line, but a..
Josef Kappl
Josef (Ioji/Joschi) Kappl is the Bass player of the Romanian rock band Phoenix. He was born on the 16 January 1950 in Petrila. He graduated from the Music Conservatory in Timişoara. He also played violin and flute with Phoenix (see Transsylvania Phoenix). ..
Josef Kates
Dr. Josef Kates was born in born Vienna (May 5, 1921). He was the son of Baruch (Bernard) and Anna Katz (née Entenberg). He married Lillian Kroch (deceased), and then Mary K. Hill. His children were Louis, Naomi, Celina, Philip A. Josef arrived in Canada in 1940. He lived for a short time in New..
Josef Keil
Josef Keil (b. 1878 in Reichenberg, now Liberec in northern Bohemia in the Czech Republic - d. 1963 in Vienna) was an Austrian historian, epigrapher and an archaeologist. He began in 1904 as a scientific secretary at the Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Smyrna, now Izmir, Turkey. He..
Josef Klaus
Josef Klaus ~1970, Austrian Chancellor 1964-70 Josef Klaus (b. August 25, 1910 in Carinthia, d. July 25, 2001 in Vienna) was an Austrian christian-conservative politician of the Peoples Party (ÖVP) and the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) from 1964 to 1970. Klaus was governor of the Austri..
Josef Klička
Josef Klička (December 15, 1855 - March 28 1937, both in Klatovy) was a Czech musician and composer. He is author of several large organ compositions in the style of late romanticism. Klička grew up in influenced by music. He studied at conservatory and organ school in Prague. He worked as organ..
Josef Kohler
Josef Kohler (March 9, 1849 - August 3, 1919) was a German jurist. Literary works an editor of the "Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft"an editor of the "Archiv für Rechts- und Wirtschftasphilosophie"Deutsches Petentrecht, 1878Autorrecht, 1880Shakespeare vor dem Forum der Jurispruden..
Josef Korbel
Josef Korbel (Letohrad, 1909 – 1977) was a Czechoslovakian diplomat and U.S. educator, who is now best known as the father of Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, and the mentor of George W. Bush's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Though he served as a diplomat in Czecho..
Josef Kořenský
Josef Kořenský (July 26 1847 - October 8 1938, both in Sušno near Nové Benátky) was a Czech traveller and writer. Kořenský was son of a farmer. Since young age he had interest in paleontology, this had helped him to obtain education. Since 1867 he worker as a teacher, later as school direct..
Josef Kornai
Josef Kornai, (or József Kornai) (1889-1989), was a Hungarian painter. External links [link] Self-portrait..
Josef Košťálek
Josef Košťálek (31 August, 1909 - 21 November, 1971) was a Czech footballer. He played for Sparta Prague and the Czechoslovakia national football team (43 matches/2 goals), for whom he appeared in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. In 1938, he scored in extra time against the Netherlands to put Czec..
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka (b. 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia) is a Czechoslovakian photographer. Contents 1 Biography2 Work3 Grants and Awards4 Bibliography5 External links Biography Josef Koudelka began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera. In 19..
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (November 10, 1906 – December 14, 1945) was the commander of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was convicted of war crimes and hanged in Hameln prison after World War II. Kramer was born in Munich and joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and the SS in 1932. His SS training led him in..
Josef Krips
Josef Alois Krips (born 8 April 1902 in Vienna, died 13 October 1974 in Geneva) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. Krips was a pupil of Eusebius Mandyczewski and Felix Weingartner. In 1921 he became Weingartner's assistant at Vienna Volksoper. Afterwards he became conductor of several differ..
Josef K (band)
Josef K was a Scottish post-punk band active in the early 1980s who released singles on legendary record label Postcard Records. The band was named after the protagonist of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial. Musically, they resembled their label mates Orange Juice in fusing post-punk guitars with funk..
Josef Labor
Josef Labor (1842 - 1924) was a pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music. Labor was an influential music teacher. He was important, too, as a friend of some key figures in Vienna. Born in the town of Horowitz in Bohemia, Labor was left blind by smallpox at the age of 3. He attended t..
Josef Lada
One of the The Good Soldier Švejk cartoons Josef Lada (born 17th December, 1887 in Hrusice - 14th December, 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery) was Czech painter. He is most known as illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 6..
Josef Ladislav Píč
Josef Ladislav Píč (January 19 1847 Mšeno near Mělník – December 19 1911, Prague) was Czech archaeologist and paleontologist, one of founders of modern Czech archaeology. Píč studied history and Slavic languages at the Charles University in Prague (then called Karl-Ferdinand University..
Josef Lanner
Josef Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April1843) was an Austrian dance music composer. He was best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance or..
Josef Lauff
Josef Lauff (16 November 1855 - 1933) was a German poet and dramatist. He was born at Cologne, the son of a jurist. He was educated at [Münster]] in Westphalia, and entering the army served as a lieutenant of artillery at Thorn and subsequently at Cologne, where he attained the rank of ca..
Josef Lhévinne
Josef Lhévinne (December 13, 1874 – December 2, 1944) was a Jewish-born, Russian pianist and piano teacher. He was born into a family of musicians in Orel in the present-day Ukraine and studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow under Vasily Ilyich Safonov. His public debut came at the a..
Josef Liesler
Josef Liesler (September 19, 1912 Vidolice near Kadaň - August 23, 2005 Prague) was a Czech surrealist painter, graphic designer, illustrator, exlibris and postage stamp designer. He studied art at University of the Architecture and Structural Engineering, Prague in 1934-38 under professors Cyril..
Josef Locke
Josef Locke was the stage name of Joseph McLaughlin (23 March 1917 - 15 October 1999), a tenor singer who was enormously popular in Britain and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Derry, now in Northern Ireland, he was the son of a butcher and cattle dealer, and one of nine children. He started..
Josef Ludl
Josef Ludl (1916 - 1998), was a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 13 matches and scored three goals. He was a participant in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. In his country he played for Viktoria Žižkov and AC Sparta Praha. He scored 128 league goals. ..
Josef Ludwig von Armansperg
Josef Ludwig, Graf von Armansperg (1787-1853) served as the Interior and Finance Minister (1826-1828) and Foreign and Finance Minister (1828-1831) under King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the government of Bavaria. He was a liberal monarchist and an economic conservative who promoted the unification of Ger..
Josef Mach
Josef Mach is an East German film director, best known for Red Westerns such as The Sons of the Great Mother Bear (1966) ..
Josef Madlener
Josef Madlener (1881–1967) was a German artist and illustrator. He was born near Memmingen, Swabia. His work was published in various newspapers, magazines, and a few children's Christmas books, e. g. Das Christkind Kommt (1929) and Das Buch vom Christkind (1938). Madlener's Christmas art a..
Josef Magnus Wehner
Josef Magnus Wehner (November 14, 1891 - December 14, 1973) was a German writer and playwright. ..
Josef Maleček
Josef Maleček (June 18 1903 in Prague – September 26 1982 Bay Port, USA) was a Czechoslovakian hockey player, very successful during period between World Wars. After communist takeover in Czechoslovakia (1948) he emigrated the country. ..
Josef Mánes
Josef Mánes (May 12, 1820 - December 9, 1871, Prague) was a Czech painter. He was taught by his father, Antonín Mánes (1784 - 1843), who was a landscape painter. He drew landspcape paintings, portraits, and historical paintings. Works Prague Orloj (created the calendar dial face) See also Mán..
Josef Masopust
Josef Masopust (born February 9, 1931 in Most) is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1962 and was selected by the Football Association of the Czech Republic as the country's greatest player of the last 50 years in 2004. In 1962, Masop..
Josef Matthias Hauer
Josef Mattias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is most famous for developing, independent of and years before Arnold Schoenberg, a method for composing with all 12 notes of the chromatic scale. Contents 1 Life2 Further re..
Josef Matula
Hermann Josef Matula (played by Claus Theo Gärtner) is a character on the German detective show Ein Fall für Zwei. Matula is one of the two main characters on the show, and the only character to have appeared in every episode so far. Matula is a former police officer who has become a private det..
Josef Mazura
Josef Mazura (born April 23, 1956), is a retired Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia. He was a participant at the 1980 Olympic Games, where the Czechoslovak team won the gold medal. He later worked as a football coach. ..
Josef Meinrad
Josef Meinrad (April 21 1913 - February 18 1996) was a famous Austrian actor. Born Josef Moucka in Vienna, Meinrad was the keeper of the mysterious Iffland-Ring, which for 200 years has been given to the most important actor of the German speaking theatre. Meinrad died in Großgmain. Films Die ..
Josef Melichar
Josef Melichar (Born on January 20, 1979 in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia) is an NHL defenseman for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Melichar is currently the longest-tenured Pittsburgh Penguin, as he was drafted in the 3rd round (71st overall) by the Penguins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He played two..
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele Dr. Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979) was a Nazi German SS officer and a physician in the concentration camp Auschwitz. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians that would supervise the selection of arriving transports, determining who ..
Josef Metternich
Josef Metternich (2 June 1915 – 21 February 2005) was a German operatic baritone. Metternich was born near Cologne in Hermühlheim. He began singing before World War Two in smaller German opera houses, but his career was delayed by the war. His career took off when he was able to return t..
Josef Mikl
Josef Mikl born August 8, 1929, Vienna, Austria was an Austrian painter who received his first training at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt. Studied at the prominent Viennese academy from 1949-1956 under Josef Dobrowsky. ..
Josef Mocker
Josef Mocker (1835-1899) - Bohemian architect and restaurator, that worked in a purist gothic style. He was responsible to restoration of many Bohemian castles. His work aroused much controversy, but also contributed many important landmarks of czech capital. Here is partial list of his prominent ..
Josef Mohr
Josef Mohr (december 11, 1792 - December 4, 1848) was an Austrian priest and composer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night". Biography Mohr was born in Salzburg to an unmarried mother. As his musical talent was recognized, he found a sponsor to open him the path to higher ed..
Josef Motzfeldt
Josef Motzfeldt is a Greenland politician and serves as Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs in the Greenland Homerule Gorvernment. He is a member of the Parliament of Greenland. He is also the leader of the Inuit Community party. See also : Politics of Greenland ..
Josef Mountain Aerial Tramway
Josef Mountain Aerial Tramway is an aeral tramway near Meran in Northern Italy. It was built in 1979 and it belongs to the few aerial tramways for person transportation at which the cabin has its own engine. The cabin of Josef Mountain Aerial Tramway, which was built by the company hans Trojer, is d..
Josef Müller
Josef Müller should not be confused with the Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. Josef Müller, nicknamed Ochsensepp (Oxen-Joe) (27 March, 1898 - 12 September 1979) was a German politician. Born in Steinwiesen, Oberfranken (Bavaria), he entered the legal profession. During the Weimar ..
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann, (May 9, 1914 – August 30, 1996), was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. Studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphics, exhibition design and photography...
Josef Myrow
Russian-born composer Josef Myrow (1910 - 1987) penned many memorable movie songs during the 40s and 50s including 'Autumn Nocturne' and 'You Make Me Feel So Young'. He got his start as a radio conductor and concert pianist. As a songwriter, he often collaborated with lyricist Mack Gordon. He was n..
Josef Mysliveček
Portrait of Josef Mysliveček Josef Mysliveček (March 9, 1737 - February 4, 1781) was a Czech composer in the Galant tradition. He was born in Prague, one of twins who were sons of a prosperous millowner, and studied philosophy at the university there before following in the footsteps of his..
Josef Navrátil
Josef Navrátil (1798-1865) was a renowned Bohemian painter. He worked for the Austrian Court and created a great number of paintings, murals, and frescos. External Links ()[Short Biography and Selection of Work] ..
Josef Nesvadba
Josef Nesvadba (June 19 1926 Prague, Czechoslovakia – April 26 2005 Prague) was a Czech science-fiction writer, one of the best known. Nesvadba had a degree in psychiatry, he was a pioneer of group psychotherapy in the Czech Republic. He originally translated poetry from English and wrote theatr..
Josef Niklas
Josef Niklas (1817-1877) was one of the most important Czech architects in the 19th century. External links ..
Josef Oberhauser
Josef Oberhauser (born 20 September 1915 in Munich, Germany, died 1979) was the only person to be successfully convicted for war crimes committed at Belzec. Contents 1 Background and career2 Initial conviction3 Belzec4 External sources Background and career Josef Oberhause..
Josef Odložil
Josef Odložil, a Czech middle distance runner from Otrokovice (born November 11, 1938), was a national champion many times in the 1960's, but had a mixed success at the international level. At his first ever major competition, the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Odložil was eliminated i..
Josef Páleníček
Josef Páleníček (1914-1991) was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer. Contents 1 Works1.1 Orchestral Compositions1.2 Concertant Compositions1.3 Compositions for Chamber Ensembles1.4 Compositions for Piano1.5 Choral Compositions1.6 Cantatas1.7 Instructi..
Josef Papp
In one of the most peculiar chapters in Canadian history, the story of Josef Papp and his jet submarine is still filled with controversy. Contents 1 Alleged submarine journey2 Media storm3 Papp's work4 Other inventions5 See also6 External links Alleged submarine jou..
Josef Peters
Josef Peters could be Josef Peters, German Formula One driver Josef Peters, an American who was a Soviet and Comintern covert operative ..
Josef Petersen
Josef Petersen (16 September, 1881–22 November, 1973) was Danish author, known for many novels with historical, often Antique or Medieval motifs written from 1910 to 1949. Josef Peterson was the son of a vicar and was a maternal grandson of the Norwegian poet Johann Sebastian Welhaven. Peter..
Josef Peters (driver)
Josef Peters (born September 16th, 1914 - died April 24th, 2001) was a Formula One driver from Düsseldorf, Germany. He participated in 1 Grand Prix, debuting on August 3, 1952. He scored 0 championship points. Complete Formula One results Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Team 1952 Veri SW..
Josef Pfitzner
Josef Pfitzner (March 24, 1901 - September 6, 1945) was a Sudetenland German who wrote on Nazism. Contents 1 Bio2 Work3 References4 Writings of Pfitzner Bio Josef Pfitzner was born in Petersdorf. He was a German historian and politician and was Professor at the German Univer..
Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper (May 4, 1904- November 6, 1997) was a German Roman Catholic philosopher. Josef Pieper was born in the small Westphalian village of Elte, Germany where his father was the only teacher at the only school of the village. Josef Pieper went to the Gymnasium Paulinum in Münster, one of the o..
Josef Pieprzyk
Josef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He colaborated in the invention of the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash function. External links [home page] ..
Josef Pirnel
Josef Pirnel (born 1971 in Tallinn) is and Estonian singer and bassist. He was played bass on bands Bärnis, Pirnel Brothers, Josefer Guard and Carl Apel Restaurant Musical Group. He was released several solo albums. Solo albums Rolling eyes (1994)Pop In Radio (1995)Socialist Revival (1996)The Grea..
Josef Plieseis
Josef "Sepp" Plieseis (December 20, 1913 - 21 October, 1966) was an Austrian resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Plieseis was born in Bad Ischl and became a young member of the Socialist movement. He volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, where he was wounded twice. He was arre..
Josef Priller
Josef "Pips" Priller (27 July 1915 - 20 May 1961) was a Luftwaffe World War 2 fighter ace. He has become famous because of the publicity regarding his Fw 190A-8's single strafing pass attack on the Normandy Beaches on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), accompanied by his wingman Hein Wozarczyk. This act was fir..
Josef Pühringer
Dr. Josef Pühringer (born 30 October 1949 in Traun) is an Austrian politician. Since 2 March 1995 he has been the Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He is a member of K.A.V. Austro-Danubia Linz, a catholic student fraternity that belong to the C..
Josef Ressel
Josef Ludvík František Ressel (in Czech) or Joseph Ludwig Franz Ressel (in German) or Josip Ressel (in Slovenian and Croatian) (June 29, 1793- October 9, 1857) was a Bohemian forest warden and the inventor of the ship's propeller. Ressel was born in Chrudim, Bohemia, and worked as a forest eng..
Josef Rheinberger
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (March 17, 1839, in Vaduz - November 25, 1901, in Munich) was a Liechtensteinian composer. When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year. In 1851 he entered the Munich Conservatorium, e..
Josef Richard Vilímek
Josef Richard Vilímek is name of two Czech publishers: Josef Richard Vilímek (1835 - 1911), fatherJosef Richard Vilímek (1860 - 1938), son This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish t..
Josef Richard Vilímek (1835 - 1911)
Josef Richard Vilímek (April 1 1835 in Vamberk - December 27 1911 in Prague) was a Czech publisher. He established a well known publishing house and was father of publisher Josef Richard Vilímek (1860 - 1938). Vilímek had studied at German technical university in Prague. Since young age he had ..
Josef Richard Vilímek (1860 - 1938)
Josef Richard Vilímek (September 14 1860 in Prague - November 6 1938 in Prague) was a Czech publisher, owner of famous publishing house J. R. Vilímek. Vilímek's father, Josef Richard Vilímek (1835 - 1911) was a publisher. Vilímek junior had learned the bussiness in father's firm and abroad. ..
Josef Rosensaft
Josef Rosensaft (1911 - 1975 was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons (Sh'erit ha-Pletah through the establishment of a Central Committee of Liberated Jews that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the enti..
Josef Rumler
Josef Rumler (born 20 July, 1922 in Chlumec nad Cidlinou – died 1 November, 1999 in Prague) was Czech poet, literary critic, historian, editor and translator from Polish language and to Esperanto. Garners Vynášení houslí (1970)Hrnek ranního mléka (1973)Výstup na horu Říp (1978) Exter..
Josef Schneider
Josef Schneider is the name of two German electrical engineers, father and son. This article is about both. Contents 1 Josef Schneider Senior2 Josef Schneider Junior3 Schneider Power4 See also5 External links Josef Schneider Senior Josef Schneider Sr. (May 29, 1840 - Mar..
Josef Schwammberger
Josef Schwammberger (born February 14 1912 in Brixen-Bressanone, South Tyrol; died December 3 2004 in Hohenasperg prison hospital in Ludwigsburg). Schwammberger was a member of the Schutzstaffel (military protection unit) during the Nazi era. During the Second World War, Schwammberger was a command..
Josef Seger
Josef Seger (born Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger) (* 21 March, 1716 in Repín - †April 22 1782 in Prague) was a Bohemian-German composer and one of the most important representatives of the Altboehmi school. Seger was a pupil of Bohuslav Cernohorsky. It worked as singer and violinist at different ..
Josef Siegele
Dr. Josef Siegele is an Austrian politician of the 1990s and 2000s acting on behalf of OEVP and AAB. External link [Josef-Siegele.com] ..
Josef Sima
Josef Sima (1891-1971) was a renowned Czech painter. [the-artists.org entry][Art Encyclopedia entry] ..
Josef Škoda
Josef Škoda (b. at Pilsen in Bohemia, 10 December, 1805; d. at Vienna, Austria, 13 June, 1881) was a Czech physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna. Contents 1 Life2 Works3&nb..
Josef Skupa
Puppet Spejbl Puppet Hurvinek Josef Skupa (16 January 1892 Strakonice - 8 January 1957 Prague) was a Czech puppeteer. Studied Faculty of Applied Arts in Prague. Worked as stage designer in the Plzen City Theatre, also as designer in Skoda Engineering Works. In year 1920 and 1926 resp..
Josef Škvorecký
Josef Škvorecký – Náchod 2004 Josef Škvorecký [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (born September 27, 1924 in Náchod, Czechoslovakia) is a famous contemporary Czech writer and publisher. Škvorecký received a Ph.D. from Charles University in Prague. He h..
Josef Spudich
Josef Spudich (November 9, 1908 - March 10, 2001) was a United States professional football player and teacher. He was born November 9, 1908, one of nine children of parents who came to the United States in 1903 from Croatia. In order to help with family expenses, Mr. Spudich worked nights and sum..
Josef Stangl
Josef Stangl (March 12, 1907 - April 8, 1979) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Würzburg, Germany. Stangl became a priest on March 16, 1930, and he was appointed by Pope Pius XII as bishop of Würzburg on June 27, 1957. He approved the exorcism on Anneliese Michel "after careful consideration and ..
Josef Stejskal
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Josef Stenbäck
Josef Daniel Stenbäck (May 2 1854, Alavus - April 27 1929, Helsinki) was a Finnish church architect and engineer. He designed 35 for Finland and Finnish Karelia, which was given up to the Soviet Union. Stenbäck's churches represent Romantic nationalism or Gothic Revival. Churches in Finland..
Josef Stiegler
Josef (Pepi) Stiegler (born April 20, 1937) was a member of the Austrian national alpine ski team during the 1960s and one of the world's premier racers. He is the father of U.S. woman alpine skier Resi Stiegler. In the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Walley, Josef Stiegler won a silver medal in Gian..
Josef Stransky
Josef Stransky (1872-1936) was a Czech conductor. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Josef Strauss
Josef Strauss (August 20, 1827 - July 22, 1870) was an Austrian composer. He was fondly referred to as 'Pepi' by his family and close friends. The son of Johann Strauss I and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss, he was born in Vienna. He worked initially as an engineer and designer be..
Josef Strzygowski
Josef Strzygowski (1862 - 1941) was an influential and controversial art historian. He is well known for his theories on the importance of Eastern influence in European architecture. His Orient oder Rom (Orient or Rome) argued that Medieval European architecture drew heavily from Middle Eastern ..
Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek (March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia - September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his haunting night-scapes of Prague. Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during action by the Hungarian Army on the Italian Front of World War I in 1916. Although he had no exper..
Josef Suk
There have been two notable musicians called Josef Suk: Josef Suk (composer) (1874 - 1935)Josef Suk (violinist) (born 1929), the elder composer's grandson This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, y..
Josef Suk (composer)
Josef Suk (January 4, 1874 - May 29, 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák (he married Dvořák's daughter in 1898). He formed the Czech Quartet with three of his fellow s..
Josef Svatopluk Machar
Josef Svatopluk Machar (yô'zĕf svä'tôplʊk mä'khär) (1854–1942) was a Czech poet and essayist. A a leader of the realist movement in Czech poetry and a master of colloquial Czech, Machar was active in anti-Austrian political circles in Vienna. Many of his poems were satires of political and ..
Josef Swickard
Josef Swickard (26 June 1866 - 29 February 1940) was a German-born veteran stage and screen character actor, who had toured with stock companies in Europe, South Africa, and South America. Contents 1 Career2 Family3 Filmography4 Death5 External links Career Swickard en..
Josef Terboven
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 - May 8, 1945) was a Nazi leader most known for his brutal leadership during the Nazi occupation of Norway. Terboven was born in Essen, the son of minor landed gentry. He served for the German field artillery and nascent air force in World War I an..
Josef Thorak
Josef Thorak (b 7 February 1889 at Salzburg, Austria; d 26 February 1952 at Hartmannsberg, Germany) was an Austrian-German sculptor. One of two official sculptors for the Third Reich, he was given a huge studio near Munich in 1938. It was here that he worked on his large pieces, some as tall as six..
Josef Tošovský
Josef Tošovský (IPA: [ˈjɔzɛf ˈtɔʃɔfski:]) (born September 28 1950 in Náchod, then Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) was Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from December 17 1997 to July 17 1998. External link [Short biography up to 1998 ..
Josef Váchal
Josef Váchal (September 23 1884 in Milavče near Domažlice – May 10 1969 in Studeňany) was a Czech writer, painter, graphic designer and book-printer. Váchal was as an illegitimate son of Josef Aleš-Lyžec and Anna Váchalová - his parents were never married. He was brought up by his grand..
Josef Václav Frič
Josef Václav Fric (alias M. Brodský) (August 5 1829 in Prague; † October 14 1890) was a Czech writer, journalist, politician, and a foremost representative of Romanticism. He was son of a the lawyer and patriot Josef František Frič. Already with the attendance of the academic High School in ..
Josef Václav Myslbek
Stallion Ardo, the work of Myslbek exhibited in Košice, Slovakia - a model for the monument of the St. Wenceslas Josef Václav Myslbek (June 20 1848 – June 2 1922) was a Czech sculptor credited for founding of the modern Czech sculpting style. Josef grew up poor in a suburb of Prague. His ..
Josef Vasicek
Josef Vašíček (born 12 September, 1980 in Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia) is an ice hockey center who currently plays for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. Contents 1 Playing career2 Awards3 Records4 Career statistics5 International play6 ..
Josef von Baky
Josef von Báky (1902-1966) was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was born in the town of Zombor, Bacska, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Sombor, Vojvodina, Serbia). He worked as director or producer on no less than 48 films. He died in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was also known as Josef v. Baky an..
Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of auteur filmmakers, and performed many other duties on his films besides directing, including cinematographer, writer, and editor. Josef von Sternberg was born Jo..
Josef Wagner
There are several people named Josef Wagner. Josef Wagner (composer) was an Austrian composer.Josef Wagner (Gauleiter) was a Nazi official in the Third Reich.Josef Wagner (bicyclist) was a Swiss bicyclist. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with t..
Josef Wagner (composer)
Josef Franz Wagner (1856 – 1908) was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes known by the sobriquet 'The Austrian March King'. He is best known for his march Unter dem Doppeladler or Under the Double Eagle, referring to the double eagle in the arms of the Austro-Hungaria..
Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)
Josef Wagner (born 12 January 1899 in Algringen, Diedenhofen County, Alsace-Lorraine, nowadays Algrange near Thionville, France; died 22 April or 2 May 1945 in Berlin) was from 1928 the Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of Westphalia-South, and as of January 1935 also of the Gau of Silesia. Contents 1&nb..
Josef Weninger
Josef Weninger (May 15, 1886, Salzburg - March 28, 1959, Wien) was an Austrian anthropologist. He taught as a professor at the Vienna University. External links [Völkerkunde studieren unter Hitler] (PDF)http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=33&Param_RB=45&Param_Red..
Josef Wenzel, Prince of Liechtenstein
Josef Wenzel Karl (August 9, 1696, Prague - February 10, 1772, Vienna) was a prince of Liechtenstein between 1748 and 1772. He was a nephew of Anton Florian. Josef was primarily a general and was very successful in that line of work. In 1745, he was made Generalissimo in Italy and, in 1753, wa..
Josef Wirmer
Josef Wirmer (born 19 March 1901 in Paderborn; died 8 September 1944 in Berlin) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. Contents 1 Life2 See also3 Literature4 External links Life Josef Wirmer was from a Catholic family of teachers. His father was ..
Josef Witt
Kammersänger Joseph Witt was a tenor who was a regular performer at the Wiener Staatsoper before WW II. He made several widely circulated recordings of Strauss operas with Karl Böhm and Clemens Krauss, in which he sang secondary parts in operas like Ariadne and Arabella. He was also remembered for..
Josef Zawinal
Arguably the fusion player of his or any other generation, Joe Zawinul has a catalogue of work spanning several decades. His innovative and unique synthesizer playing has never resorted, unlike his contemporaries, to amusing novelty, easy funk, a million notes a minute - "because I can", or comatos..
Josef Zeman
Josef Zeman (born 23 January, 1915) was a Czech footballer. He played for Sparta Prague and the Czechoslovakia national football team (4 matches/2 goals), for whom he appeared in the 1938 FIFA World Cup, scoring one goal. ..
Josef Zemp
Josef Zemp (September 2, 1834 - December 8, 1908) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1891-1908). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 17, 1891 and handed over office on June 17, 1908. He was affiliated to the Christian Democratic People's Pa..
Josef Zieleniec
Josef Zieleniec (born on 28 April 1946 in Moskva) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Union of Independents, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committe..
Josef Zisyadis
Josef Zisyadis (born 17 April 1956 in Istanbul) is a Swiss politician, a member of the Swiss Labour Party. He is a member of the Swiss National Council (1991-1996, and since 1999). From 1996-1998, he was a member of the cantonal government of Vaud (Conseil d'Etat), heading the department of Justice,..
Josei
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Joseíto González
Joseíto González (-1996) was a Cuban pianist and director of Conjunto Rumbavana. He was a teacher of Adalberto Alvarez. ..
Josei Senyo Sharyo
Josei Senyō Sharyō (女性専用車両) are special passenger cars that exist on some Japanese train lines. They are exclusively for women, and are part of Japanese efforts to reduce groping on public transport (chikan). ..
Josei Toda
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Joseki
A star-point joseki: Black "O" is on the 4-4 point, or "hoshi." White approaches with 1, B2 gives Black a foothold, and this particular joseki continues as shown. White 5 ends the sequence. Black 6 is played elsewhere (tenuki). A subsequent follow-up white move at 7 threatens the black group's b..
JOSEKI (cipher)
The JOSEKI algorithm is actually a pair of related algorithms for the encryption and decryption of secret algorithms stored in firmware. The bootstrap code uses a key stored in non-volatile memory to decrypt the operating system code stored encrypted in ROM. If the physical device is compromised, ..
Josele Garza
Josele Garza (born March 15, 1962 in Mexico City, Mexico) started seven Indianapolis 500 races. Garza was the 1981 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year after rolling off sixth and finishing 23rd at the tender age of 19. At 19 years, two months, and nine days, Garza is the second youngest driver to ..
Joselito
Joselito is the name for: José Jiménez, a 1950s child actor and singer from SpainJoselito Vaca, a Bolivian soccer playerJosé Goméz Ortega, a Spanish matador ..
Joselito Vaca
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Josel of Rosheim
Josel of Rosheim (alternatively: Joselmann, Joselin, Yoselmann, German: , Hebrew: Joseph ben Gershon mi-Rosheim or Joseph ben Gershon Loanz; c. 1480—March, 1554) was the great advocate ("shtadlan", or the Court Jew) of the German and Polish Jews during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Max..
Josemaría Escrivá: Canonisation
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Josemi
Jose Miguel Gonzales Rey, more commonly known as Josemi (born 15 November 1979 in Torremolinos, Spain) is a Spanish football player. Between the summer of 2004 and December 2005 he played for Liverpool F.C., predominantly as a right back, but he could also play as a centre back, before he was transf..
Joseon
Joseon (조선, 朝鮮, also Chosŏn) is a name for Korea, as used in the following cases: The first Korean kingdom Gojoseon was then known as Joseon.Korea was named Joseon in the Korean language during the Joseon DynastyKorea under Japanese rule was named Joseon (or more accurately, the Japanese v..
Joseon Dynasty
History of Korea Gojoseon, Jin Proto-Three Kingdoms:  Buyeo, Okjeo, Dongye  Samhan Three Kingdoms:  Goguryeo  Baekje  Silla, Gaya Unified Silla, Balhae  Later Three Kingdoms Goryeo   Khitan wars   Mongol invasions Joseon  Seven Year War &n..
Joseon Dynasty politics
The politics of the Joseon Dynasty, which ruled Korea from 1392 to 1910, were governed by the reigning ideology of Neo-Confucianism. Political struggles were common between different factions of the literati. Purges frequently resulted in leading political figures being sent into exile or condemne..
Joseon naval campaigns of 1592
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Joseon White Porcelain
Joseon white porcelain and Korean pottery in general were subjected to numerous transformations during the turbulent five hundred year period of the Joseon Dynasty. The history of Joseon ceramics is generally divided into three major periods; the early, the middle, and the late period. Although ex..
Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira
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Joseph
Joseph is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelt يوسف or Yūsuf. The name can be translated from Hebrew as signifying "The Lord will i..
Joseph's Cross
Joseph's Cross (Josephskreuz) is an observation tower in form of a double cross on the 579 metre high Auerberg near Stollberg (Hartz). The Joseph's Cross is a steel framework construction with a height of 38 metres and a weight of 125 tons, which was built between April 20th, 1896 and August 9th, 18..
Joseph's Tomb
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Joseph, Archbishop of Braga
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Joseph, Oregon
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Joseph, Utah
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Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
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Joseph-Aldric Ouimet
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Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
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Joseph-Alphonse-Anaclet Habel
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Joseph-André Taschereau
During his lifetime, Joseph-André Taschereau, ( November 30, 1806–March 30, 1867), was a lawyer, politician, and lastly, a judge. He was born at Sainte-Marie, Quebec. The son of Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau was a quiet child who early in life discovered a passion for the law. He was educat..
Joseph-Antoine de La Barre
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Joseph-Armand Bombardier (April 16, 1907 - February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman, who invented the snowmobile and was the founder of Bombardier. He made his first snowmobile prototype when he was 15 years old. Born into a large family of prosperous farmers and small shopkeeper..
Joseph-Aurèle Plourde
Joseph-Aurèle Plourde (born January 12, 1915) is the Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa. Born in Saint François de Madawaska, New Brunswick, he was ordained a Priest in 1944. In 1967, he was made Archbishop of Ottawa and retired in 1989. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada..
Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja
Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja (born November 30, 1975) is a Malagasy athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. Achievements 2003 All-Africa Games - gold medal2002 African Championships - silver medal2000 African Championships - gold medal1999 All-Africa Games - silver medal External link *IAAF..
Joseph-Charles Taché
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Joseph-Désiré Job
Joseph-Désiré Job (born December 1, 1977 in Venissieux) is a French-born Cameroonian footballer striker who is currently available on a free transfer after his contract with Middlesbrough expired. Job enjoyed a bright start to his football career with Lyon, scoring 13 goals in 14 games. Job was..
Joseph-Édouard Turcotte
Joseph-Édouard Turcotte (October 10 1808 – December 20 1864) was a lawyer and political figure in Canada East. He was born in Gentilly, Lower Canada in 1808. He studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet. In 1831, he lost his right arm in an accident. Deciding not to pursue a future in the priesth..
Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas
Duke Joseph François Louis Charles de Damas (October 28, 1758 - March 5, 1829, Paris) was a French general. As a colonel, took part in the war in the United States from 1780 to 1781. After his return, he was given the command over a dragoon regiment, and was entrusted to cover the escape of king L..
Joseph-François Armand
Joseph-François Armand (14 December 1820 – 1 January 1903) was a member of the Canadian Senate. Born Joseph-Flavien Armand in Rivière-des-Prairies, Lower Canada, he was a farmer before entering politics. In 1858, he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in the A..
Joseph-François Kremer
Joseph-François Kremer (1954 -) is a French composer, conductor and musicologist. Contents 1 Biography2 Selected works3 Bibliography4 External links Biography Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France) in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of..
Joseph-Goderic Blanchet
Joseph-Goderic Blanchet Joseph-Goderic (Joseph-Godric) Blanchet, PC (June 7 1820 - January 1 1890) was a Canadian physician and politician. He was the only person to serve as both Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and Speaker of a provincial legislature. He represented Lévis in the Ca..
Joseph-Hector Fiocco
Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703 – 1741) was an Belgian composer and violinist of the later Baroque era. Joseph-Hector Fiocco was a son of the Italian composer Pietro Antonio Fiocco. Joseph-Hector worked in Antwerp and Brussels, and died aged 38. He is known to have had a love affair with Jeremiah ..
Joseph-Henri Tabaret
Joseph-Henri Tabaret (b 1828 – d 1886), is a noteworthy Canadian mainly because of his long and important association with the University of Ottawa. He was a member of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate. The Oblates founded the College of Bytown in 1848. Under Tabaret's leadership from 1853..
Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose
Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose (12 July 1820 – 13 August 1899) was a Canadian politican. In 1863, he was elected to the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1867 elections in the Quebec riding of Laval. A Conservative, he was re-el..
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Portrait of Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (May 28, 1738 – March 26, 1814) did not invent the guillotine, but on October 10, 1789 proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out death penalties in France. His name became an eponym, and eventually his relati..
Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis
Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis (1778 - 1858) was a French diplomat and statesman. He was the son of the jurist Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis. He entered the diplomatic service, and obtaining the favour of Louis XVIII filled many important offices. He was under-secretary of state for the ministry of ju..
Joseph-Marie Lo Duca
Joseph-Marie Lo Duca (Milan, 1905 - 2004) was an Italian-born writer and critic. He was based in Paris and was one of the founders of Cahiers du cinéma. ..
Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien (June 18, 1716 – March 27, 1809), French painter, was born at Montpellier. Protected by Comte de Caylus, he entered at an early age the studio of Natoire, and obtained the grand prix in 1745. He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of ..
Joseph-Mathias Tellier
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Joseph-Napoléon Poulin
Joseph-Napoléon Poulin (1821 – June 19 1892) was a physician and political figure in Canada East. He was born Joseph Poulin in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir in Lower Canada in 1821 and practiced medicine and surgery there. In 1851, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Cana..
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c. 1705–11 January 1755) was a French musician, composer, and harpsichordist. Born in Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in 1734 became maître de musique des enfants de France, responsible for the musical education of the children of the king, Louis XV. To..
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (4 April 1688 - 1768) was a French astronomer. One of the 11 sons of Claude Delisle (1644-1720), Joseph-Nicolas was born in Paris. As with many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), he initially followed classical studies. Soon, however, he moved into ast..
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797 - 1890), French painter, was born at Cologne. He was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exh..
Joseph-Noël Ritchot
Father Ritchot Joseph-Noël Ritchot (25 December, 1825 – 16 March, 1905) commonly known as Noël-Joseph Ritchot was a Roman Catholic priest noted for his role in negotiating with the Government of Canada on behalf of the Métis during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870. La..
Joseph-Octave Arsenault
The Honourable Joseph-Octave Arsenault (August 5, 1828 – December 14, 1897) was a Canadian politician who was the first Acadian from Prince Edward Island to be named to the Canadian Senate. Born in Cascumpèque, Prince Edward Island, the son of Mélème Arsenault and Bibienne Poirier, he was ..
Joseph-Octave Beaubien
Joseph-Octave Beaubien (March 22 1824 – November 7 1877) was a Quebec physician and political figure. He represented Montmagny in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member. He was born in Nicolet in Lower Canada in 1824, studied at the college there and then studied English in R..
Joseph-Octave Plessis
Joseph-Octave Plessis (3 March, 1763 – 4 December, 1825) was a Québécois Roman Catholic archbishop. Plessis cultivated a new generation of priests during the difficult period leading up to the Lower Canada Rebellion, including Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland, Narcisse-Charles Fortier, Jean-..
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve (4 March 1836 – 27 June 1901) was a Canadian businessman, provincial politician, and senator. He was mayor of Saint-Jean-Baptiste from 1866 to 1886 and warden of Hochelaga county from 1866 to 1880. From 1894 to 1896, he was the mayor of Montreal. In 1896, he was appo..
Joseph-Philippe Guay
Joseph-Philippe Guay (October 4, 1915 – July 30, 2001) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Born in St. Vital, Manitoba, he was an alderman and mayor of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1968 representing the riding of St. Boniface, Manitoba. A Libe..
Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery
Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery (Иосифо-Волоколамский монастырь, Волоцкий Успенский Иосифов монастырь in Russian) is a male monastery, located 17 km northeast of Volokolamsk, Moscow Oblast. In the 15th and 16th century, it rivalled the Trinit..
Joseph: King of Dreams
Joseph: King of Dreams is an DreamWorks animated film based on the story of Joseph in the Bible. It tells the story of a boy with an extraordinary gift of seeing visions of the future while sleeping and he is born to a family with twelve sons. Joseph is the favorite of his father, Jacob, inciting hi..
Josephat Ababu
Josephat AbabuKenya (KEN) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium-fast Tests ODIs Matches - 7 '''Runs scored - 29 Batting average - 9.66 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score - 17 ..
Josepha Sherman
Josepha Sherman is an American author Contents 1 Works1.1 Series1.2 ..
Josephine, Texas
Josephine is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 594 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Education4 External links Geography Josephine is located at [33°3′40″N, 96°18′48″W] (33.061018, -96.313227)[Geo..
Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium
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Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan
Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The soubrette part, entrusted ..
Josephine (name)
Josephine is a female given name. It is the English version of the French name Joséphine. This is the feminine form of the name Joseph, which is taken from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning The Lord increases. It was originally a diminutive form of the French name Joséphe, and eventually became the..
Josephine Abaijah
Dame Josephine Abaijah GCL, DBE (b. 1944 in Misima, Papua New Guinea) was the first woman to be elected to the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly in 1972. She was leader of the Papua Besena movement which wanted Papua to retain its association with Australia instead of becoming independent with the ..
Josephine Acosta Pasricha
Josephine Acosta Pasricha (March 26, 1945-) is a Filipino indologist who translated the "Ramacharitamanasa" of Tulasi Dasa, Hindi translation of the Ramayana by Valmiki from Sanskrit, into the Filipino language. Josephine Acosta Pasricha herself studied under Filipino indologist Juan R. Francisco...
Josephine Alhanko
Josephine Alhanko, born in 24 of April, 1981, in Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish actress. Crowned as Miss Sweden 2006. Josephine has two master degrees and is an educated actress and art scientist and she has played parts in different TV-productions, movies and theatres. Her previous scene practices wil..
Josephine Anstey
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Josephine Anwhistle
A Series of Unfortunate Events character Her arm. Josephine Anwhistle Gender Female Hair color White Age Adult.(At the time that Lemony Snicket, Kit Snicket, Jacques Snicket, Beatrice, and Esmé Squalor were all children, Josephine was already an adult. This would indicate that she ..
Josephine Au
Josephine Au is a veteran news reporter for OMNI.2's OMNI News Cantonese Edition in Toronto, Ontario. Au has been with CFMT since the late 1980s and is the longest serving member of the news team. OMNI2 reporters report on local stories and reads portions of the newscast from file stories from other..
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Joséphine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an American dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus". She was of mixed Apalachee Native American and African American descent. S..
Josephine Bakhita
Josephine Bakhita (1869 — 8 February 1947) is a Roman Catholic saint. Bakhita was born to a locally important family in Olgossa, a village in the southern Sudanese district of Darfur in Africa. Her father was the brother of the village chief. At the age of six or seven she was kidnapped..
Josephine Barstow
Dame Josephine Barstow was born on September 27, 1940 in Sheffield. She is an English soprano, who possesses a flexible and expressive voice which she uses to great effect to produce a very distinctive and personal sound, which is instantly recognisable. She is also an extremely gifted and intel..
Josephine Brawley Hughes
Elizabeth Josephine Brawley Hughes (December 22, 1839-March, 1926) was an advocate of women's rights in the United States West region. Biography Born in a farm near Meadville, Pennsylvania, Brawley was the daughter of John R. Brawley, an important farmer and lawyer of the time. Brawley did not li..
Josephine Broekhuizen
Josephine Broekhuizen (Den Haag 1956 – ) is a Dutch artist living in Scotland, known for work with distorted perspectives. Contents 1 Start of her career2 Difficult years3 The Sea4 External links Start of her career After her studies at Academy for Visual Arts in Rotter..
Josephine Butler
Josephine Elizabeth Butler (1828 - 1906) was a Victorian era feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes. She led the long campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts from 1869 to 1886. Contents 1 Family life2 Feminism3 Contagious Diseases Act4..
Josephine Butler College
Josephine Butler College, Durham Motto Comme je trouve "As I find" Founded 2006 (Due to take first students in Sept 2006) Principal Adrian Simpson Location Howlands Farm, South Road Students None Snow-covered partially-built accommodation of the Josephine Butler college Josephine B..
Josephine Chaplin
Josephine Chaplin (born March 28, 1949 in California) is the daughter of actor/comedian/director Sir Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O'Neill. Her siblings are Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin and Michael Chaplin. She is also the half-sister to the late Charles Chaplin, Jr. and to Sy..
Josephine Clara Goldmark
Josephine Clara Goldmark (1877 - 1950), was the chairman of the committee on labor laws for the National Consumers League (NCL). She was an aggressive and prolific investigator of labor conditions, and she was also an advocate of social reform to create better working conditions for American worker..
Josephine Clofullia
Josephine Clofullia (? - ?) was a Swiss-born bearded lady who toured with P. T. Barnum's "American Museum". Madame Clofullia was born Josephine Boisdechene in Switzerland. She was born hairy and reputedly had a two-inch beard at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen she began to tour Europe, fir..
Josephine Cochrane
Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher in 1886, in Shelbyville, Illinois. Mrs. Cochrane was a rich woman who had lots of fancy dinner parties. She didn't do any of the dishes herself because she had servants to do that for her, but she wanted a machine that could do the job faster without breaki..
Josephine County, Oregon
Josephine County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. According to Oregon Geographic Names, the county was probably named after a stream in the area called Josephine Creek, which in turn is probably named after Virginia Josephine Rollins Ort. As of 2000, the population is 75,726. The ..
Josephine Cox
Josephine Cox is an English author. Her annual sales in Britain total nearly one million copies#redirect [[Template:Fact]]. External links [Josephine Cox at HarperCollins] ..
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Joséphine de Beauharnais, later Empress, painted by François Gerard, 1801 (Hermitage Museum) Joséphine de Beauharnais (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and became Empress of the French. Contents 1 Early Life2 Meeting Napoleon3 ..
Josephine Earp
Josephine Marcus (probably born in Brooklyn, New York in 1861; dead on December 20, 1944) was a dancer and actress who became best known as the wife of famed old west lawman Wyatt Earp. Her birthdate or place was never exactly known; some records show that she may have been born in Brooklyn in 1861,..
Josephine Falls
Josephine Falls are located at the foot of the southern face of Mount Bartle Frere in the Wooroonooran National Park, in Queensland, Australia. Accessed by sealed road just off the Bruce Highway between Babinda and Innisfail. The falls are a popular recreation site among locals as the water flows ov..
Josephine Farrington
Josephine 'Josie' Farrington, Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton (born 29 June 1940) is a British Labour politician. Born Josephine Cayless, she married Michael Farrington in 1960 and had three sons. She was elected a Lancashire county councillor and held several senior positions, including chair of ..
Josephine Harrison
Josephine Harrison (?–30 April 2005) stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for South Staffordshire in the United Kingdom General Election, 2005. She died on 30th April, only five days before the poll was due to take place. As a result, it was postponed to the 23rd June. External Links &#..
Josephine Hayden
Josephine Hayden is the Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein having replacing Des Long in 2004. Hayden is a former Republican Prisoner who served five years in prison for possession of weapons which were found in a van she was travelling in at Tallaght, Dublin, in 1995. External links [Josep..
Josephine Herbst
Josephine Herbst, born in Sioux City, Iowa on March 5, 1892, was a novelist, historian, biographer, journalist, autobiographer, and literary critic who was active from 1923 to near the time of her death in 1969 in the United States. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in ..
Josephine Ho
Josephine Ho (何春蕤, Hanyu Pinyin Hé Chūnruí)) is a professor at Taiwan's National Central University. She has been outspoken on gender and rights issues. External links [Center For the Study of Sexualities] ..
Josephine Hopper
Josephine Hopper (1883 - March 6, 1968) was an artist and the devoted wife of Edward Hopper, one of the best known post-World War II American realist painters. She is depicted in most of his paintings after their marriage because she did not want him painting other female models. His most moving p..
Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull in a promotional photograph Josephine Hull (January 3, 1886 - March 12, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. She had a successful 50-year career on Broadway before taking some of her best roles to film. Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachuse..
Josephine Humphreys
Josephine Humphreys (born February 2, 1945) is a U.S. novelist. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, which is also the setting of her novels Rich in Love and The Fireman's Fair, Humphreys was educated at Ashley Hall (Class of 63), studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University a..
Josephine Hutchinson
Josephine Hutchinson [link] was an American born (November 10 1903 – June 4 1998) actress. Early life She was born in Seattle, Washington, and made her film debut at the age of thirteen. She later attended the Cornish School of Music and Drama, in Seattle, and then moved to New Yo..
Josephine Jacobson
Josephine Jacobsen (August 19, 1908 – July 9,2003) was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, she moved with her family to New York at a young age. When she was fourteen, she moved to Maryland where she lived for the rest of her life. Jacobsen served..
Josephine Joseph
Josephine Joseph was a Polish Austrian, born in 1913, whose body was split completely in half. They claimed to be a true hermaphrodite and there is no evidence to confirm whether this was the case; they may just have been a very skilled male/female impersonator. Like most "hermaphrodites" this wo..
Josephine Knur
Josephine Knur (born 1954 in Melbourne) was an Australian actress recognised for her role in television soap opera Number 96 in the 1970s. Knur launched her career by showcasing her sexy figure as a pin-up model in TV Week magazine. This attracted an offer to appear in a decorative, semi-nude rol..
Josephine Koo
Josephine Koo 顧美華 is one of the most underrated Chinese actress. She has a bright start of film career while starring in Yim Ho's Hong Kong New Wave classic Homecoming(1984). The film brings her the Best New Performer Award of Hong Kong Film Awards in 1985, and also the nomination of Best Acte..
Josephine Louise Newcomb
Josephine Louise Newcomb, born Josephine Le Monnier (October 31, 1816–April 7, 1901), was the philanthropist whose donations led to the founding of Newcomb College at Tulane University. References ..
Josephine McCarthy
Josephine McCarthy was sent to a Magdalene laundry because she had been accused of sexual activity in a car's back seat. She denies the accusation. After the accusation she was sent on a train to the town of Cork, and was told that her name was Phyllis and would work in the laundry room. Women ..
Josephine Miles
Josephine Miles (June 11, 1911 - 1985), poet and literature critic, was the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism. Born in Chicago in 1911, she moved around a lot with her..
Josephine Mitchell
Josephine Mitchell (b. May 21, 1965) is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Jo Loveday in the television soap opera A Country Practice. She has subsequently appeared in Home and Away, E Street, Neighbours and All Saints. External link ..
Josephine of Leuchtenberg
Joséphine, Queen of Sweden and Norway (Joséphine Maximiliane Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais) (14 March, 1807 - 7 June, 1876) was the Queen consort of Oscar I of Sweden and Norway. She was known as Queen Josefina. Biography Born in Milan, Italy, She was a daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, t..
Josephine Porter Boardman
Josephine Porter Boardman Crane (1873 - 1972) an American patron of the arts. In 1906 she married Winthrop Murray Crane and had three children: Stephen, Bruce, and poet Louise Crane. She moved to New York City after the death of her husband. She was a founder of the Museum of Modern Art and was el..
Josephine Ruffin
Josephine Ruffin Josephine Ruffin, born Josephine St. Pierre, (August 31, 1842 in Boston – March 13, 1924 in Boston) was a U.S. civil rights leader. Ruffin's mother was white and her father had been born in Martinique. John St. Pierre was a successful clothes dealer and was able to afford a..
Josephine Shaw Lowell
Josephine Shaw Lowell (December 16, 1843 - October 12, 1905) was a Progressive Reform leader in the United States in the Nineteenth century. She is best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. Early years Josephine Shaw was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts into a wealthy New England..
Josephine Siao
Josephine Siao Fong-Fong (蕭芳芳) (born March 13, 1947) is a movie star, best actress award winner of the 1995 Berlin Film Festival, and a writer. She was one of the biggest teen idols during the late 60s, along with frequent costar Connie Chan Po-chu. The two were often cast in ma..
Josephine Silone Yates
Josephine Silone Yates Josephine Silone Yates (born 1852 - September 3, 1912) was an African American writer, teacher and civil rights advocate. Her family lived for several generations on Long Island. She was born to Alexander and Parthenia Reeve Silone. Her older sister Harriet developed in..
Josephine Sophia White Griffing
Josphine Sophia White Griffing (1814-1872), was an American reformer who campaigned against slavery and for women's rights. She was born in Hebron, Connecticut on December 18, 1814 but later settled in Litchfield, Ohio. There she worked for the Western Anti-Slavery Society and Ohio Woman's Rights As..
Josephine Terranova
Josephine Pullare Terranova (April 21, 1889 in San Stefano, Sicily – July 16, 1981 in California) was the defendant in a sensational murder trial in New York City in 1906. After years of sexual abuse at the hands of her aunt and uncle, she stabbed the pair to death. A jury later acquitted he..
Josephine Tewson
Josephine Tewson (born February 26 1939) is an English actress, best known for her role as Elizabeth Warden in Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995). She also played Edna Hawkins in the first six seasons of the British sitcom Shelley, and appeared in a memorable United States television commercia..
Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh (July 25, 1896 - February 13, 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She was born in Inverness, and attended a physical training college in Birmingham, England, before becoming a teacher. However, her literary career bega..
Josephine the Singer
"Josephine the Singer" (aka The Mouse Folk) is a short story by Kafka set in a village of rodents, with a subtext concerning the rich and famous. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The short story describes a congregation of mouse people, who often commun..
Josephine Wiggs
Josephine Wiggs is an indie/alternative rock musician, noted for parts in Perfect Disaster, The Breeders, and her own project The Josephine Wiggs Experience. In 1990, Wiggs met Kim Deal when Perfect Disaster were supporting the Pixies, and Deal, Tanya Donelly and Wiggs got together to form The Bree..
Josephine Williams
Josephine Raikuna Williams is a Fijian businesswoman and politician. She worked for 33 years in the tourism industry, most recently as a human resources manager at the Fiji Mocambo Hotel. She is currently the Chairperson of Saint Mary's Catholic Parish in Nadi, Deputy Chairperson of the Catholic E..
Josephine Winslow Johnson
Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910-1990) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist. She attended Washington University, 1926 to 1931. She received the O. Henry Memorial Award in 1935. In 1955, Washington University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Works Now in November (193..
Josephinism
Josephinism is a term used in reference to the ecclesiastical policies of the Holy Roman Empire Emperor, Joseph II of Austria (1765-1790). Joseph II's ecclesiastical policies were typically carried out in the pursuit of two goals: 1) measured toleration toward non-Catholic Christians (Lutherans, C..
Joséphin Péladan
Joséphin Péladan (1858-1918) was a French martinist. He claimed that a Babylonian King left the title of "Sâr" to his family. After being associated with Papus and Stanislas de Guaita, he left the Martinist Order and created, in June 1890, a Catholic Order of the Rose and the Cross, of which he..
Josephin Soulary
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Josephites
Josephites may refer to one of the following religious movements: Josephite Order of the Roman Catholic Church;the Russian followers of Joseph Volotsky who advocated the church's ownership of land;Josephites (20th century), a 20th-century movement in the Russian True Orthodox Church. This is a ..
Josephites (20th century)
"Josephites" (Russian: ) so-called after the name of the Metropolitan Joseph (Ivan Petrovykh) of Petrograd – leader of resistance of the True Orthodox Church in 1927-1937. The resistance began after Metropolitan Sergiy (Stragorodskiy) issued formal declaration to all members of the Church, called ..
Josephite Fathers
The Josephite Fathers and Brothers or more properly, the Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (abbreviated post-nominally as S.S.J.) is an American Society of catholic priests and brothers, founded in 1892, when priests who had been members of the English Foreign Mission Society of Saint Jose..
Josephson effect
The Josephson effect is a term given to the phenomenon of current flow across two superconductors separated by a very thin insulating barrier. This arrangement—two superconductors linked by a non-conducting oxide barrier—is known as a Josephson junction; the current that crosses the barrier is t..
Josephson penetration depth
In superconductivity, Josephson penetration depth characterizes the typical length on which an externally-applied magnetic field penetrates into the long Josephson junction. Josephson penetration depth is usually denoted as [\lambda_J] and is given by the following expression (in SI): �..
Josephson phase
In superconductivity, the Josephson phase is the difference of the phases of the quantum mechanical wave function in two superconducting electrodes forming a Josephson junction. For example, if the macroscopic wave functions [\Psi_1] and [\Psi_2] in superconductors 1 and 2 are g..
Josephson vortex
In superconductivity, a Josephson vortex is a vortex of supercurrent in a long Josephson junction (LJJ). The supercurrents circulate around the vortex center which is situated inside the Josephson barrier. Opposite to Abrikosov vortices in type-II superconductors, Josephson vortex has no normal core..
Josephus
right Josephus (c. 37 – c. 100), who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Flavius JosephusJosephus refers to himself in his Greek works as Jōsēpos Matthiou pais (Josephus the son of Matthais). Although Josephus also spoke Aramaic and most probably also Hebrew, no extant..
Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades
Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades describes Josephus' religious views versus the prevailing view of the Greco-Romans of his day. In it the major difference of the Resurrection of the dead is discussed. "Hades is a place in the world not regularly finished; a subterraneous region, w..
Josephus Daniels
Josephus Daniels Josephus Daniels (18 May 1862–15 January 1948) was an American politician and newspaper publisher from North Carolina, who served as Secretary of the Navy during World War I. He was educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in ..
Josephus Flavius Cook
Josephus Flavius Cook (1838‑1901) was an American philosophical lecturer, a descendant of Pilgrims who started his ascent to fame by way of Monday noon prayer meetings in Tremont Temple in Boston that for more than twenty years were among the city's greatest attractions. He later travelled t..
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (December 4, 1735 - February 17, 1805) was an Austrian naturalist. Laurenti was the author of Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena (1768) on the poisonous function of reptiles and amphibians. This was an important book in h..
Josephus of Arimathea
Josephus, also called Josephe or Josephes, is the son of Joseph of Arimathea and an early keeper of the Holy Grail in some tellings of the Arthurian legend. He makes appearances in the Quest del Saint Graal section of the Lancelot-Grail cycle, but his story is fully told in the Estoire del Saint Gra..
Josephus on Jesus
In 93, the Jewish historian Josephus published his work Antiquities of the Jews. The extant copies of this work, which all derive from Christian sources, even the recently recovered Arabic version, contain two passages about Jesus. The one directly concerning Jesus has come to be known as the Testim..
Josephus permutation
In computer science, the Josephus permutation is defined as follows: Suppose n people are arranged in a circle and we are given a positive integer m < n. Beginning with an arbitrary first person, we proceed around the circle, removing every mth person. After the circle has once been "processed" i..
Josephus problem
The Josephus problem is a theoretic problem occurring in computer science and mathematics. There are n people standing in a circle waiting to be executed. After the first man is executed, k−1 people are skipped and the k-th man is executed. Then again, k−1 people are skipped and the k-t..
Josephville, Missouri
Josephville is a village in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 270 at the 2000 census. Geography Josephville is located at [38°49′52″N, 90°47′58″W] (38.831080, -90.799463)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Censu..
Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan
Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan (born c. 1940) was an Irish-American hitman who acted as a contract killer for the Mafia in New York City. A native of Woodside, Queens, Sullivan was the first inmate to escape from Attica Correctional Facility in Upstate New York in April 1971 (he was recaptured several w..
Joseph "Robbie" Robertson
Joseph "Robbie" Robertson is a supporting character in Marvel Comics's Spider-Man series. Created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., he first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #51 (August 1967). Robertson was one of the first African-American characters in comics to play a serious supporting role, rat..
Joseph (Book of Mormon)
In the Book of Mormon, Joseph (Hebrew יוסף Yôsēp̄; BoM Arabic يوسف Yūsuf) is a priest, and a younger brother of the Prophets Nephi and Jacob. See also Joseph. ..
Joseph (comics)
Joseph was a Marvel Comics character who was briefly a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Roger Cruz, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #327 (December 1995). Joseph was a clone of the X-Men’s nemesis Magneto, possessing his magnetic powers, though he was originally..
Joseph (film)
The Bible: Joseph is a German/Italian/American movie from 1995, which tells the story of Joseph from the Old Testament. Contents 1 Plot2 The cast3 The Crew4 Awards5 External links Plot Joseph is sold by his brothers in slavery. Now he is working for Potiphar, a rich Egy..
Joseph (Hebrew Bible)
Joseph interprets the dream of the Pharaoh. Painting by Peter von Cornelius. Joseph, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), appears in the Book of Genesis (his name Yosef, Hebrew: יוֹסֵף means "The Lord increases", (Tiberian Hebrew Yôsēp̄), later c..
Joseph (Khazar)
Joseph ben Aaron was king of the Khazars during the 950s and 960s. Khazaria during the reign of Joseph, c. 950 CE Joseph was the son of Aaron II, a Khazar ruler who defeated a Byzantine-inspired war against Khazaria on numerous fronts. Joseph's wife (or probably, one of many wives) was the dau..
Joseph (surname)
Joseph is a surname, and may refer to Charles Joseph is an American jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana.George Joseph (born 1921), founder of Mercury Insurance Group of Los Angeles.Jenny Joseph, (born 1932), a British poet.Keith Joseph (1918-1994), British politician and architect of Th..
Joseph A. Burke
Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke (died October 1962) was the 9th Bishop of Buffalo,New York. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Joseph Anthony Califano, Jr. (born May 15, 1931) is as of 2005 the Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. He has held many posts in the United States Government including United States Secretary of Health, Education, an..
Joseph A. Chapman
Joseph A. Chapman is the current president of North Dakota State University (NDSU) which is located in Fargo, North Dakota. He begin his presidency in 1999. Chapman is the 13th president of the institution. He is a graduate of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Joseph Chapman is marrie..
Joseph A. Citro
Joseph A. Citro, occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" (a name first given to him by the Boston Globe) or "the Ghost-Master General", is a Vermont author who has extensively researched and documented the folklore, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of Vermont and ..
Joseph A. Conry
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Joseph A. Craig High School
Image from girl's basketball game with crosstown rival Parker during the 2004-2005 season Joseph A. Craig High School is a comprehensive public secondary school located in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin. It was constructed in 1954. Approximately 1800 students attend it from September throug..
Joseph A. Day
Joseph A. Day, BEng, LLM (born January 24, 1945 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Canadian engineer, lawyer, and politician. He has been a Canadian Senator since October 4, 2001. Day entered politics in 1978 when a by-election was held in his native New Brunswick. Day returned from his practice ..
Joseph A. Farinholt
Joseph A. Farinholt (July 17, 1922 to June 11, 2002) is thought to be the only enlisted man in the history of the U.S. military to receive four awards of the Silver Star, the United States third highest decoration for valor in combat. Farinholt, was born in Catonsville, Maryland, and in 1938, he..
Joseph A. Galamb
Joseph A. Galamb (1881 - 1955) (in hungarian: Galamb József) mechanical engineer was born in Makó, Hungary. Galamb finished his education in Budapest at the predecessor of the present-day Donát Bánki Technical College. After receiving his diploma in mechanical engineering he worked at the Steel..
Joseph A. Galante
Bishop Joseph Anthony Galante, D.D., J.C.D. (born July 2, 1938) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Camden in the U.S. State of New Jersey. He was appointed on March 23, 2004 and installed on April 30, 2004. A native of Philadelphia, Galante also served as the bishop of the Diocese of Be..
Joseph A. Gilmore
Joseph Albree Gilmore (June 10, 1811–April 7, 1867) was an American railroad superintendent from Concord, New Hampshire. He was a member of the New Hampshire state senate, and was its predident in 1859. Born in 1811 in Weston, Vermont, he served two terms as Governor during the Civil War. He d..
Joseph A. Glowin
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Joseph Anthony Glowin (1892-1952) was a United States Marine who earned the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat in the Dominican Republic in 1916. Glowin was born in Detroit, Michigan on 14 March 1892. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in Lansing, Michigan, ..
Joseph A. Green
Joseph A. Green was Chief of Coastal Artillery for the United States Army between 1940 and 1942, and Commanding General of Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command between 1942 and 1944. External link [The Hammer of Hell (about Anti-aircraft Artillery in WW II)] ..
Joseph A. Hauptman
Joseph A. Hauptman was a sergeant of the US Military who was killed overseas during WWI. References [World War I Casualties of American Army Overseas 1918]. Retrieved 12 January 2005. ..
Joseph A. Maturo, Jr.
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Joseph A. McArdle
Joseph A. McArdle(June 29, 1903–December 27, 1967) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Joseph A. McArdle was born in Muncie, Indiana. In 1905, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his parents. He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Repr..
Joseph A. McChristian
Joseph A. McChristian was a U.S. Army officer. From 5 August 1968 to 30 April 1971, McChristian, then a Major General, served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army. Previously, he had headed the intelligence staff of the Military Assistance Command ..
Joseph A. Mower
Joseph Anthony Mower (1827-1870) was a Union general during the American Civil War. He was a competent officer and well respected by his troops and fellow officers to whom he was known as "Fighting Joe". William T. Sherman said of Mower, "he's the boldest young officer we have". Mower was born..
Joseph A. Palaia
Sen. Joseph Palaia Joseph A. Palaia (born February 3, 1927) is an American Republican Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1989, where he represents the 11th Legislative District. Before entering the Senate, Senator Palaia served in a variety of state and..
Joseph A. Schwarcz
Dr. Joseph A. Schwarcz, known to his students, and many via his science popularization efforts as Dr. Joe, is a doctor of chemistry and professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is known through his many books, weekly column in the Montreal Gazette and Washington Post, weekly radio sh..
Joseph A. Scranton
Joseph Augustine Scranton (July 26, 1838 – October 12, 1908) was a Republican politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883, 1885 to 1887, 1889 to 1891, and 1893 to 1897. Scranton was born in Madison, Connecticut, moving to Pennsylvan..
Joseph A. Sestak
Joseph A. "Joe" Sestak, Jr. (born December 12, 1951) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral. He is running for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in the ([map]), a seat currently held by Republican Curt Weldon. A poll conducted in April 2006 by the pro-Democratic Part..
Joseph A. Shakspeare
Joseph Ansoetegui Shakspeare (1837 - 22 January, 1896) was mayor of New Orleans from 1880 - 1882 and again from 1888 to 1892. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Joseph A. Steger
Joseph A. Steger, President of the University of Cincinnati from 1984 to 2003, succeeded by Nancy Zimpher ..
Joseph A. Unanue
Joseph A. Unanue (born March 14, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York) was the president of the family owned Goya Foods, which is the largest hispanic food company in the United States. Joseph A. Unanue Unanues' father Prudencio Unanue, immigrated from Spain to Puerto Rico where he met a young Puerto Ri..
Joseph A. Walker
Joseph Albert "Joe" Walker (20 February 1921 - 8 June 1966) was an American test pilot; in 1963, he made two X-15 flights past the 100 kilometer edge of space, the only spaceplane flights past that threshold made until SpaceShipOne in 2004. These flights qualified him as an astronaut under both U.S..
Joseph A. Wright
Joseph A. Wright Joseph Albert Wright (April 17, 1810–May 11, 1867) was a Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849 to January 12, 1857. He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania and moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1820. He was the brother of former Iowa Sen..
Joseph Abbott
Joseph Abbott may refer to: Joseph Carter Abbott (1825–1881), U.S. Army general and U.S. SenatorJoseph Abbott (clergyman) (1790–1862)Joseph Abbott (Australian politician)Joseph Abbott (Texas politician) ..
Joseph Abbott (clergyman)
For the American politician, see Joseph Carter Abbott Joseph Abbott (baptised 10 June 1790 – 10 January 1862) was a Canadian clergyman in the Anglican Church of Canada, and the father of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, the third Prime Minister of Canada. External links [Biography at the D..
Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
Joseph (Jo) Abbott (January 15, 1840-February 11, 1908) was a member of the Confederate Army and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. He was born near Decatur, Alabama in 1840, where he attended the public schools. He moved with his parents to Freestone County, Texas,..
Joseph Abboud
Joseph Abboud (born circa 1950) is an award-winning Lebanese-American menswear fashion designer and author who was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Contents 1 Family2 Education3 Career4 Book5 Breast Cancer Advocate6 Trivia7 External links Family The Abboud f..
Joseph Achille Le Bel
Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847-1930), was a French Chemist, who was best known for his work in Stereochemistry. He was born on January 21 1847 in Péchelbronn and educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and op..
Joseph Achron
Joseph Achron (May 13 1886 – April 29 1943) was a Lithuanian born composer and violinist. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work. Notable composer and friend Arnold Schönberg desc..
Joseph Acton
Joseph Acton was a professional wrestler. Profile Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)Weight: 140 lb (64 kg)Birthday: 1852Date of Death: June 26, 1917Professional debut: 1880 Championships and accomplishments 1-time Dublin Collar & Elbow Champion1-time European Catch as Catch Champion1-time American Catch as..
Joseph Adams
For the physician, see Joseph Adams (physician). ..
Joseph Adams (physician)
Joseph Adams M.D. F.L.S. (1756—20 June 1818) was a British physician and surgeon. His father was a practising apothecary in London, a rigid dissenter, whose religious scruples would not permit him to allow his son to graduate at either of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. He, however, r..
Joseph Addabbo, Jr.
Joseph Addabbo Jr. is a member of the New York City Council from the 32nd Council District in Queens, which encompasses Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Broad Channel and Rockaway Beach. He is a Democrat. ..
Joseph Addai
[] at NFL.com Joseph Addai (born May 3, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is a current American football running back for the Indianapolis Colts. He was drafted 30th overall in the 2006 NFL Draft from LSU. At LSU he ranked fifth all-time in rushing, with 2,577 yards. Addai is the third running back..
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison, the "Kit-cat portrait", circa 1703–1712, by Godfrey Kneller. Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spect..
Joseph Addison Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander (24 April 1800 - 28 January 1860) was an American biblical scholar, the third son of Archibald Alexander, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1826, having devoted himself especially to the study of H..
Joseph Adhemar
Joseph Alphonse Adhemar (1797 — 1862) was a French mathematician. He was the first to suggest that ice ages were controlled by astronomical forcing in his 1842 book Revolutions of the Sea. The earth's orbit is elliptical, with the sun at one focus; lines drawn through the summer and winter so..
Joseph Adna Hill
Joseph Adna Hill (1860–1938) was an American statistician, born at Stewartstown, New Hampshire; he graduated from Harvard University in 1885 and from the University of Halle (Ph.D.) in 1892. He published The English Income Tax with Special Reference to Administration and Method of Assessment ..
Joseph Adrian Cannon
Joseph Adrian Cannon (commonly known as Joe Cannon) is Chairman of the Utah Republican Party. Cannon was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992 (defeated by current Senator Robert F. Bennett) and served as an assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983 - 1985. Can..
Joseph Afful
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]Joseph Afful (born July 30, 1979 in Accra,Ghana) is a soccer player, who plays for the Atlanta Silverbacks of the USL First Division. He last played defender for Adelphi University. Afful came to the United States to play college soccer, first with St. Francis Col..
Joseph Aiuppa
Joseph John Aiuppa (December 1, 1907 - February 2, 1997), also known as "Ha Ha," "Doves," "Mourning Doves," "O'Brien," or "Joey Doves," was a member of the Chicago Mafia organization known as the Chicago Outfit. He spent his early years serving as a gunman for Al Capone, and in 1971 he became a mob..
Joseph Akpala
Joseph Akpala (born August 24, 1986 in Jos, Northern Nigeria) is a Nigerian footballer. Akpala is a product of the Pepsi Football Academy in Lagos. His first Professional contract was with Bendel United Football Club - a Division One club in Benin City in April 2003. He later joined Bendel Insuran..
Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny
Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny (May 21, 1839 - April 16, 1873), French poet, was born at Lillebonne (Seine Inférieure). His father, who was a carpenter and afterwards a gendarme, removed in 1844 to Bernay, where Albert received an elementary education. Soon after leaving school he was apprentice..
Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford of Headlam PC JP DL, (17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943) was an English businessman and Liberal politician. Born in Darlington (a Darlington Pease), the second son of Sir Joseph W. Pease, 1st Bart, (MP, Hutton Hall Guisborough), he was educated at Tott..
Joseph Albo
Joseph Albo (יוסף אלבו) was a rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles of faith, Ikkarim ("Principals"). Monreal, a town in Aragon, is generally assumed to have been his birthplace. Astruc, in his report of the p..
Joseph Alden
Joseph Alden (1807 - 1885) was an American academic. He was professor at Williams College in 1835, president of Jefferson College in 1857, and principal of the State Normal School in Albany, New York until 1882. Among his many books, more than seventy, the most well known were Christian Ethics or t..
Joseph Alessi
Joseph Alessi Joseph Alessi is a world-renowned, primarily classical trombonist. He has been Principal Trombone for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra since 1985 and is on the faculty of the Julliard School. In recognition to his influence in the field, in 2002 he was winner of the Internati..
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Joseph Alexander Altsheler (b. April 29, 1862 d. June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. Contents 1 Biography2 Books by Joseph A. Altsheler2.1 The Young Trailers Series2.2 The French and Indian War Series2.3 The Civil War Series2.4..
Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist
thumb Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist (July 21, 1879–January 12, 1961) was an American politician. Born in 1879 in Dayton, Iowa, he was elected the 20th Lt. Governor of Minnesota in 1914 and then served as the 19th Governor of Minnesota from December 30, 1915 to January 5, 1921. He became ..
Joseph Alfred Serret
Joseph Alfred Serret (August 301819 - March 2, 1885) was a french mathematician who was born in Paris France and died in Versailles France. See also Frenet-Serret formulas External links John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. ..
Joseph Alioto
Joseph Lawrence Alioto (b. February 12, 1916, San Francisco, California – d. January 29, 1998, San Francisco) was the mayor of San Francisco from 1968 to 1976. He was born to Sicilian immigrants (his father was a fisherman; his parents met on a fishing boat while escaping the 1906 San Francisc..
Joseph Allard
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Joseph Allegranza
Joseph Allegranza was a Milanese Dominican who won distinction as a historian, archaeologist, and antiquary, b. 16 October, 1715; d. 18 December, 1785. From 1748 to 1754 he made many researches in northern and central Italy and in France. When put in charge of the Royal Library at Milan, he made a ..
Joseph Alleine
Joseph Alleine (1634 - 17 November 1668) was an English Nonconformist clergyman. Alleine belonged to a family that had originally settled in Suffolk. As early as 1430 some of the descendants of Alan, lord of Buckenhall settled in the neighborhood of Calne and Devizes. These were the immediate ance..
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen is the name of: Joseph Allen (bishop), Bishop of Bristol 1834-1836Joseph Allen (congressman) (1749-1827), member of Eleventh United States Congress from Massachusetts (1810-1811)Joseph P. Allen (born 1937), astronaut Joseph Allen, author of Joe's Own Editor, an open-source text-editing..
Joseph Allen (congressman)
Joseph Allen (1749-1827) was a member of the eleventh United States Congress from (1810-1811). ..
Joseph Allen Wood
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Joseph Aloysius Durick
Joseph Aloysius Durick (October 13, 1914 - June 26, 1994) was a U.S. Roman Catholic bishop and civil rights advocate. Born in Dayton, Tennessee, he grew up in Bessemer, Alabama. He studied at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordained in Rome. On December 30, 1954, he was appointed auxilia..
Joseph Alvinczy
Freiherr Joseph Alvinczy von Borberek Alvincz, or Joszef Alvinczy (Alvintzy) (February 1, 1735—September 25, 1810) was a soldier in the Habsburg Army and a Field Marshal of the Austrian Empire. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early career1.2 War of Succession, Turkish War, and the Ne..
Joseph Ames
Joseph Ames may refer to: Joseph Ames (author) (1680–1759), English authorJoseph Sweetman Ames (1864–1943), American physicist This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to c..
Joseph Ames (author)
Joseph Ames (January 23, 1680 – October 7, 1759), English author, was born at Yarmouth. He wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600, entitled Typographical Antiquities (1749). Ames sent out circular letters with a list of two hundred and fifteen English printers with whose works ..
Joseph Anderson
This page refers to the U.S. Senator from Tennessee, for the Brigadier General, see Joseph R. Anderson. Joseph Anderson Joseph Anderson (November 5, 1757–April 17, 1837) was a U.S. political figure who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee and later as the first Comptroller o..
Joseph Anderson (Commandant)
Major Joseph Anderson (1790-1877), soldier and penal administrator, of the 50th Regiment, was commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from March 1834 to February 1839. Anderson was born at Keoldale, Sutherland Scotland on 1 July 1790 and joined the 78th Regiment at the age of..
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews is a novel by Henry Fielding, first published in 1742. Its full title is The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his Friend Mr Abraham Adams. Fielding acknowledges his debt to the picaresque, modelling his work on that of Cervantes. Joseph Andrews was written in ..
Joseph Andrew Chisholm
Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm (January 9, 1863 - January 22, 1950) was Mayor of Halifax and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Born in Maryvale, Nova Scotia to William and Flora Chisholm, Chisholm was educated at St. Francis Xavier University before moving to Halifax in 1896. He atten..
Joseph and Aseneth
Joseph and Asaneth (alternatively spelled Aseneth) is an ancient apocryphal expansion of the biblical account from Genesis of the patriarch Joseph's marriage to Aseneth. According to Genesis 41:45, Pharaoh gives Asenath, the daughter of Potimherah ([[Pentephres in the Septuagint]) priest ..
Joseph and Helen Husser Residence
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The Husser House was built in 1899 for Joseph and Helen Husser for $18,000. The architect was Frank Lloyd Wri..
Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, published over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of the Bible from Jacob to Joseph. Though it has received little to no attention, Mann considered it his greatest work. It has recently (2005) been retranslated into..
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Broadway theater production promotional poster from 1991. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. (The first was "The Likes of Us", a show which was..
Joseph Angara
Joseph AngaraKenya (KEN) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium-fast Tests ODIs Matches - 17 '''Runs scored - 23 Batting average - 3.83 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score - 6 ..
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony (May 24, 1912– January 20, 1993) was an American playwright and director from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He first appeared on Broadway in New York City as an actor in 1937. He authored several plays and sometimes performed in minor roles but is best known as a director. Besides the ..
Joseph Anthony Ferrario
Joseph Anthony Ferrario was best known for his work with the youth, poor and his controversial ministry in service to gays and lesbians. Contents 1 Early life and priestly ministry2 Episcopal appointment and consecration3 Installation as Honolulu Ordinary and Episcopal minist..
Joseph Anthony Gray
Joseph Anthony Gray (February 25, 1884–May 8, 1966) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Joseph Grey was born in Susquehanna Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1905. He served as..
Joseph Aoun
Joseph E. Aoun will begin his tenure as the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts on August 15, 2006. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Aoun earned degrees at universities in Lebanon and France, and then received a Ph.D. from MIT's department of Linguistics and Philosophy ..
Joseph Aquilina
Joseph Aquilina, LL.D., Ph.D. (1911-1997) was a Maltese author and linguist. Amongst his works is the Maltese-English and English-Maltese dictionary, which are of fundamental importance to every Maltese linguist. External link [allmalta article] ..
Joseph Arand
Joseph Arand (born June 3, 1983 in Chicago, IL) is best known for winning the 2000 AAU Indoor Track and Field National Championship in Merrillville, IN in the 3000m racewalk. ..
Joseph Arch
Joseph Arch (10 November 1826 - 12 February 1919) was an English politician. Born in Barford, Warwickshire, Arch founded the National Agricultural Laborers Union in 1872 and became its president. A rise then came in the wages of agricultural laborers; this had the unforeseen effect of destroying th..
Joseph Archer Crowe
Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (London October 25, 1825 – September 6, 1896), was an English consular official and art critic, whose volumes of the History of Painting in Italy, co-written with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820–1897) stand at the beginning of disciplined m..
Joseph Aristide Landry
Joseph Aristide Landry (July 10, 1817 – March 8, 1881) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one term as a Whig. Landry was born, and died, near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. External links [Bio at Congress.gov][Politic..
Joseph Armstead
Joseph Armstead (born February 2, 1956) is a horror-suspense fiction author best known for his loosely-connected series of stories and novels about the MOON-CHOSEN vampires, a series of genre-bending vampire noir/cybergoth novels which generally feature the immortal, somewhat sinister vampire hunter..
Joseph Armstrong
Joseph Armstrong may refer to: Joseph Armstrong (engineer)Joseph G. Armstrong (1867-1931), US politician, mayor of Pittsburg.Joseph Armstrong (wrestler), Australian wrestler, bronze medalist at 1948 Olympics. redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..
Joseph Armstrong (engineer)
Joseph Armstrong (1816-1877) was a British locomotive engineer and locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway. Armstrong was born at Bewcastle, Cumberland and went to Bruce's School. External links http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/Trains/Joseph.htm ..
Joseph Arnold
Joseph Arnold (28 December 1782 – 26 July 1818) was a naval surgeon and naturalist. His specimen collection is in the museum of the Linnean Society. Born in Beccles, Suffolk, he learned surgery in Edinburgh and received diploma in 1807. 1808-1815 he worked as naval surgeon for the English nav..
Joseph Arthur
Contents 1 Biography2 Musical History3 Live Performances4 Musical Instruments5 Song appearances in television and film6 Discography7 External links Biography Joseph Arthur is a contemporary singer-songwriter from Akron, Ohio, known for his melodic compositio..
Joseph Arthur Ankrah
Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915 - 1992) was a Ghanaian general and political figure. He served as the head of state of Ghana between 1966 and 1969. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Joseph Arthur Padway
Joseph Arthur Padway (1891-1947), U.S labor lawyer and politician,. Padway, who was born in Leeds, England, went to Milwaukee in 1905. Admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1912, he was appointed legal counsel for the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor three years later. He was elected state senator o..
Joseph Ascher
Joseph Ascher, a composer of salon music, was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, on June 4 1829. He was the son of the chazzan of the small local Jewish community. Ascher studied at the Leipzig Conservatorium, being a pupil of Ignace Moscheles. His gift as performing piano player was recognized by..
Joseph Ashbrook
Joseph Ashbrook (April 4 1918 – August 4 1980) was an American astronomer. Ashbrook was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the first to study Cepheid variables as tools for establishing galactic distances. He was a longtime member of the AAVSO. He went through old archives ..
Joseph Ashton
Joseph Ashton may refer to: Joseph Ashton (actor) (born 1986)Joseph Ashton (politician) (born 1933) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the..
Joseph Ashton (actor)
Joseph Ashton Joseph Ashton (born Joseph Ashton Valencia on November 18, 1986) is an American film and voice actor. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Personal life1.2 Career2 Selected filmography3 External links Biography Personal life Ashton was born in California; both of ..
Joseph Ashton (politician)
Joseph William Ashton a.k.a. Joe Ashton (born October 9, 1933) was an English politician. He was Labour member of Parliament for Bassetlaw from 1968 to 2001. He served as a junior minister in the government of James Callaghan, and was a writer for the Daily Star in the 1980s and made regular TV a..
Joseph Asiegbo
--> Prince Joseph Asiegbo was born on October 4, 1979, in Lagos, is the son of King Eze Young Ogbonna Abia State, Obeyin of Nigeria. Contents 1 Early life2 United States Army3 Quotes4 External links Early life In Nigeria he is known as Prince Joe, and he received his formal..
Joseph Aspdin
Joseph Aspdin (1788 – 20 March 1855) was a British mason, bricklayer and inventor who patented Portland cement on 21 October 1824. (This is not correct. He was granted a patent for a method of manufacturing cement which he called Portland cement.) However, the cement he actually produced was not P..
Joseph Athias
Joseph Athias (?-May 12, 1700), was a Jewish Rabbi and publisher of the Hebrew Bible. Born in Spain, probably in Córdoba, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, he settled in Amsterdam. In 1661 and 1667 he issued two editions of the Hebrew Bible. Though carefully printed, they contain a numb..
Joseph Attles
Joseph Attles April 7 1903- October 29 1990 was an American character actor. He was born in James Island, South Carolina, United States. Theatre: Tambourines to GloryJohn Henry- 1940Porgy and BessJericho-Jim CrowKing Lear – 1969The Last of Mrs. Lincoln - 1973Bubbling Brown Sugar - 1977 Film: ..
Joseph Atwill
Joseph Atwill is an American author. His only work to date is Caesar's Messiah, which argues that Christianity is a creation of a circle of individuals around the Roman Emperors Vespasian and Titus, whose purpose was to aid in subduing the Jewish people by providing an alternative to the warlike phi..
Joseph Aubin Doiron
Joseph Aubin Doiron (June 10, 1922 – January 29, 1995) was the Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1980 to 1985, becoming the province's first Acadian Lieutenant-Governor. In 1994, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. |- style="text-align: center;" External links ..
Joseph Augustine Cushman
Joseph Augustine Cushman (January 31, 1881–April 16, 1949) was an American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist. He was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and was educated at Harvard University where he received a B.S. in 1903. He became a curator at the Boston Natural History Mu..
Joseph Auslander
Joseph Auslander (11 October, 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 22 June, 1965, Coral Gables, Florida) was a United States poet and novelist. Auslander held the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress between 1937 and 1941. ..
Joseph Autran
Joseph Autran (June 20, 1813 - March 6, 1877) was a French poet. Joseph Autran was born in Marseille. In 1832 he addressed an ode to Alphonse de Lamartine, who was then at Marseille on his way to the East. Lamartine persuaded the young man's father to allow him to follow his poetic instinct, and Au..
Joseph Ayloffe
Sir Joseph Ayloffe (1708 - April 19th 1781, London), English antiquary, born in Sussex. 6th Baronet Ayloffe, of Braxted Magna, on his death, his baronetcy became extinct. Ayloffe was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries, Author of Calendars of the Ancient Charters, and of t..
Joseph Ayo Babalola University
The Joseph Ayo Babalola University is a private Nigerian university located in Ikeji Arakeji in Osun State, established by the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Worldwide. The university is named for the first Spiritual leader of the Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide, Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola and is..
Joseph Ayranikudy
Joseph Ayranikudy was an Indian poet. He was born in Pandalam, Kerala. He was a Central Government employee for more than 35 years, served the Indian Military and the Indian Customs. During his service he traveled almost all Indian States and he learned their unique culture and languages. He wrote..
Joseph Azzolina
Joseph Azzolina (born January 26, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey) is a Republican who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992-2006 where he represented the 13th legislative district. He also served in the Assembly from 1986-1988 and from 1966-1972. Azzolina also served in the upper house of..
Joseph B. Davol
Joseph Benjamin Davol American Marine painter and teacher. Born Chicago, IL August 25, 1864. Died Ogunquit, Maine June 15, 1923. (Obit in New York Times Sunday June 17, 1923) Following art studies in Boston and New York, Davol studied in Paris at the Academie Julien in 1895-96. In Paris he stud..
Joseph B. Ely
Joseph Buell Ely (February 22, 1881–June 13, 1956) was a governor of the state of Massachusetts. Ely was born in Westfield, Massachusetts on February 22, 1881. A graduate of Williams College in 1902 and Harvard Law School in 1905, he returned to Westfield and began the practice of law as a pa..
Joseph B. Foraker
Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 – May 10, 1917) was a Republican politician from Ohio. He was the 37th Governor of Ohio. Foraker was born near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Foraker attended Cornell University, where he was a member..
Joseph B. Hagey
Joseph B. Hagey (1810–1876) was the Bishop of the Mennonite Church in Ontario from 1852 until his death in 1876. Bishop Hagey presided over a time of disagreement and schism within the Mennonite Church in Canada. He was married to Sophia Bricker, the daughter of notable Mennonite Samuel Bricke..
Joseph B. Johnson
Joseph Blaine Johnson (August 29, 1893 - October 25, 1986) was a politician in the U.S. state of Vermont. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden and became a naturalized U.S. citizen, settling in Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont. In 1945 and 1946, Johnson was a member of the Vermont House of Repr..
Joseph B. Keller
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Joseph B. Kershaw
Joseph Brevard Kershaw (January 5, 1822 – April 13, 1894) was a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Kershaw was born at Camden, South Carolina, admitted to the bar in 1843, and was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1852 to 1856. At the start of the Civ..
Joseph B. McCormick
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Joseph B. McCormick, M.D, worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1974, and was made chi..
Joseph B. Mitchell
Joseph Brady Mitchell (September 25, 1915-February 17, 1993) was an American military historian. He is the author of Decisive Battles of the American Revolution, Decisive Battles of the Civil War, Discipline and Bayonets: The Armies and Leaders in the War of the American Revolution, Twenty Decisive..
Joseph B. Poindexter
Joseph B. Poindexter was Territorial Governor of Hawai'i from 1934 to 1942. Joseph Boyd Poindexter (April 14, 1869- December 3, 1951) was the eighth Territorial Governor of Hawai'i and served from 1934 to 1942. Born in 1869 in Canyon City, Oregon, he was appointed to the office after the ter..
Joseph B. Sargent
Joseph B. Sargent (1822-1907) was the Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut from 1891 to 1894. ..
Joseph B. Smith
Joseph B. Smith (1826 – 8 March 1861) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Lt. Joseph B. Smith, USN Born in Belfast, Maine, Smith was appointed midshipman on 19 October 1841. After graduating with the Class of 1847, he served at the Washington Navy Ya..
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Joseph B. Wirthlin Joseph Bitner Wirthlin (born June 11, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintson October 4 1986, and ordained an apostle on October 9 1986, following the death of church President Spen..
Joseph Babiński
left Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (born November 17, 1857, Paris; died October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage. Babinski was the son of ..
Joseph Bache
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Joseph Baldwin
Joseph Baldwin pioneering educator and called by some the "father of the normal school system," was born to Joseph and Isabella (Cairns) Baldwin October 31 (some sources say October 27), 1827, in New Castle, Pennsylvania (Beaver County). His lifework is characterized by a pair of related tensions..
Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon
Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon (1781-1846), was a French politician. He was the son of Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon. He entered the diplomatic service under the Empire. At the Restoration he was successively prefect of Var, Doubs and Pas de Calais. He was director-general of fine arts in 1828, a..
Joseph Bancroft
Joseph Bancroft (1836-1894), scientist born in England, who emigrated to Australia. He was born at Manchester in 1836. He studied medicine and took his medical degree at St Andrews university in 1859 and later became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He practised at Nottingham until 1864,..
Joseph Bancroft Reade
Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801 - 1870) was an English pioneer of photography. A cleric and a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1838, Reade became interested in photography in 1839 after the announcements by Daguerre and soon after by Talbot. He began experimenting with light-sensitive substances and so..
Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (February 13 1743 – June 19 1820) was an English naturalist and botanist. He took part to Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), and some 75 species bear Banks' name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, ac..
Joseph Banks Rhine
Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980) (usually known as J. B. Rhine) was a pioneer of parapsychology. Contents 1 Biography2 See Also3 External links4 Literature Biography He was educated at Ohio Northern University, the College of Wooster, and at..
Joseph Bara
The Death of Joseph Bara by Jacques-Louis David. Joseph Bara (1780 – December 7, 1793) was a young French republican soldier at the time of the Revolution who was hailed as a hero by the leaders of the movement. Bara voluntarily enrolled in the revolutionary troops fighting the royalist ..
Joseph Barbara
For the actor, Joseph (or Joe) Barbara, see Joseph Barbara (actor) Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara (1905-June 1959) was a hitman of the Buffalo crime family and host of the Apalachin Conference. Career Barbara came to the United States from his native Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily in 1921 soon ..
Joseph Barbara (actor)
Joseph ("Joe") Barbara (born 5 December 1967) is an American television and soap opera actor. He was born on 5 December 1967 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He has a B.S. in television and film production from Syracuse University. After leaving college, he worked briefly as a production assistant at ..
Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera (born March 24, 1911) is an American animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer and co-founder, together with William Hanna of Hanna-Barbera (now known as Cartoon Network Studios). The studio produced well-known cartoons such as ..
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (April 13, 1828 – December 21, 1889) was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham. His name is often abbreviated as J.B. Lightfoot. He was born in Liverpool, where his father was an accountant. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, under James Prince L..
Joseph Barclay Pentland
Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873) was an Irish geographer, natural scientist, and traveler. Born in Ireland, Pentland was educated at Armagh. He also studied in Paris, and worked with Georges Cuvier. With Woodbine Parish, Pentland surveyed a large part of the Bolivian Andes between 1826 an..
Joseph Barcroft
Sir Joseph Barcroft (26 July 1872 - 21 March 1947) was a British physiologist, best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood. His received his degree in Medicine and Science in 1896 from Cambridge University, and at once began his studies of haemoglobin. In the course of his research, he ..
Joseph Bard
Joseph Bard (also known as Diamant József, 1882-1975) was an expatriate Hungarian writer, known for a novel Shipwreck in Europe (1928) and short stories written in English, and as a literary editor. He settled in the United Kingdom, where he was later known as Joseph Bard. His background was Jewish..
Joseph Barnby
Sir Joseph Barnby (1838–1896), English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York on the 12 August 1838. He was a chorister at York Minster from the age of seven, was educated at the Royal Academy of Music under Cipriani Potter and Charles Lucas, and wa..
Joseph Barney
Joseph Barney (Wolverhampton, 1753 - c. 1829) was a British painter, specialising in still life. He studied under Antonio Zucchi and Angelica Kauffmann, and later held posts both as drawing-master at the Royal Military Academy, and as flower painter to the prince regent. ..
Joseph Barondess
Joseph Barondess (1863-1928) was a labor leader and political figure in New York City's Lower East Side Jewish community in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Known as the "King of the Cloakmakers", whose union he led, he carried himself like an actor, a career he had tried but..
Joseph Barr
This article is about the mayor of Pittsburgh, for other people named Joseph Barr see Joseph Barr (disambiguation). Joseph M. Barr (1906–August 26, 1982), served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1959 to 1970. Contents 1 Early life2 Pittsburgh politics3 Latter Life4 Reference..
Joseph Barss
Joseph Barss (21 February 1776 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia – August 3, 1824 near Kentville, Nova Scotia) was a sea captain of the schooner Liverpool Packet, and was one of the most successful privateers on the North American Atlantic coast leading into the War of 1812. In 1811, Barss took comma..
Joseph Bartlett Eastman
Joseph Bartlett Eastman (June 26, 1882-1944) was a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1919 until his death in 1944. Biography Joseph Bartlett Eastman was born in Katonah, New York on June 26, 1882, to John Huse and Lucy (King) Eastman. He prepared at Pottsville, Pennsylvania High S..
Joseph Batangdon
Joseph Batangdon (born July 29, 1978) is a Cameroonian sprints athlete who specializes in the 200 metres. Batangdon became African champion in 2004, a month before the 2004 Summer Olympics. Competing in the 200 metres contest, he did advance from the heats but pulled out of the competition. Persona..
Joseph Bates (Adventist)
Joseph Bates (July 8, 1792 - March 19, 1872) was an American sailor and elder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He is noted for introducing the seventh-day Sabbath to the early Adventists and was a champion of health reform. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early Life2 References3 E..
Joseph Batten
The Reverend Joseph Hallett Batten (died October 11, 1837) was principal of the East India Company College. ..
Joseph Bau
Joseph Bau (born in 1920, Kraków Poland) is a graphic artist and poet, survivor of the Plaszow Nazi concentration camp of World War II. Biography Bau was trained as a graphic artist at the University for Plastic Arts in Kraków, Poland. His education was interrupted by World War II and he was tra..
Joseph Bazalgette
Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was one of the great Victorian civil engineers. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network ..
Joseph Beal Steere
Joseph Beal Steere (9 February, 1842 - 7 December, 1940) was an American ornithologist. Steere was born in Rollin, Michigan. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1868 and a B. of Law in 1870. From 1870-1873 he travelled in South America, China and Taiwan. He went on another scienti..
Joseph Beattie
Joseph Beattie is a British actor. Recently he has starred in the second series of the Sky One UK Television series Hex, as Malachi. Joseph has also appeared in the ITV 2005 adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays, as Flashman. External links [IMDB page for Joseph Beattie] ..
Joseph Bech
Joseph Bech (1887-02-17 - 1975-03-08) was a Luxembourgian politician. He was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven years, from 1926-07-16 until 1937-11-05. He returned to the position after the Second World War, becoming the seventeenth Prime Minister, serving for another..
Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) was a 20th century French writer. Of Breton origin, he spent his childhood in Réunion, and later became a teacher of medieval French literature at various universities. He revived interest in several important old French texts, including Le roman de Tristan et Iseut..
Joseph Beete Jukes
Joseph Beete Jukes (October 10, 1811 – July 29, 1869), English geologist, was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham. He took his degree at Cambridge in 1836. He began the study of geology under Sedgwick, and in 1839 was appointed geological surveyor of Newfoundland. He returned to England at t..
Joseph Bell
Joseph Bell, JP, DL (1837–1911) was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. In his instruction, he emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger and, by observing him..
Joseph Bellamy
Joseph Bellamy (20 February 1719 - 6 March 1790) was an American theologian, was born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale in 1735 and studied theology for a time under Jonathan Edwards. He was licensed to preach when scarcely eighteen years old, and from 1740 until his death was pastor ..
Joseph Benjamin Robinson
Joseph Benjamin Robinson (b. 1845), South African mine-owner, was born at Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1845. At the age of sixteen he started business as a general trader, wool-buyer and stock-breeder, but on the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867 he hastened to the Vaal river district, where..
Joseph Benson Gilder
Joseph Benson Gilder (1858-1936) was an American editor, brother of Richard Watson Gilder and Jeannette Leonard Gilder. He was born at Flushing, N. Y., studied two years in the United States Naval Academy, and for some time was engaged in newspaper work in Newark, N. J. and New York City. In 1..
Joseph ben Abraham
Joseph ben Abraham (Heb. Yosef ben Avraham ha-Kohen) was a Karaite philosopher and theologian who flourished in Babylonia or Persia in the first half of the eleventh century. He was the teacher of, among others, Jeshua ben Judah (Abu al-Faraj Furkan ibn Asad). By way of euphemism he was surnamed "ha..
Joseph Berardino
Joseph (Joe) Berardino (b. 1951) became Managing Partner - Chief Executive Officer of the now-defunct Big 5 accounting firm Arthur Andersen in January, 2001. Berardino resigned on March 26, 2002 as a result of the events surrounding the bankruptcy of Enron Corp. Berardino joined the firm's New York..
Joseph Berchtold
Joseph Berchtold (March 6, 1897–August 23, 1962), a former stationery salesman, succeeded Julius Schreck as Reichsführer SS in 1926. Berchtold served in the First World War and held the rank of second lieutenant at the end of the war. In 1920 he joined the NSDAP. He was considered to be mor..
Joseph Berger
Joseph Berger is an American theoretical sociologist and a Professor Emeritus. After earning his doctoral degree in sociology at Harvard University in the 1950s, he established a theoretical and experimental research program at Stanford University. The program, Expectation States Theory, has many br..
Joseph Berington
Joseph Berington (b. at Winsley, Herefordshire, 16 January 1743; d. at Buckland, 1 December1827) was one of the prominent British Catholic writers of his day. He was educated at the English College at Douai. After his ordination to the priesthood he was promoted to the chair of philosophy in the ..
Joseph Berke
Joseph H. Berke, M.D., is an individual and family psychotherapist. He is the Founder and Director of the Arbours Crisis Centre, London, and a lecturer and teacher. He is the author of many articles and books on psychological, social, political and religious themes, including Mary Barnes:Two Account..
Joseph Bermingham
Joseph Bermingham (9th May 1919 – 11th August 1995) was an Irish Labour Party politician. Joseph Bermingham was born in Castlemitchell, County Kildare. He was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Athy and the O'Brien Institute in Dublin. Bermingham worked as a shopkeeper before bec..
Joseph Bernard
Joseph Bernard (1866-1931) was a modern classical French sculptor, featured on the frontispiece of Elie Faure's 1927 survey of modern art, "Spirit of Forms". External links [Web gallery of 20th Century figure sculpture] ..
Joseph Bernier
Joseph Bernier (August 16, 1874—1952) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba on four occasions between 1900 and 1932. Bernier was a member of the Conservative Party, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Rodmond P. Roblin. His fat..
Joseph Bernstein
For the alleged spy see Joseph Milton Bernstein. Joseph Bernstein, Iosif Naumovič Bernštejn, Hebrew: (born April 18, 1945 in Moscow) is an Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University who works in representation theory. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. See also Berns..
Joseph Berry Breck
Joseph Berry Breck (1830 – 26 July 1865) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Born in Maine, Breck was appointed an Acting Ensign 27 February 1863. He commanded the screw steamer Niphon during the Civil War, taking a prominent part in the destruction of th..
Joseph Betts
Joseph Betts was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford in 1765. ..
Joseph Beuys
Beuys was shot down while flying over the Crimea on May 16, 1944, and was injured. Within a few days (or even the following day), he was treated in a German field hospital (Feldlazarett 179) for two weeks. Later in life, Beuys recounted that he had been rescued by nomad Tatars, who kept him warm..
Joseph Beyrle
Joseph R. "Jumpin' Joe" Beyrle (August 25, 1923 - December 12, 2004) is thought to be the only American soldier to have served in both the United States Army and the Soviet Army in World War II. Born in Muskegon, Michigan, Beyrle graduated from high school in 1942 with the promise of a scholarship ..
Joseph Bharat Cornell
Joseph Bharat Cornell is a famous nature educationalist in United States. He wrote the book "Sharing Nature with Children" in the early 1970s to promote outdoor learning. His book has caused a big impact to the education authorities in USA. It has been more than 20 years since he wrote the book, ..
Joseph Bienaimé Caventou
Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795–1877) was a French chemist. He was a professor at the École de Pharmacie (School of Pharmacy) in Paris. He collaborated with Pierre-Joseph Pelletier in a Parisian laboratory located behind an apothecary. He was a pioneer in the use of mild solvents to isolate ..
Joseph Billings
Joseph Billings (c. 1758 - 1806) was an English navigator and explorer. In 1785, the Russian government of Catherine II commissioned a new expedition in search for the Northeast Passage, led by English officer Joseph Billings, who had previously sailed with Captain Cook, and the Russian officer Gav..
Joseph Bingham
Joseph Bingham (September, 1668 – August 17, 1723), English scholar and divine, was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. He was educated at University College, Oxford, of which he was made fellow in 1689 and tutor in 1691. A sermon preached by him from the university pulpit, St Mary's, on the mean..
Joseph Bitangcol
Joseph Mabalay Bitangcol (born March 28, 1984 in Pampanga, Philippines) is Filipino actor. Joseph is currently dating Sandara Park. Contents 1 Filmography1.1 TV Series1.2 Films2 External links3 References Filmography TV Series Star Circle Quest (as himself)SCQ Reload Ok..
Joseph Black
Joseph Black Joseph Black (April 16,1728 - November 10,1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist. In 1746, he entered the University of Glasgow. Also, Black studied at Edinburgh University and then thoroughly studied properties of carbon dioxide (which he called `fixed air´) in 1754. In 1756..
Joseph Blackburn
This article is about the artist. For the Kentucky politician, see Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn. Joseph Blackburn, also known as Jonathan Blackburn, (dates of birth and death uncertain - see note below) was an English portrait painter who worked mainly in Bermuda and in colonial America. He seems ..
Joseph Blake
Joseph Blake, the nephew of British Admiral Robert Blake, was Governor of South Carolina in 1694 (chosen by the council), and from 1696 to 1700. See also List of Governors of South Carolina ..
Joseph Blanchard
Joseph Blanchard (1704-1758) was born in Dunstable, New Hampshire on February 11, 1704 to Capt. Joseph Blanchard and his wife Abiah Hassell. In 1724 he joined the New Hampshire Militia as a lieutenant and served in Capt. Eleazer Tyng's Company. On September 26, 1728 he married Rebecca Hubbard of Gro..
Joseph Blanchette
Joseph "Legendary Frog" Blanchette is a Flash artist, who is particularly well known within the Newgrounds community. His body of work includes spoofs of popular movies and video games (including The Lord of the Rings and The Legend of Zelda), as well as original work such as his ‘Ark and Kerrigan..
Joseph Blanco White
Joseph Blanco White (July 11, 1775-May 20, 1841) was a British theologian and poet. He was born in Seville in Spain. White was educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but after his ordination in 1800, religious doubts led him to escape from Spain to England (1810). There he ultimately entered t..
Joseph Bloomfield
--> Joseph Bloomfield (October 18, 1753, Woodbridge, New Jersey – October 3, 1823, Burlington, New Jersey) was a Governor of New Jersey. The Township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named for him. Contents 1 Birth2 Education3 First marriage4 Second marriage5 Deat..
Joseph Blowick
Joseph Blowick (13th March 1903 – 12th August 1970) was a senior Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1943 as a Clann na Talmhan TD for Mayo. He succeeded Michael Donnellan as leader of the party in 1944. Blowick was appointed to the Cabinet in the two Inter-Party govern..
Joseph Boakai
Joseph Nyumah Boakai (born November 30, 1944) is the Vice-President of Liberia. He is Vice-President to fellow Unity Party member Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. The son of illiterates, Boakai is a graduate of the College of West Africa, the University of Liberia, and Kansas State University, which he atte..
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born December 23, 1689 in Thionville; died October 28, 1755 in Roissy-en-Brie) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opera ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was purely a composer and one of the first to have no patrons but be able to make a l..
Joseph Bodner
Joseph Bodner (January 16, 1925 - May 28, 1982) was an American painter. He was born in Florence, New Jersey and served in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, he studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he specialized in illustration ..
Joseph Boehm
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, Bart. (July 6, 1834 – December 12, 1890) was a sculptor, best known for the head of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner, born in Vienna, but educated in England. In 1856 Boehm was presented with the Austrian Imperia..
Joseph Bogen
Joseph E. Bogen, M.D. (July 13, 1926 - April 22, 2005) was a neurophysiologoist who specialized in split brain research and focused on theories of consciousness. He was a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of Southern California ,Adjunct Professor of Pscychology at UCLA, and a visi..
Joseph Bologna
Joseph Bologna (born December 30, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor of Italian extraction, who was raised Roman Catholic. He has a long history in film and television. He is married to the versatile actress Renee Taylor, with whom he has a son, Gabriel Bologna; Taylor and Bologna ..
Joseph Bonanno
FBI Mugshot of former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph Bonanno taken in 1964. Giuseppe "Joseph/Joe" Bonanno (January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002) was an American Mafioso who became the boss of one of the most prominent crime families in the world, the Bonanno crime family. He was nicknamed ..
Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph Bonaparte French Monarchy- Bonaparte Dynasty ..
Joseph Boniface de La Môle
Joseph Boniface de La Môle (c. 1530-1574) was a protestant soldier. He was the Provencale lover of Marguerite de Valois (and many other women), during the early part of her marriage to Henri of Navarre, the future Henry IV of France. He served François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, Marguerite's b..
Joseph Bonnet
Joseph Bonnet (March 17, 1884 - August 2, 1944) was a composer and organist. One of the major French organ players, Joseph Bonnet was born in Bordeaux. He first studied with his father, an organist at St. Eulalie. At the age of 14, he became official organist, first at St. Nicholas and almost immed..
Joseph Bonomi
Joseph Bonomi or Giuseppi Bonomi may mean either of a father-son pair notable in architecture and sculpture: Joseph Bonomi the Elder (1739-1808), architectJoseph Bonomi the Younger (1796-1878), sculptor, Egyptologist This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associ..
Joseph Bonomi the Elder
Joseph Bonomi the Elder (19 January 1739 - 9 March 1808) was an Italian architect and draughtsman notable for his activity in England. Born in Rome, he made his early reputation there, then moved to London in 1767. He worked from 1768 until 1781 in the practice of Robert and James Adam before sett..
Joseph Bonomi the Younger
Joseph Bonomi the Younger (9 October 1796 – 3 March 1878) was an English sculptor, artist, egyptologist and museum curator. Bonomi was born into a family of architects. His father, Joseph Bonomi the Elder, had worked with Robert and James Adam, while his older brother, Ignatius Bonomi, was a ..
Joseph Booth
Joseph Booth (born 1851, Derby, England, to 1932) was an English Baptist missionary in British Central Africa (present-day Malawi). He first came to Africa in 1892 along with his wife and daughters, and established the Zambezi Industrial Mission at Mitsidi, close to Blantyre and the Nyasa Industri..
Joseph Bosworth
Joseph Bosworth (1789 - May 27, 1876), English scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and Anglo-Saxon literature, was born in Derbyshire. Educated at Repton, whence he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen, he became in 1817 vicar of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, and devoted his spare time to literat..
Joseph Boussinesq
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (born 13 March 1842 in Saint-André-de-Sangonis, France; died in 1929) was a French physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. The word "turbulence" is owed in large part to Boussinesq. Indeed, Boussinesq was ..
Joseph Bové
Joseph Bové (Russian: Осип Иванович Бове, Osip Ivanovich Bove) (November 4, 1784 — June 28, 1834, all n.s.) was a Russian architect with Italian roots who supervised reconstruction of Moscow after the great fire of 1812. Bove was born in St.Petersburg in the family of Vincenz..
Joseph Boyd
Joseph Boyd was a sailor in the United States Navy, who took part in Stephen Decatur's expedition into Tripoli harbor during the First Barbary War. Boyd enlisted in the Navy 4 April 1803 as a steward. On 16 February 1804 he took part in the expedition which burned Philadelphia following her capture..
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden (born 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His debut novel, Three Day Road, was a nominee for the 2005 Governor General's Awards. It previously won the inaugural McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award. He grew up in Willowdale, Ontario and attended the Je..
Joseph Brackett
Joseph Brackett Jr. (6 May 1797 - 4 July 1882) an American songwiter and Elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing ("The Shakers"), was born in Cumberland, Maine and died in the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake at New Gloucester, Maine. Brackett is known as the author..
Joseph Bradford Carr
Joseph Bradford Carr (1828 – 1895) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Carr was born in Albany, N.Y. He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 2nd New York Infantry in April, 1861, and took part in the engagement at Big Bethel. He served under McClellan throughou..
Joseph Bradley Varnum
Joseph Bradley Varnum Joseph Bradley Varnum (January 29, 1751–September 21, 1821) was a U.S. politician of the Democratic-Republican Party from the state of Massachusetts. Varnum was born in Dracut, Massachusetts. He was a farmer who, despite having little formal education, was learned ..
Joseph Bradshaw
Courtesy: Neil Hutton Joseph Bradshaw, born 1835, Pettigreen, Dromkeen, Co Limerick, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2&..
Joseph Brady
Joseph Brady (October 9, 1928 - June 12, 2001) was a Scottish actor. Brady was born in Glasgow and was trained at the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art. He starred in a number of television shows, notably as PC Jock Weir in Z Cars (1962-1978), as Kenny McBlane in the 1976 series The Fall and Rise of ..
Joseph Brahim Seid
Joseph Brahim Seid is a Chadian writer and politician. He served as Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1975. As a writer he is known for the works Au Tchad sous les étoiles ("In Chad under the stars", 1962) and Un enfant du Tchad ("A Child of Chad", 1967), based on his own life. References http://ww..
Joseph Braithwaite
Joseph Braithwaite may refer to: Joseph Gurney Braithwaite, British politicianJoseph Braithwaite, mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand ..
Joseph Bramah
Joseph Bramah (1748 - December 9 1814), born Stainborough, Yorkshire, England. He was an inventor and locksmith. Bramah started life as a farm worker in Yorkshire before an injury caused him to divert his attention to woodworking. He migrated to London, where his efforts led to the invention of a ..
Joseph Branch
Joseph Branch (1915-1991) was an American jurist who served as Associate Justice (1966-1979) and then Chief Justice (1979-1986) of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He was a native of Halifax County, North Carolina and earned his law degree from Wake Forest University. Branch served in the state H..
Joseph Brant
Joseph Brant, painted in London by leading court painter George Romney in 1776 Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (sometimes spelled Brandt or Brand) (c. 1742 – 24 November 1807) was a Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolutionary War. Brant was perhaps the mos..
Joseph Brazier
Joseph Brazier was originally a gun-locksmith firm, based in Wolverhampton, England, having begun as a family business around 1700 in London. The firm was very active in the 19th century, and was well known as a manufacturer of precision locks for rifles - including some used in the American Civil ..
Joseph Breckinridge
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (6 March 1872 - 11 February 1898) was an officer in the United States Navy in the Spanish-American War. Breckinridge was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1895. He served in the battleship Texas, where on several occasions he displayed ..
Joseph Breen
For the administrator of Hollywood's Production Code see Joseph I. Breen Joseph Breen (born July 5, 1958) is an American soap opera actor. He was born in Katonah, New York. He played contract parts on both Guiding Light and Loving before being offered his most front-burner role to date: that of Li..
Joseph Brennan
Joseph Brennan may refer to: Joseph Brennan (civil servant) (1887–1963), Irish civil servantJoseph Brennan (basketball) (1900–1989), American basketball playerJoseph Brennan (Irish politician) (1912–1980), Irish Fianna Fáil Party TD and government ministerJoseph Brennan (politicia..
Joseph Brennan (basketball)
For other people named , see {{{1. Joseph R. Brennan (November 15, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York - May 10, 1989) was one of the early pro basketball players. He is mostly know for his time with the Brooklyn Visitations, which he led to three ABL championships (1929, 1931, 1935). After retiring he coach..
Joseph Brennan (civil servant)
For other people named , see {{{1. Joseph Brennan (1887–1963) was a senior Irish civil servant born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. He was Secretary of the Department of Finance, Chairman of the Currency Commission and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. ..
Joseph Brennan (Irish politician)
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Joseph Brennan (politician)
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Joseph Breuer
This page is about the rabbi community leader. The early psychoanalyst is Josef Breuer. Rabbi Dr Joseph Breuer in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, taken between 1935-1938 Joseph Breuer (1882-1980) was a rabbi community leader in Germany and the United States. He led the German-Jewish community in..
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: ) was a poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992). Contents 1 In the Soviet Union2 In the United Stat..
Joseph Broussard
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details.Joseph Broussard, also known as Beausoleil, was a leader amongst the Acadian people in Acadie; later rename..
Joseph Brown
Joseph Brown may refer to: Joseph Brown (artist) (born 1918), Australian artist and collectorJoseph Brown (Australian politician)Joseph Brown (general)Joseph Brown (Missouri politician)Joseph Brown (professor)Joseph Brown (shipbuilder)Joseph F. Brown, Texas state representative, 1874–1876, 1893�..
Joseph Browne
Disambiguation: Another 'Joseph Browne was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1759–1765. Joseph Browne is a Fijian civil servant, who was Official Secretary to the late President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, prior to Mara's possibly forced resignation during the insurrection which deposed the c..
Joseph Brown (artist)
Joseph Brown (born 1918) Australian artist and art collector. Born in Poland, he immigrated to Australia when he was 15 years old. In 2004, he donated a large portion of his art collection to the National Gallery of Victoria, which is displayed at the Ian Potter Centre for Australian art. The Joseph..
Joseph Brown Collection
The Joseph Brown Collection are works donated by Dr. Joseph Brown, in the Ian Potter Centre, part of the National Gallery of Victoria. It is a varied collection of Australian art from different periods, with more than 150 works on display. The artworks which make up the collection were given to t..
Joseph Bruce
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Joseph Bruno
Joseph L. Bruno (born April 8, 1929) is an American businessman and politician. He is the current majority leader of the New York State Senate, elected to the Senate from the 43rd District. He is a member of the Republican Party. Contents 1 Personal Life2 Political Career2.1 Cri..
Joseph Bruno Slowinski
Joseph Bruno "Joe" Slowinski, Ph.D (November 15, 1962&ndashSeptember 12, 2001) was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid snakes. He was born on November 15, 1962 in New York City, New York. He attained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kansas in 1984 and..
Joseph Brunton
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Joseph A. Brunton, Jr. was one of the charter members of the Octoraro Lodge #22 of the Chester County Council, Boy Scouts of America in 1927, and later became the National Order of the Arrow Conference Chief. He served as the Boy Scouts of America's Chief Scout Executive ..
Joseph Buckner Killebrew
Joseph Buckern Killebrew (1831-1906) was born in Montgomery County, Tennessee near Clarksville. When he was four years old, his mother died, and he was raised by a succession of relatives. As a young man he took charge of the family farm. He was opposed to the secession attitudes of his fellow sou..
Joseph Buford Cox
Joseph Buford Cox invented what is now known as the chipper type chain for chain saws. He based his design on the C-shaped jaws of the larva of the timber beetle. He and his wife, Violet founded "The Oregon Saw Chain Co." Cox later started a small casting company called OMARK now known as "Omark In..
Joseph Bukoski, III
Reverend Joseph Bukoski, III, SS.CC., is a Roman Catholic priest of the Hawaiian Province of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Father Bukoski was ordained to the presbyterate at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Kaimuki in 1979 and served as parochial vicar till 1985. The..
Joseph Burlazzi
Joseph Burlazzi was an U.S. Army soldier in World War II who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his conduct during Army operations in North Africa. Burlazzi was born in Smith's Mills, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Army in 1940 and trained at Fort Devens, Mass. He was ..
Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson
Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952)[#endnote_citation], was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which largely marked the decline of motion picture censorship in the United States.Jowett, G. (1996). "A significant medium for the communication of ideas": T..
Joseph Burton Sumner
Joseph Burton Sumner (October 11, 1837 – February 15, 1920) was perhaps the most important figure in the founding of Sumner, Mississippi. Sumner and his family moved to Tallahatchie County, Mississippi from Alabama around January, 1872. J. B. Sumner built the first general store and post offi..
Joseph Butler
You might also be looking for Joseph Campbell Butler, founding member of The Lovin' Spoonful Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692–June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born in Wantage, Berkshire, England. The son of a Presbyterian linen-draper, he was de..
Joseph Buttinger
Joseph Buttinger (b. 1906 Austria; d. 4 March 1992, Queens, New York) was born into a working-class family and left school at age 13 to help support his family. He became a youth movement leader in Austria and, by the age of 24, was secretary of the Social Democratic Party. After being imprisoned..
Joseph Byrne
Joseph Byrne was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Joseph C. Gioconda
Mr. Gioconda is a partner at the prestigious law firm Kirkland & Ellis, and is widely regarded as an expert in the areas of trademarks, anti-counterfeiting and entertainment law. He focuses his practice on litigating and counseling in the areas of trademarks and trade dress, defamation, rights of ..
Joseph C. Grew
Joseph C. Grew was the American ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941, and later an Undersecretary of State. During the years leading up to World War II, Grew worked hard to improve relations between the United States and Japan. [link]. In January, 1941, he heard a rumor from the Peru..
Joseph C. McConnell
Joseph C. McConnell in his F-86 following his last mission in Korea Joseph Christopher "Mac" McConnell, Jr. (died August 25, 1954) was an American navigator during World War II, and then fighter and test pilot for the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. McConnell was the first triple jet fi..
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Joseph C. O'Mahoney was a United States Senator (Democrat) from Wyoming. O'Mahoney was born in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, November 5 1884. He attended the parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City. He moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1908 and engaged as a report..
Joseph C. Phillips
Joseph C. Phillips (born January 17, 1962 in Denver, Colorado) is an African American actor. Phillips played Martin Kendall on the NBC sitcom, The Cosby Show from 1989 to 1991. Additionally, he portrayed Justus Ward on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital from 1994 to 1998. Phillips is also a gues..
Joseph C. Porter
Joseph C. Porter was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, a key leader in the guerilla campaigns in northern Missouri, and a figure of controversy. The main source for his history, Joseph A. Mudd (see below) is clearly an apologist; his opponents take a less charitable view of him, and h..
Joseph C. Ritchie
Joseph C. Ritchie was the mayor of Newport News, Virginia for ten years, from July 1, 1976 to June 30, 1986. Ritchie was the first Republican mayor for the city; in fact, his election to City Council in 1970 was the first time a Republican had been chosen to serve as a Councilman. Ritchie's decade ..
Joseph C. Wilson
Wilson at Clark University lecture on 2005-10-17 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Joseph Charles Wilson IV (born November 61949) was a United States foreign service diplomat between 1976 and 1998. He has achieved his recent notoriety from an op-ed essay[link] published on July 6, 20..
Joseph C. Yates
Governor Joseph C. Yates, as painted by Ezra Ames, circa 1825 Joseph Christopher Yates (November 9, 1768–March 19, 1837), born in Schenectady, New York, was an American lawyer, statesman and politician. Yates catapulted himself up the ranks of his day, becoming first the mayor of Schenec..
Joseph Cafasso
St. Joseph Cafasso Confessors Born january 15, 1811, Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy Died June 23 1860, Turin , Italy Venerated in Roman Catholicism Beatified 1925 Canonized 1947 Major shrine Feast June 22 Attributes Minister Patronage prison chaplains, captives, imprisoned peop..
Joseph Cahill
--> John Joseph Cahill (21 January, 1891 – 22 October, 1959) was Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to 1959. He is best remembered as the Premier who approved construction on the Sydney Opera House, and for his work increasing the authority of local government in the state. Joe Cahill as ..
Joseph Caillaux
French politician Joseph Caillaux Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30, 1863 - November 21/22, 1944) was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the..
Joseph Calasanctius
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Joseph Caldwell
Joseph Caldwell (1773 – 1835), was a U.S. educator, Presbyterian minister, and mathematician. He was the first president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holding the office from 1804 till 1812, and 1817 till his death in 1835. He was born in Lamington, New Jersy. External lin..
Joseph Calhoun
Joseph Calhoun (1750—1817) a Representative from South Carolina; born in Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, October 22, 1750; moved with his father to South Carolina in 1756 and settled in Granville District, on Little River, near the present town of Abbeville. Received a limited education; eng..
Joseph Cali
Joseph Cali (born March 30, 1950 in New York City) is an actor. He is most remembered for playing Joey in the 1977 blockbuster movie Saturday Night Fever. Cali is primarily a supporting actor who has appeared in small roles on TV and film. He is reportedly running a home theater business now. ..
Joseph Calleia
Calleila in Gilda (1946) as Det. Maurice Obregon Joseph Calleia (born August 4, 1897; died October 31, 1975 in Malta), was a movie character actor. He made his screen debut in 1935 and went on to appear in a total of 57 movies. Calleia usually played cops or a villain in gangster or western f..
Joseph Campanella
Main title caption from The Colbys, in which Campanella played Hutch Corrigan. Joseph Campanella (born November 21, 1933 in New York City) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 TV and film roles since 1955, including a prominent role as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of ou..
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell (disambiguation)
Joseph Campbell may refer to: Joseph Campbell - important 20th century mythologist.Joseph Campbell (poet) - Irish poet and lyricistJoseph A. Campbell - founded Campbell Soup Company This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an r..
Joseph Campbell (poet)
Joseph Campbell (1879 - 1944) was an Irish poet and lyricist. He wrote as Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil (also Seosamh MacCathmhaoil), which has been Anglicised to Joseph McCahill on occasion. He is now remembered best for words he supplied to traditional airs, such as My Lagan Love; his verse was also set ..
Joseph Campbell Butler
Joe Butler (born Joseph Campbell Butler, on 16 September, 1941, in Long Island, New York was a founding member of The Lovin' Spoonful. A drummer-vocalist, he came from Long Island and earned a role filling in the musical production "Hair". In 1991 Joseph Campbell Butler reunited with other former..
Joseph Canteloube
Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 - November 4, 1957), was a French composer. Canteloube was born in Annonay in the Ardèche, and died at Grigny in Yvelines. He is best known for his collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region, Chants d’Auvergne ("Songs of the Auvergne"). Canteloube ..
Joseph Capecci
Joseph Raymond Capecci, was born February 5 1933 to Joseph Pirelli-Capecci an automobile race car mechanic and Mary Apostoli a homemaker. His father Joseph Sr. immigrated to the United States in 1906 at the Age of 6. He was trained at [Detroit Diesel] and was considered one of the founde..
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Joseph Louis Bernardin (originally Bernardini), later Joseph Louis Cardinal Bernardin, (April 2, 1928–November 14, 1996) was an American clergyman, the twelfth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, serving from 1982 to 1996 (succeeded John Cardinal Cody). ..
Joseph Cardinal Höffner
Joseph Cardinal Höffner (born 24 December 1906, died 16 October 1987) was a Cardinal priest and Archbishop of Cologne in the Roman Catholic Church. Joseph Höffner was Bishop of Münster (1962-1969) and Archbishop of Cologne as successor of Josef Cardinal Frings from 1969 to 1987. He was made a C..
Joseph Cardinal MacRory
Joseph Cardinal MacRory (19 March 1861–13 October 1945) was an Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland until his death. Joseph MacRory was born in Armagh in 1861. He was ordained a priest of the Armagh diocese on 13 September, 1885. On 9 A..
Joseph Cardinal Ritter
Joseph Elmer Ritter, (July 20, 1892-June 10, 1967), was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis from 1946 until his death on June 10, 1967. He was born in New Albany, Indiana, and studied at St. Meinrad's Seminary before being ordained to the priesthood in 1917. He then to..
Joseph Cardinal Zen
Joseph Zen Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun, SDB (Traditional Chinese: }) (born January 13, 1932) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and bishop of Hong Kong. On March 24, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to the dignity of a Cardinal Priest assigned to the titular church of S. Maria Madre..
Joseph Carlebach
See also Carlebach. Joseph Hirsch Carlebach (January 30, 1883, Lübeck - March 26, 1942, KZlager Jungfernhof bei Riga), was a German rabbi, scholar, natural scientist (Naturwissenschaftler). Literary works External links ..
Joseph Carlton Loser
Joseph Carlton Loser (October 11, 1892–July 31, 1984) was a Nashville, Tennessee Democratic politician. Loser (the name is pronounced "low-ser") was born in Davidson County, Tennessee. He attended public schools and the former YMCA Law School (now Nashville School of Law). He was secretary..
Joseph Carr
[] at NFL.com Joseph F. Carr (October 23, 1879 - May 20, 1939) was an early figure in professional football. Carr was born in Columbus, Ohio. He founded the Columbus Panhandles football team in 1904. He helped create the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920 - this..
Joseph Carroll
Lt. Gen. Joseph Francis Carroll (19 March,1910 – 20 January, 1991) was the founding director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and founding director of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). Contents 1 Youth & Education2 Time as a special agent3&nb..
Joseph Carruthers
Sir Joseph Hector McNeil Carruthers (born Kiama, December 21, 1857; died Waverley, December 10, 1932) was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales. Carruthers was the son of John Carruthers, was born at Kiama, New South Wales. His father was unable to pay for secondary education, an..
Joseph Carr (disambiguation)
Joseph Carr may refer to Joseph Carr (1879-1939) U. S. A. National Football League president, (1921-39) Joseph Bradford Carr (1828-95) U. S. A. soldier and politician, Secretary of State, (1879-1885) ..
Joseph Carter
Joseph Carter (1910-1970) was the pseudonym of Joseph Friedman, a founding member of the American Trotskyist movement. Friedman joined the youth section of the US Socialist Party in 1924, and that of the Communist Party in 1928. He was a founding member of the Communist League of America in 1929,..
Joseph Carter (disambiguation)
Joseph or Joe Carter may refer to: Joe Carter (born 1960), Major League Baseball player, 1983–1997Joseph Carter (1910–1970), American Socialist activistJoe D. Carter, Texas state representative, 1949–1951, and senator, 1951–1953 This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a lis..
Joseph Carter Abbott
For the Canadian clergyman, see Joseph Abbott (clergyman) Sen. Joseph C. Abbott Joseph Carter Abbott (15 July 1825 - 8 October 1881) was a Union general during the American Civil War and a Republican United States Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1868 and 1871. Early Life Abb..
Joseph Caryl
Joseph Caryl (1602-March, 1673) was an English Nonconformist divine. He was born in London, graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, and became preacher at Lincoln's Inn. He frequently preached before the Long Parliament, and was a member of the Westminster Assembly in 1643. By order of the parliament ..
Joseph Casavant
Joseph Casavant (1807 – 9 March 1874) was a French Canadian manufacturer of pipe organs, and the founder of the firm Casavant Frères. Originally a blacksmith, Joseph gave up his trade at age 27 to pursue classical studies. He happened upon a 1766 treatise by Dom Bédos de Celles on organ bui..
Joseph Cassey Bustill
Joseph Cassey Bustill (1822-1895) was an African American conductor in the Underground Railroad. Birth and marriage Joseph was born in Philadelphia in 1822 to David Bustill and Elizabeth W. Hicks (aka Mary Hicks). His sibling was: Charles Hicks Bustill (1816-1890). Joseph married Sarah Humphreys (1..
Joseph Cassidy
For other people named , see (disambiguation). Joseph Cassidy (born July 30, 1872 in Lanarkshire) was a Scottish football player. Joseph started his career with Motherwell F.C., Blythe F.C., and Celtic F.C.. In 1892, he was transferred to Manchester United. In 7 seasons with the Red Devils, Joseph ..
Joseph Cassidy (disambiguation)
Joseph Cassidy could refer to: Joseph Cassidy, (born 1872), Scottish footballerJoseph Cassidy (Archbishop), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland ..
Joseph Cattarinch
Joseph Cattarinch (born November 13, 1881 in Levis, Quebec - December 7, 1938), was an owner in the National Hockey League. Cattarinch purchased the Montreal Canadiens in 1921 along with Leo Dandurand. He owned the team until 1935, during which time the Canadiens won three Stanley Cups. He helped..
Joseph Cawthra
Joseph Cawthra (14 October 1759 – 15 February 1842) was a Canadian merchant and politician. Cawthra arrived in York, Upper Canada, (now Toronto) from Yorkshire, England, in 1802. He was granted a 400 acre (1.6 km²) tract of land in Mississauga, Ontario (which at the time was undeveloped r..
Joseph Cella
Joseph Cella is president of the conservative Catholic group Fidelis. ..
Joseph Celli
Joseph Celli Joseph Celli (b. March 19, 1944) is a U.S. musician and composer specializing in contemporary and improvised music for oboe and english horn. In addition, he plays the Yamaha WX7 MIDI breath controller, as well as double reed instruments from several Asian cultures, including the..
Joseph Ceravolo
Joseph Ceravolo (April 22, 1934 – September 4, 1988) was an American poet associated with the second generation of the New York School. Most of Ceravolo’s work is out of print and his popularity is limited to the community of writers. As Charles North writes “[Ceravolo’s] importanc..
Joseph Cerneau
Joseph Cerneau was born in Villeblevin, in Yonne, France. He worked as a goldsmith. He emigrated to Haiti, where he became involved in freemasonry by 1801. By 1804 he had moved to Havana, Cuba. He was driven out from Cuba in November 1806 coming to New York where he was denounced for unmasonic activ..
Joseph Chaikin
Joseph Chaikin (September 16, 1935–June 22, 2003) was an American theatre director. He had severe health problems in his youth, and was physically very fragile. He attended Drake University in Iowa, and then went on to work with The Living Theatre before founding The Open Theater. The Open The..
Joseph Chaires Plantation
Joseph Chaires Plantation was a large cotton plantation of 3800 acres (15 km2) located in southern Leon County, Florida, USA owned by Joseph Chaires. Contents 1 Location2 Plantation specifics3 The owner4 References Location The Joseph Chaires Plantation's northern bord..
Joseph Chalier
Joseph Chalier (1747 – 1793) was a French Revolutionist. As a young man, Chalier's family hoped he would take a career in the church. But instead he became a partner in a law firm in Lyon. Because of his job with the firm, he traveled to Levant, Italy, Spain and Portugal. While living in Par..
Joseph Chamberlain
The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836–2 July 1914) was a British statesman. In early years he was a successful businessman, a radically minded Liberal, a campaigner for educational reform and became President of the Board of Trade. He later he re-emerged in all..
Joseph Chamberlain (disambiguation)
Joseph Chamberlain can refer to: Joseph Chamberlain (1836 – 1914), British politician;Joseph Chamberlain (1796 – 1874), his father, a manufacturer.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you ma..
Joseph Chapman
Joseph Chapman is an American actor, noted for his appearances in various television series. His credits include: Wonder Woman, Barnaby Jones, The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Airwolf, Knots Landing, Riptide, Dynasty, Cagney and Lacey, thirtysomething, The Fre..
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson (May 18 1842–May 25 1924) was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. External link [Joseph Chappell Hutcheson] from the Handbook of Texas Online [[Category:People from Texas|Hutcheson, Jo..
Joseph Charles Arthur
Joseph Charles Arthur (January 11, 1850 - April 30, 1942) was an American botanist known for his investigations into rusts (a variety of fungus). External links [Britannica.com article] ..
Joseph Charles Brennan
Joseph Charles Brennan was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Contents 1 Details2 Further information3 The medal4 Reference5 See ..
Joseph Charles Fowell
Joseph Charles Fowell (August 2,1891-1970) was a prominent Australian 20th Century architect. Born in Albany, Western Australia but educated in England, Joseph Fowell arrived back in Australia in 1919 where he worked with Professor Leslie Wilkinson at Sydney University. Fowell was primarily resp..
Joseph Chatoyer
Joseph Chatoyer (d. March 14, 1795) was a Garifuna Carib chief who led a revolt against the British colonial government of Saint Vincent in 1795. He is now considered a national hero of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. For two centuries, the indigenous Carib population of the island succeeded in r..
Joseph Checkler
--> Joseph Checkler is a journalist for Dow Jones who also publishes the popular baseball blog [Liners, Sliders and Scoops]. He has also covered tennis events such as the 2003 and 2004 U.S. Open tournaments. ..
Joseph Chénier
Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Po..
Joseph Chesire
Joseph Cheshire is a former Kenyan middle distance runner who represented his country in the 1984 and 1992 Summer Olympics (where he came fourth). Cheshire also won the 1500 m at the London Grand Prix in 1992. His greatest indoor achievement was the bronze medal at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games. ..
Joseph Childs
Major Joseph Childs (1787-1870), soldier and penal administrator, of the Royal Marines, was commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from 7 February 1844 to August 1846. He entered the Marines in 1809 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the British-American War in 1813. He ..
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce is the author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power, Evolution's End, and The Biology of Transcendence. One of his overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the "unfolding" of i..
Joseph Chitty
Sir Joseph William Chitty (1828 - February 15, 1899), was an English judge. He was born in London, the second son of Thomas Chitty (himself son and brother of well-known lawyers), a celebrated special pleader and writer of legal textbooks, under whose teaching many distinguished lawyers began their..
Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz
Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, (Baron Joseph Christian von Zedlitz). born 28.2.1790 in Schloss Johannisberg Castle (today Janovka, Czech Republic), died 16.3.1862 in Vienna, Austria. Austrian dramatist and epic poet. His wife died 1836, and 1837 he was nominated by the foreign service to wo..
Joseph Christian Lillie
Joseph Christian Lillie, also known as J.C. Lillie, (March 20, 1760- January 29, 1827) was a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he is mainly known for his interior designs and furniture production. His later career was in Schleswig-Holstein..
Joseph Cilley
There were at least two people with the name Joseph Cilley. Joseph Cilley (state senator) (1734-1799) was a soldier and New Hampshire state senator.Joseph Cilley (senator) (1791-1887), his grandson, was a U.S. senator. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles asso..
Joseph Cilley (senator)
This article is about the U.S. Senator. For his grandfather, the New Hampshire state senator and maj. gen. (1734-1799), see Joseph Cilley (state senator). Joseph Cilley (January 4 1791 - September 16 1887) was a United States senator from New Hampshire. Cilley was born in Nottingham, New Hampshire,..
Joseph Cilley (state senator)
This article is about the New Hampshire state senator. For his grandson, the U.S. Senator, see Joseph Cilley (senator). Joseph Cilley (1734-1799) was a New Hampshire state senator and general. Cilley was born in 1734 at Nottingham, New Hampshire to Captain J. Cilley of the Isles of Shoals and his ..
Joseph Cinqué
Joseph Cinqué. Portrait by Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1839 Sengbe Pieh (1815 – ca. 1879), later known as Joseph Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende tribe who was the most prominent defendant in the Amistad case, in which it was proved that he and 52 others had been victims of the ille..
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione (b. November 13, 1949) is the Senior Associate and Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported on October 19, 2005 in the "Heard on the Hill" gossip column, that Cirincione is a f..
Joseph City, Arizona
Joseph City, Arizona (elevation 5,000 ft) is an unincorporated community located in Navajo County and is located on Interstate 40 about eighty miles east of Flagstaff. It was originally founded by Mormon settlers in 1876 as Allen's Camp, and later, St. Joseph, Arizona. The town was located on t..
Joseph Clark
Joseph Clark is the name of: Joseph Clark (tennis player) (1861–1956), American tennis player; 1885 U.S. Championships men's doubles champion.Joseph J. Clark (1893–1971), Admiral in the U.S. Navy during World War IIJoseph S. Clark (1901–1990), United States Senator from Pennsylvani..
Joseph Clarke
Joseph "Fighting Joe" Andrew Clarke (born: September 20, 1869 died: July 26, 1941) was a politician and lawyer from Canada. He served twice as mayor of the City of Edmonton, and was a perennial candidate for federal and provincial elections. He served in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1903 to ..
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (October 1, 1838 - September 12, 1918) was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Kentucky. He was born near Spring Station, Kentucky. He attended Sayres Institute in Frankfort and graduated from Centre College in Danville in 1857. He studied law in Lexington an..
Joseph Clay Styles Blackburn
Joseph Clay Styles Blackburn was the military Governor of Panama Canal Zone. |- style="text-align: center;" External links ..
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria
Joseph Clemens von Wittelsbach (December 5, 1671 - November 12, 1723) was a archbishop of Cologne, Germany, from 1688 to 1723. The third son of Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria and his wife, Henrietta Adelaide of Savoy, Joseph Clemens was designated by his parents for a life in the church. He becam..
Joseph Clement
Joseph Clement ( 1779 – 28 February 1844) was a British engineer and industrialist. He was baptised Joseph Clemmet 13 June 1779 at Great Asby in Westmorland, the son of a hand-loom weaver. Although he was taught to read and write at the local school, he learnt mechanics and natural history from ..
Joseph Clement Coll
Joseph Clement Coll (1881-1921) was an American newspaper and book illustrator. He began his professional career working for the New York American in the late 1890's. He was soon working for magazines such as Collier's', Everybody's'' and the American Sunday Magazine. His illustrations for work ..
Joseph Clinton
Joseph D. Clinton had a long professional association with Buckminster Fuller. In 1970, Clinton worked in the School of Technology at Southern Illinois University, where Fuller taught, and researched papers on the mathematics involved with geodesics, contracted and published by NASA in 1971. Some..
Joseph Cochran
Joseph Plumb Cochran (Jan 14, 1855 - August 18, 1905) was an American Presbyterian missionary. He is often credited for founding Iran’s "first contemporary medical college".[#endnote_1] In 1876, he graduated from New York Medical College, met his wife Katharine Hale in Minnesota, and mo..
Joseph Coerten Hornblower
Joseph Coerten Hornblower (May 6, 1777 – June 11, 1864) was an American lawyer and jurist from Belleville, New Jersey. He was the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Joseph was born in Belleville and lived there for his entire life. His parents were Josiah and Elizabeth (Kingsland)..
Joseph Coghlan
Rear Admiral Joseph Bulloch Coghlan (9 December 1844 – 5 December 1908) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Born at Frankfort, Kentucky, Coghlan graduated from the Naval Academy in 1863. He served in Sacramento during the Civil ..
Joseph Collyer
Joseph Collyer, also called the Younger, (1748-1827) was an engraver in London. After learning under Anthony Walker, he took a job with Boydell. He exhibited his works at the Royal Academy on a regular basis, and became member of the Society of Arts. He became the official engraver of Queen Charlo..
Joseph Colon Trabotto
Joseph Colon Trabotto, also known as Maharik, was the foremost Talmudist of Italy in the second half of the 15th century; born probably at Chambéry, Savoy, about 1420; died at Padua 1480. Colon (whose name is probably identical with the French "colombe," dove) belonged to the scholarly family of t..
Joseph Coney
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Joseph Coney is the first ..
Joseph Coniglio
Sen. Joe Coniglio Joseph Coniglio (born February 2, 1943) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 2002, where he represents the 38th Legislative District. Senator Coniglio is the Chairman of the State Government Committee, and he also..
Joseph Connolly
Joseph Connolly (19th January 1885 – 18th January 1961) was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Born in Belfast in 1886, Joseph Connolly was an ardent nationalist. He was a co-founder of the first Freedom Club to propagate Sinn Féin's message in 1911. He was a leader of the Irish Volunte..
Joseph Conombo
Joseph Issoufou Conombo (born February 17, 1917) served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 7 July 1978 to 25 November 1980. ..
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad. Nałęcz coat-of-arms. Conrad declined an offered British knighthood, as he already had this hereditary Polish coat-of-arms. Building at Nowy Świat 47 (47 New World Street), Warsaw, Poland, where Conrad lived in 1861 with his father, the Polish poet, translator and un..
Joseph Conrad (ship)
Type: Full Rigged Ship Hull: Iron Built: 1882, København, Denmark Homeport: Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT Builder and Designer: Burmeister & Wain [Spar|Sparred] Length: 118 ft (36m) Length on deck: 100.8 ft (30.7m) Beam: 25.3 ft (7.7m) Draft: 12 ft (3.7m) Displ..
Joseph Cook
Sir Joseph Cook (7 December, 1860 – 30 July, 1947), Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. He had no formal education and worked in the coal mines from the age of nine. He ma..
Joseph Cooke Verco
Sir Joseph Cooke Verco (August 1 1851 - July 26 1933) was an Australian physician and conchologist. verco was a son of James Crabb Verco, and was born at Fullarton, South Australia. Both his parents came from Cornwall, England. He was educated at the school of J. L. Young, and after spending a year..
Joseph Corbett, Jr.
Joseph Corbett, Jr., a former Fulbright scholar, became the 127th Fugitive named on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, placed there March 30, 1960 for the kidnap and subsequent murder of Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Beer fortune. A nationwide manhunt was conducted that spanned from California..
Joseph Cordiano
Joseph Cordiano (born October 30, 1957) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty. Cordiano was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Italian immigrants. He was ..
Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke
Count Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke (1772-1849) was a Russian nobleman and military leader who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He is also particularly well remembered in Serbia where he led a combined Russian and Serb army to defeat the Turks at Varvarin in 1810. A monument in his honor was erected in Se..
Joseph Cornell
A photograph of Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell, (born Nyack, New York December 24, 1903 – died December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant garde experimental f..
Joseph Cortese
American born actor has been in evil speak and american history x. ..
Joseph Cosey
Joseph Cosey (1887-1950?) was a US document forger who forged handwriting from US historical figures. Cosey was born February 1887 as Martin Coneely in Syracuse, New York. Cosey worked as a printer's apprentice before he joined the US Army 1909 but was dishonourably discharged four years later. He..
Joseph Costello
Joseph Costello is a prominent person in electronic design automation (EDA) industry. President of SDA Systems, 1987-1988CEO of Cadence Design Systems, 1988–1997.Recipient of Phil Kaufman Award, 2004. ..
Joseph Cotten
--> Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905–February 6, 1994) was an American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and Journey Into Fear, which Cotten wrote. He received his start on Broadway, starr..
Joseph Cotter
Joseph Henry Cotter (January 1, 1872 — ?) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1932, as a member of the Conservative Party. Cotter was born in Milan, Italy, the son of a Church of England rector in Ireland. He was educated at priva..
Joseph Cottle
Joseph Cottle (1770-1853) was a publisher and author. Cottle started business in Bristol. He published the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey on generous terms. He then wrote in his Early Recollections an exposure of Coleridge that has been, at the time, severely criticised and gen..
Joseph Coulon de Jumonville
Joseph Coulon de Villiers, Sieur de Jumonville (8 September 1718 – May 28 1754) was a French Canadian military officer. His defeat at the Battle of Jumonville Glen and his murder after surrendering to George Washington would set off the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War). Jumonville wa..
Joseph Cowen
Joseph Cowen (1831 - February 18, 1900), English politician and journalist, son of Sir Joseph Cowen, a prominent citizen and Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne from 1865 to 1873, was born at Stella Hall, Blaydon. Cowen junior was educated privately in Ryton and at Edinburgh University..
Joseph Cowles Mehaffey
Joseph Cowles Mehaffey (November 20, 1889 - February 18, 1963) was Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1944 to 1948. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1911. From 1941-44 he was maintenance engineer of the Panama Canal. He served as Governor of the Panama Cana..
Joseph Cox
Joe CoxSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests First-class Matches 3 42 '''Runs scored 17 357 Batting average 3.39 8.30 100s/50s -/- -/1 Top score 12* 51 Balls bowled 576 - Wickets 4 120 Bowling ..
Joseph Crane Hartzell
Joseph Crane Hartzell (1842-1929) was a American-born Missionary Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, who served in the United States and in Africa. Elected in 1896, he was born 1 June 1842 on a farm near Moline, Illinois. He was converted to the Christian faith when a boy. He earned his own..
Joseph Crawhall
Joseph Crawhall (1861–1913) was a British artist born in Morpeth, Northumberland. He was the fourth child and second son of Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. Crawhall specialised in painting animals and birds. In the 1880s and 1890s, his work became associated with the Glasgow Boys. He..
Joseph Crawhall II
Joseph Crawhall II (1821–1896) was born at West House, Newcastle. Crawhall, like his father, was interested in writing and water-colour painting. He went on to produce many books, illustrated by himself. His first (printed by himself in 1859) was entitled The Compleatest Angling Booke That E..
Joseph Crétin
Joseph Crétin (19 December 1799 - 22 February 1857) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Cretin Avenue in St. Paul, Cretin-Derham Hall High School, and Cretin Hall at the University of St. Thomas are named for him. He was born in Montluel, in the département of Ain, Fran..
Joseph Cross
Joseph Michael Cross (born March 28, 1986) is an American actor. Cross, the oldest of five siblings, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Maureen and Michael Cross. He has appeared in the Hollywood films Desperate Measures, Wide Awake and Jack Frost. He will soon star opposite Evan Rachel Woo..
Joseph Crowley
Rep. Joseph Crowley Joseph Crowley (born March 16, 1962) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of New York, currently the representing the state's 7th Congressional district (see [map]) in the United States House of Representatives. The district encompasses portions of Q..
Joseph Cryan
Joseph Cryan (born September 1, 1961) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 20th legislative district. Green has served as the Assembly's Assistant Majority Leader since 2004. Cryan serves in the Assembly a..
Joseph Csatari
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Joseph Csatari (b. 1929) is an internationally-acclaimed realist portrait artist, watercolorist and illustrator who has painted both the famous and the familiar in American life for more than fifty years. He honed his unique talent for realism by working with his mentor N..
Joseph Cucchiara
The Reverend Joseph Cucchiara (郭怡雅) was born on the island Sicily of Italy in 1889. He joined Salesians of Don Bosco in 1907. After the outbreak of World War I, he followed the armies and served in hospitals. He was delegated to the diocese of Shiu Chow of Kwangtung in 1911. He worked hard ..
Joseph Cullen
Joseph Francis Cullen (c. 1849–31 March 1917), Australian politician, was a Member of Parliament in New South Wales and Western Australia. Born in Jamberoo, New South Wales around 1849, Joseph Cullen was the son of farmer John Cullen and Rebecca Johnstone. One of his brothers, William Cullen, w..
Joseph Cullinan
Joseph S. Cullinan Pioneer In Texas Oil (1860 - 1937) by Tommy Stringer, Reprinted from the Navarro County Scroll, Volume XXI, 1979 Printed with permission of the Navarro County Historical Society With the discovery of oil in Corsicana in 1894, that community gave birth to the industry that has b..
Joseph Cultice
Joseph Cultice began his photography career in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was inspired by his love of rock'n roll and pop icons like KISS and David Bowie. He moved to New York City in 1990 and immediately began making an international name for himself as one of the few leading music photographers w..
Joseph Curiale
Joesph Curiale (born July 1, 1955) is an American composer and conductor. Born in Bridgeport Connecticut, he attended the University of Bridgeport and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education. He briefly attended the University of North Texas in pursuit if a Masters degree in music co..
Joseph Curran Morrison
Joseph Curran Morrison (August 20 1816 – December 6 1885) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Ireland in 1816 and came to Upper Canada with his family in 1830. He studied at Upper Canada College, studied law, articled with Simon Ebenezer Washburn and was ca..
Joseph C Wilson (Xerox)
Joseph C Wilson was the founder of the Xerox Corporation, a graduate of the University of Rochester and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. As president of Xerox, he made an effort to integrate Xerox during the late 1960s. After the race riots that began in Detroit had reached Xerox he..
Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin
Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin (fl. 1720 - 1746) was a French military officer serving in Acadia and an Abenaki chief. His father was Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, and his brother was Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin. External link [Detailed biography] ..
Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda
Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda (May 21, 1813 - April 27, 1885 was Jewish English civil engineer and politician. He was born in London the younger son of Abraham Samuda, and brother of Jacob Samuda. He started out in his father's counting-house, but in 1832 he joined his elder brother to set up Samuda Broth..
Joseph d'Haussonville
Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (May 27, 1809 - May 28, 1884), was a French politician and historian. He was born in Paris. His grandfather had been grand louvetier of France; his father was Charles Louis Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville Comte Joseph had filled a s..
Joseph D. Bedle
Joseph Dorsett Bedle (January 5, 1821 - October 21, 1894) was a U.S. politician who served as Governor of New Jersey from 1875-1878. Born in Middletown Point (now Matawan), Bedle was an attorney by profession. He served as a delegate to 1864 Democratic National Convention. In 1865, Governor Joel Pa..
Joseph D. Early
Joseph Daniel Early (b. 1933) is an American politician. He is a represented the third district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993. Early was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on January 31, 1933 He attended parochial schools in Worcester; B.S., College of the ..
Joseph D. FitzGerald
Joseph D. FitzGerald, S.J. was the 3rd President of Fairfield University. External Links |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Joseph D. Kucan
Joseph D. Kucan is an American director, actor, writer, and casting director for various gaming companies and movies and a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada. He is also an expert swordsman and enjoys paragliding. Kucan is perhaps best known for playing the role of Kane in various Command & Conq..
Joseph D. Kucan.
He directed and acted in several notable games such as Command and Conquer Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun, Red Alert Red Alert 2 and Renegade. He played Kane in all but Red Alert 2 which did not feature that character. He left Westwood when EA began a merger. Many fans want him to play Kane in the..
Joseph D. Pistone
This article is about the undercover FBI agent. For the film, see Donnie Brasco (film). Agent Pistone (left) and "Sonny Black" Napolitano (right) in Florida (FBI photograph). Joseph D. Pistone (born 1939), alias Donnie Brasco, was an FBI agent who worked undercover for years to infiltrate th..
Joseph D. Sayers
Joseph Draper Sayers (September 23, 1841 — May 15, 1929) was Governor of Texas from 1899 to 1903. During Sayers's term, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 demolished that city. External links [Joseph Draper Sayers] from the Handbook of Texas Online |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Joseph D. Schleimer
Joseph D. Schleimer (b. 1953) is an environmental activist, writer and attorney. Since 1987 he has practiced entertainment law in Beverly Hills, California. He founded his own law firm in 1995. External links [Schleimer & Freundlich, LLP] ..
Joseph D. Sneed
Joseph D. Sneed is a physicist and philosopher at the Colorado School of Mines. With his book The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics, published in 1971, and other important contributions to the philosophy of science he founded the structural theory of the empirical sciences. Literature J.D...
Joseph D. Stewart
Joseph D. Stewart (born July 9, 1942) is a retired United States Marine Corps major general, who after his retirement from the Marine Corps, was appointed as Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) on August 1, 1998. Contents 1 Superintendent of the US Merchant M..
Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Joseph Dacre Carlyle (4 June 1758-18 April 1804) was an English orientalist, was born in Carlisle, England, where his father was a physician. He went in 1775 to Cambridge, was elected a fellow of Queens' College in 1779, taking the degree of B.D. in 1793. With the assistance of a native of Baghdad..
Joseph Dahmus
Joseph Henry Dahmus (March 22, 1909 - March 7, 2005) was a scholar of medieval history and the author of many books, including the Dictionary of Medieval Civilization (Macmillan, 1984). He was a professor at Pennsylvania State University from 1947 to 1975. Dr. Dahmus graduated from the Pontifical ..
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Joseph Dalton Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, GCSI, OM, FRS, MD (June 30, 1817 – December 10, 1911) was an English botanist and traveller. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Marriages and children1.3 Career2 References3 Ext..
Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester
Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester (12 March 1718 – 1798) was a wealthy landowner particularly associated with the reshaping of Milton Abbey and the creation of the village of Milton Abbas in Dorset, south-west England. Born into a wealthy family (his great-uncle was a money-lender in Irela..
Joseph Dane
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Joseph Daniel Harris
Joseph Daniel Harris (born 1951), known nearly universally as Joe Harris, is a mathematician at Harvard University working in the field of algebraic geometry. He attended college at and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978 under Phillip Griffiths. During the 1980's he held a position in the m..
Joseph Darby
Sergeant Joseph Darby (born 1979/80), of Corriganville, Maryland, is a member of the United States military police who first alerted the U.S. military command of prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison, in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. In January 2004, Darby provided a compact disc of photographs and an anony..
Joseph Darnand
Joseph Darnand, wearing the wide beret of the Milice Joseph Darnand (March 19, 1897 - October 10, 1945) was a French pro-Nazi leader and commander of the Vichy French Milice. Joseph Darnand was born at Coligny, Ain, Rhône-Alpes in France. He fought in the First World War and received seven ..
Joseph Darst
Joseph M. Darst (born March 18 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA died June 8 1953 in St. Louis) was the forty-first Mayor of Saint Louis, serving from 1949 to 1953. Darst attended St. Louis University High School, Christian Brothers College, and St. Louis University. His business career was in real..
Joseph Daul
Joseph Daul (born 13 April 1947 in Strasbourg) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; part of the European People's Party group. On 23 July 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Agriculture. He..
Joseph Davidovits
Joseph Davidovits (born 1935) is a French materials scientist who has posited that the blocks of the Great Pyramid are not carved stone, but mostly a form of limestone concrete. He holds the Ordre National du Mérite, is the author and co-author of more than 130 scientifical papers and conferences ..
Joseph Davilmar Théodore
Joseph Davilmar Théodore (1847 1917) was President of Haïti from November 7, 1914 to February 22, 1915. Born in the town of Ennery in the northern half of the country, he began his career in the military, and organized the cacao farmers of the north in the revolt against President Oreste Zamor. Hi..
Joseph Davis State Park
Joseph Davis State Park is located in the Town of Porter in Niagara County, New York. The park is near the Niagara River. This park has a free 27-hole disc golf course with restrooms and campground nearby. It has a finishing point of [[The Amazing Race: Family Edition]] when the Linz family had wo..
Joseph Day
For the Canadian Senator see Joseph A. Day Joseph Day (born 1855 in London, died 1946) trained as an engineer at the School of Practical Engineering at Crystal Palace in London, began work at Stothert & Pitt in Bath, and in 1889 designed the two-stroke engine as it is widely-known today (in contras..
Joseph Deakin
Joseph Edmund "Joe" Deakin (February 6, 1879 - June 30, 1972) was a British athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Deakin won his first round heat of the 1,500 metres with a time of 4:13.6. Despite being one of the slowest first round winners, Deakin won by seventy-five yards..
Joseph Dean
Joseph Jabez Dean, Baron Dean of Beswick (3 June 1923 - 26 February 1999) was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Leeds West in 1974 and served until 1983 when he unexpectedly lost his seat to Liberal candidate Michael Meadowcroft. Dean was an assistant gover..
Joseph DeCamp
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 - February 11, 1923) was an American painter. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he studied with Frank Duveneck in that city. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy of Munich, then spent time in Florence, Italy, ..
Joseph Deiss
Joseph Deiss (born January 18, 1946) is an economist, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1999. He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC). As of 2006, he heads the Federal Department of Economic Affairs. He has announced his resignation effectiv..
Joseph Déjacque
Joseph Déjacque (b. December 1821, Paris - d. 1864, Paris) was a French anarcho-communist poet and writer. Of unknown origins, Déjacque was first heard of when arrested as part of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848|revolutionary upheavals]] in France in 1848. Imprisoned for a ..
Joseph DeJarnette
Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette was a director of Virginia's Western State Mental Hospital in the early 20th century. The facility, shut down in 2002, is located in the city of Staunton. He was a vocal proponent of eugenics, specifically, the compulsory sterilization of mental patients. Virginia's cente..
Joseph DeLaine
Reverend Joseph Armstrong DeLaine (1898-1974) was a Methodist minister and civil rights leader from Clarendon County, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Allen University in 1931, working as a laborer and running a dry cleaning business to pay for his education. DeLaine worked with Modjeska Simk..
Joseph Delaney
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Joseph Henry Delaney is a ..
Joseph Deniker
Joseph Deniker (March 6, 1852, Astrakhan – March 18, 1918, Paris) was a French naturalist and anthropologist, known primarily for his attempts to develop highly-detailed maps of race in Europe. Deniker was born in 1852 to French parents in Astrakhan, Russia. He first studied at the universi..
Joseph Derenbourg
Joseph Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg (21 August 1811 - 29 July 1895) was a Franco-German orientalist. He was born on French-Mayence, as a youngest son of the lawyer Jacob Derenburg. He was a considerable force in the educational revival of Jewish education in France. He made great contri..
Joseph DeRisi
Joseph DeRisi is an American biologist. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, with a joint appointment at the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3). His academic research focuses on molecular biology and human infectious dise..
Joseph Desch
Joseph Desch (1907–August 3 1987) was an American engineer. During World War II, he worked on the US version of the bombe, a codebreaking machine designed to help solve German Enigma cipher messages. Desch was born in Dayton, Ohio, USA, in 1907 to a Catholic family of wagon makers. He attend..
Joseph DeSimone
Joseph a.k.a. Joe Desi a.k.a. Jackie a.k.a. Joe Black from Fort Lee, New Jersey born ca. 1927 is a capo in the Bonnano family and father of Ralph DeSimone. His is related to Frank DeSimone, Thomas DeSimone, Robert DeSimone, Frank DeSimone II, Rosario DeSimone and Vincent DeSimone. Joseph DeSimone..
Joseph Despard Pemberton
Joseph Despard Pemberton, a surveyor-general for the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1850s. He was born in 1821 in Dublin and died in 1893 in Oakbay. Joseph Pemberton had laid out Victoria's town site, and supervised the building of British Columbia's first legislative building. He married Teresa Jane G..
Joseph Devine
Rev. Joseph Devine, Ph.D (born August 7, 1937, Glasgow, UK), is a Catholic bishop. He was educated at St. Ninian's Primary School, Kirkintilloch, St. Mary's College, and St. Peter's College Cardross. He was ordained a priest on the 29th of June 1960 at Glasgow Scots College, Rome. He received his..
Joseph Devlin
Joseph (Joe) Devlin (1872-18 January 1934) was an influential Nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons at Westminster and in Northern Ireland. Born in Hamill Street, Belfast, "Wee Joe" was a journalist with the Irish News, and a member of the UK and Northern Ireland P..
Joseph Devonsher Jackson
Joseph Devonsher Jackson (23 June, 1783-19 December, 1857) was an Irish Conservative MP in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. He was the eldest son of Strettell Jackson of Peterborough, County Cork. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, before being called to the Irish Bar. He w..
Joseph de Guignes
Joseph de Guignes (October 19, 1721 – 1800), French orientalist, was born at Pontoise. He succeeded Fourmont at the Royal Library as secretary interpreter of the Eastern languages. A Mémoire historique sur l'origine des Huns et des Turcs, published by de Guignes in 1748, obtained his admissi..
Joseph De la Penha
Joseph De la Penha received a grant of most of Labrador from King William III in 1697. Reference [The Maritimes] - Hadassah Magazine ..
Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre (portrait by Karl Vogel von Vogelstein, ca. 1810) Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (April 1, 1753- February 26, 1821) was a French-speaking Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was one of the most influential spokesmen for a counter-revolutionary and authorit..
Joseph de Marliave
Joseph de Marliave (1873–1914) was a French musicologist. He is best known for his book on the Beethoven quartets, which was the most widely-read and quoted book on the subject prior to Joseph Kerman's 1966 book The Beethoven Quartets. In addition to his work on Beethoven, he published numer..
Joseph de Monic
Joseph de Monic (c.1650 – October 17, 1707) military officer and administrator, acting Governor of Newfoundland, Canada, born Oloron, Béarn died Bayonne. Monic was promoted to captain before he came to Canada in 1687 where he was then promoted to the garrison adjutant at Québec. In 1697 he ..
Joseph de Montclar
Joseph de Pons-Guimera Baron de Montclar, (1625 - 1690), French cavalry general Commander in chief of the Alsace, he was an implacable executioner of the orders of Louis XIV and Louvois. In 1676 the king ordered the destruction of Haguenau, which he accomplished in January 1677. The same year he d..
Joseph de Pasquale
Joseph de Pasquale is among the most highly respected authorities in the world of music. He is perhaps the most well known disciple of the legendary violist William Primrose. For many years Joseph de Pasquale has been the principal violist of the two top orchestras: Boston Symphony and Philadelphia ..
Joseph De Piro
Joseph De Piro was born in Malta on November 2nd, 1877 into a wealthy and influential family. As a young man he thought about becoming a lawyer but then felt that God was calling him to the priesthood. In 1903, after the completion of his studies, he was ordained in Rome. He was involved in differe..
Joseph de Tonquedec
Joseph de Tonquedec (December 27, 1868 in Morlaix, France - November 21, 1962, France) was a famous Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, at one time the official exorcist of Paris, France. ..
Joseph Diaz Gergonne
Joseph Diaz Gergonne (19 June 1771 Nancy, France -- 4 May 1859 Montpellier, France) was a French mathematician and logician. Contents 1 Life2 Work3 Quote4 External links Life In 1791, Gergonne enlisted in the French army as a captain. That army was undergoing rapid expansion ..
Joseph Dickson
Joseph Dickson (April 1745 - April 1825) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Moved with his parents to Rowan County, North Carolina. He was engaged in cotton and tobacco planting. He was commissioned captain in the Colonial Army unde..
Joseph Diescho
Professor Joseph Diescho (born April 10, 1955, Andara, Namibia) is a Namibian writer and political analyst. He attended Fort Hare University in South Africa where he studied law and political science. During his student days he worked against the apartheid system and was imprisoned in Peddie and Eas..
Joseph Dietzgen
Joseph Dietzgen Joseph Dietzgen (December 1828 - 1888) was a socialist and anarchist sympathizer. He was born in Blankenberg near Siegburg, Germany. He was, like his father, a tanner by profession. Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism independently from ..
Joseph Dobrian
Joseph Dobrian is a free-lance writer who was the Manhattan Libertarian Party candidate for Manhattan Borough President of the City of New York in 2005. He received 2,891 votes, or 1.17% of the votes cast. On January 21, 2006, Dobrian was elected Chairman of the Manhattan Libertarian Party. Exter..
Joseph Dodge
Joseph Dodge was a chairman of the Detroit Bank, and later served as an economic advisor for postwar economic stabilization programs in Germany and Japan. Dodge formed economic reconstructuring plans for the West Germany after the World War II, and implemented financial reforms in 1948. He later mo..
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis (November 13, 1755 - August 26, 1837), French statesman and financier, was born at Toul (Meurthe). At the outbreak of the Revolution the abbé Louis (he had early taken orders) had already some reputation as a financial expert. He was in favor of the constitutional mov..
Joseph Donaldson
Joseph C. Donaldson (born January 12, 1891; died April 1973) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was briefly a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, serving from 1949 to 1951. Donaldson was elected to the Manitoba legislature for the Brandon City constituency in the 1949 provincial e..
Joseph Dorgan
Joseph Dorgan (born July 3, 1975 in Niagara Falls, New York) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his former work in Extreme Championship Wrestling as Johnny Swinger and in World Wrestling Entertainment as Johnny Parisi, a name derived from his relative Tony Parisi, a former ..
Joseph Doria
Sen. Joseph Doria Joseph V. Doria Jr. (born June 28, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 31st Legislative District. Doria also serves as Mayor of Bayonne, a position he has held since 1998. On June ..
Joseph Doucé
Joseph Doucé (1945-1990) was a French psychologist and Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly homosexual and was among the founders of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. After one year at the Stenonius College (a Roman-Catholic seminar) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conve..
Joseph Druar
Joseph Druar was an American figure skater. He competed in ice dance in the 1988 Winter Olympics with Susie Wynne. The pair won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice. Competitive highlights (with Wynne) 1987 U.S. Championships - 3rdWorld Championships - 12th1988 U.S. Champ..
Joseph Druce
Joseph Druce is a convicted murderer best known for having killed John Geoghan - the former Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of sexually abusing children, and who had also been at the center of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal. While in protective custody at the Souza-Baranowski Correctiona..
Joseph Ducreux
Joseph Ducreux (June 26, 1735-July 24, 1802) was a French portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver. Born in Nancy, Ducreux may have trained with his father, who was also a painter. Ducreux went to Paris in 1760, and trained as the only student of pastelist Maurice-Quentin de La To..
Joseph Dudley
Joseph Dudley, c. 1682 - 1686, by an unknown artist Joseph Dudley (September 23, 1647 - April 2, 1720), colonial governor of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1715, the son of Thomas Dudley, was born and died in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College in 1665, became a member of the ..
Joseph Duffey
Dr. Joseph Duffey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977-1982), and former assistant Secretary of State for education and cultural affairs, served as director of the United States Information Agency from 1993 to 1999. Before that, he was president of American Univers..
Joseph Duffy
Joseph Duffy (born February 3, 1934) is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher in Ireland since 1979. He resides in Monaghan town, Ireland. Duffy was born in Dublin in Ireland, and was ordained as a priest on June 22, 1958, at the age of 24. On July 7, 1979, he was appointed Bishop of Clogher, at th..
Joseph Dufresne
Joseph Dufresne (February 2 1805-November 5 1873) was a Quebec notary and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Montcalm from 1867 to 1871. He was born in Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie, Lower Canada in 1805. He qualified as a notary in 1834 and set u..
Joseph Dumas
Joseph Pierre Dumas (died 1950) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1920 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dumas was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1915 provincial election, defeating a Conservative and an independent Lib..
Joseph Duncan
Joseph Duncan is the name of several individuals: Joseph Duncan (politician) (1794—1844), sixth Governor of the state of Illinois (1834–1838)Joseph E. Duncan III (born 1963), a convicted sex offender accused in the 2005 kidnapping of Shasta and Dylan Groene and the murder of their family This i..
Joseph Duncan (politician)
Joseph Duncan (1794–1844) was a U.S. political figure. He served as governor of Illinois from 1834 to 1838. He was a Democrat and a former two-term U.S. Congressman. Duncan lived in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois. He was born in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. He served in the War of ..
Joseph Dutens
Joseph-Michel Dutens (born October 15, 1765 in Tours, France; died August 6, 1848) was a French engineer and political economist. He was a nephew of Louis Dutens. He worked as a designer on the La Tranchasse Canal Bridge, and as an engineer on the Berry Canal in 1841. Works Philosophie de l'écon..
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank
Joseph Duveen (October 14, 1869 – 1939), later made Baron Duveen of Millbank, was one of the most influential art dealers of all time. Duveen was British by birth, the eldest of eight sons of Joseph Joel Duveen, a Jewish-Dutch immigrant who had set up a prosperous import business in Hull. The ..
Joseph Dyas
Joseph Dyas was an Ensign (later Captain) in the British 51st Light Infantry, serving in the Napoleonic Wars. He is famous for his actions at the storming of the San Christobal fort, Badajoz; one of the bloodiest actions of the Peninsular War. He twice volunteered to be part of the Forlorn Hope, on..
Joseph E. Atkinson
Joseph E. Atkinson (December 23 1866 – May 7 1948) was a Canadian newspaper editor and activist. Under his leadership the Toronto Star became one of the most largest and most influential newspapers in Canada. Atkinson amassed a considerable fortune, eventually holding the controlling interest..
Joseph E. Brown
Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894) Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821–November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. During the American Civil War, Brown, a former Whig, had constant disagreements wit..
Joseph E. Davies
Joseph Edward Davies (November 291876-May 91958) was the second Ambassador to represent the United States in the Soviet Union. Born in Watertown, Wisconsin, to Edward and Rahel (Paynter) Davies, Joe Davies rose to prominence with the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, when he was appoint..
Joseph E. Dillon
Joseph E. Dillon was the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1954-1960. ..
Joseph E. Duncan III
Joseph Edward Duncan III (born February 25, 1963) is an American criminal who received national attention after being arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Shasta Groene, age eight, and her brother Dylan, age nine. Duncan has a long history as a violent sexual predator, and was clinically..
Joseph E. Enright Foundation
The Joseph E. Enright Foundation was established in Summit, NJ in 1999, three years after the young internal medicine physician died from malignant melanoma. The non profit, charitable foundation focuses on promoting better health for all through health and cancer screenings, lecture series, health..
Joseph E. Finerty
Joseph E. Finerty was an Irish Catholic mayor of Gary, Indiana from 1943 to 1944. ..
Joseph E. Haynes
Joseph Haynes 1826-1897, was the tw