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  Jack Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Several people named Jack Jones have been well known.
Jack Jones (actor) (There have been several actors with this name.)
Jack Jones (politician) British MP in the 1940s and 1950s
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 Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones is an archaeologist and adventurer who travelled the world and encountered a gamut of deadly enemies, from German spies in World War I to vampires to Chicago gangsters to ancient druid cults to South American tribes with psychic powers to Thugee cults to Nazis.
Jones is determined that their son is not going to die and sends for the Chinese doctor.
Jack tells them how they are an infantry division that ride in quickly on their horses and then proceed on foot.
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 James Earl Jones Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Jones found inspiration in the citrus fruit the federal government had distributed in the area to relieve wartime shortages.
Jones entered the University of Michigan planning to study medicine, but found himself drawn to the theater.
Serious jobs for fl actors were scarce, and Jones had before him the sobering example of his father, Robert Earl Jones, an actor who had been fllisted for his political activism.
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 Jones, James --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Founder of the English classical school of architecture, Inigo Jones was surveyor of works, or official architect, to James I and Charles I. He exerted a wide influence in his own time and left his mark on London by designing the first of its civic squares.
With a bold novelistic voice seemingly at odds with her quiet, enigmatic persona, Gayl Jones stunned the literary world in the mid-1970s with disturbing tales of African Americans struggling to cope with the legacy of slavery.
An American novelist, essayist, and playwright, James Baldwin wrote with eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America.
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 CREW Welsh Writers Online: Glyn Jones
Contact with Dylan Thomas in the mid-1930s seems to have suggested the use of a young boy as narrator, allowing Jones to draw on his own boyhood in Merthyr as well as his years as a teacher.
Glyn Jones was also the co-author, with John Rowlands, of Profiles (1980), a volume of introductory essays on some of the more significant Welsh writers in both languages.
But there is also an acute sense of the mysterious beauty of the natural world, often the countryside of Carmarthenshire, seen with the vividness of the painter he once intended to be.
www.swan.ac.uk /english/crew/welshwriters/gjones.htm   (948 words)

  
 The Beat Page - John Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Holmes is an essayist, poet, and novelist; and was a "sometime member" of the Beat Generation.
Holmes had met Jack Kerouac at a party, and the two promising young novelists struck up a friendship on the basis of their interest in writing.
In 1948, Holmes had pressed Jack Kerouac to describe the unique qualities of his generation, and Kerouac invented the term 'Beat Generation' on the spot.
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 Quincy Jones Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Jones settled in New York, where, throughout the 1950s, he wrote charts for Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley and his old friend Ray Charles.
By 1956, Quincy Jones was performing as a trumpeter and music director with the Dizzy Gillespie band on a State Department-sponsored tour of the Middle East and South America.
At the same time, Jones runs his own record label, Qwest Records and is chairman and CEO of Qwest Broadcasting, one of the largest minority-owned broadcasting companies in the United States.
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 The Beat Page - Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady, legendary folk hero in the Beat movement, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to a life of hardship, married three times, and was immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road".
Jack Kerouac joined Neal Cassady on several road trips across the United States and Mexico, writing about their experiences, sometimes as they were happening, while Cassady generally led the way.
In the 1960's Cassady joined young novelist Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest") on a new series of cross-country adventures as Kerouac was slipping into a state of depression and alcoholism.
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 Jack Kerouac - Biocrawler definition:Jack Kerouac - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and one of the most prominent members of the Beat Generation.
Jack didn't start to learn English until the age of six.
The progressive rock group King Crimson paid tribute to Jack Kerouac and his works with their album "Beat", which contained songs "Neal and Jack and me" and "Satori in Tangier".
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 Glyn Jones (Writers of Wales Series)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Glyn Jones, poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, biographer and translator, was a major figure in the field of Anglo-Welsh literature for almost sixty years.
Glyn Jones was born in 1905 in Merthyr Tydfil, and although his adult life was passed in Cardiff, where he became a teacher, Merthyr remained central to his work as a writer.
Glyn Jones was the first Chairman and later President of the English-language section of the Welsh Academy and in 1974 he was awarded the degree of D. Litt.
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 Liar! Liar!: Jack Kerouac -Novelist | Greenwich Exchange
Leroi Jones usefully re-christens these jewel centers Kerouac's 'trigger inferences', points in the prose which are 'usually very easy to recognize [as] the key-image...
The point that, as James T. Jones puts it, Kerouac therefore always 'admits a measure of control' needs considerable emphasis, since so much stress has understandably often been placed on the spontaneity of Kerouac's 'spontaneous bop prosody'.
Rather than considering, then, Kerouac's place in literary history, a central concern of my study will be to explore the saturated relationship between Kerouac's writings and their socio-cultural contexts, and how this bears upon Kerouac's representations of subjectivity.
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 James Jones -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Jones, former (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) U.S. (A diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another) Ambassador to Mexico
James Jones, (Click link for more info and facts about NBA) NBA (A game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop) basketball player
Several members of the (The legislature of the United States government) United States Congress have been named James Jones, including one who is the namesake of (Click link for more info and facts about Jones County, Georgia) Jones County, Georgia.
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 Welsh Authors - Historical
Howard Spring (1889-1965) was a Welsh author.He was born in 1889 at Cardiff in Wales.
Jean Rhys (1890-1979), originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a novelist, the daughter of a We...
David Jones (1895-1974) was both an artist and one of the most important first generation British mo...
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 Jones Family Crest
The feminine form Joan, or Johanna in Latin, was also popular, and the surname Jones may be derived from either the male or female name.
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Jones coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Card Games: Commercial Games
The American novelist Paul Auster has also designed a baseball-based card game called Action Baseball that was published in his recent Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (NY, Henry Holt, 1996).
In this version each round consists of two games played with the same cards: first you select five cards with which to play Poker; then you play Michigan (Boodle), and collect chips whenever you play a card or combination corresponding to one of the sections of the board.
Jacks enable you to place a counter anywhere on the board or remove an opponent's counter.
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 Jack Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Jones was a Welsh novelist and playwright.
He was born in Wales in 1884 and, having served in World War I, followed many professions and stood as a Liberal candidate for Parliament before becoming well-known for books such as Rhondda roundabout (1934) and Off to Philadelphia in the morning (based on the life of the composer Joseph Parry) (1947).
When Billy Barnes opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a white be the cabin on some millionaire's yacht.
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 Jack Jones (novelist) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Jones (novelist) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Jack Jones (novelist) contains research on
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 Press Release: High on a Hill by Dorothy Garlock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He introduces himself as Jack Jones of Fertile, Missouri, and says he is trying to get the local baseball team to take him on.
Dorothy Garlock is one of America's—and the world's—favorite novelist.
After her retirement as newspaper reporter and bookkeeper in 1978, she began her career as a novelist with the publication of Love and Cherish.
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 Golden Rule Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
At one of the preliminary meetings of this organisation, I bought a few minor novelists at five bob a skull and persuaded them to propose me for the presidency.
Some novelists try to solve the problem by writing first-person in the present tense, as Nick Hornby has done.
Sometimes a novelist will break the effect of period language by presenting passages which speak in present-day English, as John Fowles does.
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 Creating Space Without Adding On - Jack Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This artikel Jack_Jones is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
This artikel Jack_Jones_(novelist) is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
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 The Sci Fi Guys - Volume 8 Issue 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I am certainly not qualified to pass judgement on the accuracy of the theory of global warming, but then again, I doubt Crichton is either (though he does pepper the book with footnotes so as to give at least the suggestion that his assertions are factual).
If you wish to research the issue, I would suggest starting with real climatologists and their research and not a novelist.
Popular sf author (including the Well of Souls series) JACK CHALKER has had heart failure and has had serious conditions at hospital.
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 God of the Machine
Fifteen years ago I walked into the Phoenix, a poetry bookshop on Jones Street that no longer exists, and asked what they had by Yvor Winters.
The proprietor went to the back and returned with several items from the library of Glenway Wescott (1901-1987), a distinguished novelist and a friend and contemporary of Winters.
It's when Jack Nicholson sits himself down in one of those praying-mantis lounge chairs and treats Kane and Garfunkel to a slide show of his erotic life that we know we're in that early 70s netherworld between Godspell and disco.
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 The Beat Page - LeRoi Jones
Amiri Baraka, also known as Imanu Amiri Baraka, was born in Newark, New Jersey on October 7, 1934 under the name of Everett LeRoi Jones.
He is a respected playwright, poet, novelist and essayist who is best known for his exploration and examination of African American experiences and his "affirmation of fl life".
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
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 Jack
1996 Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
1992 Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
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 Jones
1970 Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores
1969 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series
1950 Simon Jones, born in Willshire, England, comedian, News is the News
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 Cacciaguida
Still, though, where are Edith Jones (U.S. Ct. of Apps., 5th Cir.), Emilio Garza (same), and Janice Rogers Brown (U.S. Ct. of Apps., D.C. Cir.)?
Avery Brooks, the next generations's James Earl Jones, triumphs in the title role that has baffled knighted Englishmen.
His Iago is Patrick Page, last season's Macbeth and a sign that classical acting is alive in America.
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 Jack Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jack Jones
Jack Jones
article at Free Euro Online Encyclopedia
It uses material from the wikipedia article Jack Jones.
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 Most Popular Names Directory. Daily updates.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Beerkens - Marc was born of European immigrants in February 1970 in Regina, Saskatchewan.
His parents Jack and Lidia immigrated to Canada from Europe in their mid-twenties.
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