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 Court jester - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The origins of the jester are possibly in prehistoric tribal society.
However, jesters are mainly thought of in association with the Middle Ages.
In the 21st century the jester is a character beloved of all with a passion for historical drama and the cap'n'bells will often be seen worn by participants in medieval style fayres and pageants.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /court_jester.htm   (1207 words)

  
 Court jester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A jester or fool is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages.
Jesters typically wore brightly colored clothing in a motley pattern.
Other things distinctive about the jester were his incessant laughter and his mock scepter, known as a bauble or marotte.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jester   (1328 words)

  
 Jester Discipline Version 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
If the employer (or owner) mocks the Jester all day long, feeding him what falls off the table and trying to torment him in any manner, the Jester's mind would be cruel and he would be planning the assassination of his master while smiling at his dumb jokes.
Jesters often Feign Hindrance in order to invoke feelings of pity or compassion, or to appear as less of a threat to those around them.
Jesters use half-magic for such things as entertaining an audience, knowledge of ancient throwing weapons, ancient stories - and for seeking the social weak spots of others by simply observing them.
www.seankell.com /strands/characters/disciplines/jester_version_2.asp   (2192 words)

  
 Jester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jester includes a script for generating web pages that show the changes made that did not cause the tests to fail.
Jester is different than code coverage tools, because it can find code that is executed by the running of tests but not actually tested.
Nester is a port of Jester for C#.
jester.sourceforge.net   (285 words)

  
 Test your tests with Jester
Jester shows you what it's changing in the GUI shown in Figure 1 (it can't run headless, annoyingly), prints the output on the console as shown in Listing 1, and generates an XML file containing the list of changes that didn't break anything, like the one shown in Listing 2:
Jester's line-number reports are often quite a ways off, so you're better off searching for the changed code in the console output.
Jester is an important addition to the agile programmer's toolbox.
www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/java/library/j-jester   (2578 words)

  
 Jester
The Jester would make criminals he fought into laughing-stocks, joking at their expense and using tricks straight out of slapstick comedy to defeat them.
Jester was beginning to feel old and his costumed identity now seemed silly to him.
Jester was originally published by Quality Comics, which DC obtained the rights to in 1956.
www.angelfire.com /ar/hellUSA/Jester.html   (218 words)

  
 San Francisco Dining | Dining at The Argent Hotel | Luxury San Francisco Hotels
Jester's Lounge, located on the lobby level of The Argent Hotel, is a great example of San Francisco dining.
With a swanky and sophisticated martini lounge complete with ample seating on comfortable plush couches, a warm fireplace, and original art pieces by Donald Sultan, Jester's is the essence of cosmopolitan San Francisco dining.
Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, Jester's is conveniently designed to accommodate parties of all sizes, offering a Private Dining Room that can seat up to 40 comfortably.
www.argenthotel.com /jesters.htm   (154 words)

  
 Court jester at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A jester is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages.
Although the origins of the jester are probably in prehistoric tribal society jesters are mainly thought of in association with the Middle Ages.
All jesters and fools, in those days, were thought of as special cases where God had touched the fool with a childlike madness, perhaps a gift or a curse.
wiki.tatet.ru /en/Court_jester.html   (930 words)

  
 Jester Chess
Jester Chess is a unique game in that it emphasizes the fun aspect of chess variants.
Jesters are basically opportunistic pieces and tend to work best in the middlegame.
Due to the Jester's mercurial properties, it is almost impossible to assign it a value.
www.chessvariants.com /large.dir/contest/jester.html   (1390 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: JESTER, GEORGE TAYLOR
George Taylor Jester, businessman, banker, and lieutenant governor of Texas, was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, on August 23, 1847, to Levi and Diadema Jester.
Jester was also one of five citizens to subscribe $5,000 to the campaign to build the Corsicana YMCA and one of the founders of Southern Methodist University.
Jester died in 1875, and in 1880 Jester married Frances P. Gordon of Aberdeen, Mississippi.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/fje9.html   (756 words)

  
 Fooling Around the World: The History of the Jester
The jester's decline began with the rise of the stage actor as the Chinese theater became fully established during the Yuan dynasty.
Jesters are also generally of inferior social and political status and are rarely in a position (and rarely inclined) to pose a power threat.
The foolishness of the jester, whether in his odd appearance or his levity, implies that he is not passing judgment from on high, and this may be less galling than the "holier than thou" corrective of an earnest adviser.
www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/640914.html   (4195 words)

  
 Jester Shag Tobacco
Jester is the mildest of the European tobaccos, and the closest to an American style cigarette.
Jester is made with a medium shag cut, similar to American Roll-Your-Own Tobaccos.
Jester is the perfect tobacco to combine both the American taste with the European cut and processing style of Tobacco.
www.thetobaccoshop.com /Jester.htm   (137 words)

  
 Jester Hairston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jester Hairston (born Jestie, nicknamed by a first grade teacher) was born in Belews Creek, North Carolina, in 1902.
While in Los Angeles with the choir, Jester met Russian film composer Dimitri Tiomkin, and a 30-year collaboration was begun.
Jester Hairston's body of work is an institution in the choral and a cappella worlds.
www.a-cappella.com /catalog/artists/cat_jester-hairston.html   (311 words)

  
 The Jester's Mask - Real and Legendary Jesters
Dario Fo "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden." Dario Fo won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.
Jewish literature is particularly rich in jester figures, who often puncture the pomposity of others or teach lessons in wisdom.
Islamic jesters travel on the 'path of blame', courting ridicule and abuse in order to intensify their commitment to Allah.
www.thenoodlebowl.com /jesters/pages/legreal.html   (1146 words)

  
 JESTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person.
In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.
www.ii.uib.no /~magnus/e/JESTER.html   (258 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Formed in the fall of 2001, Jester Corps provides music education and opportunities to perform for young adults ages 14 to 22.
Jester Corps focuses on helping musicians hone their craft through extensive practices and touring.
The hallmark of Jester Drum and Bugle Corps is to promote community involvement by nurturing the spirit of individual imagination while utilizing the performing arts as a vehicle for teamwork to train responsible citizens to become leaders of tomorrow.
www.jestercorps.org   (123 words)

  
  The Jester's Court
The jester's job is to listen to our troubles, play you a happy tune or maybe just to be there when we feel alone.
The greatest display and selection of these wonderful Jesters can be seen and heard at The Jester's Court booth at Minnesota Renaissance Festival There you can also hear the artist tell "the Partly True" story of how a jester's life begins.
The Jesters can also be seen by appointment at the artist's studio near Sanborn, North Dakota.
www.thejesterscourt.com   (212 words)

  
 The Court Jester (1956)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"The Court Jester" is a terrifically funny movie, with a wonderfully complicated comic/adventure story, memorable characters, and outstanding dialogue.
Kaye is one of a band of rebels hiding out in a forest, led by "The Black Fox", who are opposing an evil king who has usurped the throne.
Their secret plan to restore the rightful king involves having Kaye impersonate the evil king's new court jester, so that he can gain the monarch's confidence.
us.imdb.com /Title?0049096   (544 words)

  
 BTTR >> Docs >> Reviews >> Musicians >> Jester,2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I think no. Since Sanity's beginning Volker Tripp, aka Jester, has composed excellent and melodic tunes for their great demos, of course in his typical own style and many people are thinking, that he was the best.
Which of your Jester tunes is your favourite and why is it the one, which you like most?
Jester pieces were in the Amiga demo style of the early nineties, Oddjob music is more experimental, ambient.
www.back2roots.org /Docs/Reviews/Musicians/Jester,2   (1202 words)

  
 Welcome to The Jester's Court
The Jester's Court is very sad to announce that David Gotcher, aka Mychael Wordsmythe, has passed away.
The Jester's Court was established on the Internet October 1, 1996.
If you are a musician, storyteller or other performer of folk traditions, and are interested in selling through the The Jester's Court, contact us here or read our introduction page.
www.savageresearch.com /jester/homepage.html   (244 words)

  
 Jester: The On-Line Joke Recommender   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called EigenTaste to recommend jokes based on your ratings of a set of sample jokes.
You'll then be given a set of 15 jokes to rate.
Ken Goldberg and the Jester team at the Alpha Lab, UC Berkeley.
shadow.ieor.berkeley.edu /humor   (94 words)

  
 DOING FREEDOM! -- The Simon Jester Starter Kit, by Simon Jester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Simon Jester was the "imaginary" creation of some of Heinlein's characters.
To the Authority, it seemed that Simon Jester was everywhere, all the time.
This starter kit is intended to help the budding activist spread pro-freedom memes throughout the community by using the Simon Jester technique.
www.doingfreedom.com /gen/1002/simon.html   (693 words)

  
 Jester
As a sire Jester has excelled as well.
He has been one of the top sires in the United States since his first year at stud.
Jester is the ONLY male in the top 100 all time sires list with an advanced obedince title!
www.geocities.com /jesterdog/Jester.html   (214 words)

  
 JESTER V1.06.5e/tiny by Stephane N.B. NGUYEN
JESTER V1.06.5e/tiny by Stephane N.B. Réseau publicitaire DéclicNet
The author grants you the right to enjoy Jester for a private use only.
If you want to reuse or/and to publish Jester on a web site, please contact the author (steph.nguyen@online.fr) for the terms and conditions of reusing Jester.
www.chesskids.com /jester/jester_eng.html   (331 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Jester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Seeking his wife and revenge, Hugh adopts the guise of a jester in order to enter to the nobleman's castle, where he begins to fall in love with a young noblewoman, and she with him.
During his search, Hugh takes on the "pretext" of a jester in an effort to infiltrate Baldwin's castle, where he is certain Sophie is held captive.
The biggest problem with "The jester" is not the plot, which is not original, but simple and appealing - Hugh, a deserter from the Cruzader Army, goes back to his native village to find his wife and newborn son murdered by the merciless landlord, and now Hugh wants revenge.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586214144?v=glance   (2112 words)

  
 Jester Estates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jester is a private and elegant community atop a quiet hill, surrounded by the Balcones Canyon Land wild life preserve.
Access is limited to three entrances, promoting a serene and close knit community.
Jester Village (right down the hill) has 3 restaurants, a convenience store, a dry cleaner, a beauty salon, a printing company, a gift shop, child care facility, medical and chiropractic offices.
jester-estates.com   (111 words)

  
 The Jester and Pharley Phund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When David first showed me his idea for a children's picture book called The Jester Has Lost His Jingle in the summer of 1988, I realized immediately that he had created a very powerful story that could have a lasting, positive impact on children for years to come.
In November of 1995, shortly after our family published The Jester Has Lost His Jingle, I was asked to share the story at a New Haven, CT, elementary school, not far from Yale University where David had worked on The Jester with such dedication.
The Jester's Journey began with David, but it continues with you.
www.thejester.org /place/journey.html   (264 words)

  
 The Jester's Mask
I've updated the tale of the English 'state jester' in Legend and Reality > Modern Jesters.
They've all been added: in Literature > Books, 'Dizzy From Fools' and 'Fools, Clowns and Jesters' sent by Kelly Hause, in the fiction and non-fiction sections respectively; 'The Sufis' suggested by Lynette Jester (really her name!
Plus Polish jester name 'blazen' kindly supplied by Karol, and Nan Jester found the artist behind one of my gallery pics who I've been trying to trace for ages, so I've been able to credit her at last.
www.thenoodlebowl.com /jesters   (404 words)

  
 Jester Chess
Use default settings or set Jester's play time: number of seconds per move, number of minutes per game, K.O. game in minutes with/without bonus time per move, and select side color for Jester.
Fantasy style: Like as normal game, but sometimes Jester plays a strange, an unexpected move (not really the best move) which completely baffles you and "puts fire on board".
Clownish style: Like as normal game, but when Jester gets a decisive advantage, he'll play a very bad move giving you a chance to win.
www.chess-poster.com /english/play_chess/Jester/jester_chess.htm   (234 words)

  
 Jester Hairston
January 28, 2000 Jester Hairston, who gave up studies at Massachusetts Agriculture College in the 1920s before going on to a career than spanned movies, television, radio, composing, arranging and choral conducting, died Jan. 18 in Los Angeles.
Best known in recent years for playing Rollie Forbes on the NBC sitcom "Amen" in the 1980s, Hairston's earlier acting roles...
Tell the world what you think of Jester Hairston.
www.tv.com /jester-hairston/person/6502/summary.html   (105 words)

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