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	James Brooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fictionalised account of James Brooke's exploits in Sarawak is given in C. Godshalk's novel Kalimantaan.
		Sir James Brooke (the most legendary person ever!!)(29 April 1803– 11 June 1868) was born in Coombe Grove, near Bath, educated at Norwich School, England and became the first White Rajah of Sarawak.
		Brooke travelled to Burma with the army of the British East India Company in 1825, was wounded, and sent to England for recovery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Brooke (417 words)

	James Callaghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during a turbulent period in the British economy in which he had to wrestle with a balance of payments deficit and speculative attacks on the pound sterling.
		Callaghan was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in 1947 where his term saw the introduction of zebra crossings, and an extension in the use of cat's eyes.
		Callaghan's support for and from the union movement should not be mistaken for a left wing position: unlike Wilson Callaghan had been a supporter of Hugh Gaitskell in the battles over Labour's direction in the 1950s and he settled old scores by sacking the Bevanite Barbara Castle when he became party leader.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Callaghan (2143 words)

	James Weddell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Weddell ( August 24, 1787 - September 9, 1834) was an English navigator, sealer, and explorer of the
		In 1819 Weddell was introduced to James Strachan, a shipbuilder of Leith, who together with James Mitchell, a London insurance broker, owned the 160-ton brig Jane, an American-built ship taken during the war of 1812 and re-fitted for sealing.
		Weddell offered his services to the Admiralty with a proposal for a return voyage to the high southern latitudes, but was turned down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Weddell (2143 words)

	James Wapakhabulo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Wapakhabulo (March 23, 1945 - 27 March 2004) was the foreign minister of Uganda from 2001 until his death.
		Wapakhabulo died of a heart attack in 2004.
		Wapakhabulo began his career studying law at the University of East Africa (now University of Dar es Salaam).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Wapakhabulo (389 words)

	Werewolfs Den - Malleus Maleficarum by James Sprenger Heinrich Kramer
		Werewolfs Den - Malleus Maleficarum by James Sprenger Heinrich Kramer
	www.werewolfsden.com /item-0766176533-Malleus_Maleficarum.htm (389 words)

	James Soong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Chu-yu Soong (宋楚瑜 Wade-Giles: Sung Ch'u-yü; pinyin: Sòng Chǔyú; born March 16, 1942) is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
		Soong was born in Hunan Province in mainland China.
		Soong travelled to the United States for graduate school and received an M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 and an M.S. in library science from the Catholic University of America in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Soong (2443 words)

	James Ryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Ryan's grandson, also called Eoin Ryan, is currently a Fianna Fáil TD and a Member of the European Parliament.
		James Ryan (December 6, 1891 - September 25, 1970), was a senior Irish politician.
		Dr James Ryan died on September 25, 1970 at the age of 78.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ryan (403 words)

	James Reavis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Addison Reavis (1843-1914), the self-styled Baron of Arizoniac, was an imposter of grand scale who claimed to own much of Arizona in the late 19th century.
		Reavis first travelled to Tucson to make his claim, but found to his dismay that the land office was already swamped with similar claims, many equally fraudulent.
		Reavis joined the Confederate army during the American Civil War, but when Vicksburg, Mississippi fell he saw the writing on the wall and changed sides and joined the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Reavis (882 words)

	James Otis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Otis (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution.
		Otis began speaking and writing in support of liberty in a case involving the Writs of Assistance.
		His older sister, Mercy Otis Warren, his brother Joseph Otis, and his youngest brother, Samuel Allyne Otis also rose to prominence, as did his nephew Harrison Gray Otis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Otis (395 words)

	James McCulloch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McCulloch, who was a director of the London Bank, then took the extraordinary step of lending his own government 860,000 pounds to meet its debts and running expenses.
		McCulloch's liberal government was the strongest Victoria had yet seen, and proved to be the longest lived so far, surviving for nearly five years.
		Sir James McCulloch (1819 - 31 January 1893), Australian colonial politician, was the 5th Premier of Victoria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_McCulloch (743 words)

	Encyclopedia: James Russell Lowell
		Lowell was inspired to new efforts towards self-support, and though nominally maintaining his law office, he joined a friend, Robert Carter, in founding a literary journal, The Pioneer.
		Lowell himself discovered what he had done at the same time that the public did, and he followed the poem with eight others either in the Courier or the Anti-Slavery Standard.
		The spontaneity of Lowell’s nature is delightfully disclosed in his personal letters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-Russell-Lowell (743 words)

	James Lockyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lockyer is currently working on behalf of Steven Truscott, whose 1959 conviction of the murder of Lynne Harper is currently under review by the Ontario Court of Appeal, and of Robert Baltovich, whose murder conviction was quashed by the Ontario Court of Appeal in November, 2004.
		James Lockyer is a social justice activist in Canada.
		Lockyer taught law at McGill University and at the University of Windsor until 1977, when he went into private practice as a criminal lawyer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Lockyer (743 words)

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		The shares of the new building were divided among the Burbage brothers and William Shakespeare, who had been one of the leading players of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a popular group of actors, since late 1594.
		The Globe Theatre was an early English theatre in London where most of William Shakespeare's plays were first presented.
		It was built in 1599 by two brothers, Richard and Cuthbert Burbage, who owned its predecessor, The Theatre.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/Globe.html (743 words)

	James Burbage
		� Shakespeare performed many of his plays when he came to London in 1586 in which Burbage�s son Richard was the lead actor until Burbage�s death in 1597 which was also when the theatre was up for lease.
		� Not only did Burbage maintain the theatre up to his death but he also acted in many of the performances until around 1584.
		� After their fathers death and the theatre�s lease was up, Richard and Cuthbert Burbage bought the theatre and turned it into The Globe Theatre.
	mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us /~whsweb/renproj/class_web/burbage.htm (743 words)

	James Buchanan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buchanan served as one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri.
		Buchanan was a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania.
		Buchanan served as Minister to Russia from 1832 to 1834.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Buchanan (1739 words)

	Bill James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James had previously published several analyses of the use of the closer in baseball, and had concluded that the traditional use of the closer both overrated the abilities of that individual, and used him in suboptimal circumstances.
		James did not suggest a "bullpen by committee"; rather his studies showed that the relief ace should be used in close or tie games as early as the 7th inning, when the outcome of a ballgame is really decided.
		In 2003, James was hired by a former reader - John Henry, the new owner of the Boston Red Sox.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_James (1528 words)

	James (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James were formed in 1981 in Whalley Range, Manchester, when music enthusiast Paul Gilbertson, inspired by the post-punk bands of the era, convinced his best friend Jim Glennie to buy a bass and form a band with him.
		The band spent the rest of the year recording their next album, Seven, which was finally released in February 1992, showcasing an expansion of the band’s newfound seven-piece sound to bigger levels, an album of epic arena-rock proportions.
		Although the band knew these criticisms were overly harsh, they felt they needed to return to their acoustic roots to rediscover their sound, and conveniently they were invited on an acoustic tour of the US supporting Neil Young at a series of natural outdoor venues in the Autumn of that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_(band) (2916 words)

	James P. Bagian - Wikipedia
		Bagian is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is the pararescue flight surgeon for the 939th Air Rescue Wing.
		Bagian worked as a process engineer for the 3M Company in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1973, and later as a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, from 1976 to 1978, and at the same time pursued studies for a doctorate in medicine.
		Bagian received his Professional Engineers Certification in 1986, and was board-certified in aerospace medicine by the American College of Preventive Medicine in 1987.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Bagian (2916 words)

	Edison James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In July, 2005 James was appointed to the CARICOM leaders of government and parliamentary opposition parties committee.
		James was replaced as prime minister by Roosevelt Douglas.
		James also agreed to pay compensation and apologize to Eugenia Charles for libel due to the bugging allegations he had made against her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edison_James (821 words)

	James Chadwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Chadwick later wrote that it was at that time that he "realised that a nuclear bomb was not only possible, it was inevitable.
		Chadwick became professor of Physics at Liverpool University in 1935.
		In 1932 Chadwick made a fundamental discovery in the domain of nuclear science: he discovered the particle in the nucleus of an atom that became known as the neutron because it has no electric charge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Chadwick (650 words)

	Dunsmuir
		Production expanded, and Robert Dunsmuir soon acquired other mines - in 1879 he purchased the South Wellington Colliery Co., a neighbouring operation, and in 1888 he acquired all the major claims in the Comox region, forming the Union Colliery Co. His son James Dunsmuir, then 33 years old, became manager of Union Collieries.
		The road to riches - James Dunsmuir was born in 1851 on the voyage from Scotland to Vancouver Island where his father, Robert Dunsmuir took up a position with the Hudson Bay Company.
		One must remember that at the time of Ladysmith's birth in 1900, James Dunsmuir was not simply a mine owner - he was the province's wealthiest man and its largest land owner.
	verchere.com /dunsmuir.htm (650 words)

	James Augustus Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grant was born at Nairn, where his father was the parish minister, and educated at the grammar school and Marischal College, Aberdeen.
		Grant served in the intelligence department of the Abyssinian expedition of 1868; for this he was made C.S.I. and received the Abyssinian medal.
		James Augustus Grant (April 11, 1827 — February 11, 1892) was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Augustus_Grant (1215 words)

	James Graham
		James Graham was born in 1753 in Virginia, died on 14 Jun 1830 in Jackson, Ohio, at age 77, and was buried on 17 Jun 1830 in Grahamsville Cemetery, Jackson, Ohio.
		James R Graham was born on 21 Aug 1835 in Ohio, died on 12 Dec 1902 in Grahamsville, Jackson, Ohio, at age 67, and was buried in Grahamsville Cemetery, Jackson, Ohio.
		James married Mary Buffington, daughter of John Buffington and Sarah Evans, about 1780.
	home.earthlink.net /~martyc05/graham.htm (3665 words)

	James Iredell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Iredell (October 5, 1751– October 20, 1799) was one of the original Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
		James Iredell was born in Lewes, England, the oldest of five children of a Bristol merchant.
		Iredell was a leader of the Federalists in North Carolina, and a strong supporter of the proposed Constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Iredell (1475 words)

	James Bradley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His early observations were made at the rectory of Wanstead in Essex, under the tutelage of his uncle, the Rev. James Pound (himself a skilled astronomer) and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on November 6, 1718.
		This article describes the English astronomer; for other people sharing the name, see James Bradley (disambiguation)
		James Bradley (1693– July 13, 1762) was an English astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1742.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Bradley (417 words)

	James II of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But James' patronage of lands, titles and office to allies of the Douglases saw their allies begin to change sides, most tellingly the Earl of Crawford, and in 1455 James was finally able to make a decisive blow against the Douglases, and they were finally defeated at the battle of Arkinholm in May 1455.
		James was son of James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort, daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Margaret Holland.
		James II of Scotland (October 16, 1430 – August 3, 1460) was king of Scotland from 1437 to 1460.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_II_of_Scotland (417 words)

	James Bowdoin III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James devoted several years to scholarly pursuits, until he was appointed the United States minister to Spain in 1804.
		He has born to James Bowdoin in Boston, and graduated from Harvard University in 1771.
		He served in the State Assembly and on the council before attending the Massachusetts' constitutional convention in 1779 and 1780.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Bowdoin_III (226 words)

	James Bovard: Short Biography
		James Bovard, who serves as a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation, is a frequent contributor to Playboy, American Spectator, and Investor's Business Daily.
		Bovard consistently illuminates the connection between faulty political ideals and specific policy disasters." The Orlando Sentinel wrote: "James Bovard, the American government's most unfavorite journalist, has done all who value liberty a great service.
		A Wall Street Journal review of Freedom in Chains declared: "James Bovard has become the roving inspector general of the modern State...
	www.fff.org /aboutUs/bios/jxb.asp (226 words)

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