James II
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～ the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
James Hogg
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～ Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)
James Garfield
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～ 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
James Ives
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～ United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)
James Hutton
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～ Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797)
James Hargreaves
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～ English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)
James I
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～ the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
James Franck
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～ United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)
James Harold Doolittle
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～ United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)
James George Frazer
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～ English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
James IV
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～ a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
James Cook
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～ English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
James
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～ (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament