James Usher
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~ Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
James Ussher
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~ Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
Jan van der Meer
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~ Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)
Jan van Eyck
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~ Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)
James Alfred Van Allen
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~ United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914)
John Vanbrugh
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~ English architect (1664-1726)
Japanese varnish tree
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~ deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods
Japanese varnish tree
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~ small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained
junior varsity
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~ a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team
julienne vegetable
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~ a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)
jugular vein
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~ veins in the neck that return blood from the head
John Venn
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~ English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923)
J. Craig Ventner
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~ United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
joint venture
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~ a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise; "a joint venture between the film companies to produce TV shows"
Jan Vermeer
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~ Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)
Jules Verne
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~ French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905)
jawless vertebrate
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~ eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
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~ French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)