John Witherspoon
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~ American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)
Jehovah's Witness
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~ believer in imminent approach of the millennium; practitioner of active evangelism
Jehovah's Witnesses
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~ Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in 1884
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~ German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
Joseph Emerson Worcester
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~ United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)
jenny wren
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~ any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
judicial writ
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~ (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
James Wyatt
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~ English architect (1746-1813)
John Wyclif
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~ English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)
John Wycliffe
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~ English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)
John XXIII
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~ Italian pope from 1958 to 1963 who convoked the Second Vatican Council (1881-1963)
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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~ Spanish philosopher who advocated leadership by an intellectual elite (1883-1955)
Jewish New Year
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~ (Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar
Japanese yew
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~ shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States
Jacques Yves Costeau
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~ French underwater explorer (born in 1910)