Jay Gould
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~ United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)
Jay Cooke
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~ United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
jaybird
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~ common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast
Jayshullah
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~ an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999
jaywalker
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~ a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally
jazz
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~ a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
jazz
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~ a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
jazz festival
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~ a festival that features performances by jazz artists
jazz
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~ empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
jazz band
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~ a small band of jazz musicians
jazz group
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~ a small band of jazz musicians
Jazz Age
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~ the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
jazzman
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~ a musician who plays or composes jazz music
JDAM
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~ a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs
jealousy
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~ zealous vigilance; "cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy"-Paul Blanshard
jealousy
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~ a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
Jean Bernoulli
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~ Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
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~ son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951)
Jean Chauvin
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~ Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)