John Quincy Adams
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～ 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
Josiah Quincy
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～ American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
J. R. Firth
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～ English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
John R. Major
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～ British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
Jean Baptiste Racine
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～ French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
Jean Racine
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～ French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
Japanese radish
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～ radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
Jean-Philippe Rameau
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～ French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764)
Jeannette Rankin
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～ leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973)
jerboa rat
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～ large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
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～ United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
juice reamer
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～ a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit
Johnny Reb
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～ `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
junction rectifier
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～ a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction
Japanese Red Army
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～ a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists; "in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel"
Japanese red pine
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～ pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental
John Reed
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～ United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
Juglans regia
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～ Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
Jewish religion
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～ Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud