the Jackson 5: Tito Jackson (byname of Toriano Jackson): born October 15, 1953, Gary—died September 15, 2024, Gallup, New Mexico Jermaine Jackson: born December 11, 1954, Gary Marlon Jackson: born March 12, 1957, Gary Michael Jackson

Bo Jackson is an American athlete who starred for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) during his short but storied professional career and who is widely considered one of the greatest all-around athletes in history.

Encyclopædia Britannica: Ninth edition: Hooper, who with another publisher, Walter M. Jackson, bought out the other two partners in 1900 and purchased the Encyclopædia Britannica outright from A. and C. Black in 1901. Hooper’s advertisements had not concealed the fact that he was selling books originally printed a number of years previously, and in…

Wanda Jackson is an American country singer who also achieved substantial success in rock and roll and earned the sobriquet “the Queen of Rockabilly.” Jackson began singing on a daily Oklahoma City radio show in 1952, when she was still in high school. In 1954 country singer Hank Thompson invited

Wanda Jackson is an American country singer who also achieved substantial success in rock and roll and earned the sobriquet “the Queen of Rockabilly.” Jackson began singing on a daily Oklahoma City radio show in 1952, when she was still in high school. In 1954 country singer Hank Thompson invited

William Jackson was an English composer and writer on music, whose opera The Lord of the Manor (1780) held the stage for many years. Jackson was organist and choirmaster at Exeter cathedral from 1777. His best-known other compositions are Twelve Songs (1755) and Twelve Canzonets for Two Voices (c.

William Henry Jackson was an American photographer and artist whose landscape photographs of the American West helped popularize the region. Jackson grew up in far-northeastern New York state, where he learned to draw and to paint. As a teen, he got jobs downstate in Troy and later in Rutland,

Marjorie Jackson is an Australian athlete who won two Olympic gold medals and tied or set 13 world records. During the early 1950s, when Australians dominated women’s sprint events, Jackson was the most outstanding Australian sprinter. Jackson, known as the “Lithgow Flash” after her hometown, was

soil: Time: …collectively as the set of Jackson-Sherman weathering stages (see the table). Each downward increment through the table corresponds to increasing mineral residence time, both among and within the three principal stages (early, intermediate, and advanced).

Henry M. Jackson: …Soviet Union and for his Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which affected trade relations for communist-bloc countries that restricted human rights. His efforts formed part of the decisive pressure on the Soviet Union to rationalize its relations with the West and end the Cold War. His careful attention to the economic interests of…

Jackson, city, seat (1832) of Jackson county, south-central Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Grand River, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Detroit. Settled in 1829 at the meeting point of several Indian trails, it was named for U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson and was known successively as Jacksonburgh,

United States: Jacksonian democracy: Nevertheless, American politics became increasingly democratic during the 1820s and ’30s. Local and state offices that had earlier been appointive became elective. Suffrage was expanded as property and other restrictions on voting were reduced or abandoned in most states.…

epilepsy: Partial-onset seizures: Jacksonian seizures are partial seizures that begin in one part of the body such as the side of the face, the toes on one foot, or the fingers on one hand. The jerking movements then spread to other muscles on the same side of the…

epilepsy: Partial-onset seizures: Jacksonian seizures are partial seizures that begin in one part of the body such as the side of the face, the toes on one foot, or the fingers on one hand. The jerking movements then spread to other muscles on the same side of the…

Democratic Party, in the United States, one of the two major political parties, the other being the Republican Party. The Democratic Party has changed significantly during its more than two centuries of existence. During the 19th century the party supported or tolerated slavery, and it opposed

Jackson, city, seat (1832) of Jackson county, south-central Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Grand River, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Detroit. Settled in 1829 at the meeting point of several Indian trails, it was named for U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson and was known successively as Jacksonburgh,

the Jackson 5, American pop-soul vocal group featuring members of the Jackson family. The group was massively popular in the 1970s, launching the career of singer, songwriter, and dancer Michael Jackson, who was the most popular entertainer in the world in the early to mid-1980s. The Jackson 5

Jacksonville, city, Jackson county, southwestern Oregon, U.S. It lies along Jackson Creek, just west of Medford, in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains. It began in 1851–52 as a mining camp with placer gold discoveries along the creek (named for a prospector). By the 1920s mining activities had

Jacksonville, city, Pulaski county, central Arkansas, U.S., 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Little Rock. The locality was settled before the American Civil War but did not develop until the 1860s, when a local resident, Nicholas Jackson, offered land for a Cairo and Fulton (now Union Pacific)

Jacksonville, city, seat (1822) of Duval county, northeastern Florida, U.S., the centre of Florida’s “First Coast” region. It lies along the St. Johns River near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia border. Jacksonville consolidated (1968) with most of Duval

Jacksonville, city, seat (1825) of Morgan county, west-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 35 miles (55 km) west of Springfield. Laid out in 1825 as the county seat by Johnston Shelton, the county surveyor, and named in honour of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (some have also said that the city’s

Jacksonville, city, seat (1755) of Onslow county, southeastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies along the New River at the head of its estuary, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Wilmington. Originally settled as Wantland’s Ferry (c. 1757), its name was changed to Onslow Courthouse and then

Jacksonville Jaguars, American professional gridiron football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, that plays in the American Football Conference (AFC) of the NFL. The Jaguars began play as an expansion team in 1995, the same year that the Carolina Panthers of the National Football Conference (NFC)

Jacksonville: …include Edward Waters College (1866), Jacksonville University (1934), Florida Community College at Jacksonville (1966), University of North Florida (1965), Jones College (1918), and the Health Science Center of the University of Florida. Inc. 1832. Pop. (2010) 821,784; Jacksonville Metro Area, 1,345,596; (2020) 949,611; Jacksonville Metro Area, 1,605,848.

jacks, game of great antiquity and worldwide distribution, now played with stones, bones, seeds, filled cloth bags, or metal or plastic counters (the jacks), with or without a ball. The name derives from “chackstones”—stones to be tossed. The knuckle, wrist, or ankle bones (astragals) of goats,

pick-up-sticks, game of skill, played by both children and adults, with thin wooden sticks or with straws or matches. In the early 18th century sticks were made of ivory or bone; later they were made of wood or plastic. To begin the game, 20 to 50 sticks are bunched in one hand and set vertically

Jacmel, town and port, on the southern coast of Haiti, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince across the Tiburon Peninsula. Situated on a hillside overlooking palm-fringed Jacmel Bay, the town flourished under the French as a port for transshipment of sugar, coffee, and cotton. It continues

East Timor: …islands of Atauro (Kambing) and Jaco, and the enclave of Ambeno, including the town of Pante Makasar, on the northwestern coast of Timor. Dili is the capital and largest city.

Nkayi, town (commune), southwestern Congo. It lies west of the capital, Brazzaville, and northeast of the port of Pointe-Noire, on the Brazzaville–Pointe-Noire railway; its airport has scheduled flights to both cities. Nkayi is the major sugar-producing centre in the Niari River valley agricultural

Jacob, Hebrew patriarch who is considered the traditional ancestor of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. He is renamed Israel after the pivotal scene in which he wrestles with a divine being. In the genealogy recounted in the Hebrew Bible, Jacob is the grandson of Abraham and Sarah and the son of Isaac

Baltic states: The early modern age: Duke Jacob (1642–82) actively fostered trade and industry and created a navy. He acquired two colonies: Tobago in the West Indies and a settlement in Gambia on the west coast of Africa.

Jacob ben Asher was a Jewish scholar whose codification of Jewish law was considered standard until the publication in 1565 of the Shulḥan ʿarukh (“The Well-Laid Table”) by Joseph Karo. Little of certainty is known about Jacob’s life. In 1303 he immigrated to Spain with his brothers and father, the

biblical literature: Printed editions: The second edition, edited by Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah and issued by Bomberg in four volumes (Venice, 1524/25), became the prototype of future Hebrew Bibles down to the 20th century. It contained a vast text-critical apparatus of Masoretic notes never since equalled in any edition. Unfortunately, Ben Hayyim had…

Yiddish literature: Old Yiddish literature: Tsenerene) by Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi. The text is a loose paraphrase of the biblical passages that are read in the synagogue: the Five Books of Moses, the supplementary readings (haftarot), and the five scrolls (megillot). First published about 1600, Tsenerene incorporated a wide selection of commentaries…

Jacob Israel Emden was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar primarily known for his lengthy quarrel with Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz (q.v.), an antagonism that sundered European Jewry. Emden was thoroughly trained as a scholar of the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary. Emden

Jacob Isaac ben Asher Przysucha was a Jewish Ḥasidic leader who sought to turn Polish Ḥasidism away from its reliance on miracle workers. He advocated a new approach that combined study of the Torah with ardent prayer. Przysucha was the descendant of a rabbinic family. He became learned in the

Jacob Joseph Of Polonnoye was a rabbi and preacher, the first theoretician and literary propagandist of Jewish Ḥasidism. Jacob Joseph was a rabbi in the large Jewish community at Shargorod, in Podolia; after he came under the influence of the Baʿal Shem Ṭov, the founder of Ḥasidism, he was expelled

Jacob Joseph Of Polonnoye was a rabbi and preacher, the first theoretician and literary propagandist of Jewish Ḥasidism. Jacob Joseph was a rabbi in the large Jewish community at Shargorod, in Podolia; after he came under the influence of the Baʿal Shem Ṭov, the founder of Ḥasidism, he was expelled

Jacob of Edessa was a distinguished Christian theologian, historian, philosopher, exegete, and grammarian, who became bishop of Edessa (c. 684). His strict episcopal discipline giving offense to the patriarch Athanasius II of Antioch, he retired and devoted himself to study and teaching. He is

Jacob Of Serugh was a Syriac writer described for his learning and holiness as “the flute of the Holy Spirit and the harp of the believing church.” Like his father, Jacob was ordained a priest, and by 503 he was episcopal visitor of Haura in Serugh. In 519 he was made bishop of Baṭnan in Serugh. By

Jacob Of Serugh was a Syriac writer described for his learning and holiness as “the flute of the Holy Spirit and the harp of the believing church.” Like his father, Jacob was ordained a priest, and by 503 he was episcopal visitor of Haura in Serugh. In 519 he was made bishop of Baṭnan in Serugh. By

Jacobus De Voragine was the archbishop of Genoa, a chronicler, and the author of the Golden Legend. Jacobus became a Dominican in 1244. After gaining a reputation throughout northern Italy as a preacher and theologian, he was provincial of Lombardy (1267–78 and 1281–86) and archbishop of the

Vision of the Sermon, an oil-on-canvas painting created by French artist Paul Gauguin in 1888 during the year he worked closely with the younger artist Émile Bernard in Pont-Aven in the Brittany region of France. The painting is an example of the new decorative style Gauguin developed during this

copperleaf: Major species: …is also widely known as Jacob’s coat and as match-me-if-you-can. The copperleaf is native to Polynesia. It reaches about 3 metres (10 feet) in height, though one variety attains a height of about 6 metres (20 feet).

Marcel Dupré: …Le Songe de Jacob (Jacob’s Dream) performed at 15. An organist at Saint-Sulpice and Notre-Dame, Paris, he gave (1920) a series of 10 recitals in which he played from memory the complete organ works of J.S. Bach. He toured as a virtuoso (U.S. debut, 1921), frequently improvising fugues and…

Jacob’s ladder, any of about 25 species of the genus Polemonium of the family Polemoniaceae, native to temperate areas in North and South America and Eurasia. Many are valued as garden flowers and wildflowers. They have loose, spikelike clusters of drooping blue, violet, or white, funnel-shaped,

Macaulay Culkin: Early life and work: … (1989), Uncle Buck (1989), and Jacob’s Ladder (1990).

Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants, comprising about 18 genera and some 385 species of flowering plants in the order Ericales. Members of the family are mostly in North America but also found in temperate parts of western South America and Eurasia. They include many popular garden

Ted Shawn: In 1933 he founded Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival near Lee, Massachusetts, as a summer residence and theatre for his dancers. After the group’s dissolution, Shawn developed Jacob’s Pillow into an internationally important dance centre. Although his own choreography was generally nonballetic, he believed that dance as a whole is…

Jacob’s Room, novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922. Experimental in form, it centres on the character of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to synthesize his love of Classical culture with the chaotic reality of contemporary society, notably the turbulence of World War I. The novel is

ocotillo, (Fouquieria splendens), flowering spiny shrub (family Fouquieriaceae) characteristic of rocky deserts from western Texas to southern California and southward into Mexico. Near the plant’s base, the stem divides into several slender, erect, wide-spreading, intensely spiny branches, usually

Marion, city, seat (1824) of Marion county, north central Ohio, U.S., approximately 45 miles (70 km) north of Columbus. Laid out about 1820, it was first called Jacob’s Well (for Jacob Foos, who dug for water there). Renamed in 1822 for Gen. Francis Marion of American Revolutionary War fame, it was

Harry Crosby: …1927 he and his wife, Caresse Crosby, née Jacob (1892–1970), began to publish their own poetry under the imprint Editions Narcisse, later the Black Sun Press. The following year they started printing books by other writers, such as Archibald MacLeish, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce, for which the press is…

François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with André Lwoff and Jacques Monod, was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning regulatory activities in bacteria. Jacob received an M.D. degree (1947) and a doctorate in science (1954) from the

Georges Jacob was the founder of a long line of French furniture makers. He was among the first cabinetmakers in France to use mahogany extensively and excelled at carved wood furniture, particularly chairs. Born of a Burgundian peasant family, Jacob moved to Paris at 16 and is believed to have

Jacobābād: …village of Khānghar by General John Jacob, the district’s first deputy commissioner. Jacob, who laid out the modern city, is commemorated by monuments, and even his horse has been memorialized by a mud pyramid. The city was incorporated as a municipality in 1875. It is noted for its consistently high…

Max Jacob was a French poet who played a decisive role in the new directions of modern poetry during the early part of the 20th century. His writing was the product of a complex amalgam of Jewish, Breton, Parisian, and Roman Catholic elements. Jacob departed his native Brittany in 1894 to go to

puppetry: Styles of puppet theatre: Important also was Max Jacob, who developed the traditional folk repertoire of the German Kasperltheater, between the 1920s and ’50s, into something more suited to modern ideas of what befits children’s entertainment. Almost all contemporary puppeteers have created programs for audiences of children.

Canadian literature: Contemporary trends: Suzanne Jacob has excelled in poetry with La Part de feu (1997; “The Fire’s Share”) and in fiction with the novel Laura Laur (1983). Although poetry no longer enjoys the influence it once did as a vehicle for the expression of collective identity, events such…

Jacoba Of Bavaria was the duchess of Bavaria, countess of Holland, Zeeland, and Hainaut. Her forced cession of sovereignty in the three counties to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, in 1428, consolidated Burgundian dominion in the Low Countries. Jacoba, the only daughter and heiress of William,

Jacoba Of Bavaria was the duchess of Bavaria, countess of Holland, Zeeland, and Hainaut. Her forced cession of sovereignty in the three counties to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, in 1428, consolidated Burgundian dominion in the Low Countries. Jacoba, the only daughter and heiress of William,

Jacobābād, city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The city lies at a junction of the Pakistan Western Railway and main roads through Sindh. It was founded in 1847 on the site of the village of Khānghar by General John Jacob, the district’s first deputy commissioner. Jacob, who laid out the modern city, is

Jacobean age, (from Latin Jacobus, “James”), period of visual and literary arts during the reign of James I of England (1603–25). The distinctions between the early Jacobean and the preceding Elizabethan styles are subtle ones, often merely a question of degree, for although the dynasty changed,

Jacobean literature, body of works written during the reign of James I of England (1603–25). The successor to Elizabethan literature, Jacobean literature was often dark in mood, questioning the stability of the social order; some of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies may date from the

revenge tragedy, drama in which the dominant motive is revenge for a real or imagined injury; it was a favourite form of English tragedy in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras and found its highest expression in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The revenge drama derived originally from the Roman

obscenity: Developments in the 20th century: Potter Stewart’s concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), which dealt with the alleged obscenity of a motion picture: he wrote that, though he could not define obscenity, “I know it when I see it.” In a 1966 ruling on John Cleland’s novel Fanny Hill (1748–49), the court declared that,…

Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder who is one of the world’s top competitors in the alpine event known as snowboard cross. In that event multiple riders race simultaneously down a course that includes jumps, banked turns, and other features. At the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing,

Abraham Jacobi was a German-born physician who established the first clinic for diseases of children in the United States (1860) and is considered the founder of American pediatrics. Because he took part in the German revolutionary movement (1848), Jacobi was imprisoned in Berlin and Cologne during

Carl Jacobi was a German mathematician who, with Niels Henrik Abel of Norway, founded the theory of elliptic functions. Jacobi was first tutored by an uncle, and, by the end of his first year at the Gymnasium (1816–17), he was ready to enter the University of Berlin. Because the university would

Carl Jacobi was a German mathematician who, with Niels Henrik Abel of Norway, founded the theory of elliptic functions. Jacobi was first tutored by an uncle, and, by the end of his first year at the Gymnasium (1816–17), he was ready to enter the University of Berlin. Because the university would

Derek Jacobi is an English actor whose shy, self-effacing private demeanour belied his forceful, commanding stage presence. Born into a nontheatrical family—his father was a London department store manager, his mother a secretary—Jacobi first developed a taste for performing while attending the

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was a German philosopher, major exponent of the philosophy of feeling (Gefühlsphilosophie) and a prominent critic of rationalism, especially as espoused by Benedict de Spinoza. Succeeding his father as head of a sugar factory in 1764, Jacobi joined the governing council of

Lotte Jacobi was a German-American photographer noted for her portraits of famous figures. Born into a family of photographers (her great-grandfather began as a professional daguerreotypist in 1840), Jacobi studied art history and literature at the Academy of Posen (1912–16) and attended the

Lotte Jacobi was a German-American photographer noted for her portraits of famous figures. Born into a family of photographers (her great-grandfather began as a professional daguerreotypist in 1840), Jacobi studied art history and literature at the Academy of Posen (1912–16) and attended the

Mary Putnam Jacobi was an American physician, writer, educator, and suffragist who is considered to have been the foremost woman doctor of her era. Mary Putnam was the daughter of George Palmer Putnam, founder of the publishing firm of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and was an elder sister of Herbert Putnam,

Derek Jacobi is an English actor whose shy, self-effacing private demeanour belied his forceful, commanding stage presence. Born into a nontheatrical family—his father was a London department store manager, his mother a secretary—Jacobi first developed a taste for performing while attending the

Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The Jacobins originated as the Club Breton at Versailles, where the deputies from Brittany

France: The Reign of Terror: In a referendum this Jacobin constitution of 1793 was approved virtually without dissent by about two million voters. Because of the emergency, however, the Convention placed the new constitution on the shelf in October and declared that “the provisional government of France is revolutionary until the peace.” There would…

Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The Jacobins originated as the Club Breton at Versailles, where the deputies from Brittany

Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The Jacobins originated as the Club Breton at Versailles, where the deputies from Brittany

Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The Jacobins originated as the Club Breton at Versailles, where the deputies from Brittany

Jacobin Club, the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The Jacobins originated as the Club Breton at Versailles, where the deputies from Brittany

Jacobite, in British history, a supporter of the exiled Stuart king James II (Latin: Jacobus) and his descendants after the Glorious Revolution. The political importance of the Jacobite movement extended from 1688 until at least the 1750s. The Jacobites, especially under William III and Queen Anne,

calligraphy: Spread of Aramaic to the Middle East and Asia: … and developed into two varieties, Jacobite and Melchite. Vigorous in pen graphics, Serta writing shows that, unlike the early Aramaic and Hebrew scripts, characters are fastened to a bottom horizontal. Modern typefaces used to print Syriac, which has survived as a language, have the same characteristic. Eastern Syriac script was…

Henry Fielding: Maturity.: …edited another one-man weekly called The Jacobite’s Journal, the title reflecting its ironical approach to current affairs. Its propaganda value was deemed so great that the government purchased 2,000 copies of each issue for free distribution among the inns and alehouses of the kingdom.

Cleveland: The contemporary city: …venues that opened in 1994: Jacobs Field, which is built in the style of early 20th-century ballparks, for the Cleveland Guardians professional baseball team; and Gund Arena, home of the Cavaliers professional basketball team. Playhouse Square Center, southeast of downtown, contains several historic theatres and is home to the Great…

Frank Lloyd Wright: The 1920s and ’30s: , the Jacobs house (1937) in Westmorland, Wisconsin, near Madison, and the Winckler-Goetsch house (1939) at Okemos, Michigan.

turbine: Horizontal axis machines: The Jacobs three-bladed windmill, used widely between 1930 and 1960, could deliver about one kilowatt of power at a wind speed of 6.25 metres per second, a typical average wind velocity in the United States about 18 metres above ground.

contraception: Aletta Jacobs of the Netherlands.

Carrie Jacobs Bond was a composer-author of sentimental art songs that attained great popularity. Bond as a child learned to play the piano. During her second marriage she began to write songs, and in December 1894 two of them, “Is My Dolly Dead?” and “Mother’s Cradle Song,” were published in

Reservation Dogs: Synopsis: …characters—Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Cheese (Lane Factor)—try to stave off boredom while they’re still grieving the recent suicide of their friend Daniel. The season starts with them stealing a truck full of Flaming Flamers chips. It ends with Elora leaving Oklahoma for…

circus: Acts of skill: …the trapeze in 1937; and Dolly Jacobs, who began her career in 1976, performing on the Roman rings for the Ringling brothers and Big Apple circuses, and who was the daughter of famous Auguste clown Lou Jacobs.

Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca was a Latvian-born American labour leader, remembered for her zealous union activism in the garment industry. Dorothy Jacobs immigrated with her family to the United States from Latvia in 1900. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland. At age 13 Jacobs left school and went to

Harriet Jacobs was an American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative. Jacobs, who was born into enslavement, was taught to read at an early age. She was

Harriet Jacobs was an American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative. Jacobs, who was born into enslavement, was taught to read at an early age. She was

Harriet Jacobs was an American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative. Jacobs, who was born into enslavement, was taught to read at an early age. She was

Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player and writer who, in the 1920s and ’30s, became known for her persistence and her on-court rivalry with Helen Wills (Moody). Jacobs was the national junior tennis champion in 1924–25 and attended the University of California, Berkeley, from 1926 to

Hirsch Jacobs was a U.S. trainer and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, the foremost trainer in the United States from 1933 until 1944. In 43 years as a trainer, Jacobs established a world record of winning horses in 3,569 races. In 1965 he won more money than any other U.S. breeder, and, in all,

Jane Jacobs was an American-born Canadian urbanologist noted for her clear and original observations on urban life and its problems. After graduating from high school, Butzner worked at the Scranton Tribune. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she held several different jobs while writing

Jill Biden is an American first lady (2021–25), wife of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. She previously served as second lady (2009–17) when her husband was vice president under President Barack Obama. Jill Jacobs was born in New Jersey but mostly grew up in Willow Grove,