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Jonas
Jonas , Greek form of Hebrew Jonah . St. Peter's father is called Jonas and Jona (KJV) and John (RSV).... Read more |
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Jonas Savimbi
Jonas Savimbi , 1934-2002, Angolan rebel leader. He was a founding member of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in 1966. Savimbi was included in the interim independent government with Neto and Roberto in 1974 but returned to armed opposition when Neto's Marxist... Read more |
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Justus Jonas
Justus Jonas , 1493-1555, German Protestant reformer. In 1521, Jonas, then a professor at the Univ. of Erfurt, accompanied Martin Luther to the Diet of Worms. During their intimate friendship Jonas assisted Luther with the translation of the Bible. He also translated the Latin works of Luther and... Read more |
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Anders Jonas Angstrom
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Jose Eduardo dos Santos
José Eduardo dos Santos , 1942-, president of Angola (1979-). Educated in the USSR as an engineer, he was foreign minister in the first government of independent Angola, succeeding Neto as president in 1979. In 1991, he abandoned Marxism and negotiated an end to the civil war with the... Read more |
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Huambo
Huambo , formerly Nova Lisboa , city (1983 est. pop. 203,000), W central Angola. The chief town of inland Angola, Huambo stands on a high plateau and serves as a road, rail, and air transport hub and as a commercial and shipping center for a rich agricultural region. Huambo exports grain, rice,... Read more |
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Montrose Jonas Moses
Moses, Montrose J[onas] (1878–1934), author. A scholar of world drama, the native New Yorker wrote numerous studies of American theatre that are still valuable. These works include Famous Actor‐Families in America (1906), The American Dramatist (1910), Representative Plays by American... Read more |
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Jonas Edward Salk
Jonas Edward Salk 1914-95, American physician and microbiologist, b. New York City, B.S. College of the City of New York, 1934, M.D. New York Univ. College of Medicine, 1939. He did research on the influenza virus at the Univ. of Michigan, in 1946 became assistant professor of epidemiology there,... Read more |
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Journal of Holistic Health
Journal of Holistic Health A defunct publication that dealt with New Age teachings of a comprehensive and integrated approach to life, combining diet, environmental concern, personal responsibility, and spiritual growth. Contributors included Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Olga Worrall, Ruth Carter... Read more |
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
Weller, Thomas (1915- ) American physician Thomas Weller was corecipient, with John F. Enders and Frederick Robbins, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1954. This award was given for the trio's successful growth of the poliomyelitis (polio) virus in a non-neural tissue culture ... Read more |
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