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| Harry Connick, Jr. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967), better known as Harry Connick, Jr., is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. Connick’s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues. Harry_Connick,_Jr. | |
| Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923), , is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration.A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. Henry_Kissinger | |
| H. J. Heinz Company H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its "57 Varieties" slogan and its ketchup, is an American food company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Perhaps best known for its ketchup, the H.J. Heinz Company manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six continents and markets these products in more than 200 countries and territories. H._J._Heinz_Company | |
| Hamas Hamas | |
| Hamas Talk:Hamas | |
| Hatfield, Hertfordshire Hatfield, originally Bishop's Hatfield, is in the Welwyn Hatfield district of Hertfordshire, in the south of England. It forms part of the Welwyn Hatfield constituency which also includes Welwyn Garden City and has been twinned with the Dutch port town of Zierikzee since 1953. Its MP is Grant Shapps (Con.). It is known as the town where the first production-line jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet was built and as the site of a tragic rail crash in 2000. Hatfield,_Hertfordshire | |
| Heroin Heroin, or diacetylmorphine (INN), also known as diamorphine (BAN), is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine (hence diacetylmorphine). The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin freebase may also appear as a white powder. Heroin | |
| History of Zimbabwe The history of Zimbabwe began with the end of the Bush War and the transition to majority rule in 1980. The United Kingdom ceremonially granted Zimbabwe independence on April 18, 1980 in accordance with the Lancaster House Agreement. In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform. History_of_Zimbabwe | |
| Hiberno-English Hiberno-English also known as Anglo-Irish and Irish English is English as spoken in Ireland, partly the result of the interaction of the English and Irish languages. English was mainly brought to Ireland during the Plantations of Ireland in the sixteenth century and established itself in Dublin and in the area of Leinster known as the Pale. Hiberno-English | |
| HIV Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Previous names for the virus include human T-lymphotropic virus-III (HTLV-III), lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), and AIDS-associated retrovirus (ARV). HIV | |
| Hunter S. Thompson Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is also known for his use of psychedelics, alcohol, firearms, and his iconoclastic contempt for authority. Hunter_S._Thompson | |
| Hedge fund A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors that is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of investment and trading activities than other investment funds and pays a performance fee to its investment manager. Each fund has its own strategy which determines the type of investments and the methods of investment it undertakes. Hedge funds, as a class, invest in a broad range of investments including shares, debt and commodities. Hedge_fund | |
| Prince Henry of Wales Prince_Henry_of_Wales | |
| Iceland Iceland | |
| India India | |
| Republic of Ireland Republic_of_Ireland | |
| Transport in India Transport in the Republic of India is an important part of the nation's economy. With a land area of , and an estimated population of 1,028,737,436, transport in India is both a necessity as well as a convenience. Since the economic liberalisation of the 1990s, development of infrastructure within the country has progressed at a rapid pace, and today, there is a wide variety of well-developed modes of transport by land, water and air. Transport_in_India | |
| Foreign relations of India The Republic of India is the world's most-populous electoral democracy and has one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world (8.9 percent GDP increase in 2007, the second-fastest major economy in the world after China). With the world's fourth largest armed forces, and fourth largest economy by purchasing power parity, it is considered to be a regional power and a middle power. It is India's growing international influence that increasingly gives it a more prominent voice in global affairs. Foreign_relations_of_India | |
| Declaration of Independence (Israel) The Israeli Declaration of Independence (, Hakhrazat HaAtzma'ut or Megilat HaAtzma'ut), made on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar, 5708), the day the British Mandate expired, was the official announcement that the new Jewish state named the State of Israel had been formally established in parts of what was known as the British Mandate for Palestine and on land where, in antiquity, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah had once been. Declaration_of_Independence_(Israel) | |
| Iain Banks Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under his birth name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his unofficial middle name Menzies to differentiate between the genres. Iain_Banks | |
| Iain Banks Talk:Iain_Banks | |
| Intelligence quotient Talk:Intelligence_quotient | |
| Ian McKellen Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939), is an English actor of stage and screen. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. Ian_McKellen | |
| Intelligent design/Archive 23 Talk:Intelligent_design/Archive_23 | |
| Imperial Chemical Industries Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is a British chemical subsidiary of a Dutch conglomerate and one of the largest chemical producers in the world. It is based in Slough, UK. It produces paints and speciality products (including ingredients for foods, specialty polymers, electronic materials, fragrances and flavours). Imperial_Chemical_Industries | |
| Ich bin ein Berliner Talk:Ich_bin_ein_Berliner | |
| Irgun Irgun (; shorthand for Ha'Irgun HaTzva'i HaLe'umi BeEretz Yisra'el, , "National Military Organization in the Land of Israel") was a militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah (HebrewIsrael Defence Forces at the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In present-day Irgun | |
| Ian Botham Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well known by his nicknames "Beefy" and "Guy the Gorilla". While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of test cricket records, and still retains the highest number of wickets taken by any England bowler. Ian_Botham | |
| Politics of Japan The politics of Japan is in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, where the Prime Minister of Japan is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament; the Diet with the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. Politics_of_Japan | |
| Joseph Stalin Joseph_Stalin | |
| John F. Kennedy Talk:John_F._Kennedy | |
| James Brown James_Brown | |
| Coen brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from screwball comedies (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy) to hardboiled thrillers (Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men), to movies where genres blur together (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink and Burn After Reading). Coen_brothers | |
| John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Both Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest received the Pulitzer Prize. John_Updike | |
| John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, and songwriter who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". He is ranked the second most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history after McCartney. John_Lennon | |
| John Cleese John_Cleese | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE () (3 January 1892English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from 1945 to 1959. J._R._R._Tolkien | |
| John Major Sir John Major, KG, CH, ACIB (born 29 March 1943), is a retired British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party during the period 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. John_Major | |
| J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 English novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the science fiction New Wave movement. His best-known novels are the controversial Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the loosely autobiographical Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. J._G._Ballard | |
| Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate followed by the governorship of the State of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departmentsDepartment of Energy and the Department of Education. Jimmy_Carter | |
| Joseph Weizenbaum Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923 – March 5, 2008) was a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT.Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1935, emigrating with his family to the United States. Joseph_Weizenbaum | |
| J. K. Rowling Joanne "Jo" Murray OBE (née Rowling) (born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen name pen name, J. K. Rowling, J._K._Rowling | |
| Jerusalem Jerusalem | |
| Johnny Haynes John Norman Haynes (17 October 1934 - 18 October 2005), better known as Johnny Haynes, was an English footballer who played a club-record 658 games and scored 158 goals for Fulham Football Club between 1952 and 1970. An inside forward, Haynes is widely regarded as the greatest footballer ever to play for the London club, particularly noted for his exceptional passing skill and ability to read a game. Johnny_Haynes | |
| Jonathan Meades Jonathan (Turner) Meades (born 21 January 1947, Salisbury, England) is a British writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an author and broadcaster. Meades studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) c.1967.He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. Jonathan_Meades | |
| Jihad Jihad (; Jihad | |
| John Martyn (musician) John Martyn, OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), born Iain David McGeachy, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a forty-year career he released twenty studio albums and worked with artists such as Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, and Phil Collins. He has been described as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues". John_Martyn_(musician) | |
| John Maynard Smith John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he then took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorized on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. John_Maynard_Smith | |
| Jim Bakker James Orsen Bakker (born January 2, 1940, in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program. A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce and effectively ended his time in the larger public eye. Jim_Bakker | |
| James D. Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material". James_D._Watson |
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