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Jaquar
Jaquar, also known as Jaquar Group, is an Indian bathroom fittings and lighting brand founded in 1960 by N. L. Mehra and headquartered in Manesar, Haryana.
Jaqueline Barton
Jaqueline Barton, born 1952, is an American chemist at Caltech known for establishing that DNA mediates long-range charge transport; her honors include the National Medal of Science and the Priestley Medal.
Jaques-Louis Reverdin
Jaques-Louis Reverdin (1842–1929) was a Swiss surgeon from Geneva who in 1869 performed the first successful pinch skin graft, earning the name Father of Skin Grafting.
JAR (file format)
A JAR file, short for Java ARchive, is a package format based on ZIP that aggregates Java class files, metadata, and resources, with a manifest stored in a META-INF directory.
Jar Jar Binks
Jar Jar Binks is a fictional Star Wars character, a clumsy Gungan outcast from Naboo introduced in The Phantom Menace (1999) as comic relief, played by Ahmed Best.
Jar of Flies
Jar of Flies: Alice in Chains' third EP, acoustic follow-up to Sap, released January 25, 1994; first EP to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, later 4x Platinum, with the single No Excuses.
Jar of Xerxes I
The Jar of Xerxes I is an alabaster vessel inscribed for the Persian king Xerxes I, found at Halicarnassus in 1856 and held in the British Museum.
Jar test
A jar test is a laboratory batch procedure simulating coagulation, flocculation, and settling of water in stirred containers to find the optimum coagulant dose and pH.
Jarabe de Palo
Jarabe de Palo was a Spanish pop-rock group from Barcelona, formed in 1995 around singer and guitarist Pau Donés, best known for the songs 'La Flaca' and 'Depende'.
Jarad Mason
Jarad Mason is an American inorganic chemist and Harvard University associate professor known for metal-organic frameworks, permanently porous liquids that store gases, and solid-state refrigeration, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Jaraguá do Sul
Jaraguá do Sul is a municipality in Santa Catarina, Brazil, founded 25 July 1876 by Emílio Carlos Jourdan on dotal lands of Princess Isabel, emancipated from Joinville in 1934, renamed in 1943, and an industrial city anchored by WEG.
Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve
Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve, Reserva de Biosfera Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo, is a UNESCO MAB reserve in southwest Dominican Republic, designated 2002 (first in the country), 476,700 ha, with three core national parks and a transboundary link to Haiti's La Selle reserve.
Jarah Mariano
Jarah Mariano is an American model known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2008 and 2009. She is also the wife of actor Milo Ventimiglia.
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (c. 1911–1994) was a Kenyan Luo politician who led the independence struggle, served as Kenya's first Vice President from 1964 to 1966, and later led the opposition.
Jarann
Jarann (जारण) is a 2025 Marathi psychological horror film directed by Hrishikesh Gupte, starring Amruta Subhash and Anita Date-Kelkar, released 6 June 2025 and streaming on ZEE5 from 8 August 2025, with two Filmfare Marathi wins.
Jarasandha (जरासंध)
Jarasandha (जरासंध), king of Magadha in the Mahabharata, son of Brihadratha, joined at birth from two halves by the rakshasi Jara. Captor of 86 kings for a Shiva sacrifice, enemy of Krishna, slain by Bhima at Girivraja before the Rajasuya.
Jarawas (Andaman Islands)
Jarawas (Ang), an Indigenous Andamanese hunter-gatherer people of South and Middle Andaman's western coasts, India; a PVTG of about 341 people with a 1,028 sq km tribal reserve under the 1956 PAT Regulation and 2004 Jarawa policy.
Jarden
Jarden Corporation, founded in 2001 by Martin Franklin and Ian Ashken, was an American consumer products company (Yankee Candle, Coleman, Mr. Coffee) sold to Newell Rubbermaid in 2016 for about $15.3 billion; Delaware courts later valued it at $48.31 per share, below the deal price.
Jardí Botànic Històric
Jardí Botànic Històric (Historic Botanical Garden of Barcelona), created 1930 by Pius Font i Quer in the Foixarda quarry on Montjuïc, inaugurated 1941, closed 1986, reopened 2003; free entry, cool quarry microclimate, Barcelona's tallest trees.
Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (southern europe, r8287022)
Jardí Botànic Marimurtra, also Mar i Murtra, is a botanical garden in Blanes, Costa Brava, Catalonia, founded in 1921 by Carl Faust; record 235,395 visitors in 2025, centenary year, with palms, cacti and Mediterranean collections.
Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa
Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa (Jardí d'Aclimatació Pinya de Rosa) is a cactus and succulent garden in Blanes, Catalonia, Spain, created by Ferran Rivière and completed in 1952.
Jardí d'en Vicent Navarro Andreu
Jardí d'en Vicent Navarro Andreu (Jardín de Don Vicent Navarro Andreu) is a memorial garden in Benicàssim, Castellón, Spain, created July 2004 to honor a house gardener of 50 years, near Capilla del Pilar and Hotel Voramar.
Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires
The Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires, also known as the Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays, is a botanical garden in Buenos Aires designed by Carlos Thays and inaugurated in 1898.
Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada
Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada: small historic university botanical garden in central Granada, Spain, founded 1850 under Mariano del Amo y Mora on the former Jesuit Colegio de San Pablo orchard; preserves a 14-bed Jussieu Escuela Botánica, a Ginkgo biloba of 1889, and about 150 species.
Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología (UNAM)
The Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología is the botanical garden of UNAM in Mexico City, founded in 1959, holding the country's largest living plant collection.
Jardin botanique Jean Massart - Botanische tuin Jean Massart
Jardin botanique Jean Massart (Botanische tuin Jean Massart), a 4.5-hectare ULB university botanical garden in Auderghem, Brussels, founded in 1922 by botanist Jean Massart, with about 2,000 plant species, Natura 2000 protection, and over 4,000 recorded arthropod species.
Jardín de l’Albarda
Jardín de l'Albarda (Jardí de l'Albarda) is a 50,000 m² Renaissance-style Mediterranean garden in Pedreguer, Alicante, created in 1990 by Enrique Montoliu and owned by FUNDEM, with over 700 native plant species, rose and palm collections, and sustainable low-water management.
Jardin de l'Entente
Jardin de l'Entente is a reported name for a public garden in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad; no compiled source confirms the garden, its location, or its origins.
Jardin de la Retraite
Jardin de la Retraite (Garden of Retreat) is a 4,500 m² walled botanical garden in Quimper, Brittany, with three themed exotic gardens (subtropical, palm grove, dry), opened to the public in 1979 on the site of the Dames de la Retraite convent garden.
Jardin de Tivoli, Paris
Jardin de Tivoli (Grand Tivoli) was a Directory-era Paris pleasure garden, opened 1795 on Simon-Gabriel Boutin's Folie Boutin estate at rue Saint-Lazare, offering fireworks, concerts and balloon experiments; closed 1810, built over 1826, and an inspiration for Copenhagen's Tivoli.