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Jeans instability

The Jeans instability is the gravitational instability of a gas cloud, derived by James Jeans in 1902, causing perturbations larger than a critical scale to collapse.

Jeans mass

The Jeans mass is the critical mass above which a gas cloud collapses under its own gravity, named for James Jeans, who derived the criterion in 1902.

Jearl Miles-Clark (Jearl Atawa Miles-Clark), American 400m/800m runner born 1966 in Gainesville, Florida; 1993 World 400m champion, 1996 and 2000 Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist, American 800m record holder at 1:56.40.

Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush (John Ellis Bush, born 1953) is an American Republican politician, Florida's 43rd governor (1999–2007) and a 2016 presidential candidate, son of George H.W. Bush, brother of George W. Bush, known for education reform and immigration advocacy.

Oct 22, 2026

Jebala resistance

The Jebala resistance was the armed opposition of the Jbala tribes of northwestern Morocco to Spanish colonial rule from 1912 to the mid-1920s, led largely by Raisuni.

Sep 23, 2026

Jebe

Jebe (哲别), originally named Jirgo'adai, was a Mongol general of the Besüt tribe who served Genghis Khan and is believed to have died between 1223 and 1225.

Jebediah

Jebediah: Australian alternative rock band formed in Perth in the mid-1990s (Kevin Mitchell, Chris Daymond, Vanessa Thornton, Brett Mitchell). Debut album Slightly Odway (1997) went Double Platinum; sixth album OIKS (2024) debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart.

Jebel Akhdar War

Jebel Akhdar War (al-Jabal al-Akhdar War, 1954–1959): Omani Imamate insurgency against the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, crushed by British-backed RAF air power and 22 SAS, who captured the Green Mountain plateau on 30 January 1959.

Jebel al-Madhbah

Jebel al-Madhbah, also known as Jabal al-Madhbah (جبل المذبح), is the ridge above Petra, Jordan, whose summit carries the Nabataean High Place of Sacrifice, probably dedicated to the god Dushara.

Jebel al-Salayli (archaeological site)

Jebel al-Salayli is an archaeological site on the slopes of the eastern Hajar Mountains in Oman, known for its Iron Age hut tombs, copper-mining landscape, and excavated Islamic-period settlement.

Jebel Ali desalination plant

The Jebel Ali desalination plant in Dubai is a combined power and desalination complex, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest single-site desalination facility.

Jebel Ali FLNG Terminal

The Jebel Ali FLNG Terminal is Dubai's LNG import terminal at Jebel Ali port, commissioned in 2010, operated by DUSUP, and served by a permanently moored floating regasification vessel.

Jebel Ali L Power and Desalination Station

Jebel Ali L Power and Desalination Station (محطة كهرباء وتحلية مياه جبل علي "L") is a combined-cycle power and desalination station at Jebel Ali in Dubai, UAE, owned by DEWA.

Jebel Ali M Power and Desalination Station

Jebel Ali M Power and Desalination Station (M-Station) is a gas-fired power and desalination plant in Jebel Ali, Dubai, owned by DEWA and opened in 2013.

Jebel Ali Port

Jebel Ali Port is a container port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, opened in 1979 and operated by DP World, with the largest container throughput in the Middle East.

Jebel an Nabi Shu'ayb

Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb (جَبَل ٱلنَّبِي شُعَيْب), also called Jabal Hadhur, is Yemen's and the Arabian Peninsula's highest mountain at 3,666 m in the Haraz-Sarawat near Sana'a, with 3,311 m prominence and nearest higher terrain in Ethiopia.

Jebel Aruda

Jebel Aruda is a Uruk-period settlement on a mountain ridge above the Tabqa Dam lake on the Syrian Euphrates, occupied around 3300 to 3100 BC and excavated by a Dutch team from 1972 to 1982.

Jebel Ash Sham

Jebel Ash Sham (جبل شمس), also Jebel Shams or Jabal Shams, is Oman's highest mountain at about 3,009 m in the western Hajar range, overlooking the roughly 1 km deep Wadi Ghul canyon, with a military-restricted summit and the Balcony Walk trail.

Jebel Barkal

Jebel Barkal, also written Gebel Barkal, is a sandstone mountain near Karima in Sudan, the center of ancient Napata, where Egyptians and Kushite kings worshiped Amun from about 1500 BCE.

Jebel Bishri

Jebel Bishri, also written Jabal al-Bishri, is a highland massif in central Syria near Deir ez-Zor, known in ancient texts as the Mountain of the Amorites.

Jebel Buhais

Jebel Buhais, also written Jabal Buhays, is a limestone mountain in the interior of Sharjah emirate, UAE, used as a graveyard and settlement from about 5000 BC to 200 BC.

Jebel Dosha

Jebel Dosha is a sandstone promontory on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Nubia, near Soleb, with a rock-cut chapel of Thutmose III.

Jebel El Dair Biosphere Reserve

Jebel El Dair (Jebel Al Dair) Biosphere Reserve, North Kordofan, Sudan: UNESCO MAB site designated 2017, 637,400 ha around the Al Dair massif, third Sudanese biosphere reserve, with 112 plant species, 220 birds, and 191 wildlife species recorded.

Jebel Hafit Tombs

The Jebel Hafit tombs, also called Jabal Hafit tombs, are Early Bronze Age beehive burial cairns near Al Ain, UAE, the UAE's first World Heritage site in 2011.

Jebel Irhoud

Jebel Irhoud, Morocco: Middle Stone Age site with the oldest reported Homo sapiens fossils, dated 315 ± 34 ka by thermoluminescence; 22 fossils described in 2017 support a pan-African origin.

Oct 20, 2026

Jebel Katarina

Jebel Katarina (Jabal Katarina, Mount Catherine) is Egypt's highest mountain, about 2,629 m, in South Sinai near Jabal Musa. Named for St Catherine of Alexandria, whose body monks found there in the 9th century.

Jebel Khalid

Jebel Khalid (Jebel Khaled) is an abandoned Seleucid Hellenistic garrison city on a 50-hectare Euphrates mesa in northern Syria, founded shortly after 300 BCE and abandoned around 70 BCE, excavated by an Australian mission from 1984 to 2010.

Jebel Lkst

Jebel Lkst, also spelled Jbel Lkest, is a 2,359-meter mountain in the Anti-Atlas of southern Morocco, dominating the Ameln Valley near Tafraoute in the Souss-Massa region.

Jebel Moneijah

Jebel Moneijah (Jebel Moneijat Musa), a 1165 m mountain near Jebel Serbal above the Feiran Oasis in southern Sinai, site of a Nabataean sanctuary with Nabataean inscriptions rich in priestly titles, later a Bedouin cult place of Moses.