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Joker Lottstetten
Joker Lottstetten is a slot-machine arcade at Industriestraße 6 in Lottstetten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, operating under the Joker Spielhalle brand of the Kling Gruppe, whose chain runs more than 180 branches.
Joker: Folie à Deux
Joker: Folie à Deux is a 2024 American musical crime drama directed by Todd Phillips, the sequel to his 2019 film Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
Joker: Folie à Deux (soundtrack)
Soundtrack album for the 2024 film Joker: Folie à Deux, also called Folie à Deux (Music From the Motion Picture); Interscope release of October 4, 2024 with Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix covering jazz standards, plus Guðnadóttir's WaterTower score album and Gaga's Harlequin companion album.
Jokerit
FC Jokerit, Helsinki football club 1999-2004, distinct from the Jokerit ice hockey club; founded by Harry Harkimo from PK-35's license, Finnish Cup winner 1999, Veikkausliiga runner-up 2000, dissolved 2004 into HJK's Klubi-04.
Jokhang
Jokhang (ཇོ་ཁང་, 大昭寺) is a Buddhist temple in central Lhasa, Tibet, founded in the 7th century and regarded as Tibet's holiest shrine; it houses the sacred Jowo Shakyamuni statue.
Joking Bad
Joking Bad is a 13-minute Breaking Bad parody short from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, in which Fallon sells high-purity jokes before moving to The Tonight Show, with pencil POV shots, Colin Quinn, and the Roots Vehicle RV.
Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams
Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams is a 2024 seven-episode Indonesian sci-fi supernatural anthology on Netflix, Anwar's first Netflix collaboration, premiering 14 June 2024 with 65 actors and interconnected stories set 1985-2024.
Joko Widodo
Joko Widodo (Jokowi), born 1961, was Indonesia's 7th president (2014–2024), a former furniture businessman, Solo mayor, and Jakarta governor, the first president outside the political-military elite, succeeded by Prabowo Subianto.
Jökulhlaup
Jökulhlaup, an Icelandic word now used internationally, is a glacial outburst flood caused by failure of an ice or sediment dam or by volcanic melting.
Jökulsárlón
Jökulsárlón, the glacial river lagoon in southeast Iceland, formed around 1935 as the Breiðamerkurjökull outlet of Vatnajökull retreated; Iceland's deepest lake, tidal, iceberg-filled, in Vatnajökull National Park.
Jokumaraswamy
Jokumaraswamy (ಜೋಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ) is a Kannada folk play by Chandrashekhara Kambara, first published and staged in 1972 and directed by B.V. Karanth, that became a landmark of modern Kannada theater.
Jokwa Linea
Jokwa Linea, a 2200 km linea (groove belt) on Venus at 17°S, 210°E, adopted by the IAU in 2003; named for a Japanese Royal Lady of the West; a branch of the Parga Chasmata rift system hosting Mbokomu Mons.
Jōkyō kenchi
Jōkyō kenchi is the land survey the Edo shogunate carried out during the Jōkyō era (1684 to 1688), fixing landholders, boundaries, and assessed yield for taxation.
Jōkyū War
The Jōkyū War (承久の乱) was an armed conflict in 1221 in which retired emperor Go-Toba raised troops against the Kamakura shogunate and was decisively defeated within about a month.
Jōkyūki
Jōkyūki (承久記) is a Japanese war tale narrating the Jōkyū War of 1221 between Retired Emperor Gotoba and the Kamakura shogunate, valued for transmitting the Kyoto side of the conflict in detail.
Jolaibari Mound
Jolaibari Mound, or Shyamsundar Tila, is a centrally protected archaeological mound at South Jolaibari, South Tripura, India, holding a 9th-10th century cruciform brick Buddhist stupa with terracotta plaques, excavated by the ASI.
Jolanda Ceplak
Jolanda Čeplak (Steblovnik, Batagelj), Slovenian 800m runner born 1976 in Celje; set the 1:55.82 indoor world record in Vienna 2002, won European titles and 2004 Olympic bronze, banned for EPO in 2007.
Jolanda de Rover
Jolanda de Rover (de Rover-Toussaint), Dutch backstroke swimmer born 1963; 1984 Olympic gold 200 m backstroke (2:12.38) and bronze 100 m; three Olympiads; mother of Kira Toussaint.
Jolanda Neff
Jolanda Neff, born 1993 in St. Gallen, is a Swiss cyclist in cross-country, road, and cyclo-cross; she won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and three World Cup overall titles.
Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda
Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as Minister of Health since 2025, appointed in July 2025 after leading Szpitale Pomorskie, which manages Pomeranian hospitals.
Jolanta Wadowska-Król
Jolanta Wadowska-Król (1939–2023), Polish pediatrician, "Matka Boska Szopienicka", exposed 1970s mass lead poisoning of children near the Szopienice smelter in Katowice; honored late, subject of Netflix series Lead Children.
Jolene (film)
Jolene (2010) is Dan Ireland's drama, Dennis Yares's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's story "Jolene: A Life," starring Jessica Chastain in her debut as a fifteen-year-old orphan on a decade-long cross-country journey; not the Dolly Parton NBC film, the Dutch documentary, or Benny & Jolene.
Jolene (song)
Jolene is a 1973 Dolly Parton country song, also the title track of her 1974 album Jolene, about pleading with a beautiful rival not to take her husband. It hit No. 1 on the country chart and has over 200 covers.
Jolene Blalock
Jolene Blalock (born 1975, San Diego) is an American actress and former model who played Vulcan Sub-Commander T'Pol in all 98 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), won a 2002 Saturn Award, later produced Nimrods, and voiced T'Pol in Lower Decks as "Jolene."
Jolene Van Vugt
Jolene Van Vugt, "Nitro Girl" (born 1980, London, Ontario), Canadian motocross racer, first CMRC Women's Canadian Motocross National Champion, first woman to backflip a full-sized dirt bike, Guinness record holder, and Catwoman's Batpod stunt double in The Dark Knight Rises.
Jolene: A Life
Jolene: A Life is E.L. Doctorow's 2002 New Yorker short story, collected in Sweet Land Stories (2004), about a foster-care girl's three bad marriages; adapted as the 2008 film Jolene starring Jessica Chastain.
Joleon Lescott
Joleon Lescott (Joleon Patrick Lescott, born 1982), English centre back; Wolves academy graduate, Everton and Manchester City defender, two Premier League titles, FA Cup, League Cup, 26 England caps, scored at Euro 2012; now City Loans Manager and pundit.
Jolie Gabor
Jolie Gabor (Janka Tilleman), Hungarian-born jewelry designer and socialite (died 1997), mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor; ran the Jolie Gabor jewelry stores in New York and Palm Springs.
Jolie Jenkins
Jolie Jenkins (born 1974), American actress; Jennifer Cooper on Alexa & Katie, Rita Loud on The Really Loud House, FBI Agent Leyla Harrison on The X-Files; began on Broadway in The Who's Tommy.
Jolieke G van Oosterwijk
Jolieke G. van Oosterwijk is a Dutch-trained scientist in bone tumor biology known for co-discovering the somatic mosaic genetic basis of Ollier disease and Maffucci syndrome.