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Joliet 29 Generating Station
Joliet 29 Generating Station is a retired two-unit steam power plant on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Illinois, coal-fired from 1965 and converted to natural gas in 2016.
Joliet Correctional Center
Joliet Correctional Center (Old Joliet Prison), Illinois State Penitentiary–Joliet, was a Joliet, Illinois state prison operating 1858–2002, built by convict quarry labor, closed by Governor Ryan, now a museum-run National Register historic site.
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois: third-largest Illinois city (150,362 in 2020), county seat of Will County, 30 miles southwest of Chicago; named for explorer Louis Joliet; canal, steel, and intermodal freight hub.
Jolin Tsai
Jolin Tsai (蔡依林, born 1980) is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer, debut 1999 album 1019, over 25 million records sold, and Golden Melody Album of the Year wins for Play, Ugly Beauty, and Pleasure.
Joliot (lunar crater)
Joliot is a 172.79 km-wide impact crater on the lunar far side at 25.79°N, 93.39°E, named for the Joliot-Curie physicists; an old, degraded crater with a central peak, low albedo, and high iron content.
Joliot-Curie (supercomputer)
Joliot-Curie is a French petascale supercomputer owned by GENCI and operated at the CEA's TGCC near Bruyères-le-Châtel, replacing Curie in 2018 as France's main open research machine.
Joliot-Curie (Venusian crater)
Joliot-Curie is a large impact crater on Venus at 1.6°S, 62.4°E, about 91-101 km across, IAU-named in 1991 for French physicist and Nobel laureate Irène Joliot-Curie.
Jollibee
Jollibee is a Filipino fast-food chain owned by Jollibee Foods Corporation (PSE: JFC), famous for Chickenjoy fried chicken, Jolly Spaghetti, and the Yumburger. Founded 1975 as an ice cream shop, it leads Philippine fast food over McDonald's and runs 1,300-plus home stores with global expansion.
Jollof rice
Jollof rice, also called thieboudienne, ceebu jen, benachin, or riz au gras, is a West African one-pot rice dish cooked in a fried tomato-onion-pepper base, originating with the Wolof people of Senegambia and fueling the Ghana-Nigeria "Jollof Wars".
Jolly LLB (जॉली एलएलबी)
Jolly LLB (जॉली एलएलबी) is a 2013 Hindi courtroom comedy-drama directed by Subhash Kapoor, starring Arshad Warsi as a Meerut lawyer who files a PIL in a hit-and-run case against Boman Irani's advocate; it won Saurabh Shukla a National Film Award and spawned a franchise.
Jolly LLB 2
Jolly LLB 2 (जॉली एलएलबी २), also released as The State vs. Jolly LL.B 2, is a 2017 Hindi courtroom comedy-drama by Subhash Kapoor starring Akshay Kumar as lawyer Jagdishwar Mishra, with Huma Qureshi, Saurabh Shukla, and Annu Kapoor; a Fox Star Studios hit that faced a Bombay High Court contempt petition.
Jolly LLB 3
Jolly LLB 3 (2025) is a Hindi courtroom comedy-drama directed by Subhash Kapoor, starring Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi as rival lawyers Jagdishwar Mishra and Jagdish Tyagi; released 19 September 2025, it earned ₹166.06 crore worldwide.
Jolly O Gymkhana (film)
Jolly O Gymkhana (ஜாலி ஓ கிமகான), 2024 Tamil black comedy by Sakthi Chidambaram; Prabhu Deva plays a corpse, with Madonna Sebastian; released 22 Nov 2024, streamed on Aha from 30 Dec 2024.
Jolly Rancher
Jolly Rancher: American hard candy brand founded 1949 in Golden, Colorado, by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen as an ice cream shop; owned by The Hershey Company since its 1996 Leaf acquisition; known for intense fruit flavors.
Jolly Roger
The Jolly Roger is the traditional pirate flag, usually a white skull and crossbones on black, flown from the late 17th century to frighten targets into surrendering.
JollyChic (Zhiyu Information)
JollyChic, legally Jolly Information Technology Co Ltd (执御信息), was a Hangzhou cross-border e-commerce company founded in 2012, selling Chinese goods into Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Jolof Empire
The Jolof Empire, also known as the Wolof Empire, was a West African confederation of kingdoms between the Senegal and Gambia rivers from the mid-14th century to 1549.
Jolt (film)
Jolt (2021) is an American action comedy directed by Tanya Wexler, starring Kate Beckinsale as Lindy, a bouncer who controls murderous rage with an electrode vest and hunts her boyfriend's killer; released on Prime Video, 91 minutes, 40% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jolt Cola
Jolt Cola, "All the sugar and twice the caffeine," is a high-caffeine cola launched in 1985 in Rochester, New York by C.J. Rapp, an energy-drink pioneer that declined after costly battery-shaped cans and bankruptcy, later revived as a REDCON1 zero-sugar energy drink.
Jolt Energy
Jolt Energy is a Dublin and Munich-based charge point operator founded by Maurice Neligan, offering battery-buffered urban chargers delivering up to 320 kW, adding up to 100 km of range in five minutes.
Joly (Martian crater)
Joly is a 79.90-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 74.53S, 317.30E in the southern highlands, approved by the IAU in 1973 and named for Irish geologist John Joly (1857-1933).
Jolyon Palmer
Jolyon Palmer (born 1991) is a British former racing driver, 2014 GP2 champion with DAMS, who raced in Formula 1 for Renault in 2016-2017 with 37 starts and 9 points, and is now an F1TV and BBC Radio analyst.
Jolywood
Jolywood is a Chinese photovoltaic manufacturer founded in 2008 in Changshu, Jiangsu, that began with solar module backsheets and expanded into n-type TOPCon cells, listed in Shenzhen since 2014.
Joma
Joma, also known as Joma Sport, is a Spanish sportswear company founded in 1965 in Portillo de Toledo by Fructuoso López, selling in more than 120 countries.
Jombolok
Jombolok, also written Jom-Bolok or Zhom-Bolok, is a Holocene basaltic volcanic field in the East Sayan Mountains of Siberia, Russia, whose youngest flows erupted around 737 CE, among Central Asia's most recent eruptions.
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1895–1978), born Kamau wa Muigai, led Kenya to independence as first Prime Minister (1963) and President (1964–1978); arrested in 1952 during the Emergency, he later established de facto one-party rule in 1969 and a Kikuyu-centered political economy.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is Kenya's main international airport, serving Nairobi from Embakasi about 15 km from the city center as the hub of Kenya Airways.
Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature
The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (JKPLA) is a biennial Kenyan literary award run by the Kenya Publishers Association for fiction in English and Kiswahili since 1974.
Jomo Williams
Jomo Williams is an American politician from Harlem and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 13th district in 2026, after a 2021 City Council run.
Jōmon people
The Jōmon people (縄文人) were the hunter-gatherer-fisher inhabitants of the Japanese Archipelago during the Jōmon period, from about 16,500 years ago until rice farming arrived.