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Juergen Teller
Juergen Teller, born 1964 in Erlangen, Germany, is a German photographer based in London known for a raw, flash-lit, unglamorous style and campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Celine, and Vivienne Westwood.
Juewen Liu
Juewen Liu (刘珏炜) is a chemistry professor at the University of Waterloo who works on functional nucleic acids, nanozymes, and biosensors for detecting heavy metals.
Juexin Wei
珏芯微, formally 浙江珏芯微电子有限公司, is a Chinese compound-semiconductor company founded in 2019 in Lishui, Zhejiang, that makes aerospace-grade cooled infrared detectors from epitaxial materials to cryocoolers.
Jufang
Jufang (巨方) is a minor figure associated with the Chan master Hongren who does not appear among Hongren's named disciples in surviving early Chan records.
Juffali
Juffali, formally E.A. Juffali & Brothers, is a family-owned Saudi conglomerate founded in Jeddah in 1936, best known as the kingdom's sole Mercedes-Benz distributor since 1959.
Jug band
Jug band: American folk ensemble using a jug as bass instrument with washboards, kazoos, spoons, washtub bass, guitar; originated in Louisville around 1900, peaked in Memphis with the Memphis Jug Band and Cannon's Jug Stompers, revived in the 1960s.
Jugaad
Jugaad, also spelled Jugaar or Juggaar, is a Hindi term for an immediate, low-cost solution improvised from whatever is at hand, and the unlicensed vehicle it originally named.
Jugal Hansraj (जुगल हंसराज)
Jugal Hansraj (जुगल हंसराज), Indian actor, screenwriter, and director born 1972 in Mumbai; child star of Masoom (1983), actor in Mohabbatein, and National Award-winning writer-director of Roadside Romeo (2008).
Jugal Kishore Sharma
Jugal Kishore Sharma, born in 1962, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Jammu in the Lok Sabha since 2014.
Jugantar
Jugantar (যুগান্তর, "New Era") was a Bengali revolutionary weekly founded in Calcutta in 1906, and the secret party around it that armed against British rule.
Juge d'instruction (historical development)
The juge d'instruction is the French investigating magistrate conducting the secret, written pre-trial investigation of serious criminal cases, created by the Code d'instruction criminelle of 1808.
Jugemu (寿限無)
Jugemu (寿限無) is a classical Japanese rakugo comic story in which a boy receives an absurdly long auspicious name from a temple priest; a representative zenza (apprentice) piece whose comedy lies in repeatedly reciting the name until a bump recedes.
Jugend
Jugend was a German illustrated art and literary weekly magazine, published in Munich from 1896 to 1940 and founded by Georg Hirth; it gave its name to Jugendstil.
Juggalo
Juggalo: fan of Insane Clown Posse or Psychopathic Records artists; term coined in 1994 by Violent J during "The Juggla"; subculture with clown makeup, Faygo, Gathering festival; labeled a hybrid gang by FBI in 2011.
Juggalo gangs
Juggalo gangs is the FBI's 2011 classification of Insane Clown Posse fans as a "loosely organized hybrid gang." The designation applied to over one million people.
Juggernaut
Juggernaut, from Jagannath (Jagannātha, "lord of the world"), an English word for an unstoppable force, borrowed from the Puri chariot festival of the deity Jagannath, whose colossal Ratha Yatra cars inspired it.
Juggernaut (character)
Juggernaut, aka Cain Marko, stepbrother of Charles Xavier, is a Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in The X-Men #12 (1965), empowered by the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak with limitless strength and near-invulnerability.
Juggling
Juggling: periodic throwing and catching of objects for dexterity, an art over 4,000 years old with ancient Egyptian roots, standardized on balls, clubs, and rings, and widely studied for its effects on brain plasticity, motor learning, and cognition.
Jughead Jones
Jughead Jones (Forsythe Pendleton Jones III), Archie Comics character debuting in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941); Archie's hungry, lazy, dating-averse best friend with a whoopee cap, asexual in the 2015 reboot and played by Cole Sprouse in Riverdale.
Jugjugg Jeeyo
Jugjugg Jeeyo (जुगजुग जियो), 2022 Hindi family comedy-drama by Raj Mehta, Dharma Productions; Varun Dhawan, Kiara Advani, Anil Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor; two couples facing divorce around a Patiala wedding; released June 24, 2022.
Juglandaceae
Juglandaceae, the walnut family (DC. ex Perleb, 1818), is a Fagales family of trees including Juglans, Carya, Pterocarya, and Rhoiptelea, with compound leaves, catkins, and one-seeded nuts, source of walnuts, pecans, and valuable timber.
Juglans
Juglans, the walnut genus of Juglandaceae, has 21 accepted species including J. regia, J. nigra, and J. cinerea, native from the Americas to East Asia; threatened by thousand cankers disease and butternut canker.
Juglans nigra
Juglans nigra, black walnut or American walnut, is an eastern North American hardwood tree prized for dark chocolate-brown, dimensionally stable, decay-resistant timber used in furniture, veneer, and gunstocks, with edible nuts and disputed juglone allelopathy.
Juglans regia
Juglans regia, Persian or common walnut, a Juglandaceae tree native from Türkiye to the west Himalaya, anciently hybrid-origin, spread across Europe by humans since the Bronze Age for nuts and timber.
Juglar cycle
The Juglar cycle is a medium-term business cycle of roughly 7 to 11 years, driven by fixed investment and credit, named after French economist Clément Juglar.
Jugnuma: The Fable
Jugnuma: The Fable (originally The Fable) is Raam Reddy's 2024 Hindi-English magical realist drama starring Manoj Bajpayee as a Himalayan orchard owner facing mysterious fires; it premiered at Berlinale 2024 and won Best Film at Leeds.
Jugraj Sandhu
Jugraj Sandhu, full name Jugraj Singh Sandhu, is an Indian Punjabi-language singer from Bhulath, Punjab, whose 2018 romantic track "Mere Wala Sardar" became one of the year's most-viewed Indian songs.
Jugs Jugueta
Jugs Jugueta, born Eric Rommel Jugueta, is a Filipino musician who co-founded The Itchyworms in 1996 and hosts ABS-CBN's noontime show It's Showtime since 2009.
Jugular vein
Jugular veins: paired neck veins draining the head and neck. Internal jugular runs in the carotid sheath from the jugular foramen to the brachiocephalic vein; external jugular is superficial. Used for central access and JVP assessment.
Jugular venous pressure
Jugular venous pressure is a bedside estimate of right atrial pressure, measured by the height of the pulsating blood column in the internal jugular vein.