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Jukebox musical
A jukebox musical is a musical theater genre whose score consists mostly of pre-existing popular songs, often one artist's catalog, exemplified by Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys.
Jukha
Jukha is an Israeli card-passing game of bluff in which players try to collect four of a kind and exit, while the last two players left lose.
JUKI
JUKI, formerly Tokyo Juki Industrial Co., Ltd., is a Japanese manufacturer of industrial and household sewing machines, founded in 1938 and headquartered in Tama City, Tokyo.
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander is a statistician and professor at Helsinki and Oslo whose group developed the BAPS population-structure software and works on genomic surveillance of microbial pathogens.
Jukka Jernvall
Jukka Jernvall is a Finnish evolutionary developmental biologist and paleontologist at the University of Helsinki whose laboratory models mammalian tooth development, including work on seals, and who was named an Academy Professor in 2021.
Jukka T. Salonen
Jukka T. Salonen is a Finnish physician-scientist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who designed and led the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, testing iron, enterolactone, and vitamin C as coronary risk factors.
Juksakka Corona
Juksakka Corona is a 320 km diameter corona on Venus at 19.5°S, 44.5°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Lapp goddess of birth; one of 740 cataloged Venusian coronae.
Juku (塾)
Juku (塾, gakushū juku) are Japanese private cram schools providing fee-paying supplementary education and entrance-exam prep outside regular school hours; attendance rose from 12% of elementary pupils in 1976 to 23.6% by 1993, and they are regulated under METI, not MEXT.
Jukung
The jukung is a small traditional Indonesian boat, usually a dugout canoe with double outriggers, used for fishing; in Kalimantan it is a river canoe, notably among the Banjar people.
Jul
Jul (born Julien Mari) is a French rapper and singer from Marseille, the biggest-selling artist in French rap history and the first French artist past 10 billion Spotify streams.
Jul Braathe
Jul Braathe (Julius Olaissen Braathe, 1874–1914), Norwegian sport shooter with Oslo Østre Skytterlag; won gold in the free rifle team event at London 1908 and silver at the 1906 Intercalated Games; drowned in 1914.
Julayi
Julayi (జులాయి), also released as Julai, is a 2012 Telugu action comedy directed by Trivikram Srinivas, starring Allu Arjun, Ileana D'Cruz, and Sonu Sood; it earned Rs 21.29 crore worldwide in four days and won a Nandi Award.
Julbahar
Julbahar (Gulbahar) is a Southwest Asian race game of the Tawulat ul-Zahr family, like backgammon with 15 pieces and two dice; its unique rule is that the opening throw moves the opponent's pieces. Play to 31 points.
Jule A. Rabo
Jule A. Rabo (Rabó Gyula) was a Hungarian-born chemist and chemical engineer who discovered acidic zeolite Y catalysts, the basis of motor-fuel production, and held 49 US patents.
Jule Gregory Charney
Jule Gregory Charney (1917–1981) was an American meteorologist who founded modern dynamical meteorology, explained cyclone development through baroclinic instability theory, and led the first computer weather forecast in 1950.
Jule Styne
Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein, 1905-1994), English-born American composer of Broadway musicals and pop standards. Wrote over 2,000 songs including scores for Gypsy, Funny Girl, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Julee Cruise
Julee Cruise (1956-2022), American singer from Creston, Iowa, of Floating into the Night and The Voice of Love, whose ethereal voice with David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti defined Twin Peaks.
Juleen Zierath
Juleen Zierath is an American-born Swedish physiologist who studies how exercise, diet, and circadian rhythm shape insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle, holding professorships at the Karolinska Institutet and Copenhagen.
Julen Lopetegui
Julen Lopetegui Argote (born 1966, Asteasu) is a Spanish coach and ex-goalkeeper managing Qatar. Formerly Spain, Real Madrid, Sevilla (Europa League 2020), Wolves, and West Ham; sacked by Spain two days before the 2018 World Cup.
Jules (film)
Jules is a 2023 American science fiction comedy-drama directed by Marc Turtletaub and starring Ben Kingsley as Milton Robinson, an elderly Pennsylvania man who befriends a crash-landed extraterrestrial.
Jules (Google coding agent)
Jules is an asynchronous AI coding agent from Google that clones a GitHub repository to a cloud VM and returns changes as a pull request.
Jules A. Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann is a Luxembourg-born French immunologist at CNRS and the University of Strasbourg whose Drosophila research on innate immunity won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Jules and Jim
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim), François Truffaut's 1962 French New Wave drama adapted from Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 novel, stars Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, and Henri Serre in a twenty-five-year love triangle.
Jules Asner
Jules Asner (Julie Ann White, b. 1968) is an American TV personality, author, and screenwriter; host of E!'s Wild On!, E! News Daily, and Revealed with Jules Asner, wife of Steven Soderbergh, novelist of Whacked, and Logan Lucky screenwriter as Rebecca Blunt.
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884), French naturalist painter of Damvillers, Meuse; pupil of Cabanel. Known for Les Foins, Saison d'Octobre, Joan of Arc; Zola's 'grandson of Courbet and Millet'; Legion of Honour 1879; influenced the Glasgow Boys.
Jules Bianchi
Jules Bianchi (1989-2015), French Formula One driver for Marussia 2013-2014; scored the team's only points, ninth at Monaco 2014, and died after his Suzuka crash.
Jules Bordet
Jules Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and bacteriologist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing that antibody and complement together destroy bacteria.
Jules Brunet
Jules Brunet (1838–1911), French horse artillery officer of the first French military mission to Japan (1867); defected to the Tokugawa shogunate in the Boshin War and advised the Republic of Ezo's defense, later became a French general and an inspiration for The Last Samurai.
Jules Chéret
Jules Chéret (1836–1932), French painter and lithographer called the father of the modern poster and "roi de l'affiche"; perfected three-stone color lithography, created the "Chérette", made over 1,000 Belle Époque posters, and gave his name to the Nice fine-arts museum.
Jules Comby
Jules Comby (1853–1947) was a French pediatrician at the Hôpital Trousseau and Hôpital des Enfants-Malades in Paris, known for Comby's sign in measles and his influential pediatric textbooks.