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Javanese people
Javanese (Orang Jawa), Indonesia's largest ethnic group, about 85 million people on Java; Austronesian language with ngoko, madya, krama speech levels; syncretic kejawen Islam; large diasporas in Suriname, the Netherlands, and Malaysia.
Jennifer Barreto
Jennifer Barreto, Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2026 from San Sebastián, crowned June 25, 2026 in Caguas; a 27-year-old prevention specialist with two master's degrees, hosting Miss Universe 2026 in San Juan.
Jet set
The jet set is a fashionable set of wealthy people who travel by jetliner to parties and resorts worldwide, named in the 1950s after jet aircraft.
Jewish agricultural colonies in Argentina
Jewish agricultural colonies in Argentina were farming settlements for Eastern European Jewish immigrants, begun with Moisés Ville in 1889 and organized by the Jewish Colonization Association.
Jewish diaspora (תפוצות)
Jewish diaspora (תפוצות; galut, exile): Jewish settlement outside the land of Israel, from the Assyrian and Babylonian deportations (8th–6th centuries BCE) through the Roman-era dispersion to today's 15.8 million Jews, 8.5 million of them outside Israel.
Jewish ethnic divisions
Jewish ethnic divisions cover the Ashkenazim of Europe, Sephardim of Iberian origin, and Mizrahim of the Middle East and North Africa, plus smaller groups like Beta Israel; also their genetics, languages, and role in Israeli society.
Jewish exodus from Morocco
The Jewish exodus from Morocco was the mass emigration of Morocco's Jewish community, mainly to Israel, between 1948 and the 1970s; over 270,000 migrated to Israel by 2012.
Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
The Jewish exodus from the Muslim world: the departure of roughly 850,000 Jews from Arab countries and about one million from Islamic lands between 1948 and the 1970s, mostly to Israel, leaving around 30,000 in Muslim countries by 2020.
Jewish nose
The "Jewish nose" is an antisemitic stereotype of a distinctive hooked nose, arising in 13th-century Christian art, codified by race science and plastic surgery, and persisting in propaganda and media.
Jewish population by country
Jewish population by country, also called Jews by country, is the distribution of the world's Jews, concentrated in Israel and the United States, with about 14.8 million worldwide in 2020.
Jews
Jews: an ethnoreligious group and people tracing origins to the ancient Israelites, defined by religion, ancestry, and culture; about 15 million worldwide, centered in Israel and the United States.
João Marinho Neto
João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912, Maranguape, Ceará) is a Brazilian supercentenarian, validated by LongeviQuest and Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man since 25 November 2024, and the first Brazilian to hold that title.
Job (role)
Job (role): the set of tasks, duties, and expectations directing one person's work for an employer, distinct from an occupation. Covers job design, the Hackman-Oldham Job Characteristics Model, and AI-driven boundary changes.
Job's Daughters International
Job's Daughters International is a Masonic-affiliated leadership organization for girls ages 10-20, founded 1920 in Omaha by Ethel T. Wead Mick, named for Job 42:15, with Bethels in five countries and the HIKE Fund charity.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
Jocelyn Wildenstein, born Jocelyne Périsset, Swiss-born New York socialite nicknamed Catwoman for extreme plastic surgery; $2.5 billion 1999 divorce from Alec Wildenstein, 2018 bankruptcy, died Paris December 31, 2024.
Jock (stereotype)
Jock is a stereotype of the male athlete, especially in American high schools and colleges, as physically able but intellectually shallow and centered on sports above academics.
John Carreyrou
John Carreyrou is an American investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer winner who exposed the Theranos fraud in The Wall Street Journal starting October 2015 and recounted it in his 2018 book Bad Blood.
John Smith (Chippewa Indian)
John Smith, Ojibwe name Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce ('Wrinkled Meat'), was a Chippewa man of Cass Lake, Minnesota, a photographed celebrity reputed to be 137 when he died February 6, 1922; the age is undocumented and disputed.
Jordan Howlett
Jordan Howlett (born 1997), aka Jordan the Stallion (@jordan_the_stallion8), is an American TikTok and YouTube creator behind the Fast Food Secrets Club, a former UC Riverside Division I baseball player with tens of millions of followers.
Joseph Brant
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea, c. 1742/43–1807), Mohawk Wolf Clan war chief, interpreter, and translator, allied with the British in the American Revolution, visited London in 1775–76, and resettled the Six Nations on the Grand River grant of 1784.
Josh fight
The Josh fight (Josh Swain fight) was a real April 24, 2021 pool-noodle battle in Lincoln, Nebraska, born from Josh Swain's 2020 group-chat joke challenging namesake Joshes; 'Little Josh' (Josh Vinson Jr.) won and about $8,000 was raised for a children's hospital.
Josh Kraft
Josh Kraft, son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, is a Boston nonprofit leader who led the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (2008–2020), headed the Patriots Foundation, and lost a 2025 mayoral bid against Michelle Wu, withdrawing after the preliminary election.
Joshua Block
Joshua Block, aka WorldOfTShirts, is an American TikTok personality born 2001 in Virginia Beach, known for New York City vlogs, nightly Parti livestreams, merchandise, walking tours, and repeated public incidents.
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of gathering, verifying, and distributing news about current events through an editorial process. Also called the press or fourth estate, it spans print, broadcast, and digital forms since the 1605 first newspaper.
Journeyman
Journeyman: a qualified craft worker, from French journée (a day), who completed an apprenticeship and worked for day wages between apprentice and master in the medieval guild system; the rank survives in licensed trades and Germany's journeyman examination.
Julia Boorstin
Julia Boorstin (born 1978) is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent in Los Angeles, creator of the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and author of When Women Lead (2022), based on interviews with more than 100 women leaders.
Julie Noegel Hardaway
Julie Noegel Hardaway, American clubwoman from Augusta, Georgia, living in Aiken, South Carolina; UDC President General 2024-2026 after serving as Vice President General, DAR regent, Jamestowne Society member, and public defender of Confederate monuments and tax exemptions.
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927), called Daisy, founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in Savannah on March 12, 1912, after meeting Robert Baden-Powell; membership reached 168,000 by her death.
K-1 visa
K-1 visa, the U.S. fiancé(e) nonimmigrant visa created in 1970, lets a foreign fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen enter to marry within 90 days and then adjust status; distinct from K-2, K-3, and CR-1/IR-1 routes.
Kabyle immigration to France
Kabyle immigration to France is the century-long movement of workers from Kabylia, a Berber-speaking region of northern Algeria, to France, beginning in the late 1800s.