Jupiter, the chief ancient Roman and Italian god. Like Zeus, the Greek god with whom he is etymologically identical (root diu, “bright”), Jupiter was a sky god. One of his most ancient epithets is Lucetius (“Light-Bringer”); and later literature has preserved the same idea in such phrases as sub

Gijón: …of workers, and of the Jovellanos Institute (1797), a commercial and nautical school named for the 18th-century philosopher Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos y Ramírez, a native of the city.

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos was a Spanish statesman and author, one of the most important figures of the 18th-century Spanish Enlightenment. After studying law, Jovellanos was appointed to judicial posts at Sevilla (1767) and Madrid (1778). He gained fame for his literary and scholarly activities

Roberto Carlos: …youth-oriented cultural movement known as Jovem Guarda (“Young Guard”), and in 1965 he began cohosting a musical variety TV program by that name. Carlos’s irrepressible popularity—bolstered by a top-selling album, Roberto Carlos canta para a juventude (1965; “Roberto Carlos Sings to the Youth”), and a string of hit songs that…

Francisco Herrera, the Younger was a painter and architect who figured prominently in the development of the Spanish Baroque style in Sevilla (Seville) and Madrid. He was the son and pupil of Francisco Herrera the Elder. After fleeing from his father (who was noted for his bad temper), Herrera the

ʿAṭā Malek Joveynī was a Persian historian. Joveynī was the first of several brilliant representatives of Persian historiography who flourished during the period of Mongol domination in Iran (1220–1336). Born into a well-known and highly respected family of governors and civil servants, Joveynī

Richard Brome: …popular of his plays, although A Joviall Crew (produced 1641, published 1652) is considered to be his best work. There are 15 of his comedies extant, including The City Wit; or The Woman Wears the Breeches (produced 1629; published 1653), The Sparagus Garden (produced 1635; published 1640), The Antipodes (produced…

Jovian was a Roman emperor from 363 to 364. Jovian took part in the expedition of the emperor Julian against Sāsānian Persia. He held the rank of senior staff officer and was proclaimed emperor by his troops after Julian was killed on June 26, 363. To extricate his army from Persia, the new ruler

planet: Planets of the solar system: …Jupiter to Neptune are called giant planets or Jovian planets. Between these two main groups is a belt of numerous small bodies called asteroids. After Ceres and other larger asteroids were discovered in the early 19th century, the bodies in this class were also referred to as minor planets or…

Diocletian: Reorganization of the empire of Diocletian: …After 287 he called himself Jovius (Jove) and Maximian was named Herculius (Hercules), signifying that they had been chosen by the gods and predestined as participants in the divine nature. Thus, they were charged with distributing the benefits of Providence, Diocletian through divine wisdom, and Maximian through heroic energy. Later…

Italian literature: Social commitment and the new realism: …“Peasants of the South”]) and Francesco Jovine (Le terre del Sacramento [1950; “The Lands of the Sacrament”; Eng. trans. The Estate in Abruzzi]). Vivid pictures of the Florentine working classes were painted by Vasco Pratolini (Il quartiere [1945; “The District”; Eng. trans. The Naked Streets] and Metello [1955; Eng.

Valentinian I: His general Jovinus defeated them three times. At Durocatalaunum (modern Châlons-sur-Marne, France), in the third engagement, Jovinus inflicted heavy casualties on the Alemanni, securing Gaul for years to come. Meanwhile, in 367, the emperor moved to Ambiani (modern Amiens, France) to be in closer communication with his…

Paulus Jovius was an Italian historian, author of vivid historical works in Latin, and the owner of a famous art collection. In about 1513 Jovius settled in Rome; he won the favour of Leo X (who compared him to Livy) and of Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, later Clement VII, whom he helped during the

sorghum, (Sorghum bicolor), cereal grain plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible starchy seeds. The plant likely originated in Africa, where it is a major food crop, and has numerous varieties, including grain sorghums, used for food; grass sorghums, grown for hay and fodder; and

assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Conspiracy theories: Also in 1993, Loyd Jowers, the owner of a tavern below Brewer’s rooming house, said in a television interview that he had been paid $100,000 to plan King’s assassination by a Memphis merchant with connections to organized crime. He claimed that he had hired King’s killer (not Ray),…

Benjamin Jowett was a British classical scholar, considered to be one of the greatest teachers of the 19th century. He was renowned for his translations of Plato and as an outstanding tutor of great influence who became master of Balliol College, Oxford. Jowett was educated at St. Paul’s School,

Bradley Cooper: …a chef seeking redemption, and Joy, in which he reteamed with Russell and Lawrence.

Christianity: Joy in human existence: Friedrich Nietzsche summarized his critique of the Christians of his time in the words of Zarathushtra (Zoroaster): “They would have to sing better songs to me that I might believe in their Redeemer: his disciples would have to look more redeemed!”…

Joy Division/New Order, British rock group who, as Joy Division, refined the external chaos of 1970s punk into a disquieting inner turmoil, ushering in the postpunk era, and later, as New Order, pioneered the successful fusion of rock and 1980s African American dance music styles. The principal

Wayne Wang: Career: …major Hollywood studio movie was The Joy Luck Club (1993), which was based on the best-selling novel by American author Amy Tan. The film explores the struggles of four Chinese mothers and their Chinese American daughters to relate to each other, and it was one of the first movies in…

Amy Tan: …part of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989; film 1993). The novel relates the experiences of four Chinese mothers, their Chinese American daughters, and the struggles of the two disparate cultures and generations to relate to each other.

coal mining: Mechanized loading: …the prototype stage until the Joy machine was introduced in 1914. Employing the gathering-arm principle, the Joy machine provided the pattern for future successful mobile loaders. After the introduction in 1938 of electric-powered, rubber-tired shuttle cars designed to carry coal from the loading machine to the elevator, mobile loading and…

Edmund White: …include the seminal sex manual The Joy of Gay Sex (1977; with Charles Silverstein). States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980) is a travelogue that investigates gay culture in cities across the United States. White paid homage to his adopted city of Paris in Our Paris: Sketches from Memory…

Jean-Luc Godard: Breathless and filmmaking style and themes: Le Gai savoir (1968; The Joy of Knowledge) is a flatly illustrated text spoken by two students named Émile Rousseau and Patricia Lumumba. His texts for the next decade exhibited a complete indifference to their appeal to the public and were intended as intellectual agitprop (i.e., agitation-propaganda): in Godard’s…

ASMR: Triggers of ASMR: The television show The Joy of Painting (1983–94), created by American painter and television personality Bob Ross, is popular among persons who experience ASMR. Ross’s gentle voice, the repetitive movements of his hands, and the sounds of paintbrushes tapping and brushing invoke ASMR. Videos of his painting sessions…

Frank Sargeson: …sexual adventures of a friend; Joy of the Worm (1969), a comic epistolary novella; the collection Man of England Now (1972), which contained previously published work as well as the novella A Game of Hide and Seek; and Sunset Village (1976), a novella that details the nefarious goings-on at a…

joy perfume tree, (Magnolia champaca), tree native to tropical Asia that is best known for its pleasant fragrance. The species, which is classified in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae), is also characterized by its lustrous evergreen elliptical leaves. The tree grows to about 50 metres (164 feet)

coal mining: Development of continuous mining: The Joy Ripper (1948) was the first continuous miner applicable to the room-and-pillar method.

star cluster: General description and classification: …at Mount Wilson Observatory by Alfred Joy.

Bill Joy is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and cofounder of the computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems. Joy devised a version of the UNIX operating system, Berkeley UNIX, that used the TCP/IP networking language, which placed UNIX servers at the forefront of the Internet revolution

Rick Joy is an American architect based in Tucson, Arizona, known especially for his works in desert settings. Joy studied music at the University of Maine before enrolling as an architecture student at the University of Arizona in 1985. He graduated in 1990 and founded his own firm in 1993. Joy

Bill Joy is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and cofounder of the computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems. Joy devised a version of the UNIX operating system, Berkeley UNIX, that used the TCP/IP networking language, which placed UNIX servers at the forefront of the Internet revolution

El Salvador: Services: …Tazumal, and Quelepa; and the Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993 and consists of the ruins of a prehistoric farming village that was buried by a volcano about 600 ce.

James Joyce was an Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Joyce was the eldest of 10

James Joyce was an Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Joyce was the eldest of 10

the Smiths: ), and drummer Mike Joyce (b. June 1, 1963, Manchester).

James Joyce: Early life: Meanwhile, Joyce had met Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who worked as a maid in a Dublin hotel, in June 1904. They probably had their first date, and first sexual encounter, on June 16, the day that Joyce chose for the setting of his novel Ulysses and…

William Joyce was an English-language propaganda broadcaster from Nazi Germany during World War II whose nickname was derived from the sneering manner of his speech. Though his father was a naturalized U.S. citizen, Joyce lived most of his life in Ireland and England. He was active in Sir Oswald

Joyeuse, French peerage-duchy of the 16th century. Its seat was at Joyeuse in the Vivarais region of Languedoc (in the modern departement of Ardèche), which had been held by a branch of the house of Chateauneuf de Randon as a barony from the 13th century and as a viscounty from 1432. Anne de

Joyeuse Entrée, (French: “Joyous Entry”), during the European Middle Ages and the ancien régime, the ceremonial first visit of a prince to his country, traditionally the occasion for the granting or confirming of privileges. Most famous is the charter of liberties, confirmed on Jan. 3, 1356, and

Joyeuse Entrée: 3, 1356, and called the Joyeuse Entrée, which was presented to the duchy of Brabant (in the Low Countries) by Johanna, daughter and heiress of Brabant’s Duke John III (d. 1355), and her husband Wenceslas, duke of Luxembourg, brother of the Holy Roman emperor Charles IV. The occasion was the…

history of the Low Countries: Town opposition to the prince: …form of public testaments called joyeuse entrée acts, which were delivered at all successions from 1312 until 1794. The acts, which also applied to Limburg, contained dozens of ad hoc regulations besides a few more general and abstract notions, such as the indivisibility of the territory, a nationality requirement for…

Anne, duc de Joyeuse was a French nobleman who became a leader of the Roman Catholic extremists opposing the Protestant Huguenots during the 16th-century Wars of Religion. The eldest son of Guillaume, viscount de Joyeuse, Anne when very young was admitted to the royal court, where he carried the

Joyeuse: …death to his third brother, Antoine Scipion, who campaigned for some years with Spanish help but was drowned in the Tarn after defeat at Villemur in 1592. Thereupon his brother Henri (1567–1608), who had at first been known as the comte de Bouchage but had become a Capuchin friar under…

Joyeuse: …his surviving brothers, the eldest, François (1562–1615), was archbishop of Narbonne from 1582 and cardinal from 1583, later to be archbishop of Rouen (1604). Consequently the leadership of the Catholic extremists in Languedoc passed on Anne’s death to his third brother, Antoine Scipion, who campaigned for some years with Spanish…

Joyeuse: Thereupon his brother Henri (1567–1608), who had at first been known as the comte de Bouchage but had become a Capuchin friar under the name of Frere Ange on his wife’s death (1587), laid aside his habit to continue the duchy and the warfare. Reconciled with Henry IV…

Queen Latifah: In Joyful Noise (2012) Queen Latifah starred opposite Dolly Parton as the director of a competitive church gospel choir. She followed that performance with a role as a Southern matriarch in the TV movie Steel Magnolias (2012), which, in contrast to the 1980s stage and film…

G.W. Pabst: …was Die freudlose Gasse (1925; The Joyless Street), which became internationally famous as a grimly authentic portrayal of life in inflation-ridden postwar Vienna. His second successful film was Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926; Secrets of a Soul), a realistic consideration of psychoanalysis that recalls Expressionist themes in its detailed examination of…

Florence Griffith Joyner: Flash and Dash: …she married champion triple jumper Al Joyner. Her three-year hiatus necessitated a rigorous training regimen to become competitive again.

Florence Griffith Joyner was an American sprinter who set world records in the 100 metres (10.49 seconds) and 200 metres (21.34 seconds) that have stood since 1988. Griffith started running at age seven, chasing jackrabbits to increase her speed. In 1980 she entered the University of California,

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is an American athlete who was considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever. She was the first participant to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. Joyner showed great enthusiasm for athletics early on, and, as a teenager, she won the first of four

Matilda Sissieretta Jones was an American opera singer who was among the greatest sopranos in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jones early revealed her talent as a singer, and for a time she studied at the Providence (Rhode Island) Academy of Music. She may have undertaken further studies at

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is an American athlete who was considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever. She was the first participant to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. Joyner showed great enthusiasm for athletics early on, and, as a teenager, she won the first of four

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is an American athlete who was considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever. She was the first participant to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. Joyner showed great enthusiasm for athletics early on, and, as a teenager, she won the first of four

Dōgen was a leading Japanese Buddhist during the Kamakura period (1192–1333), who introduced Zen to Japan in the form of the Sōtō school (Chinese: Ts’ao-tung). A creative personality, he combined meditative practice and philosophical speculation. Dōgen was born into a family of the court nobility

Japanese language: Writing systems: …1981, the new list (called Jōyō kanji hyō “List of characters for daily use”) contains 1,945 characters recommended for daily use. That basic list of Chinese characters is to be learned during primary and secondary education. When newspapers use characters not on the list, they also supply the reading in…

Dame Ellen MacArthur: …months earlier by French sailor Francis Joyon. After departing southward from the official starting point of Ushant, France, she set speed records to the Equator, the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Leeuwin, Australia. After reaching the Southern Ocean and turning northward, she suffered a badly burned arm while changing…

Olivia Colman: Films: The Lobster, The Favourite, and The Lost Daughter: …Colman starred in the comedy Joyride and in Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light, about employees at a struggling movie theater in the 1980s. She also lent her voice to several animated films, including The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), and to the…

Buchi Emecheta: … (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Destination Biafra (1982), and Double Yoke (1982)—are realistic works of fiction set in Nigeria. Perhaps her strongest work, The Rape of Shavi (1983), is also the most difficult to categorize. Set in an imaginary idyllic African kingdom, it explores the…

Attila József was one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Although his first poems were published when he was 17, real renown came only after his death. József was attracted by Marxist ideology and became a member of the then-illegal Communist Party. In 1932 he launched a

justice of the peace, in Anglo-American legal systems, a local magistrate empowered chiefly to administer criminal or civil justice in minor cases. A justice of the peace may, in some jurisdictions, also administer oaths and perform marriages. In England and Wales a magistrate is appointed on

Bülent Ecevit: …to Süleyman Demirel of the Justice Party. After further crises in 1977, during which Ecevit briefly formed a government (June 21–July 3), he was again prime minister in January 1978. Acute economic and social difficulties, however, led to the fall of his government in October 1979.

JPEG, computer graphics file format. In 1983 researchers with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) started working on ways to add photo-quality graphics to the text-only computer terminal screens of the day. Three years later, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) was

Mario Molina: Molina worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1982 to 1989, when he became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In 2004 he moved to the University of California, San Diego. Molina was awarded the U.S. Presidential…

JPMorgan Chase & Co., American banking and financial services company formed through the December 2000 merger of J.P. Morgan & Co. and The Chase Manhattan Corporation. It is headquartered in New York City. The Morgan branch of the corporation traces its history to J.P. Morgan and Company, Inc.

Douglas Coupland: Wyoming (1999), Hey Nostradamus! (2003), JPod (2006), The Gum Thief (2007), and Worst. Person. Ever. (2013). In addition, Coupland penned the screenplay for Everything’s Gone Green (2006), and he cocreated and cowrote the TV series jPod (2008), which was based on his 2006 novel. Bit Rot: Stories + Essays appeared…

William Gaddis: His second novel, JR (1975), uses long stretches of cacophonous dialogue to depict what its author viewed as the greed, hypocrisy, and banality of the world of American business. Gaddis’s third novel, Carpenter’s Gothic (1985), is even more pessimistic in its depiction of moral chaos in modern America.…

Japan Railways Group, principal rail network of Japan, consisting of 12 corporations created by the privatization of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1987. The first railroad in Japan, built by British engineers, opened in 1872, between Tokyo and Yokohama. After some initial

Java: …interpreted by software called the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), or the Java virtual machine. The JRE acts as a virtual computer that interprets Bytecode and translates it for the host computer. Because of this, Java code can be written the same way for many platforms (“write once, run anywhere”), which…

Japan: Political developments: …he and his newly formed Japan Restoration Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai) won a total of 54 seats in the chamber.

JavaScript, computer programming language that is a mainstay of web development, enabling the creation of complex features and interactivity in websites and web applications, as well as other use cases. JavaScript is a scripting language, meaning that its code is interpreted (i.e., translated into

tank: World War II: …the Russians brought out the JS, or Stalin, heavy tank, which appeared in 1944 armed with a 122-mm gun. Its muzzle velocity was lower than that of the German 88-mm guns, however, and it weighed only 46 tons. At about the same time the T-34 was rearmed with an 85-mm…

Stanley McChrystal: …and he was assigned to Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)—a standing task force that integrates special operations units such as the army’s Delta Force and 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) and the navy’s SEAL (Sea, Air, and Land) Team Six—at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. With the outbreak of the…

query string: …all the data in a JSON Web token (JWT), which is a base-64 representation of the data protected by a signature. When thus encoded, tampering with the query string’s data is impossible; the parameters are tied together and cannot be altered without being detected. The drawback is that this technique…

Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ), leftist party in Japan that supports an evolving socialized economy and a neutralist foreign policy. Japan’s first socialist parties appeared in the mid-1920s; moderate factions of the country’s labour movement combined to form the Social Mass Party (Shakai

fusion reactor: Magnetic confinement: …in England; the Tokamak-60 (JT-60) of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute; and the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey, respectively.

gas: Equation of state: virial coefficients and depend only on the temperature and the particular gas. The virtue of this equation is that there is a rigorous connection between the virial coefficients and intermolecular forces, and experimental values of B(T) were an early source (and still a useful one)…

Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA), the academic and spiritual centre of Conservative Judaism in the United States. Founded in New York City in 1886 as the Jewish Theological Seminary Association, the institution was first headed by Rabbi Sabato Morais, whose declared goal was to educate

Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengō), largest national trade union in Japan. The federation was founded in 1989 and absorbed its predecessors—including the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sōhyō), the Japanese Confederation of Labour (Dōmei), and others—and brought together both

jujitsu: …these systems was the concept jū, from a Chinese character commonly interpreted as “gentle”—gentle, however, in the sense of bending or yielding to an opponent’s direction of attack while attempting to control it. Also involved was the use of hard or tough parts of the body (e.g., knuckles, fists, elbows,…

Hugo Junkers: …supplying the Luftwaffe with the Ju 52, a trimotor monoplane used as a troop transport and glider tug; the Ju 87 dive bomber (Sturzkampfflugzeug, shortened to “Stuka”); and the Ju 88, a twin-engine all-purpose bomber.

Stuka: …low-wing, single-engine monoplane—especially the Junkers JU 87 dive-bomber—used by the German Luftwaffe from 1937 to 1945, with especially telling effect during the first half of World War II. The Stuka was designed to employ the dive-bombing technique developed earlier by the U.S. Navy—i.e., diving on the target at a steep…

air warfare: Air superiority: … and Mosquito and the German Ju-88 and Bf-110. Some of these long-range, twin-engined night fighters also served as “intruders,” slipping into enemy bomber formations, following them home, and shooting them down over their own airfields.

Zhang Yimou: …number of Zhang’s films, including Ju Dou (1990), a drama about a woman in a loveless marriage who has an affair. Although banned in China, the film was an international success, and it became the first Chinese movie to be nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film. Several…

Chu Ki-Chol was a Korean Presbyterian minister who suffered martyrdom because of his opposition to Japanese demands that Christians pay reverence at Shintō shrines. The demand was one of many requirements imposed by Japan during its occupation of Korea (1905–45) to instill obedience and supplant

Khoisan languages: Phonology: …in | Gui, 55 in Ju, and 83 in !Xóõ. To the click complexes must be added varying numbers of nonclick consonants resulting in some uniquely large and complicated consonant systems. The | Gui system of 90 consonants, the Ju system of 105 consonants, and the !Xóõ system of 126…

Luan River, river in Hebei province, northern China. The Luan rises in northern Hebei and flows northward into the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region through steep gorges; in its headstream it is called the Shandian River. It passes north of the ancient Mongol capital of Shangdu (Kaiping), for which

Ru kiln, kiln known for creating highly prized Chinese stoneware. The Ru kiln produced ware for a short period during the years when Northern Song emperors Zhezong (1085–1110) and Huizong (1110–1125) ruled. No more than 60 intact pieces from the kiln were known before the discovery in 1986 of the

Ju Wenjun is a Chinese chess player who became the women’s world chess champion in 2018. Ju learned to play chess at the age of seven, when she chose lessons as something interesting to do after school. She soon started to do well against local players her same age and in national tournaments. She

Ru kiln, kiln known for creating highly prized Chinese stoneware. The Ru kiln produced ware for a short period during the years when Northern Song emperors Zhezong (1085–1110) and Huizong (1110–1125) ruled. No more than 60 intact pieces from the kiln were known before the discovery in 1986 of the

Stuka: …low-wing, single-engine monoplane—especially the Junkers JU 87 dive-bomber—used by the German Luftwaffe from 1937 to 1945, with especially telling effect during the first half of World War II. The Stuka was designed to employ the dive-bombing technique developed earlier by the U.S. Navy—i.e., diving on the target at a steep…

Huizong: …formed an alliance with the Juchen (Chinese: Nüzhen, or Ruzhen) tribes of Manchuria (now the Northeast region of China). The resulting victory over the Liao was wholly illusory, since it was the Juchen who turned out to be the real menace. In mounting crisis, Huizong abdicated in 1125/26 in favour…

Jin dynasty, (1115–1234), dynasty that ruled an empire formed by the Tungus Juchen (or Jurchen) tribes of Manchuria. The empire covered much of Inner Asia and all of present-day North China. Originally subjects of the Liao, an Inner Asian dynasty created in the 10th century by the Khitan tribes,

Wu Jingzi: 1750; The Scholars).

Juan Bautista de Anza II was a Spanish military commander and explorer who led settlers on an overland route from the Sonoran Desert to the coast of California. Starting in 1775, Anza led a group of more than 240 settlers on a journey across the frontier of the Viceroyalty of New Spain to establish

Juan Carlos was the king of Spain from 1975 to 2014. He acceded to the Spanish throne two days after the death of Francisco Franco. Juan Carlos was instrumental in Spain’s peaceful transition to democracy. Juan Carlos was the grandson of the last king, Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931 and died

Juan Carlos was the king of Spain from 1975 to 2014. He acceded to the Spanish throne two days after the death of Francisco Franco. Juan Carlos was instrumental in Spain’s peaceful transition to democracy. Juan Carlos was the grandson of the last king, Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931 and died

Ruan Ji was an eccentric Chinese poet and the most renowned member of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, a group of 3rd-century poets and philosophers who sought refuge from worldly pressures in a life of drinking and verse making. Born into a prominent family, Ruan Ji was faced with the choice

Juan de Austria was an illegitimate son of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V and half brother of King Philip II of Spain who, as a Spanish military commander, achieved victory over the Turks in the historic naval Battle of Lepanto. Removed from his mother, a burgher’s daughter, at an early age, he

Juan de Austria was an illegitimate son of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V and half brother of King Philip II of Spain who, as a Spanish military commander, achieved victory over the Turks in the historic naval Battle of Lepanto. Removed from his mother, a burgher’s daughter, at an early age, he