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1: United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993) [syn: {Doolittle}, {Jimmy Doolittle}]

1: United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) [syn: {Robinson}]

1: British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: {Hunt}, {Leigh Hunt}]

1: Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835) [syn: {Hogg}]

1: United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) [syn: {Meredith}, {James Meredith}]

1: Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797) [syn: {Hutton}]

1: the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1925 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; son of Mary Queen of Scots who succeeded Elizabeth I; alienated Parliament by claiming t...

1: the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)

1: a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

1: United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) [syn: {Ives}, {James Merritt Ives}]

1: United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) [syn: {Hill}, {J. J. Hill}]

1: United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933) [syn: {Corbett}, {Jim Corbett}, {Gentleman Jim}]

1: United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978) [syn: {Tunney}, {Gene Tunney}]

1: influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) [syn: {Joyce}, {James Augustine Aloysius Joyce}]

1: 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849) [syn: {Polk}, {James Polk}, {James Knox Polk}, {P...

1: 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849) [syn: {Polk}, {James Polk}, {James K. Polk}, {Pre...

1: United States writer (1902-1967) [syn: {Hughes}, {Langston Hughes}]

1: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: {Farmer}]

1: 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836) [syn: {Madison}, {Preside...

1: United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997) [syn: {Stewart}, {Jimmy Stewart}]

1: United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970) [syn: {Hendrix}, {Jimi Hendrix}]

1: English film actor (1909-1984) [syn: {Mason}, {James Neville Mason}]

1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: {Barrie}, {James Barrie}, {J. M. Barrie}, {Sir James Matthew Barrie}]

1: American psychologist and editor (1860-1944) [syn: {Cattell}]

1: United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) [syn: {Meredith}, {James Howard Meredith}]

1: United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) [syn: {Ives}, {James Ives}]

1: United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) [syn: {Michener}, {James Albert Michener}]

1: Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: {Mill}]

1: 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831) [syn: {Monroe}, {President Monroe}]

1: Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) [syn: {Murray}, {James Augustus Murray}, {James Augustus Henry Murray}, {Sir James Murray}, {Sir James Augu...

1: United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939) [syn: {Naismith}]

1: English film actor (1909-1984) [syn: {Mason}, {James Mason}]

1: English surgeon (1755-1824) [syn: {Parkinson}]

1: 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849) [syn: {Polk}, {James K. Polk}, {James Knox Polk},...

1: English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) [syn: {Joule}]

1: United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975) [syn: {Hoffa}, ...

1: a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads [syn: {James}] 2: a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri [syn: {James}]

1: outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952) [syn: {Connors}, {Jimmy Conors}]

1: United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) [syn: {Farrell}]

1: Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) [syn: {Harris}, {Frank Harris}]

1: United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961) [syn: {Thurber}, {James Grover Thurber}]

1: United States economist (1918-2002) [syn: {Tobin}]

1: Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656) [syn: {Ussher}, {James Ussher}, {Usher}]

1: Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656) [syn: {Ussher}, {Usher}, {James Usher}]

1: United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) [syn: {Watson}, {James Dewey Watson}]

1: Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) [syn: {Watt}]

1: United States poet (1849-1916) [syn: {Riley}]

1: United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995) [syn: {Fulbright}, ...

1: American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798) [syn: {Wilson}]

1: English architect (1746-1813) [syn: {Wyatt}]

1: xerophytic ferns of South America [syn: {genus Jamesonia}]

1: a former village on the James River in Virginia north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607

1: intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits [syn: {jimsonweed}, {jimson weed}, {common thorn a...

1: United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1944) [syn: {Judith Jamison}]

1: a jar for holding jellies or preserves [syn: {jampot}]

{jam}

1: a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming

{jammy}

1: loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers [syn: {pajamas}, {pyjamas}, {pj's}]

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