Jackrabbit
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Jackrabbit, Jacks, Jackscrew.
Jacks
LAWRENCE PEARSALL, an English writer and theologian; born in Nottingham in 1860. He was educated at the University School at that city, at the University of London and foreign universities, and Harvard. In 1887 he entered the Unitarian ministry, and was for a time assistant to Stopford A. Brooke. In 1903 he became professor of philosophy in Manchester College, and was editor of the "Hibbert Journal" in 1902. He contributed many brilliant essays and studies to magazines. During the war he performed important services in connection with work carried on at Oxford. His published writings include: "Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies" (1910); "Among the Idol-makers" (1911); "All Men Are Ghosts" (1913).
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Jackscrew
a lifting implement which acts by the rotation of a screw in a threaded socket.
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Jackson
a city of Ohio, the county seat of Jackson co. It is on the Hocking Valley, the Baltimore and Ohio, Southwestern, and the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroads. It has important coal and iron mines, foundries, a shoe factory, railroad shops, and other industries. Pop. (1910) 6,468; (1920) 5,842.
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Jackson
CHARLES THOMAS, an American scientist; born in Plymouth, Mass., June 21, 1805; was graduated at Harvard Medical College in 1829, and practiced in Boston; became State geologist for Massachusetts and Maine in 1836, and land-surveyor and State geologist for Rhode Island in 1839; appointed to survey the Lake Superior copper-mining district in 1847. He claimed to have been the first to point out, in 1832, the applicability of electricity to telegraphic use, and also claimed to be the discoverer of the anesthetic effects of the inhalation of ether in 1842; received the Montyon size of 2,500 francs from the French prize Academy of Sciences in 1852. He published a "Manual of Etherization, with a History of its Discovery" (1861); "Report on the Mineral Lands of the United States in Michigan" (1849); etc. He died in Somerville, Mass., Aug. 28, 1880. See ANÆSTHESIA.
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Jackson (City and county-seat)
a city and county-seat of Jackson co., Mich.; on the Grand river, and several lines of railroads; 76 miles W. of Detroit. It is the trade center and distributing point for coal, oil, and farming implements for South Central Michigan; and has manufactories of machinery, corsets, chemicals, oil stoves, glass, paper and refrigerators. The city contains the State prison; derives large power for manufacturing from the river; has the Holly system of waterworks, electric light and street railway plants, a National and other banks, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 31,433; (1920) 48,374.
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Jackson (City and county-seat) (II)
a city and county-seat of Madison co., Tenn.; on the Forked Deer river, and the Illinois Central, and several other railroads; 150 miles S. W. of Nashville. It is the farming trade center for a region having a population of 175,000 and is an important cotton market; and has manufactories of engines and boilers, bicycles, cottonseed oil, lumber, machinery, and woolen mills. Jackson is the seat of the Southwestern Baptist University, the Memphis Conference Female Institute, and Lane College. There are National banks, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals, a waterworks plant, owned by the city and valued at $400,000. Pop. (1910) 15,779; (1920) 18,860.
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Jackson (City capital of the State)
a city, capital of the State of Mississippi, and county-seat of Hinds co.; on the Pearl river and several important railroads; 40 miles E. of Vicksburg. It contains the State Lunatic Asylum, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, State Law Library, State prison, Millsaps College for Men, a National bank. It is the farming and cotton raising trade center for four counties, and besides a variety of industries connected with cotton, it has iron foundries, brick and lumber yards, railroad repair shop, fertilizing factories, and agricultural implement factories. Jackson is lighted by electricity, and has an extensive trade, especially in cotton, through the port of New Orleans. Pop. (1910) 21,262; (1920) 22,817.
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Jackson (II)
FREDERICK GEORGE, a British explorer; born in 1860. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. In 1886 he made a whaling voyage in the Arctic seas. This was followed in 1893 by a journey of 3,000 miles to unexplored parts of Siberia. In 1894 he explored Franz Josef Land and made an attempt to explore the North Pole. During this journey he met Nansen, who was at that time returning from his attempt to reach the Pole. He made important researches in Franz Josef Land from 1894 to 1897. For his accomplishments here, he was awarded a gold medal by the Geographical Society of Paris. He took part in the Boer War, reaching the rank of major. He wrote many books on the Arctic, including: "The Great Frozen Land" (1895); "A Thousand Days in the Arctic" (1899).
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Jackson (IV)
ADMIRAL SIR HENRY British naval BRADWARDINE, a officer; born in Barnsley, 1855. He entered the British Navy in 1868, and by 1896 had risen to the rank of captain. From 1897 to 1899, he acted as naval attaché in various European capitals. In 1905 he was appointed Controller of the Navy, which office he held for three years. From 1908 to 1910 he was commander of the Sixth Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean, after which he was commander of the Royal Navy War College until 1913. From 1912 to 1914 he was Chief of the War Staff. After the outbreak of the European War he was, during 1915-1916, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and as such had considerable influence in the preparation of Great Britain's plans for operations against the German fleets. From 1916 till 1919 he was President of the Royal Navy College at Greenwich, after which he was appointed active fleet admiral of the British Navy. Admiral Jackson is known as one of the most progressive of the chief British naval commanders; he was the first to make use of the Hertzian waves for wireless telegraphy in the Royal Navy.
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Jackson (SHELDON an American educator)
SHELDON, an American educator; born in Minaville, N. Y., May 18, 1834; was graduated at Union College in 1855, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1858; ordained in the Presbyterian Church; was missionary to Western Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota in 1859-1869; Superintendent of Missions in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Montana in 1870-1882; appointed to Alaska in 1877. He was made United States general agent for Alaska in 1885; introduced reindeer into that territory in 1891; special United States agent to influence Laplanders to colonize in Alaska in 1898 He is the author of "Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast" (1880); "Education in Alaska" (1881); annual reports on "Education in Alaska" from 1886; and annual reports on the "Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska" (1891–1901); etc. He was moderator of the Presbyterion General Assembly. In 1896 he gave $50,000 to the
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