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Dow Jones Average

(Encyclopedia) Dow Jones Average, indicators used to measure and report value changes in representative stock groupings on the New York stock exchange. There are four different averages—industrial…

Jones, Quincy

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Quincy (Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.), 1933–, African-American musician, composer, bandleader, and music executive, b. Chicago. Jones played trumpet and sang gospel growing up, and…

Jones, Anson

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Anson, 1798–1858, last president of the Texas republic (1844–46), b. Seekonk section of Great Barrington, Mass. He studied medicine and after an itinerant business and medical…

Jones, Samuel Milton

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Samuel Milton, 1846–1904, American political reformer, known as “Golden Rule” Jones, b. Wales. He was brought to America as a child and worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania…

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

(Encyclopedia) Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 1833–98. English painter and decorator, b. Birmingham. Expected to enter the Church, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he met William Morris, who became…

Jones, Jesse Holman

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Jesse Holman, 1874–1956, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1940–45), b. Robertson co., Tenn. A lumber magnate, banker, and millionaire of Houston, Tex., Jones was appointed (1932) by…

Mike Ockrent Biography

Mike OckrentAge: 53 award-winning British stage director known for his larger-than-life Broadway musicals, as well as his smaller niche plays. Ockrent established himself in London, having…

Mike Budnick Biography

Mike BudnickAge: 80 major league pitcher with the New York Giants in 1946 and 1947. He died of cancer.Died: Seattle, December 21, 1999Vanessa BrownA - FBrandon Burlsworth

Mike McCready Biography

Mike McCreadyAge: 49 champion wrester and coach at Upper Iowa; 1972 NCAA Div. II heavyweight champion; won nine U.S. Wrestling Federation national championships, five national AAU titles and…