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: 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…

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

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 a former athlete from the United States who 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 consecutive National Junior Pentathlon championships.

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 a former athlete from the United States who 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 consecutive National Junior Pentathlon championships.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is a former athlete from the United States who 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 consecutive National Junior Pentathlon championships.

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

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.

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

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. is an American multinational 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. JPMorgan Chase is the largest of the “big four” banks in the United States

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.

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…

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

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

St. John of Ávila ; canonized 1970; feast day May 10) was a reformer, one of the greatest preachers of his time, author, and spiritual director whose religious leadership in 16th-century Spain earned him the title “Apostle of Andalusia.” Jewish-born, John attended the Universities of Salamanca and

Saint John of God ; canonized 1690; feast day March 8) was the founder of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God (Brothers Hospitallers), a Roman Catholic religious order of nursing brothers. In 1886 Pope Leo XIII declared him patron of hospitals and the sick. Formerly a shepherd and soldier, he

Pacific mountain system: Geology: The Juan de Fuca Plate, east of this spreading centre, is subducting under the North American Plate. The molten mantle rock produced by this subduction is responsible for the major volcanoes in the Cascade Range. All the Cascade composite cones are of the explosive type, their…

oceanic crust: Marine magnetic anomalies: …magnetic anomalies mapped over the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a spreading centre off the northwest United States. They thus dated the crust there and also computed the first seafloor spreading rate of about 30 mm (1.2 inches) per year. The rate is computed by dividing the distance of an anomaly…

Juan de Fuca Strait, narrow passage, 11–17 miles (18–27 km) in width, of the eastern North Pacific Ocean, between the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, U.S., and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Can. Part of the United States–Canadian international boundary lies in mid-channel. From Cape

St. John of the Cross ; canonized 1726; feast day December 14) was one of the greatest Christian mystics and Spanish poets, doctor of the church, reformer of Spanish monasticism, and cofounder of the contemplative order of Discalced Carmelites. He is a patron saint of mystics and contemplatives and

Native American music: Participation in art music: …music during the 1600s included Juan de Lienas of Mexico City and Juan Matías, who served as the chapelmaster at Oaxaca (now in Mexico) from about 1655 through 1667. The first published Native North American composer of European art music was Thomas Commuck, whose hymnal, as mentioned above, appeared in…

John of Saint Thomas was a philosopher and theologian whose comprehensive commentaries on Roman Catholic doctrine made him a leading spokesman for post-Reformation Thomism, a school of thought named after its foremost theorist, St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–74), who systematically integrated Catholic

St. John of the Cross ; canonized 1726; feast day December 14) was one of the greatest Christian mystics and Spanish poets, doctor of the church, reformer of Spanish monasticism, and cofounder of the contemplative order of Discalced Carmelites. He is a patron saint of mystics and contemplatives and

St. Juan Diego ; canonized July 31, 2002; feast day December 9) was an Indigenous Mexican convert to Roman Catholicism who, according to tradition, was visited by the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Guadalupe) on four occasions in December 1531. He was the first Indigenous person of the Americas to be

fur seal: galapagoensis), and the Juan Fernandez fur seal (A. philippii), all of which were hunted nearly to the point of extinction, have been protected by law.

Juan Fernández Islands, small cluster of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about 400 miles (650 km) west of and administratively part of Chile. They consist of the 36-square-mile (93-square-km) Isla Robinson Crusoe (also called Isla Más a Tierra); the 33-square-mile Isla Alejandro

Juan Fernández Islands: …2018 the Chilean government created Juan Fernández Islands Marine Park, a protected area that encompasses over 100,000 square miles (almost 260,000 square km) of ocean around the islands.

Spanish literature: Post-Romantic drama and poetry: …themes, dramatizing working-class conditions in Juan José (performed 1895).

Juan José de Austria was the most famous of the illegitimate children of King Philip IV of Spain. He served with some success as a Spanish military commander and from 1677 until his death was chief minister to King Charles II. Juan José was the son of King Philip IV of Spain and María Calderón, a

Juan José de Austria was the most famous of the illegitimate children of King Philip IV of Spain. He served with some success as a Spanish military commander and from 1677 until his death was chief minister to King Charles II. Juan José was the son of King Philip IV of Spain and María Calderón, a

Don Juan Manuel was a nobleman and man of letters who has been called the most important prose writer of 14th-century Spain. The infante Don Juan Manuel was the grandson of Ferdinand III and the nephew of Alfonso X. He fought against the Moors when only 12 years old, and the rest of his life was

Ruan Yuan was a bibliophile, scholar, and official of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty who between 1817 and 1826 served as governor-general of the southern province of Guangdong, through which all British trade was required to pass. Thus, Ruan was the top Chinese official in charge of relations with the

Juan-juan, Central Asian people of historical importance. Because of the titles of their rulers, khan and khagan, scholars believe that the Juan-juan were Mongols or Mongol-speaking peoples. The empire of the Juan-juan lasted from the beginning of the 5th century ad to the middle of the 6th

Joan was the queen of Castile (from 1504) and of Aragon (from 1516), though power was exercised for her by her husband, Philip I, her father, Ferdinand II, and her son, the emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain). Joan was the third child of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile and

Carlos de Aragon, prince de Viana: …John sent his second wife, Juana of Castile, to supervise the Navarrese government (1451), and civil war began between beaumonteses, who defended Prince Carlos’ rights, and agramonteses, supporters of Juana. Defeated and disinherited, Carlos fled to the Neapolitan court of his uncle, Alfonso V of Aragon (1455), devoting himself to…

Luiseño, North American Indians who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language and inhabited a region extending from what is now Los Angeles to San Diego, Calif., U.S. Some of the group were named Luiseño after the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia; others were called Juaneño because of their association with the

Juanes is a Colombian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and activist who had an absorbing stage presence and gained international recognition in the early 21st century for his passionate songs of romantic love and social struggle. When Juanes was seven years old, his father and brothers taught him to

South Asian arts: Folk dance: The Juang tribe in Orissa performs bird and animal dances with vivid miming and powerful muscular agility.

merengue: , jaleo and juangomero. The traditional accompaniment, which often combines duple and triple meters and sometimes produces 5 8 effects, is an ensemble consisting of guitar, metal scraper (charrasca), and two drums (one single-headed, the other double).

Antonio Berni: Juanito Laguna Goes to the City (1963) shows the boy in his best clothes, a sack on his back as he climbs through the refuse that fills the slum. In this work and others, Berni included objects and materials that he collected in the slums…

Eduardo Chillida was a Spanish sculptor who achieved international recognition with works displayed at the 1958 Venice Biennale. His sculpture is characterized by his craftsman’s respect for materials, both in his small iron pieces and in his later, monumental works in granite. After studying

Alberto Juantorena is a Cuban runner who won gold medals in both the 400- and 800-metre races at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, becoming the first athlete to win both races in one Olympics. A member of the Cuban national basketball team, Juantorena switched to track at age 20. Standing 1.88 metres

Alberto Juantorena is a Cuban runner who won gold medals in both the 400- and 800-metre races at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, becoming the first athlete to win both races in one Olympics. A member of the Cuban national basketball team, Juantorena switched to track at age 20. Standing 1.88 metres

Juárez, city, northern Chihuahua estado (state), northern Mexico. It is located on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) opposite El Paso, Texas, U.S., with which it is connected by bridges. Formerly known as El Paso del Norte, it was renamed in 1888 for the Mexican president Benito Juárez, who

John Huston: Early work: Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle’s Juarez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.

Argentina: The crisis of 1890: The government of Roca’s successor, Miguel Juárez Celman (1886–90), had avoided launching an unpopular anti-inflationary program, but this inaction sparked criticism both within and outside the official party ranks. In July 1890 a revolt erupted that had strong support from within the army, but it was defeated by loyal elements.…

Benito Juárez was a national hero and president of Mexico (1861–72), who for three years (1864–67) fought against foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian and who sought constitutional reforms to create a democratic federal republic. Juárez was born of Mesoamerican Indian parents, both of

Benito Juárez was a national hero and president of Mexico (1861–72), who for three years (1864–67) fought against foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian and who sought constitutional reforms to create a democratic federal republic. Juárez was born of Mesoamerican Indian parents, both of

Juazeiro, city, northern Bahia estado (state), northeastern Brazil. It lies along the São Francisco River, at 1,224 feet (373 metres) above sea level. Juazeiro became a city in 1878. It is the trade and transportation centre for an agricultural and livestock-raising region that is one of the driest