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98 unusual facts about Nasir "Nas" Jones


.950 JDJ

JDJ is a large caliber rifle cartridge developed by J. D. Jones of SSK Industries.

A. H. M. Jones

Jones's best-known work, The Later Roman Empire, 284–602 (1964), is considered the definitive narrative history of late Rome and early Byzantium, beginning with the reign of the Roman tetrarch Diocletian and ending with that of the Byzantine emperor Maurice.

Adrienne A. Jones

Adrienne A. Jones (born November 20, 1954) is the current Speaker Pro Tem of the Maryland House of Delegates, the first African-American female to serve in that position in Maryland.

Alexander H. Jones

Upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation, he was elected (in April 1868) to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to March 3, 1871.

Barbara Jones

Barbara S. Jones (born 1947), federal judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York

Beefalo

After seeing thousands of cattle die in a Kansas blizzard in 1886, Charles "Buffalo" Jones, a co-founder of Garden City, Kansas, also worked to cross buffalo and cattle at a ranch near the future Grand Canyon National Park, with the hope the animals could survive the harsh winters.

Best of Cream

# "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) – 3:08

Booker T. Jones

He was named in honor of his father, Booker T. Jones, Sr., who was named in honor of Booker T. Washington, the educator.

British Entomological and Natural History Society

Another title published by BENHS was New British Beetles - species not in Joy's practical handbook by Peter J. Hodge and Richard A. Jones, a companion volume to Norman H. Joy's A Practical Handbook of British Beetles.

Bunnell, Florida

Bill T. Jones (choreographer) - Tony Award Winner for choreography in two musicals, "Spring Awakening" and "Fela".

Carl Douglas

"Dance The Kung Fu" was later sampled by DJ Premier on his 2007 remix of Nike's 25th Air Force One anniversary single "Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)", featuring Kanye West, Nas, KRS-One and Rakim.

Carl Summers

He also performed as an alternate lead singer and harmony singer with original The Coasters - Will "Dub" Jones, Billy Guy, Cornell Gunter, Young Jessie, Adolph Jacobs for thirty four years.

Chelonis R. Jones

Chelonis R. Jones "49 Percent" and "Go Away" (The Understanding & The Understanding lim. ed. cd), emi, 2005

Christine Jones

Christine M. Jones (born 1929), former member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Cinquain

It is an informal cinquain widely taught in elementary schools and has been featured in, and popularized by, children's media resources, including Junie B. Jones and PBS Kids.

Clinton v. Jones

A witness in Jones v. Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, denied having engaged in a sexual relationship with Clinton.

David B. Jones Special

The David B. Jones Special was a one-time, passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois at the request of David Benton Jones.

Delanco Township, New Jersey

According to the report of Colonel Edward F. Jones during their travel, James Brady was “taken insane” and left in Delanco Township, with J. C. Buck.

Donna M. Jones

She spent her early childhood at Rago, Colorado, which is located on the northeastern plains of the state about 20 miles outside of Akron, Colorado.

Douglas L. Jones

Since 1988, he has been with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute.

E. E. Jones

Only three outside schools have provided Georgia with more than one head coach in football: Princeton (Jones and William A. Reynolds), Cornell University (Pop Warner and Gordon Saussy), and Brown University (Charles McCarthy, James Coulter, and Frank Dobson).

Eat Raw for Breakfast

Eat Raw for Breakfast is the eleventh studio album by German Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Enmore Theatre

The history and atmosphere of the building have attracted some of the world's largest bands, and recent international acts which have played the Enmore Theatre include Nas, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Paramore, Coldplay, The Offspring, Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, Noel Gallagher, Kraftwerk, and Marilyn Manson.

Evan 'Jonesy' Jones

Evan 'Jonesy' Jones is a fictional character from Blue Heelers, the Australian police drama television series which depicted the lives of police officers in a small town in Victoria.

Evan Jones

E. D. Jones (1903–1987), Librarian of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, 1958–1969

Francis Jones

Francis R. Jones, poetry translator and Reader in Translation Studies, Newcastle University

Gary Jones

Gary F. Jones (born 1944), retired trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses

Gov. Stanford

The locomotive was disassembled and stored during World War II but was returned to display at the university after reassembly by retired Southern Pacific engineer Billy Jones.

Ian Shelton

As Shelton was among the first to report, he is credited as the discoverer, along with Oscar Duhalde and Albert Jones.

In Da Mix

In Da Mix is a debut studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

J. D. Jones

The second is his "Whisper" family of cartridges, intended to cause maximum damage at subsonic speeds, making them nearly silent when used with a firearm silencer.

J. V. Jones

The Book of Words trilogy was completed in 1997 and followed by a standalone novel, The Barbed Coil the same year.

J.W. Jones

Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Administration Building is shot by a night watchman on May 17, 1959

James T. Jones

Jones was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Herndon.

He was reelected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses and served from December 3, 1883, to March 3, 1889.

Jeffery Dangl

He, along with collaborator, Jonathan D. G. Jones, proposed the "zig-zag model" for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors.

Jesse H. Jones

In 1937, he transferred ownership of the paper to the newly established Houston Endowment Inc.

In 1937, Jesse Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones, who was the established Houston Endowment Inc., which eventually became the largest private foundation in Texas.

The University of Texas at Austin's College of Communication is named after Jones, where there is also the Jesse H. Jones Chair in the Liberal Arts, held by the renowned philosopher T. K. Seung.

He then razed the original buildings and constructed the present 17-story building, now formally named as the Post Rice Lofts.

John Marshall Jones

:For the American Civil War general, John Marshall Jones, see John M. Jones.

John Thibaut

The research group which he headed at UNC was regularly attended by Harry Upshaw, Jack Brehm, Kurt Back, and Edward E. Jones.

Johnny J. Jones

Jones founded and managed the Johnny J. Jones Exposition, one of the largest collective amusements in the United States.

Johnny J. Jones (June 8, 1874 – December 25, 1930), billed as "The Mighty Monarch of the Tented World" and "The Midway King”', was a prominent showman in the America's carnival industry.

Jonathan P. Jackson

Nas pays tribute to George and Jonathan Jackson in his song "Testify" from his album Untitled.

Jones, Oklahoma

Aldrich named the town after his friend and business associate, Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones who was a three-time mayor of Oklahoma City.

Joshua A. Jones

One of the stations he oversees, KHYI, became (on January 1, 1997) the first 24-hour commercial Americana radio station in the United States.

Junie B. Jones

Junie B. Jones is a children's book series written by Barbara Park and illustrated by Denise Brunkus.

Kyle Jones

Kyle C. Jones, American voice actor, director, script writer and producer for anime

L. Q. Jones

He was frequently cast alongside his close friend, Strother Martin, most memorably in The Wild Bunch.

Leander P. Jones

In 1893, Cleveland had surgery aboard a yacht owned by his friend E. C. Benedict, as it sailed off Long Island.

Los Angeles and Independence Railroad

The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company was incorporated in January 1875 with Francisco P. Temple, John P. Jones, Robert S. Baker, T. N. Park, James A. Pritchard, J. S. Slauson, and J. U. Crawford, as directors.

Loyd A. Jones

A compromise solution was reached, and on March 25, 1918, architect Harold Van Buskirk was placed in charge of a U.S. Navy camouflage unit, consisting of two major sections: A design section made up of artists, located in Washington D.C., headed by artist Everett L. Warner; and a research section made up largely of scientists, located at the Eastman laboratories in Rochester, New York, under the supervision of Jones (Van Buskirk 1919; Warner 1919).

Marilyn C. Jones

She pitched a 1–0 no-hitter against them, silencing a powerful lineup that included Wilma Briggs, Delores Brumfield, Thelma Eisen, Betty Foss, Katie Horstman, Dorothy Schroeder, Kathryn Vonderau and Joanne Weaver.

Marilyn Jones

:For the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, see Marilyn C. Jones.

Maxwell Atoms

Atoms is currently an executive producer and voice actor of the Disney show Fish Hooks with Noah Z. Jones.

Mia L. Jones

Jones also worked for Duval County Public Schools as the Supervisor of Affirmative Action and the Director of Minority Business Affairs.

After graduation, she worked under Ed Austin, the Mayor of Jacksonville, in the Office of Equal Employment from 1992 to 1995.

Michael D. Jones

After training for the ministry in Carmarthen and London, he emigrated to America and was ordained at Cincinnati.

Michele Mosca

Mosca's principal research interests concern the design of quantum algorithms, but he is also known for his early work on NMR quantum computation together with Jonathan A. Jones.

Michele S. Jones

News agencies discovered that Jones was a Facebook friend of Paul W. Gardner, the attorney of the Salahis, and that Jones exchanged email notes with the couple, telling them she was putting them on a waiting list in case tickets became available for a state dinner with the President and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Miles J. Jones

Dr. Jones completed a one-year clinical internship in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH), and then entered the residency program in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Nigel Jones

Nigel H. Jones (born 1961), British historian, journalist and biographer

P. J. Mills

In 1975, Mills ran again for statewide office when Louisiana Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr., stepped down to run unsuccessfully for governor against Edwin Edwards and State Senator Robert G. Jones of Lake Charles, son of former Governor Sam Houston Jones.

Paul C. Jones

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the 91st Congress.

Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope

Recent issues have included interviews with such well known B-movie directors as John Waters, James Gunn, Roger Corman, George A. Romero, Walter Hill and Brian Yuzna and such famed cult actors as Crispin Glover, Adrienne Barbeau, L. Q. Jones, Tobin Bell, and Clint Howard.

Project Censored

Professor Robert Jensen and journalist Norman Solomon resigned from Project Censored's panel of national judges over the decision to highlight the 9/11 conspiracy theories of Steven E. Jones, a founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, in Censored 2007.

R. A. Jones

Priory Park in Prittlewell was donated to the town by R A Jones: in 1917 he purchased Prittlewell Priory from the Scratton family, along with 22 acres of land.

Rahul Chandran

At CIC, Chandran, along with the Director, Bruce D. Jones, and Richard Gowan, helped to make CIC one of the most influential think-tanks working on conflict and security issues.

Reginald H. Jones

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a brother of Phi Sigma Kappa, Jones joined the GE's Business Training Course in 1939.

Reginald Jones

Reginald H. Jones (1917–2003), English chairman of General Electric, 1972–1981

Relax Edition 2

Relax Edition 2 is the seventh studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Relax Edition 5

Relax Edition 5 is the thirteenth studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Richard A. Jones

After attending Seattle public schools, Richard Jones received a Bachelor of Public Affairs from Seattle University in 1972 and a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1975.

Ritchie Neville

He acted as a replacement for actor Sam J. Jones, who had been forced to pull out after a shoulder injury.

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

S.D. Jones

Despite mainly being used as a preliminary talent in the 1980s WWF, Jones garnered further recognition when LJN created an action figure of him for their Wrestling Superstars toy line.

Sam J. Jones

In 1987, he played the lead role in an adaptation of Will Eisner's comics character The Spirit.

He is best known for playing the title character in the 1980 film Flash Gordon.

Scott A. Jones

In 2007, Galaxia, Inc. was founded, which developed a magical artistic display of LED lights that can be controlled individually to create video animations that are state-of-the-art lighting displays.

Scott J. Jones

She is the President of Reece Construction Company, with offices in Scandia, Kansas; Salina, Kansas; and Prosper, Texas.

South Carolina National Bank of Charleston

The Board of Directors’ Room, an architectural masterpiece, was added in 1856 and is believed to have been designed by Edward C. Jones, a well-known Charleston architect of the period.

Spencer P. Jones

In August 1983 while a member of The Johnnys, Spencer formed a side-project, Beasts of Bourbon (1983–85, 1988–93, 1996–97, 2003–08, 2013) with James Baker on drums (ex-Hoodoo Gurus), Tex Perkins on vocals (Dum Dums), Kim Salmon on guitar and Boris Sujdovic on bass guitar (both ex-The Scientists).

From 1976 he has worked in Australia and has been a member of various groups including The Johnnys, Beasts of Bourbon, Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls, Chris Bailey and The General Dog, Maurice Frawley and The Working Class Ringos, and Sacred Cowboys.

Steve G. Jones

His work was parodied on the sixth episode of the third season of The Chaser's War on Everything, airing internationally through the Australian Broadcasting Company.

He recently appeared on Bravo's Below Deck Season One, Episode Two, "It's Not Easy Being Green" as a Celebrity Hypnotist.

T. G. Jones

Once the relations with the manager Theo Kelly became so bad that he was even not picked for the reserve team, and played secretly for Hawarden Grammar Old Boys.

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones

Take A Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running one season), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit.

The Chi-Lites

The group formed in the late 1950s when the Chanteurs (Record, Robert Squirrel Lester, and Clarence Johnson) teamed up with Marshall Thompson and Creadel "Red" Jones of the Desideros to form the Hi-lites.

Creadel "Red" Jones – (born September 26, 1940, Chicago; died August 25, 1994)

The Logic of Pleasure

The Logic of Pleasure is the ninth studio album by Trance duo Blank & Jones.

Theodore Jones

Theodore T. Jones (born 1944), New York State Court of Appeals judge

Theodore T. Jones

Jones graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in 1965, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science.

Tony Biggs

Tony Biggs has been the drummer in bands such as The Black Assassins, Never Again, Hell To Pay (Ian and Cathy from X (Australian band) with Spencer P. Jones), The Outer Limits (who opened in Brisbane for Iggy Pop on his 1979 Australian Tour with the New Christs), The Fuck Fucks and The Love Addicts.

Welsh surnames

Indeed, currently it is not uncommon that five or more of the starting fifteen for the Welsh international rugby team would be named Jones (all of the following played in that period and are not immediately related to any of the others: Adam Rhys Jones, Dafydd Jones, Ryan Jones, Stephen Jones, Mark Jones, Adam M. Jones, Alun Wyn Jones, Duncan Jones).

William A. Jones

William Ambrose Jones (1865-1921), Bishop of Puerto Rico, 1907-1921, successor to James Blenk

William E. Jones

The bluegrass band The Dixie Bee-Liners have a biographical ballad about Jones on their 2008 album Ripe (Pinecastle Records) entitled "Grumble Jones".

Xbox One

Subsequent to the announcement of Xbox One, but prior to Microsoft's policy reversal, U.S. Representatives Mike Capuano and Walter Jones proposed and filed the We Are Watching You Act; the act would require "video service operators" to inform users on how personal data is collected and used, require that users explicitly opt-in to data collection, provide an on-screen notification when data is being collected, and to provide identical service for those who opt-out.


1976 Cleveland Browns season

Third-string quarterback Dave Mays helped lead the team to that victory, while defensive end Joe "Turkey" Jones' pile-driving sack of quarterback Terry Bradshaw fueled the heated rivalry between the two teams.

Better Dayz

It features 23 unreleased recordings including remixes from the period of 1994-1996, with appearances by Nas, Outlawz, Mýa, Jazze Pha, Ron Isley, and Tyrese, among others.

Boogaloo Joe Jones

The nickname was meant to distinguish him from the other people with similar names in the music business, such as R&B singer Joe Jones, jazz drummers "Papa Jo" Jones and Philly Joe Jones, and the Joe Jones of the Fluxus movement.

Comiso Airport

The Air Force activated the 7024th Special Activities Squadron at NAS Sigonella in May 1982 as a primary point of contact and liaison with Lelio Lagorio the Italian Minister of Defence regarding initial site preparations at Comiso.

Girl Germs

Contributors to Girl Germs included Kathleen Hanna; Jean Smith of Mecca Normal; Sue P. Fox; Kaia Wilson; the editors of Double Bill, G.B. Jones, Jena von Brücker, Caroline Azar, Johnny Noxzema and Rex; Jen Smith; and Erin Smith of Bratmobile.

I've Been Loving You Too Long

"I've Been Loving You Too Long" is a stand-out track and was recorded to analogue tape live on the studio floor at Ardent Studios with many of the original Stax music band members, including Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, Lester Snell, Steve Potts (most of Booker T. & the MG's, though without Booker T himself) backing the vocals of Sebastian.

Kate Hutton

Hutton sometimes appears with her United States Geological Survey colleague "Dr. Lucy" Jones, who has been appearing on television since the 1980s.

MC Shan

Despite the fact that he focused more on his production career (like Snow's 12 Inches of Snow, which featured "Informer", on which he appeared) he recorded "Da Bridge 2001" for Nas's 2000 compilation called QB's Finest, which also featured Mobb Deep, Cormega, and Nature.

Mikel Rouse

Meanwhile, Rouse absorbed African rhythmic techniques from A. M. Jones's Studies in African Music, and studied Schillinger technique with Jerome Walman, one of the few "Certified" Schillinger Teachers in America; both influences came to inform his music.

Molten salt battery

NaS batteries have also been proposed for use in the high temperature environment of Venus.

Omaha City Council

It was composed of A. D. Jones, who resigned March 23, 1857; T. G. Goodwill, who died May 18, 1857; G. C. Bove, H. H. Visscher, Thomas Davis, William N. Byers, William W. Wyman, Thomas O'Connor, C. H. Downs, J. H. Kellom, for whom Kellom School was later named; and John Creighton, whom Creighton University was later named for.

Tribe 8

Leslie Mah has appeared in various films including The Yo-Yo Gang by G. B. Jones; Shut Up White Boy, co-directed by Vu T. and Thu Ha; and produced her own film, Estrofemme, in 1998.

Wanda Shelley

Shelley entered into production as an executive producer/investor in the 2002 independent feature film The Book of Love, also directed by Jeff Byrd and starring Sallie Richardson, Robin Givins, Treach of Naughty by Nature, and Richard T. Jones of Judging Amy.