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JAMESTOWN , a former See also:village in what is now See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:City See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on Jamestown See also:Island, in the James See also:River, about 40 M. above See also:Norfolk. It was here that the first permanent See also:English See also:settlement in See also:America was founded on the 13th of May 1607, that representative See also:government was inaugurated on the See also:American See also:Continent in 1619, and that See also:negro See also:servitude was introduced into the See also:original thirteen colonies, also in 1619. In Jamestown was the first See also:Anglican See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church built in America. The settlement was in a See also:low marshy See also:district which proved to be unhealthy; it was accidentally burned in See also:January 16o8, was almost completely destroyed by Nathaniel See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon in See also:September 1676, the See also:state See also:house and other buildings were again burned in 1698, and after the removal of the seat of government of Virginia from Jamestown to the See also:Middle Plantations (now See also:Williamsburg) in 1699 the village See also:fell rapidly into decay. Its See also:population had never been large: it was about 490 in 1609, and 1,83 in 1623; the mortality was always very heavy. By the middle of the 19th See also:century the See also:peninsula on which Jamestown had been situated had become an island, and by 1900 the James River had worn away the See also:shore but had hardly touched the territory of the " New Towne " (1619), immediately E. of the first settlement; almost the only visible remains, however, were the See also:tower of the See also:brick church and a few gravestones. In 1900 the association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities, to which the site was deeded in 1893, induced the See also:United States government to build a See also:wall to prevent the further encroachment of the river; the See also:foundations of several of the old buildings have since been uncovered, many interesting See also:relics have been found, and in 1907 there were erected a brick church (which is as far as possible a See also:reproduction of the See also:fourth one built in 1639-1647), a See also:marble See also:shaft marking the site of the first settlement, another shaft commemorating the first house of burgesses, a See also:bronze See also:monument to the memory of See also:Captain See also:John See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, and another monument to the memory of Pocahontas. At the See also:head of
JAMI-See also:JAMRUD
Jamestown peninsula See also:Cornwallis, in See also:July 1781, attempted to See also:trick the Americans under See also:Lafayette and See also:General See also:Anthony See also:Wayne by displaying a few men on the peninsula and concealing the See also:principal See also:part of his See also:army on the mainland; but when Wayne discovered the See also:trap he made first a vigorous See also:charge, and then a See also:retreat to Lafayette's See also:line. See also:Early in the See also:Civil See also:War the See also:Con-federates regarded the site (then an island) as of such strategic importance that (near the brick church tower and probably near the site of the first fortifications by the original settlers) they erected heavy earthworks upon it for See also:defence. (For additional details concerning the early See also:history of Jamestown, see VIRGINIA: History.)
The See also:founding at Jamestown of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in America was celebrated in 1907 by the Jamestown tercentennial exposition, held on grounds at See also:Sewell's Point on the shore of See also:Hampton Roads. About twenty See also:foreign nations, the federal government, and most of the states of the See also:union took part in the exposition.
See L. G. See also:Tyler, The See also:Cradle of the See also:Republic: Jamestown and James River (See also:Richmond, 2nd ed., 1906); Mrs R. A. See also:Pryor, The See also:Birth of the Nation: Jamestown, 1607 (New See also:York, 1907) ; and particularly S. H. See also:Yonge, The Site of Old " James Towne,' 1607–1698 (Richmond, 1904), embodying the results of the topographical investigations of the engineer in charge of the river-wall built in 1900-19o1.
JAM! (NUR-ED-DIN 'ABD-UR-RAHMAN See also:IBN AHMAD) (1414-1492), See also:Persian poet and mystic, was See also:born at Jam in See also:Khorasan, whence the name by which he is usually known. In his poems he mystically utilizes the connexion of the name with the same word meaning " See also:wine-See also:cup." He was the last See also:great classic poet of See also:Persia, and a pronounced mystic of the Sufic See also:philosophy. His three diwans (1479-1491) contain his lyrical poems and odes; among his See also:prose writings the See also:chief is his Bandristdn (" See also:Spring-See also:garden ") (1487); and his collection of romantic poems, Haft Aurang (" Seven Thrones "), contains the Salamdn wa Absdl and his Yusuf wa Zalikha (See also:Joseph and Potiphar's wife).
On Jami's See also:life and See also:works see V. von Rosenzweig, Biographische Notizen fiber Mewlana Abdurrahman Dschami (See also:Vienna, 184o); See also:Gore See also:Ouseley, See also:Biographical Notices of Persian Poets (1846); W. N. Lees, A Biographical See also:Sketch of the Mystic Philosopher and Poet Jami (See also:Calcutta, 1859) ; E. Beauvois S.V. Djami in Nouvelle Biographie generale; and H. Ethe in Geiger and See also:Kuhn's Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, ii. There are English See also:translations of the Baharistan by E. Rehatsek (See also:Benares, 1887) and Sorabji Fardunji (Bombay, 1899) ; of adman wa Abseil by See also:Edward See also:FitzGerald (1856, with a See also:notice of Jami's life); of Yusuf wa Zalikha by R. T. H. See also:Griffith (1882) and A. See also:Rogers (1892); also selections in English by F. Hadland See also:Davis, The Persian Mystics: Jami (1908).
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