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Jacque
Jacque is a given name and a surname which may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Jacque Batt (died 2014), American First Lady of Idaho 1994-1999 * Jaque Fourie (born 1983), South African former rugby union rugby player * Jacque Fresco (1916–2017), American futurist and self-described social engineer * Jacque Jack Jenkins (American football) (1921-1982), American football player * Jacque Jones (born 1975), American Major League Baseball assistant hitting coach and former player * Jacque LaPrarie, American college football player in the early 1980s * Jacque MacKinnon (1938-1975), American League Football and National League Football player * Jacquelyn Jacque Mercer (1931-1982), winner of the Miss America beauty pageant in 1949 * Jacqueline Jacque Reid (born 1975), American television and radio host, journalist and former news anchor * Jacque Robinson (born 1963), American football player * Jacque Vaughn (born 1975), American National Basketball Association assistant coach and former pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco (March 13, 1916 – May 18, 2017) was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design. Fresco wrote and lectured his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. He directed the Venus Project and advocated global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he referred to as a "resource-based economy". Early life Jacque Fresco was born on March 13, 1916, and grew up in a Sephardi Jewish household, at the family's home in Bensonhurst, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Fresco's father was an agriculturist born in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), while his mother Lena was an emigrant from Jerusalem. He later turned his attention to technocracy. A teenager during the Great Depression, he spent time with friends discussing Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Jacque
Charles-Émile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of Pastoralism and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army. Biography Fleeing the Cholera epidemics that besieged Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Jacque relocated to Barbizon in 1849 with Millet. There, he painted rustic or pastoral subject matter: shepherds, flocks of sheep, pigs, and scenes of farm life. In addition to painting, Jacque was also famous for his etchings and engravings. He, along with Félix Bracquemond and Felix Buhot, is credited with the nineteenth-century revival of seventeenth-century techniques. He began his career as an engraver around 1841 by publishing a series of etchings with Louis Marvy. He followed this work with a series of engravings based on the works of Adriaen van Ostade, after which he began to create original engravings / artworks. Charles Baude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Vaughn
Jacque T. Vaughn (born February 11, 1975) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He serves as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Playing career High school A native of Pasadena, California, Vaughn attended John Muir High School in nearby Pasadena, where he maintained a 3.94 GPA, and became the best high school player in that area since former Muir and NBA standout Stacey Augmon. Vaughn excelled both on and off the court, and by his senior year was ranked as high as the no. 7 high school recruit in the country and the no. 2 point guard in the class of 1993 behind arguably the nation's top player that year, Randy Livingston. Over the course of the season, Vaughn averaged over 21 points and 19 assists per game, while also compiling six triple-doubles. Named a First-Team All-American by nearly every publication on the market, Vaughn rounded off his special season with a selection to participate in the prestigious McD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jacques is a surname which is the French equivalent of James. Jacques may also refer to: * Jacques (band), a British alternative rock band * ''Jacques'' (album), an album by Marc Almond * "Jacques" (song), a song by Jax Jones and Tove Lo * ''Jacques'' (novel), an 1833 novel by George Sand * Jaques (''As You Like It''), a character in ''As You Like It'' by William Shakespeare See also * Jacque (other) * Jacquez (other) * Jacquerie The Jacquerie () was a popular revolt by peasants that took place in northern France in the early summer of 1358 during the Hundred Years' War. The revolt was centred in the valley of the Oise north of Paris and was suppressed after a few week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Jones
Jacque Dewayne Jones (born April 25, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers and Florida Marlins. He also coached for the Washington Nationals. Early life He graduated from San Diego High School in 1993, and the University of Southern California, where he had a stellar career. In , he was a first team all-American outfielder for the Trojans. In , he was a member of the US Olympic Baseball team. In 1993, he was named player of the year in the SCL with, .332 batting average, 33 home runs, and 124 RBI. Professional career Minnesota Twins Jacque was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the second round of the amateur draft. He played three seasons in the minor leagues, and was brought up to the majors in . He started off in center field, but moved to left to accommodate Torii Hunter. Between -, he batted over .300, and went to the playoffs with the Twins. The Twins outfield was one of the fastest in baseball in , boast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Batt
Jacque Batt (née Fallis, January 31, 1926 – September 7, 2014) was an American First Lady. She was the First Lady of Idaho while her husband Phil Batt was Governor of Idaho from January 2, 1995 to January 4, 1999. She was instrumental in founding the Pink Tea in 1998, an organization that raised money for free mammograms for women in need. Biography Jacque Elaine Fallis was born to Gordon and Mary Fallis on January 31, 1926. She had two brothers, Bill and Bob Fallis. She met Phil Batt at the University of Idaho, and eloped with him on January 9, 1948 in Potlatch, Idaho. She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Idaho. She was active in Republican party organizations, serving as president of the Canyon County Republican Women's Club in 1971, and was also active in Legisladies, an organization for the wives of Idaho legislators, serving as its president in 1977. She worked with her successor Patricia Kempthorne to found the Pink Tea in 1998, an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Jacque
Olivier Jacque (born 29 August 1973 in Villerupt, France) is a French former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Career He was second in the 250cc European Championship in 1994, before moving on to the 250cc World Championship. He achieved a top ten finish in the points standings every year he competed. In 2000 he had a season-long battle for the championship with Tech3 teammate Shinya Nakano and Daijiro Kato, ultimately winning the 250cc Motorcycle World Champion on a Yamaha YZR250. For 2001, he moved up to the 500cc class with the Tech3 team. He spent three years with Tech3, before starting 2004 without a ride. He made one appearance on a Moriwaki bike, but again was without a ride as 2005 started. He stepped in for the injured Alex Hofmann in China and stunned the series regulars by finishing second to Valentino Rossi on the factory Kawasaki. He was then permanently hired by Kawasaki as an occasional extra race rider. He did not race for them in 2006, but was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Reid
Jacqueline Elaine "Jacque" Reid (born January 31, 1975, in Atlanta, Georgia"Jacque Reid Jumps Into Reality TV" , by Isoul H. Harris, January 2010, ''''. Retrieved 2011-09-21.) is an American television and radio personality and journalist. She was the lead news anchor of ''The BET Nightly News'' from 2001 to 2005. Reid is currently one of the co-hosts of the NBC New York affiliate show called "New York Live." She has also guest-hosted '' The View'' several times, prior to joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Mercer
Jacquelyn Joy Mercer (January 7, 1931 – February 2, 1982) was Miss America in 1949. Biography Mercer was born in Thatcher, Arizona. In 1949, she won the title of Miss America. She is mentioned (usually by title, once by name) several times in the 1997 Philip Roth novel, '' American Pastoral''. She married and divorced her high school sweetheart, Douglas Cook, during her reign as Miss America. After this, a rule was enacted which requires Miss America contestants to sign a pledge vowing they have never been married or pregnant. While a student at the Arizona State College at Tempe, Mercer acted in a professional stage production of '' Hay Fever'' at the Sombrero Playhouse in Phoenix during February 1953, alongside Miriam Hopkins, Wilton Graff, and George Nader. On February 2, 1982, Mercer died in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Jack
''Colonel Jack'' is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is ''The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick−Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant; was Five times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and resolves to dye a General.'' The picaresque novel can be considered as a crime fiction, along with some of Defoe's other works such as ''Moll Flanders'' (1722) and '' Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress'' (1724).Gladfelder 2009, p. 64. It shares many plot elements and themes with ''Moll Flanders'', the novels being published only eleven months apart. In common with many of Defoe's other works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque Robinson
Jacque Robinson (born March 5, 1963) is an American former professional American football, football player. He played as a running back and was selected by the 1985 Buffalo Bills season, Buffalo Bills in the 1985 NFL Draft. During his college career at Washington Huskies football, Washington, Robinson amassed 2,300 career yards, and also earned MVP honors in both the 1982 Rose Bowl and 1985 Orange Bowl. He was the first freshman to win Player of the Game honors at the Rose Bowl and was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2019. Robinson was also the first player in history to win both Rose Rowl and Orange Bowl MVP honors. He attended San Jose High School in San Jose, California. Robinson saw playing time in three NFL games in 1987 Philadelphia Eagles season, 1987 with the Philadelphia Eagles during the 1987 NFL season#The NFLPA Strike, NFLPA strike. His NFL total is 114 yards on 24 carries, plus two receptions for nine yards. He is the father of former National Basketball A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacque MacKinnon
Jacque Harold MacKinnon (November 10, 1938 – March 6, 1975) was an American professional football player who was a tight end, playng most of his career in the American Football League (AFL) with the San Diego Chargers. He also was a member of the Oakland Raiders in the National Football League (NFL) and the Southern California Sun in the World Football League (WFL). He played college football at Colgate University. Early years Born and raised in Dover, New Jersey, MacKinnon attended Dover High School. He was a running back in football, a sprinter in track and a center in basketball. He accepted a football scholarship from Colgate University, where he was a standout at halfback. Professional career MacKinnon was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the 33rd round (264th overall) of the 1962 AFL Draft and the Philadelphia Eagles in the 20th round (280th overall) of the 1961 NFL Draft. As the last player selected in the 1961 NFL Draft, he was designated Mr. Irrelevant, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
