Who was born first, Melinda Haynes or Jack London?
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Melinda Haynes Melinda Haynes (born 1955) is an American novelist. She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. For much of her adult life she was a painter. In 1999, she wrote her first published novel, "Mother of Pearl", while living in a mobile home in Grand Bay, Alabama. Melinda Haynes currently resides in Mobile, Alabama with her husband, Ray. Her writing is intimately connected with the Mississippi of the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Jack London John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction.
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Jack Horner (comics) Jack Horner is a fictional character in the comic book series "Fables" by Bill Willingham. His first appearance was in issue #1 of "Fables" and continued as a regular character of the series until leaving the series for his own title, "Jack of Fables". The character is based on various nursery rhymes and fables with characters named Jack including "Little Jack Horner", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Jack and Jill", Jack Be Nimble, Jack Frost, Jack O'Lantern, and Jack the Giant Killer and others.
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Hammersmith nude murders The Hammersmith nude murders were a series of murders in London, England, in 1964 and 1965. The victimsall prostituteswere found undressed in or near the River Thames, leading the press to nickname the killer Jack the Stripper (a reference to "Jack the Ripper"). Two earlier murders, committed in 1959 and 1963, have also been linked by some investigators to the same perpetrator.
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Jerry London Jerry London (born January 21, 1947) is an American television director and producer.
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Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet Sir Jack Wolfred Ashford Harris, 2nd Baronet (23 July 1906 – 26 August 2009) was a New Zealand businessman, and the second baronet of the Harris Baronetcy of Bethnal Green, County of London which was created for his father Sir Percy Harris (1876-1952) in 1932. Frieda Harris was his mother. He succeeded to the title in 1952.
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I'm All Right Jack I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the novel "Private Life" by Hackney. The film is a sequel to the Boultings' 1956 film "Private's Progress" and Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson reprise their characters. Peter Sellers played one of his best-known roles, as the trades union shop steward Fred Kite and won a Bafta Best Actor Award. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time.
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Earle Labor Earle Labor (born 1928) is the official biographer of novelist Jack London and curator of the Jack London Museum in Shreveport. He is also Emeritus Wilson Professor of American Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana. Classes he has taught in the past are among others: a seminar on Jack London, a class on American gothic fiction titled 'The Power of Darkness', A seminar on the American novel, a two-semester class overviewing American literature, and several classes on Critical Approaches to Literature. He is famous for his Book 'Jack London-An American life,' which received the 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award as Best Nonfiction Biography.
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Jack Chambers (choreographer) Jack Chambers (born 10 October 1988) is a dancer, singer, actor and choreographer, from Brisbane, Australia. He is best known for winning the first season of "So You Think You Can Dance Australia" in 2008.
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Jack Kid Berg Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg (28 June 1909 – 22 April 1991), was an English boxer born in the East End of London, who became the World Light Welterweight Champion in 1930.
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Catherine Eddowes Catherine "Kate" Eddowes (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) was one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders. She was the second person killed in the early hours of Sunday 30 September 1888, a night which already had seen the murder of Elizabeth Stride less than an hour earlier. These two murders are commonly referred to as the "double event" and have been attributed to the mysterious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
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Jah Jerry Haynes Jerome "Jah Jerry" Haynes OD (11 August 1921 – 13 August 2007) was a Jamaican guitarist and former member of The Skatalites.
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Sandra Knight Sandra Knight (born January 1, 1940) is an American actress, painter and writer. She is best known for her work as an actor in low-budget films of the 1950s and 1960s, such as "Frankenstein's Daughter", "The Terror" where she plays an evil spirit, and "Tower of London". Knight was married to Jack Nicholson from 1962 until 1968. She is the mother of his daughter, Jennifer Nicholson.
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Jack and Jill (Raydio song) "Jack and Jill" is a 1978 hit song by R&B vocal group Raydio. It was the first single from their eponymous debut album "Raydio", and became an international Top 10 hit. It reached number eight on the U.S. "Billboard Hot 100" and number six on the "Cashbox" Top 100. In Canada it reached number five, and number four in Australia and also made the top 20 in UK. It was the first of five U.S. Top 10 singles by Ray Parker, Jr. and/or Raydio.
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Brian London Brian Sidney Harper (born 19 June 1934), known professionally as Brian London, is an English retired heavyweight boxer. He was the British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion from 1958 to 1959, and twice challenged for the world heavyweight title, losing to Floyd Patterson in 1959 and Muhammad Ali in 1966, both times via knockout. He was one of a quartet of British boxers, with Henry Cooper, Joe Erskine, and Dick Richardson, who dominated the British boxing scene throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
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Where's Jack? Where's Jack? is a 1969 film recounting the exploits of notorious 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard and London "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild.
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The Road (London book) The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of "unprintable horrors," after being "pinched" (arrested) for vagrancy. In addition, he recounts his time with Kelly's Army, which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi River.
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Jack Levin (producer) Jack Levin (born John Douglas Le Vien; 17 July 1914 – 9 November 1999) was an American television producer, active in British and American television. He was born in New York City, USA, and died in London, England. He was married to Josephine Catto.
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Jack Bertoli Jack Vicajee Bertoli (born October 1931 in Mumbai, India), is an Indian planner and architect, naturalised as a Swiss citizen, and living in Geneva, Switzerland, and Spain. He was born to an Italian father, Fausto Piscionieri, an interior designer and architect practising in India in the early 1930s, and a Parsee (Zoroastrian) mother, Kathleen "Kitty" Vicajee. His mother's family, the Vicajees, are one of the oldest Zoroastrian Parsee families, who were closely attached as bankers to Nizam of Hyderabad, one of the wealthiest Muslim rulers of India. A silver coin, the "Pestonshahi Sikka", was minted in India in 1840 for the first and only time, in honour of the Pestonjee Meherjee brothers, for the Vicajee family.
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Jack Early Jack Early (born August 16, 1962) is a contemporary artist known for exploring American identity. Early works with a Pop vocabulary combining it with biographical details and personal elements of his life. His work builds on cultural references and continues to evolve through his experience with the media and an ever-changing self. Early currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Benedict Jacka Benedict Jacka (born 25 September 1980) is a British author, best known for his "Alex Verus" series.
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Steven Jack Steven Douglas Jack (born 4 August 1970 in Durban, Natal) is a former South African cricketer who played in two Tests and two ODIs from 1994 to 1995. He was a fast, aggressive bowler and formed a formidable opening partnership with Richard Snell for Transvaal in the early 1990s, as they tried to recapture the glory of the 'Mean Machine' years. He made his Test debut against New Zealand during the 1994–95 season, taking five wickets in the third Test. He was unfortunate to have his career coincide with that of Allan Donald, and it was then cut short due to injury. His first-class career spanned seven seasons in which he took 223 wickets with a best of 8 for 51 against Eastern Province. In his two One Day Internationals during the Mandela Trophy in 1995 he took three wickets. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban