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Junk food
Junk food is a common term used for any food item that is perceived to be unhealthy or to have poor nutritional value. The phrase was coined by Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972. Examples of junk food may include, but are not limited to: hamburgers, pizza, candy, Soft drink and salt foods like potato chips and french fries.


Junkers
For the Prussian/Germany landowning classes, see "junker". Junkers was a major German aircraft manufacturer. It produced some of the world's most innovative and well known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany. WWI


Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the Solar system by size within the solar system. Jupiter and the other gas giantsSaturn, Uranus, and Neptuneare sometimes referred to as "Jovian planets".


Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Students of jurisprudence aim to understand the fundamental nature of law, and to analyze its purpose, structure, and application. Jurisprudential scholars hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the law, the kind of power that it exercises, and its role in human societies.


Justice
Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. This ideal has never been realised the world is filled with injustice; and it is overwhelmingly important most people think that injustice must be resisted and punished, and many social and political movements worldwide fight for justice.


Justinian I
Justinian I was List of Byzantine Emperors from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of Late Antiquity, he is best remembered for his reform of the legal code through the commission of Tribonian, the military expansion of imperial territory that was achieved during his reign, primarily through the campaigns of Belisarius, and his marriage and partnership with his wife Theodora .


Jute
Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced from plants in the genus Corchorus, family Malvaceae. Jute is one of the cheapest natural fibers, and is second only to cotton in amount produced and variety of uses. Jute fibres are composed primarily of the plant materials, cellulose and lignin.


Jutes
The Jutes were a Germanic people who are believed to have originated from Jutland in modern Denmark and part of the Frisia coast. The Jutes, along with the Angles, Saxon people and Frisian people, were amongst the Germanic tribes who sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade Great Britain from the late fourth century C.E.


Jutland
Jutland is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the only non-island part of Denmark and also the northernmost part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. Its terrain is relatively flat, with low hills and peat bogs. The northern ? of the peninsula is occupied by the Lands of Denmark.


Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman Empire satire poet of the late 1st century and early 2nd century. He is known for coining the phrase "panem et circenses" to describe the primary pursuits of the Roman populace. The rhetorical question "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", "Who shall guard the guards themselves?" comes from his satire Satire VI, and arises in a discussion concerning the usefulness of having eunuchs guard your women.


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