• Jim Booker (1872–1940) was an African-American hoedown fiddler from Jessamine County, Kentucky. His 1927 recordings with Taylor's Kentucky Boys and The...
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  • [clarification needed] Booker Noe (Frederick Booker Noe II, 1929–2004), grandson of Jim Beam, was the Master Distiller at the Jim Beam Distillery for more...
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    years old, Booker became the youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 50-point games. The son of former basketball player Melvin Booker, Devin is...
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    was nine, Booker and his family in Virginia gained freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation as U.S. troops occupied their region. Booker was thrilled...
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    parents, Carolyn Rose (née Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black IBM executives. Booker has said that he was raised in a religious household...
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    Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an American instrumental, R&B, and funk band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962. The band is considered influential in shaping...
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  • the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award; this was...
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    Booker T. Huffman Jr. (born March 1, 1965), better known by his ring name Booker T, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed...
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    Lifetime Achievement. Booker T. Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 12, 1944. He was named after his father, Booker T. Jones Sr., who was...
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  • The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...
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    Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker. The recordings were labeled "made for Hillbilly" in the Gennett files...
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  • Booker may refer to: Look up booker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Booker, Buckinghamshire, a hamlet in England Booker, Texas, a town in the United...
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    to 1995, he was the owner and booker of Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and from 1999 to 2005, was the co-owner, head booker, and head trainer of Ohio Valley...
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    Simon (No Secrets), Barbra Streisand (Barbra Joan Streisand), Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & Priscilla), George Harrison (The Concert for Bangladesh) and...
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    primarily for Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling. By the mid-1980s, Anderson was a part-owner of, and the booker for, Georgia Championship...
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  • Booker commits to Texas basketball". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved March 3, 2024. Negley, Cassandra (February 1, 2024). "How freshman Madison Booker kept...
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    influence on Jim's developing stage performance was later noted by Brian Hinton in his book Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison: "Jim Morrison learned...
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  • Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling/Jim Crockett Promotions, a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Jim Crockett Promotions was purchased...
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    called 'Time'. (Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with Booker T. Jones) Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing...
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    of bourbon personally selected from barrels by Jim Beam's grandson, the late distiller emeritus Booker Noe. Noe originally bottled his straight-from-the-barrel...
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  • a 2004 book by Christopher Booker containing a Jung-influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning. Booker worked on the book for 34 years...
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    Jay (2013). Jim Henson: The Biography. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-52611-3. Henson, Jim. "The Red Book". JimHenson.Com. The Jim Henson Company...
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  • Jim Button (Jim Knopf) who together go on an adventure. The story begins and ends on the small fictional island of Morrowland (Lummerland). The book was...
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    Booker T. Washington High School (nicknamed "Booker T.") is a secondary school located in the Independence Heights community in Houston, Texas. Washington...
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  • Jim is a comic book series by Jim Woodring. It began in 1980[citation needed] as a self-published zine and was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1986...
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  • Quarantine is a novel by Jim Crace. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the same...
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  • Green Onions (album) (category Booker T. & the M.G.'s albums)
    "culturally, historically, and/or aesthetically significant". Booker T. & the M.G.s Booker T. Jones – Hammond M3 organ Steve Cropper – guitar Lewis Steinberg...
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    quotations related to Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey at the American Film Institute Catalog Jim Carrey at IMDb  Jim Carrey at the TCM Movie Database Jim Carrey discography...
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    Wikiquote has quotations related to Jim Jones. The Jonestown Institute "Jim Jones". Encyclopædia Britannica. [2002] 2020. Jim Jones at IMDb Jonestown 30 Years...
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    ship. Lord Jim is the name of a boat, and subsequently the nickname of the boat's owner, Richard Blake, in Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning...
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