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Jan and Karon
* Absalom Greer, is the name of a character in Jan Karon ’ s Mitford series.
Jan Karon is an American writer and novelist, who has written for both children and adults.
( Both Violet books are presented by Jan Karon and written by Melanie Cecka.
New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon attended first through eighth grades at Hudson School in the historic building now known as the HUB.
Major League Baseball player Madison Bumgarner hails from Hudson and author Jan Karon attended school here during her elementary years and John Wilson was recreation director for many years as well.
* Jan Karon, New York Times-bestselling author of the Mitford Series and the Father Tim novels ( born in Lenoir ).
* Jan Karon
Miss Read's work has in turn influenced a number of writers, including American writer Jan Karon.
::— Jan Karon, 1996

Jan and native
According to A Brief History of the Caribbean ( Jan Rogozinski, Penguin Putnam, Inc September 2000 ), European and African diseases, malnutrition and slavery eventually destroyed the vast majority of the Caribbean's native population.
He almost certainly spoke Flemish, at that time the native language in the region, and his birth name was most probably Jan Baert.
A vibrant officer, he spent the war harrying the forces of the British Empire, tying down with his band of 3, 500 Europeans and 12, 000 native Askaris and porters, a British / Imperial army 40, 000 strong, which was at times commanded by the former Second Boer War commander Jan Smuts.
In 1993, documents dating from 1607 were found stating that " Jan Hocquegam " was a native of Saint-Ghislain in the County of Hainaut, which was confirmed by references in 16th century documents.
Thomas Albert Lurz ( b. 09 Jan 1874 ), a Baltimore native, made a career as a Letter Carrier with the U. S. Post Office.
In 1788 Jan Baptist Chrysostomus Verlooy ( 1747 – 1797 ), a jurist and politician from the Southern Netherlands, wrote an essay on d ' onacht der moederlycke tael, the first sign of life of the Flemish movement: a plea for the native language, but also for freedom and democracy.
23 Jan, 2009 < http :// www. enotes. com / contemporary-literary-criticism / soyinka-wole-vol-5 ></ ref > At the time of its release, it was an iconoclastic work that angered many of the elites in Soyinka's native Nigeria.
The grave was " marked by rough native sandstone slab ,... on which was crudely chiseled the simple lettering, Z. M. Jan. 1, 1795.
Chrząszcz ( beetle, chafer ) by Jan Brzechwa is a poem famous for being one of the hardest-to-pronounce texts in Polish literature, and may cause problems even for adult, native Polish speakers.
In 1885 ( or 1898, depending on the account ), at the age of 73, Leung Jan retired to his native village of Kulo, Heshan county, where he taught the Wing Chun System to a few local students, such as Wong Sum Wah, Leung Bak Cheung, and Yik Ying.
Czech reformer Jan Hus ( 1369 – 1415 ) began reading the Bible to his congregations in their native language, while the Catholic Church demanded that the Bible only be read in Latin.
However, the attempts he made under the guidance of two second-rate painters in his native town Buys and van Wicheren while still working under his father as a stock-broker's clerk, led to his being sent to Amsterdam, where he became a pupil of Jan Kruseman and attended the drawing class at the academy.
When Jan Philipp, the youngest of three brothers, was sixteen he graduated from the gymnasium of his native town.
A dedicated core of five Dutchmen, led by Jan Meyering, worked for 30 years breeding the all-white Hermelins with local native wild rabbits, as well as with various other domestic breeds ( large and small ).
Although Karel was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2006, Jan is almost totally forgotten today outside his native Czechoslovakia.
His father, Jan Muhammed Khan, who was a Hindustani musician from Bengal who frequently held concerts in Kerala, deserted his Malayali mother when he was very young, and returned to his native Kolkata.
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn ( c. 1560 – 1623 ), or simply Jan Joosten, was a native of Delft and one of the first Dutchmen in Japan, arriving as one of William Adams's shipmates ( the second mate ) on the De Liefde, which was disabled on the coast of Kyūshū in 1600.
Among the most famous lecturers were: Joachim Oelhafius, a native of Gdańsk, who in 1613 was the first to perform a public autopsy of a newborn child in northern Europe, and Dr Jan Adam Kulmus, the author of the anatomical atlas Tabulae anatomicae, published in 1932.

Jan and nearby
Polenin wants to seek help from a nearby NATO base on Jan Mayen.
After leaving school, Thomas went to the nearby city of Zwolle to visit his brother again, after Jan had become the prior of the Monastery of Mount St. Agnes there.
Some prominent leaders of the radicals, including Jan Roháč of Dubá, were captured, but about 700 ordinary soldiers who surrendered after promises of renewed military service, were burned to death in nearby barns.
Jan attended the school in nearby Riebeek West.
Yet another version belongs to Prof. Jan Miodek from Wrocław University, who derived the name from the nearby Blszczyna river.
* The statue of Jan III Sobieski in the nearby village Płonka Kościelna
Jan Velflín ( Welflin, Wölflin ) z Pomuku came from the small market town of Pomuk ( later renamed Nepomuk ) in Bohemia, which belonged to the nearby Cistercian abbey.
The site was chosen by King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, as a measure to stop a possible attack from the nearby Turkish-seized fortresses of Kamieniec Podolski, twenty kilometers away, and Chocim, eight kilometers away.
Like the nearby Jewel Cave National Monument, currently the second longest cave, Herb and Jan Conn played an important role in cave exploration during the 1960s.
Jan Weenix, who at the end of his life lived in a house at the Amstel, was buried in Nieuwezijds Kapel a nearby church on Rokin.
Lalak Jan managed to take cover, and the Indian Army lost 16 men inside and nearby the bunker.
Shortly afterward Jan Pieter van Suchtelen, a Dutch military engineer in Russian service prepared a construction plan for a mighty fortress in the area, named after the nearby town of Zakroczym.
To counter the Turkish threat to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, King Jan III Sobieski built a fortress nearby, Okopy Świętej Trójcy (" the Entrenchments of the Holy Trinity ").
While this was transpiring, in the nearby southern Tarim Basin city of Khotan, three brothers of rich Bughra family, Muhammad Amin Bughra, Abdullah Bughra and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, educated in the jadidist tradition, had led a rebellion of gold miners who worked in Surghak mines near Keriya city, also in Yurunkash and Karakash mountain rivers, and established themselves as emirs of the city, having declared the Khotan Emirate and independence from China on March 16, 1933.
Tudela is widely known for its colorful ( very much like a giant Halloween costume party, the Tudela Binalbal Festival, where many revelers are clad in very gory costumes ) held every New Year's Day ( Jan. 1 ). Close to the border of Tudela and Sinacaban, its neighboring town to the north, is the beautiful and popular eco-tourism attraction called Misamis Occidental Aquamarine Park, known for its sanctuary for dolphins ( and other endangered sea animals ) on Dolphin Island, a ten-minute boat ride away from its other attraction which is located along the mangroves of Tigdok and Libertad Bajo, baranggays of Tudela and Sinacaban, respectively-a wildlife park that serves as sanctuary for other endangered animals like the monkey-eating eagle and the tarsier found in the forests of nearby Mount Malindang ( a national park and another eco-tourism attraction in the area ).
In 1915, Ajahn Mun spent the Rain Retreat at Wat Sapathum in Bangkok, and frequently walked to a nearby temple to hear sermons by Ajahn Jan, an important high-ranking monk.

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