Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is an American former professional basketball player and the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. His biography on the official NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." He was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
John MacBride was an Irish republican and military leader executed by the British for his participation in the 1916 Irish Easter Rising in Dublin.
The Hashemites are the ruling royal family of Jordan. The House was also the royal family of Syria (1920), Hejaz (1916–1925) and Iraq (1921–1958). The family belongs to the Dhawu Awn, one of the branches of the Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca – also referred to as Hashemites – who ruled Mecca continuously from the 10th century until its conquest by the House of Saud in 1924. Their eponymous ancestor is traditionally considered to be Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca, including the Hashemites' ancestor Qatadah ibn Idris, were Zaydi Shias until the late Mamluk or early Ottoman period when they converted to Shafi'i Sunni Islam.
Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein was the ruler of Jordan and its predecessor state, Transjordan, from 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was Emir of Transjordan from 11 April 1921 to 25 May 1946 under a British mandate, and was king of an independent nation from 25 May 1946 until his assassination. According to Abdullah, he was a 38th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad as he belongs to the Hashemite family.
David Starr Jordan was an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and the founding president of Stanford University.
Chester Bradley Jordan was an American teacher, lawyer, and Republican politician from Lancaster, New Hampshire.
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and the east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and Israel and Palestine to the west. The Dead Sea is located along its western borders and the country has a short 26-kilometre (16 mi) coastline on the Red Sea in its extreme south-west, but is otherwise landlocked. Jordan is strategically located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe. The capital, Amman, is Jordan's most populous city as well as the country's economic, political and cultural centre.
The Phaegopterina are a subtribe of tiger moths in the Arctiini tribe, which is a part of the family Erebidae.
Pareuchaetes is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1866.
Xylophanes is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. As of 2000, there are about 96 species and subspecies included in the genus.
Macroglossum is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae.
Saad Mohammad Jumaa was a Jordanian politician and 17th Prime Minister of Jordan.
Pareuchaetes bipunctata is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in the Amazons.
Pareuchaetes aurata is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. It is found in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Alfredo Rei do Régo Barros in 1956. It is found in Venezuela and Trinidad. It is an introduced species in Sri Lanka, as well as on Sabah, Borneo, Palawan and Guam.
Pareuchaetes insulata, the yellow-winged pareuchaetes, is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found on Cuba and the Antilles, as well as in the southern United States, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Pareuchaetes misantlensis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Rego Barros in 1956. It is found in Mexico.
Pygarctia eglenensis, the gray-winged pareuchaetes, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1861. It is found in the US states of Texas and Florida.
