Michael Jackson (27 March 1942 - 30 August 2007) was an English writer and journalist. He was the author of several influential books about beer and whisky.
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958 ) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.
Michael Jackson is a radio talk show host based in the Los Angeles area. Jackson is best known for his radio show which covered the arts, politics and human interest subjects, particularly in the Los Angeles and greater Southern California area. The show originally aired on L.A. radio station KABC and currently airs on KGIL.
He was born in England, experiencing the blitz (German bombing) of London during World War II. After the war, in which his father served in the RAF as a navigator trainer, his family moved to South Africa where he became a radio deejay. The Jacksons were appalled by the apartheid then dominant in South Africa. Michael moved to the United States and in the 1960s where he started one of the first radio talk shows in the country on KEWB during the overnight hours, in the middle of spinning records. He received national acclaim in Time Magazine for saving the life of a suicidal person by keeping him talking on the phone until the police arrived at the caller's location to take him to a mental hospital. blank">http://www.radiodailynews.com/chuckblorebook31.htm
After that, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began hosting talk radio on _KNX-AM in 1964 before beginning a 30 year tenure on heritage talk station KABC, occupying the 9 am to noon spot. The mid-day talk show drew guests from around the world but began regularly losing to The Rush Limbaugh Show on crosstown KFI. His show was deemed too liberal and serious for the new generation of talk listeners and was moved to weekends. He later moved to KRLA (1110) and KLAC until those stations ended their talk radio format.
More recently, he returned to all-news radio station KNX as a news analyst and interviewer until he chose not to renew his contract, citing a lack of a regular time slot.
Jackson joined the new KGIL 1260 AM talk radio station on October 29, 2007, where he remains to this day. His show is from 9 AM to 11 AM every weekday.
Michael Jackson (born November 8, 1970) is a Canadian actor.
Jackson was born in Ottawa, Ontario and grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where he currently lives. In addition to his acting role on Trailer Park Boys, Jackson has contributed to the local music scene with many group and solo projects,including Moral Support, Aimless, Thruster, The Thursday Toads, Pink Kitten, Defense Andrew, The Sycamores, Rick of The Skins, El Groupo De Rock, Vavoom, T-Bag, The Olympian and most recently Doug Mason.
In 2005 Jackson won a Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Series. Jackson left TPB in 2005 after six seasons. Jackson is an IATSE 849 member and has been working as a grip since 1998.
Growing up in Dartmouth, Jackson spent much of his time riding his BMX bike and skateboarding. Though he has since retired from those two hobbies, he does still surf from time to time. Jackson also loves poutine and the Halifax Mooseheads and is not much of a fan of Millman, Roderick or Covey.
He has left Trailor Park Boys, which is what he got fame from, as of season 7.
Michael Dwayne Jackson (born April 12, 1969 in Tangipahoa, Louisiana) is a former American professional football player who was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. A 6'4", 195 lbs. wide receiver from The University of Southern Mississippi, Jackson played in eight NFL seasons from 1991-1998 for the Browns and the Baltimore Ravens. Injuries cut his career short and forced him to retire at the age of 29.
In 1993, Jackson changed his name to Dyson. Although, his legal last name was always Dyson, he was partial to using Jackson. He changed his name, when the NFL regulated numbers for positions and forced him to lose number 81 for number 1. After the 1st week of the season, he changed his name back to Jackson.
In 1996, Jackson was tied with San Diego Chargers wide receiver Tony Martin for most receiving touchdowns in the NFL with 14.
Jackson is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.http://hartfordalphas.com/alphaphialpha.php?ID=3
Michael James Jackson (born 4 December, 1973 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English professional football defender currently playing for Blackpool, for whom he is club captain.
Jackson previously played for Crewe Alexandra, Bury, Preston North End and Tranmere Rovers.
In June 2006, Jackson left Tranmere Rovers to join Blackpool. New Tranmere manager Ronnie Moore did not see a future for Jackson, and let him leave on a free.
Jackson scored his first goal for Blackpool on August 19, 2006, in an 4-2 league win at Bristol City.
Michael Jackson was a Western film actor of the early 1940s.
The Right Reverend Dr. Michael Jackson (born 24 May 1956) has been the Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher since 2002.
His father, the late Roy Jackson, was an archdeacon.
Jackson was born in Lurgan, and educated at Ballinamallard Primary School, Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin, before going on to do postgraduate studies in Cambridge.
He married Inez Cooke, a medical doctor who was born in County Fermanagh, and they have one daughter, named Camilla, born circa 1991.
Jackson succeeded Brian Hannon as Bishop of Clogher upon being elected by the Church of Ireland House of Bishops at their meeting in Dublin on November 21, 2001. However, he did not take up his appointment for several months, being consecrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh on March 6, 2002.
Jackson's Roman Catholic counterpart is Joseph Duffy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher. In 2002, Duffy and Jackson delivered a joint Christmas message.
Michael Jackson (born July 13, 1964 in Washington, DC), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round (47th overall) of the 1986 NBA Draft. A 6'2" guard from Georgetown University, Jackson played in 3 NBA seasons for the Sacramento Kings from 1987 to 1990.
In his NBA career, Jackson played in 89 games and scored a total of 188 points. He was a member of Georgetown's 1984 National Championship team.
Michael Jackson (born July 15, 1957 in Pasco, Washington) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker in eight NFL seasons for the Seattle Seahawks.
His personal sports resume is several pages long and his bio with the Seattle Seahawks is even longer, yet Michael Anthony Jackson has never truly gained much fame. A 1975 graduate of Pasco High School, no other Bulldog has ever enjoyed the success or accumulated the career achievements that Jackson has. A three-year/three-sport letterman, he was the team captain in both football and baseball while garnering All-State honors and receiving the Denning Award for Outstanding Athlete by the Pasco Jaycees as a senior.
At the University of Washington, Jackson earned four varsity letters and was named to their All-Centennial Football Team. He was also selected as the Inland Empire Amateur Athlete of the Year in 1977, a season in which he helped lead the Huskies to the Rose Bowl. The eyes of the nation were on him during that game as he made a vital end zone interception that helped seal Washington ’s victory over the University of Michigan.
Jackson still holds several defensive school records for the Huskies, including single season (210) and career (569) tackles. Among the several honors he received for the U of W include Sports Illustrated Player of the Week (11-12-77), Husky Team Captain (1978), All Pac-8 & Pac-10 Linebacker (1977-78) and several All-American selections.
In 1979, he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the NFL Draft, where he began an eight-year career as a starting linebacker. One of the team’s all-time defensive greats, he led the Seahawks in tackles for a number of seasons and is among the career leaders in that category. He also earned 21 game balls for his outstanding play and has received numerous other awards including team MVP, Most Improved Player and the Seattle P.I.’s Sports Star of the Year.
Jackson is also very active off the field with several charities including the March of Dimes, Special Olympics, and the United Way. He has also acted in 14 movie and television roles and was voted into the Pasco High School Hall of Fame in 1996.
Michael Jackson (born 1940) is a post-modern New Zealand anthropologist who has taught in the anthropology departments at the University of Copenhagen and Indiana University and is currently a professor of world religions at Harvard Divinity School. He holds a BA from Victoria University of Wellington, an MA from the University of Auckland and a PhD from Cambridge University.
Jackson is the founder of existential/phenomenological anthropology, a sub-field of anthropology using ethnographical fieldwork as well as existential theories of being in order to explore modes of being and interpersonal relationships as they exist in various cultural settings throughout the world. In this way he creates an interdisciplinary approach that attempts to understand the human condition by examining the various ways in which this condition manifests itself cross-culturally. In so doing, he concentrates on concrete, individual, lived situations and attempts to recreate and explain these situations as they are perceived and experienced by the other. For example, rather than looking at what mythology or ritual may mean for a group of people, he looks at what mythology or ritual means for an individual existing in the group. In this way he is able to examine "being-in-the-world", a concept fundamental to the field of existentialism. This approach also allows him to address the problem of intersubjectivity, which has as a goal the understanding of the other in terms of the other's individual lifeworld. In this way the other's relationship with the world around them is explained in a manner not previously seen, and is fundamental to the project of understanding intersubjective existence (or the relation between two individual subjects).
A large part of Jackson's methodology is also his account of personal experiences he acquired during his fieldwork. This method of reflexivity is indicative of the current postmodern trend in the field of anthropology, which seeks to contextualize the ethnographer as a subjective participant in the field. This methodology allows him to explain very accurately his relation with the world around him, referencing frequently existential theories in the process.
His influences include: Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Claude Levi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu, William James, John Dewey, Edmund Husserl, Bronislaw Malinowski, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Marcel Mauss.
Michael Jackson (18 December 1734 - 10 April 1801) was a soldier from Massachusetts.
He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. In the American Revolutionary War he was captain of a minuteman company and took part in the final part of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, harassing the British retreat to Boston. He was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was promoted to colonel in the Massachusetts Line and served until the end of the war. At war's end he was given a brevet promotion to brigadier general. His five brothers and five sons (including Michael Jackson, Jr.) also served in the war.
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), often referred to as MJ and The King of Pop, is an American musician and entertainer, who debuted on the professional music scene at the age of ten as a member of the Jackson 5, and went on to become a pop icon as a solo artist. His successful career and controversial, enigmatic personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost four decades. an example of the appellation "king of pop", indicates "MJ" as a well-recognized abbreviation, Jackson has dominated pop music since the late 1970s, becoming the first black entertainer to amass a strong cross-over following on MTV with his revolutionary transformation of the music video as an art form and as a promotional tool. The popularity of videos aired on MTV such as "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" created a tremendous synergy that helped to put the relatively young channel "on the map" and Jackson continued to be a dominant figure on MTV with videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream". Jackson also popularized physically-complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, that have redefined mainstream dance and entertainment. BMI is a performing rights organization that collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties. His distinctive style, dance moves, and vocals have influenced a whole generation of hip hop, pop, and R&B artists. He has been cited as the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by Guinness World Records, and holds the record for the best-selling album ever, Thriller. Michael Jackson has received thirteen Grammy Awards (eight on a single night in 1984) and two of his solo albums have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Jackson has charted thirteen #1 singles in the United States, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era. In November 2006, the World Music Awards announced that Jackson had sold over 750 million units worldwide and given $300 million to charity, making Jackson one of the best-selling music artists and the most charitable humanitarians of all time (bar Oprah Winfrey). However, Jackson's controversial appearance and actions have damaged his reputation in the eyes of some of the public and album sales have been in decline since the mid 1990s.
From 1988 to 2005, Jackson lived on his Neverland Ranch property, where he built an amusement park and private zoo that was frequently attended by disadvantaged and terminally ill children. Rumors of sleepover parties received both negative media coverage and public attention after it was revealed that children had slept in his bed or bedroom. This first came to light when he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. Michael Jackson's relationship with children was brought into the spotlight again in 2003 when the TV documentary Living with Michael Jackson was broadcast. This resulted in Jackson being tried, and later acquitted, of more child molestation allegations and several other charges in 2005. After this, Jackson went on hiatus, traveling to countries such as Bahrain, before starting work on new material in Ireland. He released an album on February 11, 2008 called Thriller 25 (a special edition of the "Thriller" album) which included some new material.
