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John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...
John Ball (16th-century MP) (c.1518–1556), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875
John Ball (c. 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement, Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention.
In the Heat of the Night is a 1965 mystery novel by John Ball set in the community of Wells, South Carolina.The main character is a black police detective named Virgil Tibbs passing through the small town during a time of bigotry and the civil rights movement.
Works by John Ball at Post-Reformation Digital Library A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1645) Posthumous work by John Ball - first few chapters only in this online text. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article - this is a subscription service but many UK library users can access it with their library card number.
The Piers Plowman tradition is made up of about 14 different poetic and prose works from about the time of John Ball (died 1381) and the Peasants Revolt of 1381 through the reign of Elizabeth I and beyond. All the works feature one or more characters, typically Piers, from William Langland's poem Piers Plowman. (A much larger number of texts ...
Sir John Macleod Ball (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford .
John Bale (21 November 1495 – November 1563) was an English churchman, historian controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland.He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English (on the subject of King John), and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed.