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| | Jack London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | London survived the hardships of the Klondike, and these struggles inspired what is often called his best short story, "To Build a Fire." The famous version of this story was published in 1908; an early and radically different version was originally published in 1902. | | | London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. | | | London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London
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| | Alibris: Jack London |
| | THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London's masterpiece, tells the gripping tale of a dog named Buck who is wrenched out of his life of ease and luxury to become a sled dog in Alaska. | | | From Alaska to the Yukon, from the Klondike to the Arctic tundra, Jack London knew the outlaws and the wolves, the prospectors and the grizzlies. | | | Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, the stories of Jack London clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/London,Jack
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| | Jack London: Skeletons in a Closet Rattle a Trio - 1938 |
| | He traces London’s stern struggle to obtain an education, showing how he contrived to equip himself intellectually for the career of literary triumph which, from the first, he felt sure would one day be his. | | | Note: Jack London’s father, William Henry Chaney (1821-1903), was author of Chaney’s Primer of Astrology and American Urania, published in 1890 by Magic Circle publishing, St. Louis. | | | There is no need today to emphasize it, but it is just as well to understand that a complex being of his sort was no angel come to earth, even though one refrains from citing particulars. |
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http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/londonbio.html
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| | Jack London - Books and Biography |
| | These years made him determined to raise himself out of poverty but they also gave later material for such works as THE SEA-WOLF (1904), which was partly based on his horrific experiences as a sailor in the Pacific Ocean. | | | Brissenden, Eden's Faustian friend, was modelled on George Sterling, a minor romantic poet and London's close colleague. | | | And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know." The book was considered by critics a failure, and London's literary reputation sank. |
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http://www.readprint.com/author-58/Jack-London
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| | ERBzine 1271 |
| | "Jack London was a man of adventure, a man of action and only he could have truly conceived such a dynamic and challenging credo as this. | | | The protagonist of Jack London's 1906 novel, Before Adam, dreams the experiences of a prehistoric forefather, an ape like creature named "Big-Tooth." This prehuman swung through trees, fought prehistoric animals, and communicated with his fellows through a primitive vocabulary similar to that of Tarzan's great apes. | | | And only he, with his great physical strength, his intense intellect, and his turbulent spirit, could have successfully lived up to it. |
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http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1271.html
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Jack London |
| | When he returned to California, he journeyed around the U.S. for almost a year before finding himself in his mother's kitchen, resolving to give up his vagrant ways and make her proud of him by becoming more of a breadwinner for the family. | | | Bess gave Jack a daughter, Joan, whom he loved. | | | That spirit would pervade most of Jack's work. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_jack_london.html
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Jack London |
| | London's first book, The Son of the Wolf (1900), was a collection of Klondike tales that proved enormously popular. | | | South Sea Tales by Jack London [Classic Literature] | | | It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/jacklondonebooks.htm
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| | Amazon.com: The Call of the Wild : Complete and Unabridged (Tor Classics): Books: Jack London |
| | London's 1903 classic of a kidnapped dog and Yukon gold is revisited here by editor Dyer, who restored the text to its original form sans the editorial alterations that corrupt most of today's available editions. | | | As an animal lover, I found parts of this story heartbreaking: Buck's removal from the civilized Southland in which he reigned supreme among his animal kindred to the brutal cold and even more brutal machinations of hard, weathered men who literally beat him and whipped him full of lashes is supremely sad and bothersome. | | | The Call of the Wild, despite its relative brevity and the fact that it is (at least on its surface) a dog's story, contains as much truth and reality of man's own struggles as that which can be sifted from the life's work of many another respected author. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812504321?v=glance
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| | The World of Jack London: A Pictorial Biography |
| | The World of Jack London is proud to unveil a new edition of a classic work. | | | Books published in 1906: MOON-FACE, WHITE FANG, and SCORN OF WOMEN, and the 1906 stories are: Planchette; Brown Wolf; A Day's Lodging; When God Laughs; The Apostate; Created He Them; A Wicked Woman; The Wit of Porportuk; Finis and "Just Meat". | | | An open-ended series about JL'S stories, with plot description and commentary on each and an extended critique on the more important stories — a "guide," so to speak, to London's short fiction. |
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http://www.jacklondons.net
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| | Jack London at the Huntington Library-Beginnings |
| | The essay is the work of a novice writer, but it nonetheless shows London's gift for vivid description. | | | A school dropout, he spent the rest of his life educating himself, reading voraciously (usually several books at once), and eagerly seeking out the latest or best in philosophical and scientific thought. | | | Once he discovered books, he set out on a path toward knowledge. |
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http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/beginnings.html
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| | Biography of Jack London |
| | Like Stephen Crane, London wrote in a Naturalistic style, in which a story's actions and events are caused mainly by man's internal biological needs, or by the external forces of nature and the environment. | | | Many of his stories, including his masterpiece The Call of the Wild (1903), deal with civilized man getting back in touch with his deep, animal instincts. | | | Although London never found any gold, his experience in the extreme environment of this cold part of the world gave him ideas for the stories he would write when he decided to return to California. |
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http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsa/ellsa_londonbio.html
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| | Jack London State Historic Park in Sonoma County, Northern California |
| | London converted it to a stable for his English Shire horses. | | | A small copper urn wreathed with primroses and bearing his ashes was sealed within a specially made cement receptacle and, in Sterling's own words: | | | View from the Beauty Ranch towards the Valley of the Moon and the Mayacamas Mountains. |
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http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLPark.html
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| | Jack London |
| | I always endeavored to have his ten pages of hand-written manuscript transcribed--an average of two and a half typewritten letter-size sheets--before the second gong (an ancient concave disk of Korean brass) belled the fifteen-minute call to table. | | | Utah State University Jack London Collection includes pictures of first edition book covers. | | | A short description of London from The Book of Jack London |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/london.htm
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| | Jack London Square - History |
| | He began by selling newspapers from a barstool at age 10 to seafarers while he collected tales of the sea that he would later include in some of his most famous works. | | | Johnny Heinold and the First and Last Chance Saloon are referred to dozens of times in London’s novels, “John Barleycorn” and “The Tales of the Fish Patrol.” | | | World-renowned author of over fifty books including “White Fang,” “The Sea Wolf,” and “The Call of the Wild,” Jack London spent many hours in the tavern during his youth. |
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http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/historyframe.html
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| | Who was Jack London |
| | Find out more details about this book at our Bookstore. | | | No man has ever loved to sail more than Jack London. | | | Jack did not learn the true circumstances of his birth until he was in his early twenties. |
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http://www.getyourwordsworth.com/WORDSWORTH-JackLondon.html
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| | PAL: Jack London (1876-1916) |
| | Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century - Jack London." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. | | | Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century - Jack London (1876-1916) | | | Variously a tramp, a fisherman, a longshoreman, and a sailor, London also worked as a gold prospector and a war correspondent. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/london.html
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| | Jack London |
| | And as Silverman writes, "Whatever his motives in the amour, the moralistic Houdini seems to have cringed at what he was doing." He wrote to friends of "having a hard time with my private affairs," and seems to have backed out of later dates with Charmian. | | | London’s enduring popularity can be attributed, at least in part, to his honesty; his readers always felt that his work was merely an extension of the unconventional life he led. | | | After an affair with Charmian Kittredge, a liberated free-spirit five years his senior, London divorced Bess and in 1905 married his "Mate Woman." From then on, Charmian’s adventurous spirit and progressive ideas made her the perfect companion for London, and she became the model for many of his female characters. |
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http://www.houdiniclubofwisconsin.com/JackLondon.htm
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| | The Jack London Online Collection |
| | Links to other interesting web sites with Jack London content or other materials of interest to London scholars. | | | Photographs of Jack London, his family, friends, and the places in which he lived, worked, and traveled. | | | Letters, postcards, telegrams, manuscripts, official documents, and other papers relating to his life and work. |
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http://london.sonoma.edu
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| | Jack London SHP |
| | Other hikes lead up through fir and oak woodlands to views of the Valley of the Moon. | | | It was her wish that the ranch be preserved in memory of Jack London and his work. | | | Jack London State Historic Park is a memorial to writer and adventurer Jack London, who made his home at the site from 1905 until his death in 1916. |
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http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=478
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| | SF Gate: Bay Area Traveler: East Bay Neighborhoods: Jack London Square |
| | The ramshackle wooden wharves of Jack London's day are gone for good, and so are the lawless men who worked on them. | | | Jack London Cinema: This multiplex showing first run flicks is one of the forces making the Square bustle at night. | | | Jack London Inn: A classic '50s-'60s motor inn. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/eastbay/neighborhoods/jls.shtml
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| | The House That Jack Built - The Beauty Ranch LiteraryTraveler.com |
| | In every respect, he was larger than life and the home he was constructing; his Wolf House was no exception; it reflected the outsized nature of the man himself. | | | Already one of the most famous and popular writers in the world, London wanted to create a home that would reflect his stature. | | | Feeble is not a word that comes to mind when one thinks of Jack London. |
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http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/jack_london_beauty_ranch.aspx
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| | Jack London Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com |
| | Its warmly sentimental attributes made the book sell hundreds of thousands of copies. | | | London included many of his experiences in his novels. | | | Before his interesting and well-respected later semi-autobiographical works, Martin Eden (1909) and John Barleycorn (1913), London wrote books that increasingly displayed his socialist tendencies in stories about the class struggle and a return to simpler agricultural ways. |
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http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/35
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| | London, Jack - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about London, Jack |
| | London's Klondike tales are exciting, vigorous, and brutal. | | | See Charmian London (his second wife), The Log of the Snark (1915), Our Hawaii (1917), and The Book of Jack London (2 vol., 1921); biographies by his daughter, Joan London (1969), and by J. Hedrick (1982), A. Sinclair (1983), C. Stasz (1988), and A. Kershaw (1998); studies by E. Labor (1977) and C. Watson (1982). | | | Although he was a highly paid writer of extremely popular fiction, London, a socialist, considered his social tracts—The People of the Abyss (1903) and The Iron Heel (1907)—as his most important work. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/London,+Jack
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| | Jack London @Web English Teacher |
| | Also includes the complete eNotes to the book. | | | The Life of Jack London as Reflected in his Works | | | Students examine the relationship of man and nature, discuss London's juxtaposition of knowledge and instinct, understand third person omniscient point of view, and conduct in-depth character analysis. |
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http://www.webenglishteacher.com/london.html
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| | Jack London Literature |
| | Obviously, not all literature references have been presented in the above list. | | | If you feel that additional books or short stories should be added to the list, or, have found links to other literary works by Jack London, please let me know and I'll add them as time permits. | | | Jack London was indeed a very prolific writer. |
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http://www.jacklondon.com/literature.htm
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| | Jack London |
| | The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998) | | | London draws heavily on his life experiences in his writing. | | | Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. |
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/jack-london
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| | Lower Manhattan Information - Did You Know - Jack London |
| | As with many of his other adventures, London incorporated his experience as a hobo into his literary work -- specifically his 1903 novel, The People of the Abyss, and "Some Adventures with the Police," a short story published in 1908. | | | Ironically, in the years preceding his suicide at age 40, Jack London was one of the best-paid and most publicized writers of his time. | | | Apart from writing, London held a variety of occupations throughout his life, working intermittently as an oyster pirate, gold prospector, war correspondent, and political candidate. |
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http://www.lowermanhattan.info/history/didyouknow/jack_london_95275.asp
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| | Jack London -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The novelist and short-story writer Jack London was, in his lifetime, one of the most popular authors in the world. | | | E-text of this work by American novelist and short-story writer Jack London. | | | See what London was like when Shakespeare arrived in 1587. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9275529
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| | AWG_london_jack |
| | This "well-organized and attractive" Jack London site is primarily focused on the years at his ranch in California. | | | Using a series of four lessons, students are asked to read about the people who influenced London and what their ideas were, to read two London stories, and to write an explanation of how London's ideas are expressed in those stories. | | | The main page offers a fairly good biography which "emphasizes his life experiences more than the literary qualities of his work." There is one link to a list of some of London's works with publication dates, but most of the links lead to sites at the Jack London State Historic Park. |
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http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/awg_london_jack.htm
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| | Jack London Main Page |
| | Jack London, whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. | | | Information about Jack London's literature can be found by calling or writing Winnie Kingman at the Jack London Book Store at (707) 996-2888, located at 14300 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen, CA 95442. | | | An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. |
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http://www.jacklondon.com
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| | Understanding Earthquakes: Jack London's Account |
| | London was 30 years old and had published his most popular novel, | | | Soon after the earthquake London was asked by | | | Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. |
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http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/accounts/london.html
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| | Jack London Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The name has also come to refer to the formerly industrial neighborhood surrounding Jack London Square proper, which has undergone a significant amount of loft conversion and new construction over the last decade. | | | Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, hotels, an Amtrak station, the (re-located) cabin Jack London lived in, and a movie theater. | | | Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London_Square
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| | Jack London (1943) |
| | Pseudo-autobiographical film about the life of Jack London follows his career from his first purchase of a ship, through his time in the Arctic, fame as a writer, and finally as an overseas war correspondent during the Japanese war with Russia. | | | The exclusion of the latter in particular, since it was such an integral part of Jack London's life, makes this film a rather superficial bit of revisionism. | | | This movie was made in 1943, so go figure. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036051
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| | Jack London Square - Home Page |
| | This is Jack London Square, one of the nation's most distinctive and the Bay Area's most beloved destinations. |
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http://www.jacklondonsquare.com
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| | .: Kenwood.com - [ Jack London Series ] :. |
| | Made only from Jack London vineyard grapes, these three wines are savored for their mint-accented berry flavors and smooth finishes. | | | The dramatic Jack London label --a replica of the wolf's head Jack London used as his book-plate logo -- has created tremendous consumer interest and recognition in the wines. | | | .: Kenwood.com - [ Jack London Series ] :. |
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http://www.kenwoodvineyards.com/index.asp?s=jack&c=intro
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| | Jack London International |
| | This Website is maintained and developed by a group of German Jack London afficionados and experts, along with direct descendants of Jack London and other members of Jack London's family. | | | The site is dedicated to Jack London fans and scholars all over the world and will provide you with as much information as is available. | | | If you have specific areas of interest that you think we should include, please let us know. |
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http://www.jack-london.org
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| | Jack London International |
| | The comprehensive Jack London Site in english translation. | | | If your browser does not support frames, you may click here to find a non-frames-version (does not support every feature). |
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http://www.jack-london.org/main_e.htm
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| | Jack London - eBook Titles - Software Technology |
| | Jack London - eBook Titles - Software Technology | | | Discover for yourself how you can get the most from this amazing new technology. |
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http://www.ebookmall.com/alpha-authors/l-authors/Jack-London.htm
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| | Jack London Youth Soccer League |
| | The new rules for the 2005 season have been posted and can be viewed here: | | | Welcome to the home of the Jack London Youth Soccer League where "We Honor the Game". | | | Our league receives too many serious incident reports describing instances of too-rough play and verbal abuse (player to player, players and parents to referees, and even parents to parents). |
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http://www.jlysl.org
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| | The Law Offices of Jack W. London : Austin Texas |
| | Jack W. London is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law | | | Copyright © 2000-2004, The Law Offices of Jack W. London, All Rights Reserved | | | The Law Offices of Jack W. London : Austin Texas |
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http://www.jackwlondon.com
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| | Jack's Bistro - Oakland - Jack London Square |
| | Jack's Bistro - Oakland - Jack London Square | | | Enjoy a romantic evening with live piano music | | | One Broadway, Jack London Square, Oakland, CA 95607 |
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http://www.themenupage.com/jacksbistro.html
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| | Jack Londons |
| | At Jack's we have more than just karaoke. | | | While you wait to sing you can play pool, PGA | | | FORT WORTH'S BEST KARAOKE CLUB 7 NIGHTS A WEEK |
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