A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 r ... racing r (from the article "Romance languages") Another French pronunciation that is often imitated by socially pretentious speakers is that of the ... R association (from the article "stellar association") R associations consist of young, bright stars of intermediate mass (3 to 10 solar masses). ... R Coronae Borealis star any of a small group of old stars of the class called peculiar variables that ... [1 Related Articles] R factor (from the article "plasmid") ...of plasmids, colicinogenic (or Col ) factors, determines the production of proteins called colicins, which ... R Monocerotis (catalog number NGC 2261), stellar infrared source and nebula in the constellation Monoceros (Greek: Unicorn). ... R-34 (from the article "airship") In the 1920s and '30s airship construction continued in Europe and the United States. A ... R-35 (from the article "tank") ...at the slow pace of the infantry and were therefore exposed to the full effect ... R-4 (from the article "aerospace industry") ...Vought Sikorsky VS-300, which used a single three-bladed main rotor for lift and a small ... R-7 (from the article "launch vehicle") ...direction of the rocket pioneer Sergey Korolyov, the Soviet Union during the 1950s developed an ... R-class submarine (from the article "submarine") ...the war, of the concept of an antisubmarine submarine. British submarines sank 17 German U-boats ... R-plane (from the article "military aircraft") ...raids on London in formation in the summer of 1917 before reverting to night operations. ... r-process (from the article "chemical element") ...these heavier elements, and some isotopes of lighter elements, have been produced by successive capture ... r-selected population (from the article "population ecology") Populations often can be divided into one of two extreme types, based on their life-history ... R-type star (from the article "stellar classification") Supplementary classes of cool stars include R and N (often called C-type, or carbon stars: ... R.E.M. American rock group, the quintessential band of the 1980s. The members were Michael Stipe ... [2 Related Articles] R.E.P. No. 2 monoplane designed, built, and first flown by the French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1908. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings American manufacturer of tobacco products. The origins of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company date to ... [4 Related Articles] R.W. Sears Watch Company (from the article "Sears, R.W.") ...disposed of the watches, selling them by letter to other station agents at a low ... R136 (from the article "nebula") ...nebula: the object called 30 Doradus, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This nebula requires over ... R4M (from the article "rocket and missile system") One of the most successful of the German rockets was the 50-millimetre R4M. The tail ... Ra either of two papyrus boats with which the Norwegian scientist-explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Atlantic ... [1 Related Articles] ra'is (from the article "Crusades") ...according to the Assizes of the Court of the Bourgeois. Each national group retained its ... Ra's al-Khaymah constituent emirate of the United Arab Emirates (formerly Trucial States, or Trucial Oman). It consists ... [1 Related Articles] Ra's al-Khaymah (from the article "Ra's al-Khaymah") ...and its exclave on the Ru'us al-Jibal. Ra's al-Khaymah's estimated total area is 660 square ... Ra's Nasrani small inlet and cape on the southeastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula. Located in Janub ... [4 Related Articles] ra'y (from the article "ijtihad") ...life and utterances), and ijma' (scholarly consensus). In the early Muslim community every adequately qualified ... Raab, Julius (from the article "Austria") The influence of the Socialists in the coalition government, which had been relatively strong under ... Raabe, Wilhelm German writer best known for realistic novels of middle-class life. Raaff, Anton German operatic tenor, one of the foremost of his day. Rab island in the Adriatic Sea forming the northernmost part of Dalmatia in Croatia. It reaches ... rabab Arab fiddle, the earliest known bowed instrument and the parent of the medieval European rebec. ... [5 Related Articles] Rabal Valera, Francisco Spanish actor (b. March 8, 1925, Aguilas, Spain-d. Aug. 29, 2001, Bordeaux, France), during his ... Raban, Jonathan (from the article "United Arab Emirates") ...present a striking blend of ancient customs and modern technology, of cosmopolitanism and insularity, and ... Rabanus Maurus archbishop, Benedictine abbot, theologian, and scholar whose work so contributed to the development of German ... [1 Related Articles] Rabassa, Gregory American translator who was largely responsible for bringing the fiction of contemporary Latin America to ... Rabat town, west-central Malta, adjoining Mdina, west of Valletta. In Roman times the site of Mdina ... Rabat city and capital of Morocco. One of the country's four imperial cities, it is located ... [9 Related Articles] Rabat Gate (from the article "Islamic arts") ...was that built for military purposes, including fortifications and, especially, massive city gates with low-slung ... rabato wide, often lace-edged collar wired to stand up at the back of the head, worn ... Rabaul town of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is ... [3 Related Articles] Rabaut Saint-Etienne, Jean Paul (from the article "France") ...been called the intents of the founders." Most foundations, he thought, had as their only ... Rabaut, Paul Protestant minister and Reformer who succeeded Antoine Court (1696-1760) as the leader of the Huguenots ... Rabb, Ellis American director and versatile actor who in 1960 founded the A.P.A. repertory theatre company and ... Rabbani, Burhanuddin (from the article "Afghanistan") Under an arrangement to provide for the rotation of the executive office between different factions, ... Rabbani, Mullah Mohammad Afghan Muslim cleric (b. 1956?, Kandahar province, Afg.-d. April 16, 2001, Rawalpindi, Pak.), was the ... rabbi (Hebrew: "my teacher," or "my master"), in Judaism, a person qualified by academic studies of ... [6 Related Articles] Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (from the article "Yeshiva University") The school was established in 1886 as Yeshiva Eitz Chaim, an elementary school of Talmudic ... Rabbinic Judaism the normative form of Judaism that developed after the fall of the Temple of Jerusalem ... [7 Related Articles] Rabbinical Assembly, The organization of Conservative rabbis in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Israel. It ... [1 Related Articles] Rabbinical Council of America organization of Orthodox rabbis, almost all of whom have received their rabbinical training in the ... rabbit any of 28 species of long-eared mammals belonging to the family Leporidae, excluding hares (genus ... [9 Related Articles] rabbit hair animal fibre obtained from the Angora rabbit and the various species of the common rabbit. ... Rabbitt, Edward Thomas ) American singer-songwriter-guitarist who in the 1970s and '80s reached the top of the charts ... Rabbula reforming bishop of Edessa and theologian who was a leading figure in the Christian church ... [2 Related Articles] Rabe, David American playwright whose experiences as a draftee assigned to a hospital-support unit in Vietnam were ... [1 Related Articles] Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph Malagasy writer, one of the most important of African poets writing in French, considered to ... Rabel, Daniel (from the article "stage design") ...such as Torelli brought great prestige to their patrons. An outburst of Baroque opulence bore ... Rabelais, Francois French writer and priest who for his contemporaries was an eminent physician and humanist and ... [9 Related Articles] Rabemananjara, Jacques Malagasy politician, playwright, and poet. [1 Related Articles] rabi (from the article "Pakistan") ...(maize), rapeseed, and mustard, as well as a variety of garden crops, including onions, peppers, ... Rabi'ah al-'Adawiyah (from the article "Sufism") The introduction of the element of love, which changed asceticism into mysticism, is ascribed to ... Rabi, Isidor Isaac American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention ... [3 Related Articles] Rabida Island one of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles (965 km) ... rabies acute, ordinarily fatal, viral disease of the central nervous system that is usually spread among ... [9 Related Articles] rabies vaccine adsorbed (from the article "rabies") ...also be initiated to allow the patient's body to make its own antibody. The safest ... rabies virus (from the article "rabies") ...of the central nervous system that is usually spread among domestic dogs and wild carnivorous ... Rabih az-Zubayr Muslim military leader who established a military hegemony in the districts immediately east of Lake ... [1 Related Articles] Rabin, Leah German-born Israeli consort and peace activist (b. April 8, 1928, Konigsberg, Ger. [now Kaliningrad, Russia]-d. ... Rabin, Yitzhak Israeli statesman and soldier who, as prime minister of Israel (1974-77, 1992-95), led his country ... [10 Related Articles] Rabindra Bharati University (from the article "Calcutta") ...(humanities), science, and engineering. Although the university has a small number of colleges affiliated with ... Rabinowitz, Victor American lawyer defended a pantheon of left-wing causes and such clients as Department of State ... Rabirius (from the article "Western architecture") ...northwest side of the hill. Another palace was built on the southeast corner of the ... rabisu (from the article "angel and demon") ...attempt to coerce man into not attaining his higher spiritual aspirations or not performing activities ... Rabito, Vincenzo (from the article "Literature") ...success of Andrea Camilleri's novels (such as La pista di sabbia, the latest of Inspector ... Raboni, Giovanni (from the article "Italian literature") ...Experimentalism and the new avant-garde) and the wry confessional autobiographer (or "autobiologist") and macabre humorist ... Rabuka, Sitiveni (from the article "Fiji") ...of the House of Representatives and the Senate. In October 1987 Fiji was expelled from ... Rabula Gospels (from the article "painting, Western") ...the Cotton Collection. There has been dispute as to where these manuscripts were written and ... Rabulist riots (1838), in Swedish history, wave of popular demonstrations in Stockholm that led to a loosening ... Raby, Al African American civil rights activist, cochair of the Chicago Freedom Movement in the 1960s and ... Racan, Honorat de Bueil, Seigneur de French poet, one of the earliest members (1635) of the French Academy. Racan, Ivica Croatian politician as prime minister (2000-03) of Croatia, moved the country away from the ... [1 Related Articles] Racconigi Agreement (from the article "Izvolsky, Aleksandr, Count") ...expense, Austria declined to use its influence to bring about the opening of the strait. ... raccoon any of seven species of nocturnal mammals characterized by bushy, ringed tails. The most common ... [2 Related Articles] raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), member of the dog family (Canidae) native to eastern Asia ... [1 Related Articles] Raccoon River (from the article "Mississippi River") ...this time confined to the parts of the river above its confluence with the Ohio ... race the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of ... [11 Related Articles] race (from the article "Wilson, Jackie") ...to deal with the routine forms of racial segregation that made it difficult for African-American ... Race Relations Act (from the article "United Kingdom") This was evident earlier in the very limited nature of the Race Relations Act of ... Race Relations Act (from the article "United Kingdom") ...fiercely opposed by the Conservatives. A subsequent amendment, in 1968, outlawed discrimination in areas such ... race riot (from the article "Las Vegas") ...de facto segregation existed elsewhere in Nevada until the mid-1960s. In 1968 Governor Paul Laxalt ... race walking (from the article "athletics") This event, also called race walking, is relatively minor. Aside from the Olympic and other ... race, milieu, and moment according to the French critic Hippolyte Taine, the three principal motives or conditioning factors behind ... [1 Related Articles] Race-Horse keno (from the article "keno") ...name keno, a corruption of the French word quine ("group of five"). ... racehorse (from the article "exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage") disease condition in horses in which blood appears in the airways during and after strenuous ... racemate a mixture of equal quantities of two enantiomorphs, or substances that have dissymmetric molecular structures ... raceme (from the article "angiosperm") ...in the centre (in truncated axes). Branching and the associated flowers develop at some distance ... racemic acid (from the article "racemate") ...light through a characteristic angle, but, because the rotatory effect of each component exactly cancels ... racemic menthol (from the article "menthol") ...The naturally occurring material is the levorotatory form (the compound that rotates the plane of ... racemization (from the article "racemate") The process by which an optically active substance is transformed into the corresponding racemic modification ... racer any of several large, swift nonvenomous snakes belonging to the family Colubridae. Racers of North ... Racer (from the article "roller coaster") ...beloved wooden coasters, or "woodies," which were also instrumental in the roller coaster rebirth. Nostalgia ... racerunner any of about 56 species of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus is common ... [1 Related Articles] Racetrack Playa (from the article "Death Valley") ...high Eureka Sand Dunes, California's tallest. The northern section of the park is dotted with ... Rach Gia port city, northern Ca Mau Peninsula, southern Vietnam. It lies at the head of Rach ... Rachel (from the article "Hebrew literature") Poetry immediately addressed Palestinian life. Among outstanding writers were Rachel (Rachel Bluwstein), who wrote intensely ... Rachel (from the article "Jacob") ...blessing of the entire Earth. Jacob named the place where he received his vision Bethel ... Rachel bat Joshua (from the article "Akiba ben Joseph") The subject of numerous popular legends, Akiba is said to have been an illiterate shepherd ... Rachel, Mademoiselle French classical tragedienne who dominated the Comedie-Francaise for 17 years. Rachette, Dominique (from the article "Saint Petersburg porcelain") ...and the objects produced are typified by large, imposing services (such as the "Arabesque," with ... Rachid, Mimouni Algerian French-language novelist (b. Nov. 20, 1945--d. Feb. 12, 1995). Rachidia, Al- town, east-central Morocco. It is situated on the Saharan side of the Atlas Mountains near ... Rachilde (from the article "French literature") ...formations of homosexual as well as heterosexual desire, have also a sharp satiric edge; they ... rachis (from the article "feather") The typical feather consists of a central shaft (rachis), with serial paired branches (barbs) forming ... rachis (from the article "angiosperm") ...leaves, the leaflets radiate from a single point at the distal end of the petiole; ... Rachmaninoff, Sergey composer who was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism and a ... [3 Related Articles] racial gerrymandering (from the article "legislative apportionment") During the last two decades of the 20th century, some state legislatures in the United ... racial integration (from the article "Racial Integration in Australia and New Zealand") By 1997 public opinion in Australia and New Zealand was demanding that a solution be ... racial worldview (from the article "race") Legitimating the racial worldviewmeaning of race racially exclusive restrictive covenant (from the article "restrictive covenant") Covenants can be used for any purpose that is not illegal, unconstitutional, or against public ... Racibor (from the article "Raciborz") According to tradition, Raciborz was founded by a Slavic tribal ruler, Prince Racibor, in the ... Raciborz city, southwestern Slaskie wojewodztwo (province), south-central Poland, on the upper Oder River. Racin, Kosta (from the article "Macedonian literature") ..."In Favour of Macedonian Literary Works") and in the literary periodical Vardar ... Racine city, seat (1836) of Racine county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at ... Racine College (from the article "football, gridiron") In 1879 the University of Michigan and Racine College of Wisconsin inaugurated football in the ... Racine, Jean French dramatic poet and historiographer renowned for his mastery of French classical tragedy. His reputation ... [16 Related Articles] racing (from the article "gondola") Gondolas are recognizable in paintings by Carpaccio from the late 15th century. The first organized ...

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