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Rover Safety (from the article "bicycle") ...front steering. Safety bicycles had decisive advantages in stability, braking, and ease of mounting. The ... Rovereto town, Trentino-Alto Adige regione, northern Italy. Rovereto lies in the Lagarina valley, on the Leno ... Roviana language (from the article "Melanesian languages") ...newspapers, in broadcasting, and in government publications. Other Melanesian languages of note are Motu, in ... Rovigo city, Veneto regione, northeastern Italy. Rovigo lies along the Adigetto Canal, south of Padua. Mentioned ... Rovigo, Francesco Xanto Avelli di (from the article "Urbino maiolica") ...and restless movement of Raphael's later work. Guido continued in this tradition, and in his ... roving in archery, form of practice or competition dating from at least the 16th century, when ... row house (from the article "Camden") The "boxlike" row houses that were built for workers in the 1930s are architecturally unique; ... Rowan College of New Jersey public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Glassboro, New Jersey, U.S. It includes the schools ... Rowan, Andrew Summers U.S. Army officer, bearer of the "message to Garcia." Rowan, Carl American journalist, writer, and radio and television commentator, who was one of the first African ... [1 Related Articles] rowboat boat propelled by oars alone, probably the most common type of boat found around waterfronts ... [1 Related Articles] Rowbotham, John Frederick (from the article "musical instrument") ...the 19th century, partly as a result of theories of evolution put forward by Charles ... Rowe, A. P. (from the article "operations research") ...management of organized systems, and to their understanding, was a predecessor of operations research. It ... Rowe, John H. (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The next epoch, called the Initial Period by the American scholar John H. Rowe, and ... Rowe, Nicholas English writer who was the first to attempt a critical edition of the works of ... [1 Related Articles] Rowell, Galen American landscape photographer (b. Aug. 23, 1940, Berkeley, Calif.-d. Aug. 11, 2002, Bishop, Calif.), captured ... Rowell, Newton Wesley Canadian politician and jurist who served as chief justice of Ontario in 1936-37. Rowi kiwi (from the article "kiwi") ...spotted kiwi (A. oweni); the great spotted kiwi (A. ... rowing propulsion of a boat by means of oars. As a sport, it involves watercraft known ... [13 Related Articles] Rowland Institute of Science (from the article "Land, Edwin Herbert") ...500 patents for his innovations in light and plastics. In 1980 he retired as chief ... Rowland, F. Sherwood American chemist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with chemists Mario Molina and ... [3 Related Articles] Rowland, Henry Augustus American physicist who invented the concave diffraction grating, which replaced prisms and plane gratings in ... 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It lies along the Panay River delta 4 miles (6.5 km) ... Roxas, Felipe (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...designed by Fray Antonio de Herrera, son or nephew of the great Spanish architect Juan ... Roxas, Manuel political leader and first president (1946-48) of the independent Republic of the Philippines. [2 Related Articles] Roxburgh, William (from the article "Indian Botanic Garden") ...by the East India Company, primarily for the purpose of acclimatizing new plants of commercial ... Roxburghshire historic county, southeastern Scotland, along the English border. It covers an area stretching from the ... [1 Related Articles] Roxbury southern residential section of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Prior to becoming part of the city of ... Roxbury Latin School (from the article "Massachusetts") ...became a pioneer as well in kindergarten and secondary education and developed a uniform state ... Roxolani (from the article "ancient Rome") ...was for a time less danger. But the countries of the middle Danube were still ... Roxy Music British art rock band of the 1970s whose influential style was an amalgam of glam ... [1 Related Articles] Roy Mata (from the article "Vanuatu") ...French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna). About 1200, a highly stratified society developed in ... Roy, Andre (from the article "Canadian literature") ...poesie et prose, 1974-1982 [2000; "The Complete Heart: Poetry and Prose, 1974-1982"). Homosexual eroticism and ... Roy, Arundhati In 1998 Indian author Arundhati Roy rocked the literary world with her Booker Prize-winning debut ... Roy, Camille critic and literary historian, noted as an authority on the development of French Canadian literature. Roy, D. L. (from the article "South Asian arts") ...Mir Qasim (1906), Chhatrapati (1907), and Sirajuddaulah (1909) bring out the tragic grandeur of heroes ... Roy, Gabrielle French Canadian novelist praised for her skill in depicting the hopes and frustrations of the ... 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The oldest school of drama in England, it ... [1 Related Articles] Royal Academy of Portuguese History (from the article "Portuguese literature") ...arcadias, which aimed to revive poetry by urging a return to Classicism, cooperated in the ... Royal Academy of Sciences (from the article "Portuguese literature") ...de Sousa, author of the colossal Historia genealogica da casa real portuguesa (1735-49; "Genealogical History ... Royal African Company (from the article "Barbados") ...were bought up and amalgamated into plantations. Consequently, there was a significant emigration of whites ... Royal Air Force Museum in the United Kingdom, national museum dedicated to the story of flight and aerial warfare, ... Royal Air Force, The youngest of the three British armed services, charged with the air defense of the United ... [10 Related Articles] royal albatross (from the article "albatross") The royal albatross (D. epomophora), with a wingspread to about 315 cm, is largely white ... Royal Albert Bridge (from the article "Brunel, Isambard Kingdom") ...the Victorian lines in Australia and the Eastern Bengal Railway in India. His first notable ... Royal Albert Hall concert hall in the City of Westminster, London. One of Britain's principal concert halls and ... [1 Related Articles] Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews one of the world's oldest and most influential golf organizations; formed in 1754 by 22 ... [3 Related Articles] royal antelope tiny antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found alone or in pairs in dense West African ... Royal Armouries in the United Kingdom, a collection of weapons and armour that was originally situated in ... Royal Ascot (from the article "Ascot") locality, Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Berkshire, England, known for ... Royal Astronomical Society British scientific society founded in 1820 to promote astronomical research. Its headquarters are located in ... Royal Automobile Club (from the article "automobile club") ...The Automobile Club of Switzerland, for example, developed a form, the triptyque, that exempted motorists ... Royal Ballet English ballet company and school. It was formed in 1956 under a royal charter of ... [13 Related Articles] Royal Ballet (from the article "Phnom Penh") ...bearing her name. Phnom Penh's other educational institutions included the independent Buddhist University and institutes ... Royal Ballet of Flanders (from the article "Performing Arts") ...National Ballet added to its repertory Makarova's production of Marius Petipa's La Bayadere and Balanchine's ... Royal Bank of Canada Canadian commercial banking company with foreign subsidiaries and affiliates. Headquarters are in Montreal. Royal Bank of Scotland Group in the United Kingdom, a bank and financial services company that became one of the ... 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Royal College of Science (from the article "Huxley, T.H.") After four increasingly difficult years, Huxley's professional fortunes improved in 1854. He began teaching natural ... Royal College of Surgeons (from the article "Dublin") ...repute ranging from children's care to transplants and diagnostics. The Mater is associated with University ... Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (from the article "Native American") ...clear sequelae of childhood abuse. In 1991 the assaults perpetrated upon Canadian children who had ... Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (from the article "art conservation and restoration") ...step is to decide and define what buildings or sites are worthy of protection. For ... Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (from the article "organized labour") ...unofficial, or "wildcat," strike activity. The voluntary institutions of British industrial relations appeared to be ... 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