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Redding: city, seat (1888) of Shasta county, northern California, U.S. It lies in the northern Sacramento Valley. Founded (1872) on land called Poverty Flat by the California and Oregon Railroad, the ...
Redding, Otis: American singer-songwriter, one of the great soul stylists of the 1960s. Redding was raised in Macon, Georgia, where he was deeply influenced by the subtle grace of Sam Cooke and ...
Redditch: town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, England, in the valley of the River Arrow, a tributary of the Avon. The borough is known for its needle, ...
Redemptorist: a community of Roman Catholic priests and lay brothers founded by St. Alfonso Maria de'Liguori at Scala, Italy, a small town near Naples, in 1732. The infant community met an ...
rederijkerskamer: (Dutch: "chamber of rhetoric"), medieval Dutch dramatic society. Modelled after contemporary French dramatic societies (puys), such chambers spread rapidly across the French border into Flanders and Holland in the 15th ...
Redfield, Robert: U.S. cultural anthropologist who was the pioneer and, for a number of years, the principal ethnologist to focus on those processes of cultural and social change characterizing the relationship between ...
redfish: (Sebastes marinus), commercially important food fish of the scorpion fish family, Scorpaenidae (order Scorpaeniformes), found in the North Atlantic along European and North American coasts. Also known as ocean perch ...
Redford, Robert: American motion-picture actor and director known for his boyish good looks, diversity of screen characterizations, commitment to environmental causes, and founding the Sundance Institute and Film Festival in Utah.
Redgrave, Sir Michael: premier British stage and film actor, noted for his intellectual performances.
Redgrave, Sir Steven: English rower, who was the first in his sport to win gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games. He was revered in his sport for his intensity and strategic brilliance.
Redgrave, Vanessa: British actress of stage and screen and longtime political activist.
redhead: (Aythya americana), North American diving duck (family Anatidae), a popular game bird. The redhead breeds in marshes from British Columbia to Wisconsin and winters as far south as the Yucatan ...
Redi, Francesco: Italian physician and poet who demonstrated that the presence of maggots in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from eggs laid on the meat by flies.
Reding, Aloys: Swiss politician and military hero who was for a time (1801-02) head of state of the short-lived Helvetic Republic.
Reding, Ital: Swiss politician who led hostilities against Zurich during the first civil wars of the Swiss Confederation (1439-40; 1443-50).
redingote: fitted outer garment. The man's redingote, worn in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was a full-skirted, short-waisted, double-breasted overcoat adapted from the English riding coat. The woman's redingote ...
Redjedef: third king of the 4th dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 BC) of Egypt. Redjedef was a son of Khufu (Cheops), builder of the Great Pyramid, by a secondary queen. The original ...
Redl, Alfred: chief of intelligence for the Austrian army from 1907 to 1912 and at the same time the chief spy for tsarist Russia in Austria.
Redlands: city, San Bernardino county, southern California, U.S. Located about 60 miles (100 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, it is situated in the southwestern corner of the San Bernardino Valley, ...
Redlich, Joseph: Austrian statesman and historian who was an influential politician before and during World War I (1914-18) and wrote important works on local government and parliamentary institutions.
Redmond: city, Deschutes county, central Oregon, U.S., near the Deschutes River. Lying in front of the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range on the edge of the Great Basin, Redmond was ...
Redmond: city, King county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on the Sammamish River, 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Seattle. Founded in 1871 as an agricultural, fishing, and logging centre, it was first ...
Redmond, John: Irish Nationalist Party leader who devoted his life to negotiating Home Rule for Ireland.
Redon, Odilon: French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines. His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the ...
Redonda: the smallest of the three islands that constitute the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Redonda is located among the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, approximately 35 miles (55 ...
redondilla: a Spanish stanza form consisting of four trochaic lines, usually of eight syllables each, with a rhyme scheme of abba. Quatrains in this form with a rhyme scheme of abab, ...
Redondo Beach: city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is adjacent to Palos Verde Peninsula (south) and Hermosa Beach (north), on Santa Monica Bay. Originally inhabited by Gabrielino (Tongva) Indians, the ...
redshank: either of two species of Old World shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes), characterized by its long, reddish legs. In the common redshank (Tringa totanus), about 30 centimetres (12 ...
redstart: any of about 11 bird species of the Old World chat-thrush genus Phoenicurus (family Turdidae), or any of a dozen New World birds of vaguely similar appearance and behaviour. The ...
Redstone, Sumner: American media executive whose company, Viacom, acquired leading film, television, and entertainment properties.
reduccion: in colonial Latin America, an Indian community set up under ecclesiastical or royal authority to facilitate the conversion of Indians to Christianity, to protect them, to teach them better farming ...
reduced mass: in physics and astronomy, value of a hypothetical mass introduced to simplify the mathematical description of motion in a vibrating or rotating two-body system. The equations of motion of two ...
reductio ad absurdum: (Latin: "reduction to absurdity"), in logic, a form of refutation showing contradictory or absurd consequences following upon premises as a matter of logical necessity. A form of the reductio ad ...
reduction: any of a class of chemical reactions in which the number of electrons associated with an atom or a group of atoms is increased. The electrons taken up by the ...
reduction: in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, method of rearranging the terms in one or both premises of a syllogism, or argument form, to express it in a different figure; the placement ...
reductionism: in philosophy, a view that asserts that entities of a given kind are collections or combinations of entities of a simpler or more basic kind or that expressions denoting such ...
redwood: (species Sequoia sempervirens), coniferous evergreen timber tree of the deciduous cypress family (Taxodiaceae), found in the fog belt of the coastal range from southwestern Oregon to central California, U.S., at ...
Redwood City: city, seat (1856) of San Mateo county, California, U.S. It lies on the western shore of San Francisco Bay, at the mouth of Redwood Creek, 25 miles (40 km) south ...
Redwood National Park: national park in the northwestern corner of California, U.S. It was established in 1968, with a boundary change in 1978, and was designated a World Heritage site in 1980. Preserving ...
reed: in botany, any of several species of large aquatic grasses, especially the four species constituting the genus Phragmites of the grass family (Poaceae). The common, or water, reed (Phragmites australis) ...
reed instrument: in music, any of several wind instruments (aerophones) that sound when the player's breath or air from a wind chamber causes a reed (a thin blade of cane or metal) ...
reed organ: any keyboard instrument sounded by vibration of metal reeds under wind pressure. "Reed organ" commonly refers to instruments having free reeds (vibrating through a slot with close tolerance) and no ...
Reed, Ishmael: African-American author of poetry, essays, and satiric novels.
Reed, Jimmy: American singer, harmonica player, and guitarist who was one of the most popular blues musicians of the post-World War II era.
Reed, John: U.S. poet-adventurer whose short life as a revolutionary writer and activist made him the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals.
Reed, Sir Carol: British film director noted for his technical mastery of the suspense-thriller genre. He was the first British film director to be knighted.
Reed, Stanley F: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1938-57).
Reed, Thomas B: vigorous U.S. Republican Party leader who, as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1889-91, 1895-99), introduced significant procedural changes (the Reed Rules) that helped ensure legislative control by the ...
Reed, Walter: U.S. Army pathologist and bacteriologist who led the experiments that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. The Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., was named ...
Reed, Willis: American professional basketball player and professional and collegiate basketball coach.
reedbuck: (genus Redunca), any of three graceful antelopes in the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found in open and lightly wooded areas over much of sub-Saharan Africa. Reedbucks live alone or in ...
reedfish: eellike African fish related to the bichir (q.v.).
reedling: (species Panurus biarmicus), songbird often placed in the family Panuridae (order Passeriformes) but of uncertain relationships (see Muscicapidae). It lives in reedy marshes from England to eastern Asia. About 16 ...
Reedsport: city, Douglas county, southwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Pacific Coast near the mouth of the Umpqua River at its confluence with the Smith River. Founded in 1912 by Alfred Reed, ...
reel: genre of social folk dance, Celtic in origin. It is a variety of country dance in which the dancers perform traveling figures alternating with "setting" steps danced in one place. ...
reel: in motion pictures, a light circular frame with radial arms and a central axis, originally designed to hold approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) of 35-millimetre motion-picture film. In the early ...
Reelfoot Lake: shallow lake on the boundary between Lake and Obion counties in northwestern Tennessee, U.S., near Tiptonville. It was formed by the earthquakes that occurred along the New Madrid Fault in ...
Reese, Lizette Woodworth: American poet whose work draws on the images of her rural childhood.
Reeve, Tapping: U.S. legal educator and jurist.
Reeves, Steve: American bodybuilder and actor. He was one of the handsomest and best-built men of his era. By Reeves's own account, at his bodybuilding peak he stood 6 feet 1 inch ...
Reeves, William Pember: New Zealand statesman who, as minister of labour (1891-96), wrote the influential Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1894) and introduced the most progressive labour code in the world at that ...
reference frame: in dynamics, system of graduated lines symbolically attached to a body that serve to describe the position of points relative to the body. The position of a point on the ...
referendum and initiative: electoral devices by which voters may express their wishes with regard to government policy or proposed legislation. They exist in a variety of forms.
reflection: abrupt change in the direction of propagation of a wave that strikes the boundary between different mediums. At least part of the oncoming wave disturbance remains in the same medium. ...
reflex: in biology, an action consisting of comparatively simple segments of behaviour that usually occur as direct and immediate responses to particular stimuli uniquely correlated with them.
Reform Bill: any of the British parliamentary bills that became acts in 1832, 1867, and 1884-85 and that expanded the electorate for the House of Commons and rationalized the representation of that ...
Reform Judaism: a religious movement that has modified or abandoned many traditional Jewish beliefs, laws, and practices in an effort to adapt Judaism to the changed social, political, and cultural conditions of ...
Reform Party: political movement in Upper Canada (now in Ontario) and the Maritime Provinces that came into prominence shortly before 1837. Reformers in Lower Canada (now in Quebec) were known as Patriotes.
Reforma, La: (Spanish: The Reform), liberal political and social revolution in Mexico between 1854 and 1876 under the principal leadership of Benito Juarez.
Reformation: the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century; its greatest leaders undoubtedly were Martin Luther and John Calvin. Having far-reaching political, economic, and social ...
Reformation Day: anniversary of the day Martin Luther is said to have posted his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Ger. (Oct. 31, 1517), later identified by ...
reformatory: acorrectional institution for the treatment, training, and social rehabilitation of young offenders.
Reformed and Presbyterian church: name given to various of the churches that share a common origin in the Reformation in 16th-century Switzerland. Reformed is the term identifying churches regarded as Calvinistic in doctrine. The ...
Reformed church: any of several major representative groups of classical Protestantism that arose in the 16th-century Reformation. Originally, all of the Reformation churches used this name (or the name Evangelical) to distinguish ...
Reformed Church in America: church that developed from the Dutch settlements in New Netherlands (New York) in the 17th century. The Dutch Reformed Church was the first Reformed church of continental European background in ...
Reformed Church of France: church organized in 1938 by merging several Reformed groups that had developed in France during and after the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. During the early part of the Reformation, Protestant movements ...