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Reformed Church of Hungary: Reformed church that developed in Hungary during and after the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. The influence of the Reformation was felt early in Hungary. A synod at Erdod adopted the Lutheran ...
Reformed Churches in The Netherlands: second largest Protestant church in The Netherlands, organized in 1892 by a merger of the Christian Reformed Church and a group of Reformed churches that were followers of Abraham Kuyper, ...
Reformed League: voluntary association of German Reformed churches founded at Marburg in 1884 to aid Reformed churches and to conserve the Reformed heritage in Germany. It was organized by Reformed pastors and ...
reforming: in chemistry, processing technique by which the molecular structure of a hydrocarbon is rearranged to alter its properties. The process is frequently applied to low-quality gasoline stocks to improve their ...
refraction: in physics, the change in direction of a wave passing from one medium to another caused by its change in speed. For example, waves in deep water travel faster than ...
refractive index: measure of the bending of a ray of light when passing from one medium into another. If i is the angle of incidence of a ray in vacuum (angle between ...
refractory: any material that has an unusually high melting point and that maintains its structural properties at very high temperatures. Composed principally of ceramics, refractories are employed in great quantities in ...
refractory: material not deformed or damaged by high temperatures, used to make crucibles, incinerators, insulation, and furnaces, particularly metallurgical furnaces. Refractories are produced in several forms: molded bricks of various shapes ...
refrain: a phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, generally at the end of the stanza. Refrains are found in the ancient Egyptian Book of the ...
refrigeration: the process of removing heat from an enclosed space or from a substance for the purpose of lowering the temperature.
refugee: any uprooted, homeless, involuntary migrant who has crossed a frontier and no longer possesses the protection of his former government. Prior to the 19th century the movement from one country ...
refuse disposal system: technique for the collection and disposal of the solid wastes of a community. The development and operation of these systems is often called solid-waste management.
regal: a small, easily portable pipe organ usually having only a single set, or rank, of reed pipes. The beating reeds are surmounted by small resonators, producing a nasal, buzzing tone. ...
regal moth: any member of the insect family Citheroniidae (order Lepidoptera), occurring only in the New World. Although sometimes classified as the subfamily Citheroniinae of the giant silkworm moth family (Saturniidae), regal ...
Regence style: transition in the decorative arts from the massive rectilinear forms of Louis XIV furniture to those prefiguring the Rococo style of Louis XV. The style encompasses about the first 30 ...
Regency style: decorative arts produced during the regency of George, prince of Wales, and the opening years of the 19th century as well as his entire reign as King George IV of ...
regeneration: in biology, the process by which some organisms replace or restore lost or amputated body parts.
Regensburg: city, Bavaria Land (state), southeastern Germany. It lies on the right bank of the Danube River along its most northerly course, where it is joined by the ...
Regent diamond: a brilliant-cut stone with a slight blue tinge that once was the outstanding gem of the French crown jewels; it was discovered in India in 1701 and weighed 410 carats ...
Regent's Park: park in the Greater London boroughs of Westminster and Camden. It occupies an area of 487 acres (197 hectares) north and east of the St. Marylebone district. Originally a part ...
Reger, Max: German composer and teacher noted for his organ works, which use Baroque forms; he was one of the last composers to infuse life into 19th-century musical traditions.
reggae: style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country's dominant music. By the 1970s it had become an international style that ...
Reggio di Calabria: city, capital of Reggio di Calabria province and former capital (until 1971) of Calabria region, southern Italy. It is a port on the Strait of Messina, opposite the city of ...
Reggio nell'Emilia: city, capital of Reggio nell'Emilia provincia, Emilia-Romagna regione, northern Italy, on the Crostolo River near the southern edge of the Po Plain, southeast of Parma.
regiment: in most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons. French cavalry units were called regiments as early as ...
Regina: capital and largest city of Saskatchewan, Canada, on Wascana Creek, in the south-central part of the province. It originated as a hunters' camp and was known as Pile O'Bones for ...
Reginald of Chatillon: prince of Antioch (1153-60), one of the leading military figures of the Crusades between 1147 and 1187, whose reckless policy in raiding Muslim caravans during periods of truce led to ...
Regino Von Prum: also called Reginon cleric and chronicler who composed several ecclesiastical works and a chronicle covering the period from Christ's birth to the early 10th century.
Regio, Jose: Portuguese poet, novelist, dramatist, and literary critic, generally considered one of the most accomplished literary figures in Portugal in the first half of the 20th century.
Regiomontanus: the foremost mathematician and astronomer of 15th-century Europe, a sought-after astrologer, and one of the first printers.
region: in the social sciences, a cohesive area that is homogeneous in selected defining criteria and is distinguished from neighbouring areas or regions by those criteria. It is an intellectual construct ...
regional development program: any government program designed to encourage the industrial and economic development of regions that are stagnant or in which a large portion of the population is experiencing prolonged unemployment. The ...
regisseur: (French: "manager"), theatrical director or stage manager, especially in France, Russia, Germany, and Italy, whose duties encompass the artistic interpretation and integration of a play, the guided rehearsal of the ...
regium donum: (Latin: "royal gift"), annual grant made from public funds to Presbyterian ministers in Ireland and to Nonconformist ministers (those not part of the Church of England) in Great Britain. It ...
Regla: city, northern Ciudad de la Habana provincia, west-central Cuba. Situated on the southeastern shore of La Habana Bay, Regla was a centre for smuggling activities in the 19th century. It ...
Reglement Organique: 19th-century constitution, imposed under a Russian protectorate, that introduced elected political institutions in the principalities of Moldavia and Walachia (later the nucleus of Romania) but also created oligarchies there and ...
Regnard, Jean-Francois: French dramatist, one of the most successful of the successors of Moliere, whose wit and style he openly imitated.
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely, Michel-Louis-Etienne, Comte: administrator under the French Directory and Napoleon I's Empire. He persuaded Napoleon, at the end of the Hundred Days (1815), to abdicate for the second time.
Regnault, Henri-Victor: French chemist and physicist noted for his work on the properties of gases.
Regnier, Henri de: foremost French poet of the first decade of the 20th century.
Regnier, Mathurin: French satiric poet whose works recall those of Horace, Juvenal, Ariosto, and Ronsard in free and original imitation, written in vigorous, colloquial French. Writing about typical characters of his time ...
Regosol: one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Regosols are characterized by shallow, medium- to fine-textured, unconsolidated parent material that may ...
regressive tax: tax levied at a rate that decreases as its base increases. Regressivity is considered undesirable in taxation because it forces poorer persons to pay a greater percentage of their income ...
Regulators of North Carolina: (1764-71), in American colonial history, vigilance society dedicated to fighting exorbitant legal fees and the corruption of appointed officials in the frontier counties of North Carolina. Deep-seated economic and social ...
regulatory agency: independent governmental commission established by legislative act in order to set standards in a specific field of activity, or operations, in the private sector of the economy and to then ...
Regulus: brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Leo and one of the brightest in the entire sky, having an apparent visual magnitude of about 1.35. The name Regulus, derived from a ...
Regulus, Marcus Atilius: Roman general and statesman whose career, greatly embellished by legend, was seen by the Romans as a model of heroic endurance.
Rehan, Ada: American actress of the late 19th century, one of the finest of her day, whose great popularity grew from performances of Shakespeare and adaptations of European comedies.
Rehnquist, William: 16th chief justice of the United States, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1971 and elevated to chief justice in 1986.
Rehoboth: town, central Namibia. The town is located about 52 miles (84 km) south of Windhoek, the national capital, and lies on the banks of the dry, sandy bed of the ...
Rehovot: city, central Israel, on the coastal plain south-southwest of Tel Aviv-Yafo, in the centre of the country's most productive citrus belt. The name (Hebrew: "broad places," or "room") is from ...
Reich: (German: "Empire"), any of the empires of the Germans or Germany: the Holy Roman Empire (q.v.); the Second Reich, led by the Prussian Hohenzollerns (1871-1918); or the Third Reich of ...
Reich, Steve: American composer who was one of the leading exponents of minimalism, a style based on repetitions and combinations of simple motifs and harmonies.
Reich, Wilhelm: Viennese psychologist who developed a system of psychoanalysis that concentrated on overall character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. His early work on psychoanalytic technique was overshadowed by his ...
Reichenau: island in the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. Belonging to the city of Konstanz, it is 3 miles ...
Reichenau, Walther von: German field marshal who commanded the army that captured Warsaw (1939) and the 6th Army in its encircling movement through Belgium (1940) on the Western front during World War II.
Reichenbach Falls: falls on the Reichenbach (creek) in Bern canton, central Switzerland, one of the highest falls in the Alps. There are five cascades with an overall height of 650 feet (200 ...
Reichenbach, Georg von: German maker of astronomical instruments who introduced the meridian, or transit, circle, a specially designed telescope for measuring both the time when a celestial body is directly over the meridian ...
Reichenbach, Hans: philosopher and educator who was a leading representative of the Vienna Circle and founder of the Berlin school of logical positivism, a movement that viewed logical statements as revealing only ...
Reichskammergericht: supreme court of the Holy Roman Empire. The court was established by Maximilian I in 1495 and survived as the empire's highest court until the empire's dissolution in 1806.
Reichstadt, Napoleon-Francois-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte, Herzog von, principe di Parma, Piacenza, e Guastalla: only son of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Marie-Louise; at birth he was styled king of Rome.
Reichstag: building in Berlin that is the meeting place of Germany's national legislature. One of Berlin's most famous landmarks, it is situated at the northern end of the Erberstrasse and near ...
Reichstag fire: burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin, on the night of Feb. 27, 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and widely believed to have ...
Reichstein, Tadeus: Swiss chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for his discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex.
Reid, Forrest: Irish novelist and critic who early came under the influence of Henry James; he is best known for his romantic and mystical novels about boyhood and adolescence and for a ...
Reid, Harry Fielding: American seismologist and glaciologist who in 1911 developed the elastic rebound theory of earthquake mechanics, still accepted today.
Reid, Sir George Houston: statesman and prime minister of Australia (1904-05) who as premier of New South Wales (1894-99) directed an economic recovery program, maintained free trade, and introduced a tax to break up ...
Reid, Thomas: Scottish philosopher who rejected the skeptical Empiricism of David Hume in favour of a "philosophy of common sense," later espoused by the Scottish School.
Reid, Whitelaw: U.S. journalist, diplomat, and politician, successor to Horace Greeley in 1872 as editor in chief (until 1905) and publisher (until his death) of the New York Tribune, which, during much ...
Reidy, Affonso: Brazilian architect, a pioneer of the modern architectural movement in Brazil.
reification: the treatment of something abstract as a material or concrete thing, as in the following lines from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach": The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the ...
Reigate and Banstead: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Surrey, southeastern England immediately south of Greater London. Named after the two principal locales of the district, Reigate and Banstead extends across the ...
Reilly, Sidney: spy who obtained Persian oil concessions and German naval secrets for Britain. Many of the romanticized stories about him may have been inventions of his own.
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel: German philosopher and man of letters of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a religion more certain than religions based ...
Reims: city, Marne departement, Champagne-Ardenne region, northeastern France, east-northeast of Paris. On the Vesle River, a tributary of the Aisne, and the Marne-Aisne canal, the city is situated in vine-growing country ...
Reims Cathedral: cathedral located in the city of Reims, France, on the Vesle River east-northeast of Paris. Reims was the site of 25 coronations of the kings of France, from Louis VIII ...