Portuguese poet and prose writer who introduced the pastoral style to Portugal in five idylls, or eclogues, and a prose romance. His lyrical treatment of the yearnings of unrequited love ...
(Italian: "The Little Spaniard")Spanish painter and printmaker, noted for his Baroque dramatic realism and his depictions of religious and mythological subjects.
genus of about 150 species of shrubs of two distinct groups, the currants and the gooseberries, constituting the family Grossulariaceae (often included in the family Saxifragaceae). They are native to ...
short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, one of the Latin American masters of the short story, whose works display a rare mix of social criticism and fantasy, projecting a bleak view ...
a yellow, water-soluble organic compound that occurs abundantly in whey (the watery part of milk) and in egg white. An essential nutrient for animals, it can be synthesized by green ...
five-carbon sugar found in RNA (ribonucleic acid), where it alternates with phosphate groups to form the "backbone" of the RNA polymer and binds to nitrogenous bases. Ribose phosphates are components ...
tiny particle that is present in large numbers in all living cells and which is the site of protein synthesis. Ribosomes are tiny granules that occur both as free particles ...
French psychologist whose endeavour to account for memory loss as a symptom of progressive brain disease, iterated in his Les Maladies de la memoire (1881; Diseases of Memory), constitutes the ...
poet, essayist, literary critic, and journalist, one of the most versatile 20th-century Brazilian poets. During his long life he participated in every literary movement from Parnassianism through Modernism to the ...
English economist who gave systematized, classical form to the rising science of economics in the 19th century. He formulated the Iron Law of Wages, which stated that all attempts to ...
Chicago gangster who was considered "the brains" behind the operations of Al Capone and Capone's successors, Frank Nitti and Tony Accardo. He was the Chicago representative in the formation of ...
Italian Jesuit missionary who introduced Christian teaching to the Chinese empire in the 16th century. He lived there for nearly 30 years and was a pioneer in the attempt at ...
Italian mathematician instrumental in the development of absolute differential calculus, formerly also called the Ricci calculus but now known as tensor analysis.
genus of liverworts (small, creeping plants) in the order Marchantiales, widely distributed throughout the world. The most well-known species, Riccia fluitans, sometimes called slender riccia, forms branching green ribbons about ...
edible starchy cereal grain and the plant by which it is produced. Roughly one-half of the world population, including virtually all of East and Southeast Asia, is wholly dependent upon ...
widely distributed and variegated figure in the mythology of peoples of the Indonesian culture. There are three main types of Rice Mother, which are either found separately or combined.
any of 36 nocturnal species of small rodents found from the United States southward through tropical and portions of subtropical South America. Rice rats have soft fur, with tawny to ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Houston, Texas, U.S. The university includes the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Shepherd School of Music, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, ...
American novelist and short-story writer most widely known for her 1901 best-seller, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a book often translated, staged, and filmed since its publication.
American clown who was one of the most highly acclaimed clowns in the history of the circus. Rice was renowned for an act that included singing, dancing, witty badinage with ...
American professional gridiron football player whom many consider the greatest wide receiver in the history of the National Football League (NFL). Playing for the San Francisco 49ers, he set a ...
(species Tetrapanax papyriferum), shrub or small tree of the ginseng family (Araliaceae), native to southern China and Taiwan. It is the source of rice paper. It has large, lobed leaves ...
musical composition for instruments in which one or more themes are developed through melodic imitation; it was prominent in the 16th and 17th centuries. The earliest ricercari, which were for ...
American poet, scholar, teacher, and critic whose many volumes of poetry trace a stylistic transformation from formal, well-crafted but imitative poetry to a more personal and powerful style.
American actress who abandoned her career as a successful real estate agent to become a popular star of the silent screen, appearing in scores of melodramas in the 1920s.
powerful minister to England's King Henry VIII and lord chancellor during most of the reign of King Edward VI. Although he participated in the major events of his time, Rich ...
duke of Aquitaine (from 1168) and of Poitiers (from 1172) and king of England, duke of Normandy, and count of Anjou (1189-99). His knightly manner and his prowess in the ...
king of England from 1377 to 1399. An ambitious ruler, with a lofty conception of the royal office, he was deposed by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV), because of ...
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1595-96 and published in a quarto edition in 1597 and in the First Folio of 1623. The quarto edition omits ...
duke of Normandy (996-1026/27), son of Richard I the Fearless. He held his own against a peasant insurrection, helped Robert II of France against the duchy of Burgundy, and repelled ...
the last Plantagenet and Yorkist king of England. He usurped the throne of his nephew Edward V in 1483 and perished in defeat to Henry Tudor (thereafter Henry VII) at ...
chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1592-94 and published in 1597 in a quarto edition seemingly reconstructed from memory by the acting company when a copy ...
duke of Normandy (1026-27, or 1027), son of Richard II the Good. He was succeeding in quelling the revolt of his brother, Robert, when he died opportunely, perhaps of poison, ...
also called Richard Grant, Richard Le Grand, or Richard Of Wethershed 45th archbishop of Canterbury (1229-31), who asserted the independence of the clergy and of his see from royal control.
British singer whose "Move It" (1958) was the first great British rock-and-roll record. Having played in skiffle bands during his youth in northern London, Richard, backed by a band that ...
English social anthropologist and educator known chiefly for her researches among several eastern African peoples, especially the Bemba. She did fieldwork in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Uganda, and the Transvaal. Among ...
American athlete, the first pole-vaulter to win two Olympic gold medals. Sportswriters called him "the Vaulting Vicar" because he was an ordained minister.
American physiologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with Werner Forssmann and Andre F. Cournand. Cournand and Richards adapted Forssmann's technique of using a flexible ...
English critic, poet, and teacher who was highly influential in developing a new way of reading poetry that led to the New Criticism (q.v.). A student of psychology, he concluded ...
English jockey, the first to ride 4,000 winners and the leading rider in British flat (Thoroughbred) racing for 26 of his 34 seasons (1921-54). His career total of 4,870 victories ...
American chemist whose research on the atomic weights of approximately 60 elements indicated the existence of isotopes and earned him the 1914 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
city, northern suburb of Dallas, Dallas and Collin counties, northern Texas, U.S. The original founders settled Breckenridge township (c. 1853) south of the present city limits in what is now ...
range of the Canadian Rocky Mountains that parallels the northernmost part of the boundary of the Yukon and Northwest Territories, northwestern Canada. Trending northwest-southeast, the Richardson Mountains are the northern ...
parameter that can be used to predict the occurrence of fluid turbulence and, hence, the destruction of density currents in water or air. It was defined by the British meteorologist ...
founder of one of the great English glass-manufacturing houses, who was instrumental in the introduction of modern glass-working methods to England. Richardson's Stourbridge factory was the first in the country ...
Australian novelist whose trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, combining description of an Australian immigrant's life and work in the goldfields with a powerful character study, is considered the crowning ...
American architect, the initiator of the Romanesque revival in the United States and a pioneer figure in the development of an indigenous, modern American style of architecture.
American physicist who was the corecipient, along with Douglas Osheroff and David Lee, of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of superfluidity in the isotope helium-3 (3He).
English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the letter form ("epistolary novel"). His major novels were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747-48).
