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racerunner: any of about 56 species of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus is common in North America, particularly in the southwestern deserts, and its range extends through Central America ... [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 volcanic craters such as Ubehebe Crater, 700 feet (215 metres) deep and 0.5 mile (0.8 ...
Rach Gia: port city, northern Ca Mau Peninsula, southern Vietnam. It lies at the head of Rach Gia Bay on the Gulf of Thailand, at the north bank of the Cai Lon ...
Rachel: (from the article "Hebrew literature") Poetry immediately addressed Palestinian life. Among outstanding writers were Rachel (Rachel Bluwstein), who wrote intensely personal poems; Uri Zevi Greenberg, a political poet and exponent of free verse; and Abraham ...
Rachel: (from the article "Jacob") ...blessing of the entire Earth. Jacob named the place where he received his vision Bethel ("House of God"). Arriving at his uncle Laban's home in Haran, Jacob fell in love ...
Rachel bat Joshua: (from the article "Akiba ben Joseph") The subject of numerous popular legends, Akiba is said to have been an illiterate shepherd who began to study after the age of 40. His devoted wife, Rachel, supported him ...
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 1,000 pieces for 60 settings) and biscuit figure groups. Also during this period Dominique Rachette, ...
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 the frontier with Algeria. The town, which was occupied by the French from 1916 until ...
Rachilde: (from the article "French literature") ...formations of homosexual as well as heterosexual desire, have also a sharp satiric edge; they criticize their own posturing, and they highlight the unjust class privilege on which it depends. ...
rachis: (from the article "feather") The typical feather consists of a central shaft (rachis), with serial paired branches (barbs) forming a flattened, usually curved surface-the vane. The barbs possess further branches -the barbules-and the barbules ...
rachis: (from the article "angiosperm") ...leaves, the leaflets radiate from a single point at the distal end of the petiole; in pinnately compound leaves, a row of leaflets forms on either side of an extension ...
Rachmaninoff, Sergey: composer who was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism and a leading piano virtuoso of his time. He is especially known for his piano concerti and ... [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 States undertook what amounted to racial gerrymandering to preserve the integrity and power of special-interest ...
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 found to the great gap in the standards of living between the indigenous people of ...
racial worldview: (from the article "race") Legitimating the racial worldviewmeaning of raceraceNorth America...policies, and practices of North Americans about race from the 18th to the 20th ...
racially exclusive restrictive covenant: (from the article "restrictive covenant") Covenants can be used for any purpose that is not illegal, unconstitutional, or against public policy. Racially exclusive restrictive covenants, which were widely used in the United States during the ...
Racibor: (from the article "Raciborz") According to tradition, Raciborz was founded by a Slavic tribal ruler, Prince Racibor, in the 9th century and was united with Poland in the 10th. It was granted municipal rights ...
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 (established 1905). These efforts were continued after World War I by Kosta Racin, who wrote ...
Racine: city, seat (1836) of Racine county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Milwaukee. Miami ...
Racine College: (from the article "football, gridiron") In 1879 the University of Michigan and Racine College of Wisconsin inaugurated football in the Midwest. Michigan under Fielding Yost in 1901-05 and the University of Chicago under Amos Alonzo ...
Racine, Jean: French dramatic poet and historiographer renowned for his mastery of French classical tragedy. His reputation rests on the plays he wrote between 1664 and 1677, notably Andromaque (1667), Britannicus (1669), ... [16 Related Articles]
racing: (from the article "gondola") Gondolas are recognizable in paintings by Carpaccio from the late 15th century. The first organized boat racing was done by gondolas in the 16th century; both men and women competed. ...
racing bicycle: (from the article "bicycle") Road-racing bicycles are designed for maximum speed and weigh about 20 pounds (9 kg). They have very light frames, narrow high-pressure tires, dropped handlebars, and derailleur gears with at least ...
racing on the flat: (from the article "horse racing") sport of running horses at speed, mainly Thoroughbreds with a rider astride or Standardbreds with the horse pulling a conveyance with a driver. These two kinds of racing are called ...
racing shell: (from the article "rowing") Under FISA rules, all races take place over a 2,000-metre (6,560-foot) straight course on still water, each crew or sculler racing in a separate, buoy-marked lane. Racing shells range in ...
racism: any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview-the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called "races," that there is a causal link between ... [42 Related Articles]
rack: (from the article "walk") ...controlled by the rider's handling of the reins. This gait also requires impulsion, produced by pressure of the rider's legs on the horse's sides. The speeding up of the collected ...
rack: a bedlike open frame suspended above the ground that was used as a torture device. The victim's ankles and wrists were secured by ropes that passed around axles near the ...
rack and pinion: mechanical device consisting of a bar of rectangular cross section (the rack), having teeth on one side that mesh with teeth on a small gear (the pinion). The pinion may ... [1 Related Articles]
rack jobber: (from the article "marketing") ...or handle the merchandise. Operating primarily in bulk industries such as lumber, coal, and heavy equipment, they take orders but have manufacturers ship merchandise directly to final consumers. Rack jobbers, ...
rack oven: (from the article "baking") In small to medium-size retail bakeries, baking may be done in a rack oven. This consists of a chamber, perhaps two to three metres high, that is heated by electric ...
rack-and-frame press: (from the article "fruit processing") Many different types of press are used for juice extraction. The most traditional is a rack-and-frame press, in which ground fruit (mash) is pumped into cloth partitions, called cheeses, which ...
Rackers, Neil: (from the article "Football") ...32 touchdown passes for Cincinnati, and Manning with a 104.1 passer rating. Carolina's Steve Smith led NFL receivers with 1,563 yd and tied Arizona's Larry Fitzgerald with 103 catches. Arizona's ...
racket: (from the article "badminton") court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock. Historically, the shuttlecock was a small, cork hemisphere with 16 goose feathers attached and weighing about 0.17 ounce (5 ...
racket-tailed drongo: (from the article "drongo") ...or underparts (sexes alike); the eyes, in most, are fiery red. Some are crested or have head plumes, and the tail is usually long and forked, with out-turned corners. The ...
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...without comment to overturn a lower court's decision that the Department of Justice could not sue Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and other tobacco companies under the federal antiracketeering RICO Act ...
rackets: game played with a ball and a strung racket in an enclosed court, all four walls of which are used in play. Rackets is played with a hard ball in ... [1 Related Articles]
rackett: (from German Rank, "bend"), in music, double-reed wind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries. It consisted of a short wooden or ivory cylinder typically bored with nine extremely narrow ... [1 Related Articles]
Rackham, Arthur: British artist best known for his illustrations for classic fiction and children's literature.
racking: (from the article "wine") ...is usually completed in 10 to 30 days. In most cases, the major portion of the yeast cells will soon be found in the sediment, or lees. Separation of the ...
racking seizing: (from the article "seizing") When two ropes are joined and the strain on one is to be greater than that on the other, racking seizing is preferred. A simpler and more common method is ...
raclette: (from the article "Switzerland") ...The national dish, fondue neuchateloise (a mixture of melted Emmentaler and Gruyere cheeses and wine into which bread cubes are dipped), and raclette (cheese melted over a ...
Racovian Catechism: (from the article "Socinian") ...was at Racow, north of Krakow, where the Socinians founded a successful university and a famous printing operation that turned out many Socinian books and pamphlets. This press issued the ...
Raczynski, Count Edward Bernard Andre Maria: Polish diplomat (b. Dec. 19, 1891, Zakopane, Poland--d. July 30, 1993, London, England), was a central figure in the Polish government-in-exile based in London during and after World War II; ...
rad: the unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, defined in 1962 by the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements as equal to the amount of radiation that releases an ... [2 Related Articles]
rada: (from the article "Ukraine") ...the nobility. Banding together for mutual protection, the Cossacks by the mid-16th century had developed a military organization of a peculiarly democratic kind, with a general assembly (rada) as the ...
rada': (Arabic: "to suckle"), in Islam, a legal relationship established between children when they are nursed by the same woman, the result being that they are forbidden to intermarry. Such a ...
Rada, Jeronim de: (from the article "Albanian literature") ...denotes both their dialect and their ethnic origins; it is derived from the word Arberia, the name by which Albania was known during the Middle Ages.) Foremost among Arberesh writers ...
Radagaisius: (from the article "Stilicho, Flavius") Late in 405 Italy was menaced by new invaders, a vast host of Germans, mainly Ostrogoths, led by a pagan called Radagaisus. Contemporary accounts numbered them in the hundreds of ...
Radama I: (from the article "Merina") ...plateau. King Andrianampoinimerina (or Nampoina; ruled 1787-1810) was the first Merina monarch to consolidate his power and make Merina a unified kingdom. His armies, commanded by his son Radama, secured ...
Radama II: (from the article "Madagascar") Ranavalona was succeeded by her son, Radama II, who readmitted the foreigners. English Protestants and French Roman Catholics vied for supremacy, while business proprietors obtained excessive concessions. This policy led ...
radappertization: (from the article "food preservation") The dose of radiation used on food products is divided into three levels. Radappertization is a dose in the range of 20 to 30 kilograys, necessary to sterilize a food ...
radar: electromagnetic sensor used for detecting, locating, tracking, and recognizing objects of various kinds at considerable distances. It operates by transmitting electromagnetic energy toward objects, commonly referred to as targets, and ... [39 Related Articles]
radar altimeter: (from the article "geoid") ...coincides with mean sea level, provided the dynamic effects of winds, tides, and currents are removed. The surface of the sea acts as a reflector for radar waves, and a ...
radar area guidance: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...or MaRVs, were first integrated into the U.S. Pershing II IRBMs deployed in Europe from 1984 until they were dismantled under the terms of the INF Treaty. The warhead of ...
radar astronomy: (from the article "radio and radar astronomy") study of celestial bodies by examination of the radio-frequency energy they emit or reflect. Radio waves penetrate much of the gas and dust in space, as well as the clouds ...
radar beacon: (from the article "lighthouse") Radar-responder beacons are employed in other fields, such as aviation; in marine navigation they are called racons. A racon transmits only in response to an interrogation signal from a ship's ...
radar cross section: (from the article "radar") The size of a target as "seen" by radar is not always related to the physical size of the object. The measure of the target size as observed by radar ...
Radasbona: (from the article "Regensburg") In the area of the old city was a Celtic settlement (Radasbona), which later became the site of a Roman stronghold and legionary camp, Castra Regina (founded AD 179). The ...
Radbod: (from the article "Willibrord, Saint") ...made dramatic stops on the Frisian islands of Heligoland and Walcheren. In 714 he baptized Pippin III the Short, heir to the Merovingian kingdom. Upon the death of Pippin II, ...
Radbruch, Gustav: German jurist and legal philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of legal relativism and legal positivism. Radbruch served on the faculties of the universities at Konigsberg, Kiel, and Heidelberg. He ... [1 Related Articles]
Radburn: (from the article "urban planning") ...however, were a number of small, privately planned suburbs, including Riverside, Illinois, a planned community outside Chicago that was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1868-69, and Radburn, New Jersey, ...
Radcliffe College: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") American naturalist and educator who was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.merger with Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityIn 1999 Radcliffe ...
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University: (from the article "Harvard University") In 1999 Radcliffe and Harvard formally merged, and a new school, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, was established. The institute focuses on Radcliffe's former fields of ...
Radcliffe, Ann: the most representative of English Gothic novelists. She stands apart in her ability to infuse scenes of terror and suspense with an aura of romantic sensibility. [2 Related Articles]
Radcliffe, Daniel: After mesmerizing millions of fans with his on-screen portrayal of the boy wizard Harry Potter, in February 2007 British actor Daniel Radcliffe worked his magic onstage with his performance in ...
Radcliffe, Paula: British distance runner who set world records in the marathon. [3 Related Articles]
Radcliffe, Ted: American baseball player (b. July 7, 1902, Mobile, Ala.-d. Aug. 11, 2005, Chicago, Ill.), was a star Negro League pitcher and catcher who was known for his strong throwing arm ...
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.: English social anthropologist of the 20th century who developed a systematic framework of concepts and generalizations relating to the social structures of preindustrial societies and their functions. He is widely ... [10 Related Articles]
Raddall, Thomas Head: English-Canadian novelist, who accurately depicted the history, manners, and idiom of Nova Scotians.
Rade, Marin de: (from the article "Cathay") ...Polo's book with him, believed he had reached Mangi, which he described as contiguous to Cathay. It was not ascertained that China and Cathay were the same place until the ...
Rade, Paul Martin: (from the article "Christianity") ...(1861-1918), the Social Gospel movement spread in the United States. A corresponding movement was started with the Christian social conferences by German Protestant theologians, such as Paul Martin Rade (1857-1940) ...
Radegunda, Saint: queen of the Merovingian king Chlotar I, who left her husband to become a nun and later founded a monastery at Poitiers. She was one of the first of the ... [3 Related Articles]
Radek, Karl: original name Karl Sobelsohn Communist propagandist and early leader of the Communist International (Comintern), who fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. [1 Related Articles]
Rademakers, Fons: Dutch filmmaker for his poignant drama De Aanslag (1986; The Assault), became the first from The Netherlands to win an Academy Award for best foreign language film. Nearly 30 ... [1 Related Articles]
raden: Japanese decorative technique used for lacquerware and woodenware, in which linings of mother-of-pearl or of abalone shells are cut into designs and either glued onto or inserted into the surface ... [1 Related Articles]
Radescu, Nicolae: Romanian army officer and prime minister of Romania (December 1944-March 1945). [1 Related Articles]
Radetzky, Joseph, Graf: Austrian field marshal and military reformer, whose long record of victorious campaigns made him a national hero. [4 Related Articles]
Radewyns, Florentius: Dutch Roman Catholic theologian, successor to Gerhard Groote as leader of the Brethren of the Common Life, a community of laymen dedicated to the care and education of the poor, ... [1 Related Articles]
Radha: in Hindu mythology, the mistress of the god Krishna during that period of his life when he lived among the cowherds of Vrndavana. Radha was the wife of another gopa ... [7 Related Articles]
Radha Soami Satsang: esoteric religious sect of India that has followers among both Hindus and Sikhs. The sect was founded in 1861 by Siva Dayal Saheb (also called Sivdayal), a Hindu banker of ... [1 Related Articles]
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli: scholar and statesman who was president of India from 1962 to 1967. He served as professor of philosophy at Mysore (1918-21) and Calcutta (1921-31; 1937-41) universities and as vice chancellor ... [6 Related Articles]
Radhuspladsen: (from the article "Copenhagen") The heart of the city is the Radhuspladsen ("Town Hall Square"). From the square, an old crooked shopping street leads northeast to the former centre of the city, Kongens Nytorv ...
radial artery: (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...known as the axillary artery; this, in turn, becomes the brachial artery as it passes down the upper arm. At about the level of the elbow, the brachial artery divides ...
radial distribution function: (from the article "liquid") ...of matter, an understanding of behaviour on the molecular level is necessary. Such behaviour is characterized by two quantities called the intermolecular pair potential function, u, and the radial distribution ...
radial drainage pattern: (from the article "river") ...sets of faults and marked joints that intersect at about right angles, as in some parts of ancient crustal blocks. The pattern is varied where the regional angle of structural ...
radial engine: (from the article "flight, history of") ...engines, aircraft could be streamlined to improve speed but with a trade-off in complexity and weight because of the requisite coolant, coolant lines, radiator, and associated pumps. Air-cooled radial designs, ...
radial gate: (from the article "dam") Several forms of gates have been developed. The simplest and oldest form is a vertical-lift gate that, sliding or rolling against guides, can be raised to allow water to flow ...
radial keratotomy: surgical procedure to correct myopia (nearsightedness) by reducing the radius of curvature of the cornea and astigmatism (asymmetrical curvature of the cornea). A series of 4 to 8 equally spaced ...
radial nerve: (from the article "nervous system, human") The three major nerves of the arm, forearm, and hand are the radial, median, and ulnar. The radial nerve innervates the triceps, anconeus, and brachioradialis muscles, eight extensors of the ...
radial symmetry: (from the article "symmetry") In radial symmetry the body has the general form of a short or long cylinder or bowl, with a central axis from which the body parts radiate or along which ...
radial system: (from the article "tree") The radial system functions primarily in the transport of carbohydrates from the inner bark to the wood; there are some food-storage cells in this system as well, and water movement ...
radial tire: (from the article "tire") ...that serves to equalize cord tensions. In a bias-ply belted tire, another set of cords overlies the bias-laid ones. This extra set of cords, called a belt, is typically made ...
radial tuberosity: (from the article "radius") ...disk-shaped; its upper concave surface articulates with the humerus (upper arm bone) above, and the side surface articulates with the ulna. On the upper part of the shaft is a ...
radial turbine: (from the article "turbine") ...by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler and his son Albert in the 1750s found application about 75 years later. In 1826 Jean-Victor Poncelet of France proposed the idea of an ...
radial vein: (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...the radial (thumb) side of the forearm, and the basilic vein, running up the ulnar side of the forearm and receiving blood from the hand, forearm, and arm. The deep ...
radial velocity: (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") For objects beyond the immediate neighbourhood of the Sun, only radial velocities can be measured. Initially it is necessary to choose a standard of rest (the reference frame) from which ...
radial-arm saw: (from the article "saw") Among the machines utilizing a rotating steel disk with peripheral teeth, the radial-arm saw is one of the most useful. The motor-driven blade is manually drawn along a horizontally set ...