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Roatan: capital, Islas de la Bahia department, northern Honduras, on the southwestern coast of Roatan, largest of the Bay Islands; it is known locally as Coxen's Hole. Remains of 17th-century pirates' ...
Rob Roy: noted Highland outlaw whose reputation as a Scottish Robin Hood was exaggerated in Sir Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1818) and in some passages in the poems ...
roba'i: in Persian literature, genre of poetry, a quatrain with a rhyme scheme aaba. With the masnavi, the rhymed couplet, it is a purely Persian poetic genre and not a borrowing ...
Robards, Jason: intense, introspective stage and film actor, widely regarded as the foremost interpreter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Robbe-Grillet, Alain: a representative writer and leading theoretician of the nouveau roman ("new novel"), the French "anti-novel" that emerged in the 1950s. He also became a screenwriter and film director.
Robben Island: island in Table Bay, Western Cape province, South Africa. It is 5 miles (8 km) west of the mainland and 6 miles (10 km) north of Cape Town and has ...
robber crab: large, nocturnal land crab of the southwest Pacific and Indian oceans. It is closely related to the hermit crab, belonging to the same family, Coenobitidae (order Decapoda of the class ...
robber fly: any predatory insect of the family Asilidae (order Diptera), numbering about 4,000 species, worldwide in distribution. These flies have variable lengths that range to almost 8 cm (3 inches). They ...
robbery: in criminal law, an aggravated form of theft that involves violence or the threat of violence against a victim in his presence. Many criminologists have long regarded statistics on robbery ...
Robbins, Frederick Chapman: American pediatrician and virologist who received (with John Enders and Thomas Weller) the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for successfully cultivating poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures. This accomplishment ...
Robbins, Jerome: one of the most popular and imaginative American choreographers of the 20th century. Robbins was first known for his skillful use of contemporary American themes in ballets and Broadway and ...
Robbins, Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron: economist and leading figure in British higher education.
Robbins, Tom: American novelist noted for his eccentric characters, playful optimism, and self-conscious wordplay.
Robecchi-Bricchetti, Luigi: Italian explorer, the first European to cross the Somali peninsula (the Horn of East Africa).
Robert: Latin emperor of Constantinople from 1221 to 1228. He was so ineffective that the Latin Empire (consolidated by his uncle, Henry of Flanders) was largely dissolved at the end of ...
Robert: Norman adventurer who settled in Apulia, in southern Italy, about 1047 and became duke of Apulia (1059). He eventually extended Norman rule over Naples, Calabria, and Sicily and laid the ...
Robert: Angevin prince and Guelf (papal party) leader who ruled Naples as king for 34 years (1309-43).
Robert De Boron: French poet, originally from the village of Boron, near Delle. He was important for his trilogy of poems (Joseph d'Arimathe, Merlin, Perceval). It told the early history of the Grail ...
Robert De Torigni: Norman chronicler whose records are an important source both for Anglo-French history and the intellectual renaissance in the 12th century.
Robert I: younger son of Robert the Strong of Neustria, and briefly king of France (922-923), or West Francia. His decisive victory over the Northmen at Chartres (911) led to a treaty ...
Robert I: king of Scotland (1306-29), who freed Scotland from English rule, winning the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and ultimately confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
Robert I: count of Flanders (1071-93), second son of Count Baldwin V. In 1063 he married Gertrude and became guardian of her son, who had inherited Frisia east of the Scheldt River. ...
Robert I: duke of Normandy (1027-35), the younger son of Richard II of Normandy and the father, by his mistress Arlette, of William the Conqueror of England. On the death of his ...
Robert II: duke of Normandy (1087-1106), a weak-willed and incompetent ruler whose poor record as an administrator of his domain was partly redeemed by his contribution to the First Crusade (1096-99).
Robert II: count of Flanders (1093-1111), one of the most celebrated of crusaders. The son of Robert I, he sailed for the Holy Land on the First Crusade in 1096 and earned ...
Robert II: king of Scots from 1371, first of the Stewart (Stuart) sovereigns in Scotland. Heir presumptive for more than 50 years, he had little effect on Scottish political and military affairs ...
Robert II: king of France who took Burgundy into the French realm.
Robert III: king of Scots from 1390, after having ruled Scotland in the name of his father, Robert II, from 1384 to 1388. Physically disabled by a kick from a horse, he ...
Robert of Belleme, 3rd Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury: Norman magnate, soldier, and outstanding military architect, who for a time was the most powerful vassal of the English crown under the second and third Norman kings, William II Rufus ...
Robert Of Gloucester: early Middle English chronicler known only through his connection with the work called "The Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester"-a vernacular history of England from its legendary founding by Brut (Brutus), ...
Robert Of Jumieges: one of the Normans given high position by the English king Edward the Confessor.
Robert of Molesme, Saint: French Benedictine monk and abbot, monastic reformer, and founder of Citeaux (Latin Cistercium) Abbey (1098), which developed into the Cistercian Order.
Robert The Devil: legendary son of a duke of Normandy, born in answer to prayers addressed to the devil. He uses his immense strength only for crime. Directed by the pope to consult ...
Robert The Strong: ancestor of the Capetian kings of France.
Robert, Henry Martyn: U.S. Army officer, author of the standard manual on parliamentary procedure in the United States, known as Robert's Rules of Order.
Robert, Hubert: French landscape painter sometimes called "Robert des Ruines" because of his many romantic representations of Roman ruins set in idealized surroundings.
Robert, Shaaban: popular Swahili writer, Robert was the product of two cultures-his father was a Christian, but Shaaban returned to Islam. His work ranges from poetry to essay and didactic tale, influenced ...
Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugene: French magician who is considered to be the father of modern conjuring. He was the first magician to use electricity; he improved the signalling method for the "thought transference" trick; ...
Roberti, Ercole de': Italian painter of the Ferrarese school whose work is characterized by a highly personal style of sensibility and deep pathos.
Roberts, Bartholomew: pirate captain of a succession of ships-the "Royal Rover," "Fortune," "Royal Fortune," and "Good Fortune"-who burned and plundered ships from the coasts of West Africa to the coasts of Brazil ...
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox: Southern American novelist, poet, and short story writer noted especially for her vivid, impressionistic depiction of her protagonists' inner life and for her accurate portrayal of life in Kentucky.
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl, Viscount St. Pierre: British field marshal, an outstanding combat leader in the Second Afghan War (1878-80) and the South African War (1899-1902), and the last commander in chief of the British Army (1901-04; ...
Roberts, Isaac: British astronomer who was a pioneer in photography of nebulae.
Roberts, John G., Jr.: 17th chief justice of the United States (2005- ).
Roberts, Joseph Jenkins: American-born, first president of Liberia (1848-56).
Roberts, Kate: one of the outstanding Welsh-language short-story writers of the mid-20th century. She was also a novelist and playwright.
Roberts, Kenneth: American journalist and novelist who wrote fictional reconstructions of the American Revolution.
Roberts, Owen: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1930-45).
Roberts, Richard: British inventor known for his great versatility.
Roberts, Richard J.: molecular biologist, the winner, with Phillip A. Sharp, of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his independent discovery of "split genes."
Roberts, Sir Charles G D: poet who was the first to express the new national feeling aroused by the Canadian confederation of 1867. His example and counsel inspired a whole nationalist school of late 19th-century ...
Roberts, Sir Gilbert: British civil engineer who pioneered new design and construction methods in a series of major bridges including the 3,300-foot (1,006-metre) Firth of Forth highway bridge in Scotland, the seventh longest ...
Roberts-Austen, Sir William Chandler: English metallurgist noted for his research on the physical properties of metals and their alloys. He was knighted in 1899.
Robertson, Alice Mary: American educator and public official, remembered for her work with Native American and other schools in Oklahoma and as a U.S. congressional representative from that state.
Robertson, Oscar: American basketball player who starred in both the collegiate and professional ranks and was considered one of the top players in the history of the game. As a player with ...
Robertson, Sir Dennis Holme: British economist who was an early supporter of John Maynard Keynes but later produced cogent criticisms of his work.
Robertson, Sir William Robert, 1st Baronet: field marshal, chief of the British Imperial General Staff during most of World War I, who supported Sir Douglas Haig, the British commander in chief in France, in urging concentration ...
Robertson, Thomas William: British playwright whose realistic social comedies and pioneering work as a producer-director helped establish the late-19th-century revival of drama in England. Many of his plays long remained in the repertory, ...
Robertson, William: Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister. He is regarded, along with David Hume and Edward Gibbon, as one of the most important British historians of the 18th century.
Robertsport: town and Atlantic fishing port, western Liberia. It is situated at the outlet of Lake Piso (Fisherman Lake), on Cape Mount.
Roberval: city, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, south-central Quebec province, Canada, on the southwest shore of Lac-Saint-Jean. Settled in 1855, it was named after the sieur de Roberval, the first viceroy of Canada. The ...
Roberval balance: linked mechanism invented in 1669 by the French mathematician Gilles Personne de Roberval and used in commercial weighing machines. As shown in the , AB is an equal-armed beam pivoted ...
Roberval, Gilles Personne de: French mathematician who made important advances in the geometry of curves.
Roberval, Jean-Francois de La Rocque, Sieur de: French colonizer chosen by Francis I to create a settlement on North American lands found earlier by Jacques Cartier.
Robeson Channel: northernmost part of the sea passage connecting Baffin Bay, an inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean, with the Lincoln Sea, a portion of the Arctic Ocean, to the north. The ...
Robeson, Paul: celebrated American singer, actor, and black activist.
Robespierre, Maximilien de: radical Jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution. In the latter months of 1793 he came to dominate the Committee of Public Safety, the principal ...
Robey, Sir George: English music-hall comedian known for many years as "the prime minister of mirth."
robin: either of two species of thrushes (family Turdidae) distinguished by an orange or dull reddish breast. The American robin (Turdus migratorius), a large North American thrush, is one of the ...
Robin Hood: legendary outlaw hero of a series of English ballads, some of which date from at least as early as the 14th century. Robin Hood was a rebel, and many of ...
Robins, Benjamin: British mathematician and military engineer who laid the groundwork for modern ordnance (field-artillery) theory and practice with his New Principles of Gunnery (1742), which invalidated old suppositions about the nature ...
Robinson, Bill: American dancer of Broadway and Hollywood, best known for his dancing roles with Shirley Temple in films of the 1930s.
Robinson, Boardman: Canadian-American illustrator and painter noted for his political cartoons.
Robinson, Brooks, Jr.: American professional baseball player who in 23 seasons as a third baseman with the American League Baltimore Orioles won the Gold Glove Award 16 times and set career records for ...
Robinson, Eddie: American collegiate gridiron football coach who in 1985 became the winningest coach in the history of the game. He spent his entire head-coaching career at Grambling State University in Louisiana. ...
Robinson, Edward: American biblical scholar, considered the father of biblical geography.