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Roentgen, Abraham: German joiner and designer who founded what became one of Europe's most widely renowned furniture workshops; he was the father of David Roentgen, the celebrated cabinetmaker to Queen Marie-Antoinette of ...
Roentgen, David: cabinetmaker to Queen Marie-Antoinette of France; under his direction the family workshop at Neuwied (near Cologne), founded by his father, Abraham Roentgen, became perhaps the most-successful firm of furniture production ...
Roerich, Nicholas: Russian scenic designer for Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev's Ballets Russes who is best-known for his monumental historical sets. He was also a popular mystic.
Roermond: gemeente (commune), Limburg provincie, southeastern Netherlands, at the confluence of the Maas (Meuse) and Roer rivers. Chartered in 1232, it was the historic capital of the Upper Quarter of Gelderland ...
Roeselare: municipality, West Flanders province, western Belgium, on the Mandel River, south of Brugge (Bruges). An important linen market since the Middle Ages, it was the scene of a French victory ...
Roethke, Theodore: American poet whose verse is characterized by introspection and intense lyricism.
Rogaland: fylke (county), southwestern Norway. With an area of 3,529 square miles (9,141 square km), it lies between the North Sea (west) and the uplands of Bykleheiane and Rjuven (east). The ...
Rogation Days: in the Roman Catholic church, festivals devoted to special prayers for the crops; they comprise the Major Rogation (Major Litany) on April 25 and the Minor Rogations (Minor Litany) on ...
Roger: Norman duke of Apulia from 1085 to 1111, son of Robert Guiscard. His succession to his father's lands and title in 1085 led to a conflict with his half brother ...
Roger: Norman ruler (1112-19) of the Crusader state of Antioch during the period of its greatest power.
Roger I: count of Sicily from 1072. He was the last son of the second marriage of Tancred of Hauteville.
Roger II: grand count of Sicily (1105-30) and king of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily (1130-54). He also incorporated the mainland territories of Calabria in 1122 and Apulia in 1127.
Roger Of Hoveden: English chronicler and historian of the reigns of Henry II and Richard I, whose report on the years 1148 to 1170 is one of the few authentic accounts of the ...
Roger Of Pont L'eveque: archbishop of York and adviser of King Henry II of England, who supported the King in his dispute with Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury.
Rogers: city, Benton county, northwestern Arkansas, U.S. It lies about 20 miles (32 km) north of Fayetteville, near the Beaver Dam and Lake, in the Ozark Mountains. B.F. Sikes, who owned ...
Rogers Pass: gap between the Hermit and Sir Donald ranges of the Selkirk Mountains, in Glacier National Park, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It was named for Major A.B. Rogers, who explored it ...
Rogers, Bruce: typographer and book designer, highly influential in fine book design in the United States during the early 20th century.
Rogers, Carl R.: American psychologist who originated the nondirective, or client-centred, approach to psychotherapy, emphasizing a person-to-person relationship between the therapist and the client (formerly known as the patient), who determines the course, ...
Rogers, Edith Nourse: American public official, longtime U.S. congressional representative from Massachusetts, perhaps most remembered for her work with veterans affairs.
Rogers, Ginger: American stage and film dancer and actress, noted primarily as the partner of Fred Astaire in a series of motion-picture musicals.
Rogers, Harriet Burbank: educator and pioneer in the oral method of instruction of the deaf in the United States.
Rogers, Henry Darwin: American structural geologist who contributed much to the theory of mountain building through his studies of the geology of Pennsylvania.
Rogers, John: Fifth Monarchist leader in Cromwellian England.
Rogers, John: religious Reformer and the first Protestant martyr of the English queen Mary I's reign. He was the editor of the English Bible published (1537) under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew.
Rogers, Mary Joseph: founder of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, popularly called the Maryknoll Sisters, an American religious congregation devoted specifically to foreign mission work.
Rogers, Mount: highest point in Virginia, U.S., reaching an elevation of 5,729 feet (1,746 metres). It is located in the Iron Mountains (a segment of the Appalachian Mountains), within Jefferson National Forest ...
Rogers, Robert: American frontier soldier who raised and commanded a militia force, known as Rogers's Rangers, which won wide repute during the French and Indian War (1754-63).
Rogers, Samuel: English poet, best remembered as a witty conversationalist and as a friend of greater poets.
Rogers, Sir Richard: Italian-born British high-tech architect.
Rogers, Will: American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour.
Rogers, William: English educational reformer, known as "Hang-Theology Rogers" because of his proposals that doctrinal training be left to parents and the clergy.
Rogers, Woodes: English privateer and governor of the Bahamas who helped suppress piracy in the Caribbean.
Roget, Peter Mark: English physician and philologist remembered for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a comprehensive classification of synonyms or verbal equivalents that is still popular in modern editions.
Rogier, Charles Latour: statesman and one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 that resulted in an independent Belgian kingdom. The foremost Liberal leader in the first four decades of the ...
Rogun Dam: partially finished, large rock- and earth-fill dam on the Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan, upstream from the Nurek Dam. Construction on the dam began in 1976, when Tajikistan was part ...
Roh Moo Hyun: South Korean politician and lawyer, president of South Korea from 2003.
Roh Tae Woo: Korean military officer and politician who as president of South Korea (1988-93) instituted democratic reforms.
Rohan Family: one of the great families of the European nobility. Sometimes claiming descent from the first independent house of Brittany, it is traceable to the 12th-century lords, or viscounts, of Rohan, ...
Rohan, Henri, duc de: duke of Rohan from 1603, and a soldier, writer, and leader of the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
Rohan, Louis-Rene-Edouard, prince de: cardinal from 1778 and bishop of Strasbourg from 1779 to 1801, who was the antihero of the French scandal known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace in 1785 (see ...
Roheim, Geza: Hungarian-American psychoanalyst who was the first ethnologist to utilize a psychoanalytic approach to interpreting culture.
Rohilkhand: low-lying, alluvial region in northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. The Rohilkhand is part of the Upper Ganges Plain and has an area of about 10,000 square miles (25,000 square ...
Rohilla War: (1774), in the history of India, the conflict in which Warren Hastings, British governor-general of Bengal, helped the Nawab of Oudh defeat the Rohillas by lending a brigade of the ...
Rohlfs, Christian: German painter and printmaker who worked in an Expressionist style.
Rohlfs, Gerhard: German explorer renowned for his dramatic journeys across the deserts of North Africa. More an adventurer than a scientific explorer, Rohlfs nevertheless compiled valuable geographic information. He was also the ...
Rohm, Ernst: German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler's storm troops (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts). Feared as a rival by Hitler, he was murdered at the Fuhrer's order.
Rohmer, Eric: French motion-picture director and writer noted for his sensitively observed studies of romantic passion.
Rohmer, Sax: internationally popular British writer who created the sinister Chinese criminal genius Fu Manchu, the hero-villain of many novels. The character Fu Manchu later appeared in motion pictures, radio, and television.
Rohrer, Heinrich: Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope. (Ernst Ruska received the other half ...
Rohtak: city, central Haryana state, northwestern India. It is connected by rail with Delhi and by road with Bhiwani and Panipat. Rohtak, formerly called Rohtasgarh (Fort of Rohtas), is said to ...
rohu: Indian fish, a species of labeo (q.v.).
Roi Et: town, northeastern Thailand. It is a highway junction and is located near the Chi River. The surrounding area is densely settled, hilly, and poor. Between 1960 and 1970 it lost ...
Roiphe, Anne: American feminist and author whose novels and nonfiction explore the conflicts between women's traditional family roles and the desire for an independent identity.
Rojas Pinilla, Gustavo: professional soldier and dictator of Colombia (1953-57) whose corrupt and authoritarian regime converted his nationwide popularity into united national hostility. Nevertheless, he remained a major force in Colombian political life.
Rojas Villandrando, Agustin de: Spanish actor and author whose most important work, El viaje entretenido ("The Pleasant Voyage"), a picaresque novel in dialogue form, provides a valuable account of the Spanish theatre in the ...
Rojas Zorrilla, Francisco de: Spanish dramatist of the school of his more eminent contemporary, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Rojas Zorrilla was noted for tragedies and a new kind of play, the comedia de ...
Rojas, Fernando de: Spanish author whose single work is La Celestina, an extended prose drama in dialogue that marked an important stage in the development of prose fiction in Spain and in Europe.
Rojas, Manuel: Chilean novelist and short-story writer.
Rok Stone: 9th-century memorial block bearing the longest runic inscription known, found in Ostergotland, Swed. Carved in granite, 725 runes bear a legible text containing secret formulas, perhaps maledictory in nature, verses ...
Rokel River: river rising in the Guinea Highlands in north central Sierra Leone, West Africa. It drains a 4,100-sq-mi (10,620-sq-km) basin on its 250-mi (400-km) southwesterly course toward the Atlantic, and empties ...
Rokitansky, Karl, Freiherr von: (baron of ) Austrian pathologist whose endeavours to establish a systematic picture of the sick organism from nearly 100,000 autopsies-30,000 of which he himself performed-helped make the study of pathological ...
Rokkaku Shisui: authority on Japanese lacquer ware.
Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich: Soviet military commander noted for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43).
Rokycana, Jan: Czech Jan Z Rokycan priest, archbishop, and follower of Jan Hus (1372/73-1415); he was a chief organizer of the papally denounced Hussite Church and a major figure in Bohemian church ...
Rolamite: mechanical roller-band device that functions as an almost frictionless suspension system for rollers; it consists of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop. In the , rollers A ...
Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Henriette Goverdina Anna: Dutch poet and active Socialist whose work deals with the humanitarian concerns that informed her politics.
Roland, Jean-Marie: French industrial scientist who, largely through his wife's ambition, became a leader of the moderate Girondin faction of bourgeois revolutionaries during the French Revolution.
Roland, Jeanne-Marie: wife of Jean-Marie Roland, who directed her husband's political career during the French Revolution, greatly influencing the policies of the moderate Girondin faction of bourgeois revolutionaries.
Rolandia: city, northern Parana state, southern Brazil. It was called Caviuna from 1944 to 1948. The population of the surrounding district has grown dramatically in the 20th century, with the introduction ...
Roldan, Pedro: Spanish sculptor, painter, and architect, best remembered for his work on the main altarpiece at La Caridad, Sevilla (Seville), designed by Simon de Pineda and polychromed by Juan Valdes Leal.
Roldos Aguilera, Jaime: lawyer elected president of Ecuador in 1979.
role: in sociology, the behaviour expected of an individual who occupies a given social position or status. A role is a comprehensive pattern of behaviour that is socially recognized, providing a ...
Rolfe, Frederick William: English author and eccentric, best known for his autobiographical fantasy Hadrian the Seventh. He provides the curious example of an artist rescued from obscurity by his biographer; many years after ...
Rolfe, John: Virginia planter and colonial official who was the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief Powhatan.
Rolin, Dominique: Belgian novelist noted for embracing new narrative techniques. Author of more than 30 books in 50 years, Rolin produced a body of fiction that centres on the themes of birth, ...
Rolla: city, seat (1861) of Phelps county, south-central Missouri, U.S. It is located in the Ozark Mountains, near the Gasconade River and units of the Mark Twain National Forest (headquartered at ...