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Rye: town ("parish"), Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, on a hill by the River Rother. The community's cobbled streets and timber-framed and Georgian houses ...
Rye House Plot: (1683), alleged Whig conspiracy to assassinate or mount an insurrection against Charles II of England because of his pro-Roman Catholic policies. The plot drew its name from Rye House at ...
rye whiskey: whiskey that is distilled from a mash in which rye grain predominates. See whiskey.
Ryedale: district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England, named for a small dale and river draining into the Vale of Pickering. This predominantly rural district is the ...
ryegrass: any of about 10 species constituting the genus Lolium (family Poaceae), which includes forage and lawn grasses of temperate Eurasia and the noxious weed known as darnel (L. temulentum). Ryegrasses ...
Ryerson, Egerton: Canadian provincial educator and Methodist church leader who founded the public education system of what is now Ontario province.
Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich: Bolshevik leader who became a prominent Soviet official after the Russian Revolution (October 1917) and one of Joseph Stalin's major opponents during the late 1920s.
Ryle, Gilbert: British philosopher, leading figure in the "Oxford philosophy," or "ordinary language," movement.
Ryle, Sir Martin: British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location of weak radio sources. With improved equipment, he observed the most distant known galaxies of ...
Ryleyev, Kondraty Fyodorovich: Russian poet and revolutionary, a leader in the Decembrist revolt of 1825.
Rymer, Thomas: English literary critic who introduced into England the principles of French formalist Neoclassical criticism. As historiographer royal, he also compiled a collection of treaties of considerable value to the medievalist.
Ryobu Shinto: in Japanese religion, the syncretic school that combined Shinto with the teachings of the Shingon sect of Buddhism. The school developed during the late Heian (794-1185) and Kamakura (1192-1333) periods. ...
Ryokan: original name Yamamoto Eizo Zen Buddhist priest of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867) who was renowned as a poet and calligrapher.
Rysbrack, John Michael: Flemish Jan Michiel Rijsbrack one of the principal sculptors and designers in England in the 18th century.
Ryukyu Islands: archipelago, extending some 700 miles (1,100 km) southwestward from the southern Japanese island of Kyushu to northeastern Taiwan. The archipelago defines the boundary between the East China Sea (west) and ...
Ryukyu Trench: deep ocean trench running north along the eastern edge of the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) in the Philippine Sea, between Taiwan and the Japanese archipelago. The Ryukyu Trench reaches a maximum ...
Ryzhkov, Nikolay: premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.
Rzeszow: city, capital of Podkarpackie wojewodztwo (province), southeastern Poland. It lies along the Wislok River at the juncture of the Carpathian Mountains and the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszow lies ...
Rzhev: city, Tver oblast ("region"), northwestern Russia. It lies along the upper Volga River at the crossing of the Moscow-Riga and St. Petersburg-Bryansk trunk railways.