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Ridi Vihara: (from the article "Kurunegala") ...that produces rice, rubber latex, spices, cocoa, and, especially, coconuts. Kurunegala has good road and rail connections with the rest of Sri Lanka. Some 12 miles (20 km) northeast of ...
Riding Mountain National Park: (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...is an important winter sport. In addition to hockey, other major participant sports include baseball, football (soccer), cross-country skiing, fishing, and hunting. Manitoba has one national park, Riding Mountain, and ...
Riding, Laura: nee Reichenthal, married name Jackson, pseudonyms Barbara Rich, Madeleine Vara, and Laura Riding Gottschalk American poet, critic, and prose writer who was influential among the literary avant-garde during the 1920s ...
Ridler, Anne: English poet and dramatist noted for her devotional poetry and for verse drama that shows the influence of the later work of T.S. Eliot. [1 Related Articles]
Ridley of Liddesdale, Nicholas Ridley: BARON, British politician (b. Feb. 17, 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, England--d. March 4, 1993, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England), was a staunch supporter of free-market economic policies and one of ...
Ridley, Henry Nicholas: English botanist who was largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry in the Malay Peninsula. [2 Related Articles]
Ridley, Nicholas: Protestant martyr, one of the finest academic minds in the early English Reformation. [3 Related Articles]
Ridley, Sir Harold Lloyd: British ophthalmologist (b. July 10, 1906, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, Eng.-d. May 25, 2001, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Eng.), devised the first successful artificial intraocular lens (IOL) transplant surgery for cataract patients. During ...
Ridolfi Plot: (from the article "Elizabeth I") ...in the staunchly Catholic north of England was put down by savage military force; while in 1571 the queen's informers and spies uncovered an international conspiracy against her life, known ...
Ridolfi, Roberto: also called Roberto Di Ridolfo Florentine conspirator who attempted in 1570-71 to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England in favour of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, who then was to ... [4 Related Articles]
Rie, Lucie, Dame: nee Gomperz Austrian-born British studio potter. Her unique and complex slip-glaze surface treatment and inventive kiln-processing influenced an entire generation of younger British ceramists. [1 Related Articles]
riebeckite: a sodium-iron silicate mineral [Na₂Fe²⁺₃Fe³⁺₂Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂] in the amphibole family. It forms part of a solid-solution series that includes both magnesioriebeckite (formed when iron is replaced by magnesium) and glaucophane (formed ... [2 Related Articles]
Riebeeck, Jan van: Dutch founder in 1652 of Cape Town, thus opening South Africa for white settlement. [3 Related Articles]
Riecke's principle: in geology, statement that a mineral grain possesses a greater solubility under high stress than it does under low stress. According to this principle, stressed grains in a rock will ...
Ried: town, northern Austria, located west of Wels. It has a museum of folklore and a parish church (1721-33) with two 17th-century altars. The town is the market and administrative centre ...
Ried, Benedikt: (from the article "Western architecture") The shift from the Gothic style to the Renaissance in Bohemia is visible in the architecture of the leading late 15th-century architect in Prague, Benedikt Ried. The interior of his ...
Riedel thyroiditis: extremely rare form of chronic inflammation of the thyroid gland, in which the glandular tissues assume a densely fibrous structure, interfering with production of thyroid hormone and compressing the adjacent ...
Riedel, Claus Josef: Czech-born glassmaker (b. Feb. 19, 1925, Polaun, Czech. [now in the Czech Republic]-d. March 17, 2004, Genoa, Italy), designed several lines of quality glassware precisely for their ability to enhance ...
Riedel, Eduard: (from the article "Neuschwanstein Castle") ...atop a rock ledge over the Pollat Gorge in the Bavarian Alps (near Fussen, Ger.) by order of Bavaria's King Louis II, called "Mad Ludwig." The project's principal architect was ...
Riefenstahl, Leni: German motion-picture director, actress, producer, and photographer who is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s dramatizing the power and pageantry of the Nazi movement. [4 Related Articles]
Rieff, Philip: (from the article "Freud, Sigmund") ...refutations, and qualifications of Freud's work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined. If, as the American ...
Rieger, Frantisek Ladislav: politician and leader of the more conservative Czech nationalists who was the principal spokesman for Bohemian autonomy within the Habsburg Empire. [2 Related Articles]
Riegger, Wallingford: prolific U.S. composer of orchestral works, modern dance and film scores, and teaching pieces and choral arrangements.
Riegner, Gerhart Moritz: German-born lawyer and human rights activist (b. Sept. 12, 1911, Berlin, Ger.-d. Dec. 3, 2001, Geneva, Switz.), was the first to warn government officials in London and Washington, D.C. (in ...
Riego phase, El: (from the article "Mexico") In the earlier El Riego (7000-5000 BC) and Coxcatlan (5000-3400 BC) phases of this sequence, the inhabitants of the Tehuacan Valley were probably seasonal nomads who divided their time between ...
Riego y Nunez, Rafael de: (from the article "Spain") ...army and a fleet to send to America failed. In 1820 the army that was to subdue the colonies revolted against the king in a pronunciamiento organized ...
Riehl, Alois: (from the article "Kantianism") Realistic Neo-Kantianism, the third manifestation of epistemological Neo-Kantianism, was represented in the Realism of the scientific monist Alois Riehl and of his disciple Richard Honigswald. In a work on the ...
Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich: German journalist and historian whose early emphasis on social structures in historical development were influential in the rise of sociological history.
riel: (from the article "Cambodia") Cambodia's commercial banking system was established in 1989-90. It is headed by the National Bank of Cambodia, which functions as the central bank and issues the national currency, the riel. ...
Riel Rebellion: (from the article "Canada") The government regarded the acquisition of the northwest as a simple real estate transaction with the Hudson's Bay Company. But the company was not the only power in the territory. ...
Riel Rebellion: (from the article "Batoche") ...Metis trader, Xavier Letendre, whose nickname was Batoche. The settlement became the headquarters of Louis Riel, leader of the Metis (people of mixed French and Indian ancestry) in the Riel ...
Riel, Louis: Canadian leader of the Metis in western Canada. [8 Related Articles]
Riella: (from the article "bryophyte") ...organ surrounded by an enveloping sac, lateral; sporangium spherical, lacking seta and elaters, opening by disintegration of the unornamented jacket cells; terrestrial except the aquatic genus Riella; distributed mainly in ...
Riemann hypothesis: (from the article "Hilbert, David") ...for mathematicians in the 20th century. Many of the problems have since been solved, and each solution was a noted event. Of those that remain, however, one, in part, requires ...
Riemann surface: (from the article "analysis") ...of higher-dimensional spaces. Sometimes the geometry guided the development of concepts in analysis, and sometimes it was the reverse. A beautiful example of this interaction was the concept of a ...
Riemann zeta function: function useful in number theory for investigating properties of prime numbers. Written as zeta(x), it was originally defined as the infinite series zeta(x) = 1 + 2^−x + 3^−x + ... [6 Related Articles]
Riemann, Bernhard: German mathematician whose profound and novel approaches to the study of geometry laid the mathematical foundation for Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. He also made important contributions to the theory ... [8 Related Articles]
Riemann, Hugo: German musicologist whose works on music harmony are considered to have been the foundation of modern music theory.
Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor: (from the article "nature, philosophy of") ...considerations to the case of a three-dimensional space that can have different curvature properties from place to place (expressed by several functions of position that are collectively called the curvature ...
Riemannian geometry: one of the non-Euclidean geometries that completely rejects the validity of Euclid's fifth postulate and modifies his second postulate. Simply stated, Euclid's fifth postulate is: through a point not on ... [6 Related Articles]
Riemenschneider, Tilman: master sculptor whose wood portrait carvings and statues made him one of the major artists of the late Gothic period in Germany; he was known as the leader of the ... [2 Related Articles]
Riesener, Jean-Henri: the best-known cabinetmaker in France during the reign of Louis XVI. [1 Related Articles]
Riesling: (from the article "Alsace") Alsace has a rich, highly intensive agriculture characterized by small farms. This is particularly true of the vineyards that dominate the foothills of the Vosges. Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Sylvaner, Auxerrois, and ...
Riesman, David: American sociologist and author most noted for The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer, 1950), a work dealing ... [1 Related Articles]
Riesz, Frigyes: Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis, which has found important applications to mathematical physics.
Riesz-Fischer theorem: (from the article "Riesz, Frigyes") Many of Riesz's fundamental findings in functional analysis were incorporated with those of Stefan Banach of Poland. The Riesz-Fischer theorem of 1907, concerning the equivalence of the Hilbert space of ...
Rieti: city, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy, on the Velino River in the Abruzzi Apennines, just southeast of Terni. The ancient town was first settled by the Sabines and then became ...
Rietveld, Gerrit Thomas: Dutch architect and furniture designer notable for his application of the tenets of the de Stijl movement. He was an apprentice in his father's cabinetmaking business from 1899 to 1906 ... [2 Related Articles]
Rievaulx: ruined Cistercian abbey, Ryedale district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the seclusion of a deep valley to which it has given its ...
Rieveschl, George: American chemical engineer invented the chemical compound used in the antihistamine Benadryl. Though not a medical doctor, Rieveschl brought relief to millions of allergy sufferers through his synthesis of beta-dimethylaminoethylbenzhydryl ...
Rif: any of the Berber peoples occupying a part of northeastern Morocco known as the Rif, an Arabic word meaning "edge of cultivated area." The Rif are divided into 19 groups ... [5 Related Articles]
Rif: mountain range of northern Morocco, extending from Tangier to the Moulouya River valley near the Moroccan-Algerian frontier. For the greater part of its 180-mile (290-km) length, the range hugs the ... [2 Related Articles]
Rif language: (from the article "Rif") ...coast, 7 in the centre, 5 in the east, and 2 in the southeastern desert area. One central group is Arabic-speaking, as are sections of the five western groups. The ...
Rif War: (1919-26), war fought between the Spanish and the Moroccan Rif and Jibala tribes. [2 Related Articles]
Rif, Republic of the: (from the article "Abd el-Krim") leader of a resistance movement against Spanish and French rule in North Africa and founder of the short-lived Republic of the Rif (1921-26). A skilled tactician and a capable organizer, ...
Rifa', Ar-: municipality in the state and emirate of Bahrain, on north-central Bahrain island, in the Persian Gulf. It is on the north rim of the island's central depression, site of the ...
Rifa'iyah: fraternity of Muslim mystics (Sufis), known in the West as howling dervishes, found primarily in Egypt and Syria and in Turkey until outlawed in 1925. An offshoot of the Qadiriyah ... [1 Related Articles]
rifampin: (from the article "drug") ...for converting the intermediate to folic acid. This reaction is reversible by removing the chemical, which results in the inhibition but not the death of the microorganisms. One antibiotic, rifampin, ...
Rifbjerg, Klaus: Danish poet, novelist, playwright, and editor. [3 Related Articles]
Riffaterre, Michael: American literary critic, whose textual analyses emphasize the responses of the reader and not the biography and politics of the author. [1 Related Articles]
Rifkind, Malcolm Leslie: When he reshuffled the United Kingdom's Cabinet in July 1995, Prime Minister John Major promoted Malcolm Rifkind to become his foreign secretary. Rifkind had long supported greater cooperation with the ...
Rifkind, Simon Hirsch: Russian-born U.S. lawyer and judge (b. June 5, 1901, Meretz, Russia--d. Nov. 14, 1995, New York, N.Y.), in a career of more than 60 years, represented clients ranging from the ...
rifle: firearm with a rifled bore-i.e., having shallow spiral grooves cut inside the barrel to impart a spin to the projectile. The name, most often applied to a weapon fired from ... [12 Related Articles]
rifle company: (from the article "company") ...to be carried by foot soldiers. Not until World War II, when lighter machine guns, mortars, and antitank weapons had been developed, did crew-served weapons become a normal part of ...
rifle grenade: (from the article "grenade") Grenades can be launched from the muzzle of a rifle either by the force of a cartridge or by the expanding gases of a blank cartridge. Such grenades usually have ...
riflebird: (from the article "riflebird") any of certain bird-of-paradise (q.v.) species.PHOTOGRAPHMagnificent riflebird (Ptiloris magnificus).Brian J. Coates/Bruce Coleman Ltd.
rifleman: (from the article "rifleman") a New Zealand wren of the family Xenicidae (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicXenicidae
Riflemen, Union of: (from the article "Pilsudski, Jozef") ...the Russian Empire's structural weakness and foreseeing a European war, Pilsudski concluded that it was imperative to organize the nucleus of a future Polish army. In 1908 he formed a ...
rifling: (from the article "small arm") As killing machines, smoothbore infantry muskets were relatively inefficient. Their heavy, round lead balls delivered bone-crushing and tissue-destroying blows when they hit a human body, but beyond 75 yards even ...
rift valley: any elongated trough formed by the subsidence of a segment of the Earth's crust between dip-slip, or normal, faults. Such a fault is a fracture in the terrestrial surface in ... [7 Related Articles]
Rift Valley fever: viral infection of animals that is transmissible to humans and causes a febrile illness of short duration. Headache, intolerance to light (photophobia), muscle pain, loss of appetite, and prostration are ... [1 Related Articles]
rift volcano: (from the article "volcano") Rift volcanoes form when magma rises into the gap between diverging plates. They thus occur at or near actual plate boundaries. Measurements in Iceland suggest that the separation of plates ...
rifting: (from the article "plate tectonics") Upwelling of magma causes the overlying lithosphere to uplift and stretch. If the diverging plates are capped by continental crust, fractures develop that are invaded by the ascending magma, prying ...
Riga: city and capital of Latvia. It occupies both banks of the Western Dvina River 9 miles (15 km) above its mouth on the Gulf of Riga. [5 Related Articles]
Riga, Gulf of: large gulf of the Baltic Sea, bounded by the northern coast of Latvia and the western coast of Estonia, about 7,000 sq mi (18,000 sq km) in area. The gulf ... [1 Related Articles]
Riga, Treaty of: (from the article "Belarus") ...in April of that year, troops of newly reconstituted Poland advanced eastward to the Byarezina River only to be thrown back again in 1920. Hostilities between Russia and Poland ended ...
Rigas Velestinlis: (from the article "Greece, history of") Toward the end of the 18th century Rigas Velestinlis (also known as Rigas Pheraios), a Hellenized Vlach from Thessaly, began not only to dream of, but actively to plan for, ...
Rigas, John: (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") ...in 2002, was found guilty in March on all nine counts, involving conspiracy, securities fraud, and filing false reports with regulators. Ebbers was sentenced in July to 25 years in ...
rigatoni: (from the article "pasta") ...of 12-inch (12.7-millimetre) diameter, such variations as the small elbow-shaped pieces called dita lisci, and the large, fluted, elbow-shaped pieces called rigatoni. Ribbon types include the wide lasagna and the ...
Rigaud, Andre: (from the article "Petion, Alexandre Sabes") ...and a mulatto, Petion served in the French colonial army before the French Revolution and then joined the revolutionary troops of Toussaint Louverture and, later, those of the mulatto general ...
Rigaud, Hyacinthe: one of the most prolific and successful French portrait painters of the Baroque period. He was trained at Montpellier before moving to Lyon and finally to Paris in 1681, where ...
rigaudon: sprightly 17th-century French folk dance for couples. Its hopping steps were adopted by the skillful dancers of the French and English courts, where it remained fashionable through the 18th century. ...
Rigault de Genouilly, Charles: admiral who initiated the French invasion of Vietnam in 1858 and the subsequent conquest of Cochinchina, now southern Vietnam. [1 Related Articles]
Rigdon, Sidney: American churchman, an early convert to Mormonism (1830) and first counselor to its founder, Joseph Smith. [1 Related Articles]
Rigel: one of the brightest stars in the sky, intrinsically as well as in appearance. A blue-white supergiant in the constellation Orion, Rigel is about 770 light-years from the Sun and ... [3 Related Articles]
Rigestan: (Persian: "country of sand"), arid plateau region in southwestern Afghanistan. Rigestan is, for the greater part, a sandy desert with ridges and small, isolated hills of red sand. The sand ... [1 Related Articles]
Rigestan Square: (from the article "Samarkand") ...wife, and Timur's tomb itself, the Gur-e Amir mausoleum, built about 1405. To the second half of the 15th century belongs the Ak Saray tomb with a superb fresco of ...
Rigg, Dame Diana: classically trained English stage actress who gained worldwide fame during the 1960s in the television series The Avengers.
Riggin, Aileen: American swimmer and diver, who won three Olympic medals and was the first competitor to win a medal in both a swimming and a diving event at the same Olympics. [2 Related Articles]
rigging: the sails, masts, booms, yards, stays, and lines of a sailing vessel, or its cordage only.
Riggs Bank: (from the article "Chile") The big story in Chile in 2004 revolved around former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. In July a U.S. Senate committee reported that between 1994 and 2002 the Washington, D.C.-based ...
Riggs, Robert Larimore: ("BOBBY"), U.S. tennis player (b. Feb. 25, 1918, Los Angeles, Calif.--d. Oct. 25, 1995, Leucadia, Calif.), was one of the top-ranked U.S. players in the 1930s and '40s but was ... [1 Related Articles]
Riggs, Stephen Return: (from the article "Dorsey, James Owen") ...Takelman, Kusan, and Yakonan language stocks of Oregon. His works include Omaha Sociology (1884), Osage Traditions (1888), and Siouan Sociology (1897). He edited two works by Stephen Return Riggs, A ...
right and wrong: (from the article "ethics") ...Its subject consists of the fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be ...
right angle: (from the article "Euclid's axioms and common notions") Ancient builders and surveyors needed to be able to construct right angles in the field on demand. The method employed by the Egyptians earned them the name "rope pullers" in ...
right ascension: in astronomy, the east-west coordinate by which the position of a celestial body is ordinarily measured; more precisely, it is the angular distance of a body's hour circle east of ... [5 Related Articles]
Right Bank: (from the article "Paris") ...southwest corner. As a result, what starts out as the stream's east bank becomes its north bank and ends as the west bank, and the Parisians therefore adopted the simple, ...
Right Bank: (from the article "Ukraine") ...rival hetmans rose and fell in the competing Polish and Russian spheres of influence. In 1667, by the Truce of Andrusovo, Ukraine was partitioned along the Dnieper River: the west, ...
Right Chamber: (from the article "Dajokan") ...branch, and six other departments. Reorganized several times, the Dajokan was finally restructured on Sept. 13, 1871, into three chambers: a Left Chamber (Sa-in), the legislative body; a Right Chamber ...
right fielder: (from the article "baseball") The three outfielders are positioned so as to best be able to catch or field balls that are batted over or through the infield. The three outfield positions are left ...
right hemisphere: (from the article "intelligence, human") ...of the brain's two hemispheres, the psychologist Jerre Levy and others found that the left hemisphere is superior in analytical tasks, such as are involved in the use of language, ...