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- animal fibre obtained from the Angora rabbit and the various species of the common rabbit. Rabbits have coats consisting of both long, protective guard hairs and a fine insulating undercoat.
- Rabbitt, Edward Thomas
- ) American singer-songwriter-guitarist who in the 1970s and '80s reached the top of the charts with 26 country singles, among them "I Love a Rainy Night" (b. Nov. 27, 1944, Brooklyn, N.Y.--d. May 7, 1998, Nashville, Tenn.).
- Rabbula
- reforming bishop of Edessa and theologian who was a leading figure in the Christian church in Syria. He advocated the orthodox Alexandrian (Egypt) position in the 5th-century controversy with the Antiochian (Syria) school of Nestorianism, a heretical teaching that separated ... [2 Related Articles]
- Rabe, David
- American playwright whose experiences as a draftee assigned to a hospital-support unit in Vietnam were the basis for several acclaimed dramas. His work is known for its use of grotesque humour, satire, and surreal fantasy. [1 Related Articles]
- Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph
- Malagasy writer, one of the most important of African poets writing in French, considered to be the father of modern literature in his native land.
- Rabel, Daniel
- (from the article "stage design") ...such as Torelli brought great prestige to their patrons. An outburst of Baroque opulence bore witness to the power and splendour of the Sun King. In France in the early 17th century, the designer Daniel Rabel worked inventively, producing many ...
- Rabelais, Francois
- French writer and priest who for his contemporaries was an eminent physician and humanist and for posterity is the author of the comic masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel. The four novels composing this work are outstanding for their rich use of ... [9 Related Articles]
- Rabemananjara, Jacques
- Malagasy politician, playwright, and poet. [1 Related Articles]
- rabi
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...(maize), rapeseed, and mustard, as well as a variety of garden crops, including onions, peppers, and potatoes. Pakistan benefits greatly from having two growing seasons, rabi (spring harvest) and kharif (fall harvest).
- Rabi'ah al-'Adawiyah
- (from the article "Sufism") The introduction of the element of love, which changed asceticism into mysticism, is ascribed to Rabi'ah al-'Adawiyah (died 801), a woman from Basra who first formulated the Sufi ideal of a love of God that was disinterested, without hope for ...
- Rabi, Isidor Isaac
- American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of observing atomic spectra. [3 Related Articles]
- Rabida Island
- one of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles (965 km) west of Ecuador. The island has an area of about 1 square mile (3 square km) and is studded with several small volcanic craters. Originally ...
- rabies
- acute, ordinarily fatal, viral disease of the central nervous system that is usually spread among domestic dogs and wild carnivorous animals by a bite. All warm-blooded animals, including humans, are susceptible to rabies infection. The virus, a rhabdovirus, is often ... [9 Related Articles]
- rabies vaccine adsorbed
- (from the article "rabies") ...also be initiated to allow the patient's body to make its own antibody. The safest and most effective vaccines are human diploid cell vaccine (HDCV), purified chick embryo cell culture (PCEC), and rabies vaccine adsorbed (RVA). With older vaccines, at ...
- rabies virus
- (from the article "rabies") ...of the central nervous system that is usually spread among domestic dogs and wild carnivorous animals by a bite. All warm-blooded animals, including humans, are susceptible to rabies infection. The virus, a rhabdovirus, is often present in the salivary glands ...
- Rabih az-Zubayr
- Muslim military leader who established a military hegemony in the districts immediately east of Lake Chad. [1 Related Articles]
- Rabin, Leah
- German-born Israeli consort and peace activist (b. April 8, 1928, Konigsberg, Ger. [now Kaliningrad, Russia]-d. Nov. 12, 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel), was the wife of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. She grew up in ...
- Rabin, Yitzhak
- Israeli statesman and soldier who, as prime minister of Israel (1974-77, 1992-95), led his country toward peace with its Palestinian and Arab neighbours. He was chief of staff of Israel's armed forces during the Six-Day War (June 1967). Along with ... [10 Related Articles]
- Rabindra Bharati University
- (from the article "Calcutta") ...(humanities), science, and engineering. Although the university has a small number of colleges affiliated with it, its main focus is on graduate and postgraduate instruction on a single campus. Rabindra Bharati University specializes in humanities and the fine arts (dance, ...
- Rabinowitz, Victor
- American lawyer defended a pantheon of left-wing causes and such clients as Department of State official Alger Hiss and Cuban leader Fidel Castro; Rabinowitz won the business of the latter's government over a 1960 chess game with Cuba's revolutionary leader ...
- Rabirius
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...northwest side of the hill. Another palace was built on the southeast corner of the hill by Claudius or Nero. The central space was covered by the palace of the Flavians: Domitian and his architect Rabirius were responsible for a ...
- rabisu
- (from the article "angel and demon") ...attempt to coerce man into not attaining his higher spiritual aspirations or not performing activities necessary for his well-being in the normal course of living. The ancient Assyrian demon rabisu apparently is a classic prototype of a supernatural being that ...
- Rabito, Vincenzo
- (from the article "Literature") ...success of Andrea Camilleri's novels (such as La pista di sabbia, the latest of Inspector Montalbano's adventures) but also by the publication of Terra matta, an edited version of Vincenzo Rabito's memoir. Rabito's lack of formal education did not prevent ...
- Raboni, Giovanni
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...Experimentalism and the new avant-garde) and the wry confessional autobiographer (or "autobiologist") and macabre humorist Giovanni Giudici had an impact, as did colloquialist Giovanni Raboni, who was also linked with the sobriety and moral concerns of the
- Rabuka, Sitiveni
- (from the article "Fiji") ...of the House of Representatives and the Senate. In October 1987 Fiji was expelled from the Commonwealth (though it was readmitted in 1997) and became a republic. The coup leader, Lieut. Col. Sitiveni Rabuka, appointed a civilian government headed by ...
- Rabula Gospels
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...the Cotton Collection. There has been dispute as to where these manuscripts were written and painted, but either Constantinople or Syria is the normal attribution. A fifth religious manuscript, the Rabula Gospels, whose text is framed in elaborate architectural and ...
- Rabulist riots
- (1838), in Swedish history, wave of popular demonstrations in Stockholm that led to a loosening of Swedish government press censorship and furthered the fortunes of parliamentary government.
- Raby, Al
- African American civil rights activist, cochair of the Chicago Freedom Movement in the 1960s and campaign manager for Harold Washington, who became Chicago's first black mayor in 1983.
- Racan, Honorat de Bueil, Seigneur de
- French poet, one of the earliest members (1635) of the French Academy.
- Racan, Ivica
- Croatian politician as prime minister (2000-03) of Croatia, moved the country away from the nationalistic authoritarianism of Pres. Franjo Tudjman, the country's first leader (1991-99) after independence, and toward a more liberal Western-oriented future. Racan introduced economic reforms, including ... [1 Related Articles]
- Racconigi Agreement
- (from the article "Izvolsky, Aleksandr, Count") ...expense, Austria declined to use its influence to bring about the opening of the strait. Izvolsky then attempted to balance Austrian influence in the Balkans by concluding an agreement with Italy (Racconigi Agreement; Oct. 24, 1909), in which the two ...
- raccoon
- any of seven species of nocturnal mammals characterized by bushy, ringed tails. The most common and well-known is the North American raccoon (Procyon lotor), which ranges from northern Canada and most of the United States southward into South America. It ... [2 Related Articles]
- raccoon dog
- (Nyctereutes procyonoides), member of the dog family (Canidae) native to eastern Asia and introduced into Europe. Some authorities place it in the raccoon family, Procyonidae. It resembles the raccoon in having dark facial markings that contrast with ... [1 Related Articles]
- Raccoon River
- (from the article "Mississippi River") ...this time confined to the parts of the river above its confluence with the Ohio (which was not in flood). Among the worst-hit rivers were the lower reaches of the Missouri, the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers in Iowa, and ...
- race
- the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that "races" ... [11 Related Articles]
- race
- (from the article "Wilson, Jackie") ...to deal with the routine forms of racial segregation that made it difficult for African-American male artists to secure mainstream success. The commercial and stylistic barriers between so-called "race music" and the predominantly white pop Top 40 forced singers like ...
- Race Relations Act
- (from the article "United Kingdom") This was evident earlier in the very limited nature of the Race Relations Act of 1965, itself fiercely opposed by the Conservatives. A subsequent amendment, in 1968, outlawed discrimination in areas such as employment and the provision of goods and ...
- Race Relations Act
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...fiercely opposed by the Conservatives. A subsequent amendment, in 1968, outlawed discrimination in areas such as employment and the provision of goods and services. However, it was not until the Race Relations Act of 1976 that any real change was ...
- race riot
- (from the article "Las Vegas") ...de facto segregation existed elsewhere in Nevada until the mid-1960s. In 1968 Governor Paul Laxalt initiated several far-reaching reforms that were meant to ease growing ethnic tensions. Even so, race riots broke out in 1969 and 1970. From the early ...
- race walking
- (from the article "athletics") This event, also called race walking, is relatively minor. Aside from the Olympic and other multinational competitions, it is seldom a part of track meets. Olympic competition is over 20,000 and 50,000 metres, while other distances are used in individual ...
- race, milieu, and moment
- according to the French critic Hippolyte Taine, the three principal motives or conditioning factors behind any work of art. Taine sought to establish a scientific approach to literature through the investigation of what created the individual who created the work ... [1 Related Articles]
- Race-Horse keno
- (from the article "keno") ...name keno, a corruption of the French word quine ("group of five"). In 1933 keno was introduced in gambling houses in Reno, Nevada, under the name Race-Horse Keno, with names of horses instead of numbers on the ...
- racehorse
- (from the article "exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage") disease condition in horses in which blood appears in the airways during and after strenuous exercise. More than 80 percent of racehorses, including Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and American Quarter Horses, are affected to varying degrees. The condition can compromise racing performance. ...
- racemate
- a mixture of equal quantities of two enantiomorphs, or substances that have dissymmetric molecular structures that are mirror images of one another. Each enantiomorph rotates the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light through a characteristic angle, but, because the rotatory ...
- raceme
- (from the article "angiosperm") ...in the centre (in truncated axes). Branching and the associated flowers develop at some distance from the main stem (monopodial growth). Indeterminate inflorescences are of varied types (Figure 15): racemes, panicles, spikes, catkins (or aments), corymbs, and heads.inflorescences
- racemic acid
- (from the article "racemate") ...light through a characteristic angle, but, because the rotatory effect of each component exactly cancels that of the other, the racemic mixture is optically inactive. The name is derived from racemic acid, the first example of such a substance to ...
- racemic menthol
- (from the article "menthol") ...The naturally occurring material is the levorotatory form (the compound that rotates the plane of polarized light to the left), called (-)-menthol (or l-menthol). Synthetic menthol is racemic, consisting of equal amounts (-)-menthol and (+)-menthol (or d-menthol), the latter being ...
- racemization
- (from the article "racemate") The process by which an optically active substance is transformed into the corresponding racemic modification is known as racemization; the converse process, by which a racemic modification is separated into the two enantiomorphs, is known as resolution. The ease with ...
- racer
- any of several large, swift nonvenomous snakes belonging to the family Colubridae. Racers of North America belong to a single species, Coluber constrictor, and several species of the genus Elaphe in Southeast Asia are called racers. Blue racers are the ...
- Racer
- (from the article "roller coaster") ...beloved wooden coasters, or "woodies," which were also instrumental in the roller coaster rebirth. Nostalgia was part of the attraction to new wooden "megacoasters," such as Racer (1972), a classic John Allen design featuring dual coasters, and the Beast (1979), ...
- 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 and across South America to Argentina. Species also occur on ... [1 Related Articles]
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