• rotten borough (British history)

    rotten borough, depopulated election district that retains its original representation. The term was first applied by English parliamentary reformers of the early 19th century to such constituencies maintained by the crown or by an aristocratic patron to control seats in the House of Commons. Just

  • Rotten, Johnny (British musician)

    the Sex Pistols: The original members were vocalist Johnny Rotten (byname of John Lydon; b. January 31, 1956, London, England), guitarist Steve Jones (b. May 3, 1955, London), drummer Paul Cook (b. July 20, 1956, London), and bassist Glen Matlock (b. August 27, 1956, London). A later member was bassist Sid Vicious

  • Rotterdam (New York, United States)

    Rotterdam, town (township), Schenectady county, eastern New York, U.S. It adjoins the city of Schenectady south of the Mohawk River. The Jan Mabie House (1671) recalls early Dutch colonial settlement, as does the town’s official seal, which is identical with that of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

  • Rotterdam (Netherlands)

    Rotterdam, major European port and second largest city of the Netherlands. It lies about 19 miles (30 km) from the North Sea, to which it is linked by a canal called the New Waterway. The city lies along both banks of the New Meuse (Nieuwe Maas) River, which is a northern distributary of the Rhine

  • Rotterdam Junction (New York, United States)

    Rotterdam: Rotterdam Junction, a suburban community in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, was, from 1883 to 1931, an important river and rail juncture for Erie Canal shipments. Industries in Rotterdam produce turbines, insulating materials, and other light manufactures. Area 36 square miles (93 square km).…

  • Rotterdam Marathon (sports)

    Eliud Kipchoge: Marathons: In 2014 Kipchoge won the Rotterdam Marathon, in the Netherlands, which began his unprecedented winning streak. He subsequently won marathons in Chicago (2014), Berlin (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023), and London (2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019).

  • Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Dutch orchestra)

    Valery Gergiev: …as principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (1995–2008) and the London Symphony Orchestra (2007–15). In 2015 he became conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Gergiev, who was a prominent supporter of Pres. Vladimir Putin of Russia, was dismissed from the post in 2022, after he refused to denounce Russia’s…

  • Rottie (breed of dog)

    Rottweiler, breed of working dog that is thought to be descended from the drover dogs (cattle-driving dogs) left by the Roman legions in the vicinity of what is now Rottweil, Germany, after the Romans abandoned the region during the 2nd century ce. From the Middle Ages to about 1900, the Rottweiler

  • rotting (biology)

    soap and detergent: Raw materials: …and, because the foam retards biological degradation of organic material in sewage, it caused problems in sewage-water regeneration systems. In countries where sewage water is used for irrigation, the foam was also a problem. Intensive research in the 1960s led to changes in the alkylbenzene sulfonate molecules. The tetrapropylene, which…

  • Rottmayr, Johann Michael (Bohemian painter)

    Western painting: Central Europe: The frescoes by Johann Michael Rottmayr in the castle of Vranov in Moravia (1695) and in Breslau (now Wrocław; 1704–06) constitute a prelude to the great development of Baroque painting in the Habsburg domains. There the vigorous and extremely colourful frescoes are closely integrated with the architecture. The…

  • Rottnest Island (island, Western Australia, Australia)

    Rottnest Island, Australian island in the Indian Ocean, lying 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Fremantle (at the mouth of the Swan River, near Perth), Western Australia. A coastal limestone fragment, the island measures about 7 by 3 miles (11 by 5 km) and has sand dunes and several salt lakes. It was

  • Rottweil (Germany)

    Switzerland: Expansion and position of power: …Mulhouse in Alsace (1466), and Rottweil in Swabia (1463), princes of the church such as the abbots of Sankt Gallen (1451), and the two other confederations of rural communities, the Valais and the Graubünden, eventually adopted the status of Swiss allies (Zugewandte). These allies took part in several wars and…

  • Rottweiler (breed of dog)

    Rottweiler, breed of working dog that is thought to be descended from the drover dogs (cattle-driving dogs) left by the Roman legions in the vicinity of what is now Rottweil, Germany, after the Romans abandoned the region during the 2nd century ce. From the Middle Ages to about 1900, the Rottweiler

  • Rotuma Island (island, Fiji)

    Rotuma Island, island dependency of Fiji, South Pacific Ocean, 400 miles (640 km) north-northwest of Suva. Rotuma is a volcanic island surrounded by eight islets. Sighted in 1791 by the British naval ship Pandora during its search for the HMS Bounty mutineers, the main island was formerly called

  • Rotuman language

    Austronesian languages: Polynesian languages: …Polynesian languages are Fijian and Rotuman, a non-Polynesian language spoken by a physically Polynesian population on the small volcanic island of Rotuma northwest of the main Fijian island of Viti Levu; together with Polynesian, Fijian and Rotuman form a Central Pacific group. A number of proposals have been made regarding…

  • Rotunda (calligraphy)

    calligraphy: The black-letter, or Gothic, style (9th to 15th century): In Italy rotunda was the favoured book hand through the 15th century. It shares the dense colour of quadrata but not its angularity. Rotunda letters are condensed with sharp curves where the strokes change direction, and the feet of the minims end with an upward curve of…

  • rotunda (architecture)

    rotunda, in Classical and Neoclassical architecture, building or room within a building that is circular or oval in plan and covered with a dome. The ancestor of the rotunda was the tholus (tholos) of ancient Greece, which was also circular but was usually shaped like a beehive above. An example of

  • Rotunda Hospital (hospital, Dublin, Ireland)

    Dublin: City layout: …Street, Bartholomew Mosse constructed his Rotunda Hospital, the “Lying-In,” which remains a maternity hospital to this day. The rotunda itself is now the historic Gate Theatre. Behind the hospital is Parnell (formerly Rutland) Square, laid out in 1750, with many of its original Georgian houses still intact. One of these,…

  • Roty, Oscar (French artist)

    medal: The Baroque period: …Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909) and Louis Oscar Roty (1846–1911).

  • Rou (work by Wace)

    Wace: …de Brut (1155) and the Roman de Rou (1160–74), named respectively after the reputed founders of the Britons and Normans.

  • Rou (duke of Normandy)

    Rollo was a Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandy. According to later Scandinavian sagas, Rollo, making himself independent of King Harald I of Norway, sailed off to raid Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditions. Early in the 10th century, Rollo’s Danish army

  • Rouault, Georges (French artist)

    Georges Rouault was a French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the

  • Rouault, Georges-Henri (French artist)

    Georges Rouault was a French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the

  • Roubaix (France)

    Roubaix, industrial city, Nord département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, just northeast of Lille. It is situated on the Canal de Roubaix in the plain of Flanders near the Belgian frontier and is united in the north with Tourcoing. Roubaix obtained its first manufacturing charter in the

  • Roubaud, Jacques (French author)

    French literature: Postwar poetry: …the “crisis of verse” that Jacques Roubaud described in his study of French versification, La Vieillesse d’Alexandre (1978; “Alexander in Old Age”), remained unresolved.

  • Roubiliac, Louis-François (French sculptor)

    Louis-François Roubiliac , together with John Michael Rysbrack, was one of the most important late Baroque sculptors working in 18th-century England. A native of Lyon, Roubiliac is said to have studied in Dresden with Balthasar Permoser, a sculptor of ivory and porcelain, and in Paris with Nicolas

  • Roubillac, Louis-François (French sculptor)

    Louis-François Roubiliac , together with John Michael Rysbrack, was one of the most important late Baroque sculptors working in 18th-century England. A native of Lyon, Roubiliac is said to have studied in Dresden with Balthasar Permoser, a sculptor of ivory and porcelain, and in Paris with Nicolas

  • Roubini, Nouriel (Turkish-born American economist and educator)

    Nouriel Roubini is a Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis. Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they

  • rouble (currency)

    ruble, the monetary unit of Russia (and the former Soviet Union) and Belarus (spelled rubel). The origins of the Russian ruble as a designation of silver weight can be traced to the 13th century. In 1704 Tsar Peter I (the Great) introduced the first regular minting of the ruble in silver. During

  • Rouch, Jean (French anthropologist)

    Jean-Luc Godard: Early life and career: …influence on his work of Jean Rouch, an anthropologist who became the first practitioner and theoretician of the documentary-like film style cinéma vérité (“cinema truth”). Filmmakers of this school employ lightweight television equipment to observe their subject with the utmost informality and so completely without preconceived bias that the theme…

  • Rouché, Jacques (French director)

    Paris Opéra Ballet: …19th century was arrested by Jacques Rouché, director of the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique from 1914 to 1944. After the successful avant-garde productions of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Opéra, Rouché engaged the Russian guest artists Michel Fokine, Anna Pavlova, and Bronisława Nijinska and in 1930 appointed Serge…

  • Roud, Richard (American writer)

    New York Film Festival: Its organizer, Richard Roud, had been inspired by the success of the London Film Festival, for which he served as program director. Among the inaugural festival’s selections were films by Robert Bresson, Ozu Yasujirō, and Roman Polanski.

  • Rouelle, Hilaire-Marin (French chemist)

    urea: …1773 by the French chemist Hilaire-Marin Rouelle. Its preparation by the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler from ammonium cyanate in 1828 was the first generally accepted laboratory synthesis of a naturally occurring organic compound from inorganic materials. Urea is now prepared commercially in vast amounts from liquid ammonia and liquid carbon…

  • Rouen (France)

    Rouen, port city and capital of Seine-Maritime département, Haute-Normandie région, northwestern France. It is located about 78 miles (125 km) northwest of Paris, on the Seine River. Known to the Romans as Rotomagus, the city first became important in the 3rd century ce, when Christianity was

  • Rouen cathedral (cathedral, Rouen, France)

    Rouen: Contemporary city: …and its lack of symmetry, Rouen cathedral is considered one of the finest Gothic churches in France. Damaged during World War II, it has been admirably restored. The immense facade, covered with lacelike stonework, stands between two dissimilar towers, the left dating mostly from the 12th century, and the right…

  • Rouen lilac (plant)

    lilac: Major species: The Chinese, or Rouen, lilac (S. chinensis) is a thickly branched hybrid, a cross of the Persian and common lilacs.

  • Rouen ware (pottery)

    Rouen ware, faience (tin-glazed earthenware) and porcelain wares that made Rouen, Fr., a major pottery centre. In the 16th century faience was used as an element of architectural decoration and in apothecary jars. A Rouen potter, Edme Poterat, who opened a factory in Rouen in 1647, is credited with

  • Rouen, Siege of (French history [1418–1419])

    In his campaigns to capture Normandy during the Hundred Years’ War, Henry V of England besieged and took the city of Rouen. With more than 70,000 inhabitants, it was one of the most important cities in France, and its capture—carried out from July 31, 1418 to January 19, 1419—was a major success

  • Rouen, Treaty of (France-Scotland [1517])

    John Stewart, 2nd duke of Albany: …in 1517 he concluded the Treaty of Rouen, which renewed the alliance between France and Scotland and stipulated that a daughter of Francis I of France should marry James V of Scotland.

  • Rouergue (ancient province, France)

    Rouergue, ancient province of south central France, corresponding to much of the modern départements of Aveyron and Tarn-et-Garonne. It was bounded on the north by Auvergne, on the south and southwest by Languedoc, on the east by Gévaudan and the Cévennes mountains, and on the west by Quercy. It

  • Roufail, Nazeer Gayed (Egyptian religious leader)

    Shenouda III was the 117th pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the see of St. Mark. As the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) church of the Oriental Orthodox communion, Shenouda expanded the church’s membership both in Egypt and

  • Rouge (film by Kieślowski [1994])

    Krzysztof Kieślowski: … (1994; White), and Rouge (1994; Red); respectively, they explored the themes of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The films were released several months apart and, although each can stand on its own, they were designed to be seen as a single entity. One theme, the frailty of human relations, emerged from…

  • rouge (cosmetics)

    cosmetic: Foundations, face powder, and rouge: …colour can be provided with rouge, which is used for highlighting the cheekbones; the more modern version is the blusher, which is used to blend more colour in the face. Small kits of compressed face powder and rouge or blusher are commonly carried by women in their handbags.

  • Rouge et le noir, Le (novel by Stendhal)

    The Red and the Black, novel by Stendhal, published in French in 1830 as Le Rouge et le noir. The novel, set in France during the Second Restoration (1815–30), is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man who uses seduction as a tool for advancement. The Red and the Black

  • Rouge et noir (ballet by Massine)

    Léonide Massine: Rouge et noir (1939), set to Dmitry Shostakovich’s First Symphony, had scenery and costumes by Henri Matisse. Nobilissima Visione, St. Francis (1938) had libretto and music by Paul Hindemith and decor by Pavel Tchelichew. Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí designed three major experimental ballets. Because of…

  • Rouge et Noir (card game)

    Trente et Quarante, (“Red and Black”), French card game played at Monte- Carlo and French and Italian gambling casinos. It is not popular in North America. The name Trente et Quarante is derived from the fact that the winning point always lies between thirty and forty. Its other title, Rouge et

  • Rougemont, Denis de (French writer)

    angel and demon: Relationship to views of a tripartite cosmos: A 20th-century French writer, Denis de Rougemont, maintained in his book La Part du Diable (1942; The Devil’s Share) that the Devil and the demonic forces that plague the modern world can be well documented in modern society’s return to barbarism and inhumanity. In the 2nd century ce Clement…

  • Rouges (political party, Canada)

    Liberal Party of Canada: History: …provinces of Quebec and Ontario—“Rouges” (Reds) in the former and Clear Grits in the latter. The looseness and instability of all party formations at the time were especially persistent on what came to be called the Liberal side.

  • Rouget de Lisle, Claude-Joseph (French author)

    Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle was the author of “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem. A lowly army officer and only a moderate republican, Rouget de Lisle never wrote anything else of significance. He composed both the words and music of “La Marseillaise” for his comrades in 1792 while

  • Rough and Ready Lot, The (play by Owen)

    Alun Owen: In The Rough and Ready Lot, the four main characters, soldiers of fortune fighting for the independence of South American Indians, all represent opposing views of life. Three extremists—a political revolutionary, a fanatical Roman Catholic, and a “realist”—all eloquently expound their respective positions, but it is…

  • Rough and Rowdy Ways (album by Dylan)

    Bob Dylan: Dylan in the 21st century: …lyrical form yet again with Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020).

  • Rough Cut (film by Siegel [1980])

    Don Siegel: Films with Eastwood: In Rough Cut (1980) Burt Reynolds played a suave jewel thief; Siegel was the last of several directors to work on the production. The comedy Jinxed! (1982) featured Bette Midler as a singer who conspires with a blackjack dealer (Ken Wahl) to kill her gambler boyfriend…

  • rough endoplasmic reticulum (biology)

    rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), series of connected flattened sacs, part of a continuous membrane organelle within the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, that plays a central role in the synthesis of proteins. The rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) is so named for the appearance of its outer surface,

  • rough ER (biology)

    rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), series of connected flattened sacs, part of a continuous membrane organelle within the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, that plays a central role in the synthesis of proteins. The rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) is so named for the appearance of its outer surface,

  • rough green snake

    green snake: aestivus), often called vine snake, is about 75 cm (23 inches) long.

  • Rough House Rosie (film by Strayer [1927])

    Clara Bow: …in which she starred include Rough House Rosie (1927; now lost), Ladies of the Mob (1928; now lost), Three Week Ends (1928; now lost), Dangerous Curves (1929), and The Saturday Night Kid (1929).

  • rough joint fir (plant)

    ephedra: Major species and uses: nevadensis), rough joint fir (E. aspera), and Torrey’s Mormon tea (E. torreyana). The plants have been used by indigenous peoples and were used by pioneers as sources of food and medicinals, and stem fragments of species in the southwestern United States and Mexico are used in…

  • Rough Night (film by Aniello [2017])

    Kate McKinnon: Career: …Johansson in the dark comedy Rough Night, about a group of young women who try to cover up an accidental murder. For her role as Pippa, McKinnon took on an Australian accent. In 2018 she starred with Mila Kunis in the action comedy film The Spy Who Dumped Me. McKinnon…

  • rough pigweed (plant)

    pigweed: …base of the leafstalks; and rough pigweed, or redroot (A. retroflexus), is a stout plant up to 3 metres (about 10 feet) tall.

  • rough prickly poppy (plant)

    prickly poppy: Rough prickly poppy (Argemone hispida), of the Rocky Mountains, is densely prickled. Common garden species grown as annuals in sunny places are A. grandiflora, with large cup-shaped white or yellow blooms; the crested, or thistle, poppy (A. platyceras), with 6- to 10-cm (2- to 4-inch)…

  • Rough Rider (ride)

    roller coaster: Coney Island amusement park: …high-speed coaster, Drop-the-Dip (later called Rough Riders). These increased levels of danger, however, brought improvements in safety, such as the introduction of lap bars, which kept passengers seated. Prior to lap bars, riders simply held on to seat handles during inversions while being pressed into their seats by the g-forces…

  • Rough Rider (United States cavalry)

    Rough Rider, in the Spanish-American War, member of a regiment of U.S. cavalry volunteers recruited by Theodore Roosevelt and composed of cowboys, miners, law-enforcement officials, and college athletes, among others. Their colourful and often unorthodox exploits received extensive publicity in the

  • Rough Rock Demonstration School (school, Rough Rock, Arizona, United States)

    Native American: Boarding schools: …continuous tribal administration was the Rough Rock Demonstration School in Arizona in 1966, while in Canada the Blue Quills First Nations College in Alberta was the first to achieve that status, in 1971.

  • rough-legged hawk (bird)

    hawk: Two notable rough-legged hawks are the ferruginous hawk (B. regalis)—the largest North American buzzard (up to 63 cm [25 inches] long)—and the rough-legged hawk (B. lagopus) of both the Old and New Worlds.

  • roughage

    dietary fibre, Food material not digestible by the human small intestine and only partially digestible by the large intestine. Fibre is beneficial in the diet because it relieves and prevents constipation, appears to reduce the risk of colon cancer, and reduces plasma cholesterol levels and

  • roughage (agriculture)

    feed: Roughages: Pasture grasses and legumes, both native and cultivated, are the most important single source of feed for ruminants such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. During the growing season they furnish most of the feed for these animals at a cost lower than…

  • Roughing It (novel by Twain)

    Roughing It, semiautobiographical novel by Mark Twain, published in 1872. This humorous travel book, based on Twain’s stagecoach journey through the American West and his adventures in the Pacific islands, is full of colourful caricatures of outlandish locals and detailed sketches of frontier life.

  • Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (work by Moodie)

    Canadian literature: From settlement to 1900: …harsh, yet at times comical, Roughing It in the Bush (1852) was written to discourage prospective emigrants, but Traill’s Backwoods of Canada (1836) presents a more favourable picture of the New World.

  • roughing plane (tool technology)

    hand tool: Plane: This fore plane had a slightly convex iron that removed saw and adz marks but left hollows that needed to be leveled by straight-iron planing. If the workpiece was long, a long-bodied trying, or jointing, plane having a length of about 76 cm (30 inches) was…

  • Rougon Family Fortune, The (work by Zola)

    Émile Zola: Life: La Fortune des Rougon (The Rougon Family Fortune), the first novel in the series, began to appear in serial form in 1870, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Franco-German War in July, and was eventually published in book form in October 1871. Zola went on to produce these…

  • Rougon-Macquart cycle (work by Zola)

    Rougon-Macquart cycle, sequence of 20 novels by Émile Zola, published between 1871 and 1893. The cycle, described in a subtitle as The Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, is a documentary of French life as seen through the lives of the violent Rougon family and the

  • Rougon-Macquart, Les (work by Zola)

    Rougon-Macquart cycle, sequence of 20 novels by Émile Zola, published between 1871 and 1893. The cycle, described in a subtitle as The Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, is a documentary of French life as seen through the lives of the violent Rougon family and the

  • Rougon-Macquart: histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le second Empire, Les (work by Zola)

    Rougon-Macquart cycle, sequence of 20 novels by Émile Zola, published between 1871 and 1893. The cycle, described in a subtitle as The Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, is a documentary of French life as seen through the lives of the violent Rougon family and the

  • Rougon-Macquart: Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, The (work by Zola)

    Rougon-Macquart cycle, sequence of 20 novels by Émile Zola, published between 1871 and 1893. The cycle, described in a subtitle as The Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, is a documentary of French life as seen through the lives of the violent Rougon family and the

  • Rougon-Macquart: Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, The (work by Zola)

    Rougon-Macquart cycle, sequence of 20 novels by Émile Zola, published between 1871 and 1893. The cycle, described in a subtitle as The Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire, is a documentary of French life as seen through the lives of the violent Rougon family and the

  • Rouhani, Hassan (president of Iran)

    Hassan Rouhani is a centrist Iranian politician and cleric who served as president of Iran (2013–21) and is known for his role in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that limited Iran’s nuclear program. Rouhani, who had been part of Iran’s

  • Rouher, Eugène (French statesman)

    Eugène Rouher was a French statesman who was highly influential as a conservative minister under the Second Empire and as a leader of the Bonapartist party under the Third Republic. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1848, and his conservative attitudes and fear of disorder led him to

  • rouille (food)

    bouillabaisse: Rouille, a paste of garlic, red pepper, bread crumbs, and fish stock, is added at table as a condiment to heighten the flavour.

  • Roulers (Belgium)

    Roeselare, municipality, Flanders Region, western Belgium, lying on the Mandel River, south of Brugge (Bruges). An important linen market since the Middle Ages, it was the scene of a French victory over the Austrians (1794) during the French Revolutionary Wars. The canal (1872) to the Leie (Lys)

  • roulette (engraving tool)

    Ludwig von Siegen: …which he used a small roulette, a tool with a fine-toothed wheel. Seven known rouletted mezzotint plates by Siegen survive.

  • roulette (gambling game)

    roulette, (from French: “small wheel”), gambling game in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel. It

  • roulroul (bird)

    partridge: The crested wood partridge, or roulroul (Rollulus roulroul), of Malaysia has an iridescent blue-green body, red feet and eye region, and crimson crest.

  • Roumanian Diary, A (work by Carossa)

    Hans Carossa: Rumänisches Tagebuch (1924; A Roumanian Diary; republished in 1934 as Tagebuch im Kriege, “War Diary”) is an evaluation of Carossa’s observations as an army doctor in Romania during World War I and a probe into the deeper mysteries of life; it was the first of his books to…

  • Roumanille, Joseph (French poet)

    Joseph Roumanille was a Provençal poet and teacher, a founder and leader of the Félibrige, a movement dedicated to the restoration and maintenance of Provençal language, literature, and customs. Félibrige stimulated the renaissance of the language and customs of the whole of southern France. While

  • Roume, Philippe (French colonial governor)

    Toussaint Louverture: Elimination of rivals: Succeeding Hédouville was Philippe Roume, who deferred to the Black governor. Then a bloody campaign in 1799 eliminated another potential rival to Louverture by driving Rigaud out and destroying his mulatto state. A purge that was carried out by Jean-Jacques Dessalines in the south was so brutal that…

  • round (archery)

    archery: Competition: A round is a target-shooting competitive event in which a specified number of arrows are shot at a specified distance, and scoring is done after the round or rounds. Principal kinds of rounds include the American round, Hereford round, National round, and York round. FITA round…

  • round (boxing)

    boxing: … range from 3 to 12 rounds, each round normally lasting three minutes.

  • round (music)

    round, in music, a polyphonic vocal composition in which three or four voices follow each other around in a perpetual canon at the unison or octave. The catch is a particular type of

  • round (economic conference)

    international trade: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: …WTO, multilateral trade conferences, called rounds, were held periodically by GATT countries to resolve trade problems. Most of these took place in Geneva, former site of GATT headquarters and current site of the WTO. At the time, the formula for multilateral tariff bargaining under GATT represented a major innovation in…

  • round character (literature)

    flat and round characters: round characters, characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature. Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development,…

  • Round City, the (national capital, Iraq)

    Baghdad, city, capital of Iraq and capital of Baghdad governorate, central Iraq. Its location, on the Tigris River about 330 miles (530 km) from the headwaters of the Persian Gulf, is in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia. Baghdad is Iraq’s largest city and one of the most populous urban

  • round dance (dance)

    country dance: …in three characteristic formations: (1) circular, for an indefinite number of couples (“round” dances), (2) “longways” set, double-file line for an indefinite number of couples, men on one side, women on the other, and (3) geometric formations (e.g., squares, triangles) or sets, usually for two, three, or four couples. The…

  • round fungus beetle (insect family)

    coleopteran: Annotated classification: Family Leiodidae (mammal-nest beetles, round fungus beetles, small carrion beetles) Small, shiny. wingless; feed on eggs and young of small arthropods in small-mammal nests; widely distributed; habitats vary (caves, fungi, mammal nests). Family Ptiliidae (feather-winged beetles) Among the smallest

  • round hand script (calligraphy)

    round hand script, in calligraphy, the dominant style among 18th-century English writing masters, whose copybooks were splendidly printed from models engraved on metal. The alphabet was fundamentally uncomplicated; letters sloped 35 to 40 degrees to the right, and thick lines were produced on the

  • Round Heads (prehistoric art style)

    Tassili-n-Ajjer: …the earliest, known as the Round Heads (thus describing their typical human forms), are followed by naturalistic “Bovidian” paintings, which show numerous pastoral scenes with cattle and herdsmen with bows. The next phase is characterized by the more-schematic figures of the so-called Horse and Camel periods, made when the wheel…

  • Round Hill School (gymnasium, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States)

    physical culture: Humanism and national revivals: …founded the first American gymnasium, Round Hill School, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and hired German immigrant Charles Beck to teach calisthenics. But the true pioneer was George Barker Windship, a Harvard Medical School graduate (1857) who incorporated apparatus and heavy-lifting movements into an exercise regimen designed to promote the ideal of…

  • Round House, The (novel by Erdrich)

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