postal system: Growth of the post as a government monopoly: …Louis XI set up a Royal Postal Service in 1477 employing 230 mounted couriers. In England, a Master of the Posts was appointed by Henry VIII in 1516 to maintain a regular postal service along the main roads radiating from London. Neither of these systems was comprehensive, nor were they…

Prussia: …Polish sovereignty, became known as Royal Prussia; thus a wedge of predominantly Polish-speaking territory came to be consolidated between German-speaking East Prussia and the German Reich to the west.

biblical literature: Psalms: The Royal Psalms are grouped on the basis not of literary characteristics but of content. They all have as their life setting some event in the life of the pre-exilic Israelite kings—e.g., accession to the throne, marriage, departure for battle. Gunkel pointed out that in ancient…

Persian Royal Road, ancient road running from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, across Anatolia to Sardis and Smyrna on the Aegean Sea, a distance of more than 2,400 km (1,500 miles). King Darius I built the road to facilitate communication throughout the western portions of his empire.

Persian Royal Road, ancient road running from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, across Anatolia to Sardis and Smyrna on the Aegean Sea, a distance of more than 2,400 km (1,500 miles). King Darius I built the road to facilitate communication throughout the western portions of his empire.

Richard Halliburton: His first book, The Royal Road to Romance (1925), a chronicle of his adventures during his travels in 1921–23, was a best-seller for three years and was translated into 15 languages. Many of his later journeys were patterned after those taken by famous figures of the past, both…

Hatley Park National Historic Site: …use, and it now houses Royal Roads University.

Royal Rotterdam Zoological Garden Foundation, zoological garden in Rotterdam, Netherlands, that was opened in 1887 by a private zoological society. It was essentially the outgrowth of the private collection of two railway workers who kept exotic animals as a hobby. Because of the need for

Michael McDonald: Career: …to tracks on the group’s The Royal Scam (1976), Aja (1977), and Gaucho (1980) and perhaps most memorably on the band’s 1977 hit single “Peg.”

Otto Preminger: Laura and costume dramas: A Royal Scandal (1945) had been started by Ernst Lubitsch, but, when he fell ill, Preminger completed it. The film, a biography of Catherine the Great as portrayed by Tallulah Bankhead, was the first of many Preminger-directed costume pictures. Next was Fallen Angel (1945), a…

Scythian: This class of chieftains, the Royal Scyths, finally established themselves as rulers of the southern Russian and Crimean territories. It is there that the richest, oldest, and most-numerous relics of Scythian civilization have been found. Their power was sufficient to repel an invasion by the Persian king Darius I about…

Merseyside: In that year the Royal Seaforth Dock was opened at the estuary mouth, which helped Liverpool maintain its position as one of Britain’s most important ports. In the early 21st century the Port of Liverpool and the Manchester Ship Canal increasingly coordinated their operations, and, as part of their…

Korea: Social structure and culture: …Three Chancelleries (Samseong) and the Royal Secretariat (Jungchuwon). These two formed the Supreme Council of State. Goryeo politics was thus centered in the aristocratic council. Officials above the fifth grade were given land for permanent possession. Even the land that was supposed to be returned was actually handed down for…

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), English theatrical company based in Stratford-upon-Avon that has a long history of Shakespearean performance. Its repertoire continues to centre on works by William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. Modern works are also produced. The

Sir Anthony Quayle: …before becoming director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. He appeared in more than 20 roles with the company and directed nine of its productions. After he left Stratford in 1956, his stage work included touring Europe in Titus Andronicus (1957), directing and appearing as Moses in The Firstborn…

Royal Society, the oldest national scientific society in the world and the leading national organization for the promotion of scientific research in Britain. The Royal Society originated on November 28, 1660, when 12 men met after a lecture at Gresham College, London, by Christopher Wren (then

Robert Adam: The Adam style: In the Royal Society of Arts building (1772–74), for instance, Adam placed Ionic capitals below a Doric triglyph frieze, a liberty a Palladian would never have dared take. The various influences included the Palladianism of Richard Boyle, 3rd earl of Burlington, and William Kent, both architects; the…

Royal Society, the oldest national scientific society in the world and the leading national organization for the promotion of scientific research in Britain. The Royal Society originated on November 28, 1660, when 12 men met after a lecture at Gresham College, London, by Christopher Wren (then

academy: The Royal Spanish Academy was founded in 1713 to preserve the Spanish language, and it published a landmark Spanish dictionary for that purpose.

spoonbill: …and two Australian species, the royal, or black-billed, spoonbill (P. regia), and the yellow-billed, or yellow-legged, spoonbill (P. flavipes).

Spain: The Carlist wars: The Royal Statute (1834) represented this alliance between respectable upper-middle-class liberals and the crown.

Alan Gilbert: …and artistic adviser of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he held until 2008. It was in Stockholm that he developed a reputation for venturesome programming, which included festivals devoted to such living composers as Henri Dutilleux, Hans Werner Henze, and John Adams. In addition, with that orchestra he…

Björk: …for lifetime achievement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2010.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, independent nongovernmental organization headquartered in Stockholm and primarily composed of Swedish members. The main goal of the academy is to promote scientific research and defend the freedom of science. The academy was founded in 1739; it based itself on the

Alexei Ratmansky: …Ballet (Turandot’s Dream, 2000); Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Ballet (The Firebird, 2002); St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Ballet (Cinderella, 2002); the Bolshoi Ballet (The Bright Stream, 2003); and the San Francisco Ballet (The Carnival of the Animals, 2003). The positive reception of The Bright Stream earned him in 2004 an appointment as artistic…

tapestry: 17th and 18th centuries: …Alfombras de Santa Barbara (Royal Factory of Tapestries and Rugs of St. Barbara) in 1720 at Madrid, however, that important tapestry was produced in Spain. Initially, the weavers and director were Flemings. The first tapestries made at Santa Barbara were woven from the cartoons of such Flemish Baroque painters…

Nairobi: …several educational institutions, including the University of Nairobi (founded in 1956 as the Royal Technical College of East Africa), Kenyatta University College (founded in 1972 as a constituent part of the University of Nairobi), Kenya Polytechnic University College (1961), and Kenya Institute of Administration (1961). Other institutions include the Kenya…

Wes Anderson: Anderson’s third collaboration with Wilson, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), was a darkly comic exploration of the dysfunctional adulthoods of a family of child prodigies. It was also the most visually ornate of Anderson’s films to that point, featuring the carefully composed shots, richly realized sets, and other stylistic flourishes that…

real tennis, racket sport that is descended from and almost identical to the medieval tennis game jeu de paume (“game of the palm”). Real tennis has been played since the Middle Ages, but the game has become almost completely obscured by its own descendant, lawn tennis. Although real tennis

yacht: Yachting and yacht clubs: …racing dispute to become the Royal Thames Yacht Club in 1830. The first English yacht club had been formed at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1815, and royal patronage made the Solent, the strait between the mainland and the Isle of Wight, the continuing site of British yachting.…

Denmark: Cultural institutions: …followed in 1748 by the Royal Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater), which remained under court patronage for a century. In 1848 it was taken over by the state, and it is now administered by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Besides a relatively large number of classical and modern Danish plays, the…

Cambodia: Constitutional framework: …among royal descendants by the Royal Throne Council. In 2004 King Sihanouk decided to abdicate, and Prince Norodom Sihamoni was selected to succeed him.

Marc Bloch: …France et en Angleterre (1924; The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France) is a densely documented study of the production and dissemination of a long-lived, powerful political myth of monarchical healing power. The second, Les Caractères originaux de l’histoire rurale française (1931; French Rural History: An…

museum: History museums: …Museum in London, and the Tropenmuseum (Museum of the Royal Tropical Institute) in Amsterdam. Restructuring of such collections in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, however, suggested efforts to move away from the self-other dichotomy of colonialism. Specialized ethnography museums are also to be found in provincial cities. Normally,…

Royal Tunbridge Wells, town within the borough of Tunbridge Wells

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), state police force in Northern Ireland, established in 1922. The RUC had a paramilitary character until 1970, when the force was remodeled along the lines of police forces in Great Britain. In 1970 the security of Northern Ireland became the responsibility of the

Cambodia: Cultural institutions: The Royal University of Fine Arts, located in Phnom Penh, was founded by King Sihanouk in 1965 to preserve and nurture traditional arts. With the coming to power of the Khmer Rouge in 1975, the school, along with all other educational institutions, was closed. Although most…

Old Vic: …became popularly known as the Old Vic. Under the management (1880–1912) of Emma Cons, a social reformer, the Old Vic was transformed into a temperance amusement hall known as the Royal Victoria Hall and Coffee Tavern, where musical concerts and scenes from Shakespeare and opera were performed. Lilian Baylis, Emma…

Old Vic: …became popularly known as the Old Vic. Under the management (1880–1912) of Emma Cons, a social reformer, the Old Vic was transformed into a temperance amusement hall known as the Royal Victoria Hall and Coffee Tavern, where musical concerts and scenes from Shakespeare and opera were performed. Lilian Baylis, Emma…

Royal Victorian Order, British order of knighthood instituted by Queen Victoria in 1896 to reward personal services rendered the monarch. As it is a family order, conferment of this honour is solely at the discretion of the British sovereign. Unlike other British orders, there is no limit on the

Peter Pindar: …What You Will (1787), and The Royal Visit to Exeter (1795; a tour de force of Devon dialect humour) and in the virtuosity of his doggerel rhymes. His other targets included James Boswell, satirized in his Bozzy and Piozzi (1786), and the painter Benjamin West. With some knowledge of art,…

regal moth: …devil caterpillar (larva of the royal walnut moth, Citheronia regalis) has a black-spined, green body and black-tipped red spines behind its head. It eats principally walnut, hickory, and persimmon leaves. The adult has yellow-spotted, olive-gray forewings with red veins and reddish-orange hindwings with yellow markings. The imperial moth (Eacles imperialis)…

water lily: Major genera and species: The leaf margins of the Amazon, or royal, water lily (V. amazonica, formerly Victoria regia) and the Santa Cruz water lily (V. cruziana) have upturned edges, giving each thickly veined leaf the appearance of a large shallow pan 60 to 180 cm (about 2 to 6 feet) across and accounting…

Fred Astaire: Later musicals: Easter Parade, Royal Wedding, and The Band Wagon: …with a hat rack in Royal Wedding (1951); and the dance on air in The Belle of New York (1952). The best of Astaire’s films during this period was The Band Wagon (1953), often cited as one of the greatest of film musicals; it featured Astaire’s memorable duet with Cyd…

ship: The first Atlantic crossings: …by a Canadian ship, the Royal William, which was built as a steamer with only minor auxiliary sails, to be used in the navigation of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The owners, among them the Quaker merchant Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, decided to sell the ship in England.…

Royal Winnipeg Ballet, preeminent Canadian ballet company that was the first to be designated “royal” (1953). Originating in Winnipeg’s Ballet Club, established in 1938 by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally, the group staged its first production in 1939, becoming a professional company 10 years

yacht: Racing clubs: …1875; from 1952 called the Royal Yachting Association). The organization made rules governing regatta sailing and later took on duties as a representative body for all British yachting, including dealing with port, harbour, and other governmental authorities. In the United States, where there is much freshwater sailing, yacht clubs were…

yacht: Yachting and yacht clubs: …club at Cowes became the Royal Yachting Club, again at the accession of George IV. All members were required to own boats of at least 20 tons (20,321 kg). Sailing matches for large stakes were held, and the social life was splendid. Ultimately, Royal Yachting Club boats increased in size…

Monteregian Hills: Best known is Mont-Royal, on Île de Montréal, which actually consists of three peaks—Mont-Royal (763 feet [233 m]), Westmount, and Côte-des-Neiges. Extending into Montérégie and Estrie are the mountains of Saint-Bruno, Saint-Hilaire (Beloeil), Saint-Grégoire (Johnson), Brome, Rougemont, Yamaska, and Shefford.

Monteregian Hills: Best known is Mont-Royal, on Île de Montréal, which actually consists of three peaks—Mont-Royal (763 feet [233 m]), Westmount, and Côte-des-Neiges. Extending into Montérégie and Estrie are the mountains of Saint-Bruno, Saint-Hilaire (Beloeil), Saint-Grégoire (Johnson), Brome, Rougemont, Yamaska, and Shefford.

Ségolène Royal is a French politician, who was the Socialist Party’s candidate for president of France in 2007. Royal, the daughter of a French colonel, was born on an army base in Senegal. She studied economics at the École Nationale d’Administration in Paris, where she met her longtime companion,

Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti: Type 41 (“Golden Bugatti,” or “La Royale”), produced in the 1920s, was probably the most meticulously built of all cars and one of the most costly; only a few (six to eight) were constructed. The Bugatti firm did not survive very long after Ettore Bugatti’s…

Anne Newport Royall was a traveler and writer and one of the very first American newspaperwomen. She was married in 1797 to Captain William Royall, a gentleman farmer who served in the American Revolution and died in 1813. In her 50s Anne Royall began to journey across the country, and from 1826 to

Anne Newport Royall: …married in 1797 to Captain William Royall, a gentleman farmer who served in the American Revolution and died in 1813. In her 50s Anne Royall began to journey across the country, and from 1826 to 1831 she published 10 accounts of her travels, which remain valuable sources of social history.…

Lorde: The Love Club, Royals, and Pure Heroine: …Club—and its lead single, “Royals”—rocketed up the charts in New Zealand. The “Royals” buzz rapidly went global, and in August 2013 Lorde became the first female solo artist in 17 years to top the U.S. Billboard alternative chart. A month later Lorde debuted her first full-length album, Pure Heroine.…

Kansas City Royals, American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals have won four American League (AL) pennants and two World Series championships (1985 and 2015). The Royals were founded in 1969 as an expansion franchise that was granted by Major League Baseball

royalty, in law, the payment made to the owners of certain types of rights by those who are permitted by the owners to exercise the rights. The rights concerned are literary, musical, and artistic copyright; patent rights in inventions and designs; and rights in mineral deposits, including oil and

Chris Brown: Assault charges and later releases: Kelly; Royalty (2015), named for his daughter; and the double albums Heartbreak on a Full Moon (2017) and Indigo (2019). The mixtape Slime & B (2020) is a collaboration with rapper Young Thug. He released Breezy in 2022, followed by 11:11 a year later. The latter…

Belgium, country of northwestern Europe. It is one of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, and it has been, since its independence in 1830, a representative democracy headed by a hereditary constitutional monarch. Initially, Belgium had a unitary form of government. In the

Josiah Royce was a versatile Idealist philosopher and teacher whose emphasis on individuality and will, rather than intellect, strongly influenced 20th-century philosophy in the United States. As an engineering student at the University of California, Royce encountered the teachings of the

Sir Henry Royce, Baronet was an English industrialist who was one of the founders of Rolls-Royce Ltd., manufacturer of luxury automobiles and airplane engines. At age 15 Royce was an engineer apprenticed to the Great Northern Railway company at Peterborough, and by 1882 he was chief electrical

Sir Henry Royce, Baronet was an English industrialist who was one of the founders of Rolls-Royce Ltd., manufacturer of luxury automobiles and airplane engines. At age 15 Royce was an engineer apprenticed to the Great Northern Railway company at Peterborough, and by 1882 he was chief electrical

East Aurora: …publisher Elbert Hubbard established the Roycroft Press in East Aurora in 1893; he later added the Roycroft Shops. There he printed The Philistine magazine and his pamphlet A Message to Garcia. The Roycroft enterprises, which closed in 1938, became known for their excellent craftsmanship and at one time employed hundreds…

East Aurora: …1893; he later added the Roycroft Shops. There he printed The Philistine magazine and his pamphlet A Message to Garcia. The Roycroft enterprises, which closed in 1938, became known for their excellent craftsmanship and at one time employed hundreds of local people. East Aurora is now primarily residential. The Elbert…

Liberia: The early republic: …unpopular was the new president, Edward J. Roye, who was deposed and imprisoned at Monrovia. Roberts was called back to office. He served until 1876.

Willebrord Snell was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician who discovered the law of refraction (also known as Snell’s law), which relates the degree of the bending of light to the properties of the refractive material. This law is basic to modern geometrical optics. In 1613 he succeeded his father,

Crux: French architect and cartographer Augustine Royer first described it as a constellation in a set of star maps published in 1679, but it has been written about since antiquity. The constellation has five bright stars, one badly placed from the viewpoint of symmetry, so the shape of the cross…

Wounded Knee Massacre: Context: In August 1890 Daniel F. Royer became head of the Pine Ridge Agency; he arrived at his post in October. Many of the Oglala Lakota on his reservation had become passionate Dancers, and he was both displeased with and fearful of their religion. Whereas some federal agents and…

Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard was a French statesman and philosopher, a moderate partisan of the Revolution who became a liberal Legitimist and the exponent of a realist “philosophy of perception.” A lawyer since 1787, Royer-Collard supported the French Revolution in its first stages, serving as

Vanuatu: History of Vanuatu: …tradition) of the great chief Roy Mata (or Roymata). His death was marked by an elaborate ritual that included the burying alive of one man and one woman from each of the clans under his influence.

Lake Wānaka: The town of Wanaka, at the southern tip of the lake, is the centre of a resort region that also supports some sheep grazing and crop farming. First known as Roys Bay and then Pembroke (until 1940), it lies 175 miles (282 km) northwest of Dunedin by road.

Vermont Royster was an American journalist and editor of The Wall Street Journal and president (1960–71) of its publishing company, Dow Jones & Company. He was famed for his editorials, which, in the words of a Pulitzer Prize citation (1953), revealed “an ability to discern the underlying moral

palm: Characteristic morphological features: …in the royal palms (Roystonea) or in the few that produce conspicuous swellings or “bellies” such as Colpothrinax, it is due to an increase in number or size of internal cells and not to new cell production at a cambium, or growing, layer. The cortex, or “bark,” may be…

Cuba: Plant and animal life: The abundant royal palm, reaching heights of 50 to 75 feet (15 to 23 metres), is the national tree and a characteristic element of the rural landscape. Mangrove swamps cover the lower coasts and shoals of the archipelago. Cuba’s national flower is the mariposa (“butterfly”; Hedychium coronarium Koenig),…

Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov was a Russian writer, religious thinker, and journalist, best known for the originality and individuality of his prose works. Rozanov was born into the family of a provincial official of limited means. His parents died before he turned 15. He attended secondary schools in

Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova was a Russian artist who was one of the main innovators of the Russian avant-garde. By the time of her death in 1918, she had embraced in her painting the use of pure colour, a concern that engaged American abstract artists, such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, several

Pete Rozelle was an American sports executive who, as commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1989, oversaw a period of enormous growth for professional gridiron football. He negotiated lucrative deals with the television networks, doubled the size of the league, and helped

Pete Rozelle was an American sports executive who, as commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1989, oversaw a period of enormous growth for professional gridiron football. He negotiated lucrative deals with the television networks, doubled the size of the league, and helped

fungus: Annotated classification: Order Rozellopsidales Found in marine environments, parasitic on euglena, some are biotrophic with other Oomycota or algae; may have naked thalli; example genera include Pseudosphaerita and Rozellopsis. Order Haptoglossales Parasitic on algae or plant roots, including roots of sugar beets;

Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet and playwright, one of the leading writers of the post-World War II period. Having seen service during World War II in the underground Polish Home Army, Różewicz used his experiences as inspiration for two of his early volumes of poems, Niepokój (1947; Faces of

Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima: Zinovi Petrovich Rozhestvensky, for it was assumed that once the Russians had gained command of the sea, the Japanese campaign would collapse.

Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier: …in a Montgolfier balloon with Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d’Arlandes, as passengers. The balloon sailed over Paris for 5.5 miles (9 kilometres) in about 25 minutes.

Budapest: Buda: Rózsa (Rose) Hill, the third hill near the river, lies north of Castle Hill. It is the most fashionable district of Budapest, where Hungary’s elite have houses. The Lukács (Lucas) Bath at the foot of the hill is frequented by Budapest’s literati.

Adam’s Rib: Production notes and credits:

Roztocze, range of hills in east-central Poland. The Roztocze rises from the Lublin Uplands and extends southeastward across the border into Ukraine. Low and rolling, the range is approximately 100 miles (160 km) in length, and its highest peaks are Rogaty Goraj (1,280 feet [390 metres]) and

Lubelskie: Geography: The Roztocze National Park consists of a number of forested land parcels crisscrossed with streams and ravines. Poleski National Park in the western part of the Łęczna-Włodawa Plain was established in 1990 to protect the marsh and peat bog ecosystem typical of the region.

Ukraine: The autonomous hetman state and Sloboda Ukraine: Elizabeth revived the hetmancy for Kyrylo Rozumovsky, the brother of her favourite. On the accession of Catherine II (the Great) in 1762, the hetman and the starshyna petitioned for the restoration of the Hetmanate’s previous status; instead, in 1764 Catherine forced Rozumovsky’s resignation. Over the next 20 years all vestiges…

Rozwi, former Karanga empire in southern Africa. The empire was probably established by Changamire Dombo I (1684–95), who conquered some of the most fertile and mineral-rich areas and drove the Portuguese from their marketplaces in the Zambezi River valley in the 1690s. The changamire was one of

Rozwi, former Karanga empire in southern Africa. The empire was probably established by Changamire Dombo I (1684–95), who conquered some of the most fertile and mineral-rich areas and drove the Portuguese from their marketplaces in the Zambezi River valley in the 1690s. The changamire was one of

Received Pronunciation (RP), standard speech used in London and southeastern England. It has traditionally been associated with the middle and upper classes and as a mark of public school education. Received Pronunciation (RP) is sometimes referred to as the “Queen’s English,” the “King’s English,”

renal system: Quantitative tests: …is approximately the same as renal plasma flow (RPF). The 10 percent of PAH that remains in renal venous blood is conveyed in blood that perfuses either nonsecretory tissue, such as fibrous tissue or fat, or parts of the tubule that do not themselves secrete PAH. In practice this small…

Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), political party in Rwanda rooted in a movement led by exiled Rwandans that launched the country’s civil war in 1990 and ended the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The party has dominated Rwandan politics since then. It has been led by Paul Kagame since 1998. Rwanda’s

Rally for the Republic: …when de Gaulle organized the Rally of the French People (Rassemblement du Peuple Français; RPF), originally conceived as a means by which de Gaulle might regain office without having to participate in party politics. It was thus at first organized as an extraparliamentary body in the hope that it might…

Ernest Gary Gygax: …created the world’s first fantasy role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), and ultimately paved the way for modern electronic RPGs.

Guinea: Conté’s death, 2008 military coup, and 2010 elections: …leader Alpha Condé of the Rally of the Guinean People (Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen; RPG), who received 18 percent—progressed to a runoff election. After some delay, the second round of voting was finally held on November 7, 2010. Provisional results, which were announced more than a week later, indicated that…

role-playing video game, electronic game genre in which players advance through a story quest, and often many side quests, for which their character or party of characters gain experience that improves various attributes and abilities. The genre is almost entirely rooted in TSR, Inc.’s Dungeons &

small arm: Antitank weapons: …Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomet 2 (RPG-2), a “Light Antitank Grenade Launcher” featuring a reusable launcher that lobbed an 82-mm shaped-charge warhead more than 150 yards. After 1962, with their RPG-7, they combined recoilless launch with a rocket sustainer to deliver a 5-pound (2-kg) warhead to targets beyond 500 yards. The…

small arm: Antitank weapons: After 1962, with their RPG-7, they combined recoilless launch with a rocket sustainer to deliver a 5-pound (2-kg) warhead to targets beyond 500 yards. The Soviet RPGs became powerful weapons in the hands of guerrillas and irregular fighters in conflict against more conventionally armed and heavily armoured forces. As…

Turkey: Government: …own party, which became the Republican People’s Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi; CHP), dominated all assemblies until 1950; in this period the assemblies included a heavy preponderance of urban professional men and of officials with a university education. With an outlook different from that of the illiterate Turkish peasants, they carried…

Djibouti: Political process: …a single-party system, with the Popular Assembly for Progress (Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès; RPP) being the sole legal party. During this time deputies to the National Assembly could be elected only from a list supplied by the RPP; abstention from voting was the only legal form of opposition.