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Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, The (work by Turner)
...contribution of structural functionalism to the study of rites of passage and of the broader category of ritual while pointing out its limitations. In his study of African rites of passage, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (1969), Turner revealed the drama and flux of everyday social life and highlighted the agency of rites in effecting social change, which he......
ritualistic object (religion)
any object used in a ritual or a religious ceremony....
ritualized friendship (sociology)
If the earlier Archaic period was an age of hospitality, the later Archaic age was an age of patronage. Instead of individual or small-scale ventures exploiting relationships of xenia (hospitality), there was something like free internationalism. Not that the old xenia ties disappeared—on the contrary, they were solidified, above all by the tyrants themselves....
Ritz, Al (American entertainer)
American comedy team of three brothers, celebrated for their parodies and energetic slapstick humour. Their true surname was Joachim, and the three were known as Al (Alfred; b. August 27, 1901, Newark, N.J., U.S.—d. December 22, 1965, New Orleans, La.), Jimmy (b. October 23, 1904, Newark, N.J.—d. November 17, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Harry (Herschel May; b. May 28, 1907,......
Ritz Brothers (American entertainers)
American comedy team of three brothers, celebrated for their parodies and energetic slapstick humour. Their true surname was Joachim, and the three were known as Al (Alfred; b. August 27, 1901, Newark, N.J., U.S.—d. December 22, 1965, New Orleans, La.), Jimmy (b. ...
Ritz, César (French businessman)
founder of the Paris hotel that made his name a synonym for elegance and luxury....
Ritz, Harry (American entertainer)
...as Al (Alfred; b. August 27, 1901, Newark, N.J., U.S.—d. December 22, 1965, New Orleans, La.), Jimmy (b. October 23, 1904, Newark, N.J.—d. November 17, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Harry (Herschel May; b. May 28, 1907, Newark, N.J.—d. March 29, 1986, San Diego, Calif.)....
Ritz Hotel (hotel, Paris, France)
...grateful to Ritz for suggesting the name Grande Marnier for the liqueur that he had invented) Ritz purchased a mansion in Paris and spent two years supervising the furnishing of its 210 rooms. The Ritz Hotel opened in 1898 to a crowd of diners....
Ritz, Jimmy (American entertainer)
...parodies and energetic slapstick humour. Their true surname was Joachim, and the three were known as Al (Alfred; b. August 27, 1901, Newark, N.J., U.S.—d. December 22, 1965, New Orleans, La.), Jimmy (b. October 23, 1904, Newark, N.J.—d. November 17, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif.), and Harry (Herschel May; b. May 28, 1907, Newark, N.J.—d. March 29, 1986, San Diego, Calif.)....
Rius (Mexican cartoonist)
...Freud, etc.), and cartoon “people’s histories” (e.g., of the United States, of the universe) proliferated, the specialty of the award-winning Larry Gonick and the Mexican cartoonist Rius (Eduardo del Río). These are at once elementary introductions and sophisticated presentations of sometimes difficult material (Gonick, for instance, has produced “cartoon......
Riva-Bella (town, France)
...River and is 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Caen, to which it is linked by road, by the Orne River, and by a ship canal. Adjoining Ouistreham on the English Channel coast is the smaller resort town of Riva-Bella, where the 4th Commando Museum (also known as the Sword Beach Museum) commemorates the D-Day (June 6, 1944) landing of British troops during the Normandy Invasion of World War II. The......
Rivadavia, Bernardino (president of Argentina)
first president of the Argentine republic. Although one of his country’s ablest leaders, he was unable to unite the warring provinces or to control the provincial caudillos (bosses)....
Rival Queens, The (work by Lee)
...this impossible. His earliest play, Nero, was performed in 1674. It was written in heroic couplets, a form he continued to use for other plays early in his career. A blank-verse tragedy, The Rival Queens (1677), made his reputation; it remained popular until the 19th century. Lucius Junius Brutus (1680) was prohibited for antimonarchical sentiments. Lee collaborated with......
Rivaldo (Brazilian athlete)
Brazilian football (soccer) player who was among the game’s most revered players in the 1990s and a vital component of the powerful Brazilian national team that included the similarly mono-monikered Romário and Ronaldo....
Rivals, The (play by Sheridan)
comedy in five acts by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, produced and published in 1775....
Rivarol, Antoine Rivaroli, comte de (French author)
French publicist, journalist, and epigrammatist and a would-be nobleman whose works supported monarchy and traditionalism in the era of the French Revolution....
Rivas (Nicaragua)
city, southwestern Nicaragua, on a narrow strip of land between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean. Founded in 1736 and formerly known as Nicaragua, Rivas gained fame as a town on the “Vanderbilt Road,” over which Ame...
Rivas, Ángel de Saavedra Ramírez de Baquendano, duque de (Spanish author)
Spanish poet, dramatist, and politician, whose fame rests principally on his play Don Álvaro, o la fuerza del sino (“Don Álvaro, or the Power of Fate”), which marked the triumph of Romantic drama in Spain....
Rivas Isthmus (isthmus, Nicaragua)
...Caribbean Sea. For part of its course, the San Juan forms the boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. To the southwest, the lake is separated from the Pacific Ocean by a narrow land corridor, the Rivas Isthmus, which is 12 miles (19 km) wide....
Rive, Auguste-Arthur de La (French physicist)
Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries....
rive droite (district, Paris, France)
...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, unchanging designation of Right Bank and Left Bank (when facing downstream). Specific places, however, are usually indicated by arrondissement or by quarter (......
rive gauche (district, Paris, France)
...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, unchanging designation of Right Bank and Left Bank (when facing downstream). Specific places, however, are usually indicated by arrondissement or by quarter (......
Rive, Richard (South African author)
South African writer, literary critic, and teacher whose short stories, which were dominated by the ironies and oppression of apartheid and by the degradation of slum life, have been extensively anthologized and tran...
Rive, Richard Moore (South African author)
South African writer, literary critic, and teacher whose short stories, which were dominated by the ironies and oppression of apartheid and by the degradation of slum life, have been extensively anthologized and tran...
Rivea corymbosa (plant)
...(Ipomoea batatas) is an economic plant of the family, but the ornamental vines are used in horticulture; several species of bindweeds are agricultural pests. The seeds of two species, Turbina corymbosa and Ipomoea violacea, are sources of hallucinogenic drugs of historical interest and contemporary concern....
river
any natural stream of water that flows in a channel with defined banks (ultimately from Latin ripa, “bank”). Modern usage includes rivers that are multichanneled, intermittent, or ephemeral in flow and channels that are practically bankless. The concept of channeled surface flow, however, remains central to the definitio...
River Between, The (work by Ngugi)
...Grain of Wheat (1967), generally held to be artistically more mature, focuses on the many social, moral, and racial issues of the struggle for independence and its aftermath. A third novel, The River Between (1965), which was actually written before the others, tells of lovers kept apart by the conflict between Christianity and traditional ways and beliefs and suggests that effort...
river birch (tree)
ornamental tree of the family Betulaceae, found on river and stream banks in the eastern one-third of the United States. Because the lower trunk becomes very dark with age, the tree is sometimes called black birch, a name more properly applied to sweet birch (q.v.)....
river blindness (pathology)
filarial disease caused by the helminth Onchocerca volvulus, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of the black fly Simulium. The disease is found chiefly in Mexico, Guatemala, and Venezuela in the Americas and in sub-Saharan Africa in a broad belt extending from Senegal on the west coast...
River Brethren (religious organization)
Christian church in the United States and Canada. It developed among European settlers along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania who came to America about 1750 and who were primarily Anabaptists and Pietists. Known for many years as River Brethren, t...
river buffalo (mammal)
...Bubalus bubalis) is the “living tractor of the East” and has been introduced to Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. There are two types, river and swamp, each considered a subspecies. The river buffalo was present by 2500 bc in India and 1000 bc in Mesopotamia. The breed was selected mainly for its milk, which cont...
river cane (plant)
Arundinaria gigantea—which is known as giant cane, southern cane, or canebrake bamboo—was once widely utilized as a forage plant in the southeastern United States, from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to the Atlantic coast and north to the Ohio River valley. It produces green leaves and stems throughout the year and is valued for winter forage along the coast of the Gulf of......
river continuum (biology)
...the stream). The processing and transport of essential elements follow a downstream sequence. Hypotheses attempting to explain ecological processes in running waters include the concept of the river continuum, which explains differences in lotic communities according to the changing ecological factors along the river system. Nutrient spiraling is another concept invoked to explain the......
River Deep—Mountain High (recording by Turner)
...I Idolize You (1960), and It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (1961)—that won them a national following. In 1966 Phil Spector made River Deep—Mountain High with Tina (he paid Ike to stay out of the studio). Easily the most complex and nuanced of Spector’s famous “wall of sound” productions,...
river delta (river system component)
low-lying plain that is composed of stream-borne sediments deposited by a river at its mouth....
river dolphin (mammal)
any of four or five species of small, usually freshwater aquatic mammals that are related to whales (order Cetacea). These dolphins are found in rivers of south-central Asia, China, and South America and in the coastal waters of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. River dolphins have long be...
river duck (bird)
any of about 38 species of Anas and about 5 species in other genera, constituting the tribe Anatini, subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae (order Anseriformes). They feed mainly on water plants, which they obtain by tipping-up in shallows—uncommonly by diving (with opened wings); they often forage near the shore for seeds and insects. The bill is flat and broad, the ...
River Forest (Illinois, United States)
village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A residential suburb of Chicago, River Forest lies on the Des Plaines River, about 12 miles (19 km) west of the city’s downtown. A sawmill built on the riverbank in 1831 drew settlers to the area. The community was temporarily known as Thatcher for David C. Thatcher, an influential ear...
river ice
a sheet or stretch of ice forming on the surface of lakes and rivers when the temperature drops below freezing (0° C [32° F]). The nature of the ice formations may be as simple as a floating layer that gradually thickens, or it may be extremely complex, particularly when the water is fast-flowing....
River Indians (people)
Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe of what is now the upper Hudson River valley above the Catskill Mountains in New York state, U.S. Their name for themselves means ...
River Intelligence (work by Twain)
...a directionless knockabout life; afterward he had a sense of determined possibility. He continued to write occasional pieces throughout these years and, in one satirical sketch, River Intelligence (1859), lampooned the self-important senior pilot Isaiah Sellers, whose observations of the Mississippi were published in a New Orleans newspaper. Clemens and the other......
river jack (snake)
brightly coloured venomous snake of the family Viperidae that inhabits rainforests and swamps of West and Central Africa. It prefers wet or damp environments and can even be found on plantations. The body is massive with rough and strongly keeled scales. It possesses a green or blue triangular head with a large black arrow...
River Murray Commission (Australian irrigation authority)
In 1915 the River Murray Commission, comprising representatives from the three state governments and the commonwealth, was established to regulate utilization of the river’s waters. The largest reservoirs are the Dartmouth on the Mitta Mitta River and the Hume on the Murray. The Dartmouth Dam, 591 feet (180 metres) high, is the highest dam of its kind in Australia. The multipurpose Snowy......
River Niger, The (play by Walker)
...(produced 1969), Joseph A. Walker earned a prestigious Tony Award (presented by two American theatre organizations) for the best play of 1973 for the smash Broadway hit The River Niger (produced 1972), and Charles H. Fuller, Jr., claimed a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for A Soldier’s Play (produced 1981),......
River of Silver (estuary, South America)
a tapering intrusion of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of South America between Uruguay to the north and Argentina to the south. While some geographers regard it as a gulf or as a marginal sea of the Atlantic, and others consider it to be a river, it is usually h...
river otter (mammal)
The 11 species often referred to as river otters are found throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, in freshwater ecosystems that sustain an abundance of prey such as fish, crayfish, crabs, mussels, and frogs. Most river otters are opportunistic, feeding on whatever is most easily obtained. Diet often varies seasonally or locally, depending on which prey is available. River otters......
River Plate (Argentinean football club)
...sides and one underdeveloped stand on the final side. The ground has a capacity of 49,000 spectators and is a noisy, intimidating venue when full. This is especially the case when it is visited by River Plate, Boca’s fiercest rival and the most successful club in Argentina. Matches between the two teams are known as the “Superclásico” and are usually sellouts that at...
River Plate (estuary, South America)
a tapering intrusion of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of South America between Uruguay to the north and Argentina to the south. While some geographers regard it as a gulf or as a marginal sea of the Atlantic, and others consider it to be a river, it is usually h...
River Rouge (Michigan, United States)
The planning of a huge new plant at River Rouge, Michigan, had been one of the specific causes of the Dodge suit. What Ford dreamed of was not merely increased capacity but complete self-sufficiency. World War I, with its shortages and price increases, demonstrated for him the need to control raw materials; slow-moving suppliers convinced him that he should make his own parts. Wheels, tires,......
River Runs Through It, A (film by Redford [1992])
Original Screenplay: Neil Jordan for The Crying GameAdapted Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala for Howards EndCinematography: Philippe Rousselot for A River Runs Through ItArt Direction: Luciana Arrighi for Howards EndOriginal Score: Alan Menken for AladdinOriginal Song: “A Whole New World” from Aladdin; music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Tim......
River Scene by Moonlight (painting by Neer)
...Dutch painters of winter scenes—van der Neer specialized in canal and river landscapes seen by the light of sunset or early dawn or—most characteristic of all—by moonlight, as in River Scene by Moonlight. Within this somewhat limited range, van der Neer had no rival among his contemporaries. His sensitive handling of subdued light and its......
River Sumida, The (work by Nagai Kafū)
...time, work which is likely to seem, in its lyricism and delicate eroticism, nearer 19th-century Japanese literature than French. The lyricism is particularly apparent in Sumidagawa (1909; The River Sumida, 1956), a novelette about the disappearance of the gracious past in the city of Tokyo. For some years after his return, Kafū was a professor at Keiō University in.....
river system
Geometry of river systems...
river tea tree (plant)
Bark varies from the smooth, copper-coloured covering of the gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba) to the thick, soft, spongy bark of the punk, or cajeput, tree (Melaleuca leucadendron). Other types of bark include the commercial cork of the cork oak (Quercus suber) and the rugged, fissured outer coat of many other oaks; the flaking, patchy-coloured barks......
river terrace (geology)
bench or step that extends along the side of a valley and represents a former level of the valley floor. A terrace results from any hydrological or climatic shift that causes renewed downcutting. It generally has a flat top made up of sedimentary deposits and a steep fore edge, and it may be the remains of an old floodplain, cut through by the river and left standing above the ...
River, The (film by Lorentz)
...recounts, with a harmonious blend of poetic images, narrative, and music, the agricultural misuse of the Great Plains that resulted in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Lorentz then wrote and directed The River (1937) for the Department of Agriculture. This history of the Mississippi River basin and the effect of the Tennessee Valley Authority on the area further realized the potential of the....
River Thieves (work by Crummey)
...Wayne Johnston depicts Newfoundland’s history in The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998), a novel based on the life of Joey Smallwood, the province’s dynamic first premier. In River Thieves (2001), Michael Crummey describes the extinction of the Beothuk, an indigenous people of Newfoundland, and Lisa Moore’s Alligator (2005) dissects li...
River War, The (work by Churchill)
...In 1897–98 he wrote Savrola (1900), a Ruritanian romance, and got himself attached to Lord Kitchener’s Nile expeditionary force in the same dual role of soldier and correspondent. The River War (1899) brilliantly describes the campaign....
river-merchants’ guild (French guild)
...of the king, the provost of Paris (prévôt de Paris), first mentioned in 1050. In the 11th century the first guilds were formed, among them the butchers’ guild and the river-merchants’ guild, or marchandise de l’eau. In 1141 the crown sold the principal port (near the Hôtel de Ville) to the marchandise, whose ship-blazoned a...
Rivera (Uruguay)
city, northern Uruguay. It is built atop two hills in the basaltic Santa Ana Hills and is contiguous to Santana do Livramento, Brazil. One of Uruguay’s largest cities, Rivera is the commercial and manufacturing centre for an agricultural and pastoral hinterland. Grains, vegetables, fruit, and cattle are the principal ...
Rivera, Chita (American actress)
American dancer, singer, and actress who was best known for her energetic performances in such Broadway musicals as West Side Story, Chicago, and Kiss of the Spider Woman....
Rivera, Diego (Mexican painter)
Mexican painter whose bold, large-scale murals stimulated a revival of fresco painting in Latin America....
Rivera, José Eustasio (Colombian poet)
Colombian poet and novelist whose novel La vorágine (1924; The Vortex), a powerful denunciation of the exploitation of the rubber gatherers in the upper Amazon jungle, is considered by many critics to be the best of many South American novels with jungle settings....
Rivera, José Fructuoso (Uruguayan political leader)
Although he had been allied with José Fructuoso Rivera, the first president of Uruguay, their ambitions eventually clashed. As president, Oribe sought to extend government control over rural districts ruled by Rivera. Angered by this challenge and by accusations of financial mismanagement during his term in office, Rivera rose in revolt in 1836, eventually forcing Oribe’s resignation...
Rivera, Julio Adalberto (president of El Salvador)
A second coup, in January 1961, brought Lieut. Col. Julio Adalberto Rivera (1962–67) to power. PRUD was dismantled and replaced by the National Conciliation Party (Partido de Conciliación Nacional; PCN), which would control the national government for the next 18 years. Under the banner of the Alliance for Progress, Rivera advanced programs aimed at economic growth and......
Rivera, Manuel (sculptor)
...of forms and then painted them a uniform colour. In Europe the outstanding metal reliefs were those by Alberto Burri, Gio and Arnaldo Pomodoro, César, Zoltán Kemény, and Manuel Rivera....
Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la (Mexican painter)
Mexican painter whose bold, large-scale murals stimulated a revival of fresco painting in Latin America....
riverboat (vessel)
any watercraft propelled by steam, but more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, and particularly on the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries in the ...
Riverboat Shuffle (song by Carmichael)
...with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, Free Wheeling, was retitled Riverboat Shuffle when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic....
Riverdale (community, New York City, New York, United States)
...Hispanic, and one-third Asian and white—have eased, and attendance at the universities in the borough has increased. The population was rising by the mid-1990s, and the upper-class enclaves of Riverdale and City Island once again ranked as sought-after housing areas for the city elite. Political power has remained in the hands of Hispanic voters, but the entire borough has benefited from...
Riverdance (performance work by Flatley)
...attracting the attention of Ireland’s president Mary Robinson and dance-show producers, he was invited to create an intermission show for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. His creation, Riverdance, captivated the audience. Flatley’s arms flying, he leaped across the stage, transforming Irish dance from a tradition-bound art form that placed a premium on discipline ...
Riverhead (township, New Jersey, United States)
township (town), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., just west of Newark and lying between the Rahway and Passaic rivers. It is primarily a residential community that includes the fashionable Short Hills district on the north and west. About 1664, colonists from New York purchased land from the Delaware Indians an...
Riverina (region, New South Wales, Australia)
predominantly rural region, south-central New South Wales, Australia. Occupying 26,509 square miles (68,658 square km), it is bounded on the north and northwest by the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers, on the south by the Murray River, and on the east ...
riverine ecosystem (ecological niche)
any spring, stream, or river viewed as an ecosystem. The waters are flowing (lotic) and exhibit a longitudinal gradation in temperatures, concentration of dissolved material, turbidity, and atmospheric gases, from the source to the mouth. There are two major zones: rapids, shallow water where currents are strong enough to keep the bottom clear and firm; and pools...
riverine rabbit (mammal)
...while the three species of rockhares (genus Pronolagus) are all found in Southern Africa. Each is locally common and inhabits rocky areas associated with grass or woodlands. The riverine rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis) is endemic to the Karoo region of South Africa, where it inhabits dense vegetation along seasonal rivers and is endangered because of habitat......
Rivers (state, Nigeria)
state, southern Nigeria, comprising the Niger River delta on the Gulf of Guinea. It is bounded by the states of Anambra and Imo on the north, Abia and Akwa Ibom on the east, and Bayelsa and Delta on the west. Rivers state contains ...
Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania, The (work by Davis)
In the 1870s his interest turned to the study of landforms, and the publication of “The Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania” (1889) laid the foundation for the Davisian system of landscape analysis, perhaps his most significant contribution to physical geography. In this work, he proposed that the physical features of the land are the result of a long, continued, orderly change by......
Rivers, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl, Baron Rivers (English noble)
English noble, a leading supporter of his brother-in-law, the Yorkist king Edward IV....
Rivers, Anthony Wydeville (English noble)
English noble, a leading supporter of his brother-in-law, the Yorkist king Edward IV....
Rivers Bridge State Park (park, South Carolina, United States)
During the American Civil War the area was in the path of the Union army’s sweep, led by General William Tecumseh Sherman, from Savannah, Georgia, to Columbia, South Carolina. Rivers Bridge State Park commemorates the site where a Confederate artillery emplacement temporarily halted Union forces. Bamberg county was formed in 1897 and named for a family of early settlers. The town of Bamberg...
Rivers, Doc (American basketball player and coach)
American basketball player and coach who as the head coach of the Boston Celtics led the team to a National Basketball Association (NBA) championship in 2008....
Rivers, Glenn (American basketball player and coach)
American basketball player and coach who as the head coach of the Boston Celtics led the team to a National Basketball Association (NBA) championship in 2008....
Rivers, Glenn Anton (American basketball player and coach)
American basketball player and coach who as the head coach of the Boston Celtics led the team to a National Basketball Association (NBA) championship in 2008....
Rivers, Joan (American entertainer)
American entertainer. After graduating from Barnard College, she appeared with the Chicago comedy troupe Second City and performed in nightclubs and on television. She created the television series Husbands and Wives (1976–77). Known for her grating voice and gossipy humour, she backed up Johnny Carson as permanent guest host on ...
Rivers, Larry (American painter)
American painter whose works frequently combined the vigorous, painterly brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism with the commercial images of the Pop art movement....
Rivers of Blood (speech by Powell)
...He rose through minor posts to minister of health (1960–63) and unsuccessfully challenged Edward Heath for the party’s leadership in 1965. On April 20, 1968, in what came to be called his “Rivers of Blood” speech, Powell evoked the British race question. The nationality acts, he argued, were flooding London and Midlands ghettos with Indian, Pakistani, African, and We...
Rivers, Pearl (American poet and journalist)
American poet and journalist, the first woman publisher of a daily newspaper in the Deep South....
Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl, Baron Rivers (English noble)
father-in-law of the Yorkist king Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–70, 1471–83). Nobles opposed to Rivers initiated the uprising that temporarily drove Edward into exile in 1470....
Rivers, Richard Wydevill (English noble)
father-in-law of the Yorkist king Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–70, 1471–83). Nobles opposed to Rivers initiated the uprising that temporarily drove Edward into exile in 1470....
Rivers, Richard Wydeville (English noble)
father-in-law of the Yorkist king Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–70, 1471–83). Nobles opposed to Rivers initiated the uprising that temporarily drove Edward into exile in 1470....
Rivers, Richard Wydville (English noble)
father-in-law of the Yorkist king Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–70, 1471–83). Nobles opposed to Rivers initiated the uprising that temporarily drove Edward into exile in 1470....
Rivers, Thomas Milton (American virologist)
American virologist who, as chairman of the virus research committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; 1938–55), organized the long-range research program that led to development of the Salk and Sabin anti-poliomyelitis vaccines....
Rivers, W. H. R. (British anthropologist)
English medical psychologist and anthropologist known principally for The Todas (1906), a model of precise documentation of a people, and the important History of Melanesian Society, 2 vol. (1914)....
Rivers, William Halse Rivers (British anthropologist)
English medical psychologist and anthropologist known principally for The Todas (1906), a model of precise documentation of a people, and the important History of Melanesian Society, 2 vol. (1914)....
Riverside (California, United States)
city, seat (1893) of Riverside county, southern California, U.S. The city lies on the Santa Ana River. With San Bernardino and Ontario it forms a metropolitan complex east of Los Angeles. The city was laid out in 1870 in part on a section of Rancho Jurupa, a Mexican land grant of 1838. Initially named Jurupa, the city bega...
Riverside, Lord Rogers of (British architect)
Italian-born British architect noted for what he described as “celebrating the components of the structure.” His high-tech approach is most evident in the Centre Georges Pompidou (1971–77) in Paris, which he designed with the Italian architect Renzo Piano....
Riversleigh fossils (paleontology)
any of numerous assemblages of fossils found at Riversleigh Station, in northwestern Queensland, Australia, which together constitute the richest and most diverse collection of fossils ever found on that continent. Riversleigh is an isolated area about 140 miles (225 km) northwest of the city of Mount Isa. The fossils are fo...
Riversleigh Station (Queensland, Australia)
any of numerous assemblages of fossils found at Riversleigh Station, in northwestern Queensland, Australia, which together constitute the richest and most diverse collection of fossils ever found on that continent. Riversleigh is an isolated area about 140 miles (225 km) northwest of the city of Mount Isa. The fossils are found in limestone rock outcrops near the Gregory River. Since the......
Riverton (Wyoming, United States)
city, Fremont county, west-central Wyoming, U.S. It lies along the Bighorn River at the mouth of the Wind River. Founded as Wadsworth in 1906, it was renamed Riverton because of its location near the convergence of four rivers....
Riverview Park (amusement park, Chicago, Illinois, United States)
In the 1920s Riverview Park in Chicago came closest to rivaling Coney Island, with always at least 6, and sometimes as many as 11, coasters in operation. The Fireball (formerly the Blue Streak) was hyped as the fastest coaster ever built, but the Chicago park’s claim that it reached speeds of 100 miles (160 km) per hour was likely exaggerated by almost 35 percent. The Chicago building code....