Racine (City and county-seat of Racine)
a city and county-seat of Racine co., Wis.; on Lake Michigan at the mouth of Root river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 23 miles S. of Milwaukee. Here are Luther College, Racine College, Racine Academy, the Racine Home School, St. Catherine's Academy (R. C.), high school, Taylor Orphan Asylum, St. Luke's Hospital, waterworks, electric light and street railroad plants, many churches, a number of National and State banks, and several daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. The harbor is one of the best on the lake, and is accessible by vessels drawing 14 feet of water. Racine has manufactories of agricultural implements, carriages, leather, iron castings, lumber, etc. Pop. (1910) 38,002; (1920) 58,593. JEAN RACINE
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JEAN, an eminent French dramatic poet; born in La Ferté Milon, France, Dec. 22, 1639, and was educated at Port Royal. In 1664 he produced his tragedy of "La Thébaïde," which was followed in 1665 by "Alexandre." In "Andromaque,” which 1667 appeared his " placed him far above all his contemporaries except Corneille; and his fame was still further increased by the production of "Britannicus," "Bérénice," and other tragedies. In 1677 appeared his tragedy of "Phèdre." He wrote, by desire of Louis XIV. and Madame de Maintenon, the sacred dramas of "Esther" and "Athalie." Besides his dramatic works, he wrote "Canticles and Hymns for the use of St. Cyr," the "History of Port Royal," etc. In 1673 he was received into the academy, and continued to enjoy the highest favor at court; but having offended the king by a too free use of his pen in drawing up a memorial on the distresses of the people, he lost favor. He died April 21, 1699.
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Rack Lever
A watch escapement, said to have been invented by Abbe Hautefeuille in 1734. The lever terminated in a rack, which worked into a pinion on the balance staff. RAMSAY, DAVID. Clockmaker to James I, and the first master of the Clockmakers'
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Racket
the instrument with which players at tennis or rackets strike the ball; a bat, consisting of an elliptical loop formed of a thin strip of wood, across which network of cord or gut is stretched, and to which a handle is atsnow-shoe of cords tached. Also a stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood; and a broad shoe or pattern made of wood, used on a man or a horse to support him on the surface of boggy ground. In ornithology, a spatule.
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Rackham
ARTHUR, an English water-color painter and illustrator. Born in 1867, he received his early training at the Lambeth Art School. After making several successful drawings he undertook to illustrate several books, chiefly those dealing with the American, English, and German legends and folk stories. He has contributed illustrations for the following works: "Alice in Wonderland," "Midsummer Night's Dream," "Rip Van Winkle," "Grimm's Fairy Tales," Dickens' "Christmas Carol."
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Radcliffe
ANN, an English novelist whose maiden name was Ward; born in London, England, July 9, 1746. Her first performance was a romantic tale, entitled "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne"; which was succeeded by "The Sicilian Romance" and "The Romance of the Forest"; but that which made her reputation was the "Mysteries of Udolpho." She died in London, Feb. 7, 1823.
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Radetzky
JOSEPH WENZEL, COUNT, an Austrian general; born in the castle of Trebnitz, in Bohemia, Nov. 2, 1766. Called to participate in the long struggle against Napoleon, and having won his way to the rank of Major- General, he fought at Agram and Erlingen; distinguished himself in the battles of 1813, 1814, and 1815; and at Kulm, cessively governor of Ofen in Hungary, and Lemberg in Poland, he was, in 1822, appointed commander-general of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. In 1848 the people of Milan rose against their Austrian oppressors, and after a gallant struggle drove them out of the city. Radetzky retreated upon Verona, to await the arrival of re-enforcements. Shortly afterward, Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, joined the popular cause, but was defeated at Novara. This battle decided the fate of the Italian cause, and Austrian tyranny was again triumphant in Lombardo-Venetia. After 73 years of service in the Austrian armies, Radetzky resigned in the year 1857. He died in Milan, Italy, Jan. 5, 1858.
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Radhanpur
chief town of a protected state in Bombay presidency, India, 150 miles N. W. of Baroda. It is surrounded with walls and incloses a fortified castle, the residence of the native prince. The state of Radhanpur has an area of 1,150 square miles. Pop. about 100,000.
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Radiant
in botany, diverging from a common center, like rays. In heraldry an epithet applied to an ordinary or charge, when it is presented edged with rays or beams; rayonnant; reyonnée. In astronomy, the point in the heavens from which a star shower seems to proceed. In geometry, a straight line proceeding from a given point or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve. In optics, the luminous body or point from which rays of light falling on a lens or mirror diverge.
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Radiata
in zoology, a term introduced by Cuvier, in 1812, for the lowest of his great groups or embranchments. He described them as having radial instead of bilateral symmetry, apparently destitute of nervous system and sense organs, having the circulatory system rudimentary or absent, and respiratory organs on or coextensive with the surface of the body; and included the Echinodermata, Acalepha, Entozoa, Polypi, and Infusoria. Wider knowledge led to the narrowing of the limits of this group, and through Agassiz pleaded for Polypi, Acalephæ, and the Echinoderms). its retention (with the three classes of Huxley's "Lectures on Comparative Anatomy" finally broke up what is called the "radiate mob" and distributed its constituents among the Echinodermata, Polyzoa, Vermes, Cælenterata, and Protozoa.
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Radiation
in physics, the transmission of heat, light, or actinic power (hence known as forms of "radiant en- Leipsic, and Brienne. Having been suc-ergy ergy") from one body to another without raising the temperature of the intervening medium. It takes place in all directions around a body. In a homogeneous medium it takes place in straight lines. Radiation proceeds in vacuo as well as through air. Its intensity is proportioned to the temperature of the source, and it diminishes according to the obliquity of the rays with respect to the radiant surface, and the radiating or emissive power of a body, or its capability of emitting at the same temperature, and with the same extent of surface, greater or less quantities of heat. The energy received from a radiating body is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, and the radiation of a body is exactly proportional al to its absorbing power. If the radiating power of lampblack be reckoned at 100, that of platinum foil is 10.80; copper foil, 4.90; gold leaf, 4.28, and pure laminated silver 3.80. Solar radiation is the radiation from the sun; terrestrial radiation that from the earth into space.
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