Rewari
a town of the district of Gurgaon, in the extreme S. of the Punjab, 50 miles S. W. of Delhi, an important center for trade between the Punjab and Rajputana. Pop. about 25,000.
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Single-source entries: R (40)
These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rewari, Rexford, Reynard the Fox.
Rexford
EBEN EUGENE, an American poet; born in Johnsburg, N. Y., July 16, 1848. He began to write when a mere child, contributing to periodicals and magazines. He published in book form the poems "Brother and Lover" and "Grandmother's Garden" (1887); and a story, "John Fielding and His Enemy" (1888). "The Swamp Secret" (1897); "Into the Light" (1899), etc. He wrote the popular songs "Silver Threads Among the Gold" and "Only a Pansy-Blossom.' He died in 1916.
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Reyes (BERNARDO a Mexican soldier)
BERNARDO, a Mexican soldier, born in the Province of Nuevo León. He studied in France. Returning to Mexico, he joined the army, where he rapidly rose in rank, became one of the principal generals in the later Díaz régime, ne, was appointed Governor of the State of Nuevo León, and served also as Minister of War and Marine. He incurred the suspicion of Díaz and in 1909, after having headed a revolt, he was banished. He joined the Madero movement in 1911 and was a candidate for the presidency, but withdrew before the election. He was arrested in San Antonio, Tex., for violation of the neutrality laws, but was released. When he returned to Mexico, he endeavored to start a revolt, but failed and surrendered himself to Madero in December, 1911. He was kept in prison for two years and was released during the uprising against Madero in 1913. In the fighting which followed this, he was killed.
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Reyes (RAFAEL a Colombian soland)
RAFAEL, a Colombian soland politician, born at dier Santa Rose de Viterbo, in 1852. During his earlier life he conducted important explorations in South America. Becoming engaged in politics, he took a large part in the internal struggles of Colombia. He commanded the government forces during the uprising of 1885, was Minister of the Interior under President Nuñez, and served also as Minister to France and Switzerland. He represented Colombia in several foreign negotiations, including those for the Panama Canal. In 1904 he was elected President of Colombia. His administration was on the whole excellent, but objection was made to his imperious policies, and he resigned in 1910. He wrote several books, including "The Two Americas" (1914).
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Reynard the Fox
the title of a well-known popular epic, the characters of which are animals instead of men. It belongs to the series of beast fables which have delighted the popular imagination from early ages and in all lands, from India to the Bushmen's country in South Africa.
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Reynolds
JAMES BURTON, an American public official, born in Saratoga, N. Y., in 1870. He was educated at Dartmouth College, and after some years of journalistic work with Boston and New York newspapers, he became secretary of the Republican State Committee of Massachusetts in 1896, serving until 1905. From 1905 to 1909 he was an assistant secretary of the treasury, spending some during 1907 and 1908 in various European countries as chairman of the government commission to consider trade relations between these countries and the United States. From 1909 to 1912 he was a member of the United States Tariff Board. In July, 1912, he became secretary of the Republican National Committee, resigning in January, 1920, to take charge of the campaign for the presidential nomination Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts.
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Reynolds (II)
JOHN FULTON, an American military officer; born in Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 20, 1820; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1841; as 1st lieutenant served in the Mexican War in 1846-1847; was promoted captain in 1855; and was appointed commandant at West Point in 1859. At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers; led a brigade in the Seven Days' battles, in June, 1862, near Richmond, when he so distinguished himself for skill and bravery that he was given the brevets of colonel and brigadier-general, U. S. A. In 1863 he succeeded Hooker in command of the 1st Army Corps; in 1863 was promoted Major-General of volunteers. His corps was the vanguard at Gettysburg, where he was killed, July 1, 1863.
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Reynolds, Joshua
ren'olz, Joshua (1723-1792), an English painter. He was the first president of the Royal Academy. He was a friend and intimate of Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke, and a member of the famous Literary Club. We are indebted to Reynolds for the portraits of the distinguished London people of his day. At the height of his fame he painted a hundred portraits a year and employed many assistants. Many of his paintings are now worthless through use of poor paint. At death he was accorded burial in St. Paul's. See Painting ; West
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Rhapsode
or Rhapsodist, a name given by the ancient Greeks to their wandering minstrels, who sang the Homeric and other poems. Each separate song or ballad was called a rhapsody. It was by means of the rhapsodes that these poems were preserved before they were committed to writing, and thus made generally accessible. An important step in the development of Greek tragedy was made when Thespis arranged a sort of dialogue between the leader of a chorus and a rhapsode at the Dionysian festival. The Greek rhapsode corresponds to the scald of the Scandinavians, the French trouvere, the Celtic bard, and the AngloSaxon gleeman. The word rhapsode means literally, "one who strings songs together." See Minstrel ; Bard ; Ballad
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Rhapsodist
strictly, one who strings songs together, but usually applied to a class of persons in ancient Greece, who earned their living by reciting the poems of Homer. It is believed that to these persons we are chiefly indebted for the preservation of the Homeric poems. In the present day, a rhapsodist is one who composes rhapsodies or collections of poetical effusions, descriptions, etc., strung together without any natural connection or necessary dependence.
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Rhapsodomancy
Divination by means of opening the works of a poet at hazard and reading the verse which first presents itself oracularly.
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Rhatany
or RATTANY, a half shrubby plant, of the natural order Polygaleæ, a native of the cold sterile tablelands of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. It is called ratanhia in Peru. It is valued for the medicinal properties of the root, which are shared more or less by other species of the same genus, also natives of South America. In the British Pharmacopæia the dried roots of two species (Krameria triandra, Peruvian rhatany, and K. ixina, Savanilla rhatany) are officinal under the name Krameriæ Radix. The roots vary a good deal in size and thickness, but are always rough-looking, and reddish in color. The bark has a strongly astringent taste, and when chewed tinges the saliva red; the wood is nearly near tasteless. The dried root is a powerful astringent, and is employed in diarrhea, mucous discharges, passive hæmorrhages, and cases where an astringent or styptic action is indicated. The finely-powdered root is also a frequent constituent of toothpowders. Rhatany root is imported from various parts of South America, but chiefly from Lima. It is extensively imported into Portugal in order to communicate a rich red color to wines. Its peculiar properties are due to rhatanytannic acid, found in the root-bark to the extent of 20 per cent.; it also contains a red coloring matter.
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