Robinson (IV)
WILLIAM JOSEPHUS, an American physician and writer, born at Mount Morris, New York, in 1869. He graduated from the Columbia University College of Pharmacy and from the medical college of New York University, doing post-graduate work at the University of Berlin and Vienna. He was a lecturer on chemistry, pharmacology and materia medica of the Board of Pharmacy Institute, New York, and president of the med ical board and chief of the Genito-Urinary and Dermatological departments of the Bronx Hospital and Dispensary. He was also a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of various domestic and foreign medical societies. Besides being a founder and editor of the "Critic and Guide," and an editor of the "American Journal of Urology," he wrote: "Never Told Tales" (1908); "Sexual Problems of To-day" (1912); "Practical Eugenics" (1912); "Sex Morality" (1912); "Eugenics and Marriage" (1917). ROBINSON CRUSOE. Alexander Selkirk was found in the desert island of Juan Fernandez (1709), where he had been left by Captain Stradling. He had been on the island four years and four months, when he was rescued by Captain Rogers. See SELKIRK.
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Robinson, John
John (1575-1625), the English pastor of the Pilgrims. He was born near Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, and was educated at Cambridge for the English priesthood. He was suspended from the Church of England for Puritan views and became pastor of the Scrooby Independent church in 1606. To escape persecution, he removed with his congregation in 1608 to Amsterdam, and a year later to Leyden. In 1620 the younger portion of his congregation, known in history as the Pilgrims, migrated to the New World, settling at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He hoped to follow later, but died in Holland. Rob Roy (about 1671-1734), a noted Highland chieftain. His real name was Robert McGregor, or Campbell. He was called Rob Roy or Red Rob with reference to a shock of red hair. He was an adherent of the Stuart family. In 1691 he descended on Stirlingshire. When the cause of the Stuarts became hopeless, he pursued the course of a Highland freebooter and was outlawed. He is the subject of Sir Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy.
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Robson
MAY, an American actress, born in Australia. She was educated at Brussels and at Paris, and came to the United States in 1879. Her first appearance on the stage was as "Tilly," in "The Hoop of Gold," at Brooklyn in 1884. From 1886 to 1893 she played under the management of Daniel Frohman at the Madison Square and Lyceum Theaters, New York, and from 1893 to 1906 under the management of Charles Frohman. Her first appearance as a "star" occurred in 1907 at Scranton, Pa., in "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," in which play she appeared in London in 1910. Since then she has appeared in many stellar rôles with great success, both in this country and in England. She wrote, together with C. T. Dazey, "A Night Out" (1911).
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Rocail
Said to have been the younger brother of Seth, the son of Adam. The circumstances attending his history are. picturesque and unique. A Dive, or giant of Mount Caucasus, finding himself in difficulties, applied for aid to the human race. Rocail offered his services to the giant, and so acceptable did these prove that the Dive made his benefactor grand vizier. For a long period he governed the giant's realm with entire success, and reached a position of dignity and honour. However, when he felt himself growing old he desired to leave behind him a more lasting monument than public respect, so he built a magnificent palace and sepulchre. The palace he peopled with statues, which, by the power of magic, he made to walk and talk, and act in all ways as though they were living men, as, indeed, all who beheld them judged them to be. (See D'Herbelot, Bibliothèque Oriental.) Rochas d'Aiglun, Eugene-Auguste Albert de: French Officer and writer, born at Saint-Firmin in 1837. He is chiefly remembered as an exponent of the fluidic theory of magnetism. His works include des Force non définies (1887); le Fluide des magnetiseurs (1891); les Etats profonds de l'hypnose (1892); l'Exterioration de la sensibilité (1895); l'Exterioration de la motricité (1896); Recueil de documents relatifs à la levitation du corps humain (1897); les Etats superficiels de l'hypnose (1898); etc.
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Rochdale
a borough of England; in Lancashire, 10 miles N. N. E. of Manchester. It is a place of considerable antiquity, and was early noted for its woolen manufactures, which have remained a chief staple till the present day. Cotton is extensively manufactured, and there are also foundries, machine shops, etc.; while in the neighborhood are quarries of freestone and extensive collieries. The parish church (St. Chad), of the 12th century, situated an on eminence, is approached from the lower part of the town by a flight of 122 steps. The town hall is a fine modern building, and there is a handsome F-Cyc free library. Rochdale is the center of the co -operative movement, which originated there in 1844. By means of canals it has a water communication with the industrial centers of the N. of Engall land. Pop. (1919) 93.806.
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Roche
ARTHUR American author, born in Somerville, SOMERS, an Mass., in 1883. He was educated at Holy Cross College and at Boston University. After practicing law he entered newspaper work in 1906. Beginning with 1910, he contributed short stories to many of the leading magazines. He also wrote "Loot" (1916); "Plunder" (1917 ); "The Sport of Kings" (1917).
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Roche
JAMES JEFFREY, an American author; born in Queen's co., Ireland, May 31, 1847. He went to Boston in 1866 and became in 1890 an editor of the "Pilot," and published: "Songs and Satires" (1886); "Ballads of Blue Water," " Life of John Boyle O'Reilly," "Her Majesty the King," etc. He died in 1908.
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Roche
REGINA MARIA, an Irish novelist; born about 1764 in the S. of Ireland. She sprang into fame on the appearance of the novel "The Children of the Abbey" (1798). From that time till her death she produced many books of the same character, including: "The Nocturnal Visit" (1800); "The Tradition of the Castle" (1824); "The Castle Chapel" (1825); "The Nun's Picture" (1834), and many others. She died in Waterford, May 17, 1845.
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