Round Table
KNIGHTS OF THE See ARTHUR; MALORY, THOMAS; MORTE D ARTHUR.
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These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Round Table, Round Towers, Rounders.
Round Towers
a class of tall narrow circular edifices, tapering somewhat from the base upward, and generally with a conical top, from 60 to 130 feet in height, and from 20 to 30 in diameter. With the exception of three in Scotland, they are peculiar to Ireland. The doors are from 6 to 20 feet from the ground, the windows small. The interior contained no stairs, but the successive stories were reached, like the doors, by means of ladders. Authorities are now pretty well agreed that these towers were the works of a Christianized race erected as places of refuge and as watch towers. They date from the 8th or 9th to the 13th century.
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Rounders
a game played by two parties or sides on a piece of of ground marked off into a square or circle, with stations for a batter and bowler, and five bases or stopping-places at equal distances from each other and the batter's station. The object of the batter is to strike the ball as far as possible away with a short bat held in one hand, so as to be able to make a complete circuit of the ground, passing through each goal, or as far as any one of the goals, before the ball is returned by one of the fielders. A complete circuit of the ground made at once counts a run. The batter is out if the ball, after being hit by him, is caught by one of the fielders, or if he is struck by the ball , thrown by a fielder while running be tween any of the goals. Also a rock boring tool having a cylindrical form indented face.
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Roundfish
the Salmo (coregonus) quadrilateralis. The specimen on which Sir John Richardson based his description was about 18 inches long. It is not highly prized for food.
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Roundhead
a term applied by the Cavaliers or adherents of Charles I., during the Civil War of 1642, to the Puritans or adherents of the Parliamentary party, from their wearing their hair cut short, while the Cavaliers al lowed their hair to fall onto their shoul ders.
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Rounding Up Attachment
The Webster rounding up attachment, shown in Fig. 277, is a very useful adjunct to the lathe. It is attached to the top of the slide-rest. To operate, a pointed taper chuck is put in the lathe spindle. The wheel to be rounded up is put into the fixture and the wheel adjusted vertically so that the point of the lathe center will be at the center of the thickness of the wheel, after which the lower spindle of the fixture should not be moved. Now remove the wheel, also the taper chuck, and put the saw arbor, with the rounding-up cutter, in the lathe spindle, and adjust the longitudinal slide of the slide-rest so that the rounding-up cutter will be back of and in line with the center of the rounding-up fixture, after which the longitudinal slide of the slide-rest should not be moved. Now put the wheel and supporting collet in place, and proceed with the rounding-up. ROY, PETER. Watchmaker to the King of France. Died 1785. Author of two works on horology. ROZE, A. C. An eminent French watchmaker. Born in 1812, and died in 1862.
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Roup
one of the most serious diseases which the poultry or pheasant keeper has to fight, because in it there is generally an affection other than the mere cold which develops and makes it apparent. It is usually found that the system is scrofulous, which is the milder form; but sometimes it takes a diphtheritic development, and this is the most severe and deadly disease known to poultry keepers.
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Rousseau
HARRY HARWOOD, an American naval officer, born in Troy, N. Y., in 1870. He was educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. After some years as draftsman and engineer for private companies, he was appointed a civil engineer in the United States Navy, with the rank of Lieutenant in 1898. From 1899 to 1903 he was an engineer in the bureau of yards and docks, Washington; from 1903 to 1907 engineer of public improvements, Mare Island Navy Yard, California; and in 1907 was appointed chief of the bureau of yards and docks with the rank of rear-admiral. From 1907 to 1914 he was a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. From 1914 to 1916, engineer of terminal construction, Panama Canal; from 1916 to 1920 a member of the commission of Navy Yards, and from 1917 to 1919 manager of the shipyard plants division, Emergency Fleet Corporation. He was also a director of the Panama Railroad Company, vice-chairman of the United States Shipping Board, and a member of several engineering societies.
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Rousseau (THEODORE a French painter born)
THEODORE, a French painter, born in Paris in 1812. His talent was well developed before he was 14 years of age. He identified himself with a school of painting opposed to the prevailing classicism, and for a time met with bitter hostility from the officials of the French Academy. This continued until 1848, when by his pre-eminent skill as an artist he compelled recognition. From 1833 he spent his life chiefly at Barbizon, although he visited other chiefly notable parts of Europe. He was as a painter of landscapes, in which he excelled. His works are represented in most of the leading galleries, including , which has 13 the Metropolitan Museum examples. Rousseau died on Dec. 20, 1867.
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Rovno
a small city in Volhynia, Russia, but more important as a fort. of forts, It formed one of a triangle the other two being located at Lutsk and Dubno. Rovno was first fortified in 1887, and consisted of a system of seven forts in the form of a semi-circle, from four to six miles at a distance of from the city itself, and with a circumference of about twenty miles. During the early part of the World War Rovno served as the base of a Russian invasion of Austria-Hungary, until after the retreat of the Russian army, when it fell into the hands of the Germans. After the final defeat of Germany the forts again fell into the hands of the Russians. During the war between Soviet Russia Poland, in the spring of 1920, the and Poles attacked Rovno, and were reported end of the to have taken it, but at the campaign it was still in the hands of the Bolsheviki.
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