Rovuma
a river of East Africa, which rises on the E. of Lake Nyassa, and flows nearly due E., with a course Ocean. of about 500 miles, to the Indian The Rovuma is not well adapted for navigation.
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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 Rovuma, Rowan Tree, Rowell.
Rowan Tree
. See Mountain Ash Rowley Poems. See Chatterton; Thomas
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Rowe (LEO S an American economist)
LEO S., an American economist and public official, born in McGregor, Iowa, in 1871. He was educated at the Central High School of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Halle. He also received honorary degrees from several South American universities. From 1895 to 1896 he was instructor in municipal government, from 1896 to 1904 assistant professor of political science, and from 1904 to 1917 professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. to He was a member of the commission revise and compile the laws at Porto Rico (1900-1901); a United States dele- Confergate to the Third International States at Rio Janeiro ence of American (1906); chairman of the United States delegation to the First Pan-American Santiago, Chile Scientific Congress, (1908); a member of the United States- Claims Commission Joint Panama ( 1913); secretary - general of the Pan- American general of mission ( 1915-1917); a delegate to the Second ( 1915); secretary of the American - Mexican Pan-American 1920). eral of the director-general Union. He was a member of many domestic and foreign societies, and wrote: "Report of the Insular Code Commission" (with J. M. Keedy, 8 vols., 1902); and Porto Rico" "The United States (1904); "Problems of City Government" (1908); as well as many reports and articles in economic journals and reviews.
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Rowe (NICHOLAS an English dramatist)
NICHOLAS, an English dramatist and translator; born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, June 30, 1674. He was educated at Westminster under Busby, and studied law in the Middle Temple; but early inheriting a small competency by the death of his father, he devoted himself to literature. Between 1700 and 1714 he produced eight plays, of which three were long popular: "Tamerlane" (1702); "The Fair Penitent" (1703); "and "Jane Shore" (1714). The character of Lothario in "The Fair Penitent" was the prototype of Lovelace in Richardson's "Clarissa Harlowe," and indeed the name is still the proverbial synonym for a fashionable rake. Rowe translated Lucan's "Pharsalia." His edition of Shakespeare (6 vols. 1709-1710) at least contributed to the popularity of his author. His comedy, "The Biter" (1705), failed. The Duke of Queensberry made him under-secretary of state; in 1715 he succeeded Tate as poet-laureate; the same year he was appointed one of the surveyors of customs to the port of London; the Prince of Wales made him Clerk of his Council; and the Lord Chancellor Parker clerk of Presentations in Chancery. He died Dec. 6, 1718, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Rowell
NEWTON WESLEY, a Canadian lawyer. He was born in Middlesex co., Ont., in 1867, and was educated in the public schools and Ontario Law Society. He was called to the bar in 1891 and eventually became head of the law firm of Rowell, Reid, Wood & Wright, Toronto. He became bencher of the Law Society in 1911 and liberal member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly for North Oxford. He was leader of the liberal opposition in the Ontario Legislature, 1911-17, and in 1918 became a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. He became president of the Privy Council of Canada in 1917.
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Rowland
HENRY COTTRELL, an American novelist, born in New York in 1874. He was educated privately and carried on special studies in surgery at the Polyclinic Hospital in New York. During the Spanish-American War he served as a naval seaman, and in 1899- 1900 was assistant surgeon in the Philippines. In 1914-15 he served as physician in France. During the World War he acted also as war correspondent for "Collier's Weekly" and was a special agent of the intelligence department of the United States Navy. He was the author of "Sea Scamps" (1903); "The Wanderers" (1905); "In the Service of the Princess" (1909); "The Closing Net (1912); "Filling His Own Shoes" (1914). He was a frequent contributor of stories to magazines.
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Roxburgh
a county of southeast Scotland, near the English border. Area, 665 square miles. It is mainly agricultural and is fertile, farming, sheepraising and market gardening being the chief industries. It is watered by the River Tweed, and the Cheviot and Lauriston hills rise up on the horizon, with lakes and streamlets to vary the scenery. Jedburgh is the capital, and a chief town is Hawick. Pop. about 50,000. See
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Royal Academy
THE. ACADEMY OF ARTS, THE ROYAL. fraternal,
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Royal Arcanum
a beneficiary and secret society in the United States. The head offices are in Boston, where the society was formed in 1877 and where accommodation is provided for the sessions of the Supreme Council. The organization is based on the subordinate councils which number about 2,000, spread over the United States, anegroupedpretatitate of or which make up the governing body. The membership is around 250,000 and consists only of male adults. The beneficiary work of the society is that which receives its chief attention and a reorganization of its insurance system entailing an increase in the amount of premiums payable has occasionally been found necessary. The benefits paid to members from the date of the establishment of the society to September, 1920, total nearly $215,000,000.
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Royal Flying Corps
British, the military branch of the British Air Forces. The Royal Flying Corps was organized in 1912 in England in response to a demand that the importance of aeronautics be recognized by forming a special branch devoted to aviation in the British military service. From the date of its origin, with Major Seely as its first commandant, the Royal Flying Corps showed a remarkable progress in expansion and personnel. Starting ing with a total enlisted force of less than one thousand officers and men, it became, even in the early years of the World War, one of the most efficient and highly organized branches of the service. At the close of the World War, its enlistment numbered well over three hundred thousand, including the ground service and mechanics. In 1916 the Royal Flying Corps, while preserving its name and organization unchanged, became, by inclusion, a division of the Royal Air Service, which included the naval, dirigible, kite balloon, and blimp branches of the aviation service. The Royal Flying Corps was recruited principally from Great Britain, the Dominion of Canada, Australia and the United States. The commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces complimented the service for the invaluable uable aid that it offered at the So Somme, Vimy, Messines and Ypres, where it distinguished itself equally as a fighting unit and as an essential factor in the success of the ground operations.
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