• Reddick, Tyler (American stock-car racer)

    Michael Jordan: Endorsements and business ventures: …first Daytona 500 when driver Tyler Reddick took first place.

  • Reddie, Cecil (British educator)

    Cecil Reddie was an educational reformer, important in the development of progressive education in England. Reddie was educated in Göttingen, Ger., where he was greatly impressed by the progressive educational theories being applied there. In 1883 he joined the radical Fellowship of the New Life in

  • Redding (California, United States)

    Redding, city, seat (1888) of Shasta county, northern California, U.S. It lies in the northern Sacramento Valley. Founded (1872) on land called Poverty Flat by the California and Oregon Railroad, the city was named for B.B. Redding, a railroad land agent, and developed as a shipping point for

  • Redding, Noel (British musician)

    Jimi Hendrix: Emergence and London breakthrough: …alongside two British musicians, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, he stunned London’s clubland with his instrumental virtuosity and extroverted showmanship, numbering members of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who among his admirers. It proved a lot easier for him to learn their tricks than it was…

  • Redding, Otis (American singer)

    Otis Redding was an American singer-songwriter, one of the great soul stylists of the 1960s. Redding was raised in Macon, Georgia, where he was deeply influenced by the subtle grace of Sam Cooke and the raw energy of Little Richard. In the late 1950s Redding joined Richard’s band, the Upsetters,

  • reddish egret (bird)

    egret: The reddish egret, Hydranassa (or Dichromanassa) rufescens, of warm coastal regions of North America, has two colour phases: white and dark. The snowy egret, E. (or Leucophoyx) thula, ranging from the United States to Chile and Argentina, is white, about 60 cm long, with filmy recurved…

  • Reddit (social media forum)

    Reddit is an online social media forum where users share news stories and other content. Reddit was launched in 2005 by American entrepreneurs Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian; it became a publicly held company in 2024. The company’s headquarters are in San Francisco. RDDT Huffman and Ohanian met

  • Redditch (district, England, United Kingdom)

    Redditch: (district), administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England. It is located in the valley of the River Arrow, a tributary of the Avon (Upper, or Warwickshire, Avon). The borough is known for its needle, fishing tackle, and spring manufactures, as well as its production…

  • Redditch (England, United Kingdom)

    Redditch, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England. It is located in the valley of the River Arrow, a tributary of the Avon (Upper, or Warwickshire, Avon). The borough is known for its needle, fishing tackle, and spring manufactures, as

  • Reddy, B. Sudershan (Indian jurist and politician)

    B. Sudershan Reddy is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India who was nominated as the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc’s candidate for vice president in 2025. He has also served as a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and as the chief justice of the Gauhati

  • Reddy, Buchireddy Sudershan (Indian jurist and politician)

    B. Sudershan Reddy is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India who was nominated as the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc’s candidate for vice president in 2025. He has also served as a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and as the chief justice of the Gauhati

  • Reddy, Dabbala Rajagopal (Indian computer scientist)

    Raj Reddy is an Indian computer scientist and co-winner, with American computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum, of the 1994 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical

  • Reddy, Helen (Australian-born American singer-songwriter)

    Helen Reddy was an Australian-born American singer-songwriter, the first Australian-born pop singer to win a Grammy Award. She won the Grammy for her hit single “I Am Woman” (1971), an anthem for the women’s liberation movement in the early 1970s. The single sold more than 1 million copies. Reddy’s

  • Reddy, Helen Maxine Lamond (Australian-born American singer-songwriter)

    Helen Reddy was an Australian-born American singer-songwriter, the first Australian-born pop singer to win a Grammy Award. She won the Grammy for her hit single “I Am Woman” (1971), an anthem for the women’s liberation movement in the early 1970s. The single sold more than 1 million copies. Reddy’s

  • Reddy, Raj (Indian computer scientist)

    Raj Reddy is an Indian computer scientist and co-winner, with American computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum, of the 1994 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical

  • Reddy, Suravaram Sudhakar (Indian politician)

    Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy is an Indian politician and government official who rose to become a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of India (CPI). Reddy was born in a town southwest of Hyderabad in southern India. He attended high school and undergraduate college in Kurnool, in west-central

  • redeemer (religious concept)

    Buddhism: Female deities: Tara, the female saviour, is a much more popular figure who has often been seen as the female counterpart of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. In China and Japan, Avalokiteshvara himself gradually assumed a female form. As Guanyin (Japanese: Kannon), Avalokiteshvara became probably the most popular figure in the entire…

  • Redeemer, The (novel by Nesbø)

    Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole books: …killer in Frelseren (2005; “Savior”; The Redeemer) and another serial killer in Snømannen (2007; The Snowman). Panserhjerte (2009; “Armored Heart”; The Leopard) has Hole tracked down in Hong Kong and persuaded to reengage in police work. Gjenferd (2011; “Ghost”; Phantom) treats the drug scene in Oslo and examines Hole’s experience…

  • redemption (religion)

    eschatology: Religions of Asia: Redemption is popularly viewed as entrance into the highest heaven of the god worshiped, where the redeemed await a spiritual reflection of earthly joy. In modern Hinduism the soul that is identical with God is redeemed through a recognition of the organic wholeness that has…

  • Redemption Song (song by Marley)

    Bob Marley: Formation of the Wailers, role of Rastafari, and international fame: …the Cold,” “Jamming,” and “Redemption Song,” Marley’s landmark albums included Natty Dread (1974), Live! (1975), Rastaman Vibration (1976), Exodus (1977), Kaya (1978), Uprising (1980), and the posthumous Confrontation (1983). Exploding in

  • Redemptoris missio (papal encyclical)

    Roman Catholicism: Missions: …on missions in his encyclical Redemptoris missio (December 7, 1990; “The Mission of Christ the Redeemer”), renewing the church’s commitment to mission and calling for the evangelization of lapsed Christians and non-Christians alike.

  • Redemptorist (religious order)

    Redemptorist, a community of Roman Catholic priests and lay brothers founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori at Scala, Italy, a small town near Naples, in 1732. The infant community met an obstacle in the royal court of Naples, which tried to exercise complete control over the order. Only after steps were

  • Reden an die deutsche Nation (lectures by Fichte)

    Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Last years: …an die deutsche Nation (Addresses to the German Nation), full of practical views on the only true foundation for national recovery and glory. From 1810 to 1812 he was rector of the new University of Berlin. During the great effort of Germany for national independence in 1813, he lectured…

  • Reden über das Judentum (lectures by Buber)

    Martin Buber: From mysticism to dialogue.: The Reden über das Judentum (1923; “Talks on Judaism”) mark another step in his development. The early “Talks” were delivered in 1909–11 before large Zionist student audiences in Prague; each of the speeches tries to answer its opening question: “Jews, why do we call ourselves Jews?”…

  • Redentore, Il (church, Venice, Italy)

    Andrea Palladio: Venetian period of Andrea Palladio: …(1566, completed in 1610) and Il Redentore (1576, completed in 1592). The liturgical revival of the Counter-Reformation opposed the centrally planned church, requiring separate functions for different parts of a Latin-cross church. Palladio’s proposals for a circular church for Il Redentore, therefore, were rejected. In both churches the nave is…

  • Redeployment (short stories by Klay)

    War Stories: 13 Modern Writers Who Served in War: Phil Klay: Klay’s first book, Redeployment, is a collection of short stories that explore such themes as trauma, guilt, and faith. In 2015 the book won the National Book Award for fiction. Klay’s debut novel, Missionaries—a sprawling complex story set in the United States, the Middle East, and Colombia after…

  • rederijkerskamer (Dutch dramatic society)

    rederijkerskamer, (Dutch: “chamber of rhetoric”), medieval Dutch dramatic society. Modelled after contemporary French dramatic societies (puys), such chambers spread rapidly across the French border into Flanders and Holland in the 15th century. At first they were organized democratically; later

  • RedEye (American newspaper)

    Chicago Tribune: …including a free tabloid edition, RedEye (2002), which was geared toward younger readers. However, because of increasing financial difficulties in a struggling newspaper industry, the Tribune subsequently underwent a period of major restructuring that included employee buyouts and job cuts.

  • Redeye (missile)

    rocket and missile system: Passive: Redeye in Central America.

  • Redfaeirn Harold Ray (American white supremacist)

    Aryan Nations: In October 2001 Harold Ray Redfaeirn of the Ohio Aryan Nations chapter was appointed the new leader. Redfaeirn appointed August B. (“Chip”) Kreis III as the group’s minister of information. Redfaeirn and Kreis escalated the rhetoric of violence and hatred associated with the Aryan Nations. The Aryan Nations…

  • Redfield, Robert (American anthropologist)

    Robert Redfield was a U.S. cultural anthropologist who was the pioneer and, for a number of years, the principal ethnologist to focus on those processes of cultural and social change characterizing the relationship between folk and urban societies. A visit to Mexico in 1923 drew Redfield from law

  • Redfield, William C. (American meteorologist)

    Earth sciences: Observation and study of storms: …established by the American meteorologist William C. Redfield in the case of the September hurricane that struck New England in 1821. He noted that in central Connecticut the trees had been toppled toward the northwest, whereas some 80 kilometres westward they had fallen in the opposite direction. Redfield identified the…

  • redfin pickerel (fish)

    pickerel: … consists of two subspecies: the redfin pickerel (E. americanus americanus) and the grass pickerel (E. americanus vermiculatus). This species reaches a maximum weight of about 0.5 kg (1.1 pounds). See also pike.

  • redfish (fish)

    redfish, (Sebastes norvegicus), commercially important food fish of the scorpionfish family, Scorpaenidae (order Scorpaeniformes), found in the North Atlantic Ocean along European and North American coasts. Also known as ocean perch or rosefish in North America and as Norway haddock in Europe, the

  • Redford, Charles Robert, Jr. (American actor and director)

    Robert Redford was an American motion-picture actor and director known for his boyish good looks and diversity of screen characterizations. He gained wide fame with his performance opposite Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and thereafter became a highly sought-after leading

  • Redford, Robert (American actor and director)

    Robert Redford was an American motion-picture actor and director known for his boyish good looks and diversity of screen characterizations. He gained wide fame with his performance opposite Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and thereafter became a highly sought-after leading

  • Redgrave, Lynn (British-born actress)

    Lynn Redgrave was a British-born stage and screen actress who is perhaps best known for her breakout performance in the motion picture Georgy Girl (1966), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Although she never achieved the same fame as her elder sister, Vanessa Redgrave, and her elder

  • Redgrave, Lynn Rachel (British-born actress)

    Lynn Redgrave was a British-born stage and screen actress who is perhaps best known for her breakout performance in the motion picture Georgy Girl (1966), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Although she never achieved the same fame as her elder sister, Vanessa Redgrave, and her elder

  • Redgrave, Michael (British actor)

    Michael Redgrave was a premier British stage and film actor, noted for his intellectual performances. Following a short tenure as a schoolmaster, Redgrave began his stage career in 1934 with the Liverpool Playhouse. He went on to the Old Vic, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the National Theatre,

  • Redgrave, Richard (British painter)

    Sir Henry Cole: …1849 Cole and the painter Richard Redgrave founded The Journal of Design and Manufactures, a publication dedicated to the promotion of “the germs of a style which England of the nineteenth century may call its own.” In 1848 Cole proposed an unprecedented Great Exhibition of the industry of all nations.…

  • Redgrave, Sir Michael Scudamore (British actor)

    Michael Redgrave was a premier British stage and film actor, noted for his intellectual performances. Following a short tenure as a schoolmaster, Redgrave began his stage career in 1934 with the Liverpool Playhouse. He went on to the Old Vic, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the National Theatre,

  • Redgrave, Sir Steven Geoffrey (British rower)

    Steven Redgrave is an English rower, who was the first in his sport to win gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games. He is revered in his sport for his intensity and strategic brilliance. Redgrave grew up near the banks of the River Thames and took up rowing at age 16. He first represented

  • Redgrave, Steven (British rower)

    Steven Redgrave is an English rower, who was the first in his sport to win gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games. He is revered in his sport for his intensity and strategic brilliance. Redgrave grew up near the banks of the River Thames and took up rowing at age 16. He first represented

  • Redgrave, Vanessa (British actress)

    Vanessa Redgrave is a British actress of stage and screen who received numerous accolades—including an Oscar, two Emmys, a Tony, and a Laurence Olivier Award—for her performances. She was also a longtime political activist, supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Irish

  • Redgrove, Peter (English poet, novelist, and playwright)

    Peter Redgrove was an English poet, novelist, and playwright, known for his exuberant depictions of the natural world and a penchant for verbal pyrotechnics. Redgrove studied natural science at Queens’ College Cambridge and went on to become a scientific journalist in the late 1950s, an experience

  • Redgrove, Peter William (English poet, novelist, and playwright)

    Peter Redgrove was an English poet, novelist, and playwright, known for his exuberant depictions of the natural world and a penchant for verbal pyrotechnics. Redgrove studied natural science at Queens’ College Cambridge and went on to become a scientific journalist in the late 1950s, an experience

  • redhead (bird)

    redhead, (Aythya americana), North American diving duck (family Anatidae), a popular game bird. The redhead breeds in marshes from British Columbia to Wisconsin and winters as far south as the Yucatán Peninsula. Breeding males have a round, red-brown head, gray back, and dark breast and tail;

  • Redhead by the Side of the Road (novel by Tyler)

    Anne Tyler: Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020) centers on a tech expert who finds his highly organized life upended, while French Braid (2022) follows a family over six decades.

  • Redi, Francesco (Italian physician and poet)

    Francesco Redi was an Italian physician and poet who demonstrated that the presence of maggots in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from eggs laid on the meat by flies. He read in the book on generation by William Harvey a speculation that vermin such as insects,

  • Reding, Aloys (Swiss politician)

    Aloys Reding was a Swiss politician and military hero who was for a time (1801–02) head of state of the short-lived Helvetic Republic. After some years in the armies of Spain, Reding returned to Switzerland, where he joined the native struggle against the invading French. On May 2–3, 1798, he led

  • Reding, Ital (Swiss politician)

    Ital Reding was a Swiss politician who led hostilities against Zürich during the first civil wars of the Swiss Confederation (1439–40; 1443–50). As Landammann (chief executive) of Schwyz (1412–44), Reding virtually controlled political life in the canton for over 30 years. In the affairs of the

  • redingote (clothing)

    redingote, fitted outer garment. The man’s redingote, worn in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was a full-skirted, short-waisted, double-breasted overcoat adapted from the English riding coat. The woman’s redingote of the same period was a close-fitting dress that was fastened down the front

  • redirected activity (animal behavior)

    animal communication: Evolution of signals: …may also perform displays of redirected aggressive attacks on nearby inanimate objects, reminiscent of an angry person who slams a door instead of causing physical harm to the individual who is serving as the source of frustration. The form of vocal signals can also reveal information about sender state. Vocalizations…

  • redirection (animal behavior)

    animal communication: Evolution of signals: …may also perform displays of redirected aggressive attacks on nearby inanimate objects, reminiscent of an angry person who slams a door instead of causing physical harm to the individual who is serving as the source of frustration. The form of vocal signals can also reveal information about sender state. Vocalizations…

  • rediscount rate (finance)

    discount rate, interest rate charged by a central bank for loans of reserve funds to commercial banks and other financial intermediaries. This charge originally was an actual discount (an interest charge held out from the amount loaned), but the rate is now a true interest charge, even though the

  • Rediscovered Artists: 6 Big Names That Time Almost Forgot

    For every artist who becomes enduringly famous, there are hundreds more who fall into obscurity. It may surprise you to learn that some of your favorite artists almost suffered that fall. Read on to learn about 6 famous artists who were “rediscovered” after nearly being forgotten. list,

  • Rediscovery and Other Poems (work by Awoonor)

    Kofi Awoonor: Each poem in Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964), for example, records a single moment in a larger pattern of recognition and rediscovery. Awoonor’s subsequent volumes of poetry include Night of My Blood (1971), Ride Me, Memory (1973), The House by the Sea (1978), and Latin American and Caribbean…

  • Redistribution Act (United Kingdom [1885])

    Reform Bill: …to agricultural workers, while the Redistribution Act of 1885 equalized representation on the basis of 50,000 voters per each single-member legislative constituency. Together these two acts tripled the electorate and prepared the way for universal male suffrage.

  • redistribution of income (economics)

    George Bernard Shaw on socialism: …into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. Thus it reverses the policy of Capitalism, which means establishing private or “real” property to the utmost physically possible extent, and then leaving distribution of income to take care of itself. The…

  • redistribution reaction (chemistry)

    organometallic compound: Redistribution: + 2B(CH3)3 Double displacements involving the same central element are often referred to as redistribution reactions. A commercially important example is the redistribution of silicon tetrachloride and tetramethylsilicon (also known as tetramethylsilane) at elevated temperatures. SiCl4 + (CH3)4Si → CH3SiCl + (CH3)2SiCl2 + (CH3)3

  • redistricting (government)

    legislative apportionment, a process by which representation is distributed among the constituencies of a representative assembly. This use of the term apportionment is limited almost exclusively to the United States. In most other countries, particularly the United Kingdom and the countries of the

  • Redjang (people)

    Rejang, tribe inhabiting Bengkulu province, southern Sumatra, Indonesia, on the upper course of the Musi River. Of Proto-Malay stock and numbering about 238,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a Malayo-Polynesian dialect called Rejang, whose written form is of Indian origin, predating

  • Redjang language

    Rejang: …speak a Malayo-Polynesian dialect called Rejang, whose written form is of Indian origin, predating Islāmization and its introduction of Arabic characters. Organized into four major patriclans having a common mythical origin, the Rejang belong to localized, kin-based communities. In addition, village communities, each led by an elected headman, today belong…

  • Redjedef (king of Egypt)

    Redjedef, third king of the 4th dynasty of ancient Egypt who ruled c. 2482–c. 2475 bce. Redjedef was a son of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid, by a secondary queen. The original crown prince, Kawab, who had married the heiress Hetepheres II, apparently predeceased his father. At Khufu’s death,

  • Redl, Alfred (Austrian military officer)

    Alfred Redl was the chief of intelligence for the Austrian army from 1907 to 1912 and at the same time the chief spy for tsarist Russia in Austria. Redl was born into a poor family but traveled widely as a young man and learned many languages. His ability and intelligence won him a commission in

  • Redlands (California, United States)

    Redlands, city, San Bernardino county, southern California, U.S. Located about 60 miles (100 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, it is situated in the southwestern corner of the San Bernardino Valley, surrounded by peaks more than 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) high. Deriving its name from the red soil

  • Redlands, University of (university, Redlands, California, United States)

    Rancho Cucamonga: …also satellite campuses of the University of Redlands and the University of La Verne. The city hosts an annual Grape Harvest Festival (first held in 1939). San Bernardino and Angeles national forests are north of the city. Inc. 1977. Pop. (2010) 165,269; (2020) 174,453.

  • Redlich, Joseph (Austrian politician and historian)

    Joseph Redlich was an Austrian statesman and historian who was an influential politician before and during World War I (1914–18) and wrote important works on local government and parliamentary institutions. Redlich, the son of a prominent Jewish industrialist, studied law and history at the

  • redlichiid (trilobite)

    Cambrian Period: Paleogeography: …margins of Baltica, and the redlichiids vanished from the shallow-shelf ecosystems near Gondwana. Also, diverse and abundant reef-dwelling archaeocyathans (extinct group of sponges thought to have helped construct the first reefs) disappeared from most low-latitude warm-water continental shelves.

  • redlining (discrimination)

    redlining, illegal discriminatory practice in which a mortgage lender denies loans or an insurance provider restricts services to certain areas of a community, often because of the racial characteristics of the applicant’s neighbourhood. Redlining practices also include unfair and abusive loan

  • Redman, Dewey (American musician)

    Keith Jarrett: …the 1970s, performing with saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Paul Motian; and he toured and recorded with the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek. During this period he experimented with a vast array of tonal and structural devices that previously had been associated more with world music than jazz.…

  • Redman, Don (American musician)

    Don Byas: …swing bands, including those of Don Redman and Andy Kirk, and in 1941 he became a tenor saxophone soloist with Count Basie on such songs as “Swinging the Blues,” “Royal Garden Blues,” and, most notably, “Harvard Blues.” He also became associated with bebop innovators such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy…

  • Redmayne, Eddie (British actor)

    Eddie Redmayne is a British actor known for his transformative performances in such films as The Theory of Everything (2014), for which he won an Academy Award. Redmayne was raised in London. He began acting at a young age, training at the Jackie Palmer Stage School and performing with the National

  • Redmayne, Edward John David (British actor)

    Eddie Redmayne is a British actor known for his transformative performances in such films as The Theory of Everything (2014), for which he won an Academy Award. Redmayne was raised in London. He began acting at a young age, training at the Jackie Palmer Stage School and performing with the National

  • Redmond (Washington, United States)

    Redmond, city, King county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on the Sammamish River 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Seattle. Founded in 1871 as an agricultural, fishing, and logging center, it was first called Salmonberg after the abundant local fish. It was renamed for Luke McRedmond, a local farmer

  • Redmond (Oregon, United States)

    Redmond, city, Deschutes county, central Oregon, U.S., near the Deschutes River. It lies in front of the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range on the western edge of the Great Basin, about 16 miles (26 km) north-northeast of Bend. Redmond was founded in 1904 by pioneers Frank and Josephine

  • Redmond, Derek (British runner)

    Derek Redmond: Between a Father and His Son: British runner Derek Redmond didn’t win any Olympic medals, and he didn’t set any world records. In fact, he didn’t even make it to the finals of his event, the men’s 400-meter race. Nevertheless, he provided one of the most lasting images in Olympic history.

  • Redmond, John (Irish politician)

    John Redmond was the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (commonly called the Irish Nationalist Party, or the Nationalists) who devoted his life to achieving Home Rule for Ireland. After he was elected to the House of Commons for New Ross, Wexford (1881), Redmond set a record by taking his

  • redness trope (philosophy)

    universal: Trope nominalism: …as parts a particular “redness trope” and a particular “roundness trope.” According to a trope metaphysics, things are red in virtue of having redness tropes as parts, round in virtue of having roundness tropes as parts, and so on. Such tropes are “abstract particulars”: the shape trope, for example,…

  • RedNote (Chinese e-commerce and lifestyle app)

    RedNote, Chinese e-commerce and lifestyle app that gained unexpected popularity when a ban of the popular short-form content app TikTok seemed imminent in the United States. The large number of “TikTok refugees” who made their way onto RedNote led to it briefly holding the top spot in both Apple’s

  • Redoble por Rancas (work by Scorza)

    Manuel Scorza: Redoble por Rancas (1970; Drums for Rancas) was the first of five volumes dealing with events in Peru (1955–62) and with the plight of the Indians. A basic theme in this and the other four novels of the series, Historia de Garabombo, el invisible (1972; “Story of Garabombo the…

  • Redon, Odilon (French painter)

    Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines. His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. His oils and

  • Redonda (island, Antigua and Barbuda)

    Redonda, the smallest of the three islands that constitute the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Redonda is located among the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, approximately 35 miles (55 km) from the nearest point in Antigua, to the east. Redonda is a rugged, uninhabited rock, the remnant

  • redondilla (poetry)

    redondilla, a Spanish stanza form consisting of four trochaic lines, usually of eight syllables each, with a rhyme scheme of abba. Quatrains in this form with a rhyme scheme of abab, sometimes also called redondillas, are more commonly known as serventesios. Redondillas have been common in

  • Redondo Beach (California, United States)

    Redondo Beach, city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is adjacent to Palos Verde Peninsula (south) and Hermosa Beach (north), on Santa Monica Bay. Originally inhabited by Gabrielino (Tongva) Indians, the area became part of Rancho San Pedro, a Spanish land grant made to Juan

  • Redondo, José Moniño y, conde de Floridablanca (Spanish statesman)

    José Moñino y Redondo, conde de Floridablanca was a Spanish statesman and minister who became identified with the reform program of King Charles III. Moñino y Redondo was a leading advocate in Madrid when he was appointed fiscal of the council of Castile in 1766. Having cooperated in the expulsion

  • Redonnet, Marie (French author)

    French literature: Prose fiction: Marie Redonnet’s prose fictions sit at the edge of popular culture, in a bizarre blend of realism and fantasy, engaging in confident negotiation with the myths and forms of both maternal and paternal inheritance. Chantal Chawaf’s sensually charged prose offers a highly original version of…

  • Redoubt (film by Barney [2019])

    Matthew Barney: Barney’s next work, Redoubt (2019), draws on Ovid’s tale of Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt, and Actaeon and utilizes choreography to explore gun ownership and the use of land in the United States.

  • Redoubt, Mount (mountain, Alaska, United States)

    Aleutian Range: … (8,225 feet [2,507 metres]), and Redoubt (10,197 feet [3,108 metres]). The range, named for the Aleuts who inhabit the island region, embraces Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve (including the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes), and the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve.

  • Redoubt, The (novel by Mavor)

    Elizabeth Mavor: Mavor’s third novel, The Redoubt (1967), is concerned with betrayal and regrowth; it uses shifting narrators and techniques to contrast the unhappy marriages of two young couples with the contented union of an older couple. In the ironic A Green Equinox (1973), the heroine embarks on sequential love…

  • Redouté, Pierre-Joseph (French botanical painter)

    Pierre-Joseph Redouté was a French botanical painter. He became a favoured artist at the court of France, patronized by kings from Louis XVI to Louis-Philippe. His delicate botanical prints were not only framed as pictures but also used for china patterns. His Les Liliacées (1802–15) contained 500

  • redox discontinuity layer (biology)

    marine ecosystem: Benthos: …oxygen-poor layers is called the redox discontinuity layer and appears as a gray layer above the black anaerobic layers. Organisms have evolved various ways of coping with the lack of oxygen. Some anaerobes release hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and other toxic reduced ions through metabolic processes. The thiobiota, made up primarily…

  • redox reaction (chemical reaction)

    oxidation-reduction reaction, any chemical reaction in which the oxidation number of a participating chemical species changes. The term covers a large and diverse body of processes. Many oxidation-reduction reactions are as common and familiar as fire, the rusting and dissolution of metals, the

  • redox titration (chemical process)

    titration: In oxidation-reduction (redox) titrations the indicator action is analogous to the other types of visual colour titrations. In the immediate vicinity of the end point, the indicator undergoes oxidation or reduction, depending upon whether the titrant is an oxidizing agent or a reducing agent. The oxidized…

  • redroot (plant)

    pigweed: …base of the leafstalks; and rough pigweed, or redroot (A. retroflexus), is a stout plant up to 3 metres (about 10 feet) tall.

  • Reds (film by Beatty [1981])

    Elaine May: …him with the script for Reds (1981). She also served as an uncredited script doctor on Dustin Hoffman’s Tootsie (1982). Beatty acted as producer when she wrote and directed the comedy Ishtar (1987), which starred Beatty and Hoffman and was one of the most notorious flops in movie history.

  • Reds (American baseball team)

    Cincinnati Reds, American professional baseball franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Reds play in the National League (NL) and were founded in 1882. They have won five World Series titles (1919, 1940, 1975, 1976, 1990) and nine NL pennants. The city of Cincinnati lays claim to hosting the first

  • redshank (bird group)

    redshank, either of two species of Old World shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes), characterized by its long reddish legs. In the common redshank (Tringa totanus), about 30 cm (12 inches) long, the legs are orange-red, the upper parts are brownish or gray, the rump and hind

  • redshift (astronomy)

    redshift, displacement of the spectrum of an astronomical object toward longer (red) wavelengths. It is attributed to the Doppler effect, a change in wavelength that results when a given source of waves (e.g., light or radio waves) and an observer are in motion with respect to each other. The

  • redshift controversy (astronomy)

    Halton Christian Arp: …was known as the “redshift controversy.” The controversy faded away in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Arp’s theory could not account for quasars and nearby galaxies that were at the same redshift, the gravitational lensing of quasars by high-redshift galaxies, or the existence of high-redshift intergalactic gas…