Reni, Guido. 1575-1642. Italian Baroque painter. Aurora and the Hours 1613.

Renoir, Pierre A. 1841-1919. French Impressionist painter. Moulin de la Galette 1876. Bathers.

Representation of the People Acts. England. 1918 Women over 30 and men over 21 enfranchised. 1928 Women over 21. 1948 Plural voting abolished. 1969 Age of majority reduced to 18. Reform Bills.

Republic. Government vesting power in representatives who govern for the good of the people.

Republic, Council of the. 1917. Russian provisional government. Eliminated by Bolsheviks.

Respighi, Ottorino. 1879-1936. Italian composer. The Pines of Rome 1924. Used recorded sound as part of composition.

Revolutionary Tribunal. 1793-5. French Terror court.

Rhea. Greek fertility goddess. Mother of most gods.

Rhodesia, Northern. = Zambia.

Richard. 1209-72. English. King of the Romans 1256-71.

Richardson, Samuel. 1689-1761. English novelist using personal letters. Influenced novel form: Pamela 1740 Clarissa 1747 (at 1M words, the longest English novel).

Rickover, Hyman. 1900-86. US Admiral. “Father of nuclear submarine”.

Riemann, Bernhard. 1826-66. German mathematician: non-Euclidean geometry.

Riis, Jacob. 1849-1914. Danish/US social reformer. How the Other Half Lives, 1890.

Robert I. Duke of Normandy 1027-35. Father of William I.

Robert, Henry. 1837-1923. US writer. Robert’s Rules of Order 1876.

Roberts, Charles. 1860-1943. Poet, “Father of Canadian literature”. Songs of the Common Day 1893.

Robespierre, Maximilien de. 1758-94. Jacobin extremist French revolutionary leader. Opposed Cult of Reason. Led Terror. Executed.

Robin Hood. 13C Legendary English archer and outlaw, who robbed the rich to help the poor.

Roger I. 1031-1101. Brother, ally of Robert Guiscard. Ruled Two Sicilies 1085-.

Roget, Peter. 1779-1869. English physician. Thesaurus 1852.

Roland de la Platière, Jean. 1734-93. Moderate French revolutionary leader. Fled Terror.

Rölvaag, Ole. 1876-1931. Norwegian/US. Wrote of immigrants in Minnesota. Giants in the Earth 1927.

Roman Empire. 27BC Augustus. 395 Split into Empire of the West and Eastern Roman Empire =Byzantine Empire. Rome.

Romantic. Literary movement. Nature, spirit and emotion. Subjective. Gothic novel. Hugo, Rousseau, Schiller. Wordsworth. Goethe. Scott.

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