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Rambouillet, Marquise de. 1588-1665. First Paris literary salon.
Rameau, Jean-Philippe. 1683-1764. Composer for harpsichord and operas based on classical themes. Castor and Pollux 1737. Pygmalion 1748.
Ramillies, Battle. 1706. Churchill wins most of Belgium for Britain from France.
Ramiro I. First King of Aragon 1035-63. Took lands from brother and Moors.
Ramsay, William. 1852-1916. English chemist: discovered helium 1895; neon, krypton, xenon 1898.
Ramses II. The Great. Pharaoh of Egypt 1304-1237BC. Built temples. Age of prosperity.
Ramus, Petrus. 1515-72. French humanist, logician. Reforms of Aristotelian logic.
Ramuz, Charles. 1878-1947. Swiss novelist: Terror on the Mountain 1925. Beauty on Earth 1927. Soldier’s Tale.
Rand, Ayn. 1905-82. Russian/US Objectivist novelist. Fountainhead 1943. Atlas Shrugged 1957.
Randolph, A. Philip. 1889-1979. US black civil rights/labor leader. March on Washington 1963.
Randolph, Peyton. 1721-75. American Revolutionary, first president of Continental Congress 1774.
Ranjit Singh. 1780-1839. Maharaja of Punjab. Founded Sikh kingdom in N India.
Ranke, Leopold von. 1795-1886. German scientific histographer.-“Historical events must be described in their own terms”.
Rankin, Jeanette. 1880-1973. First US Congresswoman. 1917-9, 1941-3. Only vote against declaring war on Japan. WWII.
Ranters. 1649-60. English Puritan mystic sect.
Rapallo Treaty. 1920. Italy,Yugoslavia establish free city of Rijeka, settle borders. 1922 Normalized relations of Germany, USSR. Cancelled war indemnities.
Raphaël. 1483-1520. Italian High Renaissance classical painter, sculptor, architect. Vatican frescoes 1508-11. Madonnas 1505-7. Sistine Madonna 1513. Julius II.
Rappites. 19C. Christian communities in Germany, US.
Rasmussen, Knud. 1879-1933. Danish arctic explorer.
Rasputin, Grigori. 1872-1916. Russian adventurer, mystic. Influential in court of Nicholas II, 1906-. Murdered.
Rastatt, Congress of. 1713. After War of Spanish Succession, Holy Roman Empire renounces claim to Spanish throne. 1797-9. Failed at peace between France and HRE.
Rathenau. Walter. 1867-1922. German industrialist, statesman. Organized economy for WWI. Assassinated.
Rationalism. All truth can be arrived at through thought alone. vs Empiricism. Descartes. Spinoza.