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(Encyclopedia) Sheridan, Frances: see Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ingoldsby, Thomas: see Barham, Richard Harris. ...

(Encyclopedia) Garnett, Constance (Black): see Garnett, Richard. ...

(Encyclopedia) Wallace Collection: see under Wallace, Sir Richard. ...

(Encyclopedia)  Starr, Ringo (b. Richard Starkey): see Beatles, The. ...

(Encyclopedia) ransom, price of redemption demanded by the captor of a person, vessel, or city. In ancient times cities frequently paid ransom to prevent their plundering by captors. The custom of ransoming was form...

(Encyclopedia) Daley, William Michael: see under Daley, Richard Joseph. ...

(Encyclopedia) Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner, 1822–88, English jurist and historian, educated at Cambridge. A pioneer in the historical and comparative study of institutions, he viewed the history of laws as the m...

(Encyclopedia) Neuharth, Al (Allen Harold Neuharth), 1924–2013, American media executive, b. Eureka, S.Dak., grad. Univ. of South Dakota (1950). In 1954 he began working as a reporter for The Miami Herald, and by ...

(Encyclopedia) Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. ...