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(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) Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833–83, Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer who on April 15, 1865, set the broken left leg of Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Mudd was accused of a...

(Encyclopedia) Donovan, William Joseph dŏnˈəvən [key], 1883–1959, U.S. lawyer and government official, b. Buffalo, N.Y., grad. Columbia law school. Distinguished service in World War I won him medals and the n...

(Encyclopedia) D'Aquino, Iva Toguri, 1916–2006, American citizen of Japanese descent, best-known of some dozen women who, during World War II, made English propaganda broadcasts to American troops on Radio Tokyo; ...

(Encyclopedia)  Coppola, Sophia Carmina, , 1971- , American director, screenwriter, and actress, b. New York City. The youngest child of director Francis Ford Coppola ...