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(Encyclopedia) fruit sugar: see fructose.

(Encyclopedia) sugar substitute: see sweetener, artificial. ...

(Encyclopedia) Delany, Martin Robinson dəlāˈnē [key], 1812–85, American black leader, b. Charles Town, Va. (now in West Virginia). The son of free blacks, he attended a black school in Pittsburgh and studied m...

(Encyclopedia) Goderich, Frederick John Robinson, Viscount: see Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Lennox, 1886–1958, Irish dramatist. From 1910 to 1923 he was manager of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and he served as director there from 1923 until his death. The comedy The White Headed ...

(Encyclopedia) ray, in physics, term denoting the straight line along which light or other form of radiation is propagated from its source. It generally refers to the line of propagation of waves but is also applied...

(Encyclopedia) beet sugar: see beet; sucrose. ...

(Encyclopedia) Eames, Ray Kaiser: see under Eames, Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775–1867, English diarist, journalist, and lawyer. He practiced law occasionally and served (1808–9) as war correspondent for the London Times. His voluminous correspondenc...

(Encyclopedia) Bradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury) brădˈbĕrˌē, –bərē [key], 1920–2012, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and prolific writer of science fiction who did much to bring the ge...