 |
INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: 'RIDE
 Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross
Ridgeway (grass track in Britain)
riding (a third part)
 Ridley, Nicholas - Protestant martyr
Ridolfi, Roberto - plot of 1571
Rie, Lucie
Riebeeck, Jan van - and Cape Town
Riel, Louis - and the Red River Rebellion
- in Saskatchewan in 1884-5
Rienzo, Cola di - tribune of Rome
- and Montreal d'Albarno
- and Gibbon
Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire
Rif, The - and Abd-el-Krim
rifling - in barrels of guns
Riga - becomes episcopal see
- besieged by Augustus II in 1700
Rights, Bill of - in 1689
Rights of Man - declaration of 1789
Rigoletto - and the Cairo opera house
rigsraad - and the Danish crown
Rigveda - creation hymn
- in Sanskrit literature
Rijeka - crisis in 1919
Rijswijk - peace of 1697
Riksdag - and the fourth estate
Rillington Place
Rime - of Petrarch
Rimini - Roman colony
- Mozart and Salieri
Rinaldo - opera by Handel
rinascimento - the Renaissance in Italy
rinderpest - in South West Africa in 1897
Ring a ring o' roses
Rinuccini, Ottavio - librettist of Dafne
Rio de Janeiro - reached by Vespucci
- becomes capital of Brazil
- transformation in early 20th century
- peace conference in 1942
Riot Act (1715)
Ripley, Thomas - Houghton Hall
Ripon - the monastery and Willibrord
- brief account of town
Ripon Falls - reached by Speke in 1862
Risorgimento - movement to liberate Italy
Risorgimento - newspaper by Cavour
Rites Controversy - over Confucianism
rites of passage - in primitive religion
Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria - by Monteverdi
ritual - in primitive religion
ritual murder - charged against Jews
|