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- Mughal fort in Old Delhi, India. It was so called because of its red sandstone walls, which enclosed palaces, gardens, barracks, and other buildings. It was built by Shah Jahan in the mid-17th century and remains a main tourist attraction. The fort's complex was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site ... [2 Related Articles]
- red fox
- (from the article "carnivore") ...all carnivores. Billions of dollars are spent annually throughout the world to manage and control the incidence of this disease. In some countries, abundance of vector species, especially red foxes, is controlled by culling or by dropping vaccine-laden bait from the air. In other countries, programs of "capture-vaccinate-release" are in ...
- red giant star
- (from the article "nebula") A description of the evolution of a planetary nebula begins before the ejection of the nebula itself. As will be discussed below, the central star is a red giant before the ejection. In such a phase it experiences a rapid loss of mass, up to 0.01 Earth mass per day, ...
- red goshawk
- (from the article "goshawk") ...A. novaehollandiae of Australia, which is either gray or snowy white with a black beak and ruby-red eyes-and several birds of other genera also called goshawks: the red goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus), a rare Australian bird, brown with relatively long wings and short tail; the chanting goshawks of Africa (two species ...
- red grass
- (from the article "veld") ...variety of natural vegetation. No particular species is ubiquitous, and many are highly localized. Grassveld is the characteristic vegetation of the South African Highveld, dominated by species of red grass. Where the red grass grows on well-drained, fertile soils subject to comparatively light rainfall, it tends to be sweeter (and ...
- red grouse
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...a species was given by Isabella M. Cattadori and Peter J. Hudson of Pennsylvania State University and Daniel T. Haydon of the University of Glasgow, Scot., based on more than a century of records of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) in northern England. The investigators tested competing hypotheses to explain ...
- Red Guard
- (from the article "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") During the night of October 24-25, Bolshevik Red Guards peacefully occupied strategic points in Petrograd. On the morning of October 25, Lenin, reemerging from his hideaway, issued a declaration in the name of the Military Revolutionary Committee, which had no authority to do so, that the provisional government was overthrown ...
- Red Guards
- in Chinese history, groups of militant university and high school students formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). These young people often wore green jackets similar to the uniforms of the Chinese army at the time, with red armbands attached to one of the sleeves. They ... [4 Related Articles]
- Red Guide
- (from the article "Michelin") ...(French: Guide Michelin) and a series of road maps. The guides were initiated by Andre Michelin, whose aim was to promote tourism by car and thus to support his tire industry. The first Red Guide (1900), an aid to travel in France, was a pocket-size, alphabetical listing of French towns ...
- red hake
- (from the article "hake") ...but are distinguished by long, slim pelvic fins and by a small barbel at the tip of the chin. Economically important members of this genus include the white hake (U. tenuis) and the red hake (U. chuss).
- red hartebeest
- (from the article "hartebeest") In one system of classification, the red hartebeest (A. buselaphus) includes such subspecies as the bubal, lelwel, tora, and Cape hartebeest. It is pale reddish brown with a lighter rump and sometimes has black on the head and legs. Lichtenstein's hartebeest (A. lichtensteini) is pale brownish with a bright reddish ...
- Red Hat Lama
- (from the article "Tibet") To support their protege the Mongols sent armed bands into Tibet. Their opponents were the Red Hat Lama, head of a Karma-pa subsect, and his patron the Gtsang king. That phase of rivalry ended inconclusively with the early death of the fourth Dalai Lama and the decline of Tumed Mongol ...
- Red Hat sect
- (from the article "Gtsang dynasty") ...was the last secular native ruling house in Tibet. After overthrowing the previous Rin-spung rulers of the country in about 1565, the Gtsang kings allied themselves with the powerful Karma-pa, or Red Hat, order of Buddhists and opposed the new reformed Dge-lugs-pa, or Yellow Hat, Buddhists, who in the 15th ...
- red heifer
- in Jewish history, unblemished, never-before-yoked animal that was slaughtered and burned to restore ritual purity to those who had become unclean through contact with the dead (Numbers 19). Certain spoils of war and captives were also purified in this way. After the blood of the red heifer had been sprinkled ... [1 Related Articles]
- Red Hill
- (from the article "Haleakala") Haleakala's western slopes, which are crossed by intermittent rain-fed streambeds, rise gently to the summit at Red Hill, 10,023 feet (3,055 metres) high. The heavily eroded terrain of the mountain's eastern flank has deep valleys and gorges. From the volcano's rim, lava poured down its flanks to the sea, following ...
- red hind
- (from the article "hind") ...to as hinds are in the genus Epinephelus, which also includes many groupers. They are found in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico along the North American coast, with the exception of the red hind (E. guttatus), which ranges from the Carolinas to Brazil. The rock hind (E. adscensionis), ...
- red horned poppy
- (from the article "horned poppy") ...long. The 5-centimetre-long, four-petaled, yellow to orange blooms are borne on 30- to 90-centimetre- (12- to 35-inch-) tall plants with yellow latex and hairy, lobed, fleshy, blue-green leaves. The red horned poppy (G. corniculatum) from continental Europe is smaller and has crimson blooms often with black spots at the petal ...
- red horse chestnut
- (from the article "horse chestnut") ...large leaves, up to 60 cm (2 feet) across. The Indian horse chestnut (A. indica), with slender, pointed leaflets, has attractive feathery flower spikes with a bottlebrush effect. Red horse chestnut (A. × carnea), a hybrid of A. hippocastanum and A. pavia, grows up to 20 m (65 feet) and ...
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- American rock band that combined funk and punk rock to create a new musical style in the 1980s. Heavily influenced by the Los Angeles punk music scene in the late 1970s, school friends Anthony Kiedis (b. Nov. 1, 1962, Grand Rapids, Mich., U.S., ), Flea (original name Michael Balzary; b. ...
- Red House
- (from the article "Morris, William") After his marriage, Morris commissioned his friend the architect Philip Webb, whom he had originally met in Street's office, to build the Red House at Bexleyheath (so called because it was built of red brick when the fashion was for stucco villas). It was during the furnishing and decorating of ...
- red howler
- (from the article "howler monkey") Because of their diet, temperament, and other factors, howlers are difficult to maintain in captivity. The red howler (A. seniculus) has the largest distribution, but it is heavily hunted in some areas for its meat. Other howler species are critically endangered within parts of their ranges. The ...
- red imported fire ant
- (from the article "ant") ...rests for several days while the queen lays her eggs. As the colony travels, the growing larvae are carried along by the workers. Habits of the African driver ant (Dorylus) are similar. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), introduced into Alabama from South America, had spread throughout the southern ...
- Red Jacket
- Seneca chief whose magnificent oratory masked his schemes to maintain his position despite double-dealing against his people's interests. His first Indian name was Otetiani, and he assumed the name Sagoyewatha upon becoming a chief. "Red Jacket" was his English name, a result of the succession of red coats he wore ... [2 Related Articles]
- red jungle fowl
- (from the article "jungle fowl") ...see megapode.) Gallus species differ from other members of the pheasant family in having, in the male, a fleshy comb, lobed wattles hanging below the bill, and high-arched tail. The red jungle fowl (G. gallus) is the ancestor of the domestic fowl. The cock has shining silky plumage, red on ...
- red kangaroo
- (from the article "kangaroo") ...per hour; 34 mph [miles per hour]). Research has revealed a remarkable advantage to bipedal hopping. Although at low speeds kangaroos expend more energy than do quadrupeds of the same size, the red kangaroo (M. rufus) actually uses less energy at 10.1 km/hr than at 6.5 and less still at ...
- Red Label
- (from the article "music recording") ...of whistlers, bands, comic numbers, ditties, ethnic routines, and the like. In the first years of the 20th century, Victor and its affiliates raised cultural expectations with its Red Seal series (Red Label in Europe), particularly with discs made, beginning in 1902, by Enrico Caruso. By 1910 the vast majority ...
- Red Line
- (from the article "Police Zone") Spanning the north-central sector of what became the mandated territory of South West Africa, the Police Zone's boundary (often called the Red Line because it was printed on maps in red ink) extended from the Atlantic Ocean to Botswana in a generalized northward-arcing semicircle. The boundary separated indigenous African groups ...
- Red Lodge
- (from the article "Montana") ...is an annual reenactment of the Battle of the Little Bighorn on the Crow Indian Reservation. Rodeos abound, as do square-dance groups, and Montana is a thriving centre for old-time fiddling. In Red Lodge an annual nine-day Festival of Nations, originated to ease tensions among European ethnic groups of coal ...
- red maple
- (Acer rubrum), large, irregularly narrow tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), cultivated for its shade and spectacular autumn colour. It is one of the most common trees in its native eastern North America. [2 Related Articles]
- red meat
- (from the article "meat processing") ...to describe the edible portion of animal tissues and any processed or manufactured products prepared from these tissues. Meats are often classified by the type of animal from which they are taken. Red meat refers to the meat taken from mammals; white meat refers to the meat taken from fowl; ...
- Red Mosque
- (from the article "Pakistan") In the spring public attention focused on the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad. Religious militants seized control and ordered students from nearby religious schools to attack public and commercial outlets.The government hesitated to respond, even after the kidnapping of policemen and the seizure of public property. In July, however, efforts ...
- Red Mountain Formation
- (from the article "Silurian Period") ...seams up to 2 metres (about 6.6 feet) thick in New York; massive iron-rich sandstones are found in Pennsylvania; and oolitic ironstone beds up to 15 metres (50 feet) thick occur in Alabama (in the Red Mountain Formation).
- red mulberry
- (from the article "mulberry") A true mulberry has toothed leaves and blackberry-like fruits; each fruit develops from an entire flower cluster. The red mulberry (Morus rubra) of eastern North America is the largest of the genus, often reaching a height of 70 ft. It has two-lobed, three-lobed, or unlobed leaves and dark-purple, edible fruits. ...
- Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Espanoles
- (from the article "Spain") In 1941 the rail system was nationalized, and virtually all the lines were incorporated into the National Network of Spanish Railroads (Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Espanoles; RENFE). There are also regionally operated lines in the Basque Country, Valencia, and Catalonia. Lines generally start in Madrid and radiate outward in ...
- Red Network
- (from the article "American Broadcasting Company") ...radio broadcasting network. NBC expanded so rapidly that by 1928 it found itself with an excess of affiliates in the same cities, so it split its programming into two separate networks called the Red and the Blue networks. After the Federal Communications Commission declared in 1941 that no company could ...
- red nucleus
- (from the article "nervous system, human") ...caudal midbrain, crossed fibres of the superior cerebellar peduncle (the major output system of the cerebellum) surround and partially terminate in a large centrally located structure known as the red nucleus. Most crossed ascending fibres of this bundle project to thalamic nuclei, which have access to the primary motor cortex. ...
- red oak
- any member of a group or subgenus (Erythrobalanus) of North American ornamental and timber shrubs and trees of the genus Quercus, in the beech family (Fagaceae), that have bristle-tipped leaves, acorns with hairy shell linings, and bitter seeds that mature in two seasons. Black oak, live oak, willow oak (including ... [2 Related Articles]
- red ochre
- (from the article "death rite") ...in this life. Other customs, however, indicate the currency of a variety of notions about postmortem existence, particularly about the potentialities and destiny of the dead. Thus, the presence of red ochre in some burials suggests the practice of contagious magic: the corpse had possibly been stained with the colour ...
- Red Orchestra
- (from the article "KGB") ...in the last decade of Stalin's life was remarkable in both its scope and success. During World War II the MGB conducted operations in Nazi-occupied Europe. One of its networks, the "Red Orchestra," comprised several hundred agents and informers, including agents in the German ministries of foreign affairs, labour, propaganda, ...
- red palm oil
- (from the article "nutrition, human") ...oils. Important vegetable oils include olive oil, peanut (groundnut) oil, coconut oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower seed oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, rape oil, sesame (gingelly) oil, mustard oil, red palm oil, and corn oil. Fats and oils provide more calories per gram than any other food, but they contain no ...
- red phalarope
- (from the article "phalarope") Phalaropes are marked with red and soft gray in summer; in winter they are gray and white. Two species that breed around the Arctic Circle are the red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), called gray phalarope in Britain, and the northern phalarope (P. lobatus), called red-necked phalarope in Britain. Both species winter ...
- red phosphorus
- (from the article "chemical industry") Elemental phosphorus exists in many allotropic forms. White phosphorus is used in rodent poison and by the military for smoke generation. Red phosphorus, comparatively harmless, is used in matches. Ferrophosphorus, a combination of phosphorus with iron, is used as an ingredient in high-strength low-alloy steel. In addition, the many organic ...
- red pulp
- (from the article "spleen") The spleen is encased in a thick connective-tissue capsule. Inside, the mass of splenic tissue is of two types, the red pulp and the white pulp, which do not separate into regions but intermingle and are distributed throughout the spleen. The white pulp is lymphoid tissue that usually surrounds splenic ...
- Red Purge
- (from the article "industrial relations") ...union movement and the active involvement of the Communist Party at the movement's national level, the Japanese government and the American occupation authorities launched a counteroffensive (the "Red Purge" of l947-48) to deny union rights to Communist-backed organizations. The newly formed Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren) embarked on a ...
- Red River
- principal river of northern Vietnam. It rises in central Yunnan province, southwestern China, and flows southeast in a deep, narrow gorge, across the Tonkin region, through Hanoi, to enter the Gulf of Tonkin after a course of 750 miles (1,200 km). Its two major tributaries, the Song Lo (Riviere Claire, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Red River
- navigable river rising in the high plains of eastern New Mexico, U.S., and flowing southeast across Texas and Louisiana to a point northwest of Baton Rouge, where it enters the Atchafalaya River (q.v.), which flows south to Atchafalaya Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Until the mid-20th century, the Red ... [1 Related Articles]
- Red River Campaign
- (March 10-May 22, 1864), in the American Civil War, unsuccessful Union effort to seize control of the important cotton-growing states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. In the spring of 1864, Union General Nathaniel Banks led an expedition up the Red River and, with the support of a river fleet commanded ... [2 Related Articles]
- Red River delta
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...was again exporting rice after years of shortages. Permanent cultivation covers large areas of the country's lowlands and smaller portions of the highlands. The primary agricultural areas are the Red River delta, the Mekong River delta, and the southern terrace region. The central coastal land, which is subject to destructive ...
- red river hog
- (from the article "red river hog") African hoofed mammal, a subspecies of bush pig (q.v.).PHOTOGRAPHRed river hogs (Potamochoerus porcus porcus)Ylla-Rapho/Photo ResearchersRed River Indian War
- (1874-75), uprising of warriors from several Indian tribes thought to be peacefully settled on Oklahoma and Texas reservations, ending in the crushing of the Indian dissidents by the United States. Presumably the Treaty of Medicine Lodge (Kansas, October 1867) had placed on area reservations a number of Southwestern tribes: the ...
- Red River of the North
- river flowing through the northern United States and southern Manitoba, Can. It is formed by the confluence of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers at the twin cities of Wahpeton (N.D.) and Breckenridge (Minn.). It flows northward, forming for 440 miles (710 km) the North Dakota-Minnesota border, before ... [2 Related Articles]
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