Robert Adam Robert Adam was a Scotland architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. He is considered by many to be the greatest architect of the late 18th century, a leader of the neo-classical revival in England and Scotland from around 1760 until his death.
	Robert Bárány Robert Brny was an Austrian physician of Hungarian-Jewish descent. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Brny was born in Vienna. He attended medical school at Vienna University, graduating in 1900.
	Robert Bartlett Captain Robert Abram Bartlett was a notable ice navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland on August 15, 1875, Bartlett was the eldest of 10 children and heir to a family tradition of seafaring men.
	Robert Benchley Robert Charles Benchley was an United States humorist, newspaper columnist, film actor, and drama literary editor.
	Robert Boyle The Honourable Robert Boyle was an Ireland natural philosopher noted for his work in physics and chemistry. Although his research and personal philosophy clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, he is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry.
	Robert Browning For information about Robert X. Browning, Director of the C-SPAN archives, see Robert X. Browning. Robert Browning was an England poet and playwright.
	Robert Bunsen Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was a Germany chemist. He perfected the Bunsen burner that was named after him, invented by British chemist/physicist Michael Faraday, and worked on electromagnetic spectroscopy of heated elements. He discovered the elements cesium and rubidium with his spectroscope.
	Robert Burns Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and in a "light" Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scottish people.
	Robert De Niro Robert De Niro Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Film director, Film producer and founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. He is critically acclaimed as one of the finest motion picture actors and among the most famous actors of all time.
	Robert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee was a career U.S. Army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate States of America forces during the American Civil War. Lee at first opposed the Confederacy and nearly accepted a major Union command, but when his home state of Virginia seceded he chose to join with his family and neighbors and fight for Virginia.
	Robert Falcon Scott Robert Falcon Scott was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctica Explorers. In the so-called 'Race to the South Pole' Scott came second, behind the Norwegian Roald Amundsen; and subsequently died, along with four companions, whilst trying to return to the safety of their base.
	Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was an United States poet, one of the foremost of the 20th century. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honored during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.
	Robert Fulton Robert Fulton was a United States engineer and inventor, who was widely credited with developing the first steam-powered ship marked as a commercial success. In 1889, the state of Pennsylvania donated a marble statue of Fulton to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol Building.
	Robert Graves Robert von Ranke Graves was an England scholar, poet, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works in total. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves; the historian Leopold von Ranke was his mother's uncle, hence his middle name.
	Robert Gray Robert Gray. Born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, he was the first United States to circumnavigate the globe, in 1790.
	Robert Hooke Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. His father was John Hooke curate of the Church of All Saints, Freshwater. Born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight on the Isle of Wight, Hooke received his early education on the Isle of Wight and, from about the age of 13, at Westminster School under Dr.
	Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for the discovery of the Bacillus anthracis , the Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Vibrio cholerae and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905.
	Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson , was a Scotland novelist, poet, and Travel writing, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it.
	Robert Mitchum Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an United States film actor and singer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir genre, and is considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s.
	Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer was an United States theoretical physics, best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
	Robert Owen Robert Owen was a Wales socialism and social reformer. He is considered the father of the cooperative movement.
	Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary was an United States explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. Peary, born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, was a graduate of Bowdoin College, Maine, and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Navy October 26, 1881.
	Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a Conservative Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846. He is best remembered as the originator of the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, for overseeing the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party and for his repealing of the Corn Laws.
	Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren was an United States poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was a co-founder of The New Criticism. While most famous from the success of his novel All the King's Men , Warren also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry.
	Robert Redford Robert Redford is an award-winning United States film actor, film director, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalist, and philanthropist.
	Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the first half of the 19th century, as well as a famous music critic. An intellectual as well as an aesthete, his music, more than that of any other composer, reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism.
	Robert Southey Robert Southey was an England poet of the Romantic poetry school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity.
	Robert Treat Paine For others with the same name, see Robert Treat Paine. Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He was born in Boston and attended the Boston Latin School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1749, then taught school and studied theology.
	Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
	Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson is an United States physicist. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics, together with Arno Allan Penzias, for their 1964 accidental discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation or CMB. While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, they found a source of noise in the atmosphere that they could not explain.
	Robert's Rules of Order Robert's Rules of Order and Parliamentary Procedure is a book containing rules of order, intended to be adopted by a deliberative assembly as its parliamentary authority.
	Robin Hood Robin Hood is the archetype England folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the medieval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny.
	Robinia Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to North America and northern Mexico. They are deciduous trees and shrubs growing 4-25 m tall, with pinnate leaves with 7-21 oval leaflets. The flowers are white or pink, in usually pendulous racemes.
	Robins Robins is a swedish late-night talk show which premiered on SVT2 on August 23, 2006. The host is the young stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson from Malm. The show's format is similar to that of other late-night shows, Robin makes jokes about recent news, shows sketches, and talks to a guest in the studio.
	Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English people castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island, encountering savages, captives, and mutiny before being rescued.
	Robinson Jeffers John Robinson Jeffers was an United States poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and Epic poetry form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmentalism movement.
	Robitussin Robitussin is a brand of common cold and cough medicines produced by Wyeth. Robitussin products are available over the counter in many countries worldwide, including the United States and Thailand. The cough suppressant used in Robitussin products is dextromethorphan.
	Robot A robot is an electro-mechanical device that can perform autonomous or preprogrammed tasks. A robot may act under the direct control of a human or autonomously under the control theory of a programmed computer. Robots may be used to perform tasks that are too dangerous or difficult for humans to implement directly or may be used to automate repetitive tasks that can be performed with more precision by a robot than by the employment of a human
	ROC ROC can be: * The IATA airport code for Greater Rochester International Airport * The Republic of China * Roc is a mythical bird * In signal detection theory ROC is receiver operating characteristic. * receiver operating characteristic in epidemiology, medical research, and evidence-based medicine.
	Roc A roc or rukh is a mythical bird, often white, of enormous size and strength that is reputed to have been able to carry off and eat elephants.
	Rock bass The rock bass, also known as the Rock perch or goggle-eye, is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. Rock bass are native to the St Lawrence River and Great Lakes system, the upper and middle Mississippi River basin in North America from Qubec to Saskatchewan in the north down to Missouri and Arkansas, and throughout the eastern U.S.
	Rock candy Rock candy is a type of confectionery composed of relatively large sugar crystals. Homemade rock candy is commonly formed by allowing a solution of sugar and water to crystallize onto a string or some other surface suitable for crystal nucleation. Heating the solution by boiling the water before adding the sugar can help produce larger crystals.
	Rock garden A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a type of garden that features extensive use of Rocks or Rocks, along with plants native to rocky or alpine climate environments. Rock garden plants tend to be small, both because many of the species are naturally small, and so as not to cover up the rocks.
	Rock of Gibraltar Category:Mountains and hills of British overseas territories Category:Natural monoliths is:Gbraltarhfi pl:Skala Gibraltarska vi:Ni Gibraltar
	Rock opera A rock opera or rock musical is a musical production in the form of an opera or a musical theater in a modern rock and roll style rather than more traditional forms. It differs from conventional rock and roll albums, which often feature songs that are unrelated in plot or story with each other, but overlaps considerably with concept albums and song cycles.
	Rock Pigeon The Rock Pigeon, is a member of the bird family Dove, doves and pigeons. The bird is also known by the names of feral pigeon or domestic pigeon. In common usage, this bird is often simply referred to as the "pigeon". The species was commonly known as Rock Dove until the British Ornithologists' Union and the American Ornithologists' Union changed the official English name of the bird in their regions to Rock Pigeon.
	Rock Python Rock Python is a super villain in the Marvel Comics Universe, most notably as a member of the second incarnation of the Serpent Society.
	Rock Wren The Rock Wren is a small songbird of the wren family. It is the only species in the genus Salpinctes. The 12 cm long adults have grey-brown upperparts with small black and white spots and pale grey underparts with a light brown rump. They have a light grey line over the eye, a long thin bill, a long barred tail and dark legs.
	Rockabilly Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It is a fusion of blues, Old-time music, bluegrass music and country music, and its origins lie in the dyeing bird mountains of the American South. As Peter Guralnick writes, "Its rhythm was nervously uptempo, as well as accented on the offbeat, and propelled by a distinctively slapping bass....The sound was further bolstered by generous use of echo, a homemade technique refined independently by Sam Phillips
	Rocker arm On an engine with overhead valves, a rocker arm is a lever that transmits the motion of the camshaft to open and close the Poppet valves. The rocker arm pivots on either a roller shaft or a ball joint. One end is raised and lowered by the rotating lobes of the camshaft
	Rockers Rockers was a term originally applied in a derogatory manner to United Kingdom motorcycle-riding youths in the 1960s, but was later adopted by those youths. Rockers became defined as the antithesis of their Scooter-riding contemporaries, the Mod.
	Rocket The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. Often the term is also used to refer to a rocket engine.
	Rocket engine A rocket engine is a reaction engine that can be used for spacecraft propulsion as well as terrestrial uses, such as missiles. Rocket engines take their reaction mass from one or more tanks and form it into a Jet engine, obtaining thrust in accordance with Newton's third law. Most rocket engines are internal combustion engines, although non combusting forms exist.
	Rocking chair A rocking chair or rocker is a normal chair with two curved bands of wood attached to the bottom of the legs. This gives the chair contact with the floor at only two points granting the occupant to rocking back and forth by shifting his/her weight or pushing lightly with his/her feet.
	Rocking horse A rocking horse is a child's toy, shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair.
	Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent was a well-known American artist, illustrator and author.
	Rocky Rocky is a motion picture written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as an Underdog boxing. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Italian-American "Rocky Balboa ", a slightly dull-witted but good-hearted "collection agent" for a loan shark in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a penchant for boxing, who gets a shot at the world heavyweight title.
	Rocky Marciano Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano, was an Italian-American Boxing. Rocky was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from September 23, 1952 to November 30, 1956. Marciano was one of very few champion boxers in the history of the sport to retire with a perfect winning record.
	Rocky Mountain National Park Rocky Mountain National Park is located in the north central region of the U.S. state of Colorado. Rocky Mountain National Park features majestic mountain views, a variety of wildlife, varied climates and environments—from wooded forests to mountain tundra—and easy access to back-country trails and campsites.
	Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most severe and most frequently reported rickettsia illness in the United States, and has been diagnosed throughout the Americas. Some synonyms for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in other countries include tick typhus, Tobia fever, So Paulo fever or febre maculosa, and fiebre manchada.
	Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles from British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States. The highest peak is Mount Elbert, in Colorado, which is 14,440 feet above sea level.
	Rococo The Rococo style of art emerged in France in the early 18th century as a continuation of the Baroque style, but in contrast to the heavier themes and darker colors of the Baroque, the Rococo was characterized by an opulence, grace, playfulness, and lightness. Rococo motif focused on the carefree aristocratic life and on lighthearted romance rather than heroic battles or religious figures; they also revolve heavily around nature and exterior settings.
	Rocroi Rocroi is a commune in France in the France Ardennes. The center was a fortified city. The Battle of Rocroi was fought here. External link
	Rod cell Rod cells, or rods, are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in less intense light than can the other type of photoreceptor, cone cells. Since they are more light-sensitive, rods are responsible for night vision. Named for their cylindrical shape, rods are concentrated at the outer edges of the retina and are used in peripheral vision.
	Rod Laver Rodney George "Rod" Laver is a former tennis player from Australia who was the World No. 1 Tennis Player player for 5 consecutive years. More famously, he is the only player in tennis history to have twice won all four of tennis' Grand Slam singles titles in the same yearfirst as an amateur in 1962, and then again as a professional in 1969.
	Rodent Rodentia is an Order of mammals . Members of the order Rodentia are called rodents.
	Rodeo Rodeo is a traditional North American sport with influences from the history of Mexico vaqueros and United States cowboys. Rodeo originated as an extension of the day-to-day lives of early American cowboys; branding cattle and riding and training young bucking horses made a natural progression to competition between the cowboys.
	Roe Roe is the fully ripe Ovum masses of fish and certain marine animals, such as sea urchins and shrimp. As a seafood it is used both as a cooking ingredient in many dishes and as a raw ingredient. Caviar is the name for sturgeon roe consumed as a delicacy.
	Roe Deer The European Roe Deer is a deer species of Europe and Asia Minor. There is a separate species known as the Siberian Roe Deer that is found from the Ural Mountains to as far east as China and Siberia. The two species meet at the Caucasus Mountains, with the European species occupying the southern flank of the mountain ranges and adjacent Asia Minor and the Siberian species occupying the northern flank of the mountain ranges.
	Rofecoxib Rofecoxib is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug developed by Merck & Co. to treat osteoarthritis, acute pain conditions, and dysmenorrhea. Rofecoxib was approved safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration on May 20, 1999 and was subsequently marketed under the brand name Vioxx, Ceoxx and Ceeoxx.