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George Reynolds Freedley
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Osborne Reynolds
Osborne Reynolds 1842-1912, British mechanical engineer. He was educated at Cambridge and became (1868) the first professor of engineering at the Univ. of Manchester, where his courses attracted a number of outstanding students. He developed the theory of the radiometer and determined by direct... Read more |
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John Flaxman
John Flaxman 1755-1826, English sculptor and draftsman. At 20 he went to work for Josiah Wedgwood, designing the cameolike decorations for Wedgwood's pottery. Later, in Rome, he devoted himself to sculpture and produced outline figure drawings from Greek vases as illustrations for works of Homer,... Read more |
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Sir Martin Archer Shee
Sir Martin Archer Shee 1769-1850, British portrait painter and writer, b. Dublin; pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He attained popularity in court and theatrical circles and executed many royal commissions. Among his portraits are those of Daniel O'Connell and William Archer Shee (Metropolitan Mus.)... Read more |
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Reynolds number
Reynolds number [for Osborne Reynolds ], dimensionless quantity associated with the smoothness of flow of a fluid. It is an important quantity used in aerodynamics and hydraulics. At low velocities fluid flow is smooth, or laminar, and the fluid can be pictured as a series of parallel layers, or... Read more |
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Debbie Reynolds
Reynolds, Debbie 1932–PERSONALBorn Mary Frances Reynolds, April 1, 1932, in El Paso, TX; daughter of Raymond F. (a carpenter for Southern Pacific Railroad) and Maxene Reynolds; married Eddie Fisher (a singer and actor), September 26, 1955 (divorced, 1959); married Harry Karl (a shoe magnate and... Read more |
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duchy of Cornwall
Cornwall, duchy of. From the Norman Conquest onwards, Cornwall has had close links with the crown. William the Conqueror gave large estates there to his half-brother Robert; Reynold, an illegitimate son of Henry I, was created earl of Cornwall in 1141; John's second son Richard was earl of... Read more |
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Frank Dobson
Dobson, Frank (1886–1963). British sculptor, born in London, the son of an illustrator of the same name. From 1902 to 1904 he worked as an assistant to William Reynolds-Stephens (see NEW SCULPTURE). He then spent two years in Cornwall, earning his living with landscape watercolours, before... Read more |
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Myers v. United States
Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), argued 5 Dec. 1924, reargued 13–14 Apr. 1925, decided 25 Oct. 1926 by vote of 6 to 3; Taft for the Court, Holmes, McReynolds, and Brandeis in dissent. When he was president, William Howard Taft believed that the Constitution strictly limited the... Read more |
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John Fulton Reynolds
John Fulton Reynolds 1820-63, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Lancaster, Pa. He distinguished himself in the Mexican War. In the Civil War, Reynolds was made (Aug., 1861) a brigadier general of volunteers. In the Seven Days battles (July, 1862), he was captured at Gaines's Mill but was... Read more |
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