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Loch Ryan
Loch Ryan , inlet, 9 mi (14.5 km) long and 3 1/2 mi (5.6 km) wide, at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. The port of Stranraer is at the head of the sheltered loch.
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Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan (Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr.), 1947-, American baseball player, b. Refugio, Tex. A right-handed pitcher with a blazing fastball, he played with the New York Mets, the California Angels, the Houston Astros, and the Texas Rangers while in the major leagues (1967-93). He had 324 career wins, inclu...
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James Connolly
James Connolly 1870-1916, Irish nationalist and socialist. An advocate of revolutionary syndicalism , he went (1903) to the United States, where he helped to organize the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Returning to Ireland, he became an organizer of the Belfast dock workers. He helped Jame...
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Dixon Ryan Fox
Dixon Ryan Fox 1887-1945, American historian and educator, b. Potsdam, N.Y. He taught at Columbia from 1912 to 1934, becoming full professor in 1927. From 1934 until his death he was president of Union College and chancellor of Union Univ. His writings include The Decline of Aristocracy in the Pol...
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Stranraer
Stranraer , town (1991 pop. 10,766), Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, at the head of Loch Ryan. A fishing port, it has a prosperous trade with Northern Ireland. Food processing is an industry. Viscount Dundee occupied the 15th-century castle while suppressing Covenanters in Galloway in 1682. Nort...
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Pea Ridge
Pea Ridge chain of hills, NW Ark., where the Civil War battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern) was fought Mar. 6-8, 1862. Earl Van Dorn, leading a large Confederate command, which included Sterling Price's retreating Missouri forces and Ben McCulloch's army, attacked the strongly entrenched Union a...
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Herbert Levi Osgood
Herbert Levi Osgood 1855-1918, American historian, b. Canton, Maine. He taught at Worcester Academy (1877-79) and Brooklyn High School (1883-89). From 1890 to 1896 he was adjunct professor and, after 1896, professor of history at Columbia. A recognized authority on American colonial history, he wro...
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Patrick Henry Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse , 1879-1916, Irish educator and patriot. He was educated for the law but early in his career made himself part of the Gaelic movement in Ireland. Pearse was active in the work of the Gaelic League and edited its journal, An Claidheamh Soluis. He founded the influential bilingu...
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman 1847-1918, U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1895-1918), b. Edgefield co., S.C. A farmer, he became the leader of the backcountry whites in South Carolina and fostered their discontent with the ruling tidewater aristocracy. Supported by the Farmers' Alliance, he was elected go...
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Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham , 1515-68, English humanist and scholar, b. Yorkshire. Ascham was a major intellectual figure of the early Tudor period. His Toxophilus (1545), an essay on archery, proved him a master of English prose; in it he urged the importance of physical recreation for students and scholars. Th...
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