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Terry, Sir Richard Runciman

(Encyclopedia) Terry, Sir Richard Runciman, 1865–1938, English organist and musicologist. He was organist and choir director (1901–24) of Westminster Cathedral. Terry studied and made collections of…

Wallace, Edgar

(Encyclopedia) Wallace, Edgar (Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace), 1875–1932, English novelist and playwright, b. Greenwich. He was the author of more than 150 detective and adventure novels, of which as…

Richard C. Kleindienst 2000 Deaths

Richard C. KleindienstAge: 76 President Nixon's attorney general who served for one year during the Watergate scandal. When he learned of the break-in shortly after it occurred, Kleindienst…

Richard D'Oyly Carte Biography

Richard D'Oyly Cartetheatrical impresarioBorn: 5/3/1844Birthplace: London Having begun his career in his father's business making musical instruments, he is best known for having produced the…

Sir John Richard Hicks Biography

Sir John Richard HickseconomistBorn: 4/8/1904Birthplace: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Nobel Prize-winning economist whose works include Value and Capital (1939), A Theory of Economic History…

Maurice (Rocket) Richard 2000 Deaths

Maurice (Rocket) RichardAge: 78 explosive right-winger who won eight Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens and was nothing short of a national hero in his native Canada; blazing speed…

Richard B. Cheney, 2000 News

former congressman and oil services company executive, was plucked from his lucrative post as CEO of Halliburton Co. in July to become Gov. George W. Bush's running mate. A staunch…

Richard C. Holbrooke, 1999 News

58, diplomat, was finally confirmed as chief American diplomat to the United Nations by the Senate in August, ending a 14-month-long nomination process that languished amid partisan…

Sir Richard May 2004 Deaths

Sir Richard MayAge: 65 British judge who oversaw the war-crimes tribunal of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. He presided over the trial for two years, frequently sparring with…

William Shakespeare: Richard II, Act I

Act IScene ILondon. King Richard II's palaceEnter King Richard II, John of Gaunt, with other Nobles and AttendantsKing Richard IIOld John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, Hast thou,…