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Jones, Bobby

(Encyclopedia)Jones, Bobby: see Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr. ...

Robert College

(Encyclopedia)Robert College: see Bosporus, Univ. of the. ...

Schumann, Clara

(Encyclopedia)Schumann, Clara: see under Schumann, Robert Alexander. ...

Adamson, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Adamson, Robert: see Hill, David Octavius. ...

Beagle, ship

(Encyclopedia)Beagle, naval vessel: see Darwin, Charles Robert. ...

Henri, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Henri, Robert hĕnˈrī [key], 1865–1929, American painter and teacher, b. Cincinnati as Robert Henry Cozad. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1888 he went to Paris, where ...

Johnson, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Johnson, Robert, 1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper's son, he grew up absorbing the music of Delta bluesmen, learning the harmonic...

Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d earl of

(Encyclopedia)Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d earl of, 1591–1646, English parliamentary general; son of Robert Devereux, 2d earl of Essex. James I restored him (1604) to the estates of his father and arranged his marr...
 

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