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Alfonso II, king of Aragón

(Encyclopedia) Alfonso II, 1152–96, king of Aragón (1162–96) and, as Raymond Berengar V, count of Barcelona (1162–96); son and successor of Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona and Petronilla of Aragón.…

Raymond, Gene

actorBirthplace: New York CityBorn: 1908Died: 1998

Brewer's: Raymond

(in Jerusalem Delivered). Master of 4,000 infantry, Count of Toulouse, equal to Godfrey in the “wisdom of cool debate” (bk. iii.). This Nestor of the Crusaders slew Aladine, the king of…

Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver was a short-story writer credited with revitalizing the form in the United States during the 1970s and '80s. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Carver spent most of his…

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler was a writer of detective stories and a founder (with Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain) of the hard-boiled school of mystery fiction. His detective hero Philip Marlowe, a tough and…

Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr(William Stacey Burr)actorBorn: 5/21/1917Birthplace: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada A heavy-set character actor, he gained fame playing mainly bad guys, as the murderer…

Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond KurzweilBorn: Feb. 12, 1948 Reading machine—When entrepreneur Kurzweil introduced the Kurzweil Reading Machine in 1976, it was hailed as the most important advance in reading for the…

Duchamp-Villon, Raymond

(Encyclopedia) Duchamp-Villon, RaymondDuchamp-Villon, RaymondrāmôNˈ düshäNˈ-vēyôNˈ [key], 1876–1918, French sculptor; brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon. From the tradition of…

Unwin, Sir Raymond

(Encyclopedia) Unwin, Sir RaymondUnwin, Sir Raymondŭnˈwĭn [key], 1863–1940, English architect and town planner. He designed the first English garden city near Letchworth, the New Earwick development…