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Chandler, Raymond Thornton

(Encyclopedia) Chandler, Raymond Thornton, 1888–1959, American author, b. Chicago, educated in England. After World War I, he entered the oil business in California. Bankrupt during the Depression,…

Roussel, Raymond

(Encyclopedia) Roussel, Raymond, 1877–1933, French writer. Roussel was an eccentric whose beautifully written work employed hallucinatory imagery while eschewing emotion and the expression of…

Spruance, Raymond Ames

(Encyclopedia) Spruance, Raymond AmesSpruance, Raymond Amesspr&oomacr;ˈəns [key], 1886–1969, American admiral, b. Baltimore. Commissioned in the navy in 1908, he reached the rank of rear admiral…

Cattell, Raymond Bernard

(Encyclopedia) Cattell, Raymond BernardCattell, Raymond Bernardkətĕlˈ [key], 1905–98, American psychologist, b. Staffordshire, England. He came to the United States in 1937 and served as research…

Albigenses

(Encyclopedia) AlbigensesAlbigensesălbĭjĕnˈsēz [key] [Lat.,=people of Albi, one of their centers], religious sect of S France in the Middle Ages. In 1208 the papal legate, a Cistercian, Peter de…

Raymond, town, Canada

(Encyclopedia) Raymond, town (1991 pop. 3,130), S Alta., Canada, SE of Lethbridge, in a sugar beet area. Sugar is refined and honey is produced there. A provincial agricultural college is in the town.

Raymond Naimoli Biography

Raymond NaimoliAge: 56 Tampa Bay Devil Rays chief financial officer and senior vice president; younger brother of Devil Rays general partner Vincent Naimoli; before joining the team, he…

Raymond V. Damadian

Raymond V. Damadian Born: 1936Birthplace: Forest Hills, N.Y. Apparatus and method for detecting cancer in tissue—Damadian invented the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that has…