rich man
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~ a man who is wealthy
Richard III
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~ King of England from 1483 to 1485; seized the throne from his nephew Edward V who was confined to the Tower of London and murdered; his reign ended when he was defeated by Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) at the battle of Bosworth Field (1452-1485)
Richard Leakey
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~ English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
Richard Evelyn Byrd
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~ explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)
Richard Neville
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~ English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)
Richard I
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~ son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)
Richard Erskine Leakey
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~ English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
Richard Kuhn
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~ Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
Richard Haldane
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~ Scottish statesman and brother of Elizabeth and John Haldane (1856-1928)
Richard Jordan Gatling
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~ United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)
Richard Lovelace
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~ English poet (1618-1857)
Richard Burton
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~ Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)
Richard E. Byrd
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~ explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)
Richard D'Oyly Carte
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~ English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)
Richard Coeur de Lion
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~ son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)
Richard Phillips Feynman
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~ United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)
Richard M. Nixon
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~ vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
Richard Burbage
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~ English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)
Richard D. Fosbury
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~ United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947)
Richard Morris Hunt
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~ United States architect (1827-1895)