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Pythagorean theorem to rugged individualism

Pythagorean theorem

Qaddafi, Muammar

quantum mechanics

Quisling, Vidkun

quod erat demonstrandum

quotation marks

Rabelais, François

radiation damage

radioactive dating

radioactive waste

raining cats and dogs

raison d’être

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Rankin, Jeanette

Rasputin, Grigori

“The Raven”

read between the lines

read the riot act

recessive trait

recombinant DNA technology

The Red Badge of Courage

red blood cells

Red Cross, International

Red Sea, parting of the

reference works

regenerative medicine

Reign of Terror

religious order

Religious Right

Remember the Alamo!

Remember the Maine

Renaissance man

Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s

Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s

renewable resource

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

repetitive stress injury

representatives

reproductive cloning

reproductive systems

Republican party

Republican party

Republic of China

Republic of Korea

Republic of South Africa

Republic of Yemen

Resistance, Free French

respiratory system

respiratory tract

restriction enzymes

Revelation, Book of

revenue sharing

Revolutionary War

Revolutions of 1848

Rhapsody in Blue

rhetorical question

rheumatic fever

Rhodes scholarship

ribonucleic acid

Richard the Lion-Hearted

rich as Croesus

Richelieu, Cardinal

right-to-work laws

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses

Ring of the Nibelung

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

“Rip Van Winkle”

rites of passage

Roaring Twenties

Robert’s Rules of Order

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson, Jackie

rob Peter to pay Paul

“Rock-a-Bye, Baby”

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller, Nelson

rock ’n’ roll

Rockwell, Norman

Rocky Mountains

Rodgers, Richard

Roe versus Wade

A rolling stone gathers no moss

Roman Catholic Church

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Rome wasn’t built in a day

Romulus and Remus

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt’s Court packing plan

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

Rosenberg case

Roses, Wars of the

Round Table, knights of the

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”

Royal Air Force

“The Rubáiyát”

Rubens, Peter Paul

Rubinstein, Arthur

rugged individualism

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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