168 illustrations of famous people including: Edgar Quinet, Jean Racine, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ramses (I, II, III), Raphael, Rembrandt Van Rhyn, Paul Revere, King Richard (I, II, III, IV), Theodore Roosevelt, William Rosecrans, Benjamin Rush, John Ruskin, and more
One of the distinguished cavaliers of the conquest of Peru and Chili, to whom Munoz assigned the authorship…
The wife of Jean Marie, and herself the spirit of the Girondin party; the daughter of a Paris engraver;…
A German poet; born in Bernau, Germany, April 22, 1542. His great work is the remarkable heroic comic…
(1868-1918) Nicholas II or Nikolay Alexandrovic Romanov, czar of Russia, king of Poland, and grand duke…
This painting is a portrait of George Romney and was painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee in 1799.
A Prussian solider who was one of the leading figures in Prussia's government during the unification…
(1858-1919) The 26th President of the United States and is known as T.R. and Teddy.
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the…
Served for the Union during the Civil War and was president of the Preston Coal Oil Company.
"General William S. Rosecrans served during the Civil War and was involved int he battle of Stone River."—E.…
William Starke Rosecrans (September 6, 1819 – March 11, 1898) was an inventor, coal-oil company…
John Ross (October 3, 1790 - August 1, 1866), also known as Kooweskoowe - a mythological or rare migratory…
An Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music.
A philosopher whose ideas influenced the French Revolution and the American Revolution.
One of the most celebrated and most influential writers of the 18th century, was the son of a watchmaker…
Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 – January 7, 1869) was a general in the United States…
Stephen Clegg Rowan (1808 – 31 March 1890) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served…
Edmund Ruffin (January 5, 1794 – June 18, 1865) was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier,…
William II (c. 1056 – 2 August 1100), the third son of William I of England (William the Conqueror),…
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (26 March 1753 – 21 August 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist…
"New Jersey Camp at Arling, Va., designated as Camp Princeton in honor of one of the Revolutionary battle…
Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17…
"General Rusk, born in Morgan County, Ohio, June 17th, 1830; died in 1894. He divided his time between…
An English author, poet and artist, although more famous for his work as art critic and social critic.…
English Liberal statesmen, was the third son of the sixth duke of Bedford. (1792-1878)
Edward Rutledge (November 23, 1749 – January 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was a signer of…
(1739-1800) A lawyer and a judge, Rutledge was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress and the Continental…