synthetic division: Based on the remainder theorem, it is sometimes called the method of detached coefficients.

St. John Henry Newman: Association with the Oxford movement: …Newman and Keble published Froude’s Remains, in which the Reformation was violently denounced, moderate men began to suspect their leader. Their worst fears were confirmed in 1841 by Newman’s Tract 90, which, in reconciling the Church of England’s doctrinal Thirty-nine Articles with the teaching of the ancient and undivided church,…

Merchant and Ivory: By the time The Remains of the Day was released in 1993, the filmmaking team was well established. The movie, an adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel, received an Oscar nomination for best picture, and Ivory was nominated a third time for his directing. Their 1996 film, Surviving Picasso, continued…

The Remains of the Day, novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1989. The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro’s first novel set outside his native Japan and in his adopted England, is typical of Ishiguro’s style: delicate, detailed, and evocative prose which reveals the perceived flaws in a central

Moses Kimhi was a European author of an influential Hebrew grammar, Mahalakh shevile ha-daʿat (“Journey on the Paths of Knowledge”). The elder son of the grammarian and biblical exegete Joseph Kimhi and teacher of his more renowned brother, David Kimhi, he shared with them the accomplishment of

Robert Remak was a German embryologist and neurologist who discovered and named (1842) the three germ layers of the early embryo: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. He also discovered nonmedullated nerve fibres (1838) and the nerve cells in the heart (1844) called Remak’s ganglia, and he

magnet: Magnetization process: Br is the remanent flux density and is the residual, permanent magnetization left after the magnetizing field is removed; this latter is obviously a measure of quality for a permanent magnet. It is usually measured in webers per square metre. In order to demagnetize the specimen from its…

Jan Hus: Leader of Czech reform movement: …teaching was his tenet of remanence—i.e., that the bread and wine in the Eucharist retain their material substance. Wycliffe also declared the Scriptures to be the sole source of Christian doctrine. Hus did not share all of Wycliffe’s radical views, such as that on remanence, but several members of the…

remanent magnetism, the permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geological age. It is the source of information for the paleomagnetic studies of polar wandering and continental drift. Remanent magnetism can

remanent magnetism, the permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geological age. It is the source of information for the paleomagnetic studies of polar wandering and continental drift. Remanent magnetism can

parole: …his sentence (known as the remanet).

aerospace industry: Remanufacture and upgrading: The most elaborate type of program under the general heading of maintenance is the remanufacturing process. Performed at aircraft-manufacturing facilities, remanufacture is a measure that combines a general overhaul with an upgrade of some of the aircraft’s systems. The latter process often…

spatial memory: Place cells, head-direction cells, and grid cells: …at all, a property called remapping. Sensory information from the environment, such as colours and textures, plays an important role in remapping, while a place cell’s preferred firing location often reflects information concerning the distance and direction to environmental boundaries. Boundary cells, which are found in brain areas that provide…

Erich Maria Remarque was a novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I. Remarque was drafted into the German army at the age of 18 and

Stuart Heisler: Films of the 1940s: The Remarkable Andrew, from a fanciful Dalton Trumbo script, featured Brian Donlevy as the ghost of Andrew Jackson, back to aid a do-gooder (played by William Holden). Arguably better was The Glass Key (1942), a terse adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel, which had…

Otago: Wanaka, and Hawea; the Remarkables (rising to 6,798 feet [2,072 metres]) and other inland ranges; and the Clutha River, New Zealand’s largest river by volume, which empties into the Pacific near the towns of Balclutha and Kaitangata.

Joseph Addison: Early life: …which he wrote the prose Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705; rev. ed. 1718) and the poetic epistle A Letter from Italy (1704). From Italy Addison crossed into Switzerland, where, in Geneva, he learned in March 1702 of the death of William III and the consequent loss of power…

Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke: Return to England.: …an opposition journal, were the “Remarks on the History of England” (1730–31) and “A Dissertation upon Parties” (1733–34), both of which sought to end the old Whig–Tory disputes and to weld the disparate elements of the opposition to Walpole into a new Country Party, which would protect the independence of…

Erich Maria Remarque was a novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I. Remarque was drafted into the German army at the age of 18 and

Paulette Goddard was an American actress known for her spirited persona and for her association with Charlie Chaplin. Goddard worked as a fashion model in her early teens, and at age 16 she appeared as a chorus girl in the Broadway revue No Foolin’. Within the next four years, she married,

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de Marbot: …period, whose book on war, Remarques critiques, prompted Napoleon to leave him a legacy.

Claude Favre, seigneur de Vaugelas: In his Remarques sur la langue françoise, utiles à ceux qui veulent bien parler et bien escrire (1647; “Remarks on the French Language, Useful for Those Who Wish to Speak Well and Write Well”), Vaugelas recorded what he considered good usage: the speech of the “soundest” elements…

Rembang, city, Central Java (Jawa Tengah) propinsi (province), Java, Indonesia. It is located about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Surabaya. A major port on the Java Sea, it is linked by road and railway with Kudus and Semarang to the southwest and with Cepu and Surabaya to the southeast. Exports

methylene blue, a bright greenish blue organic dye belonging to the phenothiazine family that has various applications in medicine and in the dyeing of textiles. Methylene blue is employed as a biological stain, in testing for bacterial infection underlying tuberculosis, and as a chemical

Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an

Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an

Rembrandt House Museum, museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the life and work of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The Rembrandt House Museum is located in the house where Rembrandt lived from 1639 to 1658. The building was constructed in 1606–07, and Rembrandt purchased it in 1639. Financial troubles

Rembrandt Research Project (RRP), an interdisciplinary collaboration by a group of Dutch art historians to produce a comprehensive catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn’s paintings. Its initial aim was to free Rembrandt’s oeuvre of the attributions that were thought to have harmed the image of Rembrandt as

Bernard Malamud: …Pictures of Fidelman (1969), and Rembrandt’s Hat (1973). The Stories of Bernard Malamud appeared in 1983, and The People, and Uncollected Stories was published posthumously in 1989. The People, an unfinished novel, tells the story of a Jewish immigrant adopted by a 19th-century American Indian tribe. One critic spoke of…

Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an

remdesivir, antiviral drug that is active against SARS-CoV-2, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Remdesivir is administered by intravenous infusion in patients who are hospitalized or who are at high risk of severe COVID-19, including adults and adolescents as well as children age 28

Ovid: Works of Ovid: …by a mock recantation, the Remedia amoris, also a burlesque of an established genre, which can have done little to make amends for the Ars. The possibilities for exploiting love-elegy were now effectively exhausted, and Ovid turned to new types of poetry in which he could use his supreme narrative…

adult education: Types of adult education: Remedial education: fundamental and literacy education. (Such education is obviously a prerequisite for all other kinds of adult education and thus, as a category, stands somewhat apart from the other types of adult education.)

Ovid: Works of Ovid: …by a mock recantation, the Remedia amoris, also a burlesque of an established genre, which can have done little to make amends for the Ars. The possibilities for exploiting love-elegy were now effectively exhausted, and Ovid turned to new types of poetry in which he could use his supreme narrative…

patristic literature: The school of Antioch: …most memorable perhaps are his Remedy for Greek Maladies, the last of ancient apologies against paganism, and his Ecclesiastical History, continuing Eusebius’s work down to 428. His controversial treatises are also important, for he skillfully defended the Antiochene Christology against the orthodox bishop Cyril of Alexandria and was instrumental in…

Vladimír Remek is a Czech pilot and cosmonaut, the first person in space who was not from the Soviet Union or the United States and the first Czech citizen in space. After graduating from aviation school as a lieutenant in 1970, Remek began active service for the Czechoslovak air force. From 1972

Toni Morrison: She also penned Remember (2004), which chronicles the hardships of Black students during the integration of the American public school system; aimed at children, it uses archival photographs juxtaposed with captions speculating on the thoughts of their subjects. For that work, Morrison won the Coretta Scott King Award…

Atom Egoyan: …the West Memphis Three, and Remember (2015), in which an Auschwitz survivor suffering from dementia searches for a former Nazi official. Guest of Honour (2019) centres on the relationship between a woman wrongly convicted of sexual misconduct and her father. Egoyan also directed the documentary Citadel (2006), which follows his…

the Shangri-Las: …to perform his song “Remember (Walking in the Sand).” The label promptly hired Morton and signed the Shangri-Las to a recording contract. With Mary Weiss in the lead and the others providing backing vocals, a reworked version of “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” reached the top five on the…

Fay Weldon: … (1971), Female Friends (1974), and Remember Me (1976) focus on various women’s reactions to male-and-female relationships. Praxis (1978) is noted for the development of its heroine, who endures in the face of repeated disasters. Puffball (1980), a novel about motherhood, combines supernatural elements with technical information about pregnancy. The Life…

Mongo Beti: …the Habit of Unhappiness) and Remember Ruben (1974). Perpetua is a mystery story of the murder of a promising young woman by the combined forces of backward traditions and neocolonial evils. Remember Ruben and its sequel, La Ruine presque cocasse d’un polichinelle (1979; “The Nearly Comical Ruin of a Puppet”),…

Preston Sturges: Films of the early 1940s: …atypically sentimental) screenplay for Leisen’s Remember the Night (1940), Sturges directed Christmas in July (1940), a deftly crafted low-budget compendium of comic confusions about a lowly clerk (played by Dick Powell) who goes on a mad shopping spree after mistakenly thinking that he has won $25,000 in a contest. The…

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare: …these themes in the sequel Remember to Remember (1947).

Ai Weiwei: Early activism and Sunflower Seeds: …from Ai’s “citizen investigation” was Remembering (2009), an installation in Munich in which 9,000 coloured backpacks were arranged on a wall to form a quote, in Chinese, from an earthquake victim’s mother.

Wallace Stegner: His first novel, Remembering Laughter (1937), like his next three novels, was a relatively short work. His fifth novel, The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), the story of an American family moving from place to place in the West, seeking their fortune, was his first critical and popular…

On April 11, 1861, having been informed by messengers from Pres. Abraham Lincoln that he planned to resupply Fort Sumter, the Federal outpost in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, the newly formed government of the secessionist Confederate States of America demanded the fort’s surrender.

In late July and early August 1914, the great powers of Europe embarked on a course of action that would claim millions of lives, topple empires, reshape the political structure of the continent, and contribute to an even more destructive conflict a generation later. Known at the time as the Great

Frederic Bartlett: In his major work, Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (1932), Bartlett advanced the concept that memories of past events and experiences are actually mental reconstructions that are coloured by cultural attitudes and personal habits, rather than being direct recollections of observations made at the time. In…

Veterans Day: …November 11 is observed as Remembrance Day. In Britain and the Commonwealth countries and in countries of Europe, it is common to observe two minutes of silence at 11:00 am on November 11, the time and date of the World War I armistice in 1918.

In Search of Lost Time, novel in seven parts by Marcel Proust, published in French as À la recherche du temps perdu from 1913 to 1927. The novel is the story of Proust’s own life, told as an allegorical search for truth. It is the major work of French fiction of the early 20th century. In January

Remembrance Rock, novel by Carl Sandburg, published in 1948. The work, Sandburg’s only novel, is a massive chronicle that uses historical facts and both historical and fictional characters to depict American history from 1607 to 1945 in a mythic, passionate tribute to the American

Remembrance Sunday, in the United Kingdom, holiday held on the second Sunday of November that commemorates British service members who have died in wars and other military conflicts since the onset of World War I. By tradition, a two-minute period of silence is observed throughout the country at 11

Rosh Hashana, a major Jewish observance now accepted as inaugurating the religious New Year on Tishri 1 (September or October). Because the New Year ushers in a 10-day period of self-examination and penitence, Rosh Hashana is also called the annual Day of Judgment; during this period each Jew

remembrancer, English official who from medieval times compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer (one of the king’s courts) of business pending. There were at one time three clerks of the remembrance, with distinct duties, but two of the offices were abolished in the

Peter Dinklage: In the sci-fi mystery Rememory (2017), Dinklage’s character searches for the killer of a man who invented a machine that can extract and record people’s memories. He also had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

telephone: Electronic switching: …a magnetic alloy known as Remendur is added to two sides of the reed relay. When the coil is energized, the Remendur material retains the magnetism and polarity, thus acting as a switch with a memory. In addition to this new switch device, the No. 1 ESS incorporated a new…

Johannes Brahms: The young pianist and music director: In 1850 he met Eduard Reményi, a Jewish Hungarian violinist, with whom he gave concerts and from whom he learned something of Roma music—an influence that remained with him always.

peshaṭ: …simultaneously in any given text: remez (meaning “hint,” in reference to typological or allegorical interpretations), derash (meaning “search,” in reference to biblical study according to the middot, or rules), and sod (meaning “secret,” or mystical interpretation). The first letters (PRDS) of these four words were first used in medieval Spain…

Reims: The Gallic tribe of the Remi (from which Reims derives its name) was conquered without difficulty by the Romans, and the town flourished under their occupation. In the 5th century, Clovis, the Frankish king, was baptized at Reims by Bishop Remigius (Rémi), and in memory of this occasion most French…

Saint Remigius of Reims ; feast day October 1) was a bishop of Reims who greatly advanced the cause of Christianity in France by his conversion of Clovis I, king of the Franks. According to tradition, Remigius was the son of Count Emilius of Laon and St. Celina (Cilinia). Noted in his youth for his

Hergé was a Belgian cartoonist who created the comic strip hero Tintin, a teenage journalist. Over the next 50 years, Tintin’s adventures filled 23 albums and sold 70 million copies in some 30 languages. Through the years, the young reporter remained recognizably the same, with his signature blond

immunosuppressant: Infliximab is an antibody that binds to the cytokine tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), which prevents TNFα from binding to its receptor. TNFα is thought to play a role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn disease, and infliximab, which blocks the activity of…

Lee Remick was an American actress known especially for her portrayals of sensual, often erotic women in crisis. Remick’s father, Frank Remick, owned the department store Remick’s in Quincy, Massachusetts. After her parents divorced, she was raised by her actress mother, Patricia Remick, in New

Lee Remick was an American actress known especially for her portrayals of sensual, often erotic women in crisis. Remick’s father, Frank Remick, owned the department store Remick’s in Quincy, Massachusetts. After her parents divorced, she was raised by her actress mother, Patricia Remick, in New

integument: Birds: The wing tract includes the flight feathers proper (remiges) and their coverts (tectrices). The remiges include the primaries, arising from the “hand” and digits and attached to the hand’s skeleton; the secondaries, arising from the forewing and attached to the ulna; and the tertials (when present), arising from the upper…

Western painting: Mesolithic: At Remigia three hunters are depicted stalking a leaping ibex, while at Los Caballos a line of archers fires arrows into a small herd of panic-stricken deer, presumably driven into the ambush by beaters. Scenes of battle or groups of dancers also occur, while social status…

Saint Remigius of Reims ; feast day October 1) was a bishop of Reims who greatly advanced the cause of Christianity in France by his conversion of Clovis I, king of the Franks. According to tradition, Remigius was the son of Count Emilius of Laon and St. Celina (Cilinia). Noted in his youth for his

Unisys Corporation: In 1955 Sperry merged with Remington Rand, Inc., becoming Sperry Rand Corporation. Remington Rand had been formed in 1927, combining several manufacturers of office machines and business equipment, including the Remington Typewriter Company (established in 1873) and the Rand Kardex Bureau (formed in 1886). Remington Rand’s main business had developed…

small arm: The bolt action: -made Remington Rolling Block Rifle, in which the breechblock was cocked back on a hinge like the hammer, was bought by a number of countries around the world. The United States itself adopted a series of single-shot rifles employing a hinged-breech “trap-door” mechanism, developed by Erskine…

Pierce Brosnan: …the NBC television detective series Remington Steele. The show, which premiered in 1982, was a success, and in 1986 he was chosen as the successor to Roger Moore as James Bond—the suave British secret service agent 007 created by novelist Ian Fleming. His NBC contract, however, prevented him from accepting,…

typewriter: Remington and Sons, gunsmiths, of Ilion, New York, for manufacture. The first typewriters were placed on the market in 1874, and the machine was soon renamed the Remington. Among its original features that were still standard in machines built a century later were the cylinder,…

Eliphalet Remington II was a U.S. firearms manufacturer. Founded as a rifle-barrel-manufacturing firm in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington II—whose father operated a forge at Illion Gultch, New York—the company that would become E. Remington & Sons in 1865 (and later Remington U.M.C. [1910] and the

Frederic Remington was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor noted for his realistic portrayals of life in the American West. Remington studied art at Yale University (1878–80) and briefly (1886) at the Art Students League of New York. Thereafter he devoted himself primarily to

Frederic Remington was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor noted for his realistic portrayals of life in the American West. Remington studied art at Yale University (1878–80) and briefly (1886) at the Art Students League of New York. Thereafter he devoted himself primarily to

psychomotor learning: Reminiscence: Reminiscence is defined as a gain in performance without practice. When subjects performing trial after trial without rest (massed practice) are given a short break, perhaps midway through training, scores on the very next trial will show a significant improvement when compared with those…

Virginia Woolf: Early life and influences: …was writing her poignant “Reminiscences”—about her childhood and her lost mother—which was published in 1908. Viewing Italian art that summer, she committed herself to creating in language “some kind of whole made of shivering fragments,” to capturing “the flight of the mind.”

Maxim Gorky: Last period: …Russian writers—Vospominaniya o Tolstom (1919; Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy) and O pisatelyakh (1928; “About Writers”). The memoir of Tolstoy is so lively and free from the hagiographic approach traditional in Russian studies of their leading authors that it has sometimes been acclaimed as Gorky’s masterpiece. Almost equally impressive is…

Levi Coffin: His autobiography, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin (1876), contains much valuable information about American abolitionism.

Che Guevara: The Cuban Revolution: …de la guerra revolucionaria (1963; Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1968).

George Moore: Moore’s Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (1906) vividly described the Café Nouvelle-Athènes and the circle of Impressionist painters who frequented it. Moore was particularly friendly with Édouard Manet, who sketched three portraits of him. Another account of the years in Paris, in which he introduced the…

crustacean: Annotated classification: Class Remipedia Holocene; body elongated; more than 30 segments, each with biramous appendages projecting sideways; antennules biramous; maxillules, maxillae, and maxillipeds uniramous and grasping; marine cave dwellers; about 17 species. †Order Enantiopoda Carboniferous; single fossil, Tesnusocaris.

Remiremont, town, Vosges département, Grand Est région, eastern France. It lies along the Moselle River near the latter’s confluence with the Moselotte and is surrounded by wooded heights. Remiremont (Romaraci Mons) is named after St. Romaric, a companion of St. Columban at Luxeuil, who in the 7th

Burkina Faso: Finance: …on international aid and on remittances from migrants to help offset its current account deficit.

baking: The straight-dough method: …the straight-dough process include the remixed straight-dough process, with a small portion of the water added at the second mix, and the no-punch method, involving extremely vigorous mixing. The straight-dough method is rarely used for white breads because it is not sufficiently adaptable to allow compensation for fluctuations in ingredient…

Remizidae: The penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) is irregularly distributed in river scrub and marshes across Eurasia. An 11-cm- (4.5-inch-) long brownish bird with a black mask on its whitish head, it is named for its two-chambered nest (built by the male), which consists of a finely felted…

Remizidae, bird family (order Passeriformes) that contains the penduline tits and, usually, the verdin. Some authorities classify the roughly 12 species in this group as a subfamily of the titmouse family, Paridae. Remizids are much like long-tailed tits (Aegithalidae) but have shorter tails and

Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov was a Symbolist writer whose works had a strong influence on Russian writers before and after the 1917 Revolution. Born into a poor family of merchant ancestry, Remizov gained his early experiences in the streets of Moscow. He attended the University of Moscow but was

Japanese calligraphy: …especially in the style of remmen-tai, in which the hiragana are written continuously and connected together without break, and in chōwa-tai, in which some kanji words join hands with the hiragana. Japanese calligraphy in remmen-tai or in chōwa-tai has some resemblance to the Chinese grass style, but the two are…

salt dome: Physical characteristics of salt domes.: These highs, called remnant highs or turtleback highs, do not have as much vertical relief as the salt domes among which they are interspersed. Present-day structure of strata around salt domes may not in every instance coincide with the present-day position of the salt. This offset relationship suggests…

The New Yorker: …was replaced by staff writer David Remnick. The New Yorker continued to attract leading writers and remained among the most influential and widely read American magazines.

Joel Grey: …in the comic action film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), a performance that brought him a Golden Globe nomination. He later played Amos Babcock Bellamy in a 1995 film adaptation of the evergreen musical The Fantasticks, and he took the part of Amos Hart in a 1996 Broadway revival…

pre-Columbian civilizations: Southern Veracruz: …Veracruz culture is famed for Remojadas-style pottery figurines, which must have been turned out in incredible quantity for use as burial goods. The Remojadas tradition dates to the Late Formative and lasts until the Early Postclassic. Figurines are hollow and largely mold-made in the Late Classic, while they were fashioned…

Panama: World War II and mid-century intrigues: …period were dominated by Colonel José Antonio Remón Cantera, commander of the increasingly militarized police, which became known as the National Guard.

Jacobus Arminius: …his views by signing the Remonstrance, a theological document written by Johannes Uyttenbogaert, a minister from Utrecht, in 1610. Remonstrant Arminianism was debated in 1618–19 at the Synod of Dort (Dordrecht), an assembly of the Dutch Reformed Church. The synod included delegates from Reformed churches in England, Germany, and Switzerland…

Remonstrant, any of the Dutch Protestants who, following the views of Jacobus Arminius, presented to the States-General in 1610 a “remonstrance” setting forth their points of divergence from stricter Calvinism. The Remonstrants, assailed on all sides, were expelled from the Netherlands by the

pelota: …difficult and fast variation of remonte, a 35-point game that requires two players on each side and is played with a special chistera, a curved glove with a chestnut or ash frame. The fronton version of pelota, popular in Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, and parts of the United States, is…

machine-tractor station: …the stations were transformed into Repair and Technical Service Stations (Remontno-tekhnicheskie stantsii; RTS), which repaired the machinery, supplied spare parts, and continued to rent machines for special purposes—e.g., road building. In 1961 the RTS were replaced by the All-Union Farm Machinery Association (Soyuzselkhoztekhnika).

remora, (family Echeneidae), any of eight species of marine fishes of the family Echeneidae (order Perciformes) noted for attaching themselves to, and riding about on, sharks, other large marine animals, and oceangoing ships. Remoras adhere by means of a flat oval sucking disk on top of their head.

remora: 3 inches) in length; the white suckerfish, or white remora (Remora albescens), is the shortest, the largest individuals measuring only 30 cm as adults. Remoras feed on the leavings of their hosts’ meals or, in some instances, act as cleaners by eating the external parasites of their transporters.

John Hays Hammond, Jr.: inventor whose development of radio remote control served as the basis for modern missile guidance systems.