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See also:RAYAH (Arabic ra'iyah, peasants, subjects, See also:flock, See also:herd, ra'a, to pasture, cf. " See also:ryot," an Indo-See also:Persian variant of the same word) , the name given to the non-Moslem subjects of a
See also:Mahommedan ruler; all who pay the haraj or See also:poll-tax levied See also:earth's See also:atmosphere. See also:Lord See also:Rayleigh had an See also:interest in abnormal psychological investigations, and became a member and See also:vice-See also:president of the Society for Psychical See also:Research. He was one of the See also:original members of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of Merit, instituted in connexion with the See also:coronation of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Edward VII. In 1904 he was awarded a See also:Nobel See also:prize, and at the end of 1905 he became president of the Royal Society, of which he had been elected a See also:fellow in 1873, and had acted as secretary from 1885 to 1896. He remained president till 1908, in which See also:year he was chosen to succeed the 8th See also:duke of See also:Devonshire as See also:chancellor of See also:Cambridge University.
For a popular but See also:authentic See also:account of some of Lord Rayleigh's scientific See also:work and discoveries, see an See also:article by See also:Sir See also:Oliver See also:Lodge in the See also:National See also:Review for See also:September 1898.
on unbelievers. Five classes of rayahs existed under See also:Turkish See also:rule,—(r) the See also:Greek, or Roum milleti; (2) the Armenian, or Emeni milleti; (3) the See also:Catholic Armenians—eremeni gatoliki milleti; (4) the Latin Christians, or Roum gatoliki milleti; and (5) the See also:Jews, or ichondi milleti. The name rayah is most commonly used of the peasants, but it does not apply only to the agricultural populations. It depended on status, fixed by religious faith.
End of Article: RAYAH (Arabic ra'iyah, peasants, subjects, flock, herd, ra'a, to pasture, cf. " ryot," an Indo-Persian variant of the same word)
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