More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Red River of the North
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a navigable river of the United States and Canada, rises in Elbow Lake, Minn., near the sources of the Mississippi, and flows S. and W. to Breckinridge, then N., forming the boundary between Minnesota and North Dakota, and so into Manitoba and through a flat country to Lake Winnipeg. Its course is 665 miles (525 in the United States). The Red River Settlement was the origin of Manitoba.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Lake Agassiz
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Redstart
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a small bird of the warbler family. The male has a shining black head, neck, breast, and back. The ends of the tail and of the wings are black. The belly is white. The rest of the plumage is of a red salmon color, and determines the general color of the bird, giving it a flashing red appearance. The name is English, meaning redtail. No other bird in our woods feeds in so many ways. One moment it takes an insect on the wing like a flycatcher, the next it is scratching up old leaves like a quail, and in a trice it is examining a twig or bit of bark like a creeper. This restless, noticeable bird glues a nest together with saliva in the crotch of a sapling, five to twenty feet above the ground.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the Ruticilla phœnicura; Europe and western Asia, common in in migrating S. in the winter. Forehead pure white, throat black, upper surface dark gray; breast, sides, and tail bright rust-red. It nests usually in a hollow tree or in a hole in a wall or rock, and lays five to seven delicate greenish-blue eggs, sprinkled with faint spots of red. The black, or black-capped redstart, R. titys (or titis) is common on the Continent, but has not the extended N. range of the common redstart. In the United 30 States the name is given to Setophaga ruticilla, a fly-catching warbler. Male, black with patches of orange-red. Female, olive with yellow patches.
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Redwood
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the name of various sorts of wood of a red color, as an Indian dyewood, the produce of Pterocarpus santalinus; the wood of Gordonia Hæmatoxylon, the redwood of Jamaica; that of Pterocarpus dalbergioides, or Andaman wood; that of Ceanothus columbrinus, the redwood of the Bahamas; that of Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous tree of California, the redwood of the timber trade; that of Soymida febrifuga, of which the bark is used in India for fevers, and has been employed successfully in Europe for typhus. The California redwood is the best known. The tree reaches a very great size, and forms forests in the coast mountains of Cali-
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Sequoia
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Refrigerator
Collier's New Encyclopedia: that which refrigerates, cools, or allays heat. Specifically applied to: Brewing: An apparatus consisting of a shallow vat traversed by a continuous pipe, through which a stream of cold water passes. Steam: (1) The casing with connecting tubes, through which feed-water passes on its way to the boiler, and is warmed by the current of hot brine passing in the other direction, on the outside of the tubes. The hot brine, at a temperature of say 218° F., is that which has been removed from the boiler by the brine pump.. (2) A form of condenser, in which the injection water (fresh) is cooled by a surface application of cold sea water. A chest or closet holding a supply of ice to cool provisions and keep them from spoiling warm weather.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Cold Storage
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Regillus
1000 Classical Characters: A small lake in Latium, famous as being the scene of a great Roman victory, which forms the subject of a fine poem by Lord Macaulay, called The Battle of the Lake Regillus, included in his Lays of Ancient Rome. Regulus, M. Attilius. A consul during the first Punic war. He reduced Brundusium, and in his second consulship he captured a great portion of the Carthaginian fleet. After further successes he was taken prisoner by the Carthaginians, who put him to death with refined tortures. Remi or Rhemi. One of the most powerful people in Gallia Belgica. Rha (Volga). A great river of Asia . 2026 Editor's Note: The legendary battle at this site in 496 B.C. was the final attempt by the exiled king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus to reclaim the Roman throne. According to tradition, the Roman dictator Postumius vowed to build a temple to Castor and Pollux after the twin gods allegedly appeared on white horses to assist the Roman forces. Though the lake has since been drained, it is most likely identified with a volcanic crater known as Prataporci located north of Frascati. (Ed: BR 2026-06-17)
Collier's New Encyclopedia: LAKE, a body of water which lay in Latium, to the S. E. of Rome, probably near the modern Frascati; it is celebrated in the semi-legendary history of Rome as the scene (496 B. C.) of a great battle between the Romans and the Latins, fighting on behalf of the banished Tarquins, in which the latter were entirely defeated.
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Reichstag
Collier's New Encyclopedia: under the empire, the The representative German nation as a whole, as the Bundesrath was of the separate German states. The president of the Reichstag was elected by the deputies. See GER- MANY.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Germany
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Rennet
Aiton's Encyclopedia: any substance used by the cheesemaker to curdle milk, chiefly the fourth stomach of the calf. Commercial rennet is prepared by the butcher who removes it from the calf, scrapes off all fat, rolls it in salt for a few hours, and then stretches it to dry. When needed, a piece of suitable size is well soaked in tepid whey or water. The liquid obtained is then poured into the milk to produce curd. Rennet depends on gastric juice for its efficacy. See Cheese
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an aqueous infusion of the dried stomach of the calf. It is a valuable agent in the coagulation of the casein of milk preparatory to the manufacture of cheese. Also several sub-varieties of apple, with more or less spotted fruit; ground color gray, or golden. There is a French and a Canadian rennet; called also a queen.
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Retina
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the net-like expansion of the optic nerve, lying between the black pigment and the vitreous humor of the eye.er It is the only part immediately imme
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Eye
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