Each of these 10 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
the deal-fish; a genus of acanthopterygian fishes; division Tæniiformes . Each ventral fin is reduced to a long filament, dilated at the extremity, somewhat like the blade of an oar, whence they have been called oar fishes. Range wide; they have been taken in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and on the coast of New Zealand.
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an Italian word, used originally at Venice to denote a gondola race. It is now in general use and is applied to the rowing matches at Oxford, Cambridge, and American universities, as well as to yacht races on salt and fresh waters. Any showy boat race may be called a regatta. See Yacht ; Commodore
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the union, by freezing together, of two pieces of ice, with moist surfaces when placed in contact at a temperature of 32°. A snowball is formed by the regelation of the particles composing it, so are the snow bridges spanning chasms on high mountains. See GLACIER.
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a system employed on electrified railroads, especially in the mountainous sections of the West, in which the motor of the locomotive is used as a generator on descending grades, the kinetic energy of the train on such grades being used as the motive force to drive the generator, which thus at the same time acts as a brake and replenishes the supply of electrical power.
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The Siemens regenerative furnace is composed of three divisions, including the producers, where the crude gas is generated; the regenerators, chambers containing a network of fire-brick passages through which the heated gases and flame may circulate and the heat be stored as they escape from the furnace, to be again mixed with the gases from the producer and the air as they pass through the regenerator to the furnace hearth; and the furnace itself, which is the third division. By this arrangement the outgoing heated volatile products heat the mass of bricks in the chamber, and this again heats the incoming air and gas supplied to the furnace. See SIEMENS-MARTIN STEEL.
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one invested with vicarious authority, one who governs a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign. In hereditary governments the regent is usually, but not necessarily or always, the nearest relative who is capable of undertaking the office. Also a member of a governing board; a trustee; as the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, etc. Also a member of one of the English universities, having certain duties of instruction or government. At Cambridge the regents are all resident masters of less than four years' standing, and all doctors of less than two years standing. At Oxford the period of regency is shorter. Masters and doctors of a longer standing, who keep their names on the college books are termed At Oxford the regents non-regents. compose the congregation, by whom degrees are conferred, and the ordinary business of the university transacted. Together with the non-regents they compose convocation. At Cambridge the regents compose the upper, and the nonregents the lower house of the senate or governing body.
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the Sericulus chrysocephalus, a bower bird of beautiful plumage. In the adult male it is golden yellow and rich velvet black; the female is of more sober hue, all the upper surface being deep olive brown. The normal number of eggs is apparently two, that number of young birds having been repeatedly found. It is sometimes, but erroneously, called the regent oriole.
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a seaport and province of south Italy; on the Strait of Messina; 9 miles S. E. of the city of Messina. It is the seat of an archbishop, and has a fine cathedral. Manufactures of silks, perfumes, gloves, stockings, and caps-the last three made from the byssus of the PINNA (q (q. v.) fruits, wine, and olives are cultivated, and fishing is carried on. Pop. province, about 475,000; city, about 45,000. The ancient Rhegium was founded by Greeks 8th century B. C. It was taken and destroyed by Dionysius of Syracuse (387 B. C.), the Romans (270), Alaric (A. D. 410), Totila (549), the Saracens (918), and captured by Robert Guiscard (1060), Pedro of Aragon (1282), and the Garibaldians (1860). In 1783 and 1908 it was ruined by an earthquake.
a city and province of central Italy; on the ancient Via Emilia (Emilian Road); 17 miles S. E. of Parma; still surrounded with walls. It has a good cathedral of the 15th century, a natural history and an antiquarian museum, etc. There are manufactures of silk, hemp, turnery, leather, etc., and carry on considerable trade, especially in timber. Reggio is the birthplace of Ariosto. During the later Middle Ages it was an independent city, but was subject to the D'Estes from 1409 onward. The bishopric was founded in 450. Pop. province, about 330,000; city, about 75,000.
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the men who were appointed on the Parliamentary committee to try King Charles I., but in a narrower sense the men, 67 in number, who actually sat in trial on him. Of these only 59 signed the death warrant. After the Restoration the regicides were brought to trial on a charge of high treason. Twenty-nine were condemned to death, but only 10 were executed, 19, together with six others who were not tried, being imprisoned, most of them for life. More than 20 who were already dead were tried and condemned, notwithstanding, and Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, three of them, were exhumed and hanged at Tyburn, and then reburied at the foot of the scaffold. For regicides in a wider use of the term, see Assassi- NATION.
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city and capital of the Province of Saskatchewan; formerly capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada; on the Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, and Grand Trunk Pacific railroads, 356 miles W. of Winnipeg. Here are the government buildings and the headquarters of the Mounted Police and of the Indian Department. The town contains churches representing the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic bodies. It is ste steadily growing in importance as a manufacturing and trade center. Louis Riel, the half-breed insurgent, was executed here in 1885. Regina nobly responded to the call for troops in 1914-sending 4 battalions as fighting units to the front and thousands as re-enforcements. Pop. about 40,000.
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