Regent
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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Regent Bird
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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Reggio (City and province of central)
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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Reggio (Seaport and province of south)
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.
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Regicides
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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Regina
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) 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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Regiomontanus
a German astronomer, whose real name was Johann Müller; born in Königsberg (in Latin Regiomontum, whence came his name), in Franconia, June 6, 1436. He was educated at Leipsic; studied mathematics at Vienna; accompanied_Cardinal Bessarion to Rome, where Beza gave him further instructions in Greek literature, which enabled him to complete a new abridgment in Latin of the Almagest of Ptolemen In 1471 he built an observa- Ptolemy. tory at Nuremberg, but he returned to Rome on the invitation of Sixtus IV., who employed him in the reformation of the calendar. His "Kalendarium Novum" (New Calendar) is believed to be the first almanac issued in Europe. He died July 6, 1476.
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Register
a device for automatically indicating the number of revolutions made or amount of work done by machinery; or recording steam, air, or water pressure, or other data, by means of apparatus deriving motion from the object or objects whose force, distance, velocity, direction, elevation, or numerical amount it is desired to ascertain. There are various special appliances of this kind, each particularly adapted for the peculiar operation which is to be investigated; many depending on the action of clock-work mechanism, others, as in registering meteorological instruments, ments, having having means for recording varying conditions, as with the the anemometer, barograph, etc. In music, the compass of a voice or instrument, or a portion of the compass of a voice; as, the upper, middle, or lower register. Also, an organ stop, or the knob or handle by means of which the performer commands any given stop. In printing, the agreement of two printed forms to be applied to the same sheet, either on the same or the respective sides thereof. The former is used in chromatic printing, where a number of colors are laid on consecutively.
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