Rupert of Bavaria
PRINCE, an English military officer; born in Prague, Bohemia, Dec. 17, 1619. He was the third son of Frederick V., elector palatine and King of Bohemia, by Elizabeth, daughter of James I. of England. After some military experience on the Continent he went to England to assist his uncle, Charles I., and in 1642 was made general of the horse. He distinguished himself at Edgehill and Chalgrove, captured Birmingham and Lichfield in 1642, and Bristol in 1643, and displayed his courage at Marston Moor and Naseby in 1645. His feeble defense of Bristol against Fairfax involved him in temporary disgrace with Charles; but in 1648 he was made admiral of the English royalist fleet. He carried on a predatory naval war against Parliament, in European waters, till Blake forced him to escape to the West Indies, where he preyed on English and Spanish merchantmen. In 1653 he joined Charles II. at Versailles. After the Restoration he was appointed lord-high-admiral and served with Monk against the Dutch. He became governor of Windsor Castle, privy-councilor, etc. Many of his later years were devoted to scientific study. He introduced mezzotint engraving into England. As one of the founders and the first governor of the Hudson Bay Company his name was given to RUPERTS- LAND (q. v.). He died in London, Nov. 29, 1682, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Rupertsland
an extensive but indeterminate region in the interior of Canada, named in honor of Prince Rupert, and transferred to the Hudson Bay Company, of which that prince was one of the founders, by Charles II. in 1670. This region is now included in the Northwest Territories.
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Rupture
the breaking or laceration of the walls or continuity of an organ, especially of a viscus. Also, the popular name HERNIA (q. v.).
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Rurik
the founder of the Russian monarchy; flourished in the 9th century; he is generally considered to have been a Varangian of Scandinavian origin, and to have led a successful invasion against the Slavs of Novgorod about 862. He was assisted by his brothers, to whose territories he afterward succeeded. He died in 879, and his family reigned in Russia till the death, in 1598, of Feodor, son of Ivan the Terrible, when it was succeeded by the house of Romanoff. Many Russian families still claim a direct descent from Rurik.
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Rusa
a genus of Cervidæ, or a subgenus of Cervus, with several species, from the East Indies. They are generally from the East Indies. They are generally antlers, with a snag projecting in front just above the base of each. There are several species, of which the best known is R. aristotelis, the sambur.
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Rusalki
66 Rusalki, the lovely river nymph of Southern Russia seems to have been endowed with the beauty of person and the gentle characteristics of the Mermaids of Northern nations. Shy and benevolent, she lived on the small alluvial islands that stud the mighty rivers which drain this extensive and thinly-peopled country, or in the detached coppices that fringe their banks, in bowers wovèn of flowering reeds and green-willow-boughs; her pastime and occupation being to aid in secret the poor fishermen in their laborious and precarious calling. Little is known of these beautiful creatures as if the mystery and secrecy which was inculcated and enforced in all affairs of government in this country had been extended to its fairy faith. Even Keightley, so learned in fairy lore, knows little of Rusalki, and dismisses her with the following brief notice :- They are of a beautiful form, with long green hair; they swim and balance themselves on the branches of trees , bathe in the lakes and rivers, play on the surface of the water, and wring their locks on the green meads at the water's edge. It is chiefly at Whitsuntide that they appear; and the people then, singing and dancing, weave garlands for them, which they cast into the stream."
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Rush Medical College
an affiliated college of Chicago University. It was chartered by the legislature of Illinois in 1837. The governor of the state, the lieutenant-governor, and the speaker of the House of Representatives are members of the governing board. The present relationship was entered into in 1898. The course consists of four years, two of which are taken in the college of arts and two in the medical college. The institution is coeducational. There are over a thousand students, many being physicians of experience engaged in research.
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Rush, Benjamin
Benjamin (1745-1813), an American physician and patriot. He was a native of Philadelphia and died there. He was graduated at Princeton in 1760 and completed a course at the University of Edinburgh in 1768. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he was professor of chemistry in the College of Philadelphia. He was an ardent advocate of American rights--a coworker with Franklin. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence , a member of the convention which framed the United States Constitution, and a member of the Pennsylvania legislature which ratified that Constitution in 1787. During the Revolutionary War he was appointed surgeon-general and had general charge of the hospital service. On the return of peace he resumed his practice and professorship at Philadelphia. Later the college with which he was connected was merged with the University of Pennsylvania in which he became professor of medicine and clinics. He was one of the foremost practitioners of the United States. He won quite a reputation by his treatment of yellow fever . Like his friend, Benjamin Franklin, he was a scientific inquirer, and was a member of various learned societies. He advocated the abolition of slavery. He was connected with the United States mint at Philadelphia from the time of its establishment until his death. See Hospital ; Medicine
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Rushville
a city of Indiana, the county-seat of Rush co. It is on the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis , the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and Louisville, and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroads. It has important industries, which include the manufacture of furniture, woodworking machinery, carriages, lumber, etc. It has also an important trade in grain, cattle, sheep, and hogs. Pop. (1910) 4,925; (1920) 5,498.
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