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1783, and on the last occasion in 

 Dec., 1908, when the shock was 

 followed by a tidal wave and 

 30,000 people perished. Every 

 building suffered damage, and 

 those left standing had to be de- 

 molished. There is a trade in per- 

 fumes, silk, terra -cot ta. oil, dried 

 fruits, etc. Reggio was founded by 

 Greeks about 720 B.C., and became 

 a Roman colony in the 3rd century 

 B.C. Pop., in 1907, 40,000. 



Reggio Emilia. Prov. of V 

 Italy, in Emilia. It slopes from 

 the Tuscan Apennines to the Po 

 valley, and has an area of 885 sq. 

 m. Mountainous in the S., its cul- 

 minating point is Mt. Cusna, alt. 

 6,420 ft. It is otherwise a fertile 

 plain producing rice, wheat, vines, 

 fruit, olives, and chestnuts. There 

 are copper, iron, and sulphur mines, 

 and all are worked. The chief 

 manufactures include porcelain, 

 glass, and silk. Pop. 326,000. 



Reggio Emilia. Walled city 

 of Italy, capital of the province 

 of Reggio Emilia. The ancient 

 Regium Lepidi, it stands on a small 

 affluent of the Po, 38 m. by rly. 

 N.W. of Bologna. A fine city, with 

 broad arcaded streets, it has a 

 cathedral founded in the 12th cen- 

 tury and rebuilt in the 15th and 

 16th centuries. The church of 

 Madonna della Ghiara is a beautiful 

 Renaissance domed structure dat- 

 ing from 1597. There are Re- 

 naissance palaces, and the house 

 where Ariosto was born. The 

 centre of an agricultural dis- 

 trict, it exports cheese, rears silk- 

 worms, and manufactures tex- 

 tiles, brooms, and 

 leather goods. 

 Founded in 187 

 B.C. by M. Aem. 

 Lepidus, when he 

 built the Via 

 Aemilia, it flour 

 i s h e d under the 

 Romans, and be- 

 came a bishopric 

 in 450. In me- 

 dieval times the 

 city was an inde- 

 pendent republic, 

 passing under the 

 control of the 

 Este family in 

 1409. Pop. 75,000. ' 



Regiam Majestatem. Name 

 given to a collection of the ancient 

 laws of Scotland. It is said to have 

 been compiled between 1124-53 

 at the instance of David I. Its 

 authenticity is doubtful, and the 

 book is an almost literal copy of 

 Glanvill's Tractatus de Legibus, 

 written in the reign of Henry II. 



Regicide (Lat. rex, king; cae- 

 dere, to kill). Literally, one who 

 kills a king. It is specially used, 

 however, for those who were re- 



sponsible for the death of Charles I 

 in 1649. Of the 150 members of the 

 court of justice that tried the king, 

 67 voted for his execution and 59 

 signed the death warrant, and 

 these, with the officials and execu- 

 tioners, were the regicides. After 

 the restoration of Charles II, Par- 

 liament ordered the arrest of the 

 regicides. Some surrendered and 

 others were caught, but a few 

 escaped. Brought to trial, 29 of 

 them were sentenced to death, but 

 the sentence was only carried out 



Reggio Emilia, Italy. Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, looking 

 towards the Town Hall ; on the left is the cathedral 



in 10 cases, the others being im- 

 prisoned for life. Three others were 

 afterwards caught and executed. 

 Harrison and Peters were among 

 those executed, and Edmund 

 Ludlow was the last survivor. 



Regillus. In ancient geography, 

 a small lake in Latium, Italy. 

 Situated E. of Rome, between 

 Gabii and Labicum, it was famous 



is grouped into regiments, most of 

 which have a name and number. It 

 consists of a number of battalions, 

 each commanded by a lieutenant- 

 colonel. The cavalry are also ranked 

 in regiments, but these take the 

 field as fighting units and are not 

 divided into battalions. The ar- 

 tillery and engineers each form 

 officially a single regiment. The 

 word was first used in the 16th cen- 

 tury, when each unit raised was 

 called a regiment, e.g. Cromwell's 

 regiment of horse. With the 

 foundation of a 

 regular army came 

 the practice .of 

 numbering the 

 regiments, the 

 numbers thus 

 showing their 

 seniority.. 



In foreign armies 

 the constitution of 

 the regiment 

 varies. In the Ger- 

 man and other 

 European armies it 

 is a fighting unit 

 consisting of three 

 battalions. See 

 Army, British; 

 Battalion, etc. 



Regina. Capital of Saskatchew- 

 an, Canada. It is in the S. of the 

 province, in the centre of the 

 wheat-growing area, 360 m. from 

 Winnipeg, and on the three trans- 

 continental lines. Its chief build- 

 ings are the new home of the pro- 

 vincial legislature and the city hall. 

 It is the residence of the lieutenant- 

 governor, and was for a long 

 time the headquarters of the 

 Royal North- West (now Canadian) 

 Mounted Police. Regina's indus- 

 tries are both distributing and 

 : manufacturing. For the former are 

 grain elevators, warehouses, etc. ; 

 the latter include the making of 

 j agricultural implements, motor- 

 cars, bricks, and machinery, as 

 well as tanning and milling. Before 

 the foundation of the province 

 Regina was the capital of the North- 

 West Territories. Pop. 30,200. 



for the defeat of 

 the Lathis by the 

 Romans, 496 B.C. 

 The story of the 

 fight is told in 

 Macaulay's Lays 

 of Ancient Rome. 



Regiment (Lat. 

 regere, to rule). 

 Military term for 

 a body of soldiers. 

 In the British 

 army the infantry 



Regina, Canada. Buildings of the Saskatchewan pro- 

 vincial legislature ; top, left, the municipal offices 



