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being the terminus of the Flam- 

 inian and Aemilian Ways. After a 

 very chequered history it was held 

 by the Malatestas from the 13th to 

 the 16th century, when it was 

 ceded to Venice. On the shore is a 

 popular sea-bathing station. Pop. 

 30,000. See Francesca ; Malatesta. 



Rimmon. Syrian deity wor- 

 shipped at Damascus. His temple, 

 the house of Rimmon (2 Kings v, 

 18), probably containing the altar 

 which Ahaz reproduced at Jeru- 

 salem (2 Kings 16), doubtless lies 

 beneath the Great Mosque. Alter- 

 natively called Hadad, he is identi- 

 fiable with the Babylonian thun- 

 der-god Ramman and with the 

 corresponding Assyrian Adad. 



Rimnic Sarat. Town of Ru- 

 mania, also known as Ramnicul- 

 Sarat (q.v. ). 



Rimnic Sarat, BATTLE OF. 

 Fought Dec. 22-27, 1916, between 

 the Rumanians and Russians on 

 one side and the Austro-Germans 

 on the other. After losing Ploeshti, 

 Dec. 6 : the Rumanians withdrew 

 towards Rimnic Sarat, and were 

 joined by Russian forces. Together 

 they fought several delaying ac- 

 tions, which checked the advance 

 of the Germans under Von Falken- 

 hayn, who, pressing on towards 

 Rimnic Sarat, began a violent bat- 

 tle on Dec. 22 on a 30 m. front. 



Attacking heavily, he captured 

 several villages on Dec. 23, after 

 a bitter struggle. He was in 

 much superior force, both in men 

 and artillery, and his heavy guns 

 battered down the Russo-Ru- 

 manian entrenchments, but all 

 through Dec. 24 and 25 he was 

 fiercely counter-attacked, and posi- 

 tions changed hands several times. 

 On Dec. 26 his strength in guns 

 told, and he broke the Russo-Ru- 

 manian front for a distance of 

 about 10 m., capturing some vil- 

 lages which were close to Rimnic 

 Sarat, and compelling the Allies to 

 withdraw from the town. On the 

 night of Dec. 26-27 they took up a 

 new position on the heights beyond 

 it. The battle continued through- 

 out Dec. 27, but ended in a farther 

 retreat of the Russo-Rumanians. 

 See Rumania, Conquest of. 



Rinderpest (Ger.,cattle plague). 

 Highly contagious and fatal disease 

 of cattle and other ruminating 



the range of infection by air is not 

 great. Infected bodies buried in 

 the ground remain virulent for 

 months, and even freezing does not 

 destroy the activity of the germ. 

 There is no cure known, but in 

 places where it is common animals 

 which recover become immune, 

 and the mortality may be reduced 

 to 40 p.c. See Cattle. 



Rinehart, MARY ROBERTS (b. 

 1876). American author. She was 

 born, her maiden name being 

 Roberts, at 

 Pittsburg, 

 Pennsylvania, 

 where she was 

 educated at 

 public schools, 

 and the train- 

 ing college for 

 nurses. In 1896 

 she married 

 Dr. Stanley 

 Rinehart of 

 Pittsburg. Her many novels, 

 mostly belonging to the class of 

 detective fiction, and good ex- 



Mary Rinehart, 

 American author 



animals. It is indi- 

 genous in India, 

 China, Russia, 

 Tibet, and other 

 parts of Asia, but 

 has not been found 

 in Great Britain 

 since 1877. A 

 serious outbreak 

 occurred there in 

 1865, when the 

 damage to agricul- 

 ture was estimated 

 at 5,000,000 from 

 the loss of cattle 

 alone. Rinderpest 

 is a common 

 disease in South 

 Africa, where, 

 during one great visitation, nearly 

 80 p.c. of all the cattle were 

 lestroyed. 

 The disease arises from a specific 



Rimini, Italy. 1. Roman bridge across the Marecchia, 



built by the Emperor Augustus. 2. Triumphal arch of 



Augustus, erected A.D. 27. 3. Facade of the Cathedral 



of S. Francesco 



amples of the kind, included The 

 Circular Staircase, 1908 ; When a 

 Man Marries, 1909 ; The Window 

 at the White Cat, 1910 ; The Street 

 contagion, and it is believed that of Seven Stars, 1914 ; The Amazing 

 the infection enters the body of the Interlude, 1917; and Dangerous 



animal through the mouth or 

 nostrils, and thonce spreads to all 

 the organs. It is a fever, with very 

 high temperature. The pulse 

 quickens, the coat stares, the nose 

 becomes dry, the whites of the eyes 

 turn scarlet, appetite fails, and the 

 animal is seized with shivering 

 fits. Profuse diarrhoea usually 

 follows, and as a rule inflammation 

 of the lungs. The disease is almost 

 invariably fatal, death following in 

 from four to seven days from the 

 first attack. 



The infection may be spread by 

 hay or straw, or by any form of 

 litter, by hides, fleeces, or flesh. It 

 may even be carried by the air, but 



Days, 1919, dealing with America 

 during the Great War. Her plays 

 include Double Life, 1907 ; Cheer 

 Up, a farce, 1913 ; and others 

 written in collaboration. 



Ring (A.S. firing, circle). Cir- 

 cular band, usually of metal, worn 

 on the hand. Great importance has 

 always been attached to rings, 

 which have been in use since remote 

 times. Signet-rings are among the 

 most ancient, bearing carved or 

 incised symbols peculiar to the 

 owner, which gave an impression 

 in wax or clay equivalent to a 

 signature. It is of this type that we 

 read in the Bible and ancient 

 chronicles as being used as tokens 



