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BBOOIO 480 BEGISTRATION stroyed 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 Gari- baldians (1860). In 1783 and 1908 it was ruined by an earthquake. BEGGIO (Reggio nell* Emilia), 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. REGICIDES, the men who were ap- pointed on the Parliamentary committee to try King Charles I., but in a narrower sense the men, 67 in number, who actu- ally 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, be- ing imprisoned, most of them for life. More than 20 who were already dead were tried and condemned, notwithstand- ing, and Cromwell, Ireton, and Brad- shaw, three of them, were exhumed and hanged at Tyburn, and then reburied at the foot of the scaffold. For regicides in a wider xise of the term, see Assassi- nation. REGILLUS, LAKE, a body of water which lay in Latium, to the S. E. of Rome,_ probably near the modern Fras- cati; it is celebrated in the semi-legen- dary history of Rome as the scene (496 B. c.) of a great battle between the Ro- mans and the Latins, fighting on behalf of the banished Tarquins, in which the latter were entirely defeated. REGINA, city and capital of the Prov- ince 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 headquar- ters 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 steadily growing in importance as a manufactur- ing 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. REGIOMONTANUS, a German as- tronomer, whose real name was Johann Miiller; born in Konigsberg (in Latin Regiomontum, whence came his name), in Franconia, June 6, 1436. He was educated at Leipsic; studied mathematics at Vienna; accompanied Cardinal Bes- sarion 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 Ptolemy. In 1471 he built an observa- 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 No- vum" (New Calendar) is believed to be the first almanac issued in Europe. He died July 6, 1476. REGISTER, a device for automatically indicating the number of revolutions made or amount of work done by ma- chinery; or recording steam, air, or wa- ter pressure, or other data, by means of apparatus deriving motion from the ob- ject or objects whose force, distance, ve- locity, 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 in- vestigated; many depending on the ac- tion of clock-work mechanism, others, as in registering meteorological instru- ments, having means for recording vary- ing conditions, as with 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 or- gan 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 num- ber of colors are laid on consecutively. REGISTRATION, a modern social or civil system pertaining to births, mar- riages, and deaths, variously regulated in different countries. In England, par- ish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials were instituted by Lord Crom- well while he was vicar-general to Henry VIII., and subsequently regulated by various acts of Parliament. No thor- ough system, however, existed till in