animal rights: The modern animal rights movement: …Singer and the American philosopher Tom Regan deserve special mention, not just because their work has been influential but because they represent two major currents of philosophical thought regarding the moral rights of animals. Singer, whose book Animal Liberation (1975) is considered one of the movement’s foundational documents, argues that…

Tursunzoda, city, Tajikistan. It lies in the west-central part of the republic, near the border with Uzbekistan. The city developed as a regional centre for an agricultural district in the western part of the Gissar valley. In 1975, however, the city’s economic emphasis changed when one of the

African literature: French: …Le Regard du roi (1954; The Radiance of the King), the story of Clarence, a white man, who, as he moves deeper and deeper into an African forest, is progressively shorn of his Western ways and pride. At his nadir, he begins anew, when, naked and alone, he embraces an…

Jacques Audiard: …Regard les hommes tomber (1994; See How They Fall), which wove together two separate story lines—one about a man (played by Jean Yanne) searching for the killer of his friend and the other concerning the actions of the murderers (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz) before the crime. Audiard also cowrote…

J.J. Abrams: …script for the 1991 drama Regarding Henry (for which he also received coproducer credit). He then wrote Forever Young (1992), which he followed by cowriting two critically panned movies: Gone Fishin’ (1997) and Armageddon (1998).

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau: …only one volume of poetry, Regards et jeux dans l’espace (1937; “Glances and Games in Space”), in his lifetime. His Poésies complètes (1949; translated into English by John Glassco as Complete Poems of Saint-Denys Garneau) and Journal (1954), an intimate record of his life between 1935 and 1939, appeared posthumously.

Kelowna: An international regatta has been held each summer since 1906, and tourism is an increasingly important source of income. The name Kelowna is a corruption of an Indian word for “grizzly bear.” Inc. city, 1905. Pop. (2011) 117,312; (2021) 144,576.

the Police: …in the United States) and Regatta de Blanc (1979), the title song of which earned the first of the band’s five Grammy Awards. Zenyatta Mondatta (1980) and the synthesizer-rich Ghost in the Machine (1981) saw a marked evolution from the stripped-down arrangements of their early work to a more layered…

glacier: Glacier flow: This process, termed regelation, is controlled by the rate at which heat can be conducted through the bumps. The first process is most efficient with large knobs, and the second process is most efficient with small bumps. Together these two processes produce bed slip. Water-filled cavities may form…

Thomas Hoccleve: In 1411 he produced The Regement of Princes, or De regimine principum, culled from a 13th-century work of the same name, for Henry, Prince of Wales. A tedious homily, it contains a touching accolade to Chaucer, whose portrait Hoccleve had painted on the manuscript to ensure that his appearance…

sound reception: Behavioral observations: …observations of the Yugoslavian entomologist Ivan Regen, who worked over the period 1902–30 mostly with a few species of katydids and crickets. In one of his earliest experiments, Regen proved (1913–14) that a male katydid of the species Thamnotrizon apterus responds to the sound of another male by chirping. The…

COVID-19: …therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, such as REGEN-COV (casirivimab and imdevimab). COVID-19 vaccines, which became available in late 2020, are highly effective in protecting against severe illness and in limiting the spread of the disease; immunity can be further bolstered through subsequent booster doses of vaccine. Risk of disease transmission can be…

Régence style, transition in the decorative arts from the massive rectilinear forms of Louis XIV furniture to those prefiguring the Rococo style of Louis XV. The style encompasses about the first 30 years of the 18th century, when Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, was regent of France. The restraint

Spain: The Constitution of Cadiz, 1812: …Junta and its successor, the regency, were compelled to summon a Cortes in order to legitimize the situation created by the absence of Ferdinand VII, who was a prisoner in France. Conservatives conceived of this task as the mere supply of the sinews of war on behalf of an absent…

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: …in his behaviour during the regency crisis (1788–89) following the temporary insanity of George III, when Sheridan acted as adviser to the unpopular, self-indulgent prince of Wales (later George IV). He encouraged the prince to think that there would be a great majority for his being regent with all the…

Regency style, decorative arts produced during the regency of George, prince of Wales, and during his entire reign as King George IV of England, ending in 1830. The major source of inspiration for Regency taste was found in Greek and Roman antiquity, from which designers borrowed both structural

Mexico: Precursors of revolution: …important of which called itself Regeneration. Its members were anarchists who adapted their dogmas to the Mexican scene. While always small in number and often ineffective in action, this group had great influence. Many of the reforms and programs it advocated were embodied in the Mexican constitution of 1917.

natural fibre: History: The introduction of regenerated cellulosic fibres (fibres formed of cellulose material that has been dissolved, purified, and extruded), such as rayon, followed by the invention of completely synthetic fibres, such as nylon, challenged the monopoly of natural fibres for textile and industrial use. A variety of synthetic fibres…

Portugal: Further political strife: , radicals) and Regenerators (moderates), the alternation of governments gradually ceased to reflect public feeling, and, in the last years of Louis’s reign, republicanism began to gain ground.

Regeneration Trilogy: The first book, Regeneration (1991) begins with Sassoon, who had been decorated for bravery, being sent to Craiglockhart at Graves’s behest after having made a public declaration of opposition to the war and stating that it is being deliberately prolonged. Other soldiers at the hospital suffer from such…

Mexico: Precursors of revolution: …important of which called itself Regeneration. Its members were anarchists who adapted their dogmas to the Mexican scene. While always small in number and often ineffective in action, this group had great influence. Many of the reforms and programs it advocated were embodied in the Mexican constitution of 1917.

Rafael Núñez: …series of reforms called the Regeneration, which replaced the supremacy of the various states with a centralized government and restored the power of the Roman Catholic church.

regeneration, in biology, the process by which some organisms replace or restore lost or amputated body parts. Organisms differ markedly in their ability to regenerate parts. Some grow a new structure on the stump of the old one. By such regeneration whole organisms may dramatically replace

blastema, in zoology, a mass of undifferentiated cells that has the capability to develop into an organ or an appendage. In lower vertebrates the blastema is particularly important in the regeneration of severed limbs. In the salamander, for example, tissues in the stump of a limb

Regeneration Trilogy, trilogy of novels written by British novelist Pat Barker, published 1991–95, that are set during World War I and focus on the experience and treatment of soldiers suffering from what was then called shell shock. The Regeneration Trilogy explores the imagined relationships

regenerative agriculture, alternative to modern industrial agriculture that prioritizes conserving and rehabilitating the land, tailoring specific practices to local ecosystems and climates. As with sustainable agriculture, regenerative agriculture focuses on reducing the impact of production on

Edwin H. Armstrong: Early life.: …devised a circuit, called the regenerative, or feedback, circuit, that suddenly, in the autumn of 1912, brought in signals with a thousandfold amplification, loud enough to be heard across a room. At its highest amplification, he also discovered, the tube’s circuit shifted from being a receiver to being an oscillator,…

fuel cell: From chemical energy to electrical energy: Such a regenerative fuel cell entails not only a revision of electrode design but also the introduction of special means for separating the product gases. Eventually, power modules comprising this type of high-efficiency fuel cell, used in conjunction with large arrays of thermal collectors for solar heating…

industrial glass: The melting chamber: …furnaces are often of the regenerative type (see Figure 8). In regenerative ovens, firing is carried out in cycles. For half of the cycle (10 to 15 minutes), fuel and air are passed through a hot checker-brick arrangement in a set of regenerator chambers on one side of the oven.…

gas-turbine engine: Intercooling, reheating, and regeneration: …turbine are passed through a heat exchanger, or regenerator, to increase the temperature of the air leaving the compressor prior to combustion. This reduces the amount of fuel needed to reach the desired turbine-inlet temperature. The increase in efficiency is, however, tied to a large increase in initial cost and…

regenerative medicine, the application of treatments developed to replace tissues damaged by injury or disease. These treatments may involve the use of biochemical techniques to induce tissue regeneration directly at the site of damage or the use of transplantation techniques employing

pump: Kinetic pumps.: A regenerative pump is also called a turbine, or peripheral, pump. The impeller has vanes on both sides of the rim that rotate in a ringlike channel in the pump’s casing. The fluid does not discharge freely from the tip of the impeller but is recirculated…

Portugal: Further political strife: , radicals) and Regenerators (moderates), the alternation of governments gradually ceased to reflect public feeling, and, in the last years of Louis’s reign, republicanism began to gain ground.

Portugal: Further political strife: , radicals) and Regenerators (moderates), the alternation of governments gradually ceased to reflect public feeling, and, in the last years of Louis’s reign, republicanism began to gain ground.

diplomatics: The papal chancery: …him, a new official, the regens cancellariam, was now created to fulfill this function. The number of notaries increased steadily, and, from the 13th century onward, an increasing number of public notaries worked in the papal administration. In order to distinguish between them and the papal notaries proper, the latter…

Switzerland: Urban settlements: Hill towns such as Regensberg and Gruyères, which were medieval fortified settlements with castles and distinctive late Gothic architecture, have a natural dominance over the local region that was significant at the time of their origin. Today both survive largely because tourists are attracted to their relatively unspoiled appearances.

Regensburg, city, Bavaria Land (state), southeastern Germany. It lies on the right bank of the Danube River along its most northerly course, where it is joined by the Regen River, about 65 miles (105 km) northeast of Munich. Regensburg is an important cultural, industrial, and commercial centre and

Martin Bucer: …an anonymous document called the Regensburg Book, which proposed steps toward Catholic-Protestant union. When Charles used Bucer’s rather far-reaching concessions in his secret negotiations with the liberal Catholics as the basis for an official solution of the controversy over the Reformation, Bucer, taken by surprise, denied any participation in a…

Christianity: The Reformation: …Roman Catholics at Ratisbon (now Regensburg, Germany) to reconcile their differences on justification by faith, the Lord’s Supper, and the papacy. Another attempt was made in 1559, when Melanchthon and Patriarch Joasaph II of Constantinople corresponded, with the intention of using the Augsburg Confession as the basis of dialogue between…

Otakar II: …Carinthia by the Diet of Regensburg (1274), then placed under the ban of the empire (June 1276). Finally Rudolf invaded Austria and forced him to renounce all his territories save Bohemia and Moravia (Treaty of Vienna, November 1276). Two years later, in an attempt to reassert his rights, Otakar marched…

Cardinal Richelieu: First minister of France: …refusal to ratify the peace Treaty of Regensburg in 1630, and the Habsburgs’ appeal to Pope Urban VIII to excommunicate Louis XIII for this supposed breach of faith.

Saarland: History: …province in 1684 under the Truce of Regensburg, but in 1697 France was forced to surrender all of Saar except the town of Saarlouis under the Treaty of Rijswijk. From 1792 to 1815 France again occupied Saar, together with the entire west bank of the Rhine. With the final defeat…

Netherlands: Society: …becoming what the Dutch called regents, members of the ruling bodies of town and province, and drawing most of their incomes from these posts and from investments in government bonds and real estate.

bowerbird: …satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus); the regent bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) and its relatives; and the spotted bowerbird (Chlamydera maculata) and its relatives. Satin and regent bowerbirds make a paint of vegetable pulp, charcoal, and saliva and apply it to the interior walls; a daub of green leaves may be used—a rare…

Regent diamond, a brilliant-cut stone with a slight blue tinge that once was the outstanding gem of the French crown jewels; it was discovered in India in 1701 and weighed 410 carats in rough form. It was purchased by Sir Thomas Pitt, British governor in Madras, who published a letter in the London

Regent’s Park, park in the Greater London boroughs of Westminster and Camden. It occupies an area of 487 acres (197 hectares) north and east of the St. Marylebone district. Originally a part of Henry VIII’s hunting forest, Regent’s Park was developed and landscaped (in the 1810s and ’20s) by the

Leopoldo Alas: His most important novels, La regenta (2 vol., 1884–85; “The Regent’s Wife”; Eng. trans. La Regenta) and Su único hijo (1890; His Only Son), are among the greatest Spanish novels of the 19th century. Although often called naturalistic novels, neither adheres to naturalism’s scientific principles or its characteristic depiction…

Frans Hals: Later life and works of Frans Hals: …two celebrated portraits of the Regents of the Old Men’s Alms House at Haarlem (both 1664), one a group of old men and the other of old women, each group is shown with an individual in charge of the day-to-day operation of the almshouse. Interpretations of these paintings have varied…

Bakke decision, ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. The medical school at the University of California, Davis, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent

Bartholomeus van der Helst: Helst’s first known picture, Regents of the Walloon Orphanage (1637), is closely related to the work of Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, suggesting that the latter may have been his teacher. Success came rapidly to Helst, bringing influential sitters and important commissions to him at an early age. In 1642 he…

New York: Education of New York: …placed under a Board of Regents. In 1904 the state legislature made the Board of Regents responsible for all educational activities in the state. The board selects the state commissioner of education, approves the establishment of new colleges, licenses entry into professions, approves new degree programs, and advises the legislature…

Max Reger was a German composer and teacher noted for his organ works, which use Baroque forms. He was one of the last composers to infuse life into 19th-century musical traditions. Reger studied at Weiden. In 1888 he heard Die Meistersinger and Parsifal at Bayreuth, but Wagnerian influence on his

Max Reger was a German composer and teacher noted for his organ works, which use Baroque forms. He was one of the last composers to infuse life into 19th-century musical traditions. Reger studied at Weiden. In 1888 he heard Die Meistersinger and Parsifal at Bayreuth, but Wagnerian influence on his

diplomatics: Post-Renaissance scholarship: Meanwhile, the Regesta, comprising short, synoptical condensations of the contents of papal documents down to 1198, published by Philipp Jaffé in 1851, gave a decisive momentum to the study of the papal chancery, while August Potthast covered the period from 1198 to 1304. Prominent scholars in the…

Johann Friedrich Böhmer: …a historian known for his Regesta, an annotated collection of charters and imperial documents of medieval Germany.

reggae, style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country’s dominant music. By the 1970s it had become an international style that was particularly popular in Britain, the United States, and Africa. It was widely perceived as a voice of the

reggaeton, genre of music largely shaped by the African diaspora, blending such styles as dancehall from Jamaica, reggae en español from Panama, el underground from Puerto Rico, and hip-hop from the United States. Reggaeton’s signature characteristics include a beat called “dem bow” and lyrics sung

Italy: Florence of Italy: …son Cosimo, who dominated the reggimento (principal patrician families) from 1434, united his vast financial resources with a keen intelligence. His natural simplicity of manner and plethora of folksy sayings were well designed to avoid offending (as far as possible) republicans. In a city proud of its traditions of “freedom,”…

Reggio di Calabria, city, former capital (until 1971) of Calabria region, southern Italy. It is a port on the Strait of Messina, opposite the city of Messina, Sicily. The original settlement of Rhegion (Latin Rhegium) was founded c. 720 bce by Greek colonists from Chalcis as a daughter city to

Reggio nell’Emilia, city, Emilia-Romagna regione, northern Italy, on the Crostolo River near the southern edge of the Po Plain, southeast of Parma. Founded in the 2nd century bc on the Roman road Via Aemilia by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus as Regium Lepidi, it was later the seat of a Lombard duchy and

Hebrew literature: Romanticism: …the Jüdische Wissenschaft, to which Isaac Samuel Reggio contributed. Samuel David Luzzatto, a prolific essayist, philologist, poet, and letter writer, became prominent by his philosophy of Judaism, while a poet, Rachel Morpurgo, struck some remarkably modern chords. For the Jews of the Russian Empire, the Enlightenment proper began with Isaac…

Mureş: …and machinery is assembled in Reghin. There are reserves of natural gas in the surrounding area. Reghin, a former Dacian settlement, is known for its production of wooden musical instruments and small boats. The town is noted for its 14th–15th-century church. Brâncoveneşti village, built on the location of a Roman…

Rome: The Forum of Rome: The Regia, traditionally described as the residence of Numa Pompilius, the priest-king, became the administrative building for the pontifex maximus, who took on the ancient monarchy’s priestly duties. The Temple of Castor and Pollux (the Dioscuri) was built at the establishment of the republic.

sacred kingship: Private ritual forms peculiar to kings and their families: …land, it was necessary to kill the aging king so that his power could be transferred to a successor. The compulsory killing of the king was widespread among many of the non-Semitic peoples in northern Africa; and among some peoples the killing of the king occurred after a specified period…

Elf Aquitaine: In 1939 the Régie Autonome des Pétroles (RAP; “Autonomous Petroleum Administration”) was set up to exploit a gas deposit found near Saint-Marcet in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and in 1941 the Société Nationale des Pétroles d’Aquitaine (SNPA; “National Society for Petroleum in Aquitaine”) was founded to explore…

theatre: The influence of Reinhardt: …plan, Reinhardt’s productions required a Regie-buch that went much further than all previous promptbooks. The Regie-buch became a plan for the production, incorporating interpretive ideas as well as staging concepts. This concept was later utilized by Brecht and developed into the Modellbuch (“model book”), a full record of the production…

Renault, major French automobile and motor carrier manufacturer. Controlled by the French government, it is the country’s largest manufacturer and exporter of motor vehicles and one of the country’s most prominent corporate brands. Headquarters are in Boulogne-Billancourt. The original firm,

Germany: Regional and local government: …and the Saarland) are the Regierungsbezirke (administrative districts). Below these are the divisions known as Kreise (counties). Larger communities enjoy the status of what in the United Kingdom was formerly the county borough. The counties themselves are further subdivided into the Gemeinden (roughly “communities” or “parishes”), which through long German…

Phocaea: …Roman forces that the praetor Lucius Aemilius Regillus was obliged to withdraw his men and entreat the citizens not to take the war so seriously; his infuriated troops took advantage of the truce to sack the city. After participating in an uprising against Roman rule in 132 bce, Phocaea was…

regime, an institution with clear substantive and geographical limits, bound by explicit rules, and agreed on by governments. The concept of regime is often preceded by a spatial adjective—international, national, or urban, for example—that refers to the area over which it has jurisdiction and can

regime: Regime change thus refers to the overthrow of a government considered illegitimate by an external force and its replacement with a new government according to the ideas or interests promoted by that force. In the case of the Iraq War (2003–11), a U.S.-led coalition of…

Hippolyte Taine: Historical theories: Only one volume of Le Régime moderne (“The Modern Regime”), however, had been published in his lifetime (1891); the second volume came out in November 1893. The entire work was reissued in 1899. There also appeared after his death his Derniers essais de critique et d’histoire (1894; “Last Essays…

Greece: The Metaxas regime and World War II: …Italian Fascism, but the “Regime of the Fourth of August 1936” simply lacked their dynamism. The government led by Metaxas did not seek alliances with the European dictatorships. On the contrary, with the support of the king, Metaxas strove to maintain the country’s traditional alignment toward Britain. The dictator,…

Kate Winslet: Mare of Easttown and later credits: …autocratic ruler in the miniseries The Regime (2024), a dark comedy.

history of medicine: Salerno and the medical schools: …of composite authorship, was the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (“Salernitan Guide to Health”). Written in verse, it appeared in numerous editions and was translated into many languages. Among its oft-quoted couplets is the following:

regiment, in most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons. French cavalry units were called regiments as early as 1558. The word is derived from the Latin regimen, a rule or system of order, and describes the

Henry Bauchau: Le Régiment noir (1972; “The Black Regiment”) follows an exiled European among African American soldiers in the American Civil War. Œdipe sur la route (1990; Oedipus on the Road) is a post-Freudian version of the Greek tragic hero’s transformation in the 20 years that elapse…

Fafnir: …brother of Fafnir, the blacksmith Regin. Once Sigurd, under the advice of Odin, had killed Fafnir, Regin asked him to cook the dragon’s heart for him. Sigurd touched the heart as it was cooking to test if it was done and burned his thumb. He put his thumb into his…

Regina, capital and second largest city of Saskatchewan, Canada, situated on Wascana Creek in the south-central part of the province. It originated as a hunters’ camp and was known as Pile O’Bones for the heaps of bones left there after skinning and cutting buffalo. Capt. John Palliser, the

Ugo Betti: …tragedy of love and revenge; La regina e gli insorti (first performed 1951; Eng. trans., The Queen and the Rebels, 1956), a strong argument for compassion and self-sacrifice; and La fuggitiva (first performed 1953; Eng. trans., The Fugitive, 1964), a story presenting legal courts as a symbol of world salvation.…

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation: The Regina Manifesto, adopted at the party’s first annual convention at Regina, Sask., in 1933, was based on broad socialist principles. It called for economic planning on a national scale; socialization of banks and other financial institutions; and public ownership in transportation, communication, and natural resources.

Canadian Football League: Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Elks, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. In the East Division are the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Redblacks, Montreal Alouettes, and Toronto Argonauts.

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 10th Baronet: …Tichborne baronetcy and property (Regina v. Castro, 1873–74). In this famous trial, which lasted 188 days, 400 witnesses were heard before Cockburn delivered an 18-day charge to the jury. Previously (1871–72) he had been the British member of the international arbitration panel that decided the Alabama claims pressed by…

criminal law: Mitigating circumstances and other defenses: The leading English case, Regina v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 Q.B.D. 273, appears to reject the necessity defense in homicide cases. In German or French courts, however, the defendants would probably have been acquitted.

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 10th Baronet: …landmark definition of obscenity (Regina v. Hicklin, 1868), in which he stated the test of obscenity as, “whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may…

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: …a landmark obscenity trial (Regina v. Penguin Books, Ltd.) that turned largely on the justification of the use in the novel of until-then taboo sexual terms. This last of Lawrence’s novels reflects the author’s belief that men and women must overcome the deadening restrictions of industrialized society and follow…

Regina: …Borden in 1967), and the University of Regina (incorporated 1974; formerly a branch of the University of Saskatchewan). Institutions associated with the university are Campion College (1918), Luther College (1926), and the First Nations University of Canada (founded as the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, 1976). Piapot and several other First…

Reginald of Châtillon was a prince of Antioch (1153–60), one of the leading military figures of the Crusades between 1147 and 1187, whose reckless policy in raiding Muslim caravans during periods of truce led to the virtual destruction of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem and the loss of most of its

Waterford: On Waterford Quay is Reginald’s Tower, thought to be Europe’s oldest mortared stone tower, which dates from about the 12th century and is now a civic museum. Waterford’s Roman Catholic cathedral was completed in 1796, and its Church of Ireland (Anglican) cathedral was built in 1773–79 on the site…

Regino Von Prüm was a cleric and chronicler who composed several ecclesiastical works and a chronicle covering the period from Christ’s birth to the early 10th century. Born to a noble family, Regino joined the Benedictine monastic order at the flourishing Abbey of Prüm and studied theology and

Regino Von Prüm was a cleric and chronicler who composed several ecclesiastical works and a chronicle covering the period from Christ’s birth to the early 10th century. Born to a noble family, Regino joined the Benedictine monastic order at the flourishing Abbey of Prüm and studied theology and

José Régio was a Portuguese poet, novelist, dramatist, and literary critic, generally considered one of the most accomplished literary figures in Portugal in the first half of the 20th century. Régio began his literary career while still a student at the University of Coimbra with the publication

Regiomontanus was the foremost mathematician and astronomer of 15th-century Europe, a sought-after astrologer, and one of the first printers. Königsberg means “King’s Mountain,” which is what the Latinized version of his name, Joannes de Regio monte or Regiomontanus, also means. A miller’s son, he

France: Regional and local government: The main units of local government, defined by the constitution as collectivités territoriales (“territorial collectivities”), are the régions, the départements, the communes, and the overseas territories. A small number of local governments, known as collectivités territoriales à statut particulier (“territorial collectivities…

region, in the social sciences, a cohesive area that is homogeneous in selected defining criteria and is distinguished from neighbouring areas or regions by those criteria. It is an intellectual construct created by the selection of features relevant to a particular problem and the disregard of

Brussels-Capital Region, region, north-central Belgium. The region is coextensive with Greater Brussels, a metropolitan area that contains the capital city of Brussels. The officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region was one of three self-governing regions created during the federalization of

Orinoco River: Physiography of the Orinoco: …through a transitional zone, the Region of the Rapids (Región de los Raudales), where the Orinoco forces its way through a series of narrow passages among enormous granite boulders. The waters fall in a succession of rapids, ending with the Atures Rapids. In this region, the main tributaries are the…

Carlos Fuentes: …La región más transparente (1958; Where the Air Is Clear), which treats the theme of national identity and bitterly indicted Mexican society, won him national prestige. The work is marked by cinematographic techniques, flashbacks, interior monologues, and language from all levels of society, showing influences from many non-Spanish literatures. After…

Santiago, región metropolitana, central Chile, bordering Argentina on the east, Valparaíso region on the north and west, and O’Higgins region on the south. Santiago, created a province in 1826 and a metropolitan region in 1974, is divided into the provinces of Santiago, Chacabuco, Cordillera,

Paraguay: Land of Paraguay: …and the Región Occidental (Western Region), also called the Chaco Boreal.