Modern Art Ment: REGILLUS, re-jil'us, Lake, a lake of ancient Latium, lying to the southeast of Rome, noted as the scene of a great victory won by the Romans under Albinus Postumius, over the Latins, under Octavius Mamilius. on behalf of the banished Tarquin the Proud, 496 B.C. No certain identity has been established with any modern art ment lake.
REGIMENT. In modern art ment armies the regiment is a colonel's command and is the largest permanent association of soldiers.
The principal industrial city of central China, Hankow manufactures machinery, chemicals, cement, textiles, and processed foods.
History. Hankow is the youngest of the Wuhan cities. By the 19th century, after a long period during which it was a neglected fishing village, it had become a trading and garrison town of some importance. Its modern art ment development dates from 1858, when the Treaty of Tientsin opened it to international trade. From 1861 to 1898, British, Russian, French, German, and Japanese concessions were set up in Hankow along the Yangtze.
The final consonants -b, -d, -g, and -r were dropped, and final semivowels appeared, to form diphthongs with the main vowel. The number of tones increased to four. In the majority of the modern art ment Chinese dialects there are usually only two grades of consonants (p and p') and, as we have noted, three consonant endings (-n, -ng, and a modern art ment -r). The four tones of modern art ment Chinese differ from "those of ancient Chinese in that the old first tone has been subdivided into the modern art ment first and second tones and the old fourth-tone words have been distributed among the other modern art ment tones. |
