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with Italian life in the period of the famous Savonarola. It was a period of political as well as religious crisis, for the French were intriguing against the power of the Medici. Savonarola threw his whole weight on the side of Christian simplicity in the reaction against the artistic paganism which the Medici had encouraged. The most notable character in the book is Tito Melema, the handsome but false Greek. Tito wins the hand of Romola, who is the daughter of a blind scholar named Bardi. He plays her false and dies. Meantime Romola’s better self, that which is swayed by the spirit of Savonarola (q. v.) and not the Medici, comes to the front; and she devotes her life to love and charity.
Rom′ulus, legendary founder and first king of Rome, son of Mars by Rhea Silvia, daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa, was, so runs the myth, exposed with Remus, his twin-brother, at the foot of the Palatine hill, where he was suckled by a she-wolf, and afterward brought up by the shepherd Faustulus and his wife, Acca Laurentia. In 753 B. C. he founded his city on the Tiber, to which he invited all homeless fugitives in the surrounding country, who carried off Sabine maidens for their wives. After Romulus had firmly established his city and secured peace between the Romans and Sabines, he was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire and later was worshiped as Quirinus.
Rook, an Old-World bird belonging to the crow family. It is slightly smaller than the common crow. Its plumage is purplish black, with gray on the forehead and throat. The adults lose the feathers on the face, leaving a bare spot about the bill. These birds live in noisy flocks and nest near habitations. They are common in many parts of Europe and Asm, and in late autumn migrate to the east shore of Great Britain and return in the spring
Roosevelt (rō′ ze-vĕlt), Theodore, twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born at New York City, Oct. 27, 1858, and graduated from Harvard University in 1880. In 1882 he entered the New York legislature, and rose to a commanding position as reformer. In 1895 he was made president of the police commission of New York City and made his service notable by important reforms. On the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he was appointed assistant-secretary of the United States navy, but resigned after a few months’ service and organized the 1st United States cavalry volunteers, popularly known as Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, which he commanded, and with this body rendered distinguished service in Cuba, especially at the battle of Las Guasimas and at El Caney and San Juan hill. In 1898 he was elected Republican governor of New York, and in 1900 Vice President of the United States on the ticket with Mr. KcKinley, upon whose death he became president. In 1904 he was himself elected to that office and in that wider field, displayed the same executive ability and devotion to public service which had characterized his previous career.
In 1912 he was nominated for President by the Progressive Party, which he helped to form (see Taft). Although defeated by the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson, he polled a large vote, second only to that of Mr. Wilson, and its leaders announced that the organization of the party would be made permanent. A dramatic feature of the campaign was the attempt on the life of Mr. Roosevelt at Milwaukee by an insane man, as a result of which Wisconsin passed a law providing thirty years imprisonment for attempts to kill a presidential candidate.
Among the important features of his administrations were: Prosecution of corporations accused of violating federal laws; securing of the Panama canal-zone by the United States (see Panama Canal); establishment of civil government and opening of public schools in the Philippines; the establishment of agricultural and other bureaus for the development of their rich resources, the meeting of the first Filipino legislature in 1908; the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor; commercial treaties with Cuba and China; the mediation of President Roosevelt between Russia and Japan, thus ending the war; the settlement with Great Britain of the Alaskan boundary; the completion of the Pacific cable to the Philippines; the Cuban revolution; the pacification of the island under American occupation and its restoration to the newly organized republic in 1909; the passage of the pure-food bill and the railroad-rate bill; the admission of Oklahoma mto the Union in 1907. After the close of his term as president, Roosevelt spent a year hunting in Africa. In 1912 he again entered politics and ran for president as candidate of the Progressive party. Mr. Roosevelt at one time
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