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Regina

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Regina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA Canada (Saskatchewan): originally a hunters' camp, it received its first name, Pile O'Bones, from the remains of the buffalo that had been caught, slaughtered, and cut up here. The Cree believed that live buffalo would not desert the bones of dead buffalo and so as long as there were piles of bones there would always be buffalo to hunt. The Cree name was Okana ka‐asateki ‘Pile of Bones’. In 1857 the place was given a name, Wascana, that was close to its Cree name. However, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the place in 1882 it was given the name Regina ‘Queen’ by the governor‐general, John Campbell (1845–1914), the Marquess of Lorne, after his wife's mother, Queen Victoria^† whose Latin title was Victoria Regina ‘Victoria, Queen’; his wife was Princess Louise (1848–1939).

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Regina

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Regina , city (1991 pop. 179,178), provincial capital, S Sask., Canada, on Wascana Creek. The city is the distribution and service center for one of the world's largest wheat-growing areas. Industries include agricultural processing, meatpacking, printing, oil refining, and the manufacture of communications equipment and building materials.

Regina was founded in 1882 when a railroad line was constructed through the region. It was the capital of the Northwest Territories from 1883 to 1905, when it became the capital of the newly created Saskatchewan. From 1892 to 1920, Regina was the headquarters of the Northwest Mounted Police, and it is now western headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which maintains its crime detection laboratory there. The Univ. of Regina is located in the city, which is also home to a Canadian Football League team.

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Regina

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Regina ♀ From the Latin vocabulary word meaning ‘queen’. It was occasionally used as a given name among the early Christians; a St Regina, probably of the 3rd century, was venerated as a virgin martyr at Autun from an early date. In modern use it is normally borne by Roman Catholics in allusion to the epithet Regina Coeli ‘Queen of Heaven’, a cult title of the Virgin Mary since the 8th century.

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Regina

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Regina the reigning queen (used following a name or in the titles of lawsuits, e.g. Regina v. Jones, the Crown versus Jones).
Regina Coeli a Latin epithet (‘Queen of Heaven’) of the Virgin Mary.

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Regina

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

Regina. Opera in 3 acts by Blitzstein to his own lib. based on Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes. Comp. 1946–9. Prod. NY 1949, Glasgow 1991.

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Regina

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | | Copyright

Regina. See Little Foxes, The.

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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Regina." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Regina

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Regina •beginner, Berliner, Corinna, dinner, grinner, inner, Jinnah, sinner, skinner, spinner, thinner, winner •echidna •Krishna, Mishnah, Ramakrishna •vintner • prisoner • Pilsner •Kitchener • Modena • bargainer •imaginer •Elinor, Helena •milliner •examiner, stamina •epiphenomena, phenomena, prolegomena •alumina, noumena, numina •determiner •mariner, submariner •foreigner • larcener • Porsena •patina • retina • Pristina •Herzegovina • breadwinner •prizewinner •angina, assigner, china, consignor, decliner, definer, Dinah, diner, diviner, forty-niner, hardliner, incliner, Indo-China, liner, maligner, Medina, miner, minor, mynah, recliner, refiner, Regina, Salina, Shekinah, shiner, signer, South Carolina, Steiner, twiner, vagina, whiner •headliner • jetliner • airliner •mainliner • eyeliner • moonshiner •Landsteiner • Niersteiner •Liechtensteiner

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