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Rhea Creek
Rhea may refer to: * Rhea (bird), genus of flightless birds native to South America * Rhea (mythology), a Titan in Greek mythology It may also refer to: People *Rhea (name), list of people with this name Mythology * Rhea Silvia, in Roman mythology the mother of the twins Romulus and Remus * Rhea (mother of Aventinus), mother of Aventinus by Hercules * Rhea or Riadh, Celtic mythological hero Science and technology * Rhea (moon), a moon of Saturn * 577 Rhea, an asteroid * Green ramie or rhea, a bast fibre plant * Rhea (pipeline), a set of scripts in R for the analysis of microbial profiles Places * Rhea County, Tennessee * Rhea Springs, Tennessee, a defunct town * Île de Ré or Rhea, an island in France Music * ''Rhea'', a 1908 opera by Spyridon Samaras * ''Rhea'', a 1988 composition for 12 saxophones by Francisco Guerrero Marín * "Rhea", a song on the 1997 album '' Did Tomorrow Come...'' by Polish heavy metal band Sirrah * ''Rheia'' (album), a 2016 album by Belgian band O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhea (bird)
The rheas ( ), also known as ñandus ( ) or South American ostriches, are large ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) in the order Rheiformes, native to South America, distantly related to the ostrich and emu. Most taxonomic authorities recognize two extant species: the greater or American rhea (''Rhea americana''), and the lesser or Darwin's rhea (''Rhea pennata''). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the puna rhea as another species instead of a subspecies of the lesser rhea. The IUCN currently rates the greater and puna rheas as near-threatened in their native ranges, while Darwin's rhea is of least concern. In addition, a feral population of the greater rhea in Germany appears to be growing, though control efforts are underway, and seem to be succeeding in controlling the birds' population growth. Etymology The name "rhea" was used in 1752 by Paul Möhring and adopted as the English common name. Möhring named the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhea Springs, Tennessee
Rhea Springs was a community once located along the Piney River in Rhea County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Originally established in the 19th century as a health resort, the community was inundated when the completion of Watts Bar Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded the lower Piney Valley in 1942.Bettye BroylesRhea County ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002. Retrieved: 13 January 2009. Rhea Springs, known as "Sulphur Springs" before 1878, developed around a spring rumored to have "healing" qualities. The spring flowed into the banks of the Piney approximately upstream from the river's mouth along the Tennessee River. When the Tennessee Valley Authority began surveying the area for the construction of Watts Bar Dam and reservoir in the late 1930s, they reported a large hotel and seventeen small houses at Rhea Springs. After TVA acquired the community, most of its residents relocated elsewhere in the county or to Chattanooga. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhea County Courthouse
The Rhea County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in the center of Dayton, the county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee. Built in 1891, it is famous as the scene of the Scopes Trial of July 1925, in which teacher John T. Scopes faced charges for including Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in his public school lesson. The trial became a clash of titans between the lawyers William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense, and epitomizes the tension between fundamentalism and modernism in a wide range of aspects of American society. The courthouse, now also housing a museum devoted to the trial, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Description The Rhea County Courthouse stands prominently in the center of Dayton, on the courthouse square bounded by 2nd and 3rd Avenues, Market Street, and Court Street. It is a three-story brick building with Romanesque and Italianate features. It has a broad hip roof with a low hip-roofed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
