1. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea; Also called: Rhine River, Rhein.
2. Town in Georgia (USA); zip code 31077.
(German Rhein, French Rhin) European river rising in Switzerland and reaching the North Sea via Germany and the Netherlands; length 1,320 km/820 mi. Tributaries include the Moselle and the Ruhr. The Rhine is linked with the Mediterranean by the Rhine–Rhône Waterway, and with the Black Sea by the Rhine–Main–Danube Waterway. It is the longest, and the dirtiest, river in Europe.
The river was severely polluted by a chemical factory fire 1986, as a result of which 30 metric tons of pesticides entered the river, rendering it lifeless for 100–200 km/60–120 mi. The governments of the five countries through which the Rhine flows announced a major clean-up campaign 1987. Severe flooding took place in the Netherlands and Germany in Dec 1993 and Jan 1995.
The Lorelei is a rock in the river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with a remarkable echo; the German poet Brentano gave currency to the legend of a siren who lured sailors to death with her song, also the subject of a poem by Heinrich Heine.

(1895-1980) US parapsychologist who carried out many groundbreaking laboratory experiments in parapsychology. Some are described in his book Extra-Sensory Perception 1934, which made ESP a common term.
Rhine conducted this work from 1927 onward at Duke University, North Carolina. He was the first to make use of Zener cards in card-guessing experiments to investigate telepathy and precognition. They were named for K E Zener, a psychologist colleague, and each shows one of five simple graphic symbols. Rhine also investigated psychokinesis in experiments where subjects tried to influence the fall of dice. This work is described in The Reach of the Mind 1947.