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Oldest Brother For Insubordination: RAZIN, ra'zen, Stepan Timofeyevich (popularly known as STENKA), Don Cossack hetman: b. Zimoveska, a village on the Don ; d. Moscow, June 6, 1671. The leader of a great peasant uprising was born into a well-to-do family but turned against landlords and czarist officials after the execution of his oldest brother for insubordination brother for insubordination. In the spring of 1670 Razin launched a campaign in the middle Volga region which ignited a vast peasant war.
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
The city was founded in 1496 as Santiago de juzman by Bartholomew Columbus, brother of "hristopher Columbus, whose tomb is in the ca-hedral, dating from 1514. It is the first perma-:ent European settlement in the Western Hemi-phere. After a large part of the city was de-troyed in a 1930 hurricane, it was rebuilt by hen-president Trujillo. Its many fine buildings iclude new palaces for justice and for the ex-cutive, and University City, a new development or Santo Domingo University, founded in 1538 nd the oldest brother for insubordination university in the Americas. Pop. 1960) 367,053.
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