Rhein

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Rhein may refer to

  • the German word for the Rhine, a major river in Europe
  • Rhein (molecule), a substance in the anthraquinone group found in rhubarb
  • Rhein, Saskatchewan, a community in Canada
  • Eduard Rhein (19001993), a German inventor, publisher and author
  • Ralph Rhein (born 1965), a Swiss slalom canoer
  • SMS Rhein, an 1871 steam-powered ironclad monitor of the German Imperial Navy
  • SS Rhein (1899), an ocean liner for North German Lloyd
  • Rhein, a German blockade runner scuttled in the Florida Strait during the Second World War
  • Rhain, a Welsh name held by various kings of Dyfed

Also:

  • Rhein in Ostpreußen, a town in Germany, now Ryn in Poland
  • Rhein Fire, a defunct professional American football team in NFL Europe

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