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The Rapido is a short river (c.40 km) which flows in the Italian province of Frosinone. The river is known for the Battle of Rapido River, despite it actually occurred on the Gari River.
Its source is close to border between Lazio and Molise on the slopes of the Mainarde mountains. The river bathes the district of Sant'Elia Fiumerapido after which it becomes known as the Gari.
Fed by numerous karstic springs, the river has a relatively high and reliable discharge: 25 m³/s on average and never dropping below 10 m³/s.
Rapido may refer to:
- Rapido (train), former name of the railroad services in Ontario and Quebec, Canada
- Rapido (river), a river in Italy
- Arnold Rapido, a brand of model railway equipment manufactured by Arnold (models)
- Peugeot Rapido, a scooter built by Peugeot
- Optare Rapido, a wheelchair-accessible minicoach manufactured by Ferqui for Optare
- Rapido (Transformers), a Transformer toy, one of the Generation 2 Autobots
- Rapido, Canadian name for Windcharger, one of the original Transformers toys
- Spanish cruiser Rapido (1889), an auxiliary cruiser that served in the Spanish–American War
- Rapido (TV series), a music TV programme presented by Antoine de Caunes
- Ratz (TV series), originally titled Rapido, a joint French and Canadian animated series, also the name of one of the two main characters
- Rapido (brand), South Korean fashion and sports wear brand by Samsung C&T Corporation
- Rapido Trimarans, a trimaran sailboat manufacturer
- Rapido (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Rapido was the name of the Canadian National Railway's express passenger train service on the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. The service was introduced on October 31, 1965, on the Montreal- Toronto route. In 1966, service was extended to the Montreal- Quebec City route and later, to other city pairs, including Toronto- Windsor/ Sarnia and Toronto- Ottawa.
In the 1980s, in addition to being branded as Rapido, each express train was also given a name related to the route's particular geographical or historical context. Some names included Frontenac (after the Château Frontenac in Quebec City), Rideau (after the Rideau Canal in Ottawa) and Ville-Marie (the original name of Montreal).
For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, a "Bistro" car was part of the Rapido set. Piano-based entertainment and alcoholic beverages were offered in an specially outfitted car lit with red bulbs to create a party atmosphere on the trip between Toronto, Kingston, and Montreal.
The brand was used on advertising material and timetables until the 1990s, surviving for many years the reorganization of the train schedules under the new Via Rail brand. Today, Via Rail no longer uses the Rapido brand and route maps simply refer to this section as the Corridor. Additionally, the dedicated train names were dropped and trains are currently identified by number only, contrary to the rest of the route system.
Today, the "Rapido" brand name has been adopted by a company, Rapido Trains, started by a life-long fan of Via Rail, dedicated to producing and selling model trains including those used in Rapido service. The proprietor of Rapido Trains has even gone so far as to as to acquire ex-VIA Rail/Canadian National equipment once employed in Rapido service for the purpose of constructing a replica of a Rapido train car in his basement.
Rapido is a BBC2 television show which ran from 1988 to 1992, and was presented by Antoine de Caunes. It ran in over 14 countries worldwide. The show which would usually go out in an early evening slot, such as 7.30pm on a Wednesday night, featured reports from up and coming new bands linked together with footage of Antoine standing in front of a large Rapido sign on a white background.
The show developed from shows De Caunes presented in France, and gave the name to the production company Rapido TV (later Planet Rapido) which is famed for creating the late night Channel 4 television show Eurotrash.
Rapido was notable for De Caunes' idiosyncratic delivery. His English is completely fluent, but he (deliberately) spoke it with French intonations and speech rhythms on the programme.
Rapido (Roussel Dupont) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Doug Braithwaite, the character made his first appearance in The Punisher Vol. 2, #65 (June 1992). He is an enemy of the Punisher.
Usage examples of "rapido".
Quando fui certo che la pattuglia veniva innanzi, corsi al fascio, lo accesi e rapido tornai al mio nascondiglio.
She saw him off with another admonition to get Kadmin downloaded rapido, and then we went upstairs.
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He remembered screaming in anger as German machine guns turned the Rapido River to white froth, the way his arms ached as he drove the sinking rubber raft across to the north bank where the brush was already full of the black helmets and cammo ponchos of SS Division Das Reich, the shells called by the spotters at Monte Cassino splashing down everywhere, half his squad dead or wounded, bodies sprawled on the bottom of his boat in a mixture of river spray and their own blood.
The words grated slowly from a place inside Jack that seemed like a twilight graveyard, a place without warmth, an endless plain of autumn grass marked with gray stones that noted the passing of Earl, of Blythe, of Archibald Holmes, of all the young men he knew in the 5th Division, all those who died at the Rapido crossing, little stick figures scattered like so many handfuls of dust beneath the pounding guns of Cassino .
He was not completely confident that the wrong answer would not put him face-down in the Rapido, and so he tried not to answer at all.
Despite the sharp spikes on the Pitbull Rapido crampons attached to his boots, Tolland had the uneasy feeling that any misstep might leave him caught up in a gale and sliding down the endless icy slope.
We paid our fares nice and polite and waited gentlemanly and quiet on the platform, old Dim fillying with the slot machines, his carmans being full of small malenky coin, and ready if need be to distribute chocbars to the poor and starving, though there was none such about, and then the old espresso rapido came lumbering in and we climbed aboard, the train looking to be near empty.
It was not till the beginning of the New Year that the enemy were ejected and the Fifth Army fully aligned along the river Garigliano and its tributary, the Rapido, where it faced the heights of Cassino and the famous monastery.
To that end the Army carried out a series of attacks which, it was hoped, would carry them across the rivers Garigliano and Rapido, while the French Corps on the right swung round to threaten the high ground north of Cassino.
The IId United States Corps crossed the river Rapido above Cassino town, with the French Corps on their right keeping abreast of them, and took Monte Castellone and Colle Majola.
He also explained the difficulties of forcing the main front on the Rapido River and around Cassino.
The height on which the monastery stood surveyed the junction of the rivers Rapido and Liri and was the pivot of the whole German defence.
The main highway, known as Route Six, is the only road, except cart-tracks, which leads from the mountains where we are into Liri Valley over Rapido River.
The Americans tried to outflank this Cassino bastion from the south by an attack across the Rapido River, but this, as you know, failed, with heavy losses to the 34th and 36th Divisions.