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Rampage (2009 film)
Rampage (2009) is Uwe Boll's Canadian-German crime thriller starring Brendan Fletcher as Bill Williamson, a small-town mechanic in Kevlar armor staging a mass shooting; first of a trilogy, Boll's best-reviewed film.
Rampage (2018 film)
Rampage is a 2018 American action and monster movie directed by Brad Peyton, starring Dwayne Johnson and based on Midway's 1986 arcade game of the same name.
Rampant (창궐) (film)
Rampant (창궐) is a 2018 South Korean period action-horror film directed by Kim Sung-hoon. It stars Hyun Bin as a prince fighting Night Demons in the Joseon dynasty.
Rampart
Rampart names several games: a modern abstract strategy game of capture and enclosure (Classic 5x9, XL 7x9), Corey Clark's 2012 annihilation game, the 1990 Atari arcade game, and the 1993 board game Ramparts.
Rampart (film)
Rampart (2011) is Oren Moverman's crime drama co-written with James Ellroy, starring Woody Harrelson as LAPD officer Dave Brown; limited release February 10, 2012, grossing $1,567,905 worldwide.
Rampart scandal
Rampart scandal: late-1990s LAPD police corruption scandal centered on the CRASH anti-gang unit of the Rampart Division, exposed in 1999 by officer Rafael Perez; implicated about 70 officers, overturned 156 felony convictions, cost about $70 million, and produced a federal consent decree.
Ramparts (magazine)
Ramparts was a San Francisco Bay Area magazine, published from 1962 to 1975, that became a leading New Left outlet known for Vietnam and CIA exposés.
Ramphastos
Ramphastos (Linnaeus, 1758), the true toucans, is a Neotropical genus of large Piciformes in Ramphastidae, including the toco toucan R. toco and keel-billed R. sulfuratus; large colorful bills, frugivory, and key seed dispersal of Virola trees.
Rampla juniors
Rampla Juniors is a Uruguayan football club founded in 1914 in Montevideo's Villa del Cerro, known for its red-and-green colors, 1927 championship, and Estadio Olímpico.
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (रामप्रसाद की तेहरवी) is a 2019 Hindi family comedy-drama, Seema Pahwa's directorial debut, about a family reunited for 13 days of death rituals in Lucknow, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Supriya Pathak.
Ramprasad Sen
Ramprasad Sen (রামপ্রসাদ সেন) was an 18th-century Bengali Shakta poet who composed hundreds of devotional songs to the goddess Kali, known as Ramprasadi songs, influencing Tagore.
Ramprit Mandal
Ramprit Mandal, born in 1956, is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician who has represented the Jhanjharpur constituency of Bihar in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Rampton Secure Hospital
Rampton Hospital, near Retford, Nottinghamshire, is one of England's three high secure psychiatric hospitals with Ashworth and Broadmoor. Opened 1912 as a criminal lunatic asylum, run by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, about 350 patients, average stay five years.
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh: city and district headquarters in the Moradabad region, former Rohilla princely state founded by Nawab Faizullah Khan in 1774, home of the Rampur Raza Library and the Rampuri knife.
Ramraj Cotton
Ramraj Cotton is an Indian apparel company founded in 1983 by K.R. Nagarajan at Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, credited with India's first branded dhoti and leading dhoti sales across South India.
Ramram Basu
Ramram Basu (রামরাম বসু), c. 1757 to 1813, was a Bengali munshi who served William Carey and wrote Raja Pratapaditya Charitra, the first Bengali prose work by a Bengali.
Ramrao Sakharam Wadkute
Ramrao Sakharam Wadkute is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Hingoli, Maharashtra, who served in the state Legislative Council from 2014 to 2019 and joined the Rajya Sabha in 2026.
Ramrod
Ramrod is a 1947 Western directed by Andre de Toth, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, the first film of Enterprise Productions, adapted from a Luke Short novel, shot in Zion National Park and often classified as a noir Western.
RAMS (atmospheric model)
RAMS, the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System, is a numerical atmospheric model developed at Colorado State University, formed in 1986 by merging cloud and mesoscale models.
Ramsahay Prasad Yadav
Ramsahay Prasad Yadav is a Nepali politician serving as Vice President of Nepal, known for diplomatic meetings, disaster relief advocacy, and advocacy for constitutional inclusion of marginalized communities.
Ramsar Convention
Ramsar Convention (Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat): 1971 treaty for wetland conservation and wise use, in force 1975, UNESCO depositary, Ramsar List sites, nine criteria, COP15 2025 Victoria Falls.
Ramsar site
Ramsar site: a wetland designated for the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance under the 1971 Ramsar Convention; over 2,500 sites in 172 countries, selected via nine criteria and managed for wise use.
Ramsar, Iran
Ramsar, Iran: resort city in western Mazandaran Province on the Caspian coast, formerly Sakht Sar, famed for hot springs, high natural background radiation, Pahlavi-era palaces, and the 1971 Ramsar wetlands Convention.
Ramsay Bolton
Ramsay Bolton, born Ramsay Snow, the Bastard of Bolton, is a fictional sadist in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Iwan Rheon; legitimized by Tommen I, killed by Sansa Stark in Battle of the Bastards.
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, or herpes zoster oticus, is facial paralysis with an ear rash from reactivation of varicella-zoster virus in the geniculate ganglion; second most common facial palsy after Bell's palsy, treated with antivirals and steroids.
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), British statesman from Lossiemouth, Scotland; first Labour Prime Minister (1924, 1929–1935), later head of the 1931 National Government, expelled from Labour, died at sea en route to South America.
Ramsay Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840–1912) was a Scottish palaeoichthyologist whose anatomical studies of Palaeozoic fishes overturned Agassiz's classification; he was Keeper of Natural History at Edinburgh's Museum of Science and Art.
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: British Channel 4 reality series (2004-2007, five series) in which chef Gordon Ramsay rescues failing UK restaurants; parent of the Fox Kitchen Nightmares and its spin-offs.
Ramsen
Ramsen names several settlements: a Schaffhausen municipality in Switzerland (first recorded 846 as Rammesheim) and a Palatinate village in Germany, plus Bavarian and other hamlets, the Harz word for wild garlic, and an Aramaic given name.
RAMSES
RAMSES (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety) is a joint ESA–JAXA space mission to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis before its harmless close flyby of Earth in April 2029.