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Ranbir Singh (businessman)
Ranbir Singh, often printed as Ranjit Singh, co-founded with Gurbax Singh the 1937 Amritsar drug-distribution firm whose blended name became Ranbaxy, one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies.
Ranbir Singh Gangwa
Ranbir Singh Gangwa, born in 1964, is an Indian BJP politician serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Haryana under Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
RANBP2
RANBP2, also called Nup358, is a human chromosome 2q13 gene encoding a giant nucleoporin of the nuclear pore cytoplasmic filaments, a Ran-GTPase scaffold and SUMO E3 ligase with Ubc9 and RanGAP1; missense mutations cause autosomal dominant acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE1).
Rancagua
Rancagua, Chile, founded 1743 as Villa Santa Cruz de Triana, is the capital of the O'Higgins Region (257,744 people, 2024 census), known for the 1814 Battle of Rancagua, El Teniente copper mine, and the National Rodeo Championship.
Rance (series)
Rance (ランス) is AliceSoft's adult RPG/strategy game series, 1989's Rance: Quest for Hikari to 2018's Rance X, ten mainline games set in the Planner-System Rudrasaum world, including Sengoku Rance.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard, born Harold Engle Beckenholdt, was an American character actor whose six-decade career spanned more than 250 film and television credits. He was the father of Ron and Clint Howard.
Rance Tidal Power Station
The Rance Tidal Power Station (usine marémotrice de la Rance) is a tidal barrage across the Rance estuary in Brittany, France, the world's first industrial-scale tidal power station.
Ranch
Ranch: an extensive livestock enterprise raising cattle or sheep on rangeland. Covers US public-land grazing permits and fees, pastoral-versus-ranch productivity comparisons, labor economics, and ecological effects.
Ranch dressing
Ranch dressing is an American creamy dressing and dip made from buttermilk, mayonnaise, and herbs, and the best-selling salad dressing in the United States since 1992.
Ranch-style house
The ranch-style house, also called the California ranch, is a long, low single-story American house with an open plan that became dominant in postwar suburbs.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source Kubernetes management platform, first released in 2014 and part of SUSE since 2020, that provisions, imports, and manages clusters from one control plane.
Rānchī (district)
Ranchi district (राँची जिला), Jharkhand's capital district: 5,097 sq km, 2.91 million people (2011), 18 blocks in two subdivisions, top-ranked Aspirational District in health, waterfalls and heavy industry.
Ranchi (राँची)
Ranchi (राँची), capital of Jharkhand, India, on the Chotanagpur plateau at 645 m; former summer capital of Bihar, municipal corporation since 1979, heavy-engineering and mining hub with about 1 million people (2011).
Rancho Cucamonga, California
Rancho Cucamonga is a general law city in western San Bernardino County, California, incorporated in 1977 from Cucamonga, Alta Loma, and Etiwanda; population about 174,453 (2020), area 46.5 square miles.
Rancho del Cielo
Rancho del Cielo, the "Ranch in the Sky" or "Western White House," is Ronald and Nancy Reagan's 688-acre Santa Ynez Mountains retreat bought in 1974, used heavily during his presidency, and preserved since 1998 by Young America's Foundation.
Rancho Mirage, California
Rancho Mirage is a Coachella Valley city in Riverside County, California, incorporated in 1973, known for country clubs, golf resorts, Desert Modern architecture, and the Disney Cotino community; population about 17,900, heavily retired and affluent.
Rancho Notorious
Rancho Notorious (1952) is Fritz Lang's third and final Western, a Technicolor revenge tale starring Marlene Dietrich as outlaw-ranch owner Altar Keane, with Arthur Kennedy; known for its ballad narration and Chuck-a-Luck hideout.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Rancho Palos Verdes is a 1973-incorporated general law city in Los Angeles County on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, population about 39,654 (2025 estimate), known for the ongoing Portuguese Bend landslide, FEMA-funded buyouts, and dewatering remediation.
Rancho Santa Fe, California
Rancho Santa Fe, an unincorporated San Diego County planned community, developed 1920s by Santa Fe Land Improvement Company on the Rancho San Dieguito land grant, designed by Lilian Rice, governed by the 1928 Protective Covenant.
Rancho Seco nuclear power plant
Rancho Seco was a 913-megawatt pressurized water reactor near Sacramento owned by SMUD, which operated from 1975 until voters ordered its shutdown in June 1989.
Ranchos of California
Ranchos of California: Spanish and Mexican land grants in Alta California, 1784–1846, also called Ranchos de Alta California; about 500 grants, mostly cattle estates carved from mission lands after the 1833–1834 secularization, later adjudicated under the Land Act of 1851.
Rancid (1993 album)
Rancid (1993) is the punk band Rancid's debut full-length album, released May 10, 1993 on Epitaph Records. Fifteen tracks in 34:06, recorded at Westbeach Recorders, distinct from the 1992 EP and Rancid 2000.
Rancid (band)
Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in 1991 in Berkeley, California, by ex-Operation Ivy members Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman; known for ...And Out Come the Wolves, "Time Bomb," "Ruby Soho," and Epitaph Records.
Rancidification
Rancidification is the oxidation or hydrolysis of fats and oils that produces off-flavors. Covers oxidative, hydrolytic, and microbial rancidity, measurement methods (peroxide value, TBARS, Rancimat, ESR), and prevention with antioxidants and packaging.
RAND Corporation
RAND Corporation, originally Project RAND (Research AND Development), is a Santa Monica-based American nonprofit policy think tank founded 1948 from a 1945 Air Forces-Douglas Aircraft project; it runs four FFRDCs and pioneered systems analysis.
Rand index
The Rand index is a cluster validation measure scoring the similarity of two clusterings as the fraction of point pairs they classify the same way.
Rand Paul
Rand Paul, Kentucky's Republican junior senator since 2011, ophthalmologist, Homeland Security Committee chairman, Audit the Fed sponsor, 2016 presidential candidate, and Senate libertarian standard-bearer.
Rand Rebellion
The Rand Rebellion, also called the Rand Revolt, was a 1922 armed uprising by white gold mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, crushed by Jan Smuts's government.
Randa Markos
Randa Markos, born 1985 in Baghdad, Iraq, is an Iraqi-Canadian strawweight MMA fighter and The Ultimate Fighter 20 semifinalist who made 18 UFC appearances (2014-2021); her record is listed as 11-12-1 by UFC and ESPN, 11-11-1 by MMA Fighting and Sherdog.
Randai
Randai is the folk theater of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia, combining silat movement, singing, dance, music, storytelling, and acting in a circular staging.