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Rann of Kutch
The Rann of Kutch is a large saline salt marsh in Gujarat, India, extending into Pakistan's Sindh, divided into the Great and Little Rann, flooded each monsoon, a major salt-producing region, and the site of the 1965 India-Pakistan clash settled by the 1968 boundary arbitration.
Ranna
Ranna (ರನ್ನ) was a Jain Kannada poet, born in 949, who served the Western Chalukya kings Tailapa II and Satyashraya and wrote the epics Ajitapurana and Gadayuddha.
Ranna (ರಣ್ಣ) (film)
Ranna (ರಣ್ಣ) is a 2015 Kannada action comedy-drama directed by Nanda Kishore, the official remake of Telugu hit Attarintiki Daredi, starring Sudeep, Rachita Ram, and Haripriya, with music by V. Harikrishna.
Ranneeti: Balakot & Beyond
Ranneeti: Balakot & Beyond (रणनीति), a 2024 nine-episode Hindi JioCinema war drama directed by Santosh Singh, dramatizes the 2019 Pulwama attack and Balakot airstrike through an R&AW agent played by Jimmy Shergill.
Rannvijay Singha
Rannvijay Singha (Rannvijay Singh Singha) is an Indian TV host, actor, VJ, and entrepreneur best known for MTV Roadies, which he joined as a contestant in 2003, later hosted, judged, and led gangs in, quit after 18 seasons, and returned to for Roadies XX and REBIRTH.
Rano Raraku
Rano Raraku, also known as Maunga Eo, is a volcanic tuff cone on Easter Island, Chile, and the quarry for nearly all of the island's moai statues.
Ranoj Pegu
Ranoj Pegu is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Assam, holding the education and tribal affairs portfolios.
Ranoji Scindia
Ranoji Scindia (Ranoji Rao Shinde, died 1745) was a Maratha commander under Peshwa Baji Rao I who became Subedar of Malwa and founded the Scindia dynasty that later ruled Gwalior.
Ranolazine
Ranolazine (Ranexa), an antianginal drug approved in the US (2006) and EU (2008) for chronic/stable angina; inhibits the late sodium current, reducing calcium overload without changing heart rate or blood pressure; null outcome trials, QT prolongation, CYP3A interactions.
Ranolf and Amohia
Ranolf and Amohia is a long narrative poem by Alfred Domett, published in London in 1872, telling of a love between a British adventurer and a Māori princess.
Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (born 1990, Sauwerd) is a retired Dutch sprint freestyle swimmer, three-time Olympic champion (2008 relay; 2012 50m and 100m free), SCM 50m free world record holder 22.93, retired 2022.
Ranosidenib
Ranosidenib (HMPL-306) is HUTCHMED's oral dual inhibitor of mutant IDH1 and IDH2, blocking 2-hydroxyglutarate production. In Phase I R/R IDH-mutant AML it gave CR+CRh about 35% and is now in the China Phase III RAPHAEL trial versus salvage chemotherapy.
Ranpirnase
Ranpirnase, also known as Onconase or P-30 protein, is a cytotoxic ribonuclease isolated from northern leopard frog eggs and tested as a drug for mesothelioma, later repurposed as an antiviral.
Rans Designs
Rans Designs, also known as Rans Inc, is an American light-aircraft manufacturer in Hays, Kansas, founded by Randy Schlitter in the mid-1970s, building the S-7 Courier and S-21 Outbound.
Rans S-12 Airaile
The Rans S-12 Airaile is an American two-seat, high-wing, pusher-configuration light aircraft sold in kit form for amateur construction by Rans Inc. of Hays, Kansas.
Ransa
Ransa is a Peruvian third-party logistics company founded in 1939 as a cotton warehousing firm, now operating as Grupo Ransa in 12 Latin American countries, majority owned by H.I.G. Capital since 2021.
Ransey G. Cole, Jr.
Ransey G. Cole, Jr., also known as Ransey Guy Cole, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ransom
A ransom is money or other consideration paid or demanded for freeing a kidnapped person or recovering stolen property, from medieval war captives to modern ransomware extortion.
Ransom (1996 film)
Ransom is a 1996 American kidnap thriller directed by Ron Howard, starring Mel Gibson as a New York airline tycoon who converts a $2 million ransom into a bounty on the kidnappers.
Ransom (TV series)
Ransom (2017-2019) is a Canadian-French-American crime drama on Global and CBS, created by Frank Spotnitz and David Vainola, starring Luke Roberts as hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont, inspired by negotiators Laurent Combalbert and Marwan Mery; three seasons, 39 episodes, cancelled July 2019.
Ransom Canyon (TV series)
Ransom Canyon is a Netflix romantic neo-Western drama created by April Blair, adapted from Jodi Thomas's book series, starring Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly as Texas ranching-family love interests; it ran two seasons (2025-2026) before cancellation.
Ransom Dunn
Ransom Dunn (1818–1900) was an American Free Will Baptist minister, professor, and acting president of Hillsdale College whose 6,000-mile fundraising circuit built its first campus.
Ransom L. Baldwin
Ransom L. Baldwin (1935–2007) was an American animal scientist at the University of California, Davis, known for building mechanistic computer models of rumen function and lactating dairy cattle metabolism.
Ransom of Atahualpa
The Ransom of Atahualpa (Rescate de Atahualpa) was the 1532 agreement by which the captured Inca ruler promised gold and silver to Pizarro for his release.
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker whose Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) became a bestselling series of six novels, adapted by Tim Burton in 2016.
Ransomware
Ransomware, also known as cryptoworm or hostageware, is malware that encrypts data and demands payment to restore access; attackers may also steal data and demand a second payment for not releasing it.
Räntemåla Moose Park
Räntemåla Moose Park (Räntemåla Gård), Eringsboda, Blekinge, Sweden: a fenced moose park, Blekinge's only, one of two Swedish operators with a written moose guarantee; 30-hectare enclosure, July-August 17:00 tours, SEK 250 adults.
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), also spelled Ranthambhore, is a Rajasthan tiger reserve and former Jaipur royal game reserve, made a Project Tiger reserve in 1973 and a national park in 1980, with 57 tigers recorded in 2022.
Rantidi
Rantidi (Ραντίδι) is an archaeological sanctuary site in the Rantidi State Forest near Kouklia, Paphos, Cyprus, excavated from 1910, with about 130 Cypro-Syllabic inscriptions and a male deity's cult.
Ranuccio Farnese
Ranuccio Farnese was an Italian cardinal of the Farnese family and a grandson of Pope Paul III, a cardinal from 1545 until his death in 1565.