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Rap Sh!t
Rap Sh!t (also Rap Sh*t) is an Issa Rae-created HBO Max comedy (2022-2023) about Miami friends Shawna and Mia forming a rap duo; 16 episodes, two seasons, canceled January 2024.
Rap World
Rap World is a 2024 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Conner O'Malley and Danny Scharar, following friends in Pennsylvania who try to record a rap album in one night.
Rap-A-Lot Records
Rap-A-Lot Records, also styled Rap-A-Lot, is a Houston, Texas independent hip-hop label founded in 1986 by J Prince (James Smith) and Cliff Blodget, known for the Geto Boys, Scarface, and pioneering Southern hip hop nationally.
Rap-e Farsi
Rap-e Farsi (رپ فارسی), or Persian rap, is Persian-language hip-hop that emerged in Iran in the 2000s, spread through the diaspora, and remains largely illegal in Iran.
Rap-singing
Rap-singing, also called sing-rapping or melodic rap, is a hip-hop vocal technique combining rapping with sung or pitch-altered vocals, from early harmonized crews to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Auto-Tune-era artists, and today's chart-topping singing rappers.
Rap1a immunity protein
Rap1a immunity protein (SMA2260) is a Serratia marcescens periplasmic antitoxin that neutralizes the T6SS-delivered peptidoglycan endopeptidase Ssp1; its five-helix dimeric fold was novel, founding the Tai4a immunity protein family.
Rapa Nui National Park
Rapa Nui National Park (Parque Nacional Rapa Nui), Easter Island, Chile: UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995 protecting moai, ahu, Rano Raraku, and Orongo; created 1935; managed by Ma'u Henua Indigenous Community since 2018.
Rapa Nui oral literature
Rapa Nui oral literature is the narratives, songs, genealogies, and string-figure performances transmitted by word of mouth among the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.
Rapa Nui people
The Rapa Nui are the indigenous Polynesian people of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, settled from Eastern Polynesia around 1250 CE, annexed by Chile in 1888, decimated to 111 people by 1877, and now about 7,500 strong.
Rapacuronium
Rapacuronium (ORG 9487, Raplon) was an aminosteroidal nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent approved in the US in 1999 for rapid intubation and withdrawn in 2001 after fatal bronchospasm linked to M2 muscarinic receptor antagonism.
RAPADILINO syndrome
RAPADILINO syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder named for its main features: radial ray defects, absent kneecaps, cleft palate, diarrhea, short stature, and a long slender nose.
Rapael Chimishk ' Iani
Rapael Chimishk'iani (Rafael Chimishkyan, რაფაელ ჩიმიშკიანი), Soviet-Georgian weightlifter born 1929 in Tbilisi, won featherweight (60 kg) gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics with a 337.5 kg total, plus two world titles and multiple European and USSR championships.
Rapana venosa
Rapana venosa, veined rapa whelk, large predatory muricid gastropod native to the Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea; invasive in the Black Sea since 1947, Mediterranean, Chesapeake Bay, and Río de la Plata; preys on bivalves and supports Black Sea export fisheries.
Rapanu
Rapanu, also written Rap'anu, was a scribe and high official of the kingdom of Ugarit on the north Syrian coast in the 13th century BC.
Rapanu archive
The Rapanu archive is the private library of tablets from the house of Rapanu, a diplomat at Ugarit on the Syrian coast, buried by the city's destruction around 1190–1185 BC.
Rapastinel
Rapastinel (GLYX-13), a tetrapeptide NMDA receptor positive allosteric modulator developed by Allergan as a rapid antidepressant for major depressive disorder; positive phase 2 results and FDA breakthrough designation, but phase 3 failure and discontinued development.
Rape
Rape is a crime in which a person is subjected to a sexual act without their consent, whether through physical force, threats, incapacitation, or coercion.
Rape (county subdivision)
A rape was a historic territorial subdivision of Sussex, England, intermediate between county and hundred; six rapes (Arundel, Bramber, Chichester, Hastings, Lewes, Pevensey) were castle-centered lordships controlling London–Channel corridors.
Rape by deception
Rape by deception, also called rape by fraud or sex by deception, is sex obtained through lies or non-disclosure that vitiates consent. Covers fraud in factum versus inducement, Lawrance, CPS guidance, US, Canadian, Israeli, and Indian law, and stealthing.
Rape by gender
Rape by gender covers how rape law and statistics treat victims and perpetrators by gender: gender-specific versus gender-neutral statutes, consent-based reforms, CDC NISVS rape and made-to-penetrate definitions, and prevalence and reporting differences for women and men.
Rape by proxy
Rape by proxy: sexual violence committed by a local perpetrator at the direction or payment of a remote customer, notably in live-streamed child abuse; the customer can be indicted for rape without traveling, as in the 2023 French case.
Rape culture
Rape culture, a feminist concept from 1970s America (New York Radical Feminists, Susan Brownmiller), describes societies normalizing sexual violence; covers rape myths, cross-cultural evidence, prevalence data, prevention programs, and criticism.
Rape during the Armenian genocide
Sexual violence against Armenian women and girls during the 1915–16 Armenian genocide: rape, abduction, sexual slavery, and forced marriage during deportations, with roughly 50,000 captives in 1919.
Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Mass sexual violence against Bengali women and girls by Pakistani forces and collaborators during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War; survivors honored as Birangona; commonly cited figures around 200,000 rapes, with contested estimates and legal aftermath.
Rape during the Bosnian War
Rape during the Bosnian War (1992–1995): mass wartime sexual violence, chiefly against Bosniak women, in detention and rape camps; 14,000–50,000 estimated victims; landmark ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture and crime against humanity.
Rape during the occupation of Germany
Rape during the occupation of Germany: mass sexual violence by Soviet forces in 1945, with estimates up to 2 million victims, plus documented assaults by American, French, and British troops, courts-martial, and postwar silence.
Rape during the occupation of Japan
Rape during the occupation of Japan (1945–1952): sexual violence by Allied servicemen, beginning in Yokosuka on 30 August 1945, with documented Okinawan cases, censorship-obscured records, the RAA "female floodwall," and disputed claims of mass rape.
Rape fantasy
Rape fantasy: a sexual fantasy of forced sex. 31–57% of women report such fantasies, 9–17% frequently; also discussed in feminist sex wars, pornography research, and ethics of fictional depiction.
Rape in India
Rape in India is a criminal offense defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, formerly IPC Section 375; police recorded 31,516 cases in 2022, with a 27.4% conviction rate.
Rape in Islamic law
Rape in Islamic law (ikrah ala al-zina) is coercive intercourse treated under zina doctrine. Key facts: hadd punishments, four-witness rule, Pakistan's 1979 Hudood Ordinance, 2006 Protection of Women Act, 2021 reforms.