All articles starting with R

Rapture

The rapture, or harpazo, is a Christian belief that living and dead believers will be caught up to meet Jesus Christ in the air at his Second Coming.

"Rapture" (1981) by Blondie, from Autoamerican, was the first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 to feature rap, with lyrics name-checking Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash and a video featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat.

RaptureTok

RaptureTok was a 2025 TikTok trend and community around evangelical Rapture predictions, especially Joshua Mhlakela's claim that the Rapture would fall on September 23–24, 2025; it mixed sincere end-times preparation with mass satire, drew millions of views, and passed without event.

Rapunzel

Rapunzel (AT 310, The Maiden in the Tower): European fairy tale first printed in Basile's Pentamerone (1634-36) as Petrosinella, published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 and 1857; tower, hair, blinding prince, healing tears; basis of Disney's Tangled.

Rapunzel (Tangled)

Rapunzel is the heroine of Disney's 2010 animated film Tangled, an adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale; a princess with 70 feet of magical healing hair, voiced by Mandy Moore, raised in a tower by Gothel, grossing $593 million worldwide.

Rapunzel syndrome

Rapunzel syndrome: a rare trichobezoar (hairball) extending from the stomach through the pylorus into the small intestine, caused by trichotillomania and trichophagia, first described by Vaughan et al. in 1968, with fewer than 100 reported cases, mostly in adolescent females.

Rapunzel's Forest

Rapunzel's Forest (ラプンツェルの森) is a themed land at Tokyo DisneySea in Urayasu, Japan, recreating the Disney film Tangled, opened in Fantasy Springs in 2024.

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, formerly Tangled: The Series, is a Disney Channel 2D animated series (2017) set between Tangled and Tangled Ever After, starring Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, with three seasons, music by Alan Menken, and Cassandra as the lead new character.

Sep 19, 2026

Rapyd

Rapyd (ראפיד) is a fintech company founded in Israel in 2015 that lets businesses accept payments, send payouts, and issue cards in over 100 countries.

Oct 15, 2026

Rapyuta Robotics

Rapyuta Robotics is a warehouse automation company spun out of ETH Zurich's RoboEarth project, building pick-assist robots and a cloud platform, operating in Japan, India, and the United States.

RapZ-like family

RapZ-like family: bacterial RNA-binding adaptor proteins represented by E. coli RapZ, a tetrameric protein that binds sRNA GlmZ and recruits RNase E to cleave it, regulating glmS and GlcN6P synthesis.

Raqesh Bapat (राकेश बापट)

Raqesh Bapat (राकेश बापट), also known as Rakesh Bapat and Raqesh Vashisth, is an Indian actor born in 1978 who works in Hindi and Marathi films and television.

Raqqa (الرقة)

Raqqa (الرقة), a city on the Euphrates in northern Syria; ancient Kallinikos, Abbasid imperial capital under Harun al-Rashid, later the Islamic State's de facto capital (2014–2017), retaken by the SDF in 2017 and by the Syrian government in January 2026.

Raqqa Governorate

Raqqa Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الرقة) is a province of north-central Syria with its capital at Raqqa on the Euphrates River, later the Islamic State's declared capital.

Sep 19, 2026

Raqueeb Alam

Raqueeb Alam, also credited as Raqeeb Alam, is an Indian playback singer and lyricist who writes the Hindi versions of South Indian film soundtracks, including Pushpa's 'Srivalli'.

Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez

Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez is a Mexican civil servant, Secretary of Anticorruption and Good Governance since 2024, who previously served as Secretary of Economy from 2022 to 2024.

Raquel Cassidy

Raquel Cassidy (born 1968, Fleet, Hampshire) is a British actress known as Phyllis Baxter in Downton Abbey and its three films, and for Teachers, Party Animals, Lead Balloon, and The Worst Witch.

Raquel Castro

Raquel Castro (born 1994), American actress and singer from Long Island; played Gertie Trinke in Jersey Girl (2004), competed on The Voice season 1 on Team Christina, played Marisol on Empire, and won Songland with Wrong Places, recorded by H.E.R.

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle

Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party who has been a Member of the European Parliament since July 2024, chairing the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.

Raquel Justice

Raquel Justice, American actress born 2004 in Poway, California, daughter of MLB All-Star David Justice; known as Sofia Rivera in Dexter: Original Sin, Kira in Andi Mack, and Destiny in Finding Tony (2024).

Raquel Lyra

Raquel Teixeira Lyra Lucena, born in 1978, is a Brazilian politician of the PSD and governor of Pernambuco since 2023, after serving as Mayor of Caruaru from 2017 to 2022.

Raquel Peña (Dominican politician)

Raquel Peña is a Dominican politician of the Modern Revolutionary Party who has served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic since 2020, elected with President Luis Abinader and reelected in 2024.

Raquel Pennington

Raquel Pennington, "Rocky" (born 1988, Colorado Springs), American UFC women's bantamweight fighter, 16-10 pro, 13-6 UFC; won vacant title vs Mayra Bueno Silva at UFC 297 (Jan 20, 2024), lost it to Julianna Peña at UFC 307.

Raquel Rodriguez (wrestler)

Raquel Rodriguez (Victoria González, born 1991) is a 6-foot WWE powerhouse on Raw, Judgment Day member, record-setting Women's Tag Team Champion, NXT Women's Champion, and current Women's Intercontinental Champion (won July 27, 2026).

Sep 19, 2026

Raquel Urtasun

Raquel Urtasun is a Spanish-Canadian AI researcher and entrepreneur who founded and leads Waabi, a Toronto autonomous-driving company, and previously served as chief scientist of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group.

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch (Jo-Raquel Tejada, 1940-2023), American actress and 1960s-70s sex symbol of One Million Years B.C. and Fantastic Voyage; Golden Globe winner for The Three Musketeers, Broadway star, and HairUWear wig entrepreneur.

Oct 22, 2026

Ráquira

Ráquira is a municipality in Boyacá, Colombia, known nationally as the country's artisan capital for its pottery and ceramics, a tradition dating to the Muisca people.

RAR (file format)

RAR, or Roshal Archive, is a proprietary archive file format named after creator Eugene Roshal; its native program is WinRAR, and version RAR5 came out in April 2013.

RARA

RARA, or retinoic acid receptor alpha (NR1B1), is a human gene on chromosome 17 that regulates gene expression in response to retinoic acid, the active form of vitamin A.