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Rasulid seizure of power in Yemen
The Rasulid seizure of power in Yemen was Nur al-Din Umar's takeover of the Ayyubid province in 1229, founding a dynasty that ruled until 1454.
Raszyn
Raszyn is a village and seat of Gmina Raszyn in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, near Warsaw on the Raszynka river; site of the 1809 Battle of Raszyn and the Zug-designed Austeria.
Rat
Rat: brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) and black rat (Rattus rattus), commensal rodents native to Asia; the brown rat is the laboratory model organism, genome sequenced in 2004, and an urban disease vector.
Rat (zodiac)
Rat (鼠, shǔ), first sign of the Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle, branch Zi, active hours 23:00–01:00; Rat years include 2020 and next 2032; Great Race legend, Han-dynasty textual origins, and tested personality claims.
Rat Boy
Rat Boy (RAT BOY) is the British music project of Jordan Cardy from Chelmsford, Essex, blending punk, hip-hop, and indie rock; albums Scum (2017, UK No. 15), Internationally Unknown, Suburbia Calling, and CRASH!; distinct from the US band Ratboys.
Rat control in Alberta
Rat control in Alberta: the provincial Rat Control Program, established 1950, keeps Alberta essentially free of Norway rats via a 600 by 29 km border control zone, mandatory pest law, and annual inspections.
Rat Fink
Rat Fink is a grotesque green cartoon mouse created in the late 1950s by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth as a deliberately anti-establishment answer to Mickey Mouse.
Rat king
Rat king (Rattenkönig, roi de rats): a rare phenomenon in which several rats' tails become knotted together, documented since the 16th century, mostly in cold European regions with black rats; largest specimen, 32 rats, found 1828 in Buchheim, Germany.
Rat King (The Last of Us)
Rat King (The Last of Us): boss creature in The Last of Us Part II (2020), multiple Cordyceps-infected humans fused into one mass, fought by Abby in a Seattle hospital basement, inspired by Zygote, Inside, God of War, and Bloodborne.
Rat Pack
The Rat Pack: informal American entertainment group led by Frank Sinatra with Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop; named from Bogart's Holmby Hills circle, famous at the Sands, Las Vegas, and Ocean's Eleven (1960).
Rat Park
Rat Park: Bruce Alexander's Simon Fraser University colony-housing experiments (1978-1981) showing socially housed rats drank less morphine than isolated caged rats; direct replication failed in 1996, conceptual replication is mixed but supportive.
Rat Queens
Rat Queens is a darkly comedic fantasy comic by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch, published by Image Comics from September 25, 2013, following mercenary women Hannah, Violet, Dee, and Betty in the city Palisade.
Rat race
Rat race: an endless, self-defeating competitive struggle for power, money, and position. Term attested 1934 (aviation), figurative by 1939 (Kitty Foyle); formalized in Akerlof's 1976 economics model.
Rat Race (film)
Rat Race (2001) is a Jerry Zucker ensemble comedy, written by Andy Breckman, released by Paramount on August 17, 2001, in which John Cleese's casino tycoon sends six contestants racing for $2 million in New Mexico; it grossed about $86.6 million worldwide and is a remake of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Rat rod
A rat rod is a hot rod built in a deliberately rough, unfinished style with primer, bare metal, or surface rust, named by Hot Rod writer Gray Baskerville in the early 1990s.
Rat snake
Rat snake, Pantherophis (New World) and Elaphe (Old World), non-venomous constricting colubrid snakes that eat rodents; includes the corn snake P. guttatus and the black, gray, western, and yellow rat snake species complex.
Rat torture
Rat torture, also called the rat trap method, is torture in which a rat is trapped against a victim's body, usually the abdomen, and heated so it bites through. Poorly documented in medieval records; known mainly from early modern accounts, Mirbeau's Torture Garden, and Freud's Rat Man case.
Rat Wars
Rat Wars (stylized RAT WARS) is the 2023 studio album by Los Angeles industrial band HEALTH, released December 7 on Loma Vista Recordings; its 12-track, roughly 41-minute follow-up Conflict DLC (2025) is its sequel.
Rat-bite fever
Rat-bite fever (RBF), including sodoku and Haverhill fever, is a bacterial zoonosis from Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minus, transmitted by rodent bites or contaminated food, causing fever, rash, and polyarthritis.
Rat-tailed maggot
Rat-tailed maggot, larva of the drone fly Eristalis tenax (Syrphidae), an aquatic hover fly larva with a long telescoping breathing siphon, living in organic-rich stagnant water, cosmopolitan, and a rare cause of accidental intestinal myiasis.
Rātā
Rātā is a hero of Māori mythology who felled a tree for a war canoe without the proper rites, and the forest spirits restored it each night.
Rata dynasty
The Rata dynasty (राट वंश) was a ruling line of Samatata in southeastern Bengal, c. 650 to 675 AD, known from King Shridharana Rata's Kailan copperplate inscription.
Rata Mons
Rata Mons is a 167.87 km wide mountain (Mons) on Jupiter's moon Io at 36.40S 201.26W, IAU-approved 1997, named for a Maori sun hero, part of a 2,200 km topographic arc.
Raťafák Plachta
Raťafák Plachta is a tall, long-necked puppet from the Slovak children's show Slniečko, created by Peter Cigán in the 1970s, remembered in Slovakia for frightening children and abroad as a 'creepiest kids character'.
Ratak Chain
Ratak Chain, the eastern "sunrise" chain of atolls in the Marshall Islands, parallel to the Ralik Chain; includes Majuro, Arno, Wotje, Likiep, and Mili, with 30,925 residents in 1999.
Ratan Khatri (रतन खत्री)
Ratan Khatri (रतन खत्री), called the Matka King, was a Mumbai gambling operator who built India's largest illegal numbers game, running it from the early 1960s until 1995.
Ratan Lal Nath
Ratan Lal Nath is an Indian politician from Tripura and a Bharatiya Janata Party minister who previously held the school education portfolio in the Biplab Kumar Deb ministry.
Ratan Nath Sarshar
Ratan Nath Sarshar (رتن ناتھ سرشار) was an Urdu novelist, journalist, and translator from Lucknow, best known for Fasana-i Azad and for editing Avadh Akhbar from 1878 to 1893.
Ratan Singh Bhangu
Ratan Singh Bhangu (ਰਤਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੰਗੂ) was an early nineteenth-century Sikh historian, author of the Sri Gur Panth Prakash, a poetic account of Sikh history from Guru Nanak to Ranjit Singh.
Ratan Tata
Ratan Naval Tata (1937–2024) was an Indian businessman who chaired the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, globalizing it through the Tetley, Corus, and Jaguar Land Rover acquisitions.