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Raven (wrestler)
Scott Levy (born 1964), better known as Raven, is an American professional wrestler from Philadelphia, famous for his grungy psychological persona in ECW, WCW, WWE, and TNA, and for the Evenflow DDT.
Raven banner
Raven banner (hrafnsmerki), Viking war flag of the 9th to 11th centuries, first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 878; later sagas credit it with prophetic magic, and York raven coins and the Bayeux Tapestry preserve its imagery.
Raven Bowens
Raven Bowens (born 1990, San Diego) is an American actress known as Chanel Dupree DiMera on Days of Our Lives since 2021, and for The Simone Biles Story, The New Edition Story, and Mr. Student Body President.
Raven Dauda
Raven Dauda (born 1973) is a Canadian actress from Toronto known for Dr. Tracy Pollard on Star Trek: Discovery, Angela McManus in Five Days at Memorial, Dora Award-winning stage work, and voice roles in animation and Resident Evil Outbreak.
Raven Goodwin
Raven Tyshanna Goodwin (born 1992, Washington D.C.) is an American actress, debut Lovely & Amazing, known for Good Luck Charlie, Being Mary Jane, Single Black Female, and FX's Grotesquerie.
Raven II (surgical robot)
Raven II is an open-source teleoperated surgical robotics research platform developed by the University of Washington and UC Santa Cruz, shipped to seven US research laboratories in 2012.
Raven Industries
Raven Industries is a technology company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, founded in 1956 to make high-altitude research balloons and now a CNH Industrial brand known for precision agriculture.
Raven Oil and Gas Field
The Raven field is a near-HPHT gas and condensate field about 60 km offshore Alexandria, Egypt, discovered in 2004 and producing since early 2021 under bp.
Raven paradox
The raven paradox, also called Hempel's paradox, is a problem in confirmation theory posed by Carl Gustav Hempel in 1945, showing that observing a white shoe confirms that all ravens are black.
Raven Riley
Raven Riley (Sarah Pate, born 1986) was an American amateur internet adult model whose Third Pentacle paysite grossed $1 million in eight months before a 2008 retirement dispute and the 2023 documentary Skin in the Game.
Raven Rock Mountain Complex
Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), also called Site R, is an underground DoD continuity-of-operations facility on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border, operational since 1953 as a hardened backup command center to the Pentagon.
Raven Software
Raven Software, also called Ravensoft, is an American video game studio in Middleton, Wisconsin, founded in 1990 by brothers Brian and Steve Raffel and known for Call of Duty: Warzone.
Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné (Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman-Maday, born 1985, Atlanta) is an American actress and singer, child star of The Cosby Show, first Black woman with her name in a comedy series title via That's So Raven, and star of Raven's Home.
Raven's Home
Raven's Home is a Disney Channel family sitcom (2017–2023), a sequel to That's So Raven, starring Raven-Symoné as divorced psychic Raven Baxter whose son Booker inherited her visions; six seasons, cancelled 2024.
Raven's Progressive Matrices
Raven's Progressive Matrices, also known as Raven's Matrices, is a widely used nonverbal intelligence test of abstract reasoning, first published by British psychologist John C. Raven in 1938.
Ravenala
Ravenala, the traveller's palm or ravinala, is a Madagascan genus of Strelitziaceae; once monotypic with R. madagascariensis, it gained five new species in 2021 and is lemur-pollinated with blue-seeded arils.
Ravenglass Roman Bath House
Ravenglass Roman Bath House, also called Walls Castle, is the best preserved Roman military bath house in England, at Ravenglass, Cumbria; walls nearly 4 m high, built around AD 130 for a fort garrisoned by about 500 soldiers.
Ravenloft
Ravenloft, the Domains of Dread or Demiplane of Dread, is Dungeons & Dragons' gothic horror campaign setting: nightmare demiplanes in the Shadowfell, each imprisoning a Darklord such as Strahd von Zarovich; first a boxed setting in 1990.
Ravenloft (module)
Ravenloft (I6, TSR 9075) is a 1983 AD&D adventure module by Tracy and Laura Hickman, set in Barovia against the vampire Strahd von Zarovich, with card-based randomization and isometric castle maps; it spawned the Ravenloft campaign setting.
Ravenna
Ravenna, Adriatic city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 AD and later Ostrogothic and Byzantine capital, with eight UNESCO early Christian mosaic monuments and Italy's only 11-km canal-port handling over 26 million tonnes a year.
Ravenna LNG Terminal
The Ravenna LNG Terminal is an Italian offshore LNG terminal using the FSRU BW Singapore, moored off Ravenna in the northern Adriatic, in service since May 2025.
Ravenous (1999 film)
Ravenous is a 1999 black-comedy cannibal horror Western directed by Antonia Bird, written by Ted Griffin, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle; set in 1847, inspired by the Donner Party and Wendigo legend, it flopped at the box office but became a cult film.
Ravens of the Tower of London
Ravens of the Tower of London: captive common ravens kept at the Tower under a legend that the kingdom falls if they leave; six decreed by Charles II plus a spare, cared for by the Ravenmaster.
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was the largest Nazi concentration camp for women, built by the SS near Fürstenberg, 50 miles north of Berlin, in 1939. An estimated 130,000 women passed through it; as many as 40,000 died. The Red Army liberated it on 30 April 1945.
Ravensburg
Ravensburg is a Große Kreisstadt of about 50,500 people in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, between Lake Constance and the Allgäu. A former free imperial city (1276) and home of the Great Ravensburg Trading Company, it is known as the city of towers and gates and for Ravensburger games.
Ravensburger
Ravensburger is a German toy and game manufacturer based in Ravensburg, founded by Otto Maier in 1883 and best known for jigsaw puzzles, board games, and children's books.
Ravenscar
Ravenscar, formerly Peak, is a North Yorkshire coastal hamlet on a 700-foot headland, known for its late Roman signal station, the RIB 721 inscription, Middle Jurassic Ravenscar Group geology, alum works, and failed Victorian resort.
Ravenstail weaving
Ravenstail weaving (Tlingit: yéil koowú) is a Northwest Coast Indigenous finger-twined tradition of black-and-white geometric ceremonial robes, practiced until the early 1800s and revived in the 1980s.
Ravenswood (TV series)
Ravenswood is an ABC Family supernatural teen drama (2013–2014), a spin-off of Pretty Little Liars created by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, and Joseph Dougherty, starring Tyler Blackburn as Caleb Rivers in a cursed town near Rosewood, Pennsylvania.
Ravenswood power station
Ravenswood power station, also known as Ravenswood Generating Station, is New York City's largest fossil-fired power station, opened in Long Island City, Queens, in 1963 and known for Big Allis.