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Ravonna

Ravonna (Ravonna Lexus Renslayer) is a Marvel Comics character, a 40th-century princess and Kang the Conqueror's love interest, later the Terminatrix; also the TVA judge played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Loki.

Ravshan

Ravshan is an Uzbek folk epic (doston) of the Go'ro'g'li cycle, telling of Ravshan's journey to win Zulxumor, princess of Shirvan, best recorded from the bakhshi Ergash Jumanbulbul o'g'li.

Ravtansine

Ravtansine (DM4) is a synthetic maytansinoid, a derivative of the antimitotic natural product maytansine, used as the cytotoxic payload of antibody–drug conjugates in cancer therapy.

Ravva oil and gas field

The Ravva oil and gas field is a shallow offshore field in the Krishna Godavari Basin off Andhra Pradesh, India, discovered by ONGC in 1987.

Raw (film)

Raw (film) is a 2016 French-Belgian horror drama, directed by Julia Ducournau. It follows Justine, a student who transforms after hazings force her to eat raw meat.

Raw (WWE brand)

Raw (WWE brand), also known as Monday Night Raw, is WWE's flagship professional wrestling show, which debuted in 1993 and streams on Netflix since January 6, 2025.

RAW 264.7

RAW 264.7 (TIB-71, CVCL_0493) is an immortalized BALB/c mouse macrophage cell line transformed by Abelson murine leukemia virus, established in 1978, used widely in inflammation, LPS, nitric oxide, and osteoclastogenesis research.

RAW Charging

RAW Charging is a British destination electric-vehicle charging company, founded in 2018, that installs and operates charge points at retail, leisure, and hospitality sites, majority owned by Antin Infrastructure Partners since 2022.

Raw Deal (1986 film)

Raw Deal is a 1986 American action film directed by John Irvin and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as an ex-FBI agent who goes undercover against a Chicago mob family.

Raw Egg Nationalist

Raw Egg Nationalist (REN) is the pseudonym of British historian Charles Cornish-Dale, a far-right influencer on X as @Babygravy9 promoting raw-egg diets, "soy globalism" conspiracies, and white nationalist politics via Man's World magazine and The End of Men.

Raw foodism

Raw foodism (rawism) is eating only or mostly uncooked, unprocessed food, typically nothing heated above 118°F (48°C); mostly raw vegan, with documented risks of B12 deficiency, weight loss, and foodborne illness.

Raw image format

Raw image format: family of camera file formats (CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, DNG) storing minimally processed sensor data plus metadata, deferring demosaicing, white balance, and sharpening to computer-side processing; DNG is the open TIFF-based standard.

Raw material

A raw material, also known as a feedstock or primary commodity, is a basic substance used to produce goods, from iron and wood to computer chips.

Raw milk

Raw milk is unpasteurized milk, or milk not heat-treated to kill germs such as Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella. Also called unpasteurized milk, it caused over 2,600 illnesses in 1998–2018 US outbreaks and offers no proven nutritional advantage.

Raw Power

Raw Power is the 1973 third album by Iggy and the Stooges, produced by Iggy Pop, mixed by David Bowie, released on Columbia February 7, 1973, and later celebrated as a blueprint for punk rock.

Raw Time

Raw Time (rAw TiMe) was Dave Prewitt's Austin, Texas public-access cable music-video and call-in show, airing Saturday midnight–4am from the early 1990s to 2007 alongside CapZeyeZ, featuring underplayed national acts and unpaid rotating co-hosts.

Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park

Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park (Taman Nasional Rawa Aopa Watumohai), a 105,194 ha national park in South East Sulawesi, Indonesia, established 1990, Ramsar Site 1944 since 2011, protecting Sulawesi's only peat swamp, savanna, mangrove, and endemic Wallacean wildlife.

Rawabi Holding

Rawabi Holding (مجموعة روابي القابضة) is a diversified Saudi conglomerate founded by the Al-Turki family in 1980 and headquartered in Al Khobar, focused on energy services, contracting, and industrial services.

Rawadids

The Rawadids (Arabic Rawwādiya) were a dynasty of Arab descent, later Kurdicized, that ruled Azarbaijan and parts of Armenia from Tabriz, until the Seljuks extinguished it around 1071.

Rawagede massacre

The Rawagede massacre was the execution of hundreds of male villagers by Dutch soldiers in West Java on 9 December 1947, during the Indonesian War of Independence.

Rawal

Rawal, stage name of Shivam Rawal, is an independent rapper from New Delhi who released the debut album Sab Chahiye with producer Bharg Kale in 2021.

Rawal Jaisal

Rawal Jaisal (रावल जैसल) was a Rajput ruler who seized Lodhruva by defeating Rawal Bhojdev, then founded Jaisalmer on Trikuta Hill, laying out Jaisalmer Fort in 1156.

Rawalpindi (راولپنڈی)

Rawalpindi (راولپنڈی) is Pakistan's fourth most populous city, in the Pothohar region of Punjab near Islamabad. It hosts the Pakistan Army's GHQ and served as national capital from 1959 to 1969.

Rawalpindi District

Rawalpindi District (راولپنڈی), northernmost district of Punjab, Pakistan, headquarters Rawalpindi city; 6,118,911 people (2023 census), 5,286 sq km, seven tehsils including Taxila and Murree, formed under British rule with current boundaries since 1904.

Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus

The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus, also called the Islamabad Metrobus, is a bus rapid transit line linking Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan, opened in 2015 with a 22.5 km dedicated corridor.

Rawalpindiz

Rawalpindiz (briefly Pindiz) is a Pakistan Super League T20 franchise based in Rawalpindi, debuting in PSL 2026 after Walee Technologies bought the Multan Sultans slot for a record PKR 2.45 billion; captained by Mohammad Rizwan, it finished last in its debut season.

Rawan Osman (روان عثمان)

Rawan Osman (روان عثمان), born 1983 in Damascus, is a Syrian-Lebanese activist based in Germany, founder of the Arabs Ask Instagram forum, a UN Human Rights Council speaker, and a self-described recovered antisemite who advocates for Israel.

Rawang

Rawang is a town in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia, about 30 km north of Kuala Lumpur; a former tin-mining settlement where the country's first electric generator (1894) and first industrial-scale cement plant (1953) operated, now a fast-growing KTM-connected satellite town.

Rawbank

Rawbank is the largest bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by assets, founded in 2002 in Kinshasa by the Rawji family, who still control it.

Rawd al-Qirtas

Rawd al-Qirtas (روض القرطاس) is a 14th-century Arabic chronicle of Morocco and al-Andalus, from the Idrisids to the Marinids, with a sustained history of Fez, commonly attributed to Ibn Abi Zar.