All articles starting with R

Rawdat al-Safa

Rawdat al-Safa (روضة الصفا) is a Persian universal history in a preface and six volumes by Mirkhwand (1433–1498), written in Herat in the late Timurid period.

Sep 24, 2026

Rawdat al-taslim (روضة التسليم), also called the Tasawwurat or Paradise of Submission, is a Persian Nizari Ismaili doctrinal treatise of the Alamut period, finalized in 1243 and traditionally attributed to Nasir al-Din Tusi.

Rawer (official)

Rawer was an Old Kingdom Egyptian official at the 5th Dynasty court, likely under King Neferirkare Kakai, known from his large mastaba tomb at Giza.

Rawer (vizier)

Rawer was a vizier of ancient Egypt's 6th Dynasty who served King Pepi I, known chiefly from his mastaba tomb at Saqqara near Teti's pyramid.

Sep 24, 2026

Rawh ibn Hatim

Rawh ibn Hatim (روح بن حاتم) was a Muhallabid Abbasid amir and provincial governor under four caliphs, ending as governor of Ifriqiya until his death in 790.

Oct 3, 2026

Rawhead Rex

Rawhead Rex (1986/1987) is a folk horror film directed by George Pavlou, adapted by Clive Barker from his Books of Blood story, shot in County Wicklow, Ireland, starring David Dukes; Barker disowned it.

Rawhide (material)

Rawhide is untanned animal skin, fleshed, dehaired, and dried hard; distinct from tanned leather and parchment. Used for drumheads, shields, cordage, and dog chews; regulated in trade.

Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide (1959-1966) is a CBS American Western TV series created by Charles Marquis Warren, 217 black-and-white episodes about a San Antonio-to-Sedalia cattle drive led by Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) and Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood), canceled January 1966 by CBS's William Paley.

Oct 15, 2026

Rawhide Coal Mine

The Rawhide Coal Mine is an active surface coal mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, about 10 miles north of Gillette, producing thermal coal for Peabody Energy.

Rawhide Kid

Rawhide Kid (Johnny Bart) is a Marvel Western gunslinger launched by Atlas in 1955, revived by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Rawhide Kid #17 (1960), running to #151 (1979), later reconceived as gay in the 2003 MAX miniseries Slap Leather.

Rawk al-Nasiri

Rawk al-Nasiri (الروك الناصري) was a cadastral survey of Egypt's iqta land grants ordered by Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad in 1315–1316, replacing the Rawk al-Husami and fixing the land tax and army pay.

Sep 24, 2026

Rawk al-Salahi

Rawk al-Salahi is a land survey of Egypt ordered by Saladin in 1176, the fiscal basis of Egyptian landholding until the Mamluk surveys of 1298 and 1315.

Oct 15, 2026

Rawlings (sporting goods)

Rawlings, founded in St. Louis in 1887 by George and Alfred Rawlings, is an American maker of baseball and softball equipment and MLB's official ball supplier since 1977.

Rawmarsh and Conisbrough

Rawmarsh and Conisbrough (E14001436) is a South Yorkshire county constituency created at the 2023 boundary review, replacing Wentworth and Dearne. It spans Rotherham and Doncaster wards; John Healey (Labour) won the 2024 election with 16,612 votes.

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rawson Marshall Thurber (born 1975) is an American director-screenwriter of Dodgeball, We're the Millers, Central Intelligence, Skyscraper, and Red Notice, known for original action comedies with Dwayne Johnson and for the Terry Tate Reebok shorts.

Rawstyle

Rawstyle, also called raw hardstyle, is the darker, harder branch of hardstyle that emerged in the Netherlands around 2009, built on distorted kicks and dark atmospheres.

Rawzat al-Safaviyya

Rawzat al-Safaviyya (روضة الصفویه) is a Persian dynastic chronicle of the Safavid dynasty, written by Mirza Beg ibn Hasan Husayni Junabadi, a historian under Shah Abbas I, covering 1501 to 1626.

Rawzat al-Safawiyya

Rawzat al-Safawiyya (روضة الصفاوية) is a Persian chronicle of the Safavid dynasty by Mirza Beg Junabadi, covering about 130 years from Shah Ismail I to Shah Abbas I.

Oct 22, 2026

Rawzat al-Shuhada

Rawzat al-Shuhada (روضة الشهداء, "Garden of the Martyrs") is a Persian Alid martyrology of ten chapters by Husayn Va'iz Kashifi, composed in 908/1502-3 and focused on Imam Husayn at Karbala.

Rax Roast Beef

Rax Roast Beef, also called Rax Restaurants, is a roast-beef fast-food chain founded 1967 in Springfield, Ohio by Jack Roschman, peaking at 504 stores in the mid-1980s; six Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois locations remain under Richard Donohue.

Oct 21, 2026

Raxibacumab

Raxibacumab (ABthrax) is a human IgG1λ monoclonal antibody against anthrax protective antigen, FDA-approved December 14, 2012 under the Animal Rule for inhalational anthrax; dose 40 mg/kg IV, half-life 20–22 days, stockpiled in the US.

Raxstar

Raxstar, born Sunit Sandhu, is a British rapper from Luton, England, known for the 2011 breakthrough single "Jaaneman" and the 2018 debut album Glass Ceiling.

Oct 3, 2026

Ray

Ray is a 2021 Netflix Hindi-language anthology series adapting four Satyajit Ray short stories, directed by Abhishek Chaubey, Srijit Mukherji, and Vasan Bala, starring Manoj Bajpayee, Ali Fazal, Kay Kay Menon, and Harshvarrdhan Kapoor, released June 25, 2021.

Ray (film)

Ray (2004) is Taylor Hackford's biographical drama of Ray Charles, starring Jamie Foxx, released by Universal on Oct 29, 2004; it grossed $75.3M in the US, won two Oscars including Best Actor, and was the first Black biopic nominated for Best Picture.

Ray (optics)

In optics, a ray is an idealized straight or curved path along which light travels when wavelengths are much smaller than the objects involved, the basis of geometric optics.

Ray (Ray Terrill)

Ray (Ray Terrill) is a DC Comics superhero, the second The Ray, created by Jack C. Harris and Joe Quesada, debuting in Ray Vol. 1 #1 (1992); son of Golden Age Ray Happy Terrill, light-powered, member of the Freedom Fighters and the Justice League.

Ray Allen

Ray Allen (born 1975) is an American former NBA shooting guard, Hall of Famer (2018), two-time champion (2008 Celtics, 2013 Heat), 10-time All-Star, and retired record holder with 2,973 career three-pointers.

Ray and Faye Copeland

Ray and Faye Copeland, also Faye Della Copeland, were a Mooresville, Missouri farm couple convicted of murdering five transient farmhands in a 1986–1989 bad-check cattle scheme; they became the oldest US couple sentenced to death, and Ray died on death row in 1993 while Faye's sentence was commuted and she was paroled in 2002.

Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony (Raymond Antonini, born January 20, 1922, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania) is an American big-band trumpeter and bandleader who played with Glenn Miller 1940-1941, then led his own band, hitting with the Dragnet theme, The Bunny Hop, and Dancing in the Dark.