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Rabindra Narayan Behera
Rabindra Narayan Behera is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Member of the Lok Sabha from Jajpur, Odisha, elected in 2024 after a career at the National Informatics Centre.
Rabindra Nath Mahato
Rabindra Nath Mahato is an Indian Jharkhand Mukti Morcha politician, MLA for Nala since 2005 and Speaker of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, re-elected unopposed in December 2024.
Rabindra Nepal
Rabindra Nepal is an applied economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Wollongong since 2025, specializing in energy, environment, and resource economics and advising the World Bank.
Rabindra Puraskar
Rabindra Puraskar (রবীন্দ্র পুরস্কার), also called the Rabindra Smriti Puraskar, is the highest literary award of West Bengal, named after Rabindranath Tagore and given since 1950.
Rabindra Sangeet (রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত)
Rabindra Sangeet (রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত), also Rabindrasangit or Tagore songs, is the corpus of about 2,232 songs by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), blending Hindustani ragas, Baul folk, kirtan, and Western tunes; includes the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Rabindranath Datta
Rabindranath Datta, better known by his pen name Roby Datta, was an Indian poet and educator who wrote verse in English and was nominated for the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)
Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, 1861–1941) was a Bengali poet, composer, and educator, the first non-European Nobel Literature laureate (1913) for Gitanjali. He wrote India's and Bangladesh's national anthems and founded Santiniketan and Visva-Bharati.
Rabindranath Tagore's plays
Rabindranath Tagore's plays are the dramatic works of the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote over fifty plays between the 1880s and the 1930s.
Rabobank
Rabobank is a Dutch cooperative bank with no shareholders and over 2.3 million member customers, formed in 1972 and one of the three major Dutch banks.
Rabot Island
Rabot Island (Isla Rabot) is an Antarctic island in the Biscoe Islands, 8 km long and 3 km wide, 1.6 km south of Renaud Island off Graham Land, charted and named for Charles Rabot by Charcot's 1903–05 expedition.
Rabouni refugee camp
Rabouni (Rabuni) is the administrative center of the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria, hosting Polisario Front headquarters, SADR ministries, the main hospital, and UNHCR operations, about 25 km from Tindouf.
Rabri Devi
Rabri Devi (राबड़ी देवी) is an Indian RJD politician who served three terms as chief minister of Bihar from 1997 to 2005, the first woman to hold the office.
Rabsaris
Rabsaris (Hebrew רַב־סָרִיס, Rab-saris) is the Hebrew and Aramaic form of the Akkadian court title rab ša rēši, a high-ranking official of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.
Rabshakeh of Sennacherib
The Rabshakeh of Sennacherib, or rab šaqê, was an unnamed high-ranking Assyrian court official who, per 2 Kings 18:17, addressed Jerusalem's people from its walls in Hebrew in 701 BC.
Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome
Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome (RMS, Mendenhall syndrome), a rare autosomal recessive INSR insulin receptor disorder causing severe insulin resistance, acanthosis nigricans, dental and growth abnormalities, intermediate between Donohue and type A insulin resistance syndromes.
RAC Limited
RAC Limited, also known as RAC plc, is a British roadside assistance company founded in 1897, one of the two large nationwide breakdown operators in the UK.
RAC1
RAC1 (Rac family small GTPase 1, Rac1, p21-Rac1) is a human 7p22.1 gene encoding a Rho-family small GTPase switch regulating actin cytoskeleton, cell migration, cancer, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Racah (lunar crater)
Racah is an IAU-adopted far-side lunar crater, about 71.91 km across, centered at −13.50°, −179.87°, named for Italian-Israeli physicist Giulio Racah (1909–1965), with satellite craters Racah B through X.
Racal
Racal, also known as Racal Electronics, was a British electronics manufacturer founded in London in 1950 that grew into one of the UK's largest electronics groups and created Vodafone.
Răcar
Răcar, also spelled Răcari, is a Roman auxiliary fort in Oltenia, south-western Romania, about 29 km from Craiova, garrisoned by Moorish cavalry and active from 101 to near 271 AD.
Răcari
Răcari: a town in Dâmbovița County, Romania (formerly Podul Bărbierului, attested 1725, renamed 1911), and a Roman auxiliary fort at Răcarii de Jos, Dolj, garrisoned by the Numerus Maurorum.
Raccoon
Raccoon (Procyon lotor), a North American procyonid carnivoran ranging from southern Canada to Panama; omnivorous, 15-40 lb, noted for primate-like neuron counts, problem-solving, urban adaptation, and raccoon-rabies management.
Raccoon (site)
Raccoon (site): zoos, parks, and sanctuaries displaying the raccoon (Procyon lotor), from Zoo Idaho's founding raccoon Pete (1932) to B.C. Wildlife Park's large naturalistic exhibit, plus invasive-range and welfare issues.
Raccoon City
Raccoon City (ラクーンシティ) is the fictional Midwestern US city in Capcom's Resident Evil, home of Umbrella Corporation, destroyed October 1, 1998 by a government missile strike after the t-Virus outbreak, and revisited in Resident Evil Requiem (2026).
Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant
The Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority inside Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and TVA's largest.
Race (2016 film)
Race (2016) is a biographical sports drama directed by Stephen Hopkins about Jesse Owens, starring Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, and Carice van Houten, covering his path to the 1936 Berlin Olympics and four gold medals.
Race (biology)
Race in biology: a proposed subdivision of a species, near subspecies; for humans, population genetics shows continuous, mostly within-group variation, so biological race is rejected; still used in conservation biology.
Race (film series)
Race film series: Hindi action-thriller franchise from Tips Films, three films (2008, 2013, 2018), Abbas-Mustan directed the first two, Remo D'Souza the Salman Khan-led Race 3; 327.68 crore India net, Race 4 in development.
Race (human categorization)
Race (human categorization): classification of humans by perceived physical traits; also called racial classification, now viewed as a social construct. Scientific consensus holds it is not a valid measure of human genetic variation, while remaining socially and legally consequential.
Race (रेस) (2008 film)
Race (रेस) is a 2008 Hindi thriller directed by Abbas–Mustan, starring Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, and Anil Kapoor; a South Africa-set horse-racing betrayal story that grossed $24.5 million and launched the Race franchise.