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Red Eye (British TV series)

Red Eye is a British conspiracy thriller television series. The show, which premiered in 2024, follows a doctor and detective on an overnight flight from London to Beijing.

Red Eyebrows Rebellion

The Red Eyebrows Rebellion (赤眉起义) was a peasant uprising of 17 or 18 to 27 CE whose armies helped overthrow Wang Mang's Xin dynasty and briefly enthroned Liu Penzi.

Red Faction

Red Faction is a Volition-developed Mars shooter franchise (2001-2011) known for Geo-Mod real-time destruction; entries include Red Faction, Red Faction II, Guerrilla, and Armageddon, with rights now under Embracer.

Red Faction (video game)

Red Faction (2001) is Volition's Mars-set first-person shooter published by THQ, known for its Geo-Mod engine's real-time arbitrary geometry destruction, Parker's miner rebellion against Ultor, Metacritic 88, and over one million copies sold.

Red Fang

Red Fang is an American stoner rock and metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2005, known for albums like Murder the Mountains (2011) and Arrows (2021) and videos such as "Prehistoric Dog" and "Wires".

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (炮打双灯)

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (炮打双灯) is He Ping's 1994 Chinese drama, adapted from Feng Jicai's novella, starring Ning Jing as Chunzhi, a woman raised as a man to head a firecracker dynasty, who loves painter Niu Bao (Wu Gang); it won San Sebastián Best Actress and Golden Rooster Best Director.

Red flag (politics)

Red flag (politics): plain red banner, emblem of socialism, communism, and labour movements. Born as France's martial-law signal in 1789, inverted by 1848 revolutionaries, adopted by the 1889 Socialist International and later communist states.

Red flag law

A red flag law, also called an extreme risk law, is a United States state law allowing courts to temporarily bar dangerous people from possessing firearms.

Red flag warning

A red flag warning is a National Weather Service alert that critical fire weather conditions, such as strong wind and very low humidity, are occurring or expected within about a day.

Red Forest

The Red Forest, also known as the Wormwood Forest, is a pine woodland near Chernobyl's Reactor 4 whose Scots pines died from radiation after the 1986 accident.

Red Fort

The Red Fort, or Lal Qila, is a 17th-century Mughal palace fortress in Old Delhi built by Shah Jahan, completed in 1648 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007.

Red fox

Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), European fox, the largest true fox and widest-ranging Carnivora species; Least Concern, stable, omnivorous; introduced pest across most of Australia, endangered Sierra Nevada DPS.

Red fuming nitric acid

Red fuming nitric acid (RFNA) is a storable liquid rocket oxidizer, made of concentrated nitric acid with dissolved nitrogen dioxide, which gives it a reddish color and toxic fumes.

Red Garland

Red Garland (William McKinley Garland Jr., 1923–1984), Dallas-born jazz pianist famed for block-chord voicings, pianist of Miles Davis's first great quintet (1955–58) and leader of A Garland of Red.

Red garra

Red garra (Garra rufa), doctor fish or nibble fish, a Middle Eastern cyprinid grazer of the Tigris-Euphrates, Orontes, and Jordan basins; famous for spa pedicures, IUCN Least Concern, 14.1 cm max.

Red Gerard

Red Gerard (Redmond Gerard, born 2000) is an American slopestyle and big air snowboarder, 2018 PyeongChang Olympic slopestyle gold medalist at 17, the youngest Olympic snowboarding champion, later 4th at Beijing 2022 and a three-time Olympian through Milano Cortina 2026.

Red giant

A red giant, or red giant star, is a late stage of a star's life, in which the star swells to as much as 100 times its original size.

Red giant branch

The red giant branch (RGB) is the phase of stellar evolution in which stars of roughly 0.8 to 8 solar masses burn hydrogen in a shell around an inert helium core.

Red Giant Movies

Red Giant Movies (ரெட் ஜெயன்ட் மூவீசு) is a Chennai-based Tamil film production and distribution company founded in 2008 by Udhayanidhi Stalin, now led by his son Inban as CEO. It distributes most major Tamil releases in Tamil Nadu and produces films including Kuruvi, Maamannan, and the KH x RK Rajinikanth-Kamal Haasan reunion.

Red Grange

Red Grange (Harold Edward Grange, 1903-1991), the Galloping Ghost, Illinois All-American and Chicago Bears halfback; NFL's first superstar whose 1925 signing and barnstorming tour popularized pro football; Pro Football Hall of Fame 1963.

Red grape pomace extract

Red grape pomace extract (RGPE), also called enocyanin, is a polyphenol- and anthocyanin-rich antioxidant extract from winemaking pomace; GRAS in the U.S. since 2013 (GRN 446) for beverages up to 210 mg/kg.

Red Guard Movement

The Red Guard Movement (红卫兵运动) was a mass student movement in China's Cultural Revolution, begun in Beijing middle schools in 1966 and suppressed in 1968.

Red Guardian (Красный страж)

Red Guardian (Красный страж) is a Marvel Comics superhero identity, created in 1967 as the Soviet counterpart to Captain America and best known through Alexei Shostakov.

Red Guards (United States)

Red Guards (United States) covers several unrelated American radical groups using the name: the 1969 Chinese American Red Guard Party of San Francisco, the Peninsula Red Guard, Red Guards Los Angeles, and the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Red Guards network founded around 2014, centered on Red Guards Austin and defunct by 2022.

Red Guards (红卫兵)

Red Guards (红卫兵, Hongweibing): militant student mass organizations of China's Cultural Revolution, formed from mid-1966, endorsed by Mao, peaking at eight Tiananmen rallies of 11–13 million, and disbanded by 1968–1979.

Red hair

Red hair, also called ginger hair, is a natural human hair color caused by pheomelanin pigment and recessive MC1R gene variants, usually with fair skin and freckling.

Red Hand of Ulster

The Red Hand of Ulster (Lámh Dhearg Uladh) is a red hand emblem of the Irish province of Ulster and the O'Neill family seal, used by both nationalist and unionist communities in Northern Ireland, with origin legends of a severed hand thrown ashore and the dextera Dei.

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company selling subscriptions for enterprise open source products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift, founded in 1993.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM, first released in 2002 and sold on a subscription basis.

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux, also known as Red Hat Commercial Linux, was a Linux distribution first released by Red Hat in 1994 and discontinued in 2003.