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Red Hat Society
The Red Hat Society (RHS) is a worldwide women's social club founded in 1998 by Sue Ellen Cooper, known for members wearing red hats with purple clothing.
Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson's 18th studio album (May 1975, Columbia), is a spare outlaw-country concept album about a fugitive preacher; recorded for $4,000, it went double platinum and gave Nelson his first country number one single.
Red Heat (1988 film)
Red Heat (1988) is a Walter Hill buddy cop action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Soviet captain Ivan Danko and Jim Belushi as Chicago detective Art Ridzik hunting a Georgian drug lord; it grossed about $35 million and shot scenes in Moscow's Red Square.
Red heifer (פרה אדומה)
The red heifer (פרה אדומה, parah adumah) is a perfectly red, never-yoked cow prescribed in Numbers 19, whose ashes purified people contaminated by contact with the dead.
Red herring
Red herring: a smoked, reddish herring, and figuratively any distraction from the real issue. Key facts: William Cobbett's 1807 Political Register popularized the figurative sense; Nicholas Cox's 1674 hunting manual describes scent trails; in logic it names the irrelevant-thesis fallacy.
Red Hill Roman Temple
Red Hill Roman Temple, Ratcliffe on Soar, Nottinghamshire: a possible Romano-Celtic temple within a scheduled Roman settlement (NHLE 1003667) at the Soar-Trent junction, evidenced mainly by four lead curse tablets.
Red Hill water crisis
The Red Hill water crisis was the November 2021 contamination of the U.S. Navy's drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, affecting about 93,000 people.
Red Hill-Quemado
Red Hill-Quemado volcanic field (Quemado volcanic field): basaltic monogenetic field in Catron County, western New Mexico, on the Jemez lineament, with 40+ cinder cones and maars active from about 8 Ma to the early Holocene, including Zuni Salt Lake maar.
Red Hook, Brooklyn
Red Hook, Brooklyn: peninsula neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn, once Dutch Roode Hoek (1636), a major port, home of the Red Hook Houses NYCHA development, isolated by the BQE with no subway, undergoing gentrification and coastal resiliency planning.
Red Horse Drawings of the Little Bighorn
The Red Horse Drawings of the Little Bighorn are 42 pictographic drawings made in 1881 by Red Horse, a Miniconjou Lakota chief who fought in the battle.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Los Angeles funk rock band formed in 1983, known for slap bass, rap vocals, and punk energy; Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) breakthrough, Rock Hall inductees 2012, 12 studio albums.
Red Hot Chili Peppers discography
Red Hot Chili Peppers discography: 13 studio albums (1984-2022) by the American funk rock band, from the 1984 debut to Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen; first US number one with Stadium Arcadium (2006).
Red House
Red House, Bexleyheath, London: Grade I listed 1859 house, Philip Webb's first commission for William Morris, Arts and Crafts birthplace, National Trust, open May to October.
Red House Roman Camp (United Kingdom)
Red House Roman camp is a scheduled Roman military camp monument (NHLE 1006492, legacy ND 344) in Newbrough parish, Northumberland, near Hadrian's Wall, listed as World Heritage component 430-024 with an area of about 18,300.86 square meters.
Red Hulk
Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross) is a Marvel Comics gamma mutate and Hulk adversary, debuted in Hulk (2008) #1 by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, with heat and energy-absorption powers, played by Harrison Ford in Captain America: Brave New World (2025).
Red imported fire ant
Red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), invasive stinging ant from South America introduced at Mobile, Alabama in the 1930s; infests over 138 million hectares of the southern USA, costs about $6 billion annually, and persists in Queensland, Australia despite eradication efforts.
Red Joan
Red Joan (2018) is a British spy drama directed by Trevor Nunn, adapted by Lindsay Shapero from Jennie Rooney's novel, starring Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson as Joan Stanley, a physicist inspired by KGB spy Melita Norwood.
Red John
Red John is the fictional serial killer and central antagonist of CBS's The Mentalist, who murdered Patrick Jane's family; revealed after six seasons as Sheriff Thomas McAllister, played by Xander Berkeley.
Red junglefowl
Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), tropical Southeast Asian pheasant and primary wild ancestor of the domestic chicken; five subspecies, domestication from G. g. spadiceus ~8,000 years ago, grey junglefowl contributed yellow skin, wild populations now 20-50% domestic ancestry.
Red kangaroo
Red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus, formerly Macropus rufus), Australia's largest marsupial, inhabits arid open plains across about two-thirds of the continent; abundant, IUCN Least Concern, commercially harvested under state quotas.
Red king crab
Red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), also Alaska king crab, is the largest commercially harvested crab, native to the North Pacific and fished mainly in Bristol Bay, Alaska; introduced invasively into the Barents Sea in the 1960s.
Red kite
Red kite (Milvus milvus), European bird of prey with forked tail; persecuted to near extinction in Britain, restored by 1989 reintroductions; UK holds about 10% of world population; Near Threatened globally.
Red kiwifruit
Red kiwifruit: kiwifruit with red anthocyanin flesh, mainly Actinidia chinensis cultivars such as Hongyang, Donghong, and Zespri RubyRed (Red19, Red80), plus red kiwiberries like Hardy Red and Ken's Red.
Red Label (film)
Red Label is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language mystery thriller film directed by K. R. Vinoth, starring Lenin and Azmin Yasar, about a former student leader confronting a bully.
Red Lake Indian Reservation
Red Lake Indian Reservation (Ojibwe: Miskwaagamiiwi-zaga'iganing), home of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in north-central Minnesota; the only closed, never-allotted reservation in Minnesota, held in common, with 5,506 residents in 2020 and full tribal sovereignty subject only to the federal government.
Red Lake shootings
Red Lake shootings: March 21, 2005 attack by student Jeffrey Weise at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota; 10 dead including the shooter, deadliest US school shooting since Columbine.
Red Lantern Corps
Red Lantern Corps: DC Comics faction of rage-powered ring-wielders (red-light Lantern Corps), created by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (2008). Founded by Atrocitus, survivor of the Manhunters' Sector 666 massacre; base on Ysmault.
Red Leather (musician)
Red Leather is an anonymous American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Reno, Nevada, based in Los Angeles, who hides his face under a red fringed Stetson. Known for RENO (2023) and TAHOE (2026) on EMPIRE, and songs about addiction and recovery.
Red Leicester
Red Leicester, formerly Leicester or Leicestershire cheese, is an English hard cow's milk cheese from Leicestershire, dyed orange with annatto, milder and flakier than Cheddar. Raw milk clothbound farmhouse production died out in 1956 and was revived in 2005 at Sparkenhoe Farm.
Red Letter Media
Red Letter Media (RedLetterMedia) is a Milwaukee film production company founded in 2004 by Mike Stoklasa, with Jay Bauman and Rich Evans, known for the 2009 70-minute Phantom Menace review, Mr. Plinkett, Half in the Bag, Best of the Worst, and re:View.