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Red Pollard
Red Pollard (John Pollard, 1909-1981), Canadian-born jockey and Seabiscuit's regular rider, 18 wins in 30 mounts including the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap; blind in one eye, Jockeys' Guild founder.
Red Poppies
Red Poppies (尘埃落定, Chen'ai luoding) is a 1998 novel by the Tibetan writer Alai, set among the tusi chieftains of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands and winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000.
Red pulp
Red pulp (pulpa rubra) is the blood-filtering compartment of the spleen, about 75% of its tissue, made of cords of Billroth and venous sinuses where macrophages cull and pit aged red cells, recycle iron, and store platelets.
Red Pyramid
The Red Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt, is the third pyramid of King Sneferu (4th Dynasty), the third-largest Egyptian pyramid after Khufu's and Khafre's, with a ~43-degree slope, three corbelled chambers, a granite sarcophagus, and about 10–11 years of construction.
Red Queen (novel)
Red Queen (2015) is Victoria Aveyard's debut YA dystopian fantasy and first Red Queen series book, about Red-blooded thief Mare Barrow who gains lightning powers in a Silver-ruled world; a #1 NYT bestseller from HarperTeen, distinct from Juan Gómez-Jurado's thriller Red Queen and Margaret Drabble's The Red Queen.
Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass)
The Red Queen is Lewis Carroll's living chess-queen in Through the Looking-Glass (1871), who guides Alice onto the chessboard, runs to stay still, and is shaken into the White Kitten; distinct from the Queen of Hearts.
Red Queen (TV series)
Red Queen (Reina Roja) is a Spanish Prime Video thriller adapting Juan Gómez-Jurado's Antonia Scott trilogy, starring Vicky Luengo and Hovik Keuchkerian; season 1 premiered February 2024, season 2 (Loba Negra) October 2026, final season 2027.
Red Queen hypothesis
The Red Queen hypothesis, also called the Red Queen effect, is an evolutionary idea from Leigh Van Valen's 1973 work holding that organisms must keep evolving to survive.
Red Rain (2025 film)
Red Rain (Mưa đỏ) is a 2025 Vietnamese war drama directed by Đặng Thái Huyền about the 81-day 1972 defense of Quảng Trị Citadel; it became Vietnam's highest-grossing film and its 98th Oscars submission.
Red rain in Kerala
The red rain in Kerala, or Kerala red rain phenomenon, was a series of red rain events that began in Kerala, India, on 25 July 2001.
Red Rebek
Red Rebek (Hungarian: Vörös Rébék) is an 1877 ballad by the Hungarian poet János Arany, telling how a village witch destroys the peasant farmer Pörge Dani.
Red Rectangle Nebula
The Red Rectangle Nebula is a proto-planetary nebula surrounding the star HD 44179, about 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, named for its rectangular shape and red color in early images.
Red Red Wine
"Red Red Wine" (also "Red, Red Wine") is a 1967 Neil Diamond song from Just for You, best known through UB40's 1983 reggae cover, based on Tony Tribe's 1969 version, which topped the UK in 1983 and the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1988.
Red rice
Red rice: rice (Oryza sativa) with a red pericarp from proanthocyanidins, governed by the Rc gene; eaten as an unpolished food in Asia and Africa, and in the US a name for weedy rice descended from crop-wild hybrids.
Red Riding
Red Riding (Red Riding Trilogy) is a 2009 Channel 4 trilogy of British television films, adapted from David Peace's crime novels and set in West Yorkshire.
Red Riding Hood (2011 film)
Red Riding Hood is a 2011 dark fantasy horror film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, loosely adapted from the fairy tale, in which a village terrorized by a werewolf suspects one of its own.
Red Right Hand
Red Right Hand is a 1994 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song from Let Love In, titled after the vengeful hand of God in Milton's Paradise Lost; it is the Peaky Blinders theme and a Scream franchise staple, covered by Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, and Iggy Pop with Jarvis Cocker.
Red Rising
Red Rising (2014) is Pierce Brown's debut dystopian sci-fi novel, first of the Red Rising Saga, in which Red miner Darrow infiltrates the Gold caste on Mars; six books published, Red God announced, Paramount film in development.
Red River (1948 film)
Red River (1948) is Howard Hawks's Western starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift in his debut, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan, from Borden Chase's Saturday Evening Post serial The Chisholm Trail, about a tyrannical rancher's post-Civil War cattle drive.
Red River Colony
Red River Colony (Selkirk Settlement, Assiniboia), founded 1812 by Lord Selkirk near present-day Winnipeg; a Hudson's Bay Company land grant of 116,000 square miles that became Manitoba in 1870.
Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve
Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve (Châu thổ sông Hồng), a UNESCO MAB reserve in northern Viet Nam designated 2 December 2004, covering 105,558 ha of mangroves, mudflats, and estuaries around Xuan Thuy National Park, a Ramsar site on the East Asian-Australasian flyway.
Red River Direct Investment
Red River Direct Investment is a series of Delaware private equity funds managed within BlackRock's platform from New Jersey, with Fund III filing a $404 million offering in 2015.
Red River of the North
Red River of the North (rivière Rouge du Nord): 550-mile north-flowing river from Breckenridge, Minnesota to Lake Winnipeg, forming the Minnesota–North Dakota border on the flat glacial Lake Agassiz bed, historically a fur-trade route and subject to major floods such as 1997 and 2009.
Red River of the South
Red River of the South: a 1,360-mile river rising in New Mexico, flowing along the Texas-Oklahoma border to the Mississippi; also called Rio Rojo, marked by red flood soils, saline water, and long boundary disputes.
Red River Rebellion
Red River Rebellion, also called Red River Resistance (1869-1870): Métis uprising led by Louis Riel against Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land, forming a provisional government and producing the Manitoba Act, 1870 and the Province of Manitoba.
Red River Valley
The Red River Valley, also known as the Red River Basin, is the flat valley of the north-flowing Red River along the North Dakota-Minnesota boundary, prone to spring flooding.
Red River War
The Red River War was a U.S. Army campaign of 1874–1875 in the Texas Panhandle against the Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, and southern Arapaho, ending their free-roaming life.
Red Road (film)
Red Road (2006) is Andrea Arnold's debut feature, a Glasgow-set thriller starring Kate Dickie as CCTV operator Jackie stalking Tony Curran's Clyde. First of Zentropa and Sigma Films' Advance Party trilogy; won the Cannes Jury Prize and 2007 BAFTA Best First Feature.
Red Robin
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is an American casual dining burger chain founded in Seattle in 1969, originating as Sam's Tavern in the 1940s. Known for Bottomless Steak Fries; 475 North American locations as of fiscal 2025; Nasdaq-listed as RRGB since 2002.
Red Rock (TV series)
Red Rock: Irish crime drama soap (2015–2020) on TV3/Virgin Media One, created by Peter McKenna, set around a fictional Dublin Garda station and feuding Hennessy and Kiely families; €7m-a-year Element Pictures/Company Pictures production sold to BBC and Amazon Prime.