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Red slender loris
Red slender loris (Loris tardigradus), a nocturnal primate endemic to Sri Lanka's wet zone and montane forests, IUCN Endangered with 2,000–2,250 mature individuals in 25 fragmented subpopulations; distinct from the grey slender loris, which also occurs in India.
Red soil
Red soil is soil colored red or brownish red by iron oxides, chiefly hematite, that forms in hot, humid climates and supports much tropical agriculture.
Red Sonja
Red Sonja, the She-Devil with a Sword, is a sword-and-sorcery comics heroine created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith in Conan the Barbarian #23 (1973), based on Howard's Red Sonya of Rogatino; published by Marvel until 1995 and by Dynamite since 2005.
Red Sonja (1985 film)
Red Sonja (1985) is a sword and sorcery film directed by Richard Fleischer, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Kalidor, and Sandahl Bergman as Queen Gedren; a critical flop, later a cult classic, remade in 2025.
Red Sorghum (红高粱)
Red Sorghum (红高粱) is Zhang Yimou's 1987 directorial debut, adapted from Mo Yan's novellas, starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen; it won the 1988 Berlin Golden Bear, the first top A-festival prize for a Chinese director.
Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow (2018) is an American spy thriller directed by Francis Lawrence, written by Justin Haythe from Jason Matthews' novel, starring Jennifer Lawrence as ballerina-turned-agent Dominika Egorova; $69M budget, $151.6M gross, 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Red Special
Red Special: Brian May's homemade electric guitar, built 1963–64 with his father Harold in Feltham from fireplace-mahogany neck, oak table body, Burns Tri-Sonic pickups wired in series with phase switches, and a valve-spring tremolo; main Queen guitar.
Red Square (Красная площадь)
Red Square (Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad) is Moscow's main square beneath the Kremlin's east wall, about 700 by 130 m, named for 'beautiful' in Old Russian, home to St Basil's Cathedral, GUM, and Lenin's Mausoleum, a 1990 UNESCO World Heritage site.
Red squirrel
Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), Eurasian tree squirrel with winter ear tufts, 20-22 cm, 250-300 g; declining in Britain against grey squirrels and squirrelpox, about 287,000 UK reds, 80% in Scotland; distinct from North American Tamiasciurus hudsonicus.
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade (FK Crvena zvezda), founded 4 March 1945, is Serbia's most decorated football club, based at the Marakana (Rajko Mitić Stadium). It won the 1991 European Cup and Intercontinental Cup and holds 37 national titles.
Red Star Campaign
The Red Star Campaign was a failed 1982 Ethiopian offensive against Eritrean rebels, the largest of the war, aimed at capturing their stronghold of Nakfa.
Red Star Macalline
Red Star Macalline (红星美凯龙) is a Chinese home furnishing mall operator founded by Che Jianxin, who opened a Changzhou furniture workshop in 1986; at its 2016 peak it ran 200 malls, the world's largest portfolio.
Red Star OS
Red Star OS, also known as Pulgunbyol or Red Star Linux, is a North Korean Linux distribution developed by the Korea Computer Center in Pyongyang, built on Fedora Linux since 1998.
Red Star Over China
Red Star Over China is a 1937 book by American journalist Edgar Snow, the first Western account of the Chinese Communist Party after the Long March.
Red Star Stadium
Rajko Mitić Stadium, or Marakana (Стадион Рајко Митић), is Red Star Belgrade's 51,755-seat stadium in Belgrade, opened 1 September 1963, record crowd 110,000 in 1975, host of three major finals.
Red State (2011 film)
Red State (2011) is Kevin Smith's horror-drama about three teens trapped by a Westboro-inspired fundamentalist cult and an ATF siege. Premiered at Sundance 2011, bought by Smith for $20, self-distributed via SModcast Pictures on a 15-city tour; stars Michael Parks, John Goodman, Melissa Leo.
Red states and blue states
Red states and blue states are informal U.S. labels for Republican- and Democratic-leaning states, fixed by the 2000 election after decades of shifting network map colors; purple states are competitive, and dichotomized maps overstate polarization.
Red Sticks
The Red Sticks were the faction of Creek dissidents who rose against their national council in 1813, starting the Creek War ended by Andrew Jackson in 1814.
Red Storm Entertainment
Red Storm Entertainment, also known as Ubisoft Red Storm, is a video game studio in Cary, North Carolina, founded by Tom Clancy in 1996 and known for Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.
Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising (1986), Tom Clancy's standalone techno-thriller co-plotted with wargame designer Larry Bond's Harpoon system, depicts a conventional Soviet-NATO World War III triggered by the destruction of Soviet oil facilities; a #1 bestseller still in print.
Red string (Kabbalah)
The red string of Kabbalah, or Kabbalah bracelet, is a red wool cord tied on the left wrist as a Jewish folk charm against the evil eye, traditionally wound around Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem.
Red Stripe
Red Stripe is a line of grooved ABS inclinometer casings, product code S131, made by Sisgeo of Masate, Italy, and used to measure sub-surface ground displacement.
RED study
RED study: Ward's 2007 survey of 301 North American dentists on the recurring esthetic dental (RED) proportion, also called recurrent esthetic dental proportion, in smile design; 57% preferred the 70% RED proportion over naturally occurring anterior tooth width proportions.
Red Summer
Red Summer: term coined by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson for the April–November 1919 wave of white-on-black riots in roughly 25–26 American cities; bloodiest at Elaine, Arkansas, with Chicago's July 1919 riot the most severe.
Red supergiant
A red supergiant is a large, cool, luminous star formed when a massive star leaves the main sequence, and the progenitor of Type II supernovae.
Red supergiant pre-supernova variability
Red supergiant pre-supernova variability is the brightening or dimming of a red supergiant in the months before its supernova, first confirmed for SN 2020tlf 130 days before explosion.
Red Swan (TV series)
Red Swan (화인가 스캔들, Hwain Family Scandal) is a 2024 Disney+ Korean action-romance series, 10 episodes, July 3–31, 2024, starring Kim Ha-neul and Rain, directed by Park Hong-kyun, about a golfer and her bodyguard uncovering chaebol secrets.
Red Symons
Red Symons (Redmond Symons, born 1949, Brighton, UK) is an Australian musician and broadcaster: Skyhooks guitarist 1973-1977 on Living in the 70's, Hey Hey It's Saturday house band and Red Faces judge, and ABC Radio Melbourne Breakfast host 2003-2017.
Red Table Talk
Red Table Talk: Facebook Watch web talk show (2018–2023) hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris; five seasons, 129 episodes, canceled when Meta ended Facebook Watch originals.
Red Tail Squadron
The Red Tail Squadron, also called the Red Tail Project, is a Commemorative Air Force outreach program that honors the Tuskegee Airmen with a restored red-tailed P-51C Mustang.