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Rachgoun
Rachgoun is a small volcanic island about 2 km off the Algerian coast at the Tafna river mouth, carrying a Phoenician-Punic settlement and cremation necropolis.
Rachi Sharma
Rachi Sharma, Indian television actress from Indore, debut Woh Toh Hai Albela; played Poorvi in Zee TV's Kumkum Bhagya (2023–2025), Meera Ghosh in Sony's horror series Aami Daakini (2025), and Aadhya in Do Duniya Ek Dil (2026).
Rachid al-Daif
Rachid al-Daif (رشيد الضعيف), born 1945 in Zgharta, Lebanon, is a Lebanese novelist, poet, and academic known for spare novels treating the civil war, including Dear Mr. Kawabata.
Rachid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra (رشيد بوجدرة), born in 1941, is an Algerian novelist and essayist who writes in French and Arabic and broke Maghrebi literary taboos with his 1969 novel La Répudiation.
Rachid Ghezzal (رشيد غزال)
Rachid Ghezzal (رشيد غزال), born 1992 in Décines-Charpieu, is an Algerian left-footed right winger, Lyon academy product, Beşiktaş Süper Lig winner (2021), 22-cap Algeria international, who returned to Lyon in 2025.
Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli
Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli (Rachid Karameh International Fair), an unfinished Oscar Niemeyer modernist exhibition complex in Tripoli, Lebanon; 70 ha, 750 m boomerang Grand Canopy; UNESCO World Heritage and in Danger since 2023.
Rachid Koraïchi
Rachid Koraïchi (رشيد قريشي) is an Algerian contemporary artist born in 1947 who combines calligraphy and Sufi spirituality across ceramics, textiles, bronze, and steel, winning the Jameel Prize in 2011.
Rachid Taha (رشيد طه)
Rachid Taha (رشيد طه), 1958–2018, Algerian-French singer who fused raï, chaâbi, rock, techno, and punk; led Carte de Séjour, famed for "Ya Rayah" and "Rock el Casbah".
Rachid Yazami
Rachid Yazami is a Moroccan electrochemist known for demonstrating reversible lithium intercalation in graphite, the anode of the modern lithium-ion battery, and for battery diagnostics.
Rachika Nayar
Rachika Nayar is an Indian-American experimental electronic musician and guitarist in Brooklyn, known for the albums Our Hands Against the Dusk and Heaven Come Crashing.
Rachin Ravindra
Rachin Ravindra, New Zealand left-handed batting all-rounder and slow left-arm spinner; named after Dravid and Tendulkar; 578 runs at CWC23, ICC Emerging Cricketer 2023, Sir Richard Hadlee Medal 2024.
Rachita Ram (ರಚಿತಾ ರಾಮ್)
Rachita Ram (ರಚಿತಾ ರಾಮ್), childhood name Bindiya Ram, is a Kannada film actress nicknamed the Dimple Queen; debuted in Bulbul (2013) opposite Darshan, won Filmfare and SIIMA awards for Ranna, and has worked in Telugu and Tamil cinema.
Rachmaninoff (Mercurian crater)
Rachmaninoff is a 290-km peak-ring impact basin on Mercury at 27.6°N, 57.6°E, found by MESSENGER's third flyby; it holds Mercury's lowest elevation, volcanic interior plains with concentric graben, and Suge Facula.
Rachmiel Levine
Rachmiel Levine (1910–1998) was a Polish-born American diabetologist who showed in 1949 that insulin acts on the cell membrane, a finding known as the Levine effect.
Rachna Banerjee
Rachna Banerjee (রচনা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), born Jhumjhum Banerjee 1972 in Kolkata, is a Bengali and Odia film actress, host of Zee Bangla's Didi No. 1, and Trinamool Congress MP for Hooghly since June 2024. Born 1972 per official record (IMDb says 1974).
Racho Petrov
Racho Petrov (Рачо Петров) was a Bulgarian infantry general and politician who served twice as prime minister of Bulgaria and, at age 24, directed the army's defense in the decisive 1885 battle of Slivnitsa against Serbia.
Racial discrimination
Racial discrimination is unfavorable treatment based on race, color, or associated characteristics. Covered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 CERD; measured by field experiments; recent US enforcement has shifted toward intentional discrimination only.
Racial Equality Proposal
Japan's 1919 Racial Equality Proposal (人種的差別撤廃提案) sought a racial equality clause in the League of Nations Covenant; backed by a majority at the April 11 vote but defeated via Wilson's unanimity ruling after Australian and British opposition.
Racial hygiene
Racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), coined by Alfred Ploetz in 1895 alongside Galton's eugenics, was a movement to improve population heredity via positive and negative selection; it shaped US, Scandinavian, and Nazi sterilization laws, producing 400,000 German sterilizations.
Racial integration
Racial integration: ending racial segregation and incorporating racial or ethnic groups into shared institutions. Covers Brown v. Board (1954), US school desegregation trends, integration vs assimilation, European integration policy, and outcome measurement.
Racial isolates in the United States
Racial isolates in the United States, also called triracial isolates or racial islands, are some 200 endogamous rural communities of mixed European, African, and Native American descent, including the Melungeons, Lumbee, Redbones, and Wesorts, studied by Beale and pressured by laws such as Virginia's Racial Integrity Act.
Racial policy of Nazi Germany
Racial policy of Nazi Germany (1933–1945): the regime's racial ideology and laws, chiefly the Nuremberg Race Laws of September 15, 1935, which defined Jews by ancestry, stripped citizenship, banned intermarriage, and led to the Holocaust.
Racial profiling
Racial profiling: police use of race or ethnicity in stop, search, and investigation decisions; also called biased policing. Covers benchmarking, veil-of-darkness and outcome tests, Whren and Scheindlin rulings, and 95-million-stop disparity studies.
Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the enforced separation of racial groups in housing, schools, and public life; in the US it spanned Jim Crow law (Plessy 1896, Brown 1954), FHA redlining, and persistent residential and school segregation measured by indices such as the dissimilarity index.
Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States: de jure separation established under Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), dismantled by Brown v. Board (1954) and 1960s civil rights laws; de facto residential and school segregation persists, with Hispanic school segregation now worse than in the 1960s.
Racial views of Donald Trump
Racial views of Donald Trump: decades of statements, lawsuits, and policies, from the 1973 housing suit and Central Park Five ads to birtherism, the 2016 campaign, and second-term disparate-impact rollbacks, with his denials.
Racial views of Winston Churchill
Churchill's documented racial views: 1937 'higher-grade race' testimony, 1919 gas memo, Bengal famine debate, 1954 immigration cabinet, and the historiographical dispute over whether he was typical or exceptional.
Racine County
Racine County, Wisconsin: southeastern Wisconsin county established 1836 from Milwaukee County, seat Racine; about 198,900 residents, $11.7 billion GDP, manufacturing-led economy between Milwaukee and Chicago.
Racine, Wisconsin
Racine is a city of 77,816 people on Lake Michigan in southeastern Wisconsin, 22 miles south of Milwaukee, known for J.I. Case tractors and kringle.
Racing
Racing: competitive contests of speed across human, animal, and machine disciplines (athletics, cycling, motorsport, sailing, horse and greyhound racing). Covers formats, records, F1 and Tour economics, governance, and 2024-2026 rule changes.