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Republicanism in Australia
Republicanism in Australia: movement to replace the British monarch with an Australian head of state. Central event is the 6 November 1999 referendum, defeated 45% Yes to 55% No under the bipartisan appointment model, with only the ACT voting Yes.
Republicanism in Barbados
Republicanism in Barbados: the movement that ended 55 years of constitutional monarchy on 30 November 2021, when Barbados became a parliamentary republic with President Dame Sandra Mason, the first country to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state since Mauritius in 1992.
Republicanism in Belgium
Republicanism in Belgium is the current of opinion favoring abolishing the Belgian monarchy for a republic, a fringe stance backed by roughly 15% of Belgians in 2022.
Republicanism in Canada
Republicanism in Canada: the movement to replace King Charles III as head of state with a Canadian republic, its pre-Confederation roots, Citizens for a Canadian Republic, and polling showing weak attachment to the Crown.
Republicanism in New Zealand
Republicanism in New Zealand: movement to replace the British monarch as head of state with a New Zealand citizen. Covers the Constitution Act 1986, campaign history since 1966, Treaty of Waitangi issues, and polling showing monarchy support leading.
Republicanism in the Netherlands
Republicanism in the Netherlands is the position that the country should abolish its monarchy and become a republic, despite having been a republic until 1806.
Republicanism in the Nordic countries
Republicanism in the Nordic countries covers republican movements, parties, and debate in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, where monarchies retain majority public support despite active abolition campaigns.
Republicanism in the smaller Commonwealth realms
Republicanism in the smaller Commonwealth realms is the movement to replace the British monarch as head of state in realms beyond the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Republicanism in the United Kingdom
Republicanism in the United Kingdom: movement to replace the hereditary monarchy with an elected head of state. Rooted in the 1649 Commonwealth, Milton, Harrington, and Paine; today led by Republic, with 27% support in 2026 Ipsos polling.
Republicanism in the United States
Republicanism in the United States: the civic-republican political tradition of the American founding, emphasizing popular sovereignty, civic virtue, and liberty as non-domination, and its long historiographical debate with Lockean liberalism.
Republicans buy sneakers, too
"Republicans buy sneakers, too" is a 1990 remark attributed to Michael Jordan after declining to endorse Harvey Gantt against Jesse Helms; first printed in Sam Smith's 1995 book Second Coming, later called a joke by Jordan.
Republics of Russia
Republics of Russia: ethnic-homeland federal subjects under Article 5, called "states" with their own constitutions and state languages; 22 or 24 depending on disputed 2014 and 2022 additions.
Republics of the Soviet Union
Republics of the Soviet Union: the fifteen constituent union republics of the USSR, founded 30 December 1922 with four republics (RSFSR, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Transcaucasia), nominally sovereign with secession rights, dissolved into 15 independent states in 1991.
Republika
Republika is a Croatian literary magazine founded in Zagreb in 1945 with Miroslav Krleža among its first editors, and published by the Croatian Writers' Association since 1981.
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska: one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, proclaimed 9 January 1992, verified by the Dayton Agreement; 24,641 km² (49% of BiH), de jure capital Sarajevo, seat in Banja Luka.
Repulsion (film)
Repulsion (1965) is Roman Polanski's first English-language film, a British psychological horror starring Catherine Deneuve as a Belgian manicurist whose isolation triggers madness and murder; it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Repulsion (group)
Repulsion is an American grindcore and death metal band from Flint, Michigan, whose single album Horrified, recorded in 1986 and released in 1989, became a foundational grindcore record.
Repulsive guidance molecule
Repulsive guidance molecules (RGMa, RGMb/Dragon, RGMc/hemojuvelin, plus fish-only RGMd) are GPI-anchored glycoproteins signaling via neogenin and BMP pathways, controlling axon guidance, immunity, and iron metabolism; RGMc mutations cause juvenile hemochromatosis.
Repulsor (rocket)
The Repulsor was a series of small liquid-propellant rockets built by Klaus Riedel of the German amateur society VfR, flown near Berlin in 1931 and 1932.
Repunit
A repunit is a whole number whose decimal digits are all 1, such as 11 or 111, with the name coined by Albert H. Beiler in 1966.
Repurchase agreement
A repurchase agreement, or repo, is a short-term collateralized loan structured as a sale of securities with a commitment to repurchase them at a higher price.
Reputation (album)
Reputation (stylized reputation) is Taylor Swift's sixth studio album, released November 2017 on Big Machine; 15 tracks with Max Martin, Shellback, and Jack Antonoff; darker post-2016-feud pop; no Grammy nominations; masters repurchased in 2025, no Taylor's Version.
Reputation (TV series)
Reputation is a six-part BBC legal drama created by Anya Reiss, produced by The Forge for BBC One and iPlayer, starring Naomie Harris and Christina Hendricks in a celebrity libel battle.
Reputation Stadium Tour
Reputation Stadium Tour: Taylor Swift's fifth world tour, supporting reputation (2017), all-stadium run of 53 shows from 8 May to 21 November 2018, grossing $345,675,146; record U.S. tour gross with a V-shaped video wall, Karyn the cobra, and a 2018 Netflix concert film.
Reputation system
A reputation system collects and aggregates feedback about participants' past behavior to compute trust scores, helping users choose trustworthy counterparts in online marketplaces, peer-to-peer networks, and sharing platforms.
Requerimiento
The Requerimiento (El Requerimiento) was a legal notification drafted in 1513 by Juan López de Palacios Rubios, read aloud to indigenous peoples of the Americas before Spanish military action.
ReQuest Dance Crew
ReQuest Dance Crew: all-female hip-hop crew from Auckland, New Zealand, founded 2006 by Parris Goebel at 15; polyswag style; ABDC's first non-North American crew; HHI world champion; featured in Bieber's 'Sorry'.
Request for Comments
A Request for Comments (RFC) is a numbered, permanently archived publication of the RFC Editor that documents internet specifications and best practices, begun in April 1969 for ARPANET.
Request for information
A request for information (RFI) is a non-binding market-research document a buyer issues before defining a requirement, to gather price, delivery, and capability information for planning.
Request for proposal
Request for proposal (RFP): a solicitation asking suppliers for full solution proposals, evaluated on technical approach, experience, and price; distinct from RFI, RFQ, and sealed-bid IFB/ITT.