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Rēš temple
The Rēš temple, also called Bīt Rēš, was the main sanctuary of the sky god Anu and his consort Antu at Uruk, southern Iraq, rebuilt under Seleucid rule in the 3rd century BCE.
Resafa
Resapha/Sergioupolis (Resafa, Rusafat Hisham) is an abandoned fortified city in the Syrian desert steppe south of the Euphrates: a Roman frontier post, shrine of Saint Sergius and major pilgrimage center, Justinianic walls, Umayyad caliphal residence, abandoned in the 13th century.
Resalat oil field
Resalat is an offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf, about 90 kilometers south of Lavan Island, Iran, discovered in 1967 and operated by IOOC.
Resale price maintenance
Resale price maintenance (RPM) is an arrangement in which a supplier fixes or sets floors or ceilings for the prices distributors may charge, rather than merely recommending prices.
Resampling (statistics)
Resampling in statistics is a family of methods that repeatedly draw samples from observed data to estimate a statistic's uncertainty, including the bootstrap, jackknife, cross-validation, and permutation tests.
Resampling schemes in particle filters
Resampling schemes in particle filters are randomized procedures that discard low-weight particles, duplicate high-weight ones, and reset weights to 1/N, spanning multinomial, stratified, systematic, and residual variants.
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (born Mehmet Reşat, 1889–1956) was a Turkish novelist and playwright best known for Çalıkuşu (1922), about a young Istanbul woman teaching in Anatolian villages.
Resatorvid
Resatorvid (TAK-242, CLI-095) is a small-molecule TLR4 inhibitor binding Cys747 in the intracellular TIR domain, blocking TIRAP/TRAM adaptor interactions. Reached phase 3 for severe sepsis but failed to reduce cytokines or mortality; now a research tool.
Resava School
The Resava School (Ресавска школа) was a Serbian medieval scriptorium and linguistic center at Manasija Monastery, flourishing roughly 1407 to 1427 under Constantine the Philosopher.
Resazurin
Resazurin, sold under the name Alamar Blue, is a blue redox dye that living cells reduce to the fluorescent pink compound resorufin, a conversion used to measure cell viability.
Rescalure
Rescalure (CAS 67601-06-3) is a synthetic insect pheromone of the California red scale, used in dispensers such as CheckMate CRS for mating disruption in citrus; EU-approved since 2015 under Regulation 2015/2198, extended to 2028.
ResCare (Onex Rescare Holdings Corp.)
ResCare, legally Res-Care, Inc., was a human-services company based in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1974, it served about 60,000 people before Onex took it private in 2010.
Rescene (리센느)
Rescene (리센느, Riseneu) is a five-member South Korean girl group under THE MUZE Entertainment, debuted March 26, 2024 with Re:Scene; members Woni, Liv, Minami, May, Zena; scent concept; 2026 "LOVE ATTACK" chart resurgence.
Rescinnamine
Rescinnamine (Moderil) is a Rauwolfia serpentina indole alkaloid antihypertensive, C35H42N2O9, ATC C02AA01, described as an ACE inhibitor by DrugBank; FDA approved 1956, later discontinued.
Rescission (contract law)
Rescission in contract law is the undoing of a contract ab initio, restoring the parties to their pre-contract positions. Also called avoidance, it operates unilaterally, mutually, or by court order, and is barred by affirmation, delay, or failed counter-restitution.
Rescissions Act of 2025
Rescissions Act of 2025 (Public Law 119-28), US law signed July 24, 2025 canceling $9 billion in public broadcasting and foreign aid funds, the first successful presidential rescission under the Impoundment Control Act since 1992.
Rescript on the Launch of the Diet
The Rescript on the Launch of the Diet (国会開設の勅諭) is an 1881 imperial edict of Emperor Meiji promising a national assembly by 1890, setting a fixed deadline for constitutional government in Japan.
Rescue 1122
Rescue 1122 is the emergency number and name of Pakistan's government-run pre-hospital emergency services, begun in Punjab in 2004 and providing ambulance, firefighting, and water rescue.
Rescue Agreement
The Rescue Agreement (1968) is the UN space treaty obliging states to notify, rescue, and return astronauts in distress and return space objects; opened for signature April 22, 1968, in force December 3, 1968, elaborating Outer Space Treaty Articles V and VIII.
Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
The rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was the emergency response and debris removal at Ground Zero from 2001 to 2002.
Rescue Dawn
Rescue Dawn (2006) is a Werner Herzog war drama based on the true story of pilot Dieter Dengler, detailing his ordeal in a Laotian jungle POW camp.
Rescue Me (American TV series)
Rescue Me (American TV series), FX comedy-drama 2004–2011 created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan; seven seasons, 93 episodes; Denis Leary's alcoholic firefighter Tommy Gavin copes with post-9/11 trauma in a New York firehouse.
Rescue of Jessica McClure
Rescue of Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica"), the October 1987 recovery of an 18-month-old girl trapped 22 feet deep in an 8-inch-wide abandoned well in Midland, Texas, for about 58 hours, freed via a parallel shaft on live television.
Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews
The rescue of the Bulgarian Jews was the failed 1943 attempt to deport Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews, though 11,343 Jews from occupied territories were sent to Treblinka.
Rescue of the Danish Jews
Rescue of the Danish Jews: October 1943 evacuation of about 7,200 Danish Jews and 700 relatives to Sweden after Georg Duckwitz leaked the Nazi deportation order; 470 were deported to Theresienstadt.
Rescue Work
Rescue work is the effort to free people or animals trapped by accidents, fires, floods, earthquakes, and other disasters, usually performed by teams and not restricted to organized services.
RESCUE-AS trial
RESCUE-AS (NCT07335107), also called RESCUE-AS trial, is a phase 3 Chinese trial testing IV tirofiban after bridging therapy (EVT plus tenecteplase) in 564 patients with atherosclerotic large vessel occlusion stroke and successful reperfusion.
Rescue: HI-Surf
Rescue: HI-Surf is a Fox action drama (2024–2025) created by Matt Kester with John Wells, following North Shore of O'ahu lifeguards; 19 episodes, 4.7 million premiere viewers, canceled after one season.
Rescuer (song)
Rescuer (song): title shared by Rend Collective's 2017 worship single "Rescuer (Good News)" (CCLI 7094920, from Good News), Alex Warren's 2026 Atlantic single from WILDCHILD, and a 2026 Eponymous 4 track.
Resculum
Resculum (Rucconium), the Roman auxiliary fort at Bologa, Cluj County, Romania; westernmost fort of Dacia Porolissensis, founded c. 106 AD under Trajan, garrisoned by cohors II Hispanorum, with earth-and-timber then stone phases and a Caracalla visit in 214 AD.