All articles starting with R

Restaurant: Impossible

Restaurant: Impossible, Food Network reality series hosted by Robert Irvine, saves failing US restaurants in two days with $10,000; ran 2011 to 2023, rebooted 2026 as Last Call with Aarón Sánchez and Jen Agg.

Resting bitch face

Resting bitch face (RBF, bitchy resting face) is a neutral facial expression others misread as angry or contemptuous. Coined on Urban Dictionary in 2009, popularized by a 2013 Funny Or Die video; explained by structural resemblance to emotions, context effects, and gendered judgment biases.

Resting potential

Resting potential (resting membrane potential, RMP): the inside-negative voltage across a cell membrane at rest, about -70 mV in neurons, set mainly by K+ leak permeability and maintained by the Na+/K+-ATPase, described by Nernst and GHK equations.

Sep 29, 2026

Resting-state fMRI

Resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) is a functional MRI method that maps functional connectivity between brain regions by measuring spontaneous BOLD signal fluctuations while the subject performs no task.

Oct 20, 2026

Restionaceae

Restionaceae (restios), family of wind-pollinated, mostly dioecious perennial herbs of the Southern Hemisphere; 51 genera, 572 species per Kew; dominant in Cape fynbos and Australian kwongan; flowers year-round with spring peak.

Restitution in English law

Restitution in English law, also called the law of unjust enrichment, lets a claimant recover a benefit gained at their expense. Recognized in Lipkin Gorman (1991), structured by four questions including the unjust factor and defences.

Restitution of unlawfully exacted taxes

Restitution of unlawfully exacted taxes is the recovery of tax paid to a public authority without legal power to demand it, as in the English Woolwich principle.

Restless (2024 film)

Restless (2024) is a British psychological thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Jed Hart, starring Lyndsey Marshal as care worker Nicky, whose sleep and sanity unravel against nightmare neighbor Deano (Aston McAuley); premiered at Tribeca 2024, released UK April 2025.

Restless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Restless" (S4E22, 2000), Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 finale written and directed by Joss Whedon: four surreal dreams in which the First Slayer Sineya punishes Willow, Xander, Giles, and Buffy for the enjoining spell, foreshadowing later seasons.

Restless legs syndrome

Restless legs syndrome (Willis-Ekbom disease): neurological disorder causing an urge to move the legs at rest, worse at night. Linked to brain iron deficiency, dopamine dysfunction, BTBD9/MEIS1 genes; treated with iron, gabapentinoids, avoiding dopamine agonist augmentation.

Reston, Virginia

Reston, Virginia: planned community and census-designated place in western Fairfax County, founded by Robert E. Simon Jr. (opened 1964), a 1960s new town with village centers, Lake Anne historic district, Reston Town Center, and Silver Line Metro service.

restor3d

restor3d is a Durham, North Carolina medical device company, founded in 2017 as a Duke University spinout, that 3D-prints personalized orthopedic implants and acquired knee maker Conformis in 2023.

Oct 3, 2026

Restoration (1995 film)

Restoration (1995) is Michael Hoffman's period drama based on Rose Tremain's novel, starring Robert Downey Jr. as physician Robert Merivel at the court of King Charles II (Sam Neill); it won 1996 Oscars for art direction and costume design.

Restoration (Spain)

The Bourbon Restoration (Restauración borbónica) was Spain's political period from the 29 December 1874 pronunciamiento of Martínez Campos restoring Alfonso XII until the Second Republic's proclamation on 14 April 1931, marked by turnismo, caciquismo, and the Disaster of 1898.

Restoration comedy

Restoration comedy, also called comedy of manners, is English satirical comedy of roughly 1660 to 1710, written after Charles II reopened the theatres; known for sexual explicitness, witty aristocratic dialogue, and plays like The Country Wife and The Way of the World.

Restoration Council of Shan State

The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) is an ethnic armed organization in Myanmar's Shan State led by Lt. Gen. Yawd Serk that fights for Shan self-determination within a federal union.

Restoration Junta

The Restoration Junta, known in Spanish as the Ejército Restaurador, was the Chilean-led army that invaded Peru in 1837–1839 to dissolve the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, winning the decisive Battle of Yungay in January 1839.

Restoration literature

Restoration literature is the English writing produced between 1660 and about 1700, after Charles II restored the monarchy, known for satirical comedies of manners by writers like Dryden and Aphra Behn.

Restoration Movement

The Restoration Movement, or Stone–Campbell Movement, is a family of Christian bodies founded on the American frontier around 1800 to restore New Testament Christianity and unite all Christians.

Restoration of Danjong plot

The Restoration of Danjong plot (단종 복위 운동) was a 1456 conspiracy by former Hall of Worthies scholars to depose King Sejo and reinstate Danjong; it was betrayed and its leaders executed.

Restoration of examinations and their Hongwu suspension

The restoration of examinations and their Hongwu suspension (科举停罢与恢复) was an early-Ming episode in which civil examinations were opened, suspended, and restored under the Hongwu Emperor.

Restoration of Imperial Rule edict

The Restoration of Imperial Rule edict (王政復古の大号令) was a Japanese court proclamation issued January 3, 1868, accepting Tokugawa Yoshinobu's return of power and abolishing the shogunate.

Restoration of King Xuan of Zhou

The Restoration of King Xuan of Zhou (宣王中兴) was the revival of royal authority under King Xuan of Zhou, who reigned from 827 to 782 BC after the Gonghe regency.

Restoration of Polish independence

The restoration of Polish independence was the re-creation of a sovereign Polish state on 11 November 1918, when power passed to Józef Piłsudski after 123 years of partitions.

Restoration of the Chalukyas under Vikramaditya I

The restoration of the Chalukyas under Vikramaditya I was his recovery of the Chalukya kingdom of Badami in the Deccan, taking the throne in 655 after his father Pulakeshin II's defeat.

Restoration of the Gaokao (college entrance examination)

The Restoration of the Gaokao (恢复高考) was the 1977 decision by Deng Xiaoping to reinstate China's unified college entrance examinations, ending admissions by political recommendation since 1966.

Restoration of the Han under Emperor Guangwu

The restoration of the Han under Emperor Guangwu (光武中兴) was Liu Xiu's reunification of China after Wang Mang, founding the Eastern Han through victories at Kunyang and campaigns ending in 34 AD.