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Rhode Island Energy
Rhode Island Energy is the utility that delivers electricity and natural gas to over 770,000 customers across Rhode Island, operating as a subsidiary of PPL Corporation.
Rhode Island Hospital
Rhode Island Hospital, founded in 1863 in Providence, is Rhode Island's largest hospital, the state's only Level I trauma center, and Brown University's principal teaching hospital.
Rhode Island Red
Rhode Island Red, American dual-purpose chicken breed from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, developed from Malay, Java, and Leghorn stock; mahogany-red plumage, brown eggs, 200-300 eggs yearly, Rhode Island's state bird since 1954.
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), private art and design college and museum in Providence, RI, founded 1877 by women led by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf; about 2,577 students, 40+ degree programs, president Crystal Williams since 2022.
Rhode Island State House
The Rhode Island State House is the state capitol in Providence, designed by McKim, Mead & White and built from 1895 to 1904 in white Georgia marble.
Rhode Island Supreme Court
Rhode Island Supreme Court, the state's court of last resort: five justices (chief justice plus four), final appeals on law and equity, advisory opinions, merit selection, Licht Judicial Complex, Providence.
Rhodenergy
Rhodenergy, legally Rhodenergy An Environmental Co Corp, is a Princeton, New Jersey biotechnology startup founded by Irfan M. Jameel that develops photosynthetic bioreactors and photoenzymes to replace industrial processes with biological ones.
Rhodes (city)
Rhodes (Rodos) is the capital city of the Greek island of Rhodes, founded 408 BC, seat of the Knights Hospitaller 1309–1522, later Ottoman and Italian, with a UNESCO-listed medieval walled city.
Rhodes (Ρόδος)
Rhodes (Ρόδος) is the largest Dodecanese island in the southeastern Aegean, 1,401 km² with 125,113 residents. Its city, founded 408 BC, was held by the Knights of St John 1309–1522, then Ottoman and Italian rulers; the Medieval City is a UNESCO site.
Rhodes College
Rhodes College (formerly Southwestern, Stewart College, Masonic University of Tennessee) is a private Presbyterian-affiliated liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, founded 1848 in Clarksville; about 1,780 undergraduates, 9:1 ratio, Lynx mascot.
Rhodes Ostrich Farm & Park
Rhodes Ostrich Farm & Park (Φάρμα Στρουθοκαμήλων), now Farma of Rhodes Petting Zoo, is an interactive animal farm at Ano Kalamonas near Theologos, Rhodes, with about 20 species including ostriches and lemurs, a fire-rebuilt park, and Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice ranking.
Rhodes Phoenician-Greek bilingual inscriptions
The Rhodes Phoenician-Greek bilingual inscriptions are three Hellenistic inscriptions from Rhodes in both Greek and Phoenician; the best-known, a marble plaque found in 1968, is in the Rhodes Museum.
Rhodes piano
Rhodes piano (Fender Rhodes): electro-mechanical tine electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, first mass-produced 1965 under CBS/Fender; hammer strikes tine over tonebar with per-note pickup; ~250,000 built 1965–1984; revived as MK8 in 2021.
Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship: international postgraduate award at Oxford, founded by Cecil Rhodes's 1902 will, first scholars 1903; two-year tenure, £21,060 stipend, 108 Scholars Elect in 2026 across 25 constituencies.
Rhodesia
Rhodesia, also Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, was the unrecognised white-minority state in present-day Zimbabwe from Ian Smith's 1965 UDI until the Lancaster House Agreement and independence as Zimbabwe in 1980.
Rhodesia (region)
Rhodesia (region): historic south-central African region named after Cecil Rhodes, covering Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), federated 1953–1963, UDI 1965, renamed Zimbabwe in 1980.
Rhodesia at the Paralympics
Rhodesia at the Paralympics: the white-ruled state competed at the Paralympic Games 1960–1972, finishing fifth at Tokyo 1964 with 10 golds, while barred from the Olympics; Canada excluded its team in 1976.
Rhodesia Ransom
Rhodesia Ransom is an American Democratic politician who has represented California's 13th Assembly district, including Stockton and Tracy, since 2024 and chairs the Assembly Emergency Management Committee.
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), issued by Prime Minister Ian Smith on 11 November 1965, claimed independence for the British colony of Southern Rhodesia and was condemned as illegal by Britain and the United Nations.
Rhodesian Bush War
Rhodesian Bush War, or Second Chimurenga, the 1965-1980 conflict between Ian Smith's white minority Rhodesian government and ZANU/ZAPU guerrillas, ending via the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement with majority-ruled Zimbabwe.
Rhodesian dollar
The Rhodesian dollar was the currency of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1980, replacing the Rhodesian pound at two dollars to the pound and subdivided into 100 cents.
Rhodesian Front
The Rhodesian Front (RF) was a white-supremacist political party that ruled Southern Rhodesia from 1962, issuing the Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965 under Ian Smith.
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rhodesian Ridgeback, or African Lion Hound, a large southern African hound breed with a backward-growing dorsal ridge, developed by Cornelius van Rooyen from Khoikhoi dogs, used to bay lions, recognized 1924, AKC 1955.
Rhodesian Security Forces
Rhodesian Security Forces (RSF), the combined police and army of Rhodesia 1965–1979, including the BSAP, Rhodesian Army, Air Force, RLI and Selous Scouts; a racially integrated counter-insurgency force serving white minority rule, merged into the Zimbabwe Defence Forces in 1980.
Rhodesiense trypanosomiasis
Rhodesiense trypanosomiasis (rHAT, East African sleeping sickness), acute form of human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, tsetse-fly transmitted zoonosis of eastern and southern Africa; fexinidazole first-line since 2024.
Rhodiola rosea
Rhodiola rosea (rosenroot, arctic root, golden root), Crassulaceae succulent perennial of the subarctic Northern Hemisphere; root used traditionally as an adaptogen for stress and fatigue; EU traditional-use monograph; clinical evidence inconclusive; wild stocks overharvested.
Rhodium
Rhodium is a chemical element with symbol Rh and atomic number 45, a rare, expensive silvery-white platinum-group metal best known for reducing nitrogen oxides in car catalytic converters.
Rhodobacter
Rhodobacter: genus of gram-negative, facultatively phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria (Alphaproteobacteria) proposed by Imhoff et al. 1984, type species R. capsulatus; found in freshwater, marine, and hypersaline habitats; model species R. capsulatus and R. sphaeroides.
Rhodobacter capsulatus
Rhodobacter capsulatus (basionym Rhodonostoc capsulatum) is a non-pathogenic purple non-sulfur bacterium, type species of Rhodobacter, known for anoxygenic photosynthesis, the RcGTA gene transfer agent, and biohydrogen production.
Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Rhodobacter sphaeroides (Cereibacter sphaeroides), a purple non-sulfur Alphaproteobacterium and model photosynthetic bacterium; strain 2.4.1 has a 4.6 Mb two-chromosome genome and grows by photosynthesis, respiration, and fermentation.