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Rhonda Feinbaum
Rhonda Feinbaum is an American molecular biologist and genetic counselor who co-authored the 1993 lin-4 paper founding microRNA biology and later studied C. elegans immunity.
Rhonda Fleming
Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis, 1923–2020) was an American film and TV actress and singer nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor," known for Spellbound, Out of the Past, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and later UCLA cancer-support philanthropy.
Rhonda Kallman
Rhonda Kallman is an American beverage entrepreneur who co-founded The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams, in 1984 and later founded Boston Harbor Distillery.
Rhonda L. Feinbaum
Rhonda L. Feinbaum is a molecular biologist who was co-equal first author, with Rosalind C. Lee, of the 1993 Cell paper reporting lin-4, the first microRNA discovered.
Rhonda Louise Williams
Rhonda Williams, UCCS professor emerita of counseling and human services, school counseling program coordinator, ASCA ethics chair, Smart-Girl program founder, and 2025 UCCS distinguished alumna.
Rhonda Ross Kendrick
Rhonda Ross Kendrick (born Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein, 1971) is an American actress and jazz-influenced singer-songwriter, daughter of Diana Ross and Berry Gordy, Emmy-nominated for Another World.
Rhonda Vincent
Rhonda Vincent (born 1962), the "new Queen of Bluegrass" per The Wall Street Journal, is a Missouri-born bluegrass singer and mandolinist leading the Rage. Eight IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year awards, 2018 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, Grand Ole Opry member since 2021.
Rhondda
Rhondda (Y Rhondda), the Rhondda Valleys of South Wales: twin coal-mining valleys, Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach, meeting at Porth. Known for Walter Coffin's pioneering coal industry, steam coal fame, terraced settlements, Rhondda Heritage Park, and coal-tip and flood hazards.
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT), a county borough and unitary authority in the South Wales Valleys northwest of Cardiff, formed in 1996 from Rhondda, Cynon Valley and Taff Ely districts; population 237,497 (Census 2021), third largest Welsh local authority.
Rhône
The Rhône (Rhone) is an 812 km Alpine river from the Swiss Valais through Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean, France's most powerful river at 1,700 m3/s, heavily dammed for hydropower, navigation, and irrigation, and now under major restoration.
Rhone Partners
Rhone Partners, also known as Rhône Group or Rhone Capital L.L.C., is a New York private equity firm founded in 1996 by Robert F. Agostinelli and M. Steven Langman.
Rhône wine
Rhône wine comes from the Rhône Valley of southeastern France, split into a Syrah-based continental north (about 5% of output) and a Grenache-blend Mediterranean south (95%), under a tiered appellation hierarchy.
Rhône-Alpes Region
Rhône-Alpes, former French administrative region in the southeast, merged with Auvergne on 1 January 2016 to form Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with capital Lyon; second metropolitan region by area and population, GDP 109% of EU average, major ski-tourism economy.
RhonniRose Mantilla
RhonniRose Mantilla is an American actress and musical theatre performer, a Baldwin Wallace graduate, Broadway ensemble member in Harmony (2023), and Chelsea Hamilton on CBS's Beyond the Gates (2025).
Rhotacism
Rhotacism: a sound change turning /s/ or /z/ into r, classically in Latin (flos, floris; honos, honoris), dated before 339 BCE; also a speech disorder of /r/ articulation.
Rhotic consonant
Rhotic consonants are "R-like" liquid consonants, from trills and taps to approximants and uvular fricatives, named after Greek rho. They share no single phonetic property but pattern as a phonological natural class across languages.
Rhoticity in English
Rhoticity in English: whether historical /r/ is pronounced postvocalically. Rhotic accents include Scottish, Irish, and most American English; non-rhotic accents include RP, Australian, and New Zealand English, a split shaped by 18th-century prestige and colonial timing.
Rhourd Ennous-Hassi R'Mel Gas Pipeline
The Rhourd Ennous-Hassi R'Mel Gas Pipeline (خط أنابيب رورد النوس - حاسي الرمل) is a pair of 48-inch Sonatrach pipelines carrying gas from Rhourde Nouss to Hassi R'Mel.
Rhourde El Baguel oil field
Rhourde El Baguel is a large onshore oil field in eastern Algeria, about 90 km southeast of Hassi Messaoud, once the country's second largest oil field after Hassi Messaoud.
Rhourde El Krouf oil field
Rhourde El Krouf (RKF) is an onshore oil field in the Berkine Basin of eastern Algeria, discovered in 1992 and producing light oil since 1996.
Rhourde Nouss Gas Field
Rhourde Nouss Gas Field (رورد النص) is a gas-condensate field in southeastern Algeria's Illizi basin, Algeria's second largest gas development after Hassi R'Mel, operated by Sonatrach.
Rhpisunt Mons
Rhpisunt Mons is a 250-km-diameter shield volcano on Venus at 2.5°N, 301.5°E in the Guinevere Planitia quadrangle, IAU-named in 1997 for the Haida Bear Mother deity, rising about 1,800 m above its surroundings.
RhSi
RhSi (rhodium monosilicide) is a chiral topological semimetal hosting multifold fermions with topological charge 4, a central material for testing the quantized circular photogalvanic effect.
Rhubarb
Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) is a hardy perennial buckwheat-family vegetable grown for tart edible stalks; leaves are toxic from oxalic acid, and it needs winter chill, division propagation, and cool summers.
Rhuigi Villaseñor
Rhuigi Villaseñor, Filipino-American founder of Rhude (2015) and Bally creative director 2022–2023, creator of the Traxedo and the RHU x Zara line Redesigning Human Uniform.
Rhum Oil and Gas Field
Rhum is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas field in the UK northern North Sea, discovered in 1977 and producing since 2005 through subsea wells tied to the Bruce platform.
Rhumb line
A rhumb line, also called a loxodrome, crosses every meridian at the same angle, letting a ship or aircraft hold a constant bearing; it appears straight on a Mercator chart.
Rhun ap Iorwerth
Rhun ap Iorwerth is a Welsh politician who has been First Minister of Wales since May 2026 and leader of Plaid Cymru, after a BBC journalism career.
Rhus typhina
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac, Rhus hirta) is a suckering North American shrub or small tree of Anacardiaceae, 15-25 ft tall with velvety branches and red hairy fruit; harmless, unlike poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix), and a 17th-century European introduction.
Rhyacophilidae
Rhyacophilidae, free-living predatory caddisflies (Trichoptera) established by Stephens 1836; larvae caseless in cold fast streams; dominated by Rhyacophila, the largest caddisfly genus with over 700 species.