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Rideau Hall
Rideau Hall in Ottawa is the official residence and workplace of Canada's governor general, in use since 1867. Built in 1838 by Thomas McKay, it has about 175 rooms, 32-hectare grounds, national historic site status, and is open to the public.
Rideau Street McDonald's
The Rideau Street McDonald's, known as the Rideau McDonald's, was an Ottawa restaurant at 99 Rideau Street, infamous as the "world's worst McDonald's" before closing in 2023.
Rider
Rider: a person riding a horse, and in archaeology an ancient horseman image such as the Rampin Rider, Madara Rider, and Danubian Riders, studied alongside bit wear and skeletal evidence of riding.
Rider Strong
Rider Strong (Rider King Strong, born 1979) is an American actor, director, and writer, best known as Shawn Hunter on Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and Girl Meets World, star of Cabin Fever, and co-host of the podcasts Pod Meets World and Literary Disco.
Riderless horse
Riderless horse, also called caparisoned horse or lone charger: a saddled horse with boots reversed in the stirrups led in military funerals, honoring Army and Marine colonels and above and U.S. presidents, tracing to Genghis Khan-era horse sacrifice.
Riders in the Chariot
Riders in the Chariot is Patrick White's sixth novel, published in 1961, following four lonely outsiders in a Sydney suburb who share a visionary experience of Ezekiel's chariot.
Riders of Justice
Riders of Justice (Retfærdighedens ryttere) is a 2020 Danish dark comedy-thriller by Anders Thomas Jensen starring Mads Mikkelsen as a soldier drawn into revenge after his wife dies in a train crash; 447,516 Danish admissions, Robert Award winner, Denmark's 94th Oscars submission.
Riders of the Purple Sage (film adaptations)
Film and television adaptations of Zane Grey's 1912 Western novel Riders of the Purple Sage: five screen versions (1918 William Farnum, 1925 Tom Mix, 1931 George O'Brien, 1941 George Montgomery, all Fox; 1996 TNT with Ed Harris), plus a 2018 stage musical.
Riders on the Storm
Riders on the Storm is a 1971 song by The Doors, the closing track and second single from L.A. Woman, Jim Morrison's final recording; it reached No. 14 in the US and No. 22 in the UK and is known for its rain-and-thunder effects and whispered vocal.
Riders to the Sea
Riders to the Sea is a 1904 one-act tragedy by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, about a mother who loses her sons to the sea.
Ridge
A ridge, or mountain ridge, is an elongated elevation with a narrow crest, formed by tectonic folding, erosion, glacial or coastal deposition, or cooling-planet contraction.
Ridge Forrester
Ridge Forrester is a fictional fashion designer on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, an original character since March 23, 1987, played by Ronn Moss (1987–2012) and Thorsten Kaye (2013–present), son of Eric and Stephanie Forrester.
Ridge regression
Ridge regression, also known as Tikhonov regularization, is a penalized linear regression method introduced by Hoerl and Kennard in 1970 that trades bias for lower variance.
Ridge Route
The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic-Tejon Route, is a historic mountain highway in Southern California, opened in 1915 as the first direct road between Los Angeles and Bakersfield.
Ridge Ventures
Ridge Ventures, formerly IDG Ventures USA, is a San Francisco venture capital firm that invests $2-7 million in late Seed and early Series A enterprise software companies.
Ridgeback
Ridgeback is an indoor omnidirectional mobile robot platform from Clearpath Robotics, announced in 2015, that carries manipulator arms and other payloads of up to 100 kg.
Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest, California: a city in the Indian Wells Valley, northeastern Kern County, incorporated 1963; support community for Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake; site of the 2019 M6.4 and M7.1 earthquakes.
Ridgelake Partners
Ridgelake Partners is a middle-market GP-stakes private equity platform formed in 2020 by Apogem Capital and OA Private Capital; its debut fund closed in January 2024 with over $1.1 billion in commitments.
Ridgewell
Ridgewell (Ridgwell), Essex: village and parish in Braintree district, site of a Roman villa excavated and destroyed in 1794, occupied c. A.D. 54 to late 4th century, with a possible bath-house in its eastern wing.
Ridgewood Energy Oil & Gas
Ridgewood Energy Oil & Gas is a New Jersey private equity firm, founded in 1982, whose funds buy working interests in Gulf of Mexico oil and gas projects.
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood, New Jersey: a village in Bergen County incorporated November 20, 1894 from Ridgewood Township (formerly Godwinville). Council-manager Faulkner Act Plan B government; 25,979 residents (2020); railroad suburb born with the 1848 Paterson and Ramapo line.
Ridhima Pandit
Ridhima Pandit, Indian actress, model, and TV host born 1990 in Mumbai, best known as the robot Rajni in Bahu Hamari Rajni Kant (2016-2017), second runner-up on Khatron Ke Khiladi 9, Bigg Boss OTT contestant, and later Netflix and Telugu film actress.
Ridhwan Khan
Ridhwan Khan is a South African entrepreneur who founded and leads Mobicel, a budget phone brand launched in 2007 and called South Africa's only successful domestic smartphone brand.
RIDI
RIDI (리디) is a Seoul-based content platform company founded by Bae Ki-sik in 2008 that sells ebooks, web novels, and webtoons, and runs the global webtoon service Manta.
Ridibooks
Ridibooks, now Ridi (리디), is a Seoul-based content platform company selling e-books, web novels, webtoons, and short dramas; founded in 2008, it became South Korea's first content platform unicorn in 2022.
Ridicule
Ridicule is a 1996 French period comedy-drama by Patrice Leconte, set at Louis XVI's Versailles, where engineer Ponceludon must master wit to win royal funding. It opened Cannes 1996 and won four Césars including Best Film.
Ridiculousness (TV series)
Ridiculousness is MTV's Rob Dyrdek-hosted viral video clip show, premiering August 29, 2011 with co-hosts Steelo Brim, Chanel West Coast, and later Lolo Wood; cancelled in 2025 after 1,700-plus episodes and 46-plus seasons.
Riding a rail
Riding a rail, also called being run out of town on a rail, was an 18th- and 19th-century American mob punishment in which an offender straddled a fence rail carried by bearers, often combined with tarring and feathering, distinct from Depression-era riding the rails.
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (単騎、千里を走る。)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (千里走单骑; 単騎、千里を走る。) is Zhang Yimou's 2005 China-Japan drama starring Ken Takakura as a father filming nuoxi opera in Yunnan for his dying son; it opened the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival and later drew an Anshun dixi attribution lawsuit.
Riding boot
Riding boot: knee-high leather equestrian footwear, in field, dress, dressage, and paddock styles; defined by a heel, discipline-specific stiffness, fit by calf size, and dressage competition rules.