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Right-wing populism
Right-wing populism combines thin-centered populist ideology (pure people versus corrupt elite) with nativism and authoritarianism; exemplified by Front National, FPÖ, Lega, PiS, AfD, Fidesz, and Trump's MAGA movement.
Right-wing terrorism
Right-wing terrorism: political violence by far-right non-state actors driven by racial supremacy, antigovernment, or nationalist ideologies; also called ERWT in the UK. Known for firearms-based lone-actor attacks on minorities, religious institutions, abortion providers, and government targets.
Righteous Among the Nations (חסידי אומות העולם)
Righteous Among the Nations is an honorary title awarded by Yad Vashem to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, with 28,707 individuals recognized from 51 countries.
Righteous armies
Righteous armies (의병, 義兵) were voluntary Korean civilian forces, raised without state pay or command, that resisted the 1592–1598 Japanese invasions, seventeenth-century Manchu invasions, and Japanese rule until 1910.
Righteous armies of 1592
The righteous armies of 1592 (의병) were volunteer guerrilla forces raised by Korean literati and commoners after government armies failed, first raised by Gwak Jae-u at Uiryeong.
Righteous Army (Yibing) militia system
The Righteous Army (義兵, yibing) was the Yuan dynasty's system of locally recruited militias, authorized chiefly between 1350 and 1357 to supplement armies weakened by rebellion.
Righteous Army movement
The Righteous Army movement (의병) was a series of Korean popular armed resistances in which volunteer militias fought Japanese encroachment on Korea from 1895 to 1915.
Righteous Army of Jeong Mun-bu
The Righteous Army of Jeong Mun-bu (정문부 의병) was a Korean volunteer force raised in 1592 during the Imjin War that drove the Japanese from Korea's northeast.
Righteous Kill
Righteous Kill is a 2008 American crime thriller directed by Jon Avnet. It stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as NYPD partners investigating a vigilante serial killer.
Righteousness
Righteousness is a theological term translating the Hebrew tsedaqah and Greek dikaiosyne, whose meaning has been argued over for centuries: as covenant faithfulness, a forensic declaration, an infused grace, and a life of good works.
RightHand Robotics
RightHand Robotics is an American warehouse robotics company in Charlestown, Massachusetts, founded in 2015, whose RightPick system grasps individual items from bins for e-commerce fulfillment.
Righting moment
The righting moment, also called the moment of statical stability, is the torque that returns a heeled ship upright, equal to its displacement multiplied by the righting lever GZ.
Righting reflex
The righting reflex is a helper's natural desire to fix a client's problems and set them on a better course, a trap in motivational interviewing.
Righting Reflex (medicine)
The righting reflex is the inborn impulse to return the body to its normal orientation in space after displacement; its loss is a standard measure of unconsciousness in rodent research.
Righting Wrongs (执法先锋)
Righting Wrongs (执法先锋, aka Above the Law) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed by Corey Yuen, starring Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock as a vigilante prosecutor and the cop pursuing him, with an 83-meter building stunt and multiple cuts.
Rightmove
Rightmove plc is a British online property portal, founded in 2000 and listed in London in 2006, and the UK's largest property portal by traffic.
Rights
Rights are entitlements held by a person or other bearer to act, to be in certain states, or to have others act; analyzed by Hohfeld and central to law and morality.
Rights issue
A rights issue, also called a rights offering, is an equity fundraising in which a company offers new shares to existing shareholders, usually at a discount.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man is a political pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in two parts in 1791 and 1792, defending the French Revolution against Edmund Burke.
Rightway
Rightway is a New York healthtech company founded in 2017 by Jordan and Ted Feldman that offers healthcare navigation and a transparent pharmacy benefit manager for employers.
RIGI
RIGI (DDX58, RIG-I) is the human cytosolic RNA sensor gene encoding a DExD/H-box helicase that detects viral dsRNA, signals through MAVS to type I interferons, and whose gain-of-function mutations cause Singleton-Merten syndrome type 2.
RIGI (Argentina)
RIGI (Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones) is an Argentine investment incentive scheme created in 2024 under President Javier Milei to attract large projects with tax and foreign exchange benefits.
Rigid airship
A rigid airship is a lighter-than-air aircraft with a stiff internal airframe holding its gas cells, pioneered by Count Zeppelin's LZ 1 in 1900 and ended by the 1937 Hindenburg fire.
Rigid analytic space
A rigid analytic space, the subject of rigid analytic geometry, is an analytic space over a non-Archimedean field, introduced by John Tate in the early 1960s.
Rigid body
A rigid body is an idealized model of an object in which the distance between any two points stays constant during motion, so the body translates and rotates but never deforms.
Rigid body dynamics
Rigid body dynamics, also called rigid body mechanics, is the branch of classical mechanics describing the motion of bodies whose shape does not change, using six coordinates per free body.
Rigid bronchoscopy
Rigid bronchoscopy inserts a hollow metal tube through the mouth into the trachea and central airways, usually under general anesthesia, to remove foreign bodies and treat airway lesions.
Rigid coaxial transmission line
Rigid coaxial transmission line, or rigid line, is a high-power radio-frequency feeder of straight copper conductors with air dielectric, assembled in short flanged sections used chiefly in broadcast transmitter plants.
Rigid designator
A rigid designator is an expression, such as a proper name, that names the same object in every possible world, a concept introduced by Saul Kripke.
Rigid fixation
Rigid fixation is a surgical fracture technique providing absolute stability through compression with lag screws and plates, allowing direct bone healing without callus and early mobilization of the limb.