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Rihla of Ibn Jubayr
The Rihla of Ibn Jubayr (رحلة ابن جبير) is an Arabic travel account of a 1183 to 1185 pilgrimage to Mecca by an Andalusi secretary.
Riho
Riho, also known as Riho-hime, is a Japanese professional wrestler from Shinagawa, Tokyo, best known as the inaugural AEW Women's World Champion from 2019 to 2020.
Riho Terras
Riho Terras, born 1967, is an Estonian politician and former military officer with the rank of general, a Member of the European Parliament since February 2020.
Rii Sen (ঋতুপর্ণা সেন)
Rii Sen (ঋতুপর্ণা সেন; born Rituparna Sen, 1978, Kolkata) is a Bengali cinema actress, ex-model and TV actress, known for alternative films Gandu (2010) and Cosmic Sex (2015), debut Tepantorer Mathe unreleased.
Riigikogu
Riigikogu is the unicameral 101-member parliament of Estonia, elected for four-year terms across 12 districts, holding legislative power under § 59 of the 1992 Constitution; it elects the President, passes the budget, and descends from the 1919–1920 Asutav Kogu.
Riihimäki
Riihimäki, a town in Kanta-Häme, Finland (code 694), pop. 28,482 (2024); a railway junction town since 1870, known for its glass industry, Finnish Glass Museum, and garrison, under an hour from Helsinki.
RIII
RIII is an albino inbred laboratory mouse strain founded in 1928 in Paris, known for high mammary tumor incidence, the RIIIS substrain's large TCR V beta gene deletion, and von Willebrand disease-like bleeding.
Riikka Purra
Riikka Purra is a Finnish politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and chairs the Finns Party in Petteri Orpo's government.
RIIO-T3
RIIO-T3 is the price control set by the British regulator Ofgem for Great Britain's electricity and gas transmission networks, running from April 2026 to March 2031 as the transmission part of the RIIO-3 round.
Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf embayments of the Weddell margin
The Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf embayments of the Weddell margin are coastal indentations along Antarctica's Weddell Sea, notably Vahsel Bay, charted in 1912, and the Lassiter Coast.
Riiser-Larsen Peninsula
Riiser-Larsen Peninsula (Riiser-Larsenhalvøya), also called Cook Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, at 68°55'S 34°00'E, forming the western portal to Lützow-Holm Bay and separating the Princess Ragnhild and Prince Harald Coasts; discovered by Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen from the Norvegia on 21 February 1931.
Riisitunturi National Park
Riisitunturi National Park (Riisitunturin kansallispuisto), Posio, Finnish Lapland; 77 km² park established 1982, Ramsar site 1528, Natura 2000 FI1301101, famed for hanging blanket mires and snow-crowned spruces.
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari, born 1948 in Mikkeli, Finland, is a Finnish cognitive neuroscientist who developed magnetoencephalography, a brain-imaging method tracking brain activity with millisecond timing, and pioneered two-person neuroscience.
Riize discography
Riize (라이즈, ライズ) is an SM Entertainment boy group that debuted September 4, 2023 with 'Get A Guitar'; its discography spans 22 releases and 67 tracks (2023–2026), including RIIZING, ODYSSEY, and Japanese singles.
Rijcklof van Goens
Rijcklof van Goens (1619–1682) was a Dutch East India Company officer who conquered the Portuguese positions on Ceylon and served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1678 to 1681.
Rijeka
Rijeka (Fiume) is Croatia's largest port and third-largest city, seat of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, with 108,622 inhabitants (2021). A Habsburg free port, briefly the Free State of Fiume, and European Capital of Culture 2020.
Rijeka Grobnik
Rijeka Grobnik (Automotodrom Grobnik) is a 4,168 m permanent road-racing circuit near Rijeka, Croatia, opened 1978; it hosted 13 Yugoslav motorcycle Grands Prix (1978–1990) and is Croatia's only FIA- and FIM-accredited track.
Rijksbouwbesluit
The Rijksbouwbesluit is the Dutch national building decree under the Housing Act, which replaced varying municipal bylaws in 1992 with uniform performance requirements and was succeeded by the Bbl in 2024.
Rijksmonument
A rijksmonument is a Dutch building, park, or archaeological site designated as a protected national monument by the minister of Education, Culture, and Science; there are about 63,000.
Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam): the national museum of the Netherlands, housed in Pierre Cuypers' 1885 Gothic-Renaissance building. Holds 1.1 million objects including Rembrandt's The Night Watch; 2.3 million visitors in 2025; open-data Collection Online.
Rijkswaterstaat
Rijkswaterstaat is the executive agency of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, managing the main road network, waterways, and flood defenses since 1798.
Rijndael S-box
The Rijndael S-box, also known as the AES S-box, is the substitution table used in the Advanced Encryption Standard, the block cipher NIST selected in 2000.
Rijsbergen
Rijsbergen is a village in the municipality of Zundert, North Brabant, Netherlands, near the Belgian border, known for the 1812 find of a Roman altar to the otherwise unattested goddess Sandraudiga and her nearby temple.
Rijsttafel
Rijsttafel ("rice table") is a Dutch-Indonesian feast of many small Indonesian dishes served around rice, created by Dutch colonists in the Dutch East Indies, brought to the Netherlands after 1949, and now listed as Dutch intangible cultural heritage.
Rijswijk
Rijswijk, South Holland municipality between Delft and The Hague; Roman-inheemse villa site De Bult (excavated by Bloemers 1967-1974), Decius and Caracalla milestones, Peace of Rijswijk 1697, 101 rijksmonumenten.
Rik Derynck
Rik Derynck is a Belgian-born molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for cloning the TGF-α and TGF-β1 genes at Genentech and for defining how Smad proteins transmit TGF-β signals.
Rik Emmett
Rik Emmett (born 1953, Toronto) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist of Triumph (1975–1988) on a dozen platinum albums, then a prolific solo artist, author, and educator.
Rik Huiskes
Rik Huiskes (Hendrik Willem Jan Huiskes, 1944–2010) was a Dutch biomechanics researcher who modeled bone remodeling around joint prostheses and edited the Journal of Biomechanics.
Rik Larnoe
Rik Larnoe (Alfons Henri Larnoe, 1897-1978), Belgian striker for Beerschot Antwerp; captained Belgium to 1920 Olympic football gold, scoring in the abandoned final, and played at the 1924 Paris Games.
Rik Mayall
Rik Mayall (1958–2014), English comedian and actor of the 1980s alternative comedy scene; star of The Young Ones, The New Statesman, and Bottom, and half of the Dangerous Brothers double act with Ade Edmondson.