All articles starting with R
22,461 articles
River water
River water is the water carried downhill in a stream bed toward a lake or ocean, supplying drinking water, irrigation, hydropower, transport, and habitat for people and ecosystems.
River Wharfe
River Wharfe: Yorkshire river rising in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, flowing through Wharfedale to the Ouse. Historic Tadcaster navigation; UK's first river bathing water at Ilkley (2020).
River Where the Moon Rises (달이 뜨는 강)
River Where the Moon Rises (달이 뜨는 강, also Moonlit River) is a 2021 KBS2 Goguryeo-era historical romance drama in 20 episodes starring Kim So-hyun as Princess Pyeonggang, with On Dal played by Ji Soo and then Na In-woo after a bullying-scandal recast, followed by a 3 billion won lawsuit.
River Wonders
River Wonders is a river-themed wildlife park in Singapore's Mandai Wildlife Reserve, opened in 2014 as the River Safari and known for its giant pandas.
River-class destroyer
The River-class destroyer is a class of 15 warships being built for the Royal Canadian Navy by Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax, replacing its destroyers and frigates.
River-class patrol vessel
The River class is a class of offshore patrol vessels of the British Royal Navy, entering service in 2003–04 and used for fishery protection, border patrol, and disaster relief.
River's Edge
River's Edge is a 1986 American crime drama directed by Tim Hunter, written by Neal Jimenez, starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, and Dennis Hopper; loosely based on the 1981 Marcy Conrad murder in Milpitas, California, it won Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature and Best Screenplay.
Riverboat
A riverboat is a vessel designed to carry passengers, freight, or both on rivers and inland waterways, most often evoking the shallow-draft paddlewheel steamboats of the nineteenth century.
Riverdale (American TV series)
Riverdale is an American CW teen drama (2017-2023) created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa from Archie Comics characters, a dark Archie adaptation; origin involved a cease-and-desist over Aguirre-Sacasa's play, and its final seventh season was set in the 1950s.
Riverdale (Archie Comics)
Riverdale is the fictional small American town created by Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) as the setting for Archie Andrews and the entire Archie Comics franchise, spanning classic teen-comedy stories, the Archie Horror line, the 2015 New Riverdale reboot, and the dark CW television series.
Riverdale season 4
Riverdale season 4, the fourth season of The CW teen drama, aired October 9, 2019 to May 6, 2020 in 19 episodes cut short by COVID-19, opening with a Luke Perry tribute and ending without prom or graduation.
Riverdale season 5
Riverdale season 5: The CW teen drama's 19-episode 2021 season featuring a seven-year time jump in episode 4, opening with the pandemic-displaced season 4 finale episodes, 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Riverdale, Bronx
Riverdale is a leafy, affluent residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, along the Hudson River. Known for Wave Hill, the Riverdale Historic District, and the Bronx's most expensive housing.
Riverdance
Riverdance is an Irish theatrical show that began as a seven-minute interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin. It spread Irish step dance globally.
Riverina
Riverina: agricultural region of south-western New South Wales in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's food bowl; also an IBRA bioregion, a federal electorate (Wagga Wagga, Griffith), and a 1927 stockfeed company.
Riverland
Riverland Ramsar site (site no. 377), a 30,640-hectare wetland along 80 km of the Murray River in South Australia, listed 23 September 1987; meets 8 of 9 Ramsar criteria, supports 20,000+ waterbirds and threatened Murray cod.
Riverlane
Riverlane is a British quantum computing company founded in Cambridge in 2016 by Steve Brierley. It builds Deltaflow, a real-time quantum error correction system combining FPGA hardware and software.
Rivermaya
Rivermaya is a Filipino alternative rock band formed in Manila in 1993, one of the most successful acts in Original Pilipino Music with 12 studio albums.
Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire
The Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire (RPQ) is a 16-item self-report questionnaire rating the severity of post-concussion symptoms such as headache and dizziness after head injury, introduced in 1995.
Rivers and Harbors Act
The Rivers and Harbors Act names a series of United States federal statutes, beginning in 1824, that fund navigable water improvements, with the 1899 act still governing obstructions and refuse in navigable waters.
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American singer-songwriter, born in 1970, best known as the frontman, guitarist, and main songwriter of Weezer, the alternative rock band he started in Los Angeles in 1992.
Rivers of Babylon
Rivers of Babylon: Rastafarian reggae song written by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of The Melodians (c. 1969-1970), based on Psalms 137 and 19, popularized by The Harder They Come soundtrack and Boney M.'s 1978 five-week UK No. 1 disco version.
Rivers of Blood speech
Enoch Powell's April 1968 Birmingham speech on Commonwealth immigration, named for its Virgil 'River Tiber foaming with much blood' allusion; it led Edward Heath to sack him from the Shadow Cabinet and shaped later UK immigration debate.
Rivers of Ireland
Rivers of Ireland: over 73,000 km of channels, with the Shannon the longest at more than 360 km. Covers major rivers, EPA hydrometric monitoring, flow regimes, water quality status, and River Basin Management.
Rivers of Jamaica
Jamaica's rivers are more than 100 short, steep, fast-flowing streams organized into 10 hydrological basins and 26 Watershed Management Units; the Rio Minho, at 92.5 km, is the longest.
Rivers of London (novel)
Rivers of London (Midnight Riot, 2011), Ben Aaronovitch's first Peter Grant novel: probationary constable Peter Grant sees a ghost witness, joins the Folly under Thomas Nightingale, and mediates a river-spirits dispute.
Rivers State
Rivers State, Nigeria (capital Port Harcourt): Niger Delta state created 27 May 1967 from the Eastern Region; 23 LGAs; produces over 60% of Nigeria's crude oil; population 5.2 million (2006); under six-month emergency rule in 2025.
Riverside (band)
Riverside (band): Polish progressive rock band formed in Warsaw in 2001 by Mariusz Duda, Piotr Grudziński, Piotr Kozieradzki, and Michał Łapaj; eight albums from Out of Myself (2003) to ID.Entity (2023); Duda announced its end in April 2026. Distinct from Riverside USA and other namesakes.
Riverside Capital Appreciation
Riverside Capital Appreciation is a series of private equity buyout funds managed by The Riverside Company, a firm founded in 1988 and based in New York and Cleveland.
Riverside Church (New York City)
The Riverside Church in the City of New York is an interdenominational church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, built 1927–1930 with funding from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.