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Rokos Capital Management
Rokos Capital Management is a London-based global macro hedge fund founded in 2015 by Chris Rokos, a co-founder of Brevan Howard, managing about $22 billion.
Rokot
Rokot (Рокот, Russian for "rumble") was a Russian expendable small-lift launch vehicle built from the retired SS-19 ICBM by Khrunichev, flying 32 orbital launches between 1994 and 2019.
ROKS Cheonan sinking
The ROKS Cheonan sinking occurred on 26 March 2010, when a South Korean patrol corvette sank near Baengnyeong Island; an investigation blamed a North Korean torpedo, and 46 sailors died.
ROKS Jeongjo the Great
ROKS Jeongjo the Great (정조대왕함, DDG-995) is a South Korean Aegis guided-missile destroyer, the first in the navy with ballistic missile defense capability, commissioned in 2024.
Roku
Roku is an American company whose TV streaming platform, launched with its first player in 2008, is the leading streaming platform in the United States.
Roku City
Roku City, officially titled City Scroll: Movie Magic, is the animated screensaver on Roku streaming devices showing a purple-and-magenta nighttime city filled with hidden movie and TV references.
Roku OS
Roku OS is a Linux-based operating system for televisions and streaming devices by Roku, Inc., powering Roku players and licensed Roku TV models since 2008.
Roku Streaming Stick
The Roku Streaming Stick is a family of HDMI dongle streaming players from Roku, first announced in January 2012, that run the Roku OS without a set-top box.
Roku TV
Roku TV is a licensed smart television platform, announced at CES in 2014, in which manufacturers like TCL and Hisense build TVs around Roku's operating system.
Roku, Inc.
Roku, Inc. is an American streaming technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. Founded by DVR inventor Anthony Wood, it launched the first Netflix-ready streaming player in 2008.
Rokua UNESCO Global Geopark
Rokua UNESCO Global Geopark, Finland's first geopark (designated 2015), is a 1,326 km² Ice Age landscape in Northern Ostrobothnia with eskers, dunes, kettle-hole lakes, and one of Finland's largest aquifers.
Rokudo's Bad Girls
Rokudo's Bad Girls (六道の悪女たち, Rokudo no Onna-tachi) is Yuji Nakamura's delinquent romantic comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion 2016–2021 in 26 volumes, adapted as a 2023 12-episode SATELIGHT TV anime.
Rokuhara Tandai
The Rokuhara Tandai (六波羅探題) was the Kamakura shogunate's agency at Rokuhara in Kyoto, established in 1221 after the Jokyu War to supervise the imperial court and western provinces, and destroyed in 1333.
Rokurokubi
Rokurokubi (轆轤首, ろくろ首), Japanese yōkai with a freely stretching neck, distinct from the head-detaching nukekubi; first attested in 1638 haikai, derived from Chinese flying-head lore, depicted by Toriyama Sekien and transmitted abroad by Lafcadio Hearn.
Rokusuke Ei
Rokusuke Ei (永六輔) was a Japanese lyricist and radio personality who wrote "Ue o Muite Arukō," the only Japanese-language song to top the Billboard Hot 100.
ROKVISS
ROKVISS, the Robotics Component Verification on ISS, was a German Aerospace Center experiment: a two-joint, torque-controlled robotic arm mounted outside the ISS from 2005 to 2010.
Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson (Roger Kynard Erickson, 1947–2019), American psychedelic rock singer and guitarist, frontman of the 13th Floor Elevators and creator of "You're Gonna Miss Me" and the horror-rock album The Evil One.
Rokytne Raion
Rokytne Raion (Rokytnivskyi raion) names two former Ukrainian districts abolished in July 2020: one in Kyiv Oblast (est. 1923, merged into Bila Tserkva Raion) and one in Rivne Oblast (est. 1940, merged into Sarny Raion).
Rola (ローラ) (model)
Rola (ローラ, birth name Eri Sato), Japanese fashion model, TV personality, actress, and singer born 1990 in Tokyo; ViVi exclusive model, variety-show star, Resident Evil actress, LA-based independent creator and farmer.
Rolán's Cape Verde marine molluscs
Rolán's Cape Verde marine molluscs is Emilio Rolán's 2005 two-part monograph, published by ConchBooks, recording 816 mollusc species and subspecies from the Cape Verde archipelago.
Roland
Roland (Hruodlandus) is the Frankish hero of The Song of Roland, Charlemagne's nephew who died at Roncevaux in 778; the legend made him the epitome of chivalric sacrifice, with the olifant horn and sword Durendal.
Roland Baron
Roland Baron is a bone biologist and physician-scientist, professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on osteoclasts and Pyle's disease.
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (1915–1980), French essayist, critic and founder of semiology; author of Mythologies, S/Z, The Pleasure of the Text and Camera Lucida; Collège de France chair of literary semiology.
Roland Benabou
Roland Bénabou is a French economist working in behavioral and political economics, best known for his theory of motivated beliefs developed with Jean Tirole and his 2013 paper "Groupthink".
Roland Bose
Roland Bose (born 1947) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at the 1968 Mexico City Games despite missing the final through illness.
Roland Brückner
Roland Brückner (born 1955, Köthen) is a German artistic gymnast who competed for East Germany, Olympic floor exercise champion at Moscow 1980, also 1979 World and 1981 European floor champion, with five Olympic medals.
Roland Bulirsch
Roland Zdenek Bulirsch (1932–2022) was a German numerical mathematician at TU Munich, known for the Bulirsch–Stoer ODE method, multiple shooting, and the textbook Numerische Mathematik with Josef Stoer.
Roland Bürgmann
Roland Bürgmann is a geophysicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for pioneering InSAR and GPS geodesy to measure fault creep, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Roland Burris
Roland Burris, Illinois Democratic politician, was US senator 2009–2010, appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill Barack Obama's seat; former comptroller, attorney general; ethics admonition, no charges.
Roland C. Blantz
Roland C. Blantz (1940–2017) was an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at UCSD and the San Diego VA hospital, known for renal vascular physiology and tubuloglomerular feedback research.