All articles starting with R

Romantic orientation

Romantic orientation: enduring pattern of romantic attraction by partner gender, distinct from sexual orientation. Includes aromantic, biromantic, heteroromantic, panromantic labels; heavily documented in asexual and aromantic-spectrum community research.

Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romanticism movement, which thrived in Europe and the Americas from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, embracing nature and emotion.

Romantic Warrior (浪漫勇士) (horse)

Romantic Warrior (浪漫勇士) is a retired Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in Hong Kong from 2021 to 2026, winning 24 of 31 starts including a record 15 Group 1 races.

Romanticism

Romanticism: European artistic and intellectual movement of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, born in Germany, exalting emotion, imagination, individuality, nature, and the sublime against Enlightenment rationalism and Neoclassicism.

Romanticism in Arabic literature

Romanticism in Arabic poetry (الرومانسية في الشعر العربي) is a literary tendency established in the early twentieth century that made individual emotion and personal experience the basis of the poem.

Romanticism in Brazil

Romanticism in Brazil (Romantismo brasileiro) was the literary movement begun with the 1836 publication of Suspiros poéticos e saudades by Gonçalves de Magalhães, which sought a literature distinct from Portugal's.

Romantics Anonymous (TV series)

Romantics Anonymous is a 2025 Netflix Japanese-language romcom series, 8 episodes, remaking the French film Les Emotifs Anonymes. Shun Oguri and Han Hyo-joo star as a touch-phobic heir and a scopophobic chocolatier; directed by Sho Tsukikawa, produced by YONG FILM.

Oct 10, 2026

Romanus (pope)

Romanus, the 114th pope, born at Gallese near Civita Castellana, held the see from July or August to November 897, amid disorder after the Cadaver Synod.

Romany Malco

Romany Malco (born Romany Romanic Malco Jr., 1968) is an American actor, formerly a rapper with College Boyz, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Weeds, Think Like a Man, and Tijuana Jackson.

Romanze

Romanze (plural Romanzen) is a German word with three senses: a folk-song-like epic poem, a songlike instrumental or vocal piece in music, and colloquially an episodic love affair.

Romanzero

Romanzero is an 1851 poetry collection by the German poet Heinrich Heine, published in Hamburg as his final major lyric collection, written largely from his sickbed in Paris.

Sep 19, 2026

Romare

Romare is the working name of Archie Fairhurst, a British electronic music producer and DJ who cuts up second-hand soul, jazz, and blues recordings, releasing five albums including Oblivion (2026).

Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (1911–1988), American collagist, painter, and songwriter of "Seabreeze"; turned to collage at 53 after the Spiral group, had MoMA's 1971 Prevalence of Ritual retrospective, and made The Block (1971).

Romário

Romário de Souza Faria (O Baixinho), born 1966, Brazilian centre-forward, 1994 World Cup winner, Golden Ball and FIFA World Player of the Year; starred for Vasco, PSV, Barcelona; later senator for Rio de Janeiro.

Oct 21, 2026

Romas Ubartas

Romas Ubartas (Ромас Убартас), Lithuanian discus thrower born 1960; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion (65.12 m), first gold for independent Lithuania, 1988 silver for USSR, PB 70.06 m.

Romashkino field

The Romashkino field, also spelled Romashkinskoye, is a giant oil field in Tatarstan, Russia, discovered in 1948 and developed from 1952 as the centerpiece of the Volga-Ural oil province.

Oct 21, 2026

Romavoa

Romavoa (Romavóa, Quince, Quinze) is a traditional race and dice board game of the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico, attested since the eighteenth century, played on 36 holes with four marked stick dice.

Romb

Romb is a Soviet satellite bus built by the Yuzhnoye design bureau for radar calibration satellites simulating warheads, flown under Cosmos designations from 1976 to 1995.

Oct 21, 2026

Rombaken Sinus

Rombaken Sinus is a bay-shaped sinus feature on Titan at 75.30N, 232.90W, 92.50 km across, IAU-approved January 19, 2015, named after a fjord in Norway.

Romberg's test

Romberg's test: bedside balance test, feet together, eyes open then closed; positive when balance is lost with eyes closed, indicating dorsal column proprioceptive loss; variants include sharpened tandem Romberg and CTSIB.

Romblon

Romblon is an archipelagic Philippine province in Mimaropa, the Marble Capital of the Philippines, spanning Romblon, Tablas, and Sibuyan islands; 17 municipalities, 302,824 people (2024), GDP PhP 34.14 billion in 2025.

Romboid

Romboid is a Slovak literary magazine published in Bratislava since 1966, named after a poetry collection by Laco Novomeský and appearing six times a year.

Rome

Rome (Roma), capital of Italy and its largest municipality, on the Tiber; contains Vatican City. UNESCO historic centre, record 22.9 million tourist arrivals in 2025, Jubilee infrastructure spending, and heavy traffic congestion.

Rome (TV series)

Rome (2005-2007) is an HBO-BBC historical drama created by Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald, running two seasons and 22 episodes on the fall of the Republic, starring Vorenus and Pullo.

Rome Call for AI Ethics

The Rome Call for AI Ethics is a declaration of six principles for ethical artificial intelligence, first signed in Rome in 2020 by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, and others.

Rome Ciampino Airport

Rome Ciampino Airport (Giovan Battista Pastine, IATA CIA), Rome's second airport after Fiumicino, opened 1916 as an airship base; now serves low-cost flights, cargo, general aviation, and the Italian Air Force's 31° Stormo, with a 23:00-06:00 night curfew.

Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations

Rome Convention (1961), formally the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations: WIPO/ILO/UNESCO treaty on neighbouring rights, adopted October 26, 1961, in force May 18, 1964, 100 parties.