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Rony Paz
Rony Paz (רוני פז, born 1971) is an Israeli systems neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies the amygdala, aversive learning, and anxiety, and serves as a Vice President of the Institute.
Rony Seikaly
Rony Seikaly, born 1965 in Beirut, Lebanese-American NBA center, Syracuse star, 9th pick of 1988 draft by Miami Heat, 1990 Most Improved Player, later international house DJ.
Roo Stewart
Roo Stewart (Ruth Martha Stewart, also Morgan and Ryan) is a fictional character in the Australian soap Home and Away, daughter of Alf and Martha Stewart; first seen 20 January 1988, played by Justine Clarke 1988–1989 and Georgie Parker from 2010.
Rood (unit)
The rood is a historic English unit of land area equal to one quarter of an acre, originally a strip one rod wide and one furlong long.
Rood screen
A rood screen, also called a chancel or choir screen, is a screen of wood or stone separating a church's nave from the chancel, surmounted by a crucifix.
Roodepoort
Roodepoort, Gauteng: former gold-mining city on Johannesburg's western edge, founded after the 1884 Struben brothers' Confidence Reef strike, municipality 1904, city 1977, now Johannesburg Region C with about 326,000 residents.
Roof
A roof is the construction covering the upper part of a building to exclude rain, snow, and sun, combining structure, weatherproofing, and, increasingly, energy and climate functions.
Roof garden
A roof garden, or rooftop garden, is a garden built on a building's roof, either in containers or as an engineered green roof that reduces urban stormwater runoff.
Roof shingle
A roof shingle, also called a roofing shingle, is a thin piece of wood, asphalt, slate, metal, or concrete laid in overlapping rows to shed rainwater.
Roofline model
The roofline model is a visual performance model bounding a kernel's attainable performance from its arithmetic intensity and the hardware's peak compute and memory speed.
Roofman
Roofman (2025) is a Paramount crime comedy-drama directed by Derek Cianfrance, starring Channing Tatum as real robber Jeffrey Manchester, who robbed McDonald's through their roofs, escaped prison in 2004, and hid in a Charlotte toy store for six months.
Rooftop Prince (옥탑방 왕세자)
Rooftop Prince (옥탑방 왕세자) is a 2012 SBS 20-episode time-slip romantic comedy in which Joseon crown prince Lee Gak (Park Yoo-chun) travels 300 years to Seoul with three retainers, investigates his wife's murder, and falls for Park-ha (Han Ji-min); its finale hit 14.8% AGB Nielsen.
Rooftop solar power
Rooftop solar power is electricity generated by photovoltaic panels mounted on residential, commercial, and industrial building roofs, typically grid-connected so buildings draw power at night and export surpluses.
Rooh Afza (روح افزا)
Rooh Afza (روح افزا), the soul refresher, is a rose-flavored sherbet concentrate created in 1907 in Old Delhi by Unani practitioner Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed, now made by three independent Hamdard firms in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and central to Ramadan iftar.
Roohaniyat
Roohaniyat is a 2022 Hindi romantic mystery drama web series on MX Player, adapted from Novoneel Chakraborty's Forever Series, starring Arjun Bijlani as Saveer Rathod and Kanika Mann as Prisha Srivastava across two seasons (13 and 27 episodes).
Roohi (रूही) (2021 film)
Roohi (रूही) is a 2021 Hindi horror comedy directed by Hardik Mehta, starring Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, and Varun Sharma; also titled Rooh Afza/Roohi Afzana, second in Maddock's horror-comedy universe after Stree, released 11 March 2021.
Rooibos
Rooibos (red bush) is a caffeine-free South African herbal tea from Aspalathus linearis, endemic to the Cederberg; sold fermented (red) and unfermented (green), rich in aspalathin, with limited human health evidence.
Rooikat
The Rooikat is a South African 8x8 wheeled armored fighting vehicle, named after the Afrikaans word for the caracal, serving as the army's reconnaissance vehicle since 1989.
Rook (bird)
Rook (Corvus frugilegus), a sociable Eurasian corvid of farmland, told from carrion crow by bare grey bill base and peaked head; nests in long-lived rookeries; UK population down 26% since 1995.
Rook (card game)
Rook (card game), also called Kentucky Discard or missionary cards: a 1906 Parker Brothers partnership trick-taking game with bidding, a 57-card color-numbered deck, and a wild Rook bird as highest trump, popular in Kentucky and Mennonite communities.
Rook (chess)
Rook (chess), from Persian rukh (chariot), is the 5-point major piece moving any distance along ranks and files; starts on a1/h1 and a8/h8, castles with the king, and dominates open files and the seventh rank.
Rook en Oker
Rook en Oker (Smoke and Ochre) is a 1963 poetry collection by Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker, whose poem "Die kind" Nelson Mandela read at Parliament in 1994.
Rookie Blue
Rookie Blue (working title Copper) is a Canadian police drama, 2010-2015, six seasons and 74 episodes, simulcast on Global and ABC, starring Missy Peregrym as Toronto rookie Andy McNally.
Rookie Cops (너와 나의 警察授業)
Rookie Cops (너와 나의 경찰수업, You and My Police Class) is a 2022 Disney+ Korean coming-of-age drama, 16 episodes, set at the Korean National Police University, starring Kang Daniel and Chae Soo-bin.
Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung (신입사관 구해령)
Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung (신입사관 구해령), also known as Rookie Historian Goohaeryung, is a 2019 MBC South Korean romantic historical drama starring Shin Sae-kyeong and Cha Eun-woo about Joseon's first female historians, produced by Chorokbaem Media, streamed globally on Netflix, and rated 7.3% Nielsen.
Rookie of the Year (film)
Rookie of the Year is a 1993 American family baseball comedy, Daniel Stern's directorial debut, in which 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner (Thomas Ian Nicholas) gains a 100 mph fastball and pitches for the Chicago Cubs alongside Gary Busey.
Rookies (Heated Rivalry)
"Rookies" is the series premiere of Heated Rivalry, S1E1, aired November 28, 2025 on Crave. Written and directed by Jacob Tierney, it adapts chapters 1-8 of Rachel Reid's novel, introducing rival hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.
Rooks County, Kansas
Rooks County, Kansas: rural county with seat at Stockton, established 1867, organized 1872, named for Pvt. John C. Rooks; population 4,919 (2020), 4,646 (2025 estimate), agriculture-based economy.
Rookwood Pottery
Rookwood Pottery is an American art pottery company founded in 1880 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, operating until 1967 and revived in Cincinnati today.
Rooler
Rooler is the stage name of Christopher Rossi, an Italian-born rawstyle and raw hardstyle producer and DJ based in the Netherlands who co-founded Aggressive Records.