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Rain Phoenix
Rain Phoenix (born Rain Joan of Arc Bottom, 1972) is an American actress and singer, sister of River and Joaquin Phoenix, vocalist in Aleka's Attic, papercranes founder, and solo artist behind the 2019 album River.
Rain Pryor
Rain Pryor, American actress, comedian, and writer (born 1969), daughter of Richard Pryor and Shelley Bonus; known for Head of the Class, the solo show Fried Chicken & Latkes, and her memoir about her father.
Rain Reign
Rain Reign (2026) is an American drama directed by Erika Burke Rossa, adapted from Ann M. Martin's 2014 novel, starring Felice Kakaletris, Jeremy Sisto, and Paul Rudd; it premiered June 6, 2026 at Tribeca.
Rain shadow
A rain shadow, also called the rain shadow effect, is a region of reduced precipitation on the lee side of a mountain, where descending air warms and dries.
Rain water
Rain water: liquid precipitation, harvested from roofs and tanks as an alternative water supply. Naturally low in minerals but microbiologically variable; harvested rainwater often meets grey water, not drinking, standards.
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an 1844 oil painting by J. M. W. Turner showing a locomotive crossing Maidenhead Railway Bridge, now in the National Gallery, London.
Raina
Raina (Райна), born Raina Kirilova Terziyska in 1981 in Sandanski, is a Bulgarian pop-folk (chalga) singer who has recorded for the Payner label since about 2001.
Raina K. Plowright
Raina K. Plowright is a disease ecologist and veterinary scientist who is the Steffen Professor at Cornell University, known for her 25-year research on Hendra virus spillover from bats.
Raina Kama literary movement
Raina Kama was a writers' association formed in Kano, northern Nigeria, around 1990 whose members published short popular fiction in Hausa, becoming the leading force behind Kano Market Literature.
Raina Knyaginya
Raina Knyaginya (Райна Княгиня), born Raina Popgeorgieva Futekova, was a Bulgarian teacher who sewed and carried the flag of the Panagyurishte rebels in the 1876 April Uprising against Ottoman rule.
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist and #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of the graphic memoirs Smile, Sisters, and Guts, plus Drama, Ghosts, and the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels; over 18 million copies sold.
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Goetz, born 1954 in Munich, is a German writer of novels, plays, and online diaries, a central figure of German Popliteratur who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015.
Rainandriamampandry
Rainandriamampandry, born Rabezandrina, was a Malagasy statesman, soldier, and author who served Queen Ranavalona III as governor of Tamatave and Minister of the Interior, and was publicly shot by the French in 1896.
RaiNao
RaiNao is the stage name of Naomi Ramírez Rivera, a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter from Santurce, San Juan, blending reggaeton, jazz, R&B, and alternative pop; albums CAPICÚ (2024) and Marcriá (2026), featured on Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos.
Rainband
A rainband, also called a spiral band, is a curved band of clouds and thunderstorms spiraling outward from a tropical cyclone's eyewall, producing heavy rain, wind, and tornadoes.
Rainbow
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon in which sunlight refracted, reflected, and dispersed inside water drops forms a colored arc of about 42° radius centered opposite the Sun, red outermost.
Rainbow (DQN variants)
Rainbow is a deep reinforcement learning agent introduced in 2017 by Matteo Hessel and colleagues at DeepMind, combining six DQN improvements into one agent that led the 57-game Atari benchmark.
Rainbow (group)
Rainbow (레인보우) was a seven-member South Korean girl group formed by DSP Media, which debuted in 2009 with Gossip Girl, disbanded in 2016, and reunited in 2019.
Rainbow (Kesha album)
Rainbow (Kesha album, 雨後彩虹 in Taiwan release) is Kesha's 2017 third studio album on Kemosabe/RCA, first since Warrior, with Praying, Dolly Parton, Eagles of Death Metal; Billboard 200 No. 1, Metascore 81, two 2018 Grammy nominations.
Rainbow (Mariah Carey album)
Rainbow (1999) is Mariah Carey's seventh studio album, her last for Columbia, recorded in Capri in three months. It yielded the Hot 100 number-ones Heartbreaker and Thank God I Found You, sold about eight million copies, and peaked at US number two.
Rainbow (rock band)
Rainbow, also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, is a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by Ritchie Blackmore after leaving Deep Purple, built around vocalist Ronnie James Dio.
Rainbow (TV series)
Rainbow (TV series): British pre-school children's series created by Pamela Lonsdale for Thames Television on ITV, 1972–1992, starring puppets Zippy, George, and Bungle with presenter Geoffrey Hayes, over 1,000 episodes.
Rainbow Bar and Grill
Rainbow Bar and Grill (The Rainbow Bar & Grill), a 1972 rock hangout restaurant at 9015 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, founded by Valentine, Adler, and Maglieri; home of the Lemmy Lounge and Hollywood Vampires lore.
Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls)
The Rainbow Bridge is an international steel arch bridge connecting Niagara Falls, New York, with Niagara Falls, Ontario. Completed in 1941, it replaced the ice-destroyed Honeymoon Bridge.
Rainbow Bridge (pets)
Rainbow Bridge is a 1959 prose poem by Edna Clyne-Rekhy describing a pet afterlife meadow; it circulated anonymously until Paul Koudounaris traced its authorship in 2023.
Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah: 160-acre NPS unit protecting a 290-foot-tall, 275-foot-span Navajo Sandstone natural bridge, established 1910, sacred to six tribes, reachable only by boat or 14-mile hike.
Rainbow Brite
Rainbow Brite is a Hallmark-created 1980s media franchise about a girl who brings color to the world from Rainbowland with the Color Kids, spanning Mattel toys from 1984, three TV specials, a 1986 series, and the 1985 film Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.
Rainbow capitalism
Rainbow capitalism, also known as pink capitalism or homocapitalism, is the use of Pride sponsorships and rainbow-branded products to court LGBT consumers through commercial calculation rather than genuine advocacy.
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton): the original Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity, a 1969 Chicago multiracial alliance of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Young Lords, and Young Patriots, distinct from Jesse Jackson's later Rainbow PUSH.
Rainbow Connection
Rainbow Connection: 1979 ballad by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, sung by Kermit the Frog (voiced by Jim Henson) as the opening song of The Muppet Movie. Oscar-nominated, Billboard number 25, National Recording Registry 2020.