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Raisa Kurv ' Iakova
Raïsa Kurv'iakova (Раїса Василівна Курв'якова, Raisa Vasilyevna Kurvyakova), born 1945 in Kazakhstan, is a Ukrainian former basketball forward who won 1976 Olympic gold with the Soviet Union and was a two-time world and three-time European champion.
Raisa Sadreydinova
Raisa Sadreydinova (Раиса Садрейдинова), born 1950, is a Soviet long-distance runner who set a ratified world record of 31:27.58 in the women's 10,000 meters in 1983 and won the Košice Marathon.
Raisa Smetanina
Raisa Smetanina (Раиса Петровна Сметанина, born 1952), Soviet and Russian cross-country skier; won ten Olympic medals (four gold) across five Games 1976-1992 and the 1982 world 20 km title.
RAISE A SUILEN
RAISE A SUILEN, formerly THE THIRD, is a five-member Japanese band in Bushiroad's BanG Dream! franchise, formed in 2018 and fronted by Raychell on bass and vocals.
RAISE ETP trial
RAISE-ETP, the NIMH Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode Early Treatment Program, was a 34-site cluster-randomized trial (404 participants) showing NAVIGATE coordinated specialty care improved quality of life, symptoms, and cost-effectiveness in first-episode psychosis versus usual community care.
Raise Financial Services
Raise Financial Services is a Mumbai-based fintech company founded in January 2021 by former Paytm Money CEO Pravin Jadhav; its Dhan stockbroking platform made it a unicorn in 2025.
Raise Ravens
Raise Ravens (Cría cuervos) is Carlos Saura's 1976 Spanish drama about orphaned Ana in Franco-era Madrid, starring Ana Torrent and Geraldine Chaplin; Cannes Special Jury Prize 1976.
Raise the Colours (organisation)
Raise the Colours is a British organization, co-founded by Ryan Bridge and Elliott Stanley, behind the 2025 Operation Raise the Colours flag campaign.
Raise the Red Lantern (novella)
Raise the Red Lantern (妻妾成群) is a novella by the Chinese writer Su Tong about a nineteen-year-old who becomes the Fourth Mistress in a wealthy 1930s household.
Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂)
Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂) is Zhang Yimou's 1991 drama adapted from Su Tong's novella Wives and Concubines, starring Gong Li as concubine Songlian in 1920s China; it won the Venice Silver Lion and earned an Oscar nomination.
Raise the Titanic (film)
Raise the Titanic is Jerry Jameson's 1980 ITC film adaptation of Clive Cussler's 1976 novel, starring Jason Robards and Richard Jordan; a $40 million Cold War salvage adventure that earned about $7 million and flopped.
Raise Your Voice
Raise Your Voice is a 2004 New Line Cinema teen drama directed by Sean McNamara, starring Hilary Duff as Terri Fletcher, who secretly attends a Los Angeles music conservatory after her brother's death; critics panned it (16% RT) but audiences rated it 71%.
Raised antibody titre
Raised antibody titre (抗体滴度增高), ICD-11 MA14.1C, is a lab finding of antibody concentration above the reference range, caused by infection, vaccination, autoimmune disease, or malignancy.
Raised bog
A raised bog is an ombrotrophic peatland, a dome of peat raised above the groundwater by its own growth, fed only by rain, acidic, and dominated by Sphagnum peat mosses.
Raised by Wolves (American TV series)
Raised by Wolves is an American HBO Max sci-fi series (2020-2022) created by Aaron Guzikowski and executive produced by Ridley Scott, about androids Mother and Father raising human children on Kepler-22b after a religious war; canceled after two seasons.
Raised fist
Raised fist (power fist, clenched fist, Black Power salute): a clenched hand held aloft symbolizing solidarity and resistance. Used by the IWW from 1913–1917, German anti-fascists from 1926, and made famous by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics; now also the ✊ emoji.
Raised floor
A raised floor, also called an access floor, is an elevated floor on pedestals used in data centers to route cabling and distribute cooling air to equipment.
Raised on Radio
Raised on Radio is Journey's ninth studio album (April 1986, Columbia), produced solely by Steve Perry after Valory and Smith left; it peaked at #4, went double platinum, and preceded the band's decade-long hiatus.
Raised pavement marker
A raised pavement marker is a device at least 10 mm high mounted on a road surface, used as a positioning guide or to supplement or replace pavement markings.
Raisin
A raisin is a dried grape, made by drying Vitis vinifera in the sun or by dehydration; Thompson Seedless makes up 90 percent of the U.S. supply.
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом)
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом) is Yevgeny Khaldei's staged May 2, 1945 photograph of Soviet soldiers hoisting a red flag over Berlin's Reichstag, paired with the actual Victory Banner raised by Berest, Yegorov, and Kantaria.
Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona is the Coen brothers' 1987 screwball comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as an ex-con and ex-cop who kidnap one of a furniture tycoon's quintuplets; a $6 million Circle Films/Fox release that became a cult classic.
Raising Cain
Raising Cain is a 1992 American psychological thriller written and directed by Brian De Palma, starring John Lithgow as a child psychologist with multiple personalities who kidnaps children.
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is an American fast-food chain founded by Todd Graves in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, known for its limited chicken-finger menu.
Raising Dion
Raising Dion is a Netflix American superhero family drama (2019-2022), based on Dennis Liu's comic, starring Alisha Wainwright and Ja'Siah Young; two seasons, 17 episodes, cancelled in April 2022.
Raising Gazorpazorp
Raising Gazorpazorp is the seventh episode of Rick and Morty season 1 (2014), in which Morty fathers Morty Jr. with a Gazorpian sex robot while Rick and Summer visit the gender-segregated planet Gazorpazorp.
Raising Helen
Raising Helen is a 2004 American comedy-drama directed by Garry Marshall, starring Kate Hudson as a Manhattan career woman raising her late sister's three children.
Raising Hell (album)
Raising Hell, Run-DMC's third album (Profile Records, May 1986), produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; first rap album to go platinum and 3x platinum, first hip-hop Grammy nominee, featuring Walk This Way with Aerosmith and My Adidas.
Raising Hope
Raising Hope is an American single-camera Fox sitcom (2010–2014) created by Greg Garcia of My Name Is Earl, about Jimmy Chance raising his daughter Hope after the serial killer mother's execution, starring Lucas Neff, Martha Plimpton, and Cloris Leachman.
Raising of Chicago
The Raising of Chicago was a public works program begun in 1855 that raised city streets several feet and lifted buildings to install the first US sewer system.