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Ruad Colles
Ruad Colles is a 400 km-wide group of hills (colles) on Venus at 68.0° S, 118.0° E, named for the Irish mythological maiden Ruad, who drowned asleep in her bronze boat.
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Connor), d. 1198, king of Connacht from 1156 and the last high-king of Ireland from 1166; negotiated the 1175 Treaty of Windsor with Henry II, abdicated in 1183, and died in religious retirement at Cong.
Ruairi McConville
Ruairi Conor McConville (born 2005, Belfast) is a 1.93 m Northern Irish centre-back for Norwich City and Northern Ireland; ex-Linfield and Brighton, 16 senior caps since his 15 November 2024 debut.
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Peter Roger Casement Brady, 1932–2013), Irish republican leader: IRA chief of staff, abstentionist Sinn Féin TD, author of Éire Nua, and founder of Republican Sinn Féin after the 1986 abstentionism split.
Ruan Dacheng
Ruan Dacheng (阮大铖) was a Ming dynasty official, poet, and dramatist who served the Southern Ming's Hongguang court and is notorious as a treacherous official.
Ruan Guangping
Ruan Guangping (阮光平), originally named Ruan Hui, was the Tây Sơn leader who overthrew the Lê dynasty of Vietnam and was enfeoffed King of Annen by the Qianlong Emperor.
Ruan Ji
Ruan Ji (阮籍, 210–263), courtesy name Sizong, was a Chinese poet and thinker of the Wei state, one of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove.
Ruan Liping
Ruan Liping (阮立平) is a Chinese businessman, born in 1964, who founded the electrical-accessories maker Bull Group in Cixi, Zhejiang, in 1995 and serves as its chairman.
Ruan Xian
Ruan Xian (阮咸), courtesy name Zhongrong, was a Jin dynasty musician and one of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, known for mocking the court's new pitch standards.
Ruan Xueping
Ruan Xueping (阮学平, born 1972) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded Gongniu Group, the Cixi, Zhejiang maker of power strips and wall switches, and serves as its vice chairman.
Ruan Yi
Ruan Yi (阮逸) was a Northern Song Confucian scholar and music theorist from Jianyang, Fujian, who with Hu Yuan re-fixed the pitch of court ritual music around 1050.
Ruan Yu
Ruan Yu (阮瑀, c. 165–212) was a Chinese writer of the late Eastern Han, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an, known for letters drafted for Cao Cao.
Ruan Yuan
Ruan Yuan (阮元, 1764–1849) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official who served three emperors, governed six provinces, suppressed the Zhejiang pirates, and reshaped official learning through his editions, academies, and biographical compilations.
Ruan Zhenhua
Ruan Zhenhua (阮振华), born in 1989, is a Chinese executive who is president of Jack Holding Group and vice chairman of Shanghai-listed Jack Technology, a leading industrial sewing machine maker.
Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda-Urundi was the Belgian League of Nations mandate (1922) and UN trust territory (1946) covering Rwanda and Burundi, united with the Belgian Congo in 1925 and ending in their separate independence on 1 July 1962.
Ruaridh Mollica
Scottish-Italian actor Ruaridh Mollica (Ruaridh Silvio James MacGillivray-Mollica), born 1999 in Prato, Italy, raised in Edinburgh; lead of Sebastian (Sundance 2024), The Franchise, Sexy Beast, Marvel's VisionQuest.
Ruaylbari Fort
Ruaylbari Fort (রোয়াইলবাড়ী দুর্গ), also Roailbari or Royalbari Fort, is a ruined Sultanate-period military outpost on the Betai River in Kendua, Netrokona, Bangladesh; protected in 1987, excavated 1991–94 and 2016–17, linked to Nusrat Shah and Isha Khan.
Rub-a-dub (music genre)
Rub-a-dub is a stripped-down, bass-heavy, echo-laden style of reggae built on deejay toasting over instrumental riddims, the early 1980s phase of Jamaican dancehall that ended when digital riddims arrived in 1985.
Rub-a-dub-dub
Rub-a-dub-dub is an English nursery rhyme (Roud 3101) first printed in 1798 in James Hook's Christmas Box as 'Dub a dub dub'. Early versions had three maids in a tub at a fairground peep show; Victorian editors sanitized it into three men sailing to sea.
Rub' al Khali (رُبْعُ ٱلْخَالِي)
Rub' al Khali (رُبْعُ ٱلْخَالِي), the Empty Quarter, is the world's largest continuous sand sea, about 583,000–660,000 km² across Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and the UAE, with dunes over 330 m, 50 °C heat, Holocene paleolakes, and the 'Uruq Bani Ma'arid World Heritage oryx refuge.
Ruba'i
The ruba'i (رباعی; plural rubā'iyāt) is a Persian quatrain of four hemistiches rhyming aaba, one of the two purely Persian poetic genres, dating to the 10th century.
Rübab-ı Şikeste
Rübab-ı Şikeste ("the broken lute") is the first poetry collection of Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret, published in 1900 and regarded as a milestone of modern Turkish poetry.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (رباعیّات خیّام), Persian quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (ca. 1048-1123), famous through Edward FitzGerald's free 1859 English verse adaptation of 75 quatrains, later expanded to a longest version of 110, one of the best-selling poetry books in English.
Rubal Jain
Rubal Jain is an Indian logistics executive and Managing Director of Safexpress, a leading B2B logistics firm he joined in 2006, leading it alongside his father Pawan Jain.
Ruban Nielson
Ruban Nielson is a New Zealand musician and guitarist known for the noise pop band The Mint Chicks and for founding the psych-rock collective Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
Rubavu District
Rubavu District, Western Province, Rwanda, on Lake Kivu bordering Goma (DRC). Capital Gisenyi; 546,683 people (2022), 388.3 km², 12 sectors; trade hub via Petite/Grande Barrière borders and Rubavu Port.
Rubber (2010 film)
Rubber is a 2010 absurdist horror-comedy film by Quentin Dupieux about a sentient tire in the California desert that kills people by making their heads explode.
Rubber and latex contact dermatitis
Rubber and latex contact dermatitis is eczema from rubber gloves and other rubber items, caused by irritant damage or delayed type IV allergy to rubber accelerators.
Rubber band
A rubber band, also called an elastic band, is a loop of vulcanized rubber used to hold objects together or apply tension, patented in London in 1845 by Stephen Perry.
Rubber bridge
Rubber bridge, the traditional form of contract bridge, played by four players in two partnerships with fresh deals; two games of 100+ below-the-line points win a rubber, with vulnerability, rubber bonuses, and honors scoring.