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Rufus T. Firefly
Rufus T. Firefly is a Spanish independent rock band from Aranjuez, Madrid, founded in 2006 and led by vocalist Víctor Cabezuelo and drummer Julia Martín-Maestro.
Rufus Tiger Taylor
Rufus Tiger Taylor, also Rufus Taylor, British drummer born 1991, son of Queen's Roger Taylor; drummer of The Darkness since 2015, former Jeff Beck band and Queen + Adam Lambert touring drummer, godson of Taylor Hawkins.
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973, Rhinebeck, New York) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and composer, son of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, known for Poses, Release the Stars, the operas Prima Donna and Hadrian, Dream Requiem, and his Grammy-nominated Judy Garland tribute.
Rugang Zhang
Rugang Zhang is a cancer biologist known for showing that EZH2 inhibition kills ARID1A-mutated ovarian cancer cells; since 2023 he has chaired Experimental Therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Ruganzu II Ndori
Ruganzu II Ndori, also written Ruganzu II Ndoli, is a king of Rwanda's Abanyiginya dynasty who restored the monarchy after his father, Ndahiro II Cyamatare, was killed.
Rugao
Rugao (如皋, Rúgāo), county-level city in Nantong, Jiangsu, on the north bank of the Yangtze; county founded 411 CE, reestablished 952, city since 1991; 1,573.96 km², 48 km riverfront, 2025 GDP about 170 billion yuan.
Rugbrød
Rugbrød (Danish rye bread) is Denmark's dense sourdough rye loaf, the daily bread for over 1000 years and the base of smørrebrød open sandwiches; baked about 75 minutes to a 98 °C core, traditionally unsweetened.
Rugby football
Rugby football: family of oval-ball contact sports founded at Rugby School (1823 Webb Ellis legend), split in 1895 into rugby union (15 players, contested rucks) and rugby league (13 players, six-tackle play-the-ball).
Rugby Football League
The Rugby Football League is the national governing body for rugby league in England, founded in 1895 and renamed from the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1922.
Rugby Football Union
Rugby Football Union (RFU), founded 26 January 1871 in London, is England's national governing body for rugby union, owned by 1,900 clubs, partner of Premier Rugby Limited, and subject of recent governance reviews.
Rugby league
Rugby league, the 13-player code formed by the 1895 Northern Union split from rugby union over player payments. Six-tackle sets, play-the-ball restarts; strongholds in Australia, England, New Zealand, France; NRL founded 1908.
Rugby League 26
Rugby League 26 is a rugby league video game by Big Ant Studios, released 17 July 2025 on PS4/PS5, Xbox, and PC. Official NRL and Super League game with Pro Team, Career, and Management modes; a buggy launch drew RLPA criticism.
Rugby league positions
Rugby league positions: the 13 numbered on-field roles (1 fullback to 13 loose forward) in rugby league's 13-a-side game, with backs 1–7, forwards 8–13, interchange benches, and differences from rugby union's 15 positions.
Rugby League World Cup
Rugby League World Cup, IRL's international rugby league championship since 1954; men's, women's (2000) and wheelchair (2008) events; Australia holds 12 of 16 titles; RLWC2026 in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Rugby Locomotive Testing Station
The Rugby Locomotive Testing Station, also known as Rugby Testing Centre, was a plant in Rugby, England, where steam locomotives were tested on rollers, opened in 1948.
Rugby Radio Station
Rugby Radio Station, a British GPO/BT long-wave transmitting station near Hillmorton, Rugby, opened 1 January 1926 with the world's most powerful GBR transmitter, handled the first transatlantic telephone service and MSF time signals, and closed in 2007 before redevelopment as Houlton.
Rugby School
Rugby School, founded 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff in Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of England's original seven public schools, birthplace of rugby football via William Webb Ellis (1823), reformed by Thomas Arnold (1828-42), co-educational since 1992.
Rugby sevens
Rugby sevens, often called sevens or Rugby 7s, is a form of rugby union with seven players a side and 14-minute matches, invented in Melrose, Scotland, in 1883.
Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics, its Olympic debut at Rio de Janeiro after a 92-year rugby union absence; 12-team men's and women's tournaments at Deodoro, with Fiji and Australia winning the first gold medals.
Rugby sevens at the 2026 Asian Games
Rugby sevens at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya), 1-3 October 2026 at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Rugby Field; 12 men's and 8 women's teams; Hong Kong China won men's gold, Japan women's gold, China silver in both.
Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics
Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics, also called Olympic rugby sevens, is the seven-a-side rugby union tournament at the Games since Rio 2016, after a 92-year gap; Fiji and Australia were the first champions, France won men's gold in 2024.
Rugby union
Rugby union: 15-a-side (or sevens) contact football code with 21 World Rugby laws; first international 1871, IRFB founded 1886, professional since 1995, Rugby World Cup since 1987.
Rugby union bonus points system
Rugby union bonus points system: extra league points for four or more tries or losing by seven or fewer, standard 4-2-0 allocation, adopted from Super Rugby 1996 and the 2003 Rugby World Cup to the Six Nations in 2017.
Rugby union positions
Rugby union positions: the 15 on-field roles in 15-a-side rugby union, eight forwards (1-8) and seven backs (9-15), with sevens using three forwards and four backs; covers numbering, roles, laws, and history.
Rugby World Cup
Rugby World Cup: quadrennial rugby union championship for the Webb Ellis Cup, first held 1987 in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand and South Africa hold three men's titles each; England won 2003; 24 teams from 2027.
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Rugby World Cup Sevens, the quadrennial world championship of rugby sevens run by World Rugby, first held in Edinburgh in 1993; England won the inaugural Melrose Cup, New Zealand lead with three men's and two women's titles.
Rugby, Warwickshire
Rugby, Warwickshire: market town on the River Avon in eastern Warwickshire, England, birthplace of rugby football at Rugby School (1567). Grew rapidly after the 1839 London and Birmingham Railway; borough population about 114,400 in 2021.
Rugelach
Rugelach (Yiddish for "little twists") is an Ashkenazi Jewish filled pastry descended from Central European kipfel. American versions use cream cheese dough (from the 1930s-1950s); Israeli versions stay yeasted.
Rügen
Rügen, Germany's largest island in the Baltic Sea off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, covers 926 km² with chalk cliffs, Jasmund National Park, UNESCO beech forests, seaside resorts, and a Danish princely past (1168–1325).
Ruger 10/22
The Ruger 10/22 is a semi-automatic rimfire rifle in .22 Long Rifle made by Sturm, Ruger & Co. since 1964, known for its 10-round rotary magazine.