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Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii is a history of Hawaii's ruling chiefs written by Native Hawaiian historian Samuel Kamakau in the 1860s and published in English in 1961.
Ruling class
Ruling class: the dominant power-holding group in a society. Central to Marxist theory (class owning the means of production) and to Mosca's elite theory (Elementi di scienza politica, 1896, translated The Ruling Class 1939), opposed by Pareto's 'élite' term and critiqued by Dahl and Poulantzas.
Ruling Over All I See
Ruling Over All I See (万里江山入我怀), also The Horizon in My Grasp, is a 2025 Chinese vertical short drama on DramaBox: 74 two-minute episodes in which time-traveler Sun Jian must win the affection of three system-assigned wives.
Rulison Oil and Gas Field
Rulison Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field in Garfield County, western Colorado, known as the site of the 1969 Project Rulison nuclear detonation.
Rulon Gardner
Rulon Gardner, American Greco-Roman wrestler born 1971 in Afton, Wyoming, won 2000 Sydney Olympic super-heavyweight gold by upsetting unbeaten Alexandre Karelin 1-0, took 2004 Athens bronze, and won the 2001 world title.
Rulon Jeffs
Rulon Timpson Jeffs (1909–2002), Mormon fundamentalist prophet who led the FLDS Church from 1986 until 2002; father and predecessor of Warren Jeffs, and centralizer who incorporated the sect and abolished its council.
Rum
Rum is a distilled alcoholic spirit made by fermenting and distilling molasses or sugarcane juice, first produced by Caribbean sugar planters in the early 1600s.
Rum and Coke
Rum and Coke, also called Cuba Libre, is a highball of rum, cola, and often fresh lime; IBA recipe 50 ml rum, 120 ml cola, 10 ml lime. Claimed 1900 Havana origin via a Bacardi-backed affidavit; first printed as Cuba Libre in 1928; popularized in WWII America.
Rum Arabs
Rum Arabs (Rūm, الروم): Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox Christians of the Levant, descendants of Byzantine Romans; organized in the Ottoman Rum millet, split Orthodox/Melkite after 1724, centered in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Antakya.
Rum baba
Rum baba (baba au rhum, babà) is a yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, attributed to Stanisław Leszczyński's pastry chef Nicolas Stohrer, adopted in Paris and perfected in Naples; savarin is its ring-shaped variant.
Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Rum Sodomy & the Lash is The Pogues' second studio album, released August 5, 1985 on Stiff Records and produced by Elvis Costello; its title comes from an apocryphal Churchill quote about the Royal Navy and its cover adapts Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa.
Rum Tum Tugger
Rum Tum Tugger is T. S. Eliot's contrary 'Curious Cat' from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), later a rock-number character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, played on film by Jason Derulo and on Broadway by Sydney James Harcourt.
Rum-running
Rum-running, also called liquor smuggling or bootlegging by sea, was the maritime smuggling of whiskey and rum into the United States during Prohibition (1920–1933), centered on offshore anchorages called Rum Row and suppressed by an expanded Coast Guard.
Ruma Banerjee
Ruma Banerjee is an American biochemist who has been Vincent Massey Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan since 2007, known for research on sulfur metabolism and vitamin B12 enzymes.
Ruma Guha Thakurta (রুমা গুহ ঠাকুরতা)
Ruma Guha Thakurta (রুমা গুহ ঠাকুরতা, 1934–2019), Bengali actress and singer, niece of Satyajit Ray, first wife of Kishore Kumar, mother of Amit Kumar, and founder of the Calcutta Youth Choir in 1958.
Rumah gadang
Rumah gadang, also called rumah bagonjong, is the traditional raised timber longhouse of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia, with distinctive curved, upward-pointing roof ridges.
Rumah Kaca
Rumah Kaca, published in English as House of Glass, is a 1988 novel by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the final volume of the Buru Quartet.
Rumah Sakit Umum Pusat Sanglah Denpasar
RSUP Sanglah Denpasar, since 7 July 2022 RSUP Prof. Dr. I.G.N.G. Ngoerah, is Bali's largest Class A Ministry of Health teaching and referral hospital, founded 1959, serving Bali, NTB, and NTT.
Rumaila field
The Rumaila field (الرميلة) is a super-giant onshore oil field in southern Iraq, about 50 km west of Basra, and the country's largest producing oil field.
Rumailah, UAE
Rumailah, also written Rumeilah (Arabic الرميلة), is an archaeological settlement mound at Al Ain in Abu Dhabi, UAE, mainly an Iron Age village of mud-brick houses.
Rumaki (Rufiji-Mafia-Kibiti-Kilwa) Biosphere Reserve
RUMAKI (Rufiji-Mafia-Kibiti-Kilwa) Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2023 on Tanzania's south-eastern coast, spanning 1,054,095 ha around Mafia Island and the Rufiji Delta, including Tanzania's first marine park.
Rumba
Rumba is a family of Afro-Cuban music and dance styles, with three forms called yambú, guaguancó, and columbia, that emerged in the late nineteenth century.
Rumba catalana
Rumba catalana, or Catalan rumba, is a music genre that emerged in Barcelona in the 1950s and 1960s, blending flamenco rumba, Cuban rumba, and rock 'n' roll.
Rumble (2021 film)
Rumble (2021) is a Paramount+ computer-animated monster-wrestling comedy directed by Hamish Grieve, loosely based on Rob Harrell's graphic novel Monster on the Hill, starring Will Arnett, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Terry Crews; released streaming-only December 15, 2021.
Rumble (company)
Rumble: Canadian-founded (2013) video platform and YouTube alternative by Chris Pavlovski, Nasdaq: RUM, free-speech positioning, 52M MAUs, Tether-backed, now part of RUM Group with Quake AI.
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, adapted from S. E. Hinton's novel and starring Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke.
Rumble in the Bronx (红番区)
Rumble in the Bronx (红番区) is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong cop in New York. Shot in Vancouver, it became his 1996 American breakthrough, grossing $32.4 million in the US.
Rumble strip
Rumble strips, also known as sleeper lines, are grooved pavement strips along road shoulders or center lines that alert drivers drifting out of their lane through noise and vibration.
Rumble strips
Rumble strips are milled grooves or raised elements on a road surface that alert distracted or drowsy drivers through vibration and sound, a standard countermeasure against roadway departure crashes.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was the killing of more than 25,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto by German SS, police, and Latvian auxiliary units in the Rumbula Forest near Riga in 1941.