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Rusa IV

Rusa IV is, in the traditional Urartian king list, the last known king of Urartu, the Kingdom of Van, conventionally placed around 590-585 BC, though his reign rests on contested scholarly reconstruction.

Rusadir

Rusaddir, also spelled Rusaddir in Latin sources, was a Phoenician-Punic and later Roman port town on the north Moroccan coast, beneath the modern Spanish city of Melilla, between Cape Tres Forcas and the Moulouya river.

Rusahinili

Rusahinili (Rusakhinili) is an ancient Urartian fortress city at modern Toprakkale, about 5 km east of Van in eastern Turkey, founded in the 7th century BC.

Rusal

Rusal (Russian: РУСАЛ), formally United Company RUSAL, is a Russian aluminum company founded in 2000, one of the largest producers outside China, sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2018.

Rusalka

Rusalka (русалка, plural rusalki) is an East Slavic female water and field spirit, the soul of a drowned or prematurely dead woman, appearing during Rusalka Week around Pentecost; distinct from the tailed literary mermaid and famous through Dvořák's 1901 opera.

Rusalka (opera)

Rusalka (Dvořák), Op. 114, B. 203: a three-act Czech lyric fairy-tale opera with libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil, composed 1900, premiered Prague 31 March 1901; famed for "Song to the Moon"; distinct from Dargomyzhsky's 1856 Rusalka.

Rusalka Planitia

Rusalka Planitia is a broad lowland plain on Venus, about 3,600 km across and lying north of eastern Aphrodite Terra, named by the IAU in 1982 for a Russian folklore mermaid.

Rusameekae Fagerlund (รุศเมฆ)

Rusameekae Fagerlund (รุศเมฆ), also James Rusameekae Fagerlund, is a Thai-Swedish actor, host, and former pro volleyball player born 1986 in Phuket; known for Why R U?, The Cheery Lee, and Netflix's Physical: Asia.

Rusanov Ice Cap

Rusanov Ice Cap, an ice cap on northern October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic, named after lost 1912 explorer Vladimir Rusanov; outlet glaciers flow 100-150 m/year.

Rusavskia elegans

Rusavskia elegans, also called Xanthoria elegans or elegant sunburst lichen, is an orange-red rock lichen (Teloschistaceae) with parietin UV screening, bipolar distribution from Arctic to Antarctica and high mountains, thalli 3–6 cm across.

Rusazus

Rusazus, also known as Rusazu, was an ancient coastal town at Azeffoun in Kabylia, Algeria, refounded by Augustus around 25 BC as a colony of Seventh Legion veterans.

Ruscus aculeatus

Ruscus aculeatus (butcher's broom, Rusci rhizoma) is an evergreen Asparagaceae shrub whose leaf-like cladodes are modified stems. Its rhizome, standardized to ruscogenins, holds an EMA traditional-use monograph for heavy legs and hemorrhoid symptoms.

Ruserontinib

Ruserontinib (SKLB1028, CHEMBL3678958) is CSPC ZhongQi's investigational oral multikinase inhibitor of EGFR, FLT3, and Abl (FLT3 IC50 55 nM) in phase 3 trials for FLT3-mutated relapsed/refractory AML and phase 1 solid tumor studies; not approved.

Rusfertide

Rusfertide (Mimrylo, PTG-300) is a first-in-class hepcidin mimetic peptide injected weekly under the skin; FDA approved it August 28, 2026 to treat erythrocytosis in adults with polycythemia vera, based on the phase 3 VERIFY trial.

Rush (1991 film)

Rush (1991) is Lili Fini Zanuck's directing debut, a crime drama starring Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Texas narcotics officers who become addicts, based on Kim Wozencraft's novel, released by MGM in December 1991.

Rush (2013 film)

Rush (2013) is Ron Howard's action-drama, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizing the 1976 Formula 1 rivalry between James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), with a 74 Metascore and fabricated scenes noted.

Rush (band)

Rush: Canadian rock trio formed 1968 in Toronto (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart), 19 studio albums, 40 million records, 2112 and Moving Pictures, Rock Hall 2013, 2026 reunion tour with Anika Nilles.

Rush (Rush album)

Rush (1974) is the Canadian band Rush's self-titled debut album, issued on their Moon Records label March 18, 1974 and the only one featuring drummer John Rutsey; its Zeppelin-style hard rock song Working Man broke the band in Cleveland.

Rush (wrestler)

Rush (William Arturo Muñoz González, El Toro Blanco), Mexican luchador born 1988 in Tala, Jalisco; CMLL star, founder of Los Ingobernables (2014), former ROH World Champion, now in AEW leading La Facción Ingobernable.

Rush hour

Rush hour, also called the peak hour, is the part of the day when traffic demand on a road network is highest, typically during morning and evening commutes.

Rush Hour (1998 film)

Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy-cop action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as detectives rescuing the Chinese consul's kidnapped daughter.

Rush Hour (2000 film)

Rush Hour is a 1998 American action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, which earned over $244 million worldwide.

Rush Hour (franchise)

Rush Hour is an American action-comedy film franchise pairing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as mismatched cops, with films released in 1998, 2001, and 2007.

Rush Hour 2

Rush Hour 2 (2001) is Brett Ratner's buddy action comedy sequel starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as Lee and Carter investigating a Hong Kong embassy bombing tied to the Fu-Cang-Long Triad; it grossed $226.1 million in the US.

Rush Hour 3

Rush Hour 3, also known as Rush Hour III, is a 2007 American buddy cop action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Paris.

Rush Island power station

Rush Island power station, also called the Rush Island Energy Center, was a two-unit coal-fired power plant in Jefferson County, Missouri, owned by Ameren and retired in 2024.

Rush Lake Sparky Oil Pool

Rush Lake Sparky Oil Pool is an onshore heavy oil pool in west-central Saskatchewan near Lloydminster, discovered in 1971 and produced mainly by steam-assisted gravity drainage.

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh (Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, 1951–2021), American conservative talk radio host of The Rush Limbaugh Show; nationally syndicated from 1988 with 56 stations, growing to about 600 stations and over 30 million weekly listeners; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.

Rush Propst

Rush Propst (born 1957) is an American high school football coach with eight state titles at Hoover, Colquitt County, and Coosa Christian, a 300-119 official record, and fame from MTV's Two-A-Days.

Rush to the Dead Summer (夏至未至) (TV series)

Rush to the Dead Summer (夏至未至) is a 2017 Chinese youth romance drama, a 48-episode adaptation of Guo Jingming's novel about classmates from the fictional town of Qianchuan.