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Ruston-Bucyrus
Ruston-Bucyrus was a British manufacturer of excavators, cranes, and drilling equipment based in Lincoln, England, formed in 1930 as a joint venture between American Bucyrus and Ruston and Hornsby.
RuStore
RuStore is the official Russian mobile app store for Android, HarmonyOS, and Aurora OS, developed by VK and launched in May 2022 after sanctions limited Russian payment apps.
Rüştü Reçber
Rüştü Reçber (Rustu Recber), born 1973 in Antalya, Turkish goalkeeper for Antalyaspor, Fenerbahçe, Barcelona, and Beşiktaş; Turkey's record cap holder, 2002 World Cup third place, All-Star team, FIFA 100 member.
Rustum Haidar
Rustum Haidar (رستم حيدر, 1889–1940) was a Lebanese-born Arab nationalist and Iraqi statesman who served King Faisal I as private secretary and held seven ministerial portfolios before his assassination in 1940.
Rustum Roy
Rustum Roy (1924–2010) was an India-born American materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University, known for the sol-gel process, hydrothermal synthesis, and microwave processing of metals.
Rusty Black
Rusty Black is an American Republican politician representing Missouri's 12th Senate district since 2022, after serving in the Missouri House from 2016 and a 33-year career as an agriculture educator.
Rusty Collins
Rusty Collins (Russell Collins), aka Firefist, a Marvel Comics mutant with pyrokinesis created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice, debuting in X-Factor #1 (1986); X-Factor ward, X-Terminator, MLF and Acolytes member, killed by Holocaust, adapted as Russell in Deadpool 2.
Rusty Crowe
Rusty Crowe, born 1947 in Johnson City, Tennessee, is a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate representing District 3 and chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee.
Rusty Hamer
Rusty Hamer (Russell Craig Hamer, 1947–1990), American child actor who played Rusty Williams, Danny Thomas's TV son, on Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show 1953–1964; later unemployment and suicide at 42 prompted A Minor Consideration.
Rusty Rabbit
Rusty Rabbit (ラスティ・ラビット) is a 2025 2.5D Metroidvania action game by SoFun and NetEase Games with a script by Gen Urobuchi, starring rabbit salvager Stamp in the Junkster mech on PS5, Switch, and Steam.
Rusty Schwimmer
Rusty Schwimmer (Deborah Schwimmer, born 1962, Chicago) is an American character actress known for A Little Princess, The Perfect Storm, Runaway Jury, North Country, and TV roles on ER, Heroes, and The Guardian.
Rusty Staub
Rusty Staub (Daniel Joseph Staub, "Le Grand Orange"), MLB outfielder/first baseman 1963-1985 for Astros, Expos, Mets, Tigers, Rangers; only player with 500+ hits for four teams; died 2018.
Rusty trombone
Rusty trombone: vulgar English sex slang for simultaneous anilingus and hand stimulation of a partner; also Dutch roestige trombone. Etymology combines trombone hand-mouth imagery with the rust-color of fecal matter; earliest print citation 2003.
Rusty Wailes
Rusty Wailes (Richard Donald Wailes, 1936–2002), American rower and one of the few US rowers with two Olympic golds: eights at Melbourne 1956 and coxless fours at Rome 1960, plus 1959 Pan Am gold.
Rusty Wallace
Rusty Wallace (Russell William Wallace Jr., born 1956), American NASCAR driver, 1989 Cup champion with 55 wins and 706 starts for Blue Max and Penske Racing; NASCAR Hall of Fame 2013, short-track specialist.
Rusty-spotted cat
Rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus), kola diviya, the world's smallest wild cat, native to India, Sri Lanka, and western Nepal; Near Threatened, under 10,000 mature individuals, rodent and bird predator of forests and farmland.
Rusubbicari
Rusubbicari was a coastal town of Roman Mauretania Caesariensis, now Algeria, identified with ruins at Mers el Hajaje; its bishops are attested in 411 and 484.
Rusuccuru
Rusuccuru (Rusucurru), ancient Roman city at Dellys, Algeria, in Mauretania Caesariensis; a Claudian colony or municipium, 'cape of the fish' in Punic, identified with Dellys after a long Tigzirt controversy.
Rusudan of Georgia
Rusudan of Georgia, daughter of Queen Tamar, was a queen of the Bagrationi dynasty who reigned from 1223 to 1245, losing the kingdom's independence to the Mongol Empire.
Rusyn language
Rusyn (русиньскый язык) is an East Slavic minority language of the Carpathians, spoken in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and Vojvodina, written in Cyrillic, with four codified variants and disputed status versus Ukrainian.
Rusyns (Русины)
Rusyns (Русины), also Carpatho-Rusyns or Ruthenians, are an East Slavic people of the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, and Serbia, numbering about 1.2 million, never stateless-free, recognized as a minority everywhere except Ukraine.
Rut (mammalian reproduction)
Rut, the annual breeding season of mammals such as deer, also called the rutting season; mating concentrated by photoperiod so births match peak forage. Studies show shifting rut timing in Rum red deer and Doñana, but stable timing in Ontario white-tailed deer.
Ruta
Ruta (rue) is a genus of about 12 aromatic Rutaceae herbs native to Macaronesia and the Mediterranean, best known for Ruta graveolens, a medicinal herb with furanocoumarin-related phototoxicity.
Ruta 27 (Costa Rica)
Ruta 27, known as the Carretera San José–Caldera, is a toll highway in Costa Rica linking San José with the Pacific port of Caldera, inaugurated in 2010.
Ruta Gedmintas
Ruta Gedmintas (born 1983, Canterbury, England) is an English actress; Frankie in Lip Service, Dutch Velders in The Strain, Serafina Pekkala in His Dark Materials, and Belle in A Street Cat Named Bob.
Ruta graveolens
Ruta graveolens, common rue, is an aromatic Rutaceae subshrub native from the N. Balkan Peninsula to Crimea, cultivated as a medicinal herb; furanocoumarins make it phototoxic and abortifacient.
Ruta Lee
Ruta Lee (Ruta Mary Kilmonis, born May 30, 1935, Montreal) is a Canadian-born American actress of Lithuanian descent known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Witness for the Prosecution, co-hosting High Rollers with Alex Trebek, and leading the Thalians charity.
Ruta Nacional 45A
Ruta Nacional 45A, known as the Troncal Central, is a Colombian national highway running from Zipaquirá in Cundinamarca to San Alberto in Cesar, crossing five departments.
Rutabaga
Rutabaga, also called swede or Swedish turnip (Brassica napus Napobrassica group), is a cool-season root vegetable with yellow flesh, smooth bluish leaves, and a ridged leaf-scar neck, larger and sweeter than the turnip.
Rutaceae
Rutaceae, the rue or citrus family (Rutaceae Juss., 1789), is a Sapindales family of 161 genera and 2,070 species of aromatic trees, shrubs and lianas with pellucid oil glands, including Citrus, Pilocarpus, and Zanthoxylum.