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Ruy Cinatti
Ruy Cinatti (1915–1986) was a Portuguese poet, agronomist, and ethnographer who spent much of his career in Portuguese Timor and won major Portuguese poetry prizes including the Prémio Camilo Pessanha.
Ruy Díaz de Guzmán
Ruy Díaz de Guzmán was a mestizo soldier and official of the Río de la Plata who wrote La Argentina manuscrita, the region's first history by a native-born author.
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941–2010) was a Portuguese-born Angolan poet, anthropologist, and filmmaker known for joining ethnography and literature in works about southern Angola's pastoral peoples.
Ruy Lopez
Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is the chess opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, named after Ruy López de Segura's 1561 treatise; ECO C60-C99, with Morphy, Berlin, Open, Exchange, and Marshall variations.
Ruy López de Segura
Ruy López de Segura (c. 1530–c. 1580), Spanish priest and chess master of Zafra, confessor to Philip II; wrote the 1561 Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del axedrez and gave his name to the Ruy López (Spanish) opening.
Ruyan-on-Ob
Ruyan-on-Ob (Руян-на-Оби, Ruyan-mayak) is a park and recreation base on the Ob River near Urtam, Tomsk Oblast, 120 km from Tomsk, with a 17-meter lighthouse and a copy of Antarctica's only Orthodox church; it began as the abandoned 2010 Ruyan-gorod entrepreneur-city project.
Ruyi Jingu Bang (如意金箍棒)
Ruyi Jingu Bang (如意金箍棒), the As-You-Wish Gold-Banded Cudgel, is Sun Wukong's size-changing iron staff in Journey to the West: 13,500 catties, forged by Taishang Laojun, used by Yu the Great, taken from the Dragon King.
Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (如懿传)
Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (如懿传, Ruyi Zhuan) is an 87-episode 2018 Chinese Qing-court drama on Tencent Video, starring Zhou Xun and Wallace Huo, adapted from Liu Lian Zi's sequel novel to Empresses in the Palace, later hit by a 2024 online backlash.
Ruyue
Ruyue (如月), aka Bingxue Yao/Snowfall, is a 2024 Chinese Republican-era fantasy romance web drama adapted from Ni Luo's novel, directed by Li Muge, starring Gao Weiguang and Ouyang Nana, 24 episodes on Tencent Video.
Ruyyaka
Ruyyaka (रुय्यक), also called Rucaka, was a Sanskrit rhetorician of Kashmir who flourished in the twelfth century and wrote the Alaṃkārasarvasva, a handbook defining 67 figures of speech.
Ruzai
Ruzai (Auzai, Ruha) is a Roman municipium in Mauretania recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana at Ks. Kebbuch near El Kseur, Algeria, between Syda and Saldae; its identification with Rusazu is disputed.
Ruzaltatug rezetecan
Ruzaltatug rezetecan (瑞康芦泽妥塔单抗, SHR-A2009) is Hengrui's HER3-targeting antibody-drug conjugate with a topoisomerase I inhibitor payload; NDA accepted in China 2026 for EGFR-mutated NSCLC after EGFR TKI failure.
Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Bajcsy, born 1933, is a Czech-born American computer scientist who pioneered active perception in robotics, founded Penn's GRASP Laboratory, and led NSF's CISE Directorate.
Ruzi Ying
Ruzi Ying (孺子婴), personal name Liu Ying, was the last ruler of the Western Han dynasty, made heir apparent as a toddler while Wang Mang held power.
Ruznamcha-yi E'temad al-Saltaneh
Ruznamcha-yi E'temad al-Saltaneh (روزنامه خاطرات اعتمادالسلطنه) is the secret daily diary of E'temad al-Saltana, Qajar Iran's minister of publications, kept from 1880 to 1896 and published in 1966.
Ruzomberok
MFK Ružomberok, Slovak football club from Ružomberok tracing to 1906 Concordia; won the 2005-06 Slovak league and cup double, the 2023-24 Slovnaft Cup, and plays at Štadión pod Čebraťom.
Ruzzik ibn Tala'i
Ruzzik ibn Tala'i (رزيك بن طلائع) was the vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt from 1161 to 1163, the son and successor of the military vizier Tala'i ibn Ruzzik.
RV (film)
RV (2006) is a Columbia Pictures family road-trip comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, written by Geoff Rodkey, starring Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, and Kristin Chenoweth; it opened No. 1 with $16.4 million and grossed $87.5 million worldwide but drew poor reviews (23% on Rotten Tomatoes).
RV Atlantis (research vessel)
RV Atlantis is a U.S. Navy-owned oceanographic research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 1997 and built to launch and service the Alvin submersible.
RV Belgica (research vessel)
RV Belgica is Belgium's oceanographic research vessel, delivered in 2021 to replace the 1984 ship of the same name; it studies the North Sea and sails as a Belgian Navy auxiliary vessel.
RV Knorr
RV Knorr was an American Navy-owned research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1970 to 2014, covering nearly 1.4 million miles of ocean science.
RV Maria S. Merian
RV Maria S. Merian is a German ocean research vessel based in Rostock, serving marine research since 2006 and able to break ice up to 60 centimeters thick.
RV Petrel
RV Petrel, now MV Sarah Lynn, is a research vessel that found famous lost World War II warships, including USS Indianapolis, and was bought by the US Navy in 2022.
RV Sikuliaq
RV Sikuliaq, named for an Iñupiaq word meaning young sea ice, is a 261-foot research vessel operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Seward, Alaska.
RV Sonne
RV Sonne, German for "Sun," is a German deep-sea research vessel commissioned in 2014 and operated on the Pacific and Indian Oceans as Germany's primary platform for marine and Earth science in the Indo-Pacific.
RV Tauri
RV Tauri (RV Tau) stars are luminous, low-mass pulsating variables, the longest-period type II Cepheids, defined by alternating deep and shallow minima and often surrounded by dusty circumbinary discs.
RV Tauri variable
An RV Tauri variable is a luminous pulsating yellow supergiant whose light curve alternates between deep and shallow minima, the long-period extension of the Population II Cepheids.
RV Thomas G. Thompson (T-AGOR-23)
R/V Thomas G. Thompson (T-AGOR-23) is a Navy-owned Global-class oceanographic research vessel operated by the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, built in 1991 and home-ported in Seattle.
RV Vityaz
RV Vityaz (Витязь, "Knight") was a Soviet oceanographic research ship of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1949 to 1979, now the main exhibit of the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.
RV1001
RV1001 is an oral, selective PI3Kδ inhibitor developed by Rhizen Pharmaceuticals for canine lymphoma. Phase I/II trials in 56 dogs with B- and T-cell NHL showed 62% and 77% response rates, with manageable hepatotoxicity as the dose-limiting toxicity.