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Republic Day (गणतंत्र दिवस) (India)
Republic Day (गणतंत्र दिवस) is India's national holiday on 26 January, marking the Constitution coming into force in 1950, marked by the Kartavya Path parade, presidential flag hoisting, and a chief guest tradition.
Restaurant Brands International
Restaurant Brands International (RBI), formed in 2014 from the Burger King–Tim Hortons merger, is a Miami-headquartered, Canadian-incorporated franchisor of Tim Hortons, Burger King, Popeyes, and Firehouse Subs, with 33,041 restaurants and nearly $47 billion system-wide sales in 2025.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay is a three-Michelin-starred French fine-dining restaurant at 68 Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, London, opened in 1998 as Gordon Ramsay's first wholly owned restaurant and still his group's flagship.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High is a 12-seat tasting-menu restaurant on the 60th floor of 22 Bishopsgate in London, opened in 2025 and awarded a Michelin star in 2026.
Restaurant rating
Restaurant rating: evaluation of restaurants via stars or grades. Covers Michelin Stars (since 1926, food only), UK hygiene ratings 0-5, Yelp/Google consumer scores (Google averages 0.7 stars higher), fake-review FTC rule of 2024.
Restaurant: Impossible
Restaurant: Impossible, Food Network reality series hosted by Robert Irvine, saves failing US restaurants in two days with $10,000; ran 2011 to 2023, rebooted 2026 as Last Call with Aarón Sánchez and Jen Agg.
Retsina
Retsina (ρετσίνα) is a traditional Greek white or rosé wine made by adding Aleppo pine resin during fermentation; legally produced only in Greece, protected as a TSG, with Savatiano as its main grape and Attica its center.
Reuben sandwich
The Reuben sandwich is a grilled American deli sandwich of corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian or Thousand Island dressing on rye. Its origin is disputed between Omaha's Blackstone Hotel (1925, Reuben Kulakofsky) and Arnold Reuben's New York deli (1914); its turkey-and-coleslaw cousin is the Rachel.
Revenge dress
Revenge dress: media term coined in 1994 for Diana's black off-the-shoulder Christina Stambolian silk gown, worn June 29, 1994 as Charles admitted infidelity; now a label for post-breakup statement outfits, going to Sotheby's auction in 2026.
Revenue stamp
Revenue stamp, also called duty, fiscal, or tax stamp: a government-issued label evidencing tax, duty, or fee payment on goods or documents, distinct from postage stamps; collected as fiscal philately with its own catalogs and societies.
Revival movements in traditional dress of the Americas and Africa
Revival movements in traditional dress of the Americas and Africa are organized efforts to restore garments pushed aside by colonization, using museums, tribal programs, and festivals.
Revolving restaurant
Revolving restaurant: rotating dining room on a turntable platform, first realized at Dortmund's Florianturm (1959), brought to the US by John Graham's La Ronde (1961); only the annular dining floor turns, about one rotation per hour.
Rhea Pillai
Rhea Pillai, Indian model and Art of Living instructor born in London in 1965; ex-wife of Sanjay Dutt (married 1998, divorced 2005) and partner of Leander Paes; launched The Temple House fashion label in 2016.
Rhode (brand)
Rhode (rhode skin) is Hailey Bieber's Los Angeles beauty brand, launched June 2022 with three skincare products and sold to e.l.f. Beauty in 2025 for $1 billion after reaching $212 million in net sales.
Rhône wine
Rhône wine comes from the Rhône Valley of southeastern France, split into a Syrah-based continental north (about 5% of output) and a Grenache-blend Mediterranean south (95%), under a tiered appellation hierarchy.
Rhuigi Villaseñor
Rhuigi Villaseñor, Filipino-American founder of Rhude (2015) and Bally creative director 2022–2023, creator of the Traxedo and the RHU x Zara line Redesigning Human Uniform.
Rib eye steak
Rib eye steak: beef steak from the rib primal built around the longissimus dorsi muscle, prized for heavy marbling, USDA Prime/Choice grading at the 12th rib, dry-heat cooking, and top consumer palatability scores.
Ribbon
Ribbon: a narrow, flat, flexible woven band with finished selvedges, 0.3–30 cm wide, used for tying, fastening, and decoration. Also called narrow fabric; distinct from cut cloth strips and from tapes, braids, and cords.
Ribena
Ribena is a British blackcurrant soft drink brand launched in 1938 by Dr Vernon Charley, named from Ribes nigrum, given free to children as a WWII vitamin C supplement, made at Coleford since 1947, and owned by Suntory since 2013.
Ricard (liqueur)
Ricard is a French pastis, an anise and licorice aperitif created by Paul Ricard in Marseille in 1932, bottled at 45% ABV, diluted with water, and now owned by Pernod Ricard after the 1975 merger.
Riccardo Tisci
Riccardo Tisci (born 1974) is an Italian fashion designer, creative director of Givenchy 2005-2017 and Burberry chief creative officer 2018-2022, known for Gothic-Catholic couture fused with streetwear, the rottweiler and Bambi Givenchy T-shirts, Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl costumes, and Watch the Throne artwork.
Rice bran wax
Rice bran wax, a vegetable wax from rice milling byproduct, is a US-approved food additive (21 CFR 172.890) used as candy and produce coating, gum plasticizer, and oil gelling agent; FDA had no questions on GRN 720.
Rice cooker
Rice cooker (炊飯器, automatic electric rice cooker): countertop appliance cooking rice by absorption and switching to keep-warm automatically. First electric model 1923 (Mitsubishi, marine use); first automatic home model Toshiba ER-4, 1955; tiers are mechanical, micom/fuzzy logic, induction heating, and pressure-IH.
Richard and Maurice McDonald
Richard (Dick) and Maurice (Mac) McDonald, New Hampshire-born brothers, founded McDonald's Bar-B-Que in San Bernardino in 1940 and invented the 1948 Speedee Service System, the assembly-line, self-service fast-food model, before selling the name and system to Ray Kroc for $2.7 million in 1961.
Richard Blais
Richard Blais, American chef and TV personality, winner of Top Chef All-Stars (season 8) and co-host of Fox's Next Level Chef; trained at el Bulli and The French Laundry, founder of Trail Blais, author of Try This at Home.
Richard Montañez
Richard Montañez, former PepsiCo vice president of multicultural sales, claims he invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos as a Frito-Lay janitor; Frito-Lay and a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation dispute the claim, and his 2024 lawsuit was struck under anti-SLAPP with leave to amend.
Richard Paterson
Richard Paterson (Glasgow, 1949), 'The Nose', is a Scottish master blender of Scotch whisky: third-generation, Whyte & Mackay chief blender from 1975, five decades behind The Dalmore, Shackleton whisky re-creator, OBE, later co-founder of Wolfcraig Distillers.
Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless, American chef and restaurateur of regional Mexican cuisine; Frontera Grill (1987), Topolobampo, XOCO, Bar Sótano in Chicago; James Beard Outstanding Chef 1995, Top Chef Masters 2009 winner.
Rick Owens
Rick Owens (Richard Saturnino Owens, born 1961, Porterville, California) is an American fashion designer of dark, sculptural "anti-fashion", founder of the independent Owenscorp label in Los Angeles, based in Paris since 2003.
Rick Stein
Rick Stein (born 1947 as Christopher Richard Stein) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television presenter known for simply cooked seafood and The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall.