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Rector (academia)
Rector (academia): title for a university's head, equivalent to president or vice-chancellor. Covers medieval origins at Bologna and Paris, the Vienna model, and modern appointment methods.
Recuay culture
The Recuay culture was a pre-Columbian culture of Peru's north-central highlands, flourishing in the first millennium CE and known for distinctive white kaolin pottery and stone sculpture.
Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie
The Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie (RIÉ) is the standard corpus of pre-Aksumite and Aksumite inscriptions of Ethiopia and Eritrea, published in Paris from 1991.
Recur Club
Recur Club is a Delhi-based debt marketplace founded by Eklavya Gupta and Abhinav Sherwal that matches startups and SMEs raising debt with banks, NBFCs, and credit funds.
Recurring deposit
A recurring deposit is a term deposit in which a saver deposits a fixed sum monthly for a fixed tenure, earning fixed interest paid at maturity.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biotech company using automation and AI for drug discovery, founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2013 and public on Nasdaq since 2021.
Recursive descent parser
Recursive descent parser: a hand-written top-down (LL) parsing method with one procedure per grammar nonterminal, requiring removal of left recursion and common prefixes; predictive variants run in linear time and are used in GCC, Clang, V8, and Roslyn.
Recusancy
Recusancy: post-Reformation English refusal to attend Church of England services, punished under the 1559 Act of Uniformity and later statutes; Catholics and dissenters; ended by 1689 Toleration Act and 1791 Relief Act.
Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor (1919–2017), born Recy Corbitt, was an Alabama sharecropper gang-raped by white men in September 1944; Rosa Parks investigated for the NAACP, two grand juries refused to indict, and Alabama apologized in 2011.
Recycling Lives
Recycling Lives was a Preston-based group combining scrap metal and waste recycling with a charity for homeless people and ex-offenders; its trading companies entered administration in 2024.
Red and Black Cafe
The Red and Black Cafe was a Wobbly, worker-managed collective cafe in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2000 and known for an incident in 2010 involving a uniformed police officer.
Red and black flag
The red and black flag is the diagonally divided symbol of anarcho-syndicalism and anarcho-communism, combining the red of the labor movement with the black of anarchism.
Red and White Cabinet
Red and White Cabinet (Kabinet Merah Putih), Indonesia's cabinet under President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka from October 2024; 109 members, largest since 1966, named for the flag colors, with repeated reshuffles.
Red Army
The Red Army (Красная армия), founded 1918 under Leon Trotsky, was the army of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. It won the Russian Civil War and destroyed about 80% of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in 1941–1945.
Red Army Faction
Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, RAF), also Baader-Meinhof Group: West German left-wing terrorist organization founded 1970 by Baader, Ensslin, and Meinhof; urban guerrilla attacks killed 34-35 people before its 1998 self-disbanding.
Red Army invasion of Armenia
The Red Army invasion of Armenia was the entry of Soviet Russian forces into the First Republic of Armenia in late November 1920, ending its independence.
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
The Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan was the entry of Soviet Russia's 11th Red Army into the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on April 27–28, 1920, ending its 23 months of independence.
Red Army invasion of Georgia
The Red Army invasion of Georgia (Грузинско-советская война), or Soviet-Georgian war, was a 1921 Red Army operation that overthrew Georgia's Menshevik government and established Soviet power.
Red Brigades
The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse) were an Italian Marxist-Leninist terrorist group founded in 1970 by Renato Curcio, Margherita Cagol, and Alberto Franceschini; they killed about 75 people, including Aldo Moro in 1978, and disbanded in 1988.
Red Cell
Red Cell (OP-06D), the Naval Security Coordination Team, was a secret US Navy unit of SEALs that staged mock terrorist attacks to test base security from 1984.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota war chief, led the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho to victory in Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) over the Bozeman Trail, and signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie on November 6, 1868.
Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866–1868) was fought by the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho against the United States Army over the Bozeman Trail, ending in American withdrawal.
Red coat (military uniform)
The red coat, or redcoat, was the scarlet uniform of British soldiers from the New Model Army era, first worn abroad at the Battle of the Dunes in 1658, replaced by khaki battle dress in 1902, and surviving today in ceremonial use by the Foot Guards.
Red Coat Army Rebellion
The Red Coat Army Rebellion (红袄军起义) was a series of peasant uprisings in Shandong and Hebei at the end of the Jin dynasty, named for red jackets.
Red corridor
Red corridor: contiguous forested, mineral-rich tribal belt across central and eastern India, also called the Naxal belt, where the CPI (Maoist) insurgency operated from 2004; shrank from about 220 districts in 2009 to none by March 2026.
Red Dot Capital Partners
Red Dot Capital Partners is an Israel-based early-growth venture capital firm founded in 2016, investing $10–20 million in late Series A through Series C technology companies.
Red Dragonfly
Red Dragonfly (Hongqingting) is a Chinese footwear and leather-goods company founded by Qian Jinbo in 1995 in Yongjia, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, listed in Shanghai since 2015.
Red Ensign
Red Ensign, the Red Duster: British civil ensign, a red flag with the Union Flag canton. Flown by UK, Crown Dependency, and Overseas Territory merchant ships; reserved for civilians in 1864.
Red Eyebrows Rebellion
The Red Eyebrows Rebellion (赤眉起义) was a peasant uprising of 17 or 18 to 27 CE whose armies helped overthrow Wang Mang's Xin dynasty and briefly enthroned Liu Penzi.
Red flag (politics)
Red flag (politics): plain red banner, emblem of socialism, communism, and labour movements. Born as France's martial-law signal in 1789, inverted by 1848 revolutionaries, adopted by the 1889 Socialist International and later communist states.