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Regimental Special Troops Battalion
Regimental Special Troops Battalion (RSTB), 75th Ranger Regiment battalion activated 16 October 2007 at Fort Benning; runs reconnaissance, communications, and military intelligence companies supporting joint special operations.
Regimento of 1575 for Paulo Dias de Novais
The Regimento of 1575 for Paulo Dias de Novais (Regimento de Paulo Dias de Novais) accompanied his 1571 donation charter naming him governor of Angola.
Regina Barrow
Regina Barrow is an American Democratic politician elected to the Louisiana House in 2005 who now serves as President pro tempore of the Louisiana State Senate.
Regina Birdsell
Regina Birdsell is an American Republican politician who has represented New Hampshire Senate District 19 since 2015 and serves as Senate Majority Leader, after serving in the state House.
Regina Louise
Regina Louise, American author and foster care advocate, memoirist of Somebody's Someone (2003) and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe (2018), adopted at 41 by the counselor once barred from adopting her, subject of the 2019 Lifetime film I Am Somebody's Child.
Regina M. Rodriguez
Regina M. Rodriguez, born 1963, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Colorado since 2021, appointed by President Biden and confirmed 72 to 28.
Regina Peruggi
Regina S. Peruggi is an American educator and administrator, first lay president of Marymount Manhattan College (1990-2001), president of the Central Park Conservancy, and president of Kingsborough Community College (2004-2013).
Reginald Dyer
Reginald Dyer (1864–1927), British Indian Army brigadier-general, ordered the 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) massacre, firing 1,650 rounds without warning; censured by the Commons in 1920 and forced to retire.
Reginald Heber
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) was an English clergyman and poet who served as the second Anglican Bishop of Calcutta from 1823 until his death in India in 1826.
Reginald Pecock
Reginald Pecock (c. 1390–1461) was an English bishop of St Asaph and then Chichester, the most prolific fifteenth-century English theologian writing in English, forced to abjure in 1457.
Reginald Pole
Reginald Pole, known as Cardinal Pole, was an English cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, a cousin of Henry VIII who opposed the royal supremacy and led Mary I's Catholic restoration.
Regional accents of English
Regional accents of English, also called accents of English or English regional accents: systematic pronunciation differences tied to region, studied via Wells' lexical sets, RP and General American norms, and British dialect atlases.
Regional and countywide school districts in New Jersey
Regional and countywide school districts in New Jersey are multi-municipality districts serving several towns, including 45 regional high school districts, 21 county vocational districts, and 7 county special services districts.
Regional and special custom in international law
Regional and special custom, also called particular custom, is customary international law that binds only a limited number of states, sometimes only two, rather than all states.
Regional autonomy in Indonesia
Regional autonomy in Indonesia (otonomi daerah) is the authority of Indonesia's autonomous regions to manage their own governmental affairs, established by 1999 laws and effective from 2001.
Regional bank
A regional bank is a mid-sized depository institution that takes deposits and makes loans within a defined region, sitting between community banks and the largest national banks.
Regional branches and scientific centres of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The regional branches and scientific centers of the USSR Academy of Sciences were dispersed research complexes outside Moscow and Leningrad, beginning with the Ural branch in 1932.
Regional Censorates (xing yushitai)
Regional Censorates (行御史台) were regional branches of the Yuan dynasty's Censorate; the principal Jiangnan censorate, the Southern Taifu, impeached corrupt officials and audited local archives.
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade agreement among the ten ASEAN members plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea, in force since 2022.
Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers
The Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers (Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana, CROM) was Mexico's first national labor confederation, founded in Saltillo, Coahuila, in 1918 and led by Luis N. Morones.
Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law
The Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law (民族区域自治法) is China's basic law implementing regional ethnic autonomy, letting minority areas govern through autonomous organs; adopted in 1984 and amended in 2001.
Regional Fish Institute, Ltd.
Regional Fish Institute is a Japanese food-tech startup founded in Kyoto in 2019 that uses genome editing to breed farmed fish, launching the world's first genome-edited animal foods in 2021.
Regional inequality
Regional inequality is economic inequality between the territories of a single country or group of countries, and it has risen in most OECD countries since 2000.
Regional integration
Regional integration is the process by which neighboring states reduce or remove economic barriers in stages, from free trade areas to common markets and shared currencies, pursued through regional trade agreements.
Regional language
Regional language: a language spoken in part of a country by a population smaller than the national majority, also called a minority language. Defined by the 1992 European Charter; status ranges from none to co-official, as with Catalan, Basque, Galician, and Welsh.
Regional military governorship (dudu zhuzhou junshi)
The regional military governorship (都督諸州軍事) was a Cao Wei office commanding a region's armies, created by Emperor Wen of Wei in the early Three Kingdoms period.
Regional power
Regional power: a state with superior military, economic, political, and ideological capabilities that leads a delimited region, per Nolte's definition; distinct from superpowers, great powers, and middle powers, with examples including Brazil, India, and Turkey.
Regional sports network
Regional sports network (RSN): a local-market TV channel holding exclusive rights to a region's pro teams, funded by carriage fees and ads; pioneered by MSG in 1969, dominant through cable's peak, and collapsing after Diamond Sports Group's 2023 bankruptcy.
Regionalism (politics)
Regionalism, also known as political regionalism, is the striving of a territorially distinct region for greater self-responsibility and self-government, often voiced through regional protest movements.
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation, originally First Alabama Bancshares, is a Birmingham, Alabama bank holding company operating Regions Bank, with about $158.8 billion in assets and roughly 1,247 branches.