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Remote

Remote is an HR and payroll software company founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre that acts as an employer of record for international hiring.

Remote Associates Test

The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a psychometric test that measures creative thinking by asking respondents to find a fourth word linking three seemingly unrelated words.

Remote viewing

Remote viewing is the claimed psychic ability to describe distant or unseen targets, studied from the 1970s at SRI by Targ and Puthoff and funded by the CIA and DIA under Project Star Gate until its 1995 termination.

Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act

Federal process to move marijuana (cannabis) out of Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act into Schedule III, distinct from descheduling or legalization; spans Biden's 2022 review, HHS's 2023 recommendation, the May 2024 DEA proposed rule, and the 2026 partial rescheduling and hearings.

Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI

The removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI was his firing as CEO by the board on November 17, 2023, reversed five days later after an employee revolt.

Removal of the anti-Christian edict boards

The removal of the anti-Christian edict boards (キリシタン禁制高札撤去) was a Meiji government act of February 24, 1873, ending Japan's more than two-century ban on Christianity.

Removal of the capital to Heijō-kyō

The removal of the capital to Heijō-kyō (平城京遷都) moved Japan's capital from Fujiwara-kyō to the newly built Heijō-kyō, near modern Nara, in 710 under Empress Genmei, beginning the Nara period.

Removal of the capital to Thang Long

The removal of the capital to Thang Long was the 1010 transfer of Vietnam's capital from Hoa Lu by King Ly Thai To, who renamed the site Thang Long.

Removal of the Hungarian border fence

The removal of the Hungarian border fence was the 1989 dismantling of the electrified barbed-wire barrier along Hungary's border with Austria, the first breach in the Iron Curtain.

Removal of the Marduk statue by Tukulti-Ninurta I

The removal of the Marduk statue by Tukulti-Ninurta I was the carrying of Babylon's statue of Marduk to Assyria after the Middle Assyrian king captured Kaštiliaš IV, around 1225 BC.

Removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa

The removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa was the transfer of the stele from Sippar to Susa as Elamite war booty in the 12th century BC.

Remuneration

Remuneration is the total payment, monetary and in kind, given for work or services, covering wages, salaries, bonuses, commissions, and benefits. From Latin remunerari; distinct from narrower wage or salary.

Remy Ceillier

Remy Ceillier (1688–1761) was a French Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Vanne and Saint-Hydulphe, prior of Flavigny, and author of a 23-volume history of Christian authors.

Remy Dou

Remy Dou is a science education researcher who studies how everyday family interactions shape children's identification with STEM fields, and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Ren Ao

Ren Ao (任敖) was a Western Han official who rose from prison clerk to Grand Censor under Empress Gao and was enfeoffed as Marquis of Guang'a.

Ren Bishi

Ren Bishi (任弼时) was a Chinese communist leader who joined the party in 1922 and served as one of its five secretaries from 1945 until his death in 1950.

Ren Bonian

Ren Bonian (任伯年, 1840–1895), born Ren Yi, was a Qing dynasty painter who sold paintings in Shanghai and became a leading figure of the late nineteenth-century Shanghai School.

Ren Dejing's Partition of Xia

Ren Dejing's Partition of Xia (任得敬分国事件) was the 1170 attempt by Western Xia chancellor Ren Dejing to force Emperor Renzong to cede half the kingdom, ending in Ren Dejing's execution.

Ren Fang

Ren Fang (任昉, 460–508) was a writer and official of the Southern Qi and Liang dynasties, famed for drafting the abdication edicts that brought Xiao Yan to the throne.

Ren Fujia

Ren Fujia (任富佳, born 1983) is a Chinese executive, chairman and general manager of kitchen appliance maker Hangzhou Robam Appliances, son of founder Ren Jianhua.

Ren Ito

Ren Ito (伊藤錬) is a Japanese entrepreneur and former diplomat who co-founded the Tokyo AI startup Sakana AI in 2023, the fastest company in Japan to reach unicorn status.

Ren Jianhua

Ren Jianhua (任建华, born 1956) founded Robam Appliances in Hangzhou, a kitchen appliance maker listed in Shenzhen in 2010, and was its chairman until 2026.

Ren Luozhong

Ren Luozhong (任罗忠, born 1962) is a Chinese appliance executive who served as director and deputy general manager of Robam Appliances, then chaired its board of supervisors.

Ren Renfa

Ren Renfa (任仁发), 1254 to 1327, was a Yuan dynasty official, hydraulic engineer, and horse painter who directed dredging of the Wusongjiang and wrote the Water Conservancy Collection.

Ren Shang

Ren Shang (任尚) was an Eastern Han dynasty general who commanded against the Qiang peoples of the northwest, winning at Fuping before being executed for falsified reports and bribery.

Renada Collins

Renada Collins is an American politician and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Louisiana's 2nd District on the November 2026 ballot, after running for New Orleans mayor in 2025.

Renaissance

The Renaissance, or Il Rinascimento, was a period of cultural, artistic, and intellectual transformation in Europe from roughly 1400 to 1650, centered on Italy, above all Florence.

Renaissance (French political party)

Renaissance is Emmanuel Macron's French centrist party, founded as En Marche! in 2016, renamed La République en marche in 2017 and Renaissance in 2022; led by Gabriel Attal since December 2024, it holds 102 National Assembly seats after the 2024 snap elections.

Renaissance fair

Renaissance fair (Renaissance faire): outdoor festival recreating idealized Elizabethan village life with costumed performers, crafts, and jousting. First held May 1963 in Los Angeles by Phyllis and Ron Patterson as a KPFK fundraiser; about 200 US fairs now draw millions yearly.

Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism (studia humanitatis; Italian humanism): a 1350–1650 European cultural movement of classical literary and rhetorical studies, text recovery, and Latin philology, spanning Petrarch, Valla, and Erasmus.