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Reserve granary system
The reserve granary system (预备仓) was the Ming dynasty's official network of famine-relief granaries, founded by the Hongwu Emperor around 1391, with four granaries per county stocked by state funds.
Reserve head
A reserve head (Giza reserve heads) is a portrait-like limestone head buried in the substructure of Old Kingdom mastaba tombs at Giza, made mostly during Khufu's Fourth Dynasty reign.
Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC): US college-based officer commissioning and scholarship program across Army, Navy, and Air Force; created by the National Defense Act of 1916; largest DOD officer source, over 9,000 commissioned in FY2012.
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (Philippines)
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (Philippines), also called ROTC or NSTP's military component: student military training begun in 1912, mandatory until RA 9163 made it optional in 2002 after hazing deaths, with pending bills to reinstate it.
Reserve power
Reserve powers: discretionary head-of-state powers in Westminster systems, exercised without ministerial advice only in exceptional crises; includes appointing or dismissing a prime minister, dissolving parliament, and royal assent; landmark cases King-Byng 1926 and Whitlam 1975.
Reserve requirement
The reserve requirement, or reserve requirement ratio, obliges banks to hold a minimum share of deposits as central bank reserves; the United States set its ratio to zero in 2020.
Reservoir Capital Group
Reservoir Capital Group is a New York investment firm founded in 1998 by Daniel Stern and Craig Huff, combining opportunistic investing with hedge fund seeding.
Resettlement Administration
The Resettlement Administration (Переселенческое управление) was the Russian Empire government office, founded in 1896, that organized peasant migration to Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia.
Resettlement and villagization in Ethiopia
Resettlement and villagization were related programs of state-directed population relocation in Ethiopia, implemented most extensively under the Marxist Derg military government from 1974 to 1991.
Resettlement of Île du Coin
Île du Coin, largest island of Peros Banhos atoll, Chagos Archipelago; former copra plantation port whose Chagossian inhabitants were removed by 1973; resettlement studied, litigated, and attempted by landing in 2026.
Resettlement of Thracian refugees in Bulgaria
The resettlement of Thracian refugees in Bulgaria was the settlement of Bulgarian refugees from Thrace, mainly after the 1913 Ottoman expulsions and the 1920 cession to Greece.
Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
The resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was a state program of mass deportation that moved millions of people between the 9th and late 7th century BC.
ReShape Lifesciences
ReShape Lifesciences Inc. is a California-based medical device company selling weight-loss and metabolic-health devices, including the Lap-Band gastric band and the Obalon swallowable balloon, formed through a 2021 merger with Obalon Therapeutics.
Reshma Sohoni
Reshma Sohoni is a British venture capital investor, cofounder and managing partner of Seedcamp, the UK seed fund whose early investments include Wise, UiPath, and Revolut.
Reshoring
Reshoring is the relocation of production back to a company's home country after offshoring, a measurable US trend with over 2.3 million jobs announced since 2010.
Reshut
Reshut (Hebrew: רשות, "permission") is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry in which the cantor asks permission, from God or the congregation, to begin a prayer.
Residence superieure of Annam
The Residence superieure of Annam (Khâm sứ Trung Kỳ) was the French office heading the protectorate of central Vietnam, supervising the Nguyen court at Hue from 1886.
Residences of Donald Trump
The residences of Donald Trump are his homes and working retreats: Trump Tower in Manhattan, the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, and the Bedminster, New Jersey golf club.
Residency-General of Korea
The Residency-General of Korea (韓国統監府) was the institution Japan established in Seoul in 1906 to control Korea, headed first by Itō Hirobumi, becoming the Government-General in 1910.
Resident assistant
Resident assistant (RA), also called resident advisor or community advisor: a live-in trained student staff member in college residence halls who builds community, enforces policy, and handles on-call crisis response, typically for 25–60 residents in exchange for housing and a stipend.
Residential school denialism
Residential school denialism in Canada is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about the Indian Residential School system to undermine truth and reconciliation; measured at roughly one in five Canadians, it surged after the 2021 Kamloops unmarked-graves announcements and prompted education programs and criminalization debates.
Residential System
The Residential System (Sistem Residen) was British colonial rule in the Malay states of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang from 1874, begun by the Pangkor Treaty.
Residential tenancy regimes by jurisdiction
A residential tenancy regime is the body of law governing private rented homes; this comparison contrasts jurisdictions requiring legal grounds for eviction with those allowing simple notice.
Residual income
Residual income in corporate finance is profit after a charge for capital employed, dating to Alfred Marshall in 1890 and used by General Motors in the 1920s.
Residual income valuation
Residual income valuation is an equity valuation method that prices a share as its book value plus the present value of expected residual income, income above the cost of equity.
Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, announced on 11 February 2013, made him the first pope in nearly 600 years to step down; Francis succeeded him.
Resignation of Sheikh Hasina
Resignation of Sheikh Hasina (5 August 2024): Bangladesh's Prime Minister of 15-plus years stepped down and fled to India amid a student-led quota-reform uprising, leaving an interim government under Muhammad Yunus.
Resist.UA
Resist.UA is a Ukrainian venture capital and private equity fund, founded by former banker Roman Sulzhyk and three partners, investing in front-line-tested defense and dual-use startups.
Resistance during World War II
Resistance during World War II: clandestine armed and civilian opposition by populations of Axis-occupied countries, including the French Resistance, Polish Home Army, Yugoslav and Soviet partisans, and Philippine guerrillas.
Resistance movement
Resistance movement: organized opposition to occupation or regime, notably WWII movements against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan (Widerstand, partisans, SOE-backed networks), spanning sabotage, intelligence, and armed struggle.