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Reza Aslan (رضا اصلان)

Reza Aslan (رضا اصلان) is an Iranian-American writer and scholar of religions in Los Angeles, best known for the 2013 bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran

Reza Pahlavi (رضا پهلوی), born 1960, exiled crown prince of Iran and eldest son of the last shah; leads opposition to the Islamic Republic, advocating secular democracy decided by referendum.

Reza Shah (رضا شاه پهلوی)

Reza Shah Pahlavi (رضا شاه پهلوی, 1878–1944), founder of the Pahlavi dynasty: rose in the 1921 coup with Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabai, ended the Qajars in 1925, ruled 1925–41, modernized Iran's army, bureaucracy, and railways, abdicated after the 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion.

Rezin

Rezin, also known as Rahianu, Rasin, or Rasun, was the last king of Aram-Damascus, an Aramean kingdom centered on Damascus; he died when the city fell to Assyria in 732 BC.

Rezon (son of Eliada)

Rezon, son of Eliada, is an Aramean ruler known only from 1 Kings 11:23-25, where he flees Hadadezer of Zobah, seizes Damascus, and becomes an adversary of Solomon.

RFM model (marketing)

The RFM model is a customer segmentation method in marketing that scores recency, frequency, and monetary value, letting marketers rank customers and target campaigns since the 1970s.

RH-N Bullfrog Opportunity I

RH-N Bullfrog Opportunity I, LLC is a Delaware venture capital fund formed in 2021 in Palo Alto, California, within Meyer Malka's Ribbit Capital and Bullfrog complex, raising $252 million.

Rhadamanthus (Ῥαδάμανθυς)

Rhadamanthus (Ῥαδάμανθυς), son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Minos, is the mythical Cretan lawgiver who after death became a judge of the dead in Elysium, judging Asian souls under Plato's Gorgias scheme.

Rhaetic

Rhaetic (Raetic, Rhaetian) is an extinct non-Indo-European Alpine language of the Tyrsenian family with Etruscan and Lemnian, known from about 350 short 6th–1st century BC North Italic inscriptions in the Sanzeno and Magrè alphabets.

Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains

Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains (山居赋) is a long autobiographical fu by the poet Xie Lingyun, describing his Shining estate after his retirement around 425.

Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo

Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo (洛神赋) is a celebrated fu by Cao Zhi on an encounter with the Luo River goddess, written around 222.

RHB Bank

RHB Bank (RHB Bank Berhad) is a Malaysian banking group listed on Bursa Malaysia, operating in seven ASEAN countries with total assets of RM358.1 billion in 2025.

Rhea (έα) (mythology)

Rhea (Ῥέα) is the Greek Titaness, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, sister and consort of Cronus, and mother of Zeus and the first Olympians; she saved Zeus with the swaddled stone and was later identified with the Phrygian goddess Cybele, worshipped as Meter Theon.

Rheinwiesenlager

The Rheinwiesenlager (Rhine meadow camps), officially Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosures, were American camps along the Rhine holding over a million German prisoners in 1945.

Rhenald Kasali

Rhenald Kasali (born 1960, Jakarta) is an Indonesian professor of management science at Universitas Indonesia whose 2004 bestseller cHaNgE! sold over 100,000 copies and who founded the Rumah Perubahan social movement in Bekasi.

Rheno-Flemish mysticism

Rheno-Flemish mysticism, also called Rhineland mysticism, is the mystical theology that developed in the thirteenth century in Belgium and the Rhineland, centered on Strassburg and Cologne.

Rhesa H. Barksdale

Rhesa H. Barksdale, also known as Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2009.

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasive speech, formalized in 5th–4th century BCE Greece; Aristotle defines it as seeing the available means of persuasion via ethos, pathos, and logos, distinguishing it from dialectic.

Rhetoric of Donald Trump

Rhetoric of Donald Trump: scholarly analysis of Trump's distinctive political language, including his rhetorical signature of disruption and demonization, nationalist populism, informal voice, quantified uniqueness versus other presidents, and increased profanity in his second term.

Rhetorical analysis

Rhetorical analysis is a method that examines how a text persuades rather than what it argues, evaluating style, the Aristotelian appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos, and the rhetorical situation.

Rhetorical device

A rhetorical device is a use of language, such as metaphor, irony, or anaphora, designed to evoke a particular response in an audience and to form or strengthen an argument.

Rhetorical question

Rhetorical question: an interrogative posed for effect, not for an answer, conveying indirect force such as assertion of the opposite polarity, command, or evaluation; studied in pragmatics, persuasion experiments, and political discourse.

Rhetorical Stela of Ramesses II

The Rhetorical Stela of Ramesses II is an inscribed Egyptian stela of the pharaoh Ramesses II, praising the king as victorious and pious without reference to a particular event.

Rhett Marques

Rhett Marques is an American Republican politician serving in the Alabama House of Representatives and running for the U.S. House in Alabama's 2nd District in 2026.

Rhetta Bowers

Rhetta Bowers is an American Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 113, elected in 2018 as the district's first African American representative.

Rhiannon

Rhiannon (Rigantona, "great queen") is the otherworldly horsewoman of the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi, wife of Pwyll and Manawydan, mother of Pryderi, owner of the sleep-bringing Birds of Rhiannon, and namesake of Fleetwood Mac's 1976 hit.

Rhiannon Ally

Rhiannon Ally (born 1980) is an American ABC News anchor and correspondent, Sunday co-anchor of GMA Weekend, formerly overnight co-anchor of World News Now and America This Morning, and author of Mommy, Please Don't Go to Work!

Rhimo Nyansaho

Rhimo Nyansaho is a Tanzanian politician and finance professional serving as Minister for Defence and National Service, and former Director General of the Public Service Social Security Fund.

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table is an ancient Egyptian table expressing 2 divided by every odd number from 3 to 101 as sums of unit fractions.

Rhineland massacres

Rhineland massacres (Hebrew Gezerot Tatnu): 1096 attacks by People's Crusade bands on the Jewish communities of Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Cologne; regarded as the first major medieval European persecution of Jews, with debated death tolls from about 4,000 to 10,000.