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Rhino poaching in Southern Africa
Rhino poaching in Southern Africa is the illegal killing of rhinos for their horns, driven by Asian demand and the main threat to rhinos since 2008.
Rhinoceros Party
Rhinoceros Party (Parti Rhinocéros), Canadian satirical party founded 1963 by Jacques Ferron; promised to keep none of its promises, peaked at ~110,000 votes in 1980, won no seats, deregistered 1993, revived since 2011.
Rhizome (philosophy)
Rhizome (philosophy): Deleuze and Guattari's concept of a lateral, decentered, nonhierarchical web of relations, opposed to the tree model; introduced in Kafka (1975) and Rhizome: Introduction (1976), expanded in A Thousand Plateaus (1980).
Rho
Rho (Ρ, ρ, ῥῶ), 17th Greek letter, from Phoenician resh (head), numeral value 100; uppercase looks like Latin P but distinct code point U+03A1; tailed ϱ U+03F1; symbol for density and correlation coefficient.
Rho Acceleration
Rho Acceleration is a New York-based investment manager that makes significant minority or control recapitalization investments in technology companies; it was formed out of Rho Capital Partners in 2016.
Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health
The Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health is an annual National Academy of Medicine award, established in 1992, recognizing achievement in improving mental health.
Rhode Island Democratic Party
The Rhode Island Democratic Party is the state Democratic affiliate, run by a Democratic State Committee and a biennial convention, dominant in state government since the New Deal, with a semi-closed primary and a 2026 convention that endorsed no gubernatorial candidate.
Rhode Island Supreme Court
Rhode Island Supreme Court, the state's court of last resort: five justices (chief justice plus four), final appeals on law and equity, advisory opinions, merit selection, Licht Judicial Complex, Providence.
Rhodenergy
Rhodenergy, legally Rhodenergy An Environmental Co Corp, is a Princeton, New Jersey biotechnology startup founded by Irfan M. Jameel that develops photosynthetic bioreactors and photoenzymes to replace industrial processes with biological ones.
Rhodes College
Rhodes College (formerly Southwestern, Stewart College, Masonic University of Tennessee) is a private Presbyterian-affiliated liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, founded 1848 in Clarksville; about 1,780 undergraduates, 9:1 ratio, Lynx mascot.
Rhodes Phoenician-Greek bilingual inscriptions
The Rhodes Phoenician-Greek bilingual inscriptions are three Hellenistic inscriptions from Rhodes in both Greek and Phoenician; the best-known, a marble plaque found in 1968, is in the Rhodes Museum.
Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship: international postgraduate award at Oxford, founded by Cecil Rhodes's 1902 will, first scholars 1903; two-year tenure, £21,060 stipend, 108 Scholars Elect in 2026 across 25 constituencies.
Rhodesia Ransom
Rhodesia Ransom is an American Democratic politician who has represented California's 13th Assembly district, including Stockton and Tracy, since 2024 and chairs the Assembly Emergency Management Committee.
Rhodesian Bush War
Rhodesian Bush War, or Second Chimurenga, the 1965-1980 conflict between Ian Smith's white minority Rhodesian government and ZANU/ZAPU guerrillas, ending via the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement with majority-ruled Zimbabwe.
Rhodesian dollar
The Rhodesian dollar was the currency of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1980, replacing the Rhodesian pound at two dollars to the pound and subdivided into 100 cents.
Rhodesian Front
The Rhodesian Front (RF) was a white-supremacist political party that ruled Southern Rhodesia from 1962, issuing the Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1965 under Ian Smith.
Rhodesian Security Forces
Rhodesian Security Forces (RSF), the combined police and army of Rhodesia 1965–1979, including the BSAP, Rhodesian Army, Air Force, RLI and Selous Scouts; a racially integrated counter-insurgency force serving white minority rule, merged into the Zimbabwe Defence Forces in 1980.
Rhonda Byrne
Rhonda Byrne is an Australian television producer and author who created the 2006 film and book The Secret, which has sold over 34 million copies.
Rhonda Kallman
Rhonda Kallman is an American beverage entrepreneur who co-founded The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams, in 1984 and later founded Boston Harbor Distillery.
Rhonda Louise Williams
Rhonda Williams, UCCS professor emerita of counseling and human services, school counseling program coordinator, ASCA ethics chair, Smart-Girl program founder, and 2025 UCCS distinguished alumna.
Rhone Partners
Rhone Partners, also known as Rhône Group or Rhone Capital L.L.C., is a New York private equity firm founded in 1996 by Robert F. Agostinelli and M. Steven Langman.
Rhotacism
Rhotacism: a sound change turning /s/ or /z/ into r, classically in Latin (flos, floris; honos, honoris), dated before 339 BCE; also a speech disorder of /r/ articulation.
Rhotic consonant
Rhotic consonants are "R-like" liquid consonants, from trills and taps to approximants and uvular fricatives, named after Greek rho. They share no single phonetic property but pattern as a phonological natural class across languages.
Rhoticity in English
Rhoticity in English: whether historical /r/ is pronounced postvocalically. Rhotic accents include Scottish, Irish, and most American English; non-rhotic accents include RP, Australian, and New Zealand English, a split shaped by 18th-century prestige and colonial timing.
Rhun ap Iorwerth
Rhun ap Iorwerth is a Welsh politician who has been First Minister of Wales since May 2026 and leader of Plaid Cymru, after a BBC journalism career.
Rhygaze
RhyGaze AG is a Swiss gene-therapy biotechnology company based in Basel and Philadelphia, developing a cone optogenetics therapy intended to restore vision in blinding retinal diseases.
Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang, best known as Cockney rhyming slang, replaces a word with a rhyming phrase, often dropping the rhyme (butcher's = look). It emerged in early 19th-century East End London among market traders and spread across the English-speaking world.
Rhys ap Gruffudd
Rhys ap Gruffudd, Yr Arglwydd Rhys (the Lord Rhys), 1132–1197, ruler of Deheubarth in south Wales; submitted to Henry II in 1158, became justice of South Wales, patron of Strata Florida, and holder of the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod.
Ri Sol-ju (리설주)
Ri Sol-ju (리설주) is the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and mother of Kim Ju Ae, identified by state media in July 2012; her public visibility has alternated with absences, notably January 2024 to June 2025.
Ria Money Transfer
Ria Money Transfer is an American cross-border money transfer company, founded in 1987 and owned by Euronet Worldwide since 2007, sending to more than 190 countries and territories.