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Ridgelake Partners
Ridgelake Partners is a middle-market GP-stakes private equity platform formed in 2020 by Apogem Capital and OA Private Capital; its debut fund closed in January 2024 with over $1.1 billion in commitments.
Ridgewood Energy Oil & Gas
Ridgewood Energy Oil & Gas is a New Jersey private equity firm, founded in 1982, whose funds buy working interests in Gulf of Mexico oil and gas projects.
Ridhwan Khan
Ridhwan Khan is a South African entrepreneur who founded and leads Mobicel, a budget phone brand launched in 2007 and called South Africa's only successful domestic smartphone brand.
RIDI
RIDI (리디) is a Seoul-based content platform company founded by Bae Ki-sik in 2008 that sells ebooks, web novels, and webtoons, and runs the global webtoon service Manta.
Ridibooks
Ridibooks, now Ridi (리디), is a Seoul-based content platform company selling e-books, web novels, webtoons, and short dramas; founded in 2008, it became South Korea's first content platform unicorn in 2022.
Riding a rail
Riding a rail, also called being run out of town on a rail, was an 18th- and 19th-century American mob punishment in which an offender straddled a fence rail carried by bearers, often combined with tarring and feathering, distinct from Depression-era riding the rails.
Riding shotgun
Riding shotgun, also called calling shotgun, is a chiefly American idiom for the front passenger seat of a car, from the Old West armed stagecoach guard; the phrase itself is attested from 1905 to 1919, not the 1800s.
Ridouan Taghi
Ridouan Taghi, Dutch-Moroccan leader of the Mocro Maffia cocaine network, arrested in Dubai in 2019 and sentenced to life in 2024 for five murders in the Marengo trial, now appealing.
Ridvan Aydemir
Ridvan Aydemir, known online as Apostate Prophet, is a Turkish-German ex-Muslim YouTuber born in Germany, formerly devout Sunni Muslim, then atheist, converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 2025, critiquing Islam and debating apologists.
Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act
The Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act is a 1994 US federal law that first allowed banks to operate branch networks across state lines.
Riek Machar
Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, Nuer politician and SPLM-IO chairman, South Sudan's First Vice President under the 2018 R-ARCSS; led the 1991 Nasir faction split from Garang, fought civil wars against Kiir, and was suspended and tried for treason in 2025.
Rif Dimashq offensive (February–April 2018)
Rif Dimashq offensive (February–April 2018), codename Operation Damascus Steel, a Syrian Arab Army campaign that recaptured the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus, ending a siege begun in 2013, with massive civilian deaths and a Douma chemical attack on 7 April 2018.
Rif uprising of 1958–1959
The Rif uprising of 1958–1959 was a revolt in Morocco's Rif mountains against the post-independence central government, crushed by the army and aerial bombardment with thousands killed.
Rif War
Rif War (Guerra del Rif), 1921-1926: colonial war in northern Morocco between Spain, later joined by France, and Riffian tribes under Abd el-Krim's Republic of the Rif, marked by the Annual defeat, the Alhucemas landing, and documented use of chemical weapons.
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (رفاعة الطهطاوي), 1801 to 1873, was an Egyptian scholar and educational reformer who served as imam of Egypt's first student mission to Paris.
Rifa'i order
The Rifa'i order (الطريقة الرفاعية) is a Sufi order founded by Ahmad al-Rifa'i in the marshes of southern Iraq in the twelfth century, one of the oldest Sufi orders.
Rifa'iyya
The Rifa'iyya (الرفاعية) is a Sufi order founded by Ahmad al-Rifa'i in lower Iraq in the twelfth century, known for ecstatic practices and spread across Egypt, Syria, and the Balkans.
Rifaat al-Assad
Rifaat al-Assad was a Syrian military officer and politician, younger brother of Hafez al-Assad, who led the Defense Companies and is held responsible for the 1982 Hama massacre.
Rifleman's Creed
Rifleman's Creed, or My Rifle: The Creed of a United States Marine, an unofficial USMC creed attributed to MajGen William H. Rupertus, first published March 14, 1942, memorized by recruits and tied to 'Every Marine is a rifleman.'
Rigetti Computing
Rigetti Computing, founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti in Berkeley, California, is a full-stack quantum computing company that builds superconducting quantum processors and sells cloud access to them.
Right Ginza
The Right Ginza (Ginza Yamina) is the larger of the two volumes of the Ginza Rabba, the principal scripture of Mandaeism, with 18 books including at least seven creation accounts.
Right of asylum
Right of asylum: the human right to seek protection in another country from persecution, grounded in UDHR Article 14 and the 1951 Refugee Convention, non-refoulement, and regional instruments like the OAU Convention and Cartagena Declaration.
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act), India's Act No. 35 of 2009 in force 1 April 2010, guarantees free education for children aged 6-14, including a 25% private-school quota and the amended no-detention policy.
Right of conquest
Right of conquest: the classical international-law principle that a victorious state could claim sovereignty over conquered territory without the loser's consent, later displaced by the UN Charter-era prohibition on acquiring territory by force.
Right of first refusal
A right of first refusal (ROFR) is a contractual right obliging an asset owner to offer it to the holder on a third party's terms before selling.
Right of revolution
The right of revolution is the moral and political claim that a people may alter or abolish a government that breaches its trust, classically formulated in Locke's Second Treatise, invoked in the American and French Revolutions, rejected by Kant, and unrecognized in international law.
Right of serf-owners to exile serfs (1760, 1765)
The right of serf-owners to exile serfs was created by Russian decrees of 1760 and 1765 that let landowners send serfs to Siberian settlement or hard labor without trial, beginning administrative exile in Russia.
Right of way
Right of way: a legal easement permitting passage over another's land between a dominant and servient estate, created by express grant, implication, necessity, or prescription (typically 20 years' unopposed use).
Right On! (magazine)
Right On! is an American teen entertainment magazine launched in 1971 by Laufer Publishing to promote the Jackson 5, later covering hip-hop first among teen magazines, edited by Cynthia Horner from 1976, and relaunched as Right On! Digital in 2018; distinct from the Berkeley Jesus People paper and the Black Panther periodical of the same name.
Right Opposition
Right Opposition: Soviet Communist Party faction led by Bukharin, Rykov, and Tomsky defending the NEP and slower industrialization; defeated by Stalin's left turn in 1928–1929 and destroyed in the 1937–1938 purges.