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Riverwood Capital Partners Latam
Riverwood Capital Partners Latam is a Latin America-focused fund program of Riverwood Capital, founded in 2008. It invests in growth and expansion-stage technology companies across the region.
Riviera (hotel and casino)
Riviera Hotel and Casino, a Las Vegas Strip resort opened April 1955 (originally Casa Blanca, 1952), first high-rise on the Strip, Marx brothers investors, closed May 3, 2015 and imploded 2016 for convention center expansion.
Rivigo
Rivigo Services Private Limited is an Indian logistics company founded in 2014 by Deepak Garg and Gazal Kalra, known for relay trucking in which drivers swap so trucks run nearly continuously.
Rivonia Trial
Rivonia Trial (State vs Mandela and others), 1963-1964 Pretoria sabotage trial of ten ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe leaders after the Liliesleaf Farm raid; eight, including Nelson Mandela, got life imprisonment; Mandela's 'prepared to die' dock statement made it a landmark.
Rivus Pharmaceuticals
Rivus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2019, whose lead drug HU6 is in Phase 2 trials for MASH, a chronic liver disease.
Riyad al-Ulama
Riyad al-Ulama, also known as Riyad al-Ulama wa Hiyad al-Fudala, is an Arabic biographical dictionary of scholars written by the Safavid-era scholar Mirza Abdallah Afandi.
Riyad Bank
Riyad Bank (بنك الرياض) is the third largest bank in Saudi Arabia by assets and the first joint stock bank in the Kingdom, founded by Royal Decree in 1957.
Riyaz al-Insha
Riyaz al-Insha (ریاض الانشا) is a Persian collection of about 150 state and personal letters compiled around 1475 by Mahmud Gavan, vizier of the Bahmani Sultanate in the Deccan.
Riyaz-us-Salatin
Riyaz-us-Salatin (ریاض السلاطین, "Gardens of the Sultans") is a Persian chronicle of Muslim rule in Bengal, begun in 1786 by Ghulam Husain Salim Zaidpuri and the first complete history of the subject.
Riza Abbasi
Riza Abbasi (رضا عباسی) was a leading Persian painter at the Safavid court of Shah Abbas I in Isfahan, celebrated for portraits and single-sheet figures.
Rizal Law
Rizal Law (Republic Act No. 1425, Batas Rizal), a 1956 Philippine law signed by Magsaysay requiring courses on José Rizal's life, works, and novels Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo in all schools, authored by Recto, sponsored by Laurel, after Catholic Church opposition.
Rizwan Arshad
Rizwan Arshad is an Indian National Congress politician who represents Shivajinagar in Bengaluru in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and serves as a cabinet minister holding the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs portfolio.
Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, husband and wife, carried out the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center, killing 14; both died in a police shootout, and the FBI found no ISIS contact.
Rizza Maniego-Eala
Rizza Maniego-Eala, also known as Rosemarie Maniego Eala, is a Filipino finance executive who served as chief finance officer of Globe Telecom from 2015 to 2024.
Rizzuto crime family
Rizzuto crime family, Montreal Sicilian Mafia clan founded by Nicolo Rizzuto of Cattolica Eraclea and led by Vito Rizzuto; Bonanno-linked, dominant in Quebec until the 2009–2013 war, Project Colisée, and Vito's 2013 death.
Rıza Tevfik
Rıza Tevfik (رضا توفيق), nicknamed Feylesof, was an Ottoman poet, philosopher, and politician born in 1869 who signed the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920 and spent two decades in exile.
RM plc
RM plc is a United Kingdom education technology company founded in Oxford in 1973 that supplies assessment software, IT services, and educational resources to schools and examination bodies.
RMI (think tank)
RMI, founded in 1982 as Rocky Mountain Institute by Amory and Hunter Lovins, is a nonprofit think tank that speeds the shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables.
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna (born 1976, Philadelphia) is the Democratic U.S. representative for California's 17th District (Silicon Valley) since 2017, former Commerce deputy assistant secretary, co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign, and a discussed 2028 presidential prospect.
Road Protection League
The Road Protection League (保路同志会) was a protest organization founded in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1911 by gentry and railway shareholders resisting the Qing court's nationalization of the Sichuan-Hankou Railway.
Road rage
Road rage, also known as driving anger, is deliberate violence or aggression by a driver or passenger using a vehicle or weapon, arising from a road incident.
RoadRunner Recycling
RoadRunner Recycling is a technology-enabled commercial waste and recycling company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It owns no trucks, instead using machine learning to route materials to recyclers.
Roadstar.ai (星行科技)
Roadstar.ai (星行科技) was a Shenzhen-based Level 4 autonomous driving startup founded in 2017 by three former Baidu engineers, which raised about US$138 million before its 2019 liquidation.
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who first navigated the Northwest Passage and reached the South Pole in December 1911, ahead of Robert Scott.
Roam (electric motorcycle company)
Roam, formerly Opibus, is a Nairobi-based electric mobility company founded in 2017 that builds electric motorcycles and buses, including the Roam Air for boda boda taxi use.
Roan Selection Trust
Roan Selection Trust, founded in 1928 as the Rhodesian Selection Trust, was a London-based, American-staffed mining group operating Zambia's Copperbelt mines until nationalization around 1970.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties: the 1920s decade of US economic boom, mass consumerism, Prohibition, jazz, flappers, and the Harlem Renaissance, ending with 1928 peak inequality and the 1929 crash.
Roark Capital Group
Roark Capital Group, also known as Roark Capital, is an Atlanta-based private equity firm founded in 2001 that specializes in buying franchise and restaurant brands, including Subway, Dunkin', and Arby's.
Rob A. Rutenbar
Rob A. Rutenbar is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur known for analog chip-design automation and, since 2017, research leadership at the University of Pittsburgh.
Rob Beenders
Rob Beenders is a Belgian politician of the party Vooruit who serves as a federal minister for consumer protection, social fraud, disabilities, and equal opportunities.