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Roswell incident
The Roswell incident: July 1947 recovery of debris near Roswell, New Mexico, first announced as a flying disc, retracted as a weather balloon, and attributed by the 1994 Air Force report to Project MOGUL balloons.
Rosy Bagolie
Rosaura "Rosy" Bagolie is an American Democratic politician serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 27th district, after careers as a school superintendent and Livingston councilwoman.
Rotaka
The Rotaka, or "Mai malgache," was a wave of farmer and student protests in Madagascar from 1971 to 1972 whose central demand, Malgachization, brought down Tsiranana's First Republic and opened a military transition.
Rotary International
Rotary International, founded 23 February 1905 in Chicago by Paul P. Harris, is the global association of about 45,000 Rotary service clubs. Known for Service Above Self and its US$2.9 billion polio eradication effort, it comprises clubs, Rotary International, and The Rotary Foundation.
Rotating artisan service (lunban jiang)
Rotating artisan service (lunban jiang, 轮班匠) was a Ming dynasty corvée system under which registered artisan households took turns serving three-month stints at the capital workshops, instituted in 1386.
Rote learning
Rote learning, or rote memorization, is learning by repetition without comprehension. Contrasted with meaningful learning; produces poorer long-term retention but retains uses in vocabulary, tables, and foundational facts.
Roth 401(k)
The Roth 401(k) is a designated Roth account inside an employer-sponsored 401(k) plan, funded with after-tax pay, with tax-free qualified withdrawals and no income limit.
Roth IRA
A Roth IRA is an individual retirement account funded with after-tax contributions whose qualified withdrawals, including all investment earnings, are free of federal income tax.
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal: abuse of at least 1,400 children in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1997–2013, exposed by the 2014 Jay report, followed by the Casey inspection, government intervention, and IOPC Operation Linden.
Rothmans International
Rothmans International, also known as Rothman's of Pall Mall, was a British-founded multinational tobacco manufacturer founded by Louis Rothman in 1890, which merged into British American Tobacco in 1999.
Rothschild & Co
Rothschild & Co, also known as N M Rothschild & Sons, is a family-controlled investment bank headquartered in Paris, descended from the Rothschild banking house founded in 1810.
Rothschild banking family of England
The Rothschild banking family of England, founded by Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), ran the London bank N M Rothschild & Sons, probably the world's biggest in the early 19th century.
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family is a Jewish banking dynasty founded in Frankfurt by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, whose five sons built the world's largest bank by the 1820s.
Rotten and pocket boroughs
Rotten and pocket boroughs were pre-1832 British parliamentary boroughs with tiny electorates controlled by patrons, exemplified by Old Sarum, Dunwich, and Gatton; the Reform Act 1832 disenfranchised 56 of them and redistributed 111 seats.
Rotterdam Rules
Rotterdam Rules (UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, New York 2008): door-to-door sea cargo regime succeeding Hague-Visby and Hamburg Rules; 25 signatories, 5 parties, not in force.
Rotterdam Zoo
Rotterdam Zoo, Diergaarde Blijdorp (Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde), a Dutch zoo founded 1857, moved 1940 to Sybold van Ravesteyn's Blijdorp site with 21 monuments; coordinates seven EAZA breeding programmes.
Rougarou
Rougarou (roux-ga-roux, rugaru), Louisiana Cajun werewolf from the French loup-garou, brought by Acadians after 1755; a cursed being with a 101-day curse, tied to Lent and swamp lore.
Rough Riders
Rough Riders, formally the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry, a 1898 Spanish-American War regiment under Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, famous for the dismounted charge at San Juan Hill and Roosevelt's path to the presidency.
Rouhollah Zamzameh
Rouhollah Zamzameh, known as Rouhollah Zam (روحالله زم), Iranian dissident journalist and founder of the Telegram channel Amadnews; exiled in France, abducted from Iraq in 2019, executed by Iran on 12 December 2020.
Round Hill Ventures
Round Hill Ventures is the London-based proptech venture arm of Round Hill Capital, investing in Late Seed to Series B technology companies serving the built environment across Europe.
Round Rock Independent School District
Round Rock Independent School District (Round Rock ISD) is a Texas public school district established in 1913, serving Round Rock and parts of Austin and Cedar Park.
Round Square
Round Square is a global network of about 270 schools in 50 countries practicing character education around six IDEALS, founded 1966–67 by schools inspired by Kurt Hahn and named after a Gordonstoun building.
Round Table
The Round Table is King Arthur's table in Arthurian legend, first mentioned by Wace in 1155, at which his knights sit so none can claim precedence.
Round Table Conferences (India)
Round Table Conferences (India): three London conferences, 1930-1932, on India's constitutional future; Congress boycotted the first, Gandhi attended the second, and they fed the Government of India Act 1935.
Round Table Pizza
Round Table Pizza is a West Coast pizza franchise founded by Bill Larson in Menlo Park, California, in 1959, known for hand-crafted pizzas with an Arthurian theme.
Round Valley removals
The Round Valley removals forced Native peoples, including the Konkow, Nomlaki, and Pomo, onto the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Mendocino County, California, from the 1850s to the 1870s.
Roundhead
Roundhead, the nickname for the English Parliamentarians, was first recorded as an insult in late 1641, deriding the close-cropped hair of Puritans against the long ringlets of Royalist Cavaliers.
Roundtable Healthcare Partners
RoundTable Healthcare Partners is a Lake Forest, Illinois private equity firm founded in 2001 that invests only in healthcare companies, with $3.45 billion in committed capital.
Rouran Khaganate
Rouran Khaganate (柔然汗國), 402–555, a nomadic empire on the Mongolian plateau under khagans such as Shelun and Anagui; rivals of Northern Wei, destroyed by its vassal smith-tribe, the Göktürks.
Rouran–Wei wars and Rouran collapse
The Rouran–Wei wars and Rouran collapse (柔然衰亡) were the wars between the Rouran khaganate and the Northern Wei state; in 520 the khan Anagui fled to Wei and submitted.