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R The letter R is the eighteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is ar, pronounced that is (with mute -r) in Received Pronunciation and other non-rhotic accents of English, and in General American and other rhotic accents.
R (complexity) In computational complexity theory, R is the class of decision problems solvable by a Turing machine, which is the set of all recursive languages. R is often identified with the class of 'effectively computable' functions (the Church-Turing thesis).
R (New York City Subway service) The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored yellow on the route sign (either on the front and/or side - depending on equipment used) and on station signs and the NYC Subway map, as it represents a service provided on the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan.
R (programming language) The R programming language, sometimes described as GNU S, is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It was originally created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman (hence the name R) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is now developed by the R core team.
R 66 and R 126 NASA's Spitzer space telescope has identified two stars R 66 (30 SM) and R 126 (70 SM) circled by monstrous dust disks located at Milky Way's nearest neighbor galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Dust disks around stars are theorised to be the origin of planets.
R A Lister and Company R A Lister & Company was founded in Dursley, Gloucestershire, in 1867 by Robert Ashton Lister to produce agricultural machinery. The family was originally from Yorkshire but Ashton's father (George Lister) relocated to Dursley in 1817.
R Coronae Borealis R Coronae Borealis a yellow supergiant star, and is the prototype of a class of variable stars, which fade by several magnitudes at irregular intervals. R Coronae Borealis itself normally shines at approximately magnitude 6, just about visible to the naked eye, in the constellation of Corona Borealis, but at intervals of several months to many years fades to as faint as magnitude 14.
R Duck The R Duck show started in early 2003 on FRSC in order to showcase music made exclusively with computers in a live setting. This unique radio show has developed into a performance of live improvised electronic music, storytelling and monologue (ala Alan Watts, Spalding Gray, Lord Buckley, Joe Frank) by using several computers along with other gear, like strings of an instrument, to create soundscape using techniques of improvisation and free improvisation.
R H Kelkar The first Marathi translation of the Holy Bible was published in the early years of the 19th century by William Carey and his associates at Serampore in West Bengal, India. Later translations and revisions were mostly carried out by committees appointed by the Bible Society in India from time to time.
R is for Rocket R is for Rocket (1962) is a short story collection by Ray Bradbury, compiled for Young Adult library sections. It contains fifteen stories from earlier Bradbury collections, and two previously uncollected stories:
R Leporis R Leporis, sometimes called Hind's Crimson Star, is a well-known variable star, in the constellation Lepus, near the border with Eridanus. It is a carbon star - the carbon is thought to block out the blue light of the star, making it appear red.
R score The R score (cote de rendement au collégial or cote R in French) is a statistical method which classifies CEGEP students' academic performances in Quebec. It is used by Quebec universities for selection purposes.
R S McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute R S McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute is located in Oshawa, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities.
R U the Girl R U the girl is a TV series produced by UPN. The show is a reality TV singing talent search contest for a talented person to appear on the next single of the all-female R&B band of TLC whose former member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes died in a car crash in Honduras in April 2002.
R v Burgess; Ex parte Henry R v Burgess; Ex parte Henry (1936) 55 CLR 608 was a case decided in the High Court of Australia regarding the scope of the trade and commerce power and the external affairs power, in sections 51(i) and 51(xxix) respectively, of the Constitution.
R v Carroll R v Carroll (2002) 213 CLR 635; [2002] HCA 55 is a decision of the High Court of Australia which unanimously upheld a Queensland appellate court’s decision to stay an indictment] for [[perjury as the indictment was found to controvert the respondent’s earlier acquittal for murder. The court held that charging Raymond John Carroll with perjuring himself in the earlier murder trial by swearing he did not kill the baby Deidre Kennedy was tantamount to claiming he had committed the murder and was thus a contravention of the principles of double jeopardy.
R v Davidson R v Davidson, also known (particularly among medical practitioners) as the Menhennitt ruling, was a significant ruling delivered in the Supreme Court of Victoria on May 26 1969. It concerned the legality of abortion in the Australian state of Victoria.
R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia R v. Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia [1956] HCA 10; (1956) 94 CLR 254 (2 March 1956) was a case in which the High Court of Australia held that the judicial power of the Commonwealth could not be vested in a tribunal that also exercised non-judicial functions.
R v Licensing Court of Brisbane; Ex parte Daniell R v Licensing Court of Brisbane; Ex parte Daniell (1920) 28 CLR 23 is a High Court of Australia case about inconsistency between Commonwealth and State legislation, which is dealt with by s 109 of the Australian Constitution. It is the leading example of what is known as the impossibility of simultaneous obedience test.
R v Murdoch The Queen vs Bradley John Murdoch is a case that was before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in which Bradley John Murdoch was charged with the murder of Peter Falconio on a remote part of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek on 14 July 2001. Murdoch was arrested in 2003.
R v. Coney R v. Coney (1882) 8 QBD 534 is an English case in which the Court for Crown Cases Reserved found that a bare-knuckle fight was an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, despite the consent of the participants.
R Whitehead (cricketer) The enigmatic Mr R Whitehead (details of birth and death unknown) was an English cricketer and match organiser of the late 18th century who played mainly for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He was a useful amateur batsman.
R-1 (missile) The R-1 rocket (NATO reporting name SS-1 Scunner) (and its evolved version R-2 or SS-2 Sibling) was a copy of the German V-2 rocket manufactured by the Soviet Union. Even though it was a copy, it was manufactured using Soviet industrial plants and expertise, and gave the Soviets valuable experience which later enabled the USSR to construct its own much more capable rockets.
R-100 Delphinus The R-101 Delphinus is a fictional fighter and attacker series of aircraft appearing in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. Nicknamed "Delphinus" (dolphin) presumably because of the aircraft's unique shape, they are very maneuverable and fast.
R-100 Series The R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which feature heavily in the TimeSplitters videogame series. With each game in the trilogy there is a new model of the robot, and each change in physical appearance.
R-16 The R-16 was the first successful intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union. In the West it was known by the NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler, and within Russia, it carried the GRAU index 8K64.
R-26 The R-26 was a second-generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) designed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The missile was mistakenly identified as an R-9 Desna and given the NATO reporting name SS-8 Sasin.
R-27 (missile) The R-27 was a submarine-launched ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union and employed by the Soviet Navy from 1968 through 1988. NATO assigned the missile the reporting name SS-N-6 Serb while in the USSR, it was given the GRAU index 4K10.
R-36 The R-36 () is a family of intercontinental ballistic missile and space launch vehicle designs created by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The original R-36 was produced under the Soviet industry designation 8K67 and was given the NATO reporting name SS-9 Scarp.
R-410A R-410A is an azeotropic mixture of difluoromethane and pentafluoroethane which is used as a refrigerant in air conditioning applications. Unlike many haloalkane refrigerants it does not contribute to ozone depletion, and is therefore becoming more widely used as ozone-depleting refrigerants are phased out.
R-7 Semyorka The R-7 Semyorka () was the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile and was deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War from 1959 to 1968. To the West it was known by the NATO reporting name SS-6 Sapwood and within the Soviet Union by the GRAU index 8K71.
R-colored vowel In phonetics, an r-colored vowel or rhotacized vowel is a vowel either with the tip or blade of the tongue turned up during at least part of the articulation of the vowel (a retroflex articulation) or with the tip of the tongue down and the back of the tongue bunched. Both articulations produce basically the same auditory effect, a lowering in frequency of the third formant.
R-factor R-factor is an old name for a plasmid that codes for antibiotic resistance. Often, R-factors code for more than one antibiotic resistance factor: genes that encode resistance to unrelated antibiotics may be carried on a single R-factor.
R-factor (crystallography) In crystallography, the R-factor (sometimes called residual factor or reliability factor) is a measure of the agreement between the crystallographic model and the experimental X-ray diffraction data. It is defined by the following equation:
R-Kal Truluck R-Kal Truluck (born September 30, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is a defensive tackle for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. After starring at Division III Cortland State (SUNY Cortland), he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL.
R-labialization R-labialization is a process occurring in Cockney speech where the /r/ phoneme is realized as a labiodental approximant in contrast to an alveolar approximant . To speakers who are not used to , this can sound like a /w/.
R-symmetry In theoretical physics, the R-symmetry is the symmetry transforming different supercharges in a theory with supersymmetry into each other. In the simplest case of the N=1 supersymmetry, such an R-symmetry is isomorphic to a U(1) group or its discrete subgroup (for the Z2 subgroup it is called R-parity).
R-SMAD R-Smads or receptor regulated Smads are a class of proteins that include SMAD1, SMAD2, SMAD3, SMAD5, and SMAD9. In response to signals by the TGF-β superfamily of ligands these proteins associate with receptor kinases and are phosphorylated at an SSXS motif at their extreme C-terminus.
R-Sword The R-Sword is a fictional robot in the Super Robot Wars series. It has yet to properly appear in any Super Robot Wars game, having only been referenced in Super Robot Wars Alpha and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2.
R-type asteroid R-type asteroids are moderately bright, relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that are spectrally intermediate between the V and A-type asteroids. The spectrum shows distinct olivine and pyroxene features at 1 and 2 micrometres, with a possibility of plagioclase.
R-UIM A R-UIM (removable user-identity module) is like a SIM except that it is capable of working in both CDMA and GSM phones and networks. A R-UIM is physically compatible with GSM SIMs and can fit into existing GSM phones.
R-value (soils) The R-Value test, California Test 301, measures the response of a compacted sample of soil or aggregate to a vertically applied pressure under specific conditions. This test is used by CalTrans for pavement design, replacing the California Bearing Ratio test.
R-Zone The R-Zone is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Tiger Electronics, released in 1995. The R-Zone was a largely unsuccessful handheld console and would only be manufactured for a short period of time.
R&B Punk R&B Punk (Rhythm and Blues Punk) is an emotional mix of four traditional American sounds: jazz drums, Motown /Blues bass, rhythm and blues-rock guitars and hard sung blues vocals. Its lyrics are for the most part politically charged with deep poetic references, and its ballads are drawn in stark contrast with love/lost meanings.
R&D 100 Established by the editors of R&D Magazine over 41 years ago, the R&D 100 Awards have been helping companies provide the important initial push a new product needs to compete successfully in the marketplace. The winning of an R&D 100 Awards provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.
R&D alliance An R&D alliance (R&D means "research and development") is a mutually beneficial formal relationship formed between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon goals while remaining independent organizations, where acquiring new knowledge is a goal by itself. The different parties agree to combine their knowledge to create new innovative products.
R&R (magazine) R&R (aka The "New" Radio & Records) is a weekly music trade publication that follows the radio industry and tracks the monitoring of current songs by format, station and audience cumes. The magazine is a spinoff of Billboard magazine and is mostly available through subscription to people who work in the radio industry and music chart enthusiasts, as well as various record stores and newsstands.
R&R Report Writer R&R ReportWorks™ is a data access and reporting tool that lets users design reports quickly and easily for data stored in xBase (DBF) and SQL databases that are accessible via ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2.
R&S Records R&S Records is an independent techno, jungle, and ambient record label. Based in Belgium, R&S Records maintains several subsidiaries including Apollo (ambient), Global Cuts (house) and Diatomyc (acid), Satori Records, Generations and others.
R. R. is an abbreviation of the Latin word Rex (King) or Regina (Queen) and is used as notation in British criminal prosecutions to mean "the Crown" or "the State", which is represented by the current monarch.
R. A. Dickey Robert Alan Dickey (born October 29 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers. Dickey has had limited success as a starting pitcher and is currently attempting to become a knuckleball pitcher.
R. A. K. Mason Ronald Allison Kells Mason (1905-1971) was described by Allen Curnow as New Zealand's 'first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet'. He was born in Auckland and educated at Auckland Grammar School, where he met A.
R. A. Lafferty Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was a noted science fiction and fantasy writer of Irish descent, famous for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure Gene Wolfe wrote in an introduction to Episodes of the Argo that "[Lafferty may be] the most original writer in the history of literature"; Michael Swanwick has written that "if there were no Lafferty, we would lack the imagination to invent him", this is quoted on the back cover of the original edition of Lafferty in Orbit; Neil Gaiman has said that "[Lafferty's] stories are without precedent"; Harlan Ellison has written that "Lafferty defies categorization; his work is unlike anyone else's"... See "Quotations about Lafferty" for more: http://en.
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz René A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887 – 1961), born in Alsace-Lorraine, was best known for his 15-year study of the art and architecture of Temple of Luxor in Egypt and his subsequent book The Temple of Man (ISBN 0-89281-021-1).
R. Austin Freeman R(ichard) Austin Freeman (April 11, 1862 London - September 28, 1943 Gravesend) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story and used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels.
R. C. Gorman Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26 1931 - November 3 2005) was a Native American artist of the Navajo nation. Referred to as "the Picasso of American art" by the New York Times, his paintings are primarily of Native American women and characterized by fluid forms and vibrant colors, though he also worked in sculpture, ceramics, and stone lithography.
R. Cunliffe Gosling Robert Cunliffe Gosling (15 June, 1868 - 8 April, 1922), was a Victorian-era footballer who played as a speedy inside forward for the renowned amateur clubs Old Etonians and Corinthians. He captained the England team on at least one, and possibly two, occasions (early records are inexact), scoring twice.
R. D. Mindlin and Applied Mechanics This volume is a collection of studies in the development of Applied mechanics, dedicated to Professor Raymond D. Mindlin of Columbia University by his former students, edited by George Herrmann and published by Pergamon Press in 1974.
R. Daring Club Molenbeek Royal Daring Club Molenbeek was a football team from the city of Brussels, Belgium until 1973. It was created in 1895 as Daring Club de Bruxelles and was the second club to register to the Belgian Football Association (it thus received the matricule n°2), but it was admitted to the league only in 1903.
R. E. Dennett Richard Edward Dennett was an English trader operating out of the Kongo (present day Republic of Congo) in the early 20th century who wrote a number of books that were influential on sociological and anthropoligical research on the cultures of West Africa.
R. Ewing Thomason Robert Ewing Thomason (30 May 1879, Bedford County, Tennessee – 8 November 1973, El Paso, Texas) was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor El Paso, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, and a federal district judge.
R. F. Foster (games) Richard Frederick Foster (1853 - 1945) was a disseminator of the rules of many card games, including auction bridge and other bridge variations, the Mexican game conquian and whist. Editions of some of his many texts can be found at the Taxe Collection at UNLV.
R. Fred Lewis R. Fred Lewis (born 1947) has been a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court since January 1, 1999 and became its Chief Justice for a two-year term beginning on July 1, 2006, after a swearing-in ceremony on June 30 that year.
R. G. LeTourneau Robert Gilmore LeTourneau (November 30, 1888 – June 1, 1969) was a prolific inventor in the earthmoving industry. His machines represented nearly 70% of the earthmoving equipment used during World War II and was responsible for nearly 300 patents.
R. Gordon Wasson Robert Gordon Wasson (September 22, 1898 – December 23, 1986) was an author, amateur researcher and banker. In the course of independent research, he made significant contributions to the field of ethnobotany, botany and anthropology.
R. Gregg Cherry Robert Gregg Cherry (17 October 1891 – 25 June 1957) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1945 to 1949. A veteran of World War I and former mayor of Gastonia, North Carolina, Cherry inherited an economy facing material and labor shortages as a result of the ongoing Second World War.
R. H. Ives Gammell Robert Hale Ives Gammell (1893-1981), American muralist, portrait painter, art teacher, and writer on art, was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1893. In 1911, he enrolled in the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was here that he made contact with painters who had been trained in Europe, and in particular with William Paxton, who had himself been a student of Jean Leon Gerome's at The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Among his other teachers were Edmund Tarbell, Joseph DeCamp, Philip Hale. Later, he studied at the Academie Julian and the Atelier Baschet in Paris.
R. H. Mottram Ralph Hale Mottram (1883-1971) was an English writer, known as a novelist, particularly for the Spanish Farm books, and as a war poet of World War I. He went from being a bank clerk in Norwich, before the war, to becoming mayor there.
R. Harmon Drew, Sr. Richard Harmon Drew, Sr. (February 5, 1917 – December 18, 1995) was a fourth generation judge and a former Democratic state representative who was descended from pioneer families of Webster Parish in north Louisiana.
R. J. Brande Rene Jacques Brande is a fictional DC Comics character in the 30th century with the Legion of Super-Heroes. Originally a Durlan (shapeshifting alien), Brande was frozen in human form by the deadly Yorggian fever.
R. J. Kurey RJ Kurey is a political figure, who was most recently removed from his city council post in Alpharetta, Georgia. He was removed by the council after allegations of misuse of City funds, deliberately misleading the public through his email tree, and verbally threatening staff, elected officials and citizens on numerous occasions.
R. J. Rummel Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination.
R. J. W. Douglas Robert John Wilson "Bob" Douglas FRSC, PhD (1920 – 1979) was an award winning Canadian geologist who made noteworthy contributions in the fields of structure stratigraphy, sedimentation, and petroleum geology.
R. J. Yeatman Robert Julian Yeatman (July 15, 1897 – July 13, 1968) was a British humourist who wrote for Punch. He is best known for the book 1066 and All That (1930, ISBN 0-413-77270-5), a tongue-in-cheek guide to "all the history you can remember", which he wrote with W.
R. Jet Wavre Racing Jet Wavre is a Belgian football club located in the municipality of Wavre, Walloon Brabant, though it was founded in Jette, Brussels in 1944 as Racing Club Jette. The year after, the club registered to the FA and received the matricule n°4549.
R. Léopold Uccle Forestoise Royal Léopold Uccle Forestoise is a Belgian football club from the city of Brussels. It was founded in 1893 as Léopold Football Club and encountered many name changes in its history, the last of them following a string of merges to keep the matricule n°5 alive.
R. M. Hare Richard Mervyn Hare (March 21, 1919 – January 29, 2002) was an English moral philosopher, who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983, and then taught for a number of years at the University of Florida. His meta-ethical theories were influential during the second half of the twentieth century.
R. Murray Schafer Raymond Murray Schafer (1933- ) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist best known for his World Soundscape Project, a concern for acoustic ecology, and the book The Tuning of the World (1977). Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he then studied at the Royal Schools of Music (England), the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the University of Toronto.
R. P. Brereton Robert Pearson Brereton (4 Apr 1818 - 1 Sept 1894) joined Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1836, aged 18, and became his chief assistant in 1844, aged 26. Brunel described him as "a peculiarly energetic perservering young man".
R. R. Patil R R Patil (born August 16, 1958, Anjani Taluka, Tasgaon Zilla, Sangli, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. On November 1, 2004, he was sworn in as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra.
R. S. Lull Richard Swann Lull was an American paleontologist from the early 20th century, who is largely remembered now for championing a Pre-Neo-Darwinian Synthesis view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unlock mysterious genetic drives that, over time, would lead populations to increasingly extreme phenotypes (and perhaps, ultimately, to extinction).
R. Shane Kimbrough Robert Shane Kimbrough born April 6, 1967 in Killeen, Texas and attended The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. He was among the first candidates selected for astronaut training in the United States following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
R. Stevie Moore Robert Steven Moore (born January 18 1952) is a prolific singer and songwriter. Often referred to as the "father of DIY home recording", he has maintained a remarkably low profile throughout a career which began in the early-1970s, which has led to his work being classified as outsider music.
R. Swinburne Clymer Reuben Swinburne Clymer (November 25, 1878 - June 3, 1966) succeeded Edward H. Brown as Supreme Grand Master of Fraternitas Rosae Crucis in 1922, and served until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Emerson Myron Clymer.
R. T. Kendall Dr R T Kendall was the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, England, for twenty-five years. Born in Ashland, Kentucky on July 13, 1935, he was educated at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) at Regent's Park College, a hall of the University of Oxford.
R. Tait McKenzie Robert Tait Mackenzie (1867- April 28, 1938) Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario– April 28, 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Canadian-born American sculptor, Scouter, scholar-athlete, surgeon, soldier, and physical educator. He resided in Philadelphia and worked with Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting.
R. Tucker Abbott Robert Tucker Abbott (September 28, 1919 - November 3, 1995) was an American conchologist and malacologist and the author of more than 30 books on malacology. Abbott was one of the most prominent conchologists of his time and brought conchology to the public with his works American Seashells, 1974, Seashells of the World, 1962, and The Kingdom of the Seashell, 1972.
R. Uccle Sport Royale Uccle Sport was a Belgian football club from the municipality of Uccle, Brussels. It was created in 1901 as Uccle Sport and it registered to the Belgian Football Association in 1905 to receive the matricule n°15.
R. v. Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy Rex v. Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER 233) is a leading English criminal case famous for its precedence in establishing the principle that the mere appearance of bias is sufficient to overturn a judicial decision.
R. Venkataraman Ramaswamy Venkataraman (born December 4, 1910) was the 8th President of the Republic of India, serving from 1987 to 1992. Before his election as President, Venkataraman served nearly 4 years as the 7th Vice-President.
R. W. McQuarters Reginald Willingham McQuarters, II (born December 21, 1976 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American football cornerback for the New York Giants of the NFL. He was originally selected with the 28th overall pick of the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers out of Oklahoma State University.
R. Walker Nickless Ralph Walker Nickless (born May 28, 1947) is a Roman Catholic Bishop. Originally a priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, Nickless was named the Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City by Pope Benedict XVI.
R. Walther Darré Richard Walther Darré (14 July, 1895 - 5 September, 1953), SS-Obergruppenführer, was one of the Nazi leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists. He served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.
R. William Field R. William Field is an American Academic Scholar and Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology within the College of Public Healthat the University of Iowa].
R.A.L. Fell R[oland] A[rthur] L[onsdale] Fell was a British classical scholar, the author of Etruria and Rome, an important work on the Etruscan civilization, and co-author with Thomas Ashby of a widely cited paper, The Via Flaminia (JRS 11:125‑190, 1921).
R.C. Stevens R C Stevens (born on July 22, 1934 in Moultrie, Georgia) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates before the 1952 season and traded to the Washington Senators on December 16, 1960.
R.D.Karve Professor Rughunath Dhondo Karve(1882-1953) was the main motivator for the work of population control in Mumbai, India. He was convinced that to in order to improve the health conditions of the people, the conditions of women needed to be improved.
R.S.C. Anderlecht Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht, is a Belgian football club from the Brussels Capital Region. They are the most successful Belgian football team in European competition (with 5 trophies) as well as in the domestic league (28 championship wins).
R.W.D. Molenbeek Racing White Daring Molenbeek was a Belgian football club founded in 1909 as White Star Club de Bruxelles. It then became a member of the Belgian Football Association later the same year as White Star Athletic Club and received the matricule n°47.
R/Greenberg Associates R/Greenberg Associates, or R/GA, based in New York City, is an advertising agency which specializes in servicing a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies and world-class brands and franchises. Founded in 1977 by the brothers Richard and Robert Greenberg, R/GA, as the company is now known, blends effective strategies and in-depth technologies to deliver optimized communications across multiple channels.

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