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R/K selection theory In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of traits (in organisms) that allow success in particular environments. The theory originates from work on island biogeography by the ecologists Robert MacArthur and E.
R/P FLIP The R/P FLIP is an open ocean research vessel. The FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform) ship is a 355 foot vessel designed to partially flood and pitch backward 90 degrees, resulting in only the front 55 feet of the vessel pointing up out of the water, with bulkheads becoming floors.
R/V Hugh R Sharp The Research Vessel (R/V) Hugh R Sharp is a ship owned and operated by the University of Delaware Marine and Earth Studies Campus in Lewes, Delaware. The R/V Hugh R Sharp is the University of Delaware replacement vessel for the R/V Cape Henlopen.
R/V Melville R/V Melville (AGOR-14) is a research vessel operated by Scripps Institute of Oceanography used for oceanographic research. The Melville was built at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan on the Great Lakes, and first launched on July 10 1968.
R/V Western Flyer R/V Western Flyer is a twin hulled SWATH research vessel operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). It's relatively stable SWATH design permits expanded operational capability in rough sea states.
R015-4513 R015-4513 is the inverse agonist of the benzodiazepine class of drugs (such as Xanax and Valium). R015-4513 and the benzodiazepines both utilize the same GABA binding site on neurons, yet R015-4513 has the opposite effect, producing severe anxiety rather than the sedative effect of the benzodiazepines.
R1 (nuclear reactor) R1 was the first nuclear reactor of Sweden. It was a research reactor located at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) campus at Valhallavägen in central Stockholm, in the rock beneath the current-day Q-Houses.
R1 (SEPTA) The SEPTA R1 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system. The Pennsylvania Railroad end of the route terminates at the Philadelphia International Airport and the Reading Company end officially terminates at Glenside, Pennsylvania.
R1000 R1000 is an integrated development environment (IDE) created by Rational Software for the design, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of large software systems written using the Ada programming language. The R1000 features an extensive tool set, including:
R101 The R101 Airship was a British airship that crashed on October 5, 1930 in France during its maiden voyage, killing 48 people. It was one of the worst airship disasters, along with the Hindenburg disaster that coloured international public opinion of lighter-than-air craft and effectively ended British employment of rigid airships.
R11 (New York City Subway car) The R11 New York City Subway cars, built by the Budd Rail Car Company, were part of a new technology prototype test train ordered as a new fleet for the Second Avenue Subway in 1949, a line that was never built. The new technology included "precipitron" sterilizing lamps, under-seat heaters, and damper control of fresh and recirculated air through ceiling and under-seat diffusers.
R110B (New York City Subway car) R110B was a class of New York City Subway cars built by Bombardier of Canada for service on the and BMT (B Division) lines. The R110B prototype cars were delivered to the New York City Transit Authority and entered service in 1992.
R136 road The R136 road is a regional road in the Republic of Ireland, located in the southwest of Dublin. The route is named the Outer Ring Road, the route (which is dual carriageway) bypasses west of Clondalkin (around Grange Castle) connecting the N4 to the Naas Road (N7).
R16 (New York City Subway car) The R16 was a New York City Subway car manufactured by American Car and Foundry Company. The R16s were assigned to the BMT Eastern Division, although they showed up on the Queens and BMT Southern divisions from time to time.
R160A (New York City Subway ca train) The R160A is a class of New York City Subway cars being built by Alstom Transportation, comprising 400 cars of the total 660 car R160 primary contract. The R160A contract is separated into two parts, because different types of car sets are to be manufactured.
R17 (New York City Subway car) The R17 was a New York City Subway car built in 1955 as one of three car classes purchased in the mid-1950s, intended to replace many of the pre-World War II IRT cars. There were 400 cars in this class, all built by the St.
R18 certificate The R18 certificate represents a film or video classification given by the British Board of Film Classification. It is intended to provide a classification for works that are within British obscenity laws, but exceed what the BBFC considers acceptable for its 18 certificate.
R2 (SEPTA) The R2 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system in the Philadelphia area. The Pennsylvania Railroad end of the route has service to Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware, and Newark, Delaware via Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, while the Reading Company end has service to Warminster, Pennsylvania via Glenside and Jenkintown.
R2 signalling R2 is a 1960s- and 1970s-era channel-associated-signalling signalling protocol used outside of the former Bell System to convey information along a telephone trunk between two telephone switches in order to establish a single telephone call along that trunk.
R2-D2 R2-D2 (called R2, or "Artoo" for short), is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. R2-D2 was played by Kenny Baker in five of the six Star Wars films, (though credited with appearing in Revenge of the Sith, he never filmed any scenes) with many scenes filmed using mechanical and computer-generated imagery (CGI) versions of the character.
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome R2-D2: Beneath the Dome is a 20-minute mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star Wars film series. The movie was made as a fun project by the cast and crew of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
R2K Concert R2K Concert is the biggest concert staged by Filipina artist, Asia's Songbird Regine Velasquez during April 7-8 2000 at the Araneta Coliseum in the Philippines. The concert was a very daring project for Velasquez as she personally directed and conceptualized the show.
R3 (SEPTA) The R3 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system. The former Pennsylvania Railroad end of the route serves the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with service to Media, terminating in Elwyn in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania, and the former Reading Company end serves the northern suburbs with service via Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, terminating at West Trenton in Ewing, New Jersey.
R3 device The R3 device is a device for protecting race car drivers in the event of an accident by controlling head movement, reducing head and neck injuries due to whiplash. It consists of a carbon fiber cross which is worn like a vest.
R300 (Western Cape) The R300 or Kuils River Freeway (also Cape Flats Freeway) is a Regional Route in Cape Town, South Africa that connects Mitchells Plain with the N2, Kuils River, and the N1 at Bellville. The R300 is a freeway for its entire length; it forms part of the proposed Peninsula Expressway.
R33 The R33 was a British airship that served successfully for 10 years and survived one of the most alarming and heroic incidents in airship history when she was ripped from her mast in a gale. She was nicknamed the "Pulham Pig" by locals and is immortalised in the village sign for Pulham Market.
R39 (New York City Subway car) R39 was the proposed contract number for lightweight subway/elevated New York City Subway cars. They were intended to replace old equipment running on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn and the IRT Third Avenue Line in The Bronx.
R3Y Tradewind The Convair R3Y Tradewind was a turboprop-powered flying boat for the United States Navy which entered service in 1954. Originally designed as a patrol bomber under the designation P5Y, the design was soon adapted to a transport aircraft.
R4 (New York City Subway car) [R4 subway car on display at the New York Transit Museum] [is the contract number for the second order of standard subway] cars purchased for the division of the [[New York City Subway. They were built by American Car and Foundry Company between 1932 and 1933, and were practically identical to the original R1 order.
R4 assault rifle The R4 is a South African assault rifle developed in 1980 for the South African Army to replace the R1, which was a variant of the FN FAL. The R4 was first issued during the early 1980s, and is partly based on the Israeli Galil which in turn was based on the Finnish Rk 62.
R4M rocket The R4M rocket, nicknamed the Orkan (German, meaning "Hurricane") due to its distinctive smoke trail when fired, was the first practical anti-aircraft rocket. It was developed by the Luftwaffe during World War II, and used operationally for a very brief time just prior to the end of the war.
R5 (bootleg) R5 refers to a specific format of DVD released in DVD Region 5, the former Soviet Union, and bootlegged copies of these releases that are distributed on the Internet. In an effort to compete with movie piracy, the movie industry chose to create a new format for DVD releases that could be produced more quickly and less expensively than traditional DVD releases.
R509 road The R509 road, following part of the Childers Road (named after Erskine Childers), is a "Regional Road" in Ireland, running through the southeastern side of Limerick City. It forms what is somewhat akin to an inner ring road (albeit mostly two-lane only).
R550 Magic The R550 Magic is a short-range missile designed in 1968 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder. On 11 January 1972, a Gloster Meteor of the centre for in-flight trials fired the R550 Magic and shot down a Nord CT20 target drone (unmanned aerial vehicle).
R6 (SEPTA) The SEPTA R6 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail (commuter rail) system. One end of the route terminates in the western suburbs in the Bala Cynwyd section of Lower Merion Township, while the other end terminates at Elm Street in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
R63 (Eastern Cape) The R63 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects the N2 between East London and Butterworth with Williston via King Williams Town, Graaff-Reinet, Murraysburg, and Victoria West. It is cosigned with the N10 between Eastpoort and Cookhouse for 24 kilometres, and with the R75 to Graaff-Reinet.
R7 (SEPTA) The SEPTA R7 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail (commuter rail) system. One end of the route serves the northeastern suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with service in Bucks County along the Delaware River to Trenton, New Jersey, and the other end serves the northwestern section of Philadelphia with service to Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill.
R752 road The R752 is a Regional road in County Wicklow. From its junction with the R772 in Rathnew on the outskirts of Wicklow Town it takes a generally south-westerly route to its junction with the R747 in the village of Woodenbridge, where it terminates.
R8 (SEPTA) The R8 is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system. The Pennsylvania Railroad end of the route terminates in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, while the Reading Company end terminates in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia.
R800 The R800 is the central processing unit used in the MSX Turbo-R home computer. The R800 was designed by the ASCII company of Japan, and the goals were to have the fastest CPU possible, while maintaining compatibility with old MSX Zilog Z80-based hardware and software.
R8C The Renesas R8C is a 16-bit microcontroller that was developed as a smaller and cheaper version of the Renesas M16C . It retains the M16C's 16-bit CISC architecture and instruction set, but trades size for speed by cutting the internal data bus from 16 bits to 8 bits.
Ra (board game) Ra is a board game for three to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture. Originally published in Germany, it was republished in an English language translation by Rio Grande Games.
Ra (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji) Ra Fijian Provincial Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage).
Ra (Open Constituency, Fiji) Ra Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Ra Cailum In the fictional Universal Century Gundam universe the Ra Cailum (also spelled Lar Karium, both pronounced Ra-Kai-Lam/ラ・カイラム) was the flagship of the Earth Federation's Londo Bell unit, and the first ship of the Ra Cailum class. The ship was constructed to make use of mobile suits, and thus is similar to its predecessor the Irish-class battleships.
Ra Cailum class battleship In the fictional Gundam universe, the Ra Cailum (sometimes spelled Lar Kairum, both pronounced Rock-eye-loom, first of its eponymous class) was the last battleship line commissioned by the Federation . The class was constructed to make use of Mobile Suits, so it incorporates two launch catapults into its design.
Ra Un Nefer Amen Ra Un Nefer Amen is the founder of the Ausar Auset Society, a Pan-African religious organization dedicated to providing Afrocentric based spiritual training to people of African descent. Trained originally as a concert pianist, composer, and music theoretician, Amen passed on opportunities in the music industry to devote time to the spiritual education and uplift of African people.
Ra'ad bin Zeid Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid () (born 18 February 1936 in Berlin where his father was Iraqi ambassador at the time) is the son of Prince Zi'ed of the Hashemite House and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (Fakhr un-nisa), a Turkish noblewoman. Upon the death of his father on October 18, 1970, he inherited the position as head of the Royal House of Iraq.
Ra'anana Ra'anana (Hebrew ַעָָה; Standard Hebrew ) is a small city (about 78,000 citizens) in the southern Sharon in the Center District of Israel, Israel, 19 km north of Tel Aviv. The city is predominantly Jewish, with many immigrants from western countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and France.
Ra'îs of Manûrqa The Ra'îs of Manûrqa is a Muslim political title given to the two govenors that from 1234 to 1287 ruled the island of Manûrqa (modern Minorca) as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Majorca. The island was allowed a great deal of autonomy and it had the protection of the Kingdom of Majorca in exchange of an annual tribute.
Ra'ouf Mus'ad Ra’ouf Mus'ad (sometimes known as Raouf Moussad-Basta) is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Sudanese Coptic parents. He moved to Egypt as a teenager and lived in various countries, both in the Middle East and in Europe, during the past 30 years.
Ra's al Ghul Ra's al Ghul, sometimes written Rā's al Ghūl (Arabic: رأس الغول) (pronounced as Raesh Al Ghoul), is a DC Comics supervillain, and an enemy of Batman. His name is Arabic for "The ghoul's head" (the Demon's Head, see Algol).
Ra-Ra Zoo Ra-Ra Zoo was an English-based circus theatre company (1984–1994), started by Sue Broadway, Stephen Kent, David Spathaky and Sue Bradley while they were all working and staying together at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They opened their first full show at the Battersea Arts Centre as part of the London International Mime Festival in January 1985.
Raa of the Caves Raa is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #25 as a member of The Anachronauts (Apocryphus, Deathunt 9000, Ssith, Tyndar, Wildrun (aka Red Wolf), and Sir Raston).
Raabs an der Thaya Raabs an der Thaya is a municipality with 3,114 inhabitants in Waidhofen an der Thaya (district) in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria, near the Austrian border with the Czech Republic. The area of the municipality is 134.
Raad 1 In May 1996, Iran claimed to have successfully tested its first locally made self-propelled gun, the 122 mm Thunder 1. This vehicle is apparently a modification of a Russian 122 mm gun, with a firing range of 15,200 meters and a road speed of 65 kilometers per hour.
Raad 2 In early September 1997 it was reported that Iran had successfully tested a locally built rapid fire mobile field gun known as "Thunder 2." The Defense Industries Organization claimed that the 155 mm self-propelled gun had a high firing rate, accuracy and mobility.
Raahe Raahe (Brahestad in Swedish) is a town and municipality of Finland. Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland.
Raaso Raaso is a location in the Somali Region of Ethiopia and is inhabited by the Fiqi Omar clan, also, known as the Sheikhaal clan. Raaso is situated along the Imei – Ghindir road, in West Imei Woreda of Afder Zone (Geographical Position: N 060 32’ 76”; E 410 47’ 69”), some 40km north-west of West Imei village.
Raavikampadu Raavikampadu is a small village in the Kamavarapu Kota mandal of the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is situated on the route from Eluru to Jangareddigudem at a distance of about 42 km from Eluru.
Raaz (2002 film) Raaz (Hindi: राज़, Urdu: راز, translation: secret), directed by Vikram Bhatt, is unoffically a Bollywood adaptation of the film What Lies Beneath. The film is based on the story of a couple who have moved to Ooty to save their failing marriage.
Raúl Alberto Lastiri Raúl Alberto Lastiri (1915-1978) was an Argentine politician who was interim president of Argentina from July 13 1973 until October 12 1973. Lastiri, who presided over the Argentine Chamber of Deputies was promoted to the Presidency of the country after Héctor José Cámpora and Vicente Solano Lima resigned.
Raúl Anguiano Raúl Anguiano (Born February 26, 1915 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – died January 13, 2006, in Mexico City) was a Mexican critical realist painter, draftsman, muralist, and engraver, as well as a member of the second generation of the so-called “Mexican School of Painting,” along with Juan O'Gorman, Judith Gutierrez, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado, Alfredo Zalce, Jesús Guerrero Galván, Julio Castellanos, among others. Anguiano’s work dealt with and reflected issues that affected Mexico and its people.
Raúl González (boxer) Raúl González (born June 5, 1967) is a boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Flyweight division (-51 kg) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the final he lost to North Korea's Chol Su-Choi.
RaĂşl HĂ©ctor Castro RaĂşl HĂ©ctor Castro (born in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, June 12, 1916) is a Mexican-born United States politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices, including United States Ambassador and Governor of Arizona.
Raúl Hernández Garrido Raúl Hernández Garrido (1964–) is a Spanish playwright. He won the Calderon de la Barca Prize in 1994 for his play Los Malditos ('The Damned Ones'); the Lope de Vega Prize in 1997 for his play Los engranajes ('The Gears') and the Born Theatre Prize in 2000 for his play Si un dia me olvidaras ('When you´ll forget me').
Raúl Chávez Raúl Alexander Chávez (born March 18, 1973 in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball catcher currently in the New York Yankees minor league system. Previously, Chávez played for the Montreal Expos (1996-97), Seattle Mariners (1998), Houston Astros (2000, 2002-2005) and Baltimore Orioles (2006).
RaĂşl LĂłpez RaĂşl LĂłpez Molist (born April 15, 1980 in Vic, Barcelona) is a Spanish basketball player who played for the Akasvayu Girona in the ACB during the 2005-2006 season, lately transferred to Real Madrid (July 2006). He has previously played for the NBA's Utah Jazz.
Raúl Leoni Raúl Leoni Otero (April 24 1905 - July 5, 1972) was President of Venezuela from 1963 until 1968. He fought against the dictators Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and was a charter member of the Acción Democrática party.
RaĂşl MondesĂ­ RaĂşl RamĂłn MondesĂ­ Avelino (born March 12, 1971 in San CristĂłbal, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball player. He was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1994 as a right fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Raúl Ormeño Raúl Elias Ormeño Pacheco (born June 21, 1958 in Temuco) is a retired football defensive midfielder from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number fourteen jersey. He played for several clubs in Chile, including Colo Colo.
RaĂşl Osiel MarroquĂ­n RaĂşl Osiel MarroquĂ­n-is a Mexican former soldier who confessed to luring gay men in order to kill them. He tortured his four victims by hanging or choking them, but in two cases it is said that he released men he kidnapped on receiving a ransom.
Raúl Prebisch Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He is sometimes considered to be a neo-Marxist though this label is misleading.
Raúl Reyes Luis Edgar Devia-Silva aka Raúl Reyes, was born on September 30, 1948 in the Colombian village of La Plata Huila Department He is a Secretariat Member, spokeperson and Advisor to the Southern Bloc of the FARC-EP]. Devia-Silva is accused by the [[US Department of State and the Colombian government of advocating the expansion of FARC’s cocaine trafficking activities, setting the FARC’s cocaine policies, including the production, manufacture, and distribution of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and the world.
Raúl Rosarivo Raúl Mario Rosarivo (1903-1966), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was a typographer, researcher, designer, poet, painter and illustrator, known for his work in the analysis of the Gutenberg bibles. He held the position of General Director of the Buenos Aires Provincial Graphic Workshops (Talleres Gráficos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires)Trenti Rocamora, José Luis, Homenaje a Raúl Mario Rosarivo, Fundación Gutenberg.
Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz (February 14 1898 – May 30 1959) was an Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet, friend of Arturo Jauretche and Homero Manzi, and loosely associated with the political group FORJA.
Raúl Soldi Raúl Soldi (1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – 1994) was an Argentine painter whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for their melancholy appearance.
Raúl Solnado Raul Solnado, GCIH (Raúl is wrong spelling) (born October 19, 1929 in Lisbon, Portugal) is one of the most cherished Portuguese actors, and one of the top comedians in the country. He was born in the neighbourhood known as Madragoa, where he also first ‘tasted’ a stage.
RaĂşl Velasco RaĂşl Velasco (1933 - 2006) was born on April 24, 1933 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. For 30 years, he was the Mexican host/producer of Siempre en Domingo (Always on Sunday) which is his hallmark contribution to the Latin American world and eventually to other parts of the world where Spanish entertainment programs are broadcast.
Raï Raï (Arabic: راي) is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African-American and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture. The word raï is Arabic for “opinion.
Raëlian Church The Raëlian Church or International Raëlian Movement (IRM) is an organization whose foundation, Raëlism, is set forth by books written by the Raël known as the "messages", which as of January 2007, are available in 33 languages.The Raelian Movement: Downloads, The International Raelian Movement.
Račak Račak (in Serbian, also in Cyrillic: Рачак) or Reçak (in Albanian) is a village in central Kosovo, Serbia, located at . It became notorious in January 1999 after 45 people were killed in the village during the conflict between state security forces and Albanian guerrillas.
Račak incident The Račak incident (also called the Račak massacre or Račak operation) was a clash in the village of Račak, Kosovo, (known as Reçak in Albanian) on January 15 1999 between Yugoslav security forces and Kosovo Liberation Army guerillas, in which 45 Albanian civilians died. Outside Yugoslavia, the deaths were widely blamed on the actions of the Yugoslav security forces, which were accused of having committed a deliberate massacre http://news.
Rab Rab (Italian Arbe) is an island and a town of the same name located just off the northern Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea, today in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. The island was the frontier between Liburnia and Dalmatia.
Rab concentration camp The Rab Concentration Camp was established during World War II in July 1942, when the Italians established a concentration camp near the village of Kampor on the island of Rab in the Adriatic Sea. The camp was disbanded after the Italian capitulation in September 1943.
Rab Corbett Rab Corbett is the name of a persona that made a number of prank calls in Scotland at some point in the mid-1990s. Using the Scottish vernacular and copious amounts of swearing, the calls were mainly directed at businesses in and around the city of Glasgow, Scotland and have achieved cult status in that country.
Rab Scott Rab Scott is a retired English professional darts player who competed in the 1980s. He competed in the 1985 BDO World Darts Championship but was defeated in the first round by the fellow Englishman John Cosnett.
Rabaab A Rabaab is a four stringed, plucked wooden instrument that is played with a plectrum. It is a very ancient instrument found primarily in Afghanistan but in India is common in Kashmir and has cultural significance in the Sikh community.
Rabadh Castle Rabadh Castle (also Ajlun Castle or Qal'at Al-Rabed) (Arabic: قلعة الربض; transliterated: Qal'at ar-Rabad) is an Islamic castle that stands atop Jabal Beni Auf near Ajlun in present-day northern Jordan, at . The name of the castle comes from an Arabic word which means "settling" or "sitting".
Rabah Alquei'i Rabah Alquei'i , a Saudi journalist, was arrested in April 2006 on charges of apostasy and sentenced to death, not for the personal intervention of Saudi Arabia in the end the case, as was stated by the then Abdul-Rahman Allahem to foreign news agencies. The majority of his writings in the press and on the Internet revolves around religious fanaticism and extremism in the society.
Rabah Bitat Rabah Bitat (December 19, 1925 - April 9/10, 2000) was the acting President of Algeria from 27 December 1978 to 9 February 1979. He became president after the death of Houari Boumédiènne and was replaced by Chadli Bendjedid.
Rabah Madjer Rabah Madjer () (born February 15, 1958 in Hussein Dey) is a former Algerian footballer, playing as a striker, who reached stardom as a FC Porto player during the 1980s, and is considered the greatest Algerian football player of all time.
Rabanadas Rabanadas are a traditional Portuguese dessert eaten at Christmas very popular in the North of Portugal. They are made from white bread slices soaked a liquid made with black tea or milk, sugar, cinamon, lemon peel and sometimes port wine, after they are drained and coated in egg and fried.
Rabari Members of the Rabari tribe are found living throughout Gujarat and south west Rajasthan. The story of their origin has it that their men, instead of marrying women, married celestial apsaras, the daughters of the gods.
Rabat American School The Rabat American School is a private, nonprofit institution located in Rabat, Morocco. It was founded in 1962 as a K-8 School to meet the educational needs of the children of American families affiliated with the United States Government agencies or private companies.
Rabat summit conference The Rabat summit conference was a meeting of Arab leaders held in Rabat, Morocco in 1974. Leaders to twenty Arab countries were present, including King Hussein of Jordan, together with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Rabatak inscription The Rabatak inscription is an inscription written on a rock in the Bactrian language and the Greek script, which was found in 1993 at the site of Rabatak, near Surkh Kotal in Afghanistan. The inscription relates to the rule of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, and gives remarkable clues on the genealogy of the Kushan dynasty.
Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue According to legend, the Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue, also known as Kahal Kadosh Gadol, stands on the spot of the Beit Midrash of the Second Temple era sage Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai. Located in the old Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, it suffered the same fate as most the synagogues in the area during the 19 year Jordanian occupation.
Rabbani Rabbani is a Malaysian nasyid group that consists of 7 members and they are Mohamad Asri Ibrahim as the lead vocal, together with Mohd Asri Ubaidullah, Ahmad Shafie, Zulkiflee Azman, Mohd Loqman Abd. Aziz, Rithauddeen Yaakob, and Azadan Abd Aziz.
Rabbet A rabbet (also known as rebate) is a recess or groove cut into the edge of a piece of machineable material, usually wood. When viewed in cross-section, a rabbet is two-sided and open to the edge or end of the surface into which it is cut.

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