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Rimskaya Rimskaya () is a station on Moscow Metro's Lyublinskaya Line. Opened on 28th December, 1995 as part of the original stage of the Lyublinsky radius the station was named after the Italian capital Rome, and the architects L.
Rimutaka Incline The Rimutaka Incline was a 3-mile (5-km) stretch of gauge railway line at a grade of 1 in 15 between Summit and Cross Creek on the original Wairarapa railway line from Wellington to Masterton in New Zealand. Because of financial constraints, between Upper Hutt and Featherston the railway followed steep gradients to descend the eastern slope of the Rimutaka Ranges.
Rimutaka Range The Rimutaka Range (often referred to as the Rimutaka Ranges) is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand which form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington.
Rin' Rin' is a Japanese popular music group which combines traditional Japanese instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music. It is a female trio of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music alumni who graduated in 2003.
Rina is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcasted on Televisa in 1977. It was written by Inés Rodena and starred Ofelia Medina as a hunchback named Rina and Enrique Álvarez Félix as her love interest.
Rina Lazarus Rina Lazarus is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman. The novels in the series include The Ritual Bath (1986), Sacred and Profane (1987), Milk and Honey (1990), Day of Atonement (1991), False Prophet (1992), Grievous Sin (1993), Sanctuary (1994), Justice, (1995), Prayers for the Dead (1996), Serpent's Tooth (1997), Jupiter's Bones (1999), Stalker (2000), The Forgotten (2001), Stone Kiss (2002), and Street Dreams (2004).
Rinaldi (Ironclaw) In Ironclaw, the Rinaldi is a Noble House of anthropomorphic foxes, who hold tenuous political sway over the merchantile port city of Triskellion. Family members of good breeding are known for their grey-colored fur, as opposed to the more common red or brown of peasant families.
Rinaldo (cantata) Rinaldo, a cantata for tenor solo, four-part male chorus and orchestra, was begun by Johannes Brahms in 1863 as an entry for a choral competition announced in Aachen. He chose as his text the dramatic poem of the same name by Goethe, which presents an episode from the epic Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso in the form of a series of dialogues between the knight Rinaldo, who has been enchanted by the witch Armida, and his fellow-knights who are calling him back to the path of duty.
Rinaldo Alessandrini Rinaldo Alessandrini (born 1960) is a virtuoso on Baroque keyboards, including harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. He is founder and conductor of the Italian early music ensemble Concerto Italiano, performing music of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Couperin, J.
Rinaldo dall'Arpa Rinaldo dall'Arpa (b late 16th century–August 2 1603) was an Italian composer, singer, and harpist. He was a valued member of Carlo Gesualdo's retinue, and accompanied him to Ferrara on the occasion of Gesualdo's marriage in 1594.
Rinaldo de Lamare Rinaldo de Lamare (1910, Santos, SĂŁo Paulo - 2002, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian physician specialized in pediatrics and a bestseller writer of books on child health and care for the general public. Although born in the city port of Santos, in the state of SĂŁo Paulo, to a family of Italian origins, son of Victor de Lamare, an engenieer, he went to live in Rio de Janeiro when he was only 16 years old, in order to prepare himself to study medicine at the medical school of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro.
Rinaldo Williams Rinaldo Louis Williams (born December 18, 1893 in Santa Cruz, California; died April 24, 1966 in Cottonwood, Arizona) played third base for four games in Major League Baseball in 1914, for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League.
Rinat Dasaev Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasaev () (born June 13, 1957 in Astrakhan, Soviet Union) is a Russian former football goalkeeper of Tatar ethnicity, who played in three World Cups with the Soviet national team. He is considered the second best Russian goalkeeper ever behind Lev Yashin,IFFHS' Century Elections - rsssf.
Rinat Yisrael Rinat Yisrael is a siddur written in Hebrew only, popular among many Modern Orthodox Jews in Israel, and used by some in the Diaspora as well. It was first published in 1970 by the Moreshet Publishing Company, and edited by Dr.
RincĂłn de Ademuz RincĂłn de Ademuz (Valencian: RacĂł d'Ademuz) is an enclave of the province of Valencia located between the provinces of Cuenca and Teruel. Its territorial perimeter does not have any meeting point with the rest of the Valencian regions.
RincĂłn de la Vieja Volcano National Park RincĂłn de la Vieja Volcano National Park, in Spanish , part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area and the World Heritage Site, is a National Park in the northwestern part of Costa Rica which encompasses the RincĂłn de la Vieja and Santa MarĂ­a volcanoes, as well as the dormant Cerro Von Seebach. The last eruption here was by Rincon de la Vieja in 1998.
Rincon (surfspot) Rincon (Spanish, "angle" or "corner") is a surf spot located at the Ventura and Santa Barbara County line in Southern California, USA. Also known as the "Queen of the Coast", Rincon is one of the most recognized surf spots in California and known around the world for its long, peeling rights.
Rincon de tres cerros Rincón de Tres Cerros (literally "corner of the three hills") is an area in the Northeast of Uruguay wedged between the rivers Tacuarembó and Cuñapirú (hence the toponym "corner"), in the Department of Rivera. The area owes its name to the three flat "mesa" or butte hills (cerros) aligned in a row, from smaller to biggest and North to South respectively, which dominate the horizon.
Rind (tribe) Rind (Urdu: رند) is a Baloch tribe settled in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan. This tribe is considered progenitor of many Baloch tribes including: Domki, Gabol, Marri, Bugti, Leghari, Khosa, Magsi, and others.
Rinderbraten Rinderbraten, also known as Marinierten Rinderbraten, is a German dish whose name means "spiced round". It is made from a large round of beef, stuffed with pork fat that has been rolled in a combination of saltpeter, salt, red pepper, brown sugar, allspice, and cloves.
Rinderkennzeichnungs- und RindfleischetikettierungsĂĽberwachungsaufgabenĂĽbertragungsgesetz Rinderkennzeichnungs- und RindfleischetikettierungsĂĽberwachungsaufgabenĂĽbertragungsgesetz ( (RkReĂśAĂśG) (literally, Cattle marking and beef labelling supervision duties delegation law) is a law of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern of 2000, dealing with the supervision of the labeling of beef.
Rinderpest Rinderpest (RP) is an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and some species of wildlife, it is commonly referred to as cattle plague. It is characterized by fever, oral erosions, diarrhea, lymphoid necrosis, and high mortality.
Rindge Dam The 100 foot Rindge Dam is located in Malibu Creek State Park, about 3 miles from the coast of Malibu, California. It is below Malibu Canyon Road, beneath the Sheriff's Memorial, and goes unnoticed by most who drive on the road due to it being out of view of the road.
Rindi Rindi of the Chagga was another major chieftain ruling in the Kilimanjaro region in 1860, making Moshi an important base for ivory trading with Zanzibar and Dar-Es-Salaam. He signed a Treaty with the Germans in 1885 and Moshi became their headquarters and most important economic and political centre of that time.
Rindler coordinates In relativistic physics, the Rindler coordinate chart is an important and useful coordinate chart representing part of flat spacetime, also called the Minkowski vacuum. The Rindler chart was introduced by Wolfgang Rindler.
Rindr In Norse mythology, Rindr (sometimes Anglicized Rind) is alternatively described as a giantess, a goddess or a human princess from the east (somewhere in present-day Russia). She was impregnated by Odin and gave birth to Váli.
Rineloricaria Rineloricaria(from the Greek, "rhinos" meaning nose, and the Latin, "lorica" meaning cuirass of leather. Rineloricaria is a genus of freshwater tropical catfish belonging to the Loricariidae family.
Ring (computer game) Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen is a 1999 computer game developed for the PC by Cryo Interactive. It was inspired by Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen and featured music from the popular performance conducted by Georg Solti.
Ring (computer security) In computer science, hierarchical protection domains, often called protection rings, are a mechanism to protect data and functionality from faults (fault tolerance) and malicious behaviour (computer security). This approach is diametrically opposite to that of capability-based security.
Ring (film) is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from a novel by Koji Suzuki of the same name. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Otaka as members of a divorced family, each cursed by a videotape.
Ring (finger) A finger ring is a metal band worn as type of ornamental jewellery around a finger; it is the most common current meaning of the word [Other types of metal bands worn as ornaments are also called 'rings,' such as arm ring]s and [[torc|neck rings.
Ring (telephone) A telephone ring is the sound generated when an incoming telephone call is received. The term originated from the fact that telephones notified the household of an incoming call by repeatedly striking a bell or bells, producing a ringing sound.
Ring a Ring O'Roses "Ring a Ring O'Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or children's song and game that first appeared in print in 1881 but was recited to the current tune at least as early as the 1790s.
Ring binder Ring binders are folders in which punched pieces of paper may be held by means of clamps running through the holes in the paper. These retainers are usually spring-loaded, frequently but not invariably circular (some rings are D-shaped, others are actually rods), and may or may not have additional latching systems.
Ring circuit A ring circuit (more formally a ring final circuit; informally a ring main or just a ring) is an electrical wiring technique that provides two paths for the live, neutral and earth lines by wiring a ring of cable, or sometimes three separate cores in conduit. In a single-phase system, the ring starts at the consumer unit (also known as "fuse box" or "breaker box"), visits each socket in turn, and then returns to the consumer unit.
Ring finger The ring finger is the fourth digit of the human hand, and the second most ulnar finger, located between the middle finger and the little finger. It is also called digitus medicinalis, the fourth finger, digitus annularis, digitus quartus, or digitus IV in anatomy.
Ring flip Ring flipping (also known as ring inversion or ring reversal) is a phenomenon involving the interconversion (by rotation) about single bonds of cyclic conformers having equivalent ring shapes but not necessarily equivalent spatial positions of substituent atoms.
Ring game Ring games, also called cash games or live action games, are poker games played with "real" chips and money on the line, usually with no predetermined end time. In contrast, a poker tournament is played with tournament chips (worth nothing outside the tournament) with a definite end condition (usually, only one player left).
Ring chromosome 20 syndrome Ring chromosome 20, ring-shaped chromosome 20 or r(20) syndrome is a rare human chromosome abnormality where the two arms of chromosome 20 fuse to from a ring chromosome. The syndrome is associated with epileptic seizures, behaviour disorders and mental retardation.
Ring imaging Cherenkov detector A Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH detector) is a particle detector that can determine the velocity, v , of a fundamental particle. This is done by an indirect measurement of the Cherenkov angle, theta_c , i.
Ring King Ring King also known as King of Boxer in other parts of the world is a video game released to the arcade in 1985 and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It allowed the player to pick from various fictional characters and duke it out with the computer or a second player in a boxing ring.
Ring modulation Ring modulation is an effect in electronics, related to amplitude modulation or frequency mixing, performed by multiplying two audio signals, where one is typically a sine-wave or another simple waveform. It is referred to as "ring" modulation because the analog circuit of diodes originally used to implement this effect took the shape of a ring.
Ring mottle glass Ring mottle glass refers to sheet glass with a pronounced mottle created by localized, heat-treated opacification and crystal-growth dynamics. Ring mottle glass was invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the early 20th century.
Ring Magazine pound for pound This table lists the pound-for-pound rankings of The Ring magazine (the self-proclaimed "Bible of Boxing"), which some boxing experts and fans regard as an authoritative source for ranking the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.
Ring Magazine upsets of the year Ring Magazine was established in 1922. Since 1980, it has named a fight that has resulted in an outcome that was highly contrary to general expectations as upset of the year, based on the magazine's writers' criteria.
Ring name A ring name is a stage name used by a professional wrestler, or in some cases, a martial artist or boxer. Ring names were developed as a defense mechanism to keep kayfabe and allow wrestling performers to hide their true identities from the wrestling fanbase, or because their real name is considered unattractive, dull, amusing for the wrong reasons, or projects the wrong image.
Ring ni Kakero Ring ni kakero (リングにかけろ, Ringu ni kakero) is a manga created by Masami Kurumada, and was published in Shōnen Jump between 1977 and 1983. It had great success, arguably even more than Saint Seiya (another Kurumada work) in Japan.
Ring of Darkness Ring of Darkness is a Horror/Fantasy movie, released in 2004, directed by David DeCoteau. Although never released into American theaters, the movie was released worldwide, and translated into several languages other than English, such as French, Spanish, Italian, Irish, and German.
Ring of Fire (anthology) Ring of Fire is the third published book of editor-author-historian Eric Flint's popular 1632 series, an alternate history series. It is set in war torn Europe during the middle of the Thirty Years' War, at a time when religion was a pretext for war and authoritarianism held a hard hand around the throat of the populace.
Ring of Fire (song) "Ring of Fire" is a country music song popularized by Johnny Cash on his 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. It was originally written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore, and recorded by Anita Carter in 1962.
Ring of Kerry The Ring of Kerry is a tourist trail in County Kerry, south-western Ireland. The route covers the 170 km circular road (N70, N71 and R562), starting from Killarney, heading around the Iveragh peninsula and passing through Kenmare, Sneem, Waterville, Cahersiveen and Killorglin.
Ring of regeneration In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, a ring of regeneration is a famous type of magical item, which bestows magical ability of regeneration upon its wearer. Because of the way that Dungeons & Dragons handles regeneration, the wearer is essentially immortal.
Ring of Sweden Ring is mentioned by Adam of Bremen who relates that he was king of Sweden when archbiship Unni arrived in Birka 935 or 936 where Unni died. Adam of Bremen recounts that he had the sons Erik Ringsson and Emund.
Ring of the Fisherman The Ring of the Fisherman or Pescatorio is an official part of the regalia worn by the pope, described by the Catholic Church (of which he is the head) as the successor of Saint Peter, a fisherman by trade. It depicts Peter as a fisherman, a symbolism derived from the tradition that the apostles were "fishers of men.
Ring of Varda The Ring of Varda is a rare collectible item from the PlayStation game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It is so effective that some consider it cheating to deliberately collect one (or two, for as a ring one can be worn on each hand).
Ring oscillator A ring oscillator is a device composed of an odd number of NOT gates whose output oscillates between two voltage levels, representing true and false. The NOT gates, or inverters, are attached in a chain; the output of the last inverter is fed back into the first.
Ring Ring (song) "Ring Ring" is a 1973 single by ABBA, which gave the group their big break in Australia and parts of Europe (though the rest of Europe and North America were introduced to ABBA the following year). It was written originally in Swedish by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, along with their manager Stig Anderson, and the translation into English lyrics was helped by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody.
Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) is the second single released by De La Soul from their sophomore album De La Soul Is Dead, in 1991. The song is a party jam about overzealous fans who pursue the group with demo tapes in their efforts to obtain an endorsement from the group.
Ring Roads of Beijing Beijing is one of the very few cities to possess multiple ring roads (or beltways). Among the rarest seen anywhere in a major city in the world is Beijing's 2nd Ring Road, which is extremely central to Tian'anmen, the centre of Beijing.
Ring signature In cryptography, a ring signature is a type of digital signature that can be performed by any member of a group of users that each have keys. Therefore, a message signed with a ring signature is endorsed by someone in a particular group of people.
Ring singularity In general relativity the gravitational singularity at the center of a rotating black hole (a "Kerr black hole") is supposed to form a circle rather than a point. This is often referred to as a ring singularity.
Ring strain Ring strain is an organic chemistry term that describes the destabilization of a cyclic molecule—such as a cycloalkane—due to the non-favorable high energy spatial orientations of its atoms. Non-cyclic molecules do not exhibit ring strain because their terminal (end) atoms are not connected to force a particular type of spatial orientation.
Ring the Alarm "Ring the Alarm" is an R&B song written by Beyoncé Knowles, Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean, and Sean Garrett for Knowles's second solo studio album B'Day (2006). Co-produced by Knowles, and Swizz Beatz, the song premiered on August 8, 2006 to radio outlets in the United States and eventually debuted at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, making the single her highest entry on the official American singles chart and the second highest debut of 2006 behind only Taylor Hicks's "Do I Make You Proud".
Ring the Bells of Christmas Ring the Bells of Christmas was the second album released by Bells of the Lakes in 2002. It was recorded at United Methodist Church in Minneapolis, MN and, as the name implies, it is made up of Christmas songs (both traditional and contemporary).
Ring-closing metathesis Ring-closing metathesis or RCM is a variation on olefin metathesis that allows the closing of previously hard to make rings (7-8 member rings in particular). RCM is simply an intramolecular olefin metathesis with a Grubbs' catalyst, yielding the cycloalkene and a volatile alkene, in this example ethene.
Ring-necked Dove The Ring-Necked Dove (Streptopelia capicola), also known as the Cape Turtle Dove and the Half-Collared Dove, is a widespread and abundant bird in the bush, savannah, farmlands, and woodlands of southern and eastern Africa. Their name comes from a black patch of feathers on the back of their necks.
Ring-opening polymerization In polymer chemistry, ring-opening polymerization is a subset of addition polymerization, in that an end of a growing polymer chain acts as a reactive center that can react with additional monomers to propagate the chain. In ring-opening polymerization, the monomer is a cyclic compound.
Ring-tailed Lemur The Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) is a large prosimian, a lemur belonging to the family Lemuridae. The Ring-tailed Lemur is the only species within the monotypic genus Lemur and, like all other lemurs, is found only on the island of Madagascar.
Ringaskiddy Ringaskiddy (Irish: Rinn an ScidĂ­gh) is a village south of Cork city, in County Cork, Ireland. Located across Cork harbour south from CĂłbh, and connected to Cork city by the N28 road the village is now a major ferry port and is one of two free ports in Ireland, the other being in the Shannon area.
Ringaudas Songaila Ringaudas Bronislovas Songaila (born 1929) was a high-level government official in the Lithuanian SSR. He was Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1981 to 1985, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1985 to 1987, and First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1987-88.
Ringback tone A ringback tone (RBT), or audible ringing tone or ringback signal, is the audible ringing that is heard on the telephone line by the calling party after dialing and prior to the call being answered at the distant end.
Ringbanen Ringbanen (the "ring line") is an S-train line in Copenhagen. It runs roughly semicircularly (because a full circle is not possible, Copenhagen being a seaside city) around the central part of Copenhagen and connects the S-train radials about 5 km out.
Ringdocus Ringdocus is the name given to an unidentified animal shot by a Mormon settler in Montana in 1899 named Hutchins who had it stuffed by a local taxidermist. It was on display at a general store near Henry Lake, Idaho until the 1980s when it mysteriously disappeared.
Ringdown Ringdown: In telephony, a method of signaling an operator in which telephone ringing current is sent over the line to operate a lamp or cause the operation of a self-locking relay known as a drop. Ringdown (a) is used in manual operation, as distinguished from dialing, (b) uses a continuous or pulsed ac signal transmitted over the line, and (c) may be used with or without a switchboard.
Ringebu Ringebu is a municipality in the county of Oppland, Norway. It borders Sør-Fron municipality on the northwest, on the southwest by Gausdal, on the south by Øyer and by Stor-Elvdal municipality in Hedmark county on the east.
Ringebu stave church Ringebu stave church (Ringebu stavkyrkje) is a stave church located in Ringebu in Ringebu municipality, Gudbrandsdal, Norway. Built in the first quarter of the 13th century, and dated according to coins found during archeologic surveys.
Ringed Kingfisher The Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) is a large, conspicuous and noisy kingfisher, commonly found along the lower Rio Grande River valley in southeasternmost Texas in the United States through Central America to Tierra del Fuego in South America.
Ringed space In mathematics, a ringed space is, intuitively speaking, a space together with a collection of commutative rings, the elements of which are "functions" on each open set of the space. Ringed spaces appear throughout analysis and are also used to define the schemes of algebraic geometry.
Ringed Salamander The ringed salamander (Ambystoma annulatum) is native to hardwood and mixed hardwood-pine forested areas in and around the Ozark Plateau and Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri (Petranka 1998). Most specimens are found in the vicinity of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the Missouri portion of the Ozark Plateau (Bishop 1962; Johnson 1977).
Ringed Seal The Ringed Seal or Jar Seal (Pusa hispida formerly Phoca hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the northern coasts. Also referred to by the Inuit as the Netsik or nattiq, typical adults are 85 to 160 cm long and 40 to 90 kg.
Ringelmann effect The Ringelmann effect refers to a combination of social loafing and coordination losses. Coordination loss refers to the lack of simultaneity of effort in groups, which interferes with efficiently combining individual inputs.
Ringfencing Ringfencing is a term used for the requirement for public utility service providers to establish arrangements to segregate its business of providing prescribed services from its other business activities. This is so that the provider cannot access, and use to its advantage, information from those other business activities that would not be available to its competitors.
Ringfort Ringforts are fortified settlements that are generally agreed to be from the Early Medieval Period in Northern Europe, especially Ireland. They are also known as ráth, caiseal, cathair and dún in the early Irish sources.
Ringgit Ringgit (Malay for "jagged") mostly refers to the Malaysian ringgit, which is the local currency in Malaysia, but it can also refer to the Singapore dollar and Brunei dollar in the Malay language. The word ringgit was originally used to refer to the serrated edges of Spanish silver dollars widely circulated in the area before the introduction of their own currency.
Ringgold Mill One of the earliest commercial developments in the Clarksville, Tennessee communities is the Ringgold Mill located in what is now north Clarksville. It was a grist mill that was originally built in 1810, by Thomas Rivers.
Ringing rocks Ringing Rocks is a phenomenon where rocks have the curious property of resonating like a bell when struck with a hammer or other object. One such place where this can be observed is in Ringing Rocks Park located near Bridgeton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania USA.
Ringinglow Ringinglow is a village in the western section of the City of Sheffield, England. It is on the western border of Ecclesall Ward, and although it is within the boundary of the City of Sheffield, it is self-contained, being entirely surrounded by open countryside.
Ringkøbing Ringkøbing is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkjøbing County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 401 km², and it has a total population of 17,890 (2005).
Ringland, Norfolk Ringland is a rural village (population 217) in Norfolk, England, situated in the valley of the River Wensum, approximately 7 miles north-west of Norwich. Parts of the Wensum valley within Ringland parish constitute a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College (originally located in Venice, Florida, then relocated to Baraboo, Wisconsin and finally Sarasota, Florida) trained around 1,400 clowns in the "Ringling style" from 1968 to 1997.
Ringling Brothers Circus The Ringling Brothers Circus was a circus founded in the United States in 1884. Ringling Brothers Circus eventually joined with the Barnum & Bailey Circus to become Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, the Greatest Show on Earth.
Ringmail The term ringmail was originally a Victorian misnomer based on an inaccurate definition of "mail" and a misinterpretation of iconographical evidence, and subsequently popularized by inclusion in Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. The Victorians inaccurately defined "mail" as any form of metallic body armour - e.
Ringmaster (comics) The Ringmaster (real name Maynard Tiboldt) is a fictional supervillain who is featured in Marvel Comics. Since his first appearance in Hulk #3, he has turned up as a somewhat pathetic and luckless opponent for virtually every hero in the Marvel universe, ranging from Spider-Man to Howard the Duck.
Ringmaster (film) Ringmaster (1998) is an American comedy film starring Jerry Springer playing (essentially) himself (only with the last name of Farrelly) on a show similar to his own, in this case called simply Jerry. There are three ongoing plots in the film.
Ringmaster (horse show) A horse show ringmaster is often colorfully attired in top hat (or hunting cap for hunting and jumping classes), white jodhpurs, and scarlet ("pink") guard coat. The ringmaster summons each class of exhibitors and horses, usually by blowing a trumpet, fox horn, or carriage or coach horn.
Ringo Kid The Ringo Kid is a fictional Western hero in the Marvel Comics' universe, whose comic book series was originally released by the company's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics. A lesser-known character than the company's Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid or Two-Gun Kid, he also appeared in a reprint series in the 1970s.
Rings (local IBM clubs) The International Brotherhood of Magicians has a number of local clubs, located throughout the world, known as Rings. Each Ring is (was) numbered in sequence, based on when that respective Ring received its charter from the IBM.
Rings of Jupiter Jupiter has a planetary ring system first observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in an experiment designed to search for faint rings. The ring system is composed of three main components: an inner torus of particles known as the halo, a relatively bright main ring, and an outer "gossamer" ring.
Rings of Neptune Neptune has a faint planetary ring system consisting of several distinct rings, and the unique ring arcs present in the outer Adams ring. The ring particles are dark, and unusually, all the rings contain a large proportion of microscopic dust.
Ringshall, Buckinghamshire Ringshall is a hamlet in the Chiltern Hills of England. Parts of it lie in the parishes of Edlesborough and Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, but it is now mainly in the parish of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire.

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