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Rising Dissent Rising Dissent is a hardcore punk band which formed in Orange County, California in 2001. Their lyrics, which are primarily political, address topics such as anti-capitalism, anti-globalization, the "war on terror", immigrant rights, police brutality, civil disobedience and dissent, though some songs tackle more personal issues.
Rising Fast Rising Fast was one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses ever bred in New Zealand. In 1954 he became the only horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate in the same season - the Spring Grand Slam - and since that time no Melbourne Cup winner has performed such a feat.
Rising of the North The Rising of the North or Northern Rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising against Elizabeth I of England in 1569 by Catholics of Northern England. Its objective was the deposition of Elizabeth and coronation of Mary I of Scotland as Queen of England (though Mary herself, in her English jail, knew nothing of the rising till it started; and when it did start, she tried to prevent it).
Rising Son Rising Son is a UK hip-hop artist, best known for appearing on the track "Thief's Theme" on the UK version of Nas's double album Street's Disciple. He won the opportunity to do this after winning a competition held by Sony Records, beating off over 5000 other entries.
Rising Sons Rising Sons was a Los Angeles, California-based band found in 1964. The original lineup was Ry Cooder (vocals, six and 12-string guitar, mandolin, slide and bottleneck guitar, dobro), Taj Mahal (vocals, harmonica, guitar, piano), Gary Marker (bass), Jesse Lee Kincaid (vocals and guitar) and Ed Cassidy (drums).
Rising Star Award, BAFTA Rising Star Award (or known as Orange Rising Star Award) is one of the award categories for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) which acknowledges new talents in the acting industry. The award was created after Mary Selway's death in 2004.
Rising Storm The Rising Storm is a rock and roll group which was active at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts between 1965 and 1967. The original members of the group were Bob Cohan, Todd Cohen, Charlie Rockwell, Tom Scheft, Tony Thompson, and Rich Weinberg, and later included composer and record producer Andy Paley.
Rising Sun (badge) The Rising Sun badge, also known as the General Service Badge or the Australian Army Badge is the official badge of the Australian Army. The badge is worn on the upturned brim of a slouch hat and is readily identified with the spirit of ANZAC.
Rising Sun (yacht) The Rising Sun yacht, designed by the late Jon Bannenberg, and built by Germany's LĂĽrssen, is currently owned by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation. The yacht is the 3rd largest in the world with a length of almost 138 meters (453 ft); it is the largest yacht not owned by or for heads of state.
Rising Sun Performance Company Rising Sun Performance Company is one of the current up-and-coming theatre companies in the Off-Off-Broadway community that is establishing a reputation for their talented ensemble of writers, directors, and actors featuring a strong selection of original works balanced by revivals of off-beat published works. Rising Sun brought New York City the acclaimed revivals of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein & The Shape of Things which was nominated for two New York Innovative Theatre Awardshttp://www.
Rising Sun Pictures Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) is an Australian, Adelaide- and Sydney-based visual effects company. They have worked on such films as Charlotte's Web, Blood Diamond, Mimzy, The Core, Lord Of The Rings 3, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Superman Returns, and are currently (2006/2007) working on Where the Wild Things Are and Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix.
Rising Sun Research Rising Sun Research Pty Ltd is a specialist provider of tools to visual professionals. Products include cineSpace, a leading film color management solution, and cineSync, a tool for remote visual collaboration.
Rising Talent Manga Rising Talent Manga, or RTM, is a moderately large artist and fan community, dedicated to the advancement of underground comics and artists. It was created in July, 2004 by admins "JosephWannabe" and "Dymze", and currently boasts a membership of more than 500 users and more than 15 comics from multinational artists.
Rising Tide UK Rising Tide UK is a grassroots network of groups and individuals in the United Kingdom who take action against the root causes of climate change and work towards a just transition to a non-carbon society. Rising Tide UK is part of an international network dedicated to building a movement for climate justice.
Rising Universe The Rising Universe, more commonly known locally as the Shelley Fountain, is a large modern water sculpture in Horsham, West Sussex, UK. It was built to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was born near Horsham.
Risinghurst Risinghurst is a quiet outlying residential area of Oxford, England, situated just outside the Eastern Bypass road which forms part of the Oxford ring road. It is around a mile from the centre of Headington and about 3 miles from Oxford city centre.
Risinghurst and Sandhills Risinghurst and Sandhills is a civil parish in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. It consists of Risinghurst and Sandhills, two areas in the east of Oxford, east of the junction of the A40 and the A4142.
Risk Risk is a concept that denotes a potential negative impact to an asset or some characteristic of value that may arise from some present process or future event. In everyday usage, "risk" is often used synonymously with the probability of a loss.
Risk and Safety Statements Risk and Safety Statements, also known as R/S statements, R/S numbers, R/S phrases, and R/S sentences, is a system of hazard codes and phrases for labeling dangerous chemicals and compounds. The R/S statement of a compound consists of a risk part (R) and a safety part (S), each followed by a combination of numbers.
Risk aversion Risk aversion is a concept in economics, finance, and psychology explaining the behaviour of consumers and investors under uncertainty. Risk aversion is the reluctance of a person to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain but possibly lower expected payoff.
Risk based inspection Risk based Inspection is a risk based approach to inspection which analyses both the likelihood of failure and the consequence of failure. It is used to prioritise inspection requirements for major refineries and chemical installations around the world.
Risk compensation In ethology, risk compensation is an effect whereby individual animals may tend to adjust their behaviour in response to perceived changes in risk. It is seen as self-evident that individuals will tend to behave in a more cautious manner if their perception of risk or danger increases.
Risk economy In economics, the term risk economy refers to the nature of an economy as based in risk, rather than in security. Translated, it refers to the nature of a (typically Capitalist) economy that has limited established economic protectionism or interventionism.
Risk factor A risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection but risk factors are not necessarily causal. For example, being young cannot be said to cause measles, but young people are more at risk as they are less likely to have developed immunity during a previous epidemic.
Risk factors A risk factor is a concept in finance theory such as the CAPM, APT and other theories that use pricing kernels. In these models, the rate of return of an asset (hence the converse its price) is a random variable whose realization in any time period is a linear combination of other random variables plus a disturbance term or white noise.
Risk for infection Risk for infection is a nursing diagnosis which is defined as "The state in which an individual is at risk to be invaded by an opportunistic or pathogenic agent (virus, fungus, bacteria, protozoa, or other parasite) from endogenous or exogenous sources" (Carpenito, 2002, p. 507) and was approved by NANDA in 1986.
Risk Godstorm Risk Godstorm is a Risk variant board game published by Avalon Hill and designed by Mike Selinker with developers Richard Baker and Michael Donais. The cultures of the Celts, Norse, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians clash for supremacy of the ancient world.
Risk management Risk management is the process of measuring, or assessing, risk and developing strategies to manage it. Strategies include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a particular risk.
Risk Management Authority The Risk Management Authority is a Scottish public body, established by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003. Its functions relate to the risk assessment of offenders whose liberty presents a risk to the public at large and minimising risk in respect of a small number of serious violent and sexual offenders who may be or have been sentenced to the Order for Lifelong Restriction.
Risk Management Information Systems Risk Management Information Systems (RMIS) are typically computerized systems that assist in consolidating property values, claims, policy, and exposure information and provide the tracking and management reporting capabilities to enable you to monitor and control your overall cost of risk.
Risk Management Plan The Risk Management Plan (RMP) is the document prepared by a Project manager to foresee risks, to estimate the effectiveness, and to create response plans to mitigate them. It also consists of the risk assessment matrix.
Risk Management Solutions Risk Management Solutions is a software company that creates software to use in Catastrophe Modeling (Cat Modeling). Their software analyzes losses for the following catastrophes: earthquake, fire following earthquake, tropical cyclone (hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones), extra-tropical cyclone (windstorm), storm-surge, river flooding, tornadoes, hailstorms, and terrorism.
Risk neutral In economics, the term risk neutral is used to describe an individual who cares only about the expected return of an investment, and not the risk (variance of outcomes or the potential gains or losses). A risk-neutral person will neither pay to avoid risk nor actively take risks.
Risk of loss Risk of loss is a term used in the law of contracts to determine which party should bear the burden of risk for damage occurring to goods after the sale has been completed, but before delivery has occurred. Such considerations generally come into play after the contract is formed but before buyer receives goods, something bad happens.
Risk perception Risk perception is the subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in reference to natural hazards and threats to the environment or health, such as nuclear power.
Risk pool Risk Pool is one of the forms of risk management mostly practised by insurance companies. Under this system, insurance companies come together to form a pool, which can provide protection to insurance companies against catastrophe risks such as floods, earthquakes etc.
Risk society Risk Society is not intended to imply an increase of risk in society, but rather a society that is organized in response to risks. 'It is a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk' (Giddens 1999: 3).
Risk theory Risk theory connotes the study usually by actuaries and insurers of the financial impact on a carrier of a portfolio of insurance policies. For example, if the carrier has 100 policies that insures against a total loss of $1000, and if each policy's chance of loss is independent and has a probability of loss of p then the loss can be described by a binomial variable.
Risk Waters Group Risk Waters Group Ltd is a London based company that provides business services such as risk management, credit, market data and computational finance through magazines, journals, newsletters, and conferences. They also have offices in New York and Hong Kong.
Risk Your Life Risk Your Life (RYL) is a real time MMORPG geared towards the PvP style of play with a fair amount of PVE (Player Versus Environment) involved. The game consists of two races who meet each other as they progress.
Risk-aware consensual kink Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK, also Risk-Accepted Consensual Kink) is an acronym used by some of the BDSM community to describe themselves and their philosophies. It specifies that any activity between fully-informed consenting adults is acceptable.
Risk-based pricing Risk-based pricing is the methodology within the mortgage and financial service industries to cost prequalified programs and subsequently adjust interest rates, mitigating any increased risk with increased cost. Risk factors generally depend on an individual's financial and credit risk factors, as well as the perceived risk of underlying property or other collateral.
Risk-free bond A risk-free bond is a theoretical bond that repays interest and principal with absolute certainty. In practice, government bonds are treated as risk-free bonds, as governments can raise taxes or indeed print money to repay their domestic currency debt.
Risk-free interest rate The risk-free interest rate is the interest rate that it is assumed can be obtained by investing in financial instruments with no default risk. However, the financial instrument can carry other types of risk, e.
Risk-utility test In legal disputes regarding product liability, a risk-utility test is used to determine whether the product's design or warning is defective, thereby making the manufacturer liable for injuries caused by its product. The manufacturer is held liable under the risk-utility test if the probability of injury times the gravity of injury under the current product design is more than the cost of an alternative reasonable design plus the diminished utility resulting from modifying the design.
Risk/reward cycle In computer and video games, the risk/reward cycle, or risk/reward schedule, is a gameplay consequence of the game model and game design. The risk/reward cycle is the distance between the core mechanics and the end purpose of a game.
Risk: Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition Risk: Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition is a commercial strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. It was released in November of 2006 almost 2 years after the release of Risk: Star Wars The Clone Wars Edition
Risks of classical ballet The risks associated with classical ballet are those commonly found in high-impact activities, although they specifically relate to movements done in ballet. As with other athletes, dancers run the risk of becoming injured within the course of their career.
Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth are existential risks that would imperil humankind as a whole and/or have major adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, human extinction or even the end of planet Earth. The concept finds expression in various idiomatic phrases such as "End of the World", "Doomsday event", "TEOTWAWKI" and others.
Risley Hall Prudence Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts, commonly known as Risley Residential College, Risley Hall, or just Risley, is a program house, or themed residence hall, at Cornell University. Unlike most other traditional dormitories on campus, Risley is a residential college, meaning that the house members, "Risleyites", are encouraged to eat together at the in-house dining hall, can live as house members for all four or five years they spend enrolled at Cornell, and participate in educational activities, such as guest lectures, within their dormitory.
Risnjak National Park Risnjak National Park (Croatian: Nacionalni park Risnjak) is a national park in Croatia. It is located in Gorski kotar, the most mountainous and heavily forested region of the country, about 15 km inland from the Adriatic Sea.
Risograph The Risograph is a high-speed digital printing system manufactured by the Riso Kagaku Corporation and designed mainly for high-volume photocopying. Increasingly, it is more commonly referred to as a RISO Printer-Duplicator, due to its common usage as a network printer as well as a stand-alone duplicator.
Risperidone Risperidone (Belivon®, Rispen®, Risperdal® in the United States) is an atypical antipsychotic medication developed by Janssen Pharmaceutica. It was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1993.
Risser's Mill Covered Bridge Risser's Mill Covered Bridge or Horst's Mill Covered Bridge was a covered bridge that spanned Little Chickie's Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was burnt by an arsonist on July 8 2002.
Risshō Kōsei Kai Risshō Kōsei Kai (立正佼成会; until June 1960, 大日本立正交成会: Dai-Nippon Risshō Kōsei Kai) is a Japanese Buddhist lay movement and an offshoot of the Nichiren-Buddhist Reiyūkai (霊友会). One of its co-founders, Nikkyo Niwano (庭野日敬: Niwano Nikkyō, 1906–1999), was an observer at the Second Vatican Council and active in the peace movement.
Risskov Risskov is one of the most affluent suburbs of the city of Aarhus in Denmark. The name literally means The Forest of Riis, as described on the memorial stone placed on the corner of GrenĂĄvej and Vestre Skovvej at the entry the to small forest situated north of Aarhus.
Risso Mall Risso Mall is a shopping mall, located in the Lince district of Peru, near Arequipa Avenue. It's a very old shopping mall, that used to belong to Lince as cotton fields but was then bought by the Risso family.
Rissole A rissole (from Latin russeolus, meaning reddish, via French) is a small croquette, enclosed in pastry or rolled in breadcrumbs, usually baked or deep fried. It is filled with sweet or savoury ingredients, most often minced meat or fish, and is served as an appetizer, dessert or side dish.
Risteárd de Tiúit Risteárd de Tiúit (died 1210) was a member of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke's Irish invasion force, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. De Tiúit was granted land in the western part of Meath (present-day Westmeath and Longford) under the authority of Hugh de Lacy in Trim.
Risto Hieta Risto Hieta, also known by the pseudonym Nordic or Nordic the Incurable, is a Finnish person connected with the role playing and computer game culture. He has designed several role playing games himself, and he is also known by columns written in game-related magazines.
Risto Mattila Risto Mattila(born February 4, 1981) is one of the biggest Finnish snowboarding stars at the 21st century. Risto Mattila is an all-around rider, who has many achievements in half pipe, big air and in park riding contests.
Ristorante Cooperativo The Ristorante Cooperativo, colloquially known as Coopi, is a restaurant in ZĂĽrich, Switzerland, known for its association with 20th century left-wing political figures as well as the anti-fascist, trade union and Italian immigrant movements in Switzerland.
Risus sardonicus Risus sardonicus is a highly characteristic, abnormal, sustained spasm of the facial muscles that is most often observed as a symptom of tetanus. The name of the condition derives from the appearance of raised eyebrows and an evil, open grin that it gives to its victim.
Rit-Ola Jan-Erik "Rit-Ola" Garland (1905-1988) was a Swedish cartoonist and comic creator. Formerly an athlete, Garland later started to draw editorial cartoons and sports caricatures for several Swedish newspapers.
Rita and Runt Rita and Runt were the stars of several musical segments in the animated television series Animaniacs. Rita (voiced by Bernadette Peters) is a sassy, smart, street-wise cat; Runt (voiced by Frank Welker) is a dumb but sweet dog whose voice and mannerisms parody Rain Man.
Rita Abatzi Rita Abatzi (Greek: Ρίτα Αμπατζή) (1914 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey - 1969 in Egaleo (Athens), Greece) was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in music in the first years of the 1930s. She sang rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music.
Rita Cosby Specials The Rita Cosby Specials unit was formed in July 2006 and is lead by Rita Cosby. This team will work in developing documentary programming for the MSNBC Doc Block which airs weeknights from 10-12 ET on MSNBC, a news network known for its award-winning documentaries.
Rita Deverell Rita Shelton Deverell (born 1945 in Houston, Texas) is a Canadian television broadcaster and social activist, who was one of the founders of the Canadian television channel Vision TV. She also served as news director for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network from 2002-2005.
Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is an African American United States poet and author. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995.
Rita Fan Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai GBS JP MA, BSc () was born in 1945 in Shanghai). She is currently the President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) and stands as an Independent candidate for the geographical constituency of Hong Kong Island.
Rita Gam Rita Gam (born April 2, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American film and television actress and documentary film maker. Starting out on Broadway and television, Gam (her real name) moved on to act in films appearing first in the film noir The Thief with Ray Milland in 1952.
Rita Hayworth Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. She was sometimes called "The Love Goddess" or "The Great American Love Goddess," and was celebrated as an expert dancer and great beauty.
Rita Jenrette Rita Jenrette (born November 25, 1949) first came to the public eye as the wife of John Jenrette, congressman from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. John Jenrette was implicated in taking a bribe during the Abscam investigation and his wife testified at the hearings, describing how she found $25,000 in one of his shoes.
Rita Johnston Rita Margaret Johnston (born Melville, Saskatchewan April 22, 1935 née Leichert) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. Johnston became Canada's first female premier, when she succeeded William Vander Zalm in 1991 to become the 29th Premier of British Columbia.
Rita Kalmbach Rita Kalmbach was the first mayor of Norfolk County and the wife of tobacco farmer Emil Kalmbach. She was first elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2003 after defeating 21-year-old political neopyhte Brian Decker by a wide margin.
Rita Karin Rita Karin (October 24, 1919 – September 10, 1993) was a Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania)- born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series "Chicken Soup", which also starred Lynn Redgrave.
Rita Kleinstein Rita Kleinstein (born 1962 in Teheran, Iran) is a popular singer and actress in Israel and has sold approximately 700,000 albums. As a young child, she immigrated to Israel from Iran in 1970 She is singing and acting and was perceived as someone with significant talent and potential.
Rita Lee Rita Lee Jones, known simply as Rita Lee, (born in December 31, 1947) is an American-Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure on the Brazilian entertainment scene, currently with her own television talk show.
Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909 in Turin) is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of growth factors. Today she is the oldest living Nobel laureate.
Rita MacNeil Rita MacNeil (born May 28, 1944) is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country charts throughout her career.
Rita Marchisio Rita Marchisio (born February 13, 1950) is a former long-distance runner from Italy, who won the inaugural Osaka Marathon on January 24, 1982 in an Italian record time of 2:32:55 hours. More than a year later the record was broken by Laura Fogli in the New York City Marathon: 2:31:49.
Rita Maria Felix da Silva Rita Maria Felix da Silva (born 1971 in Pernambuco, Brazil) is a Brazilian writer. Her short stories are of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, which are classified (together with Science Fiction (Sci-Fi) as "Speculative fiction".
Rita Marley Alpharita Constantia Anderson, better known as Rita Marley (born July 25, 1946 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Jamaican singer. She is the widow of legendary Reggae musician Bob Marley, and a member of the trio the I Threes, Bob Marley's back up singers.
Rita of Cascia Saint Rita (1381 – May 22 1457), a pre-eminent Augustinian saint was born at Roccaporena near Cascia in the Diocese of Spoleto, Italy. The name is perhaps a shortening of Margherita, the Italian version of the name "Margaret".
Rita Verdonk Drs. Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk (born 18 October 1955) is a Dutch politician, currently serving as the Minister for Integration, Juvenile Protection, Prevention and Probation in the current government.
Rita Walter Rita Walter (born March 8, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress, best known for her role as Carol Demming on the popular soap opera As the World Turns. Originally credited by her maiden name, Rita McLaughlin, she appeared on the serial from May 1970 until her exit on Christmas Day 1981.
Rita Wilson Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956)Birth date confirmed at the State of California, California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.
Rita Wolf Rita Wolf (born 25 February, 1960 in Calcutta, India) is a British-Indian actress and theatre producer. She has appeared on British television and in many theatre productions and is co-founder of a charity theatre group in London.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a British film directed by Alan Clarke about two Yorkshire schoolgirls who have a sexual fling with a married man. It is adapted by Andrea Dunbar from her 1982 stage play of the same name and a 1980 play of hers, "The Arbor".
Rite of AshkEnte In the fictional Discworld universe as described in the book series of the same name by Terry Pratchett, the Rite of AshkEnte is the ancient magic ritual that summons and binds Death to the circle and prevents him from leaving until invited to do so by the summoning wizard. In Eric, Death appears outside the circle, behind the wizards ("Who are we waiting for?
Rite of Memphis-Misraim Among the Masonic Rites, Memphis-Misraim has occupied a particular position since its origin. It is considered to be among the Egyptian rites that drank from the source of the ancient initiatic traditions of the Mediterranean basin: Pythagoreans, Alexandrian hermetic authors, neo-Platonics, the Sabbeans of Harrân, and others.
Rite of passage A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social or sexual status. Rites of passage are often ceremonies surrounding events such as childbirth, menarche or other milestones within puberty, coming of age, weddings, menopause, and death.
Rites of Zhou The Rites of Zhou () also known as Zhouguan (Offices of Zhou) is one of three ancient ritual texts listed among the classics of Confucianism. It was later renamed to Zhouli by Liu Xin to disambiguate from a chapter under Classic of History known as Zhouguan.
Rithmomachy Rithmomachy (or Rithmomachia, also Arithmomachia, Rythmomachy, Rhythmomachy, or sundry other variants; sometimes known as The Philosophers' Game) is a highly complex, early European mathematical board game. The earliest known description of it dates from the eleventh century.
Ritchey (lunar crater) Ritchey is a small lunar impact crater located to the east of Albategnius crater in the central lunar highlands. The somewhat angular rim of Ritchey crater is broken along the northwest wall by a pair of smaller, adjacent craters.
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope The Ritchey-Chrétien telescope or RCT is a specialized Cassegrain telescope designed to eliminate coma, thus providing a relatively large field of view as compared to a more conventional configuration. An RCT has a hyperbolic primary and a hyperbolic secondary mirror.
Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster The Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster is one of the Fender Stratocaster signature series. It is a custom designed electric guitar as used by Ritchie Blackmore when he was in the British rock bands Deep Purple, Rainbow and his current group Blackmore's Night.
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers ( & ), sells, through unreserved public auctions, a broad range of used and unused industrial equipment including equipment utilized in the construction, transportation, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum, marine, real estate, and agricultural industries.
Ritchie Valens Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13 1941 – February 3 1959), better known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and was a Mexican-American with Yaqui American Indian roots born in the Pacoima district of Los Angeleshttp://www.britannica.
Ritmi i rrugës Ritmi i Rrugës is the most popular and most successful Albanian rap group, which also pioneered the genre and coined the term Albanian Rap, to describe this merger of Rap music with original Albanian-themed lyrical contents. Members of the group are Memli Krasniqi and Arbër Reçi.

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