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Riverside (MBTA station) Riverside is the western terminus of the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch (Highland Branch) light rail line. It is located at 333 Grove Street, off Exit 22 on Interstate 95 (Route 128), in Newton, Massachusetts.
Riverside and Great Northern Railway The Riverside and Great Northern Railway (R&GN) is a 15 inch gauge heritage railway located in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. The railway is operated by the Riverside and Great Northern Preservation Society and includes the former shops of Sandley Light Railway Works.
Riverside Boat Club The Riverside Boat Club is a private, non-profit, rowing club on the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Founded in 1869 by workers from the Riverside Press, Riverside quickly established a reputation as a racing club, a tradition that continues today.
Riverside Canal (El Paso) The Riverside Canal is an irrigation canal in El Paso County beginning southeast of El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Riverside Diversion Dam on the Rio Grande River 15 miles southeast of El Paso.
Riverside Community College Located in the city of Riverside, California], the Riverside Community College's first campus opened in [[1916 on the site of the former Poly High School and today serves more than 35,000 students each semester. Students attending RCC can choose to earn an associate’s degree, transfer to a four-year college or university or earn a career certificate that prepares them to enter the workforce.
Riverside Company The Riverside Company is a private equity firm specializing in small and mid-market companies (valued between $10 million and $100 million). Founded in 1998, Riverside has offices in New York, Cleveland, Dallas, and San Francisco.
Riverside Drive (Manhattan) Riverside Drive is a scenic north-south thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The boulevard runs generally parallel to the Hudson River from 72nd Street to near the George Washington Bridge at 181st Street on the west side of Manhattan.
Riverside Drive (Ottawa) Riverside Drive (Ottawa Road #19) is a major road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that follows along the eastern bank of the Rideau River. From its northern terminus at the Queensway, the road proceeds south to Limebank Road where it continues as River Road until the city limits.
Riverside Drive (Windsor, Ontario) Riverside Drive is one of the main roads in Windsor, Ontario, travelling along the Detroit River, between its riverfront parks and high-rise office towers and apartment buildings. The road travels through Downtown, and towards the east end.
Riverside Drive Viaduct The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattan Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
Riverside Exchange Riverside Exchange is a one of Sheffield's, 11 designated City Centre Quarters, situated by the River Don. It's borders are West Bar, Coulston Street, Bridge Street, Castlegate, Exchange Place and the Parkway to it's south, the Wicker Viaduct, Johnson Street, Spitalfields and Nursery Street to the North, and Corporation Street to the west.
Riverside Expressway The Riverside Expressway is part of the Pacific Motorway that runs through Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located on the western side of the Brisbane CBD and is made up of various bridges and overpasses.
Riverside Freeway The Riverside Freeway is the assigned name of a segment of California State Route 91 (CA/SR-91), a major east-west freeway located entirely within Southern California that links the cities/communities of Orange and Riverside counties. This named segment extends from the Santa Ana Freeway, Interstate 5 (I-5), in Buena Park to its eastern terminus at its junction with the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10) in San Bernardino.
Riverside High School (New Jersey) Riverside High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Riverside Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Riverside School District.
Riverside Church Riverside Church is an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church in New York City, famous not only for its elaborate, gothic style architecture - which includes the world's largest carillon - but also as a center for the promotion of leftist and progressive causes. It is situated in Morningside Heights, Manhattan between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue and between 120th Street and 122nd Street ().
Riverside International Raceway Riverside International Raceway (Sometimes known as RIR or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Riverside, California. A driver died during the first weekend after the opening and several more drivers perished while the track was in operation from 1957 to 1989.
Riverside Motorsports Park Riverside Motorsports Park a 1200-acre, motorsports-themed family entertainment park in development in Merced County, California]. The Park will feature multiple racetracks for every form of automobile, truck, motorcycle and kart racing.
Riverside National Cemetery At 921 acres, Riverside National Cemetery is the third-largest cemetery managed by the National Cemetery Administration, and since 2000 has been the most active in the system based on the number of interments. It was established in 1976 through the transfer of 740 acres from March Air Force Base, a section which during World War II was called Camp William G.
Riverside Nature Center The Riverside Nature Center is a non-profit arboretum with wildlife and native plant sanctuary located on the Guadalupe River at 150 Francisco Lemos Street, Kerrville, Texas. The gardens are open daily without charge.
Riverside Park (Manhattan) Riverside Park is a scenic waterfront public park on the Upper West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The park consists of a narrow four-mile strip of land between the Hudson River and the gently curving rise-and-fall of Riverside Drive.
Riverside Park, Dawson Springs Dawson Springs' Riverside Park was originally built in 1914 to serve as a spring training park for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1914-1917. This is the only known baseball park in Kentucky to have hosted a major league team since the Louisville Colonels folded in 1899.
Riverside Plaza Riverside Plaza is a modernist and brutalist apartment complex designed by Ralph Rapson that opened in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1973. On the edge of downtown Minneapolis in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, and next to the University of Minnesota's West Bank, the site contains the 39-story McKnight Building, the tallest structure outside of the city's central business district.
Riverside Records Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in New York City. The label's name was inspired by the Manhattan telephone exchange of The Record Changer, a magazine owned by Grauer and edited by Keepnews.
Riverside School District (New Jersey) The Riverside School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Riverside Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Riverside South (Ottawa) Riverside South is a residential neighborhood in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. This neighborhood is located in the former city of Gloucester, Ontario just southwest of Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.
Riverside-Delanco Bridge The Riverside-Delanco Bridge is a truss bridge with a central swing span across the Rancocas Creek, between Riverside and Delanco in New Jersey. The current bridge was built in 1934-1935 to replace the 1901 bridge, which itself replaced an 1870 construction.
Riverside, Buffalo, New York Riverside is a neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, located in the northwestern part of the city, along the Niagara River. It is sometimes referred to in conjunction with another community located directly south, Black Rock.
Riverside, California Riverside is the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States and is also a focus city of the Greater Los Angeles Area. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 305,255 making it the largest city in the Inland Empire region, the 12th largest municipality in the state of California, and among the 50 largest cities in the United States.
Riverside, Cardiff Riverside (Welsh: Glanyrafon) is an inner-city area of Cardiff, Wales. The ward can be split into two parts; Riverside-proper, south of Cowbridge Road East, which consists of mostly small terraced houses and is a focus for the city's Bangladeshi and Chinese population, particularly around Tudor Street; and Pontcanna, the gentrified "media Village" which is interesting demographically due to both its large English born population and large Welsh speaking political and media class.
Riverside, Paterson Riverside is a larger neighborhood in Paterson, New Jersey and, as its name states, this neighborhood is bound by the Passaic River to the west, north and east, separating the city from Hawthorne and Fair Lawn. It is bounded on the south by 10th Avenue and Montgomery Street from the Eastside neighborhood.
Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing is a historic 300-acre farm and house in Southwest Louisville, Kentucky along the banks of the Ohio River. The house, a red brick I-house with a two-story Greek Revival portico, was built in 1837 by Gabriel Farnsley.
Riversleigh Riversleigh, in North West Queensland, is a 100 km² area containing fossil remains of ancient mammals of the Oligocene and Miocene. It was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1994 and is an extension of the Lawn Hill National Park.
Riverstone International School Riverstone International School, formerly the Hidden Springs Community School, is one of three International Baccalaureate-accredited schools in Idaho, and the only such school in southern Idaho. It is located in Boise.
Riverstone Networks Riverstone Networks, was a provider of networking switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. Originally part of Cabletron Systems, and based on an early acquisition of YAGO, it was one of the many Gigabit Ethernet startups in the mid 1990's.
Riverstone Terraces Riverstone Terraces, or Craigs Flat as it was formally known, is a housing development on the western hills above the Hutt River in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. At first, there was not many houses being built, however in the last 5 years sales of lots have increased steadily and Riverstone Terraces is fast becoming a suburb of Upper Hutt.
Riverton High School (Utah) Riverton High School is the newest public high school in the state of Utah. Located in the booming southwest corner of the Salt Lake Valley, it is also the largest high school in the state serving over 2,700 students from the cities of Riverton, Bluffdale, and Herriman.
Riverton Houses The Riverton Houses is a large residential development in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944" HOUSING PROJECT TO RISE IN HARLEM; Metropolitan Life to Build Community for 1,200 Families in a Neglected Section TO RENT AT $12.
Riverton, New York Riverton, New York was a small community created in 1973 in the village of West Henrietta, New York, in the town of Henrietta, along the Genesee River. $1 million of Federal HUD dollars went into the building of Riverton New Community.
Riverview High School, Riverview, New Brunswick Riverview High School (RHS) is a high school in Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada that was founded in September 1962 starting with two Grade 10 classes. Prior to that date Grades 10 through 12 from the then community of Riverview Heights attended Moncton High School.
Riverview Church Riverview Church is a Pentecostal and evangelical Christian church headquartered in Burswood, an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Riverview has expanded in recent times to include a north and south campus for convenience of its attendees.
Riverview, Belmont County, Ohio Riverview, Ohio, no longer in existence, was once a small village located in Belmont County approximately five miles north of Bellaire, Ohio on state route 7. Riverview bordered with Whiskey Run, another small village just off SR.
Riverwalk Kitakyushu is a prestigious shopping centre near the Murasaki river and Kokura Castle in Kokura Kita ward, Kitakyushu, Japan. It was opened as part of the Kitakyushu Renaissance policy on April 19, 2003 and includes theatres, restaurants, a multiplex cinema, NHK studios, the head offices of Zenrin Co.
Riverwest Currents The Riverwest Currents is an alternative monthly newspaper published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 2001. It has sometimes used the slogan "The Community Voice of Milwaukee's Left Bank," which was coined in 2001 by Dan Knauss as a reference to the generally liberal or leftist reputation of Riverwest and the general ethos of the publication.
Riverwind Riverwind (also known as Riverwind of the Que Shu tribe or Riverwind of the Que Shu) is a fictional character from the Dragonlance series of role playing games and novels, created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, published by TSR, Inc. and later by Wizards of the Coast.
Rives Kistler The Honorable Rives Kistler joined the Oregon Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in August 2003, after serving four years as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals. Initially appointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski, Kistler was elected to the position in 2004 with 66% of the vote.
Rivesaltes AOC Rivesaltes is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for fortified wines (vin doux naturel) made in the Roussillon (Northern Catalonia) wine region of France. They are similar to Muscat de Rivesaltes AOC wines, except the grape varieties are not restricted to Muscat.
Rivethead (subculture) A Rivethead is a person who listens to and takes part in the industrial music subculture. The affiliation of goth and industrial music has caused some mixed feelings on both sides of the spectrum, the goths sometimes feeling that industrial music wrecked the goth scene by taking away the more romantic or melancholy atmosphere of the culture, and rivetheads being offended that they are perceived as goths from time to time.
Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec Rivière-Ouelle is a town located in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. It is located on the Saint Lawrence River; the Ouelle River flows through the town.
Riviera Riviera is usually used in reference to a coastal area. Because of the worldwide popularity of the French Riviera and the Italian Riviera, it has become fashionable to attach the term to many scenic strands of coastland, particularly semitropical or tropical, and usually with an eye to tourism.
Riviera Maya "Riviera Maya" is a tourism district following the highway 307 of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It historically started at Playa del Carmen and ended at Tulum pueblo, though the towns of Puerto Morelos to the north of Playa del Carmen and Felipe Carrillo Puerto inland are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor.
Riviera Presbyterian Church Riviera Presbyterian Church is an alternative mainline church in Florida where individual differences are affirmed and celebrated. Riviera is a faith community of progressive, friendly people of all ages and backgrounds who appreciate an inclusive, thoughtful approach to faith, an outstanding music ministry, and a commitment of service to the neighborhood.
Riviera: The Promised Land is a console role-playing game which was originally produced in 2002 by Sting Entertainment for the WonderSwan Color and later introduced to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance in 2004 which Atlus released in the USA in 2005. An enhanced remake was released for the PlayStation Portable in November 2006.
Rivington Street (Manhattan) Rivington Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which runs across the Lower East Side neighborhood, between Bowery and Pitt Street, with a break between Chrystie and Forsyth for Sara D. Roosevelt Park.
Rivista Storica Italiana Founded in 1884 to serve as manifesto for the new scientific profession, Rivista Storica Italiana is among the world's top academic reviews and by far the most authoritative historical journal in Italy. Being devoted to the study of all the major fields of history, from ancient to modern, in a regional as well as a global perspective, it is published in Italian three times a year (in Spring, Summer and Winter).
Rivne Rivne (Modern ; pre 1991 and in , Rovno) is a historic city in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Rivnensky Raion (district) within the oblast.
Rivonia Trial The Rivonia Trial was an infamous trial which took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to "ferment violent revolution"
Rivy Poupko Kletenik Rivy Poupko Kletenik, the daughter of Gilda Twerski Novoseller Poupko, scion of the great Hasidic dynasty and Rabbi Baruch Poupko, rabbi for over 60 years of Congregation Shaare Torah in Pittsburgh is presently Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy, after serving as Director of Jewish Education Services for the Jewish Education Council of the Jewish Federation of Seattle for ten years.
Rixdollar Rixdollar was the English name for silver coins used throughout northern Europe, originally based on the Reichsthaler & Rijksdaalder. Coins by this or related names were introduced into various countries at different times in attempts to stabilize the currency.
Riyad al-Turk Riyad al-Turk (Arabic:رياض الترك, born 1930 in Homs) is a Syrian opposition leader, former political prisoner, and prominent supporter of democracy. He has been secretary general of the radical Syrian Communist Party (Political Bureau) since its foundation in 1973 and is considered the "grandfather" of the Syrian opposition movement.
Riyadh Riyadh ( ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, located in Ar Riyad Province in the Najd region. It is situated in the centre of the Arabian peninsula on a large plateau and is home to over 4,260,000The Saudi Arabian Information Resource people (around 20% of the nation's population).
Riyadh as-Saaliheen Riyadh as-Saaliheen (The Gardens of the Righteous), which is a collection of hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), is the most famous book by Imam an-Nawawi. In total, it contains 1896 hadith divided into 372 chapters.
Riyadh compound bombings The Riyadh compound bombings took place on May 12, 2003, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. These suicide attacks, attributed to al-Qaeda, were the first of several "spectacular attacks" carried out by that group in 2003, and the deadliest attack on Americans that year.
Riyadh Sahara Mall Riyadh Sahara Mall is a shopping mall in the King Fahd Quarter of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It has 180 shops, a supermarket, a children's playground, eight restaurants, cafeteria, skylights, fountains, waterfalls, gardens etc.
Riyadh Shikawi Riyadh Shikawi (Arabic: ) aka Riyadh Shakawi, identified as a Yemeni, became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. In early 2002, he had been named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he became listed on the FBI's third major "wanted" list, now known as the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list.
Riyadus Salihiin Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (also known as Sabotage and Military Surveillance Group of the Riyadh al-Salihin Martyrs) was the name of a Shahid brigade of Chechen suicide bombers. Its amir (leader) was Shamil Basayev.
Riyasat Parjamandal The Riyasat Parjamandal Party was active during the reign of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. The main agenda of this party was to enhance the lot of the common man, by demanding basic rights, which were denied by the monarchy and the British government.
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation The Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) was established in 1960 as a development bank and is licensced by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for both commercial and investment banking. In 1996, it established its RCBC Savings Bank which offers the same products as RCBC but differ only on their pricing.
Rizal Day bombings The Rizal Day bombings (or December 30 bombings) were a series of bombings that occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines on December 30, 2000. The explosions happened in close succession within the span of a few hours, killing 22 people and injuring about a hundred more.
Rizal Nurdin TNI Major General Haji Tengku Rizal Nurdin (Bukittinggi, February 21, 1948–Medan, September 5, 2005) was the 14th and 15th Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia. He served from 1998 until his death on September 5 2005.
Rize Tea Rize tea or Çay is a form of black tea. Produced in Rize Province on the eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey which has a mild climate with high precipitation and fertile soil, it is crystal clear and mahogany in color.
Rizgar Mohammed Amin Rizgar Mohammed Amin (Arabic: رزكار محمد أمين) (born 1958) is the former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. He is the only judge whose identity was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names and faces of his four colleagues remaining secret.
Rizhao Rizhao () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Sitting on the coast of the Haizhou Bay, Rizhao borders Qingdao to the northeast, Weifang to the north and Linyi to the west.
Rizokarpaso Rizokarpaso (Greek: Ριζοκάρπασο, Turkish: Dipkarpaz) is a town on the Karpass Peninsula in Famagusta District, North-eastern Cyprus. The town was taken over by the Turkish military during the invasion/intervention of the island by Turkey in 1974.
Rizorkestra Rizorkestra is a one-man-roots-blues-band, with guitar, singing, kazoo, hi-hat and bass drum playing simultaneously. repertoire consists of early blues songs, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk music songs and novelty songs, with the additional insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, European classical music composers, musical theater and film music, in original compositions and improvisations.
Rizvi Rizvi or Rizavi or Ridavi/Ridhavi (Arabic) is a surname commonly associated with Shia muslims who are the descendants of 8th imam (who was a descendant of the prophet Muhammad (SAWW)), Imam ALI RAZA A.S (PBUH), also known as Ali_ar-Rida.
Rizwan Khan Rizwan Khan (commonly known as Riz Khan, born April 1962 in Aden, South Yemen), is a British television news reporter and interviewer, who first rose to prominence while working for the BBC and CNN. As of 2006, he is working for Al Jazeera English, where he has his own shows.
Rizwan Latif |Rizwan Latif Ahmed (born October 5, 1973) also known as Rizwan Ahmed, was born in Pakistan and is a United Arab Emirates cricketer. He made his debut in one-day internationals against the Indian cricket team at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium.
Rizwan-Muazzam The Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali Group is a Qawwali duo. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's teenage nephews and successors, Rizwan and Muazzam, have been performing together as Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali since the 1990s and played their first major concert in 1998 at the WOMAD festival in Reading, England.
Rizzo the Rat Rizzo the Rat is a Muppet, performed by Steve Whitmire. He first appeared in The Great Muppet Caper as a bellboy in a fleabag London hotel (although he may have been the unnamed leader of the rats in the first episode of the fifth season of The Muppet Show).
RI-9-5171 RI9-5171 is a box office telephone number used at the Olympic Auditorium in Downtown Los Angeles. The phone number was attached to a section of the historic boxing and wrestling arena between the first and second levels on the north side of the building, and was widely promoted through boxing, wrestling and roller-derby events in newspaper and local magazine publications throughout Southern California.
RIA1 Research Institute for Aquaculture No 1, or RIA1, is a government organization under Fisheries Ministry of Vietnam. RIA1 is responsible for carrying out basic and applied research programs for inland, coastal, and marine aquaculture, including involvement in planning and development activities.
RIAA equalization RIAA equalization is a specification for the correct playback of vinyl records, established by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The purpose of the equalization is to permit greater playback times, improve sound quality, and to limit the physical extremes that would otherwise arise from recording analogue records without such equalization.
RIAC The Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), formerly the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), has served as a Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) for more than 35 years. The RIAC, operated by a team of Wyle Laboratories, Quanterion Solutions, the University of Maryland, the Penn State University Applied Research Lab, and the State University of New York Institute of Technology, is a Center of Excellence and focal point for information, data, analysis, training and technical assistance in Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability and Interoperability.
RIAI Travelling Scholarship The RIAI Travelling Scholarship is an award made annually by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland to one or more students of architecture attending a school of architecture in the Irish Republic or Northern Ireland.
RIAS (Remote Infrared Audible Signage) Removable Internal Aortal System (RIAS) was developed by the Hershey Corporation to help fight heart disease in young obese females in primary schools. The effort is credited with saving candy vending machines in public schools in America.
RIFE RIFE is a full-stack open source Java web application framework with tools and APIs to implement most common web features. Each of its toolkits is usable by itself and together they offer powerful integrated features that boost your productivity.
RIFF (File format) The Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic meta-format for storing data in tagged chunks. It was introduced in 1991 by Microsoft and IBM, and was presented by Microsoft as the default format for Windows 3.
RIGblaster nomic The RIGblaster nomic is a popular radio/computer interface device used by amateur radio operators to connect their analog radio transceiver to their computer's analog sound inputs and outputs. When used in conjunction with appropriate software, it allows the operator to transmit and receive using many digital modes, including packet, PSK31, and RTTY.
RIKEN RIKEN (理研) is a large natural sciences research institute in Japan. It was founded in 1917, and now has approximately 3000 scientists on seven campuses across Japan, the main one in Wako, just outside Tokyo.
RIKEN MDGRAPE-3 MDGRAPE-3 consists of 201 units of 24 custom MDGRAPE-3 chips (4808 total), plus 64 servers each with 256 Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors (codename "Dempsey"), and 37 servers each containing 74 Intel 3.2GHz Xeon processors, for a total of 40,314 processor cores.
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the United States Navy, German Navy, Hellenic Navy, and South Korean Navy. It is intended primarily as a point-defense weapon against anti-ship cruise missiles.
RIM-162 ESSM The RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) is a development of the Sea Sparrow missile used to protect ships from attacking missiles and aircraft. ESSM is designed to counter supersonic maneuvering anti-ship missiles.
RIM-2 Terrier The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships. Originally, the Terrier had a launch thrust of 23 kN (5,200 lbf), and weight of 1392 kg (3,069 lb).
RIM-24 Tartar The General Dynamics RIM-24 Tartar was a medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships. The Tartar was the third of the so-called "3 T's", the three primary SAMs the Navy fielded in the 60s and 70s, the others being the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-8 Talos.
RIM-8 Talos The Bendix RIM-8 Talos was a long-range naval surface-to-air missile, and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United States Navy ships. The Talos used radar beam riding for guidance to the vicinity of its target, and semiactive radar homing (SARH) for terminal guidance.
RIMC RIMC, or the Rashtriya Indian Military College, is a prestigious public school for boys studying between 8th and 12th grade located in Dehra Dun in India. Established in 1922, it has a tradition of training young school boys into strong military leaders.
RIMPAC RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime exercise. Hosted and administered by the United States Navy, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard are also involved, as well as Hawaii National Guard forces under the leadership of the Governor of Hawaii.
RIOJA-2 (cable system) RIOJA-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and Belgium across the North Atlantic Ocean/English Channel. According to the kingfisher charts (in sources), RIOJA-2 is no longer in service.
RIP track A RIP track (RIP is an acronym for repair in place) is a designated track or tracks in a rail yard where locomotives and/or railroad cars are set out for minor repairs without removing the units from service, sometimes without even removing a freight load from the car. In some yards, a RIP track may be used for staging locomotives or "bad order" cars for major repairs.
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