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Raimundo Pérez Lezama Raimundo Pérez Lezama (born Barakaldo, Vizcaya November 29, 1922) is a Spanish/Basque footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Southampton, Arenas Club de Getxo, Atlético Bilbao, SD Indautxu, Sestao, and Spain.
Rain (The Beatles song) "Rain" is a song by The Beatles, first released in 1966. The song was released as a B-Side to Paperback Writer as a single on 30 May 1966 in the United States and 10 June 1966 in the United Kingdom (see 1966 in music).
Rain barrel A rain barrel (water butt in the UK) is a form of rainwater tank, commonly a plastic 50-gallon barrel or container of similar capacity. It is used to collect rainwater either to be used during periods of drought or to reduce overall water consumption from municipal supplies.
Rain Bird Rain Bird Corporation is a large privately held manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services, based in Glendora, California. Rain Bird had its origins in 1932 when California citrus grower Orton Englehardt developed the first prototype of the impact sprinkler.
Rain Boy Rain Boy is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe,marco always wets his pants and and was afraid of water, though this all change when his body transformed into water this happened before he became one of the student body in the Xavier Institute assigned to Gambit's training squad. His first appearance was in X-Men (2nd series) #171.
Rain drift A rain drift is a motoring maneuver performed in the rain. This type of drift is easier than a drift on dry pavement because the rain is a barrier between the asphalt and the wheels, therefore causing a loss in friction.
Rain fade In satellite communications, rain fade refers to the absorption of a microwave Radio Frequency (RF) signal by rain or snow, and is especially prevalent in frequencies above 11 GHz. It also refers to the degradation of a signal caused by the electromagnetic interference of the leading edge of a storm front.
Rain follows the plow Rain follows the plow is the conventional name for a now-debunked theory of climatology that was popular throughout the American West and Australia during the late 19th century. The basic premise of the theory was that human habitation, in particular agriculture through homesteading, effected a permanent change in the climate of arid and semi-arid regions, making these regions more humid.
Rain Fall Down "Rain Fall Down" is a song from The Rolling Stones' 2005 album A Bigger Bang. It was released on December 5 2005 as the second single from the album (see 2005 in British music) reaching #33 in the UK.
Rain gauge A rain gauge is a type of instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation (as opposed to solid precipitation that is measured by a snow gauge) over a set period of time.
Rain gutter A rain gutter (also known as eavestrough, guttering or just gutter) is a narrow channel, or trough, forming the component of a roof system which collects and diverts rainwater shed by the roof. In many buildings, the purpose of this diversion is to prevent drips off the roof edges.
Rain check A rain check is an informal agreement by a merchant to a customer to provide an item the merchant has run out of at a later date for the item's current price, or (in a more literal sense) to provide a service at a later date which cannot currently be provided due to rain or other inclement weather. The term is chiefly used in North America and Australia.
Rain Man Rain Man is an Academy Award-winning 1988 film which tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his estate to an autistic savant brother, Raymond, whom Charlie never knew he had. The movie stars Tom Cruise as Charlie Babbitt, Dustin Hoffman as his brother Raymond, and Valeria Golino as Charlie's girlfriend, Susanna.
Rain of Gold Rain of Gold is Victor Villaseñor's 1991 New York Times bestseller which tells the story of his own parents who were undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Two families escaping from Revolution torn Mexico to the relative safety of the United States have parallel experiences centered around their mothers' strength.
Rain Or Shine Rain Or Shine is the name of a 1986 hit single by British pop group Five Star, peaking at UK #2 in September of that year and later becoming their biggest-selling 7 inch with over 250,000 sales recorded. It was held off the top spot for three weeks by British pop band The Communards with the year's biggest selling song "Don't Leave Me This Way".
Rain Parade The Rain Parade were a band active in the Paisley Underground scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Its founding members, brothers David Roback (guitar) and Stephen Roback (bass guitar), had been in a band called The Unconscious with Susanna Hoffs (who went on to lead the most famous of the Paisley Underground bands, The Bangles.
Rain Queen The Modjadji or Rain Queen is the hereditary queen of Balobedu, the people of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Rain Queens are a matrilineal line of women who are believed to have special powers, including the ability to control the clouds and rainfall.
Rain Shower "Rain Shower", also "Shower" or "Sonagi," is a Korean short story written by Korean writer Hwang Sun-won in 1959. "Rain Shower" is a translation of the Korean title “Sonagi.
Rain Tree Crow Rain Tree Crow was the name used by Japan (excluding Rob Dean) when they briefly reformed for this one-off project. The majority of the material on their eponymous album was written as a result of group improvisations, there were no pre-rehearsals and the songs are a hybrid of the experimental styles.
Rain Without Thunder Rain Without Thunder is a 1993 movie directed by Gary Bennett and starring Betty Buckley and Jeff Daniels. Set in the future where abortion is outlawed in the US, a mother and daughter are put on trial for murdering a fetus.
Rain-Blo Rain-Blo is a brand of bubble gum that come in a variety of fruit flavors, introduced by Leaf Confectionery in 1940, and acquired from Hershey Foods by Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. – They are bubble gum balls that come with fruit flavoring on the inside and color inside that matched the coating on the outside.
Rain, Rain, Go Away (Asimov) Rain, Rain, Go Aaway is a short story by Isaac Asimov. A fantasy rather than a science fiction story, it was based on an idea by Bob Mills, editor of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, but rejected by him.
Raina Kabaivanska Raina Kabaivanska () (born December 15, 1934) is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the most renowned sopranos in the second half of the 20th century. Born in Burgas under the name Raina Yakimova, she graduated Opera Singing and Piano from the Bulgarian State Academy of Music.
Raina Telgemeier Raina Telgemeier is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic Smile for Girlamatic, which now runs at SmileComics.com, a series of self-published mini-comics called, "Take-Out", a short story in Bizarro World for DC Comics, and two graphic novel adaptations of Ann M.
Rainbow A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outside and violet on the inside.
Rainbow (band) Rainbow were a British Heavy Metal band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members lead singer Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll.
Rainbow (Boris collaborative album) Rainbow is a collaborative album between Japanese experimental doom band Boris and psychedelic guitarist Michio Kurihara. This album in particular is somewhat quiet and upbeat in sound, almost lounge-like in some parts.
Rainbow (Dolly Parton album) Rainbow was a Dolly Parton album from 1987, her first after switching labels to CBS Records, after nearly two decades with RCA. The original plan was for Parton to alternate between releasing pop and country albums (rather than trying to combine the two styles on each album), but due to Rainbows poor sales and tepid critical reception, the plan was quickly abandoned, and Parton more or less focussed on recording country material for the remainder of her association with CBS.
Rainbow (Johnny Cash album) Rainbow is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, his last for Columbia Records, released in 1985 (see 1985 in country music). "I'm Leaving Now", which appeared fifteen years later as a track on Cash's American III: Solitary Man, was released as a single rather unsuccessfully, but the album's signature song is a cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Here Comes That Rainbow Again", which also appeared on Cash's 1995 collaboration with Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings - known as The Highwaymen - entitled The Road Goes on Forever, though it was sung solo by Kristofferson on the latter.
Rainbow (Noon Universe) Rainbow (Радуга, pronounced: Raduga) is a fictional planet described in Far Rainbow by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so called Noon Universe and presents a planetwide experimental laboratory used by null-physicists (scientists working on null-T, a sort of teleportation used in the Noon Universe since the second half of XXII century).
Rainbow 100 The Rainbow 100 was a microcomputer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1982 to compete in the IBM PC market. This desktop unit had the video-terminal display circuitry from the VT220 in a box with both Z80 and 8088 CPUs.
Rainbow Arts Rainbow Arts is a gaming company developer founded in 1984 by Small Germen and it was bought out Funsoft, and eventually absorbed by THQ in 1999. In the early 90's most of the company's creative drive left to start their own development studios; Thomas Hertzler, who is now MD of Blue-Byte, and Armin Gessert, who has recently formed Spellbound.
Rainbow Beach, Queensland Rainbow Beach is a coastal town in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, in Cooloola Shire. The town's name derives from the rainbow-coloured sand dunes surrounding the settlement; according to the legends of the Kabi people, the dunes were coloured when Yiningie, a spirit represented by a rainbow, plunged into the cliffs after doing battle with an evil tribesman.
Rainbow Bird and Monster Man Rainbow Bird and Monster Man is a 2002 Australian documentary film, directed by Dennis K Smith, telling the story of Tony Lock's childhood as a victim of sexual abuse and his attempts as an adult to escape his tortured past.
Rainbow Bridge (pets) The Rainbow Bridge is a metaphorical or mythological place often referred to by people whose pets have died. It is the theme of a poem written some time between 1980 and 1992, which has gained wide popularity amongst animal lovers who have lost a pet.
Rainbow Bridge (soundtrack) The Rainbow Bridge Sound Track is an album by guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, released in 1971 under the Reprise record label. It includes eight tracks, but it is not, as the cover proclaims, the soundtrack to the motion picture film of that name.
Rainbow Bridge National Monument Rainbow Bridge National Monument is administered by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, southern Utah, USA. Rainbow Bridge is often described as the world's largest natural bridge; while this title may be deserved it is a little misleading, as the technical differences between a natural bridge and a natural arch are minor and subject to interpretation.
Rainbow Bridge, Oxford Rainbow Bridge (or formally but less used, High Bridge) is a curved footbridge over the River Cherwell in the University Parks, Oxford, England. The bridge is made of concrete with metal railings, in the shape of a rainbow, hence the name.
Rainbow class submarine The Rainbow class submarine or R class was a class of foursubmarines built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930's. They were designed as long range Parol Submarines for the Far East and were essentially repeats of the preceeding Parthian class submarines with minor modifications.
Rainbow Centre The Rainbow Centre is a voluntary welfare organisation in Singapore. It operates two special schools, the Margaret Drive Special School (MDSS) and Balestier Special School for children with special needs like autism, intellectual disability and multiple disabilities.
Rainbow Codes The Rainbow Codes were a series of code names used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects from after the Second World War until 1958 when they were replaced by an alphanumeric code system.
Rainbow Computing Rainbow Computing was a Los Angeles-based Apple II retailer and software publisher that was established in 1976 by Gene Sprouse and Glenn Dollar. The original store was located in Granada Hills, CA, and it eventually relocated to Northridge, CA, where it operated for several years before going out of business.
Rainbow District School Board Rainbow District School Board is a school board in the Canadian province of Ontario. The school board is the school district administrator for English language public schools in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, the southern Sudbury District and the Manitoulin District, with a total enrolement of 15,976 students as of October 31st, 2005.
Rainbow flag A rainbow flag is a multi-colored flag consisting of stripes in the colors of the rainbow. Not all, however, use the actual basic colors red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and violet, nor the traditional rainbow colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
Rainbow Falls Trail The Rainbow Falls Trail is an American hiking trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Sevier County, Tennessee. The trail ascends Mount Le Conte, the tallest (and sixth highest) mountain east of the Mississippi River] and passes Rainbow Falls before absorbing the [[Alum Cave Trail and terminating near the LeConte Lodge.
Rainbow Farm Rainbow Farm was a campground in Vandalia, Michigan, run by Tom Crosslin and his lover Rolland "Rollie" Rohm and home to two controversial festivals, HempAid on Memorial Day and Roach Roast on Labor Day. Beginning in 1996, the two annual Rainbow Farm events, HempAid on Memorial Day and Roach Roast on Labor Day, were part Woodstock, part union picnic.
Rainbow Guts The Rainbow Guts uniform or the popsicle uniform is a nickname for a series of uniform styles worn by the Houston Astros Major League Baseball club from 1975 to 1993. The colorful uniform style--featuring broad horizontal stripes in red, orange, and yellow across the abdomen--was made possible by the advent of synthetic fabrics and followed the use of bright-colored uniforms by the Oakland Athletics.
Rainbow chess Rainbow Chess is a proposed extension of the standard chess game that attempts to keep full compliance to the official rules while at the same time adding an element of color that arguably makes the game more interesting and perhaps easier to learn.
Rainbow Chasers Rainbow Chasers are an English folk band, formed in 2004 by Ashley Hutchings (bass and vocals). Joining him are 3 young musicians, Mark Hutchinson (guitar and vocals), Ruth Angell (violin, guitar and vocals) and Jo Hamilton (viola, guitar and vocals).
Rainbow Interchange One of two named interchanges in southeastern Florida, the Rainbow Interchange is a four-level stack interchange near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The local media have dubbed the interchange between Interstate 95 (State Road 9) and Interstate 595 (SR 862) because the each overpass bridge is painted in a different color.
Rainbow jersey The Rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a bicycle racing discipline. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the UCI colours around the chest.
Rainbow Junction Rainbow Junction will be a new sports complex comprising a stadium and an attached indoor sports arena to be built on an underdeveloped agricultural smallholding north of Pretoria, South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. The capacity of the stadium will be 41,000 and it is due to be completed in 2007.
Rainbow Labour Rainbow Labour is part of the New Zealand Labour Party. It started as a branch in Chris Carter's Auckland Waipareira electorate in 1997, just after Chris Carter had been narrowly defeated in the election the previous year.
Rainbow Mars Rainbow Mars is a science fiction short story collection (published in 1999) by Larry Niven, in which humans from Earth visit Mars and find it populated by the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, C.S.
Rainbow Media Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Cablevision, is an entertainment company in the United States that owns the cable channels AMC, WE, fuse, Independent Film Channel, VOOM HD Networks, MSG Network, FSN New York, News 12, and several others. It also owns the Video On Demand networks Mag Rack and sportskool.
Rainbow Nation Rainbow Nation is a term coined by the then Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu to describe post-1994 South Africa when apartheid rule officially ended after South Africa's first fully-democratic election, which saw the ANC rise to power.
Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual The day after F W De Klerk's landmark announcement that the ANC and other political organisations would be unbanned and Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, a small group of Capetonians took to the streets in an act of guerrilla street theatre. The Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual as it eventually came to be known, was actually planned some ten days before the announcement and the ritual, march, celebration or carnival, call it what you will, involved children as well as innocent bystanders who were taken by surprise.
Rainbow Pitta The Rainbow Pitta, Pitta iris is a beautifully-colored bird with velvet black head and below, green upperparts, pale blue shoulder and olive green tail. It has black bill, pink legs, brown eye and reddish brown streak along each side of crown.
Rainbow Play Systems Rainbow Play Systems is a manufacturer of quality children's play equipment which are available through a network of retail outlets throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain, Panama and Italy.
Rainbow Prelude Rainbow Prelude (虹のプレリュード Niji no Pureriyuudo) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, dealing with a young French girl who meets and falls in love with Chopin, at the time where Poland was occupied by Russian troops.
Rainbow Range (Coast Mountains) The Rainbow Range of British Columbia is on the western edge of the Chilcotin Plateau, adjoining the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains to the south, and the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains to the north. In some classification systems it is considered part of the Coast Mountains and has been assigned here in Wikipedia to the Pacific Ranges although it is not formally part of that range-complex.
Rainbow Range (Rocky Mountains) The Rainbow Range is a small subrange of the Park Ranges subdivions of the Northern Continental Ranges of the Rocky Mountains on the border between Alberta and British Columbia in Mount Robson Provincial Park. It is only about 1900 km² (730 sq mi) in area.
Rainbow Room The Rainbow Room is a well-known upscale restaurant and nightclub on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It first opened on October 3, 1934 and was originally conceived as a formal supper club, where the elite and influential of New York could gather to socialize over cocktails, dine on fine cuisine, and dance to the strains of legendary big bands on a revolving floor.
Rainbow slender wrasse The rainbow slender wrasse, Suezichthys arquatus, is a wrasse of the genus Suezichthys, found in New Caledonia, New South Wales in Australia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, the Kermadec Islands, and the north east coast of New Zealand, in reef areas at depths of between 5 and 100 m. Its length is between 10 and 18 cm.
Rainbow smelt Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax) is a anadromous species of fish inhabiting rivers and coastal areas of North America from New Jersey to Labrador on the east coast and from Vancouver Island to the Arctic Ocean on the west coast. It has been introduced to the Great Lakes and from there has made its way to various other inland bodies of water in Ontario and the midwestern United States.
Rainbow squid The rainbow squid, a fictional animal from the television series The Future Is Wild. In 200,000,000 years, one of the ocean's largest species will be a giant carnivorous squid, with a body of 60 feet long and with tentacles another 60 feet.
Rainbow Sash The Rainbow Sash movement is an organization created by and comprised of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Catholics who believe they should be able to receive Holy Communion. It was reportedly founded by Nick Holloway.
Rainbow Series The Rainbow Series (sometimes known as the Rainbow Books) is a series of computer security standards published by the United States government in the 1980s and 1990s. These standards describe a process of evaluation for trusted systems.
Rainbow Serpent The Rainbow Serpent (also known as the Rainbow Snake) is a major mythological being for Aboriginal people across Australia, although the creation stories associated with it are best known from northern Australia.
Rainbow Six Rainbow Six is fictional character John Clark's position as director of the counter-terrorist unit Rainbow that debuted in the 1998 novel Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. The book was adapted into a successful series of tactical first-person shooter computer and video games, and is a planned future film tentatively set for release in 2008.
Rainbow Six (novel) Rainbow Six is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy. It focuses on John Clark, Ding Chavez, and a fictional multi-national counterterrorist unit codenamed Rainbow, rather than Jack Ryan and national politics.
Rainbow Springs, Florida Rainbow Springs is a first-magnitude artesian spring formation in Marion County, Florida, several miles north of the city of Dunnellon, Florida. Rainbow Springs is the focal point of Rainbow Springs State Park.
Rainbow Sun Francks Rainbow Sun Francks (born December 3, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actor and songwriter. He is the son of actor/musician Don Francks and dancer Lili Francks, a member of the Plains Cree First Nation.
Rainbow table A rainbow table is a lookup table offering a time-memory tradeoff used in recovering the plaintext password from a password hash generated by a hash function, often a cryptographic hash function. A common application is to make attacks against hashed passwords feasible.
Rainbow trout The rainbow trout (Oncorhnchus mykiss), aka redband trout, is a species of Pacific salmon (1989) native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. Fish which have gone to sea (including those returning for spawning) are known as steelhead, or ocean trout (Australia).
Rainbow Trailers Rainbow Trailers is one of the largest flatdeck and cargo trailer manufacters in Western Canada. It was started as a small family run business in 1989 and has grown to be a major player in the industry while keeping true to its roots.
Rainbow Valley Rainbow Valley (1919) is the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.
Rainbow Wahine Rainbow Wahine is the nickname applied to women's sports teams at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. The University of Hawaii teams were traditionally called "rainbows" until controversies with the name led the University to change the men's teams' name to "warriors".
Rainbow Wahine Volleyball The Rainbow Wahine volleyball team is the NCAA Division I Volleyball team for the University of Hawaii. The team has won four national championships and has made many post-season appearances in the NCAA volleyball tournament.
Rainbow-1 Rainbow-1, also known as Cablevision-1 and Echostar 12 (E*12), is a commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous Earth orbit. It was launched on 17 July, 2003, by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
RainbowCrack RainbowCrack is the name of a computer program which performs password cracking. RainbowCrack differs from "conventional" brute force crackers in that it uses large pre-computed files called rainbow tables to reduce the length of time needed to crack a password drastically.
Rainbowing Rainbowing is the process in which a dredging ship propels sand that has been claimed from the ocean floor in a high arc to a particular location. This is used for multiple purposes, ranging from building up a beach to prevent erosion to constructing new islands.
Rainbows End Rainbows End is a 2006 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, set in San Diego in 2025, in a variation of the fictional world Vinge created in his 2002 Hugo-winning novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High". Vinge has tentative plans for a sequel, picking up some of the loose threads left at the end of the novel.
Rainbows in mythology The rainbow, a natural phenomenon noted for its beauty and inexplicability, has been a favorite component of mythology throughout history. The Norse saw it as Bifrost, Judeo-Christian traditions signs it as a covenant with God not to destroy the world by means of floodwater.
Rainbowtron Rainbowtron is a two-piece improvisational experimental music group in Hong Kong with a strong dadaist ethic. Their primary style is influenced by grindcore but often interjecting random pre-set tunes from a second-hand casio keyboard, disco beats and synth noise in between improvised 'songs'.
Raindance Film Festival The Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the United Kingdom. The festival was established in 1992 to celebrate and support independent filmmaking and has gone on to feature such successes as Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project, Capturing the Friedmans, Memento, Oldboy, Steve Balderson's Firecracker, Girlfriend in a Kimono, & End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.
Raindirk Audio Founded in 1973Raindirk official website - 30 year anniversary page, Raindirk Audio Ltd is a manufacturer of high-end, pro-audio equipment used in both recording studios and live sound reproduction. Raindirk's first console was sold to former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan's Kingsway StudiosIbid.
Raindrops "Raindrops" is a dance music song released in 2006, the first international hit by the relatively new production team Stunt. Produced in the United Kingdom by Pete Kirtley and Mark Dowling, its synthesizer-based rhythm and powerful vocals by student Molly Smithen-Dowes have made it a top 40 hit single in the U.
Raine de Chambrun Raine de Chambrun (born Raine McCorquodale) (9 September, 1929), is the only child of the romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland and Dame Barbara's first husband, Alexander McCorquodale, an Army officer who was heir to a printing fortune. Through her three marriages, she has variously held titles of The Honourable Mrs Gerald Legge, Viscountess Lewisham, Countess of Dartmouth, Countess Spencer, and Countess Jean-François de Chambrun.
Raine Davison Raine Davison (born January 25 1984 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is an English actress known for appearing in many English Soap Opera's such as ITV's Emmerdale as Eve Birch from 2001-2002. She reprised her role on Emmerdale at the end of 2006.
Raine syndrome Raine syndrome (also called osteosclerotic bone dysplasia) is a rare disease in newborns characterized by craniofacial anomalies including microcephaly, exophthalmos, midface hypoplasia, cleft palate, gum hypertrophy and generalized osteosclerosis on radiography. It is usually lethal within a few hours after birth.
Raine's Foundation School Raine's Foundation School is a Church of England foundation school in East London. Henry Raine, a rich man who lived in Wapping, decided to create a school where poor children could get an education for free, so that they could go into skilled labour when they left.
Rainer Ganahl Rainer Ganahl is an artist living in New York City whose work addresses language, learning systems, media and politics. He has recently exhibited his most comprehensive solo-exhibition at Wallach Gallery (Columbia University).
Rainer Hasler Rainer Hasler is a former Liechtenstein football (soccer) player. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's jubilee, he was selected by the Liechtenstein Football Association as the country's Golden Player - the greatest player of the last 50 years.
Rainer Knopff Rainer Knopff is a writer, professor of political science at the University of Calgary, Canada, and member of a group known as the Calgary School. He has gained notoriety for his views about the influence of judicial decisions on Canadian public policy.
Rainer Ludwig Claisen Rainer Ludwig Claisen (January 14, 1851 – January 5, 1930) was a famous German chemist best known for his work with condensations of carbonyls and sigmatropic rearrangements. He was born in Cologne as the son of a jurist and studied chemistry at the university of Bonn (1869), where he became a member of K.
Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December, 1875 – 29 December, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest 20th century poet. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
Rainer Rupp Rainer Rupp (born 1945 in Saarlouis, Germany) was a top spy who worked under the pseudonyms Mosel and later Topas for the GDR in the NATO headquarters in Brussels from 1977 until 1989, releasing documents of the highest importance to the Eastern Bloc.
Rainer Seifert Rainer Seifert (born on December 10, 1947 in Wiesbaden) is a former field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the West-German squad that won the golden medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He played 122 international matches for West Germany, participated in two Hockey World Cup and four European Nations Cups.
Rainey Bethea Rainey Bethea (October 16 1909 – August 14 1936) was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. A black male, who was about 26 years old, he confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old white woman named Lischia Edwards, and was publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky after being convicted of her rape.

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