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Ryszard Zbrzyzny Ryszard Zbrzyzny (born May 04, 1955 in Lubawka) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 9644 votes in 1 Legnica district, candidating from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej list.
Ryta Turava Margarita "Ryta" Turava (Belarusian Đ Ń‹Ń‚Đ° ТŃрава, Маргарыта ТŃрава; Russian Rita Turova, Рита ТŃрова, born 28 December 1980 in Vitebsk) is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She came fourth in the 2004 Olympics, and she won a silver medal in the World Championship in Helsinki in 2005.
Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement The Ryti-Ribbentrop letter of agreement (Finnish: Ryti–Ribbentrop-sopimus) of June 26, 1944, signifies the closest to an alliance Finland and Nazi Germany came during World War II. According to the agreement -in the form of personal letter from President Risto Ryti to Führer Adolf Hitler- Risto Ryti, then President of Finland, undertook not to conclude peace in the Continuation War with the Soviet Union unless in agreement with Nazi Germany.
Rytis Leliūga Rytis Leliūga (born January 4, 1987) is a young footballer, who was recently released by Exeter City and signed for Norwegian club Bryne. Leliūga is from Lithuania, whose national team he has represented at Under-18 level.
Rytterskoler The Rytterskoler (English: Rider schools or Cavalry schools) were 241 schools erected in Denmark in the years 1722-1727 for the education of cavalrymen. The schools were located in the 12 Cavalry districts erected in 1715-1718 during the Great Nordic War to reform and improve the Cavalry in Denmark.
Ryu (Breath of Fire) Ryu (ăŞăĄă‚¦ in Japanese) is the name of every main protagonist in the Breath of Fire series. Despite the fact that each Ryu is a completely different character, they all share the same name, and blue hair (even in Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, where his hair is very dark blue sometimes mistaken for black), much like Nina, who also keeps the same name and similar features on each game.
Ryu (school) A RyĹ« (ćµ, literally "flow", with the derived meaning of "mainstream"), or ryĹ«ha (ćµć´ľ, literally "mainstream school (of thought)"), is a Japanese word referring to a school of thought in any discipline. In English, the word is frequently used to refer to schools of Japanese martial art, although it can also be found used in other disciplines (for example Nihonkoryu and Sogetsu-ryu in ikebana, KanteiryĹ« in calligraphy, etc.
Ryu Hayabusa is a fictional video game character who stars in the Ninja Gaiden series of video games, as well appearing in the Dead or Alive fighting game series, all developed by Team Ninja, a part of publisher Tecmo. According to official canon, he won the second Dead or Alive tournament.
Ryu Seong-woo Ryu Seong-woo is a South Korean pocket billiards player. During the 2006 Men's World 9-Ball Championship he survived the group stages and the round of 64, but was eliminated in the round of 32 by Liu Cheng-chuan.
Ryugatake, Kumamoto RyĹ«gatake (龍ă¶ĺ˛łç”ş; -machi) was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan. On March 31, 2004 the town merged with three other towns from the district forming the city of Kami-Amakusa and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Ryugyong Hotel The Ryugyong Hotel (or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel or the 105 Building) is a towering, empty concrete shell that was once intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. The hotel's name comes from one of the historic names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "capital of willows".
Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni Through a passionate and exclusive conversation with the author, Massimo Milano, the book Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni offers an uncommon portrait of the Japanese composer who talks about his peculiar philosophy of life, his multi-directional approach to music, his classical training, the new musical trends and the interaction of his work with visual arts.
Ryuji Sasai Ryuji Sasai (笹井隆司 Sasai Ryūji, born December 21, 1961) is a composer of video game music. He is best known for his work with Square on such games as Final Fantasy Legend 3, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, and Treasure of the Rudras.
Ryuji Takayama Ryuji Takayama is a fictional character and the most prominent character in Ringu cycle appearing and mentioned in all of Koji Suzuki's novels Ring, Rasen, Loop and The Birthday and playing the hero in the 1998 Ring and appearing in the film version of Rasen and Ring 2. Ryuji is most memorably played by Hiroyuki Sanada in the movie series.
Ryujin Ryūjin (Japanese 龍神 "dragon god", also known as Rinjin and Owatatsumi) was the god of the sea in Japanese mythology. He was a dragon, symbolic of the power of the ocean, had a large mouth, and was able to transform into a human shape.
Ryukyu Islands The Ryukyu Islands (ç‰ç諸島 or ç‰çĺ—島), known as in Japanese meaning "southwest islands," are a chain of Japanese islands in the western Pacific Ocean at the eastern limit of the East China Sea. They stretch southwest from the island of KyĹ«shĹ« to Taiwan.
Ryukyu Kempo Ryukyu Kempo is a generic term often used to describe all forms of karate from the Ryukyu Islands, and more specifically to refer to the particular styles associated with Taika Seiyu Oyata and with George Dillman. Oyata is credited with being the originator of the American use of the terms Ryukyu Kempo, tuite-jitsu and kyusho-jitsu.
Ryukyu Robin The Ryukyu Robin (Erithacus komadori) is a bird endemic to Japan, restricted to the Ryūkyū Islands. It is sometimes placed in the genus Luscinia, but recent research suggests that the East Asian robins belong into a new genus uniting them with some East Asian Luscinias such as the Siberian Blue Robin (Seki, 2006).
Ryukyu Trench The Ryukyu Trench is an 2,250 kilometer (1,398 mi) long ocean trench running north along the eastern edge of Japan's Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Taiwan and Japan.
Ryukyu Woodpigeon The Ryukyu Wood-pigeon (Columba jouyi), otherwise known as the Silver-banded or Silver-crescented Pigeon is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to islands in the Okinawa archipelago south-west of the Japanese mainland. In the Okinawa group, it has been recorded from Iheyajima, Izenajima, Okinawa proper and the nearby islet Yagachijima.
Ryukyuan religion Ryukyuan religion is the indigenous belief system of the Uchinanchu people of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands. While specific legends and traditions may vary slightly from place to place and island to island, the Ryukyuan religion is generally characterized by ancestor worship and the respecting of relationships between the living, the dead, and the gods and spirits of the natural world.
Ryukyuans Ryukyuan people (Japanese: ç‰çć°‘ć—Ź) are the indigenous people of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan between the islands of KyĹ«shĹ« and Taiwan. The subgroups of Ryukyuans are Okinawans, Miyako people, and Yaeyama people.
RyuKoOh/KoRyuOh The RyuKoOh and KoRyuOh are fictional robots in the Super Robot Wars series. They have appeared as playable units in Super Robot Wars Alpha, Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2.
Ryurik Ivnev Ryurik Ivnev, Рюрик Đвнев, real name - Михаил ĐлекŃандрович Ковалев) (1891–1981), a Russian poet. He was born in Tiflis on 11 February, 1891, (by the old style) to a noble family.
Ryusei Date Ryusei Date is a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series, appearing first in Shin SRW before going on to feature in the Alpha and Original Generation series. In canon, he is one of the pilots for both SRX and its descendant, the SRX Altered Banpreios, and is joined by fellow pilots Raidiese F.
Ryutakuji Temple Ryutakuji Temple is a Rinzai Buddhist temple located in Mishima, Japan founded by Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku in 1761. The current abbot is Kyudo Nakagawa, who is also abbot of Soho Zendo on West Broadway in New York City.
Ryutaro Hashimoto Ryutaro Hashimoto (ć©‹ćś¬éľŤĺ¤ŞéŽ Hashimoto RyĹ«tarĹŤ, July 29, 1937 - July 1, 2006) was a Japanese politician who served as the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politics until scandal forced him to resign his leadership position in 2004.
Ryutsu Keizai University Ryutsu Keizai University (ćµé€šçµŚć¸ĺ¤§ĺ¦; RyĹ«tsĹ« Keizai Daigaku lit:Circulation Economics University) is a Japanese private university in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki. Founded in 1965 by a large endowment from Nippon Express.
Ryuzo Yanagimachi Ryuzo Yanagimachi (Japanese: 柳町 éš†é€ Yanagimachi RyĹ«zĹŤ; August 29 1928– ) is a pioneer in the cloning field. In 1997 his laboratory at the University of HawaiĘ»i at MÄnoa successfully cloned mice using the Honolulu technique.
Ryuzoji Iekane Ryuzoji Iekane (1454-1546) a retainer of the Japanese clan of Shoni during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. Iekane was the fifth son of Ryuzoji Yasuie and succeeded to the head of his family by dint of outliving his elder brothers.
Rywin affair The Rywin affair (in Polish: afera Rywina, also labelled Rywingate in allusion to Watergate) is a corruption scandal in Poland, which began in late 2002 and has not been fully uncovered to this date. It is named after the prominent Polish film producer Lew Rywin (The Pianist, Schindler's List, Europa Europa) as a key figure.
Rzav (Zlatibor) The Rzav (Serbian Cyrillic: Рзав) is a river in western Serbia and eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Hercegovina. The 72 km long right tributary to the Drina river, it originates from two headstreams, the Crni Rzav and the Beli Rzav.
Rzerzęczyce Rzerzęczyce - the village which is located in Poland, Silesia Voivodeship, near Częstochowa (in Częstochowa County). From 1975 to 1999 Rzerzęczyce were located in Częstochowa Voivodeship, but after administrative reform in 1999 it was changed.
RzeszĂłw RzeszĂłw () is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 164,000 (2005), granted a town charter in 1354, the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously of RzeszĂłw Voivodeship (1945-1998). In 2004, RzeszĂłw hosted the Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI).
RzeszĂłw County RzeszĂłw County (in Polish powiat rzeszowski ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Subcarpathian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Rzhev Rzhev () is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River. It is located in Tver Oblast of Western Russia, 49Â km southwest of Staritsa and 126Â km from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Minsk.
Rzip [is a huge-scale data compression] program designed around initial [[LZ77-style string matching on a 900MB dictionary window, followed by Bzip2-based Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) and entropy coding (Huffman) on 900kB output chunks.
RZA RZA, pronounced Rizza, (born Robert Diggs, July 5, 1966 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American producer, rapper and actor. He is the de facto leader of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and was also a member of Gravediggaz.
Ryta Turava Margarita "Ryta" Turava (Belarusian Đ Ń‹Ń‚Đ° ТŃрава, Маргарыта ТŃрава; Russian Rita Turova, Рита ТŃрова, born 28 December 1980 in Vitebsk) is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She came fourth in the 2004 Olympics, and she won a silver medal in the World Championship in Helsinki in 2005.
Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement The Ryti-Ribbentrop letter of agreement (Finnish: Ryti–Ribbentrop-sopimus) of June 26, 1944, signifies the closest to an alliance Finland and Nazi Germany came during World War II. According to the agreement -in the form of personal letter from President Risto Ryti to Führer Adolf Hitler- Risto Ryti, then President of Finland, undertook not to conclude peace in the Continuation War with the Soviet Union unless in agreement with Nazi Germany.
Rytis Leliūga Rytis Leliūga (born January 4, 1987) is a young footballer, who was recently released by Exeter City and signed for Norwegian club Bryne. Leliūga is from Lithuania, whose national team he has represented at Under-18 level.
Rytterskoler The Rytterskoler (English: Rider schools or Cavalry schools) were 241 schools erected in Denmark in the years 1722-1727 for the education of cavalrymen. The schools were located in the 12 Cavalry districts erected in 1715-1718 during the Great Nordic War to reform and improve the Cavalry in Denmark.
Ryu (Breath of Fire) Ryu (ăŞăĄă‚¦ in Japanese) is the name of every main protagonist in the Breath of Fire series. Despite the fact that each Ryu is a completely different character, they all share the same name, and blue hair (even in Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, where his hair is very dark blue sometimes mistaken for black), much like Nina, who also keeps the same name and similar features on each game.
Ryu (school) A RyĹ« (ćµ, literally "flow", with the derived meaning of "mainstream"), or ryĹ«ha (ćµć´ľ, literally "mainstream school (of thought)"), is a Japanese word referring to a school of thought in any discipline. In English, the word is frequently used to refer to schools of Japanese martial art, although it can also be found used in other disciplines (for example Nihonkoryu and Sogetsu-ryu in ikebana, KanteiryĹ« in calligraphy, etc.
Ryu Hayabusa is a fictional video game character who stars in the Ninja Gaiden series of video games, as well appearing in the Dead or Alive fighting game series, all developed by Team Ninja, a part of publisher Tecmo. According to official canon, he won the second Dead or Alive tournament.
Ryu Seong-woo Ryu Seong-woo is a South Korean pocket billiards player. During the 2006 Men's World 9-Ball Championship he survived the group stages and the round of 64, but was eliminated in the round of 32 by Liu Cheng-chuan.
Ryugatake, Kumamoto RyĹ«gatake (龍ă¶ĺ˛łç”ş; -machi) was a town located in Amakusa District, Kumamoto, Japan. On March 31, 2004 the town merged with three other towns from the district forming the city of Kami-Amakusa and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Ryugyong Hotel The Ryugyong Hotel (or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel or the 105 Building) is a towering, empty concrete shell that was once intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. The hotel's name comes from one of the historic names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "capital of willows".
Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni Through a passionate and exclusive conversation with the author, Massimo Milano, the book Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni offers an uncommon portrait of the Japanese composer who talks about his peculiar philosophy of life, his multi-directional approach to music, his classical training, the new musical trends and the interaction of his work with visual arts.
Ryuji Sasai Ryuji Sasai (笹井隆司 Sasai Ryūji, born December 21, 1961) is a composer of video game music. He is best known for his work with Square on such games as Final Fantasy Legend 3, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, and Treasure of the Rudras.
Ryuji Takayama Ryuji Takayama is a fictional character and the most prominent character in Ringu cycle appearing and mentioned in all of Koji Suzuki's novels Ring, Rasen, Loop and The Birthday and playing the hero in the 1998 Ring and appearing in the film version of Rasen and Ring 2. Ryuji is most memorably played by Hiroyuki Sanada in the movie series.
Ryujin Ryūjin (Japanese 龍神 "dragon god", also known as Rinjin and Owatatsumi) was the god of the sea in Japanese mythology. He was a dragon, symbolic of the power of the ocean, had a large mouth, and was able to transform into a human shape.
Ryukyu Islands The Ryukyu Islands (ç‰ç諸島 or ç‰çĺ—島), known as in Japanese meaning "southwest islands," are a chain of Japanese islands in the western Pacific Ocean at the eastern limit of the East China Sea. They stretch southwest from the island of KyĹ«shĹ« to Taiwan.
Ryukyu Kempo Ryukyu Kempo is a generic term often used to describe all forms of karate from the Ryukyu Islands, and more specifically to refer to the particular styles associated with Taika Seiyu Oyata and with George Dillman. Oyata is credited with being the originator of the American use of the terms Ryukyu Kempo, tuite-jitsu and kyusho-jitsu.
Ryukyu Robin The Ryukyu Robin (Erithacus komadori) is a bird endemic to Japan, restricted to the Ryūkyū Islands. It is sometimes placed in the genus Luscinia, but recent research suggests that the East Asian robins belong into a new genus uniting them with some East Asian Luscinias such as the Siberian Blue Robin (Seki, 2006).
Ryukyu Trench The Ryukyu Trench is an 2,250 kilometer (1,398 mi) long ocean trench running north along the eastern edge of Japan's Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Taiwan and Japan.
Ryukyu Woodpigeon The Ryukyu Wood-pigeon (Columba jouyi), otherwise known as the Silver-banded or Silver-crescented Pigeon is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to islands in the Okinawa archipelago south-west of the Japanese mainland. In the Okinawa group, it has been recorded from Iheyajima, Izenajima, Okinawa proper and the nearby islet Yagachijima.
Ryukyuan religion Ryukyuan religion is the indigenous belief system of the Uchinanchu people of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands. While specific legends and traditions may vary slightly from place to place and island to island, the Ryukyuan religion is generally characterized by ancestor worship and the respecting of relationships between the living, the dead, and the gods and spirits of the natural world.
Ryukyuans Ryukyuan people (Japanese: ç‰çć°‘ć—Ź) are the indigenous people of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan between the islands of KyĹ«shĹ« and Taiwan. The subgroups of Ryukyuans are Okinawans, Miyako people, and Yaeyama people.
RyuKoOh/KoRyuOh The RyuKoOh and KoRyuOh are fictional robots in the Super Robot Wars series. They have appeared as playable units in Super Robot Wars Alpha, Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2.
Ryurik Ivnev Ryurik Ivnev, Рюрик Đвнев, real name - Михаил ĐлекŃандрович Ковалев) (1891–1981), a Russian poet. He was born in Tiflis on 11 February, 1891, (by the old style) to a noble family.
Ryusei Date Ryusei Date is a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series, appearing first in Shin SRW before going on to feature in the Alpha and Original Generation series. In canon, he is one of the pilots for both SRX and its descendant, the SRX Altered Banpreios, and is joined by fellow pilots Raidiese F.
Ryutakuji Temple Ryutakuji Temple is a Rinzai Buddhist temple located in Mishima, Japan founded by Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku in 1761. The current abbot is Kyudo Nakagawa, who is also abbot of Soho Zendo on West Broadway in New York City.
Ryutaro Hashimoto Ryutaro Hashimoto (ć©‹ćś¬éľŤĺ¤ŞéŽ Hashimoto RyĹ«tarĹŤ, July 29, 1937 - July 1, 2006) was a Japanese politician who served as the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politics until scandal forced him to resign his leadership position in 2004.
Ryutsu Keizai University Ryutsu Keizai University (ćµé€šçµŚć¸ĺ¤§ĺ¦; RyĹ«tsĹ« Keizai Daigaku lit:Circulation Economics University) is a Japanese private university in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki. Founded in 1965 by a large endowment from Nippon Express.
Ryuzo Yanagimachi Ryuzo Yanagimachi (Japanese: 柳町 éš†é€ Yanagimachi RyĹ«zĹŤ; August 29 1928– ) is a pioneer in the cloning field. In 1997 his laboratory at the University of HawaiĘ»i at MÄnoa successfully cloned mice using the Honolulu technique.
Ryuzoji Iekane Ryuzoji Iekane (1454-1546) a retainer of the Japanese clan of Shoni during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. Iekane was the fifth son of Ryuzoji Yasuie and succeeded to the head of his family by dint of outliving his elder brothers.
Rywin affair The Rywin affair (in Polish: afera Rywina, also labelled Rywingate in allusion to Watergate) is a corruption scandal in Poland, which began in late 2002 and has not been fully uncovered to this date. It is named after the prominent Polish film producer Lew Rywin (The Pianist, Schindler's List, Europa Europa) as a key figure.
Rzav (Zlatibor) The Rzav (Serbian Cyrillic: Рзав) is a river in western Serbia and eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Hercegovina. The 72 km long right tributary to the Drina river, it originates from two headstreams, the Crni Rzav and the Beli Rzav.
Rzerzęczyce Rzerzęczyce - the village which is located in Poland, Silesia Voivodeship, near Częstochowa (in Częstochowa County). From 1975 to 1999 Rzerzęczyce were located in Częstochowa Voivodeship, but after administrative reform in 1999 it was changed.
RzeszĂłw RzeszĂłw () is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 164,000 (2005), granted a town charter in 1354, the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously of RzeszĂłw Voivodeship (1945-1998). In 2004, RzeszĂłw hosted the Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI).
RzeszĂłw County RzeszĂłw County (in Polish powiat rzeszowski ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Subcarpathian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Rzhev Rzhev () is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River. It is located in Tver Oblast of Western Russia, 49Â km southwest of Staritsa and 126Â km from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Minsk.
Rzip [is a huge-scale data compression] program designed around initial [[LZ77-style string matching on a 900MB dictionary window, followed by Bzip2-based Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) and entropy coding (Huffman) on 900kB output chunks.
RZA RZA, pronounced Rizza, (born Robert Diggs, July 5, 1966 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American producer, rapper and actor. He is the de facto leader of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and was also a member of Gravediggaz.
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