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Randall Munroe Randall Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is a self-described "pen/pencil operator" and programmer best known for creating the webcomic xkcd. Formerly a roboticist for NASA, in 2006 Munroe's contract was not renewed at NASA and he began to write xkcd full-time, supported by the sale of related merchandise.
Randall Parrish Randall Parrish (1858-1923) was an American author of dime novels, including Wolves of the Sea (Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur").
Randall Robinson Randall Robinson (b. 6 July 1941, Richmond, Virginia) is an African-American lawyer, author and activist noted for his actions against South African apartheid and mistreatment of Haitian immigrants via his organization, TransAfrica Inc..
Randall Simon Randall Carlito Simon (born May 25, 1975 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a first baseman who currently plays for the Philadelphia Phillies. Simon's debut season came with the Atlanta Braves in 1997, for whom he played until 1999.
Randall Thomas Davidson Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, KCVO (April 7, 1848 – May 25, 1930) was an Anglican clergyman of Scottish origin who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928. He studied at Harrow School and Oxford University and served as chaplain to Archibald Campbell Tait when Tait was Archbishop of Canterbury and married Tait's daughter.
Randall Thompson Randall Thompson (April 21 1899 – July 9 1984) was an American composer. He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester School of Music.
Randall Thompson (boxer) Randall Thompson (born June 14, 1964 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed in the middleweight (< 75 kg) division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he was stopped in the first round by Ireland's Brian Magee.
Randall Woodfield Randall "Randy" Woodfield was an American serial killer dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit for the I-5 Highway running from Washington to California, where he committed multiple sexual assaults and murders.
Randall's Food Markets Randall's Food Markets operates 112 supermarkets in the Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth areas under the Randalls, Flagship Randalls, Tom Thumb, Flagship Tom Thumb, and Simon David banners. Randall's employs more than 10,000 associates and is the Texas division of Safeway Inc.
Randall's Island Randall's Island is situated in the East River in New York City. It is separated from Manhattan on the west by the river's main channel, from Queens on the east by the Hell Gate, and from the Bronx on the north by the Bronx Kill.
Randall-Sundrum model In physics, Randall-Sundrum models imagine that the real world is a higher-dimensional Universe described by warped geometry. More concretely, our Universe is a five-dimensional anti de Sitter space and the elementary particles except for the graviton are localized on a (3 + 1)-dimensional brane or branes.
Randan A randan is a boat rowed by three persons, stern and bow using a single oar each and the central person a pair of sculls. The word is of unknown origin, and can hardly be connected with a slang term for a row or spree, which is found as early as the beginning of the 18th century and is generally taken as a variation of random, haphazard.
Randee Heller Randee Heller (born Brooklyn, New York) is an American television and film actress. Her most notable roles were in the film The Karate Kid and its sequels, as Daniel Larusso's mother, and on the 1970s serial sitcom Soap as Jodie Dallas' roommate Alice, one of the first lesbian characters in television history.
Randers FC Randers FC is a Danish professional football team based in Randers, which plays in the top-flight Danish Superliga championship. Founded as a merger in 2002, the club builds upon the license of Randers Freja, a former three-time Danish Cup winning team.
Randfontein, Gauteng Randfontein is a gold mining town in western Gauteng, South Africa. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
Randhawa Randhawa, (pronounced: rann-dhaa-waa and anglicised to "ran-dhwa") is one of the many last names of early Rajput and Jat/Jatt warrior clans that played an important historical role in Sikh history by adopting Sikhism.
Randhir Singh Bhai Sahib Bhai Randhir Singh Ji (1878-1961) was a Sikh saint who wrote extensively on Gurbani and the Sikh way of life. Bhai Sahib (as he is respectfully addressed) was born and died in Narangwal, Punjab, and founded the Akhand Keertanee Jathaa.
Randhurst Ice Arena The Randhurst Ice Arena was an indoor arena located in Mount Prospect, Illinois. The arena, which sat about 2,000 people, was the part-time home of the Chicago Cougars of the World Hockey Association from 1974-1975.
Randi Reisfeld Randi Reisfeld is an author of children's books. Reisfeld describes herself as a witch, and as having always been fascinated by what she calls "the powers that each of us have within ourselves, if we only knew how to access it and how our lives can simply be changed forever".
Randi Rhodes Randi Rhodes (born Randi Bueten on January 28, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American progressive talk radio personality featured on Air America Radio, where her eponymous program, The Randi Rhodes Show, airs Monday through Friday from 3 pm to 6 pm Eastern Time, with many Air America Radio affiliates recording the show for broadcast later in the evening. Her married name is Randi Robertson; Rhodes is a stage name chosen to honor Ozzy Osbourne's guitar player Randy Rhoads, whom Rhodes describes as "a consummate professional...
Randi Schea Randi Schea is a Modern Arnis Master of Tapi-Tapi and the Chairman of the Board for the larger of the two Modern Arnis groups calling itself the International Modern Arnis Federation (IMAF). He has also trained in karate, kung fu, judo, wrestling, and aikido.
Randian hero The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainhead's Howard Roark and Atlas Shrugged's John Galt. Rand's self-declared purpose in writing fiction was to project an "ideal man"—a man whose ability and independence leads to conflict with others, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values.
Randle Cotgrave Randle Cotgrave (died 1634) was an English lexicographer who in 1611 compiled and published A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, a bilingual dictionary that represented a real breakthrough at the time and remains historically important.
Randle T. Moore Randle Thomas Moore (born 1874 in Mooringsport, Louisiana, died 1957 in Shreveport) was an eminent figure in the development of northwestern Louisiana during the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Randoald of Grandval Saint Randoald (Rancald, Randaut) (†21 February 675) was prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval in the Moutier valley, under saint Germanus. They were martyred together by the duke of Alsace, Bonifacius Cathicus, for standing up for the poor.
Randolph (ship) Randolph was a 664-ton ship-rigged merchant vessel constructed in 1849 in Sunderland. She was one of the first four ships to settle Christchurch, New Zealand (the other three were Cressy, Sir George Seymour and Charlotte-Jane).
Randolph Air Force Base Randolph Air Force Base (Randolph AFB) is a base of the United States Air Force located in Bexar County, Texas near San Antonio. Randolph AFB was dedicated in June 20, 1930 as a flying training base and continues in that mission today.
Randolph Apperson Hearst Randolph Apperson Hearst (December 2, 1915 - December 18, 2000) was the last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst. He is probably most famous for being the father of Patty Hearst and being threatened by the Symbionese Liberation Army when they kidnapped her in 1974.
Randolph Bedford Randolph Bedford (July 28, 1868 - July 7, 1941) was Australian poet, novelist (True Eyes and the Whirlwind; Snare of Strength; Aladdin and the Boss Cockie), short story writer ('Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock'; 'The Language of Animals') and politician. With Australian authors Henry Lawson and Victor Daley et al, he was a member of the elite Dawn and Dusk Club.
Randolph Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and public intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially "War is the Health of the State," which remained unfinished when found after his death.
Randolph Cosby Nesbitt Randolph Cosby Nesbitt (20 September 1867- 23 July 1956) was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Randolph County, Arkansas Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 18,195. The county seat is Pocahontas. Randolph County is Arkansas' 32nd county, formed on October 29, 1835 and named for John Randolph, a Virginia congressman. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county.
Randolph family The Randolph family was an important Virginia political family, whose members contributed to the politics of Colonial Virginia and Virginia after it gained its statehood. They are descended from the Randolphs of Morton Moreton, Warwickshire, England.
Randolph Farms Landfill Randolph Farms Landfill is a 120 acre (486,000 m²) landfill owned by the Balkema family of Kalamazoo, Michigan, located in Randolph County, Indiana. In addition to Randolph County, it serves Delaware, Madison, Jay, Wayne, and Henry Counties in Indiana, as well as Darke and Miami Counties in Ohio.
Randolph Foundation The Randolph Foundation (TRF) is a New York-based foundation created in 1991 and re-organized in 2002 pursuant to a legal settlement between "The Smith Richardson Foundation" and other members of the Richardson family. The Foundation has a social conservative orientation.
Randolph Hunt Randolph Hunt, who was sometimes called "Randy Hunt," was the first music teacher at Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California, when the school opened on September 11, 1950.Capuchino yearbooks He is a longtime resident of Orinda, California.
Randolph Jefferson Randolph Jefferson (October 1, 1755-September 15, 1815) was a younger brother of Thomas Jefferson. After a DNA study in 1999 showed a family link between patrilineal descendants of one of Sally Hemings's sons and the Jefferson family, some writers suggested that Randolph rather than Thomas was the father of her children.
Randolph Kirkpatrick Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863 – 1950) was a British spongiologist, cnidariologist and bryozoologist. He was assistant keeper of lower invertebrates at the British Natural History Museum from 1886 until his retirement in 1927.
Randolph M. Holder Randolph Mitchell Holder was born 20 September 1918 in Jackson, Mississippi, and was commissioned Ensign 10 April 1940 following flight training. Reporting to Torpedo Squadron 6 (VT-6) in the famous aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6), he took part in the early carrier operations in the critical months following the attack on Pearl Harbor and then fought in the pivotal Battle of Midway, first of the great American successes in the sea war.
Randolph Mantooth Randolph Mantooth (born September 19, 1945) is an American character actor, best known for his work in the 1970s medical drama Emergency!, as Robert Fuller's paramedic friend, John Gage, as well as his work on soap operas starting in the 1980s.
Randolph McCoy Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy (30 October 1825—March 28 1914) was an American pioneer and the patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield-McCoy feud. His nemesis was William Anderson Hatfield.
Randolph R. Claiborne, Jr The Right Reverend Randolph Royall Cliaborne, Jr (1906-1986) was the 5th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, being elected to that office in 1952. Previously he had served as Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
Randolph Roque Calvo Bishop Randolph Roque Calvo is the seventh Bishop of Reno, ordained to the episcopate and installed as ordinary on February 17, 2006. At the time of his episcopal appointment by Pope Benedict XVI, on December 23, 2005, he was a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Randolph School Randolph School is an American independent private kindergarten-through-12th-grade college preparatory school chartered in 1959 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. It started in an antebellum home on Randolph Street with just a few elementary classes.
Randolph Street (Chicago) Randolph Street is a street in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It runs east-west through the Chicago Loop, carrying westbound traffic west from Michigan Avenue across the Chicago River on the Randolph Street Bridge, interchanging with the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/I-94), and continuing west.
Randolph Township, Portage County, Ohio Randolph Township is one of eighteen civil townships in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is located in the southeastern portion of the county, and borders or touches the following other townships and municipalities:
Randolph Zane Randolph Talcott Zane (12 August 1887 – 24 October 1918) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps during World War I. He was awarded the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while holding the town of Bouresches, France against an enemy force of superior numbers on the night of June 7-8, 1918.
Random (comics) Random (Marshall Evan Stone III) is a fictional character and anti-hero created by writer Peter David for the Marvel Comics series X-Factor. He has made only a few appearances, but was able to be a thorn in the side of X-Factor and a sometimes reluctant ally of theirs.
Random (Lady Sovereign song) "Random" is the first full single from UK hip hop artist Lady Sovereign, following the release of limited edition 12" vinyl single "Chi Ching (Cheque 1 2)" in 2004. It was her first and only single for Casual Records/Chocolate Industries in 2005.
Random 1 Random 1 is a documentary-style reality television series that aired from November 2005 to January 2006 on the A&E cable network. In each episode, hosts John Chester and Andre Miller travel from town to town, in Miller's real-life, rickety pickup truck Jackie, searching for total strangers who are looking to have their lives changed.
Random access machine In computer science, random access machine (RAM) is an abstract machine in the general class of register machines. The RAM is very similar to the counter machine but with the added capability of 'indirect addressing' of its registers.
Random access memory Random access memory (usually known by its acronym, RAM) is a type of data store used in computers. It takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to be accessed in any order — that is, at random and without the physical movement of the storage medium or a physical reading head.
Random act of kindness A random act of kindness is a purportedly selfless act performed by someone to either help or cheer up a stranger, for no reason other than to make people happier. Either spontaneous or planned in advance, RAoKs are encouraged by various communities.
Random assignment Random assignment or random placement is an experimental technique for assigning subjects to different treatments (or no treatment). The thinking behind random assignment is that by randomizing treatment assignment, then the group attributes for the different treatments will be roughly equivalent and therefore any effect observed between treatment groups can be linked to the treatment effect and is not a characteristic of the individuals in the group.
Random Access Channel Random Access Channel (RACH) is used in mobile phones or other wireless device on a TDMA-based network when it needs to get the attention of a base station in order to initially synchronize its transmission with the base station.
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) is a web based genealogical research co-op that functions solely with the services of volunteers in regional areas. It was originally started by two researchers in 1999 who saw the need for such a service in their local area.
Random Acts of Management Random Acts of Management is the 15th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. It features 280 strips across 128 pages and includes an introduction by Scott Adams It's genre is humour and is sold at the retail price of ÂŁ6.
Random ballot The random ballot voting method takes the one person one vote principle to an extreme by only counting the vote of one person. In an election or referendum, the ballot of a single voter is selected at random, and that ballot decides the result of the election.
Random digit dialing Random digit dialing (RDD) is a method for selecting people for involvement in telephone statistical surveys by generating telephone numbers at random. Random digit dialing has the advantage that it includes unlisted numbers that would be missed if the numbers were selected from a phone book.
Random dopant fluctuation Random dopant fluctuation (RDF) is a form of process variation resulting from variation in the implanted impurity concentration. In MOSFET transistors, RDF in the channel region can alter the transistor's properties, especially threshold voltage.
Random dungeon A random dungeon is a dungeon in a computer role-playing game which is generated by the computer using an algorithm, such that the dungeon is laid out differently every time the player enters it, and a player often never plays through quite the same dungeon twice. Random dungeons are usually found in the Action RPG genre of games.
Random dynamical system In mathematics, a random dynamical system is a measure-theoretic formulation of a dynamical system with an element of "randomness", such as the dynamics of solutions to a stochastic differential equation. It consists of a base flow, the "noise", and a cocycle dynamical system on the "physical" phase space.
Random effects estimation In statistics, random effects estimation is an estimation method used for the coefficients in multiple comparisons model in which the effects of different classes are random. In econometrics, random effects models are used in analysis of hierarchical or panel data when one assumes no fixed effects (i.
Random element The term random element was introduced by Maurice Frechet in 1948 to refer to a random variable that takes values in spaces more general than had previously been widely considered. Frechet commented that the "development of probability theory and expansion of area of its applications have led to necessity to pass from schemes where (random) outcomes of experience can be described by number or a finite set of numbers, to schemes where outcomes of experience represent, for example, vectors, functions, processes, fields, series, transformations, and also sets or collections of sets".
Random Encounter (film) Random Encounter is a 1998 movie directed by Douglas Jackson and written by Matt Dorff. It stars Elizabeth Berkley as a young and rising public relations executive who meets a strange man after a cocktail party, and is framed for murder.
Random Energy Model In statistical physics of disordered systems the Random Energy Model is a toy model of a system with quenched disorder. It concerns the statistics of a system of N particles, such that the number of possible states for the systems grow as 2^N, while the energy of such states is a gaussian stochastic variable.
Random fault A fault that occurs as a result of wear or other deterioration. Whereas the time of a particular occurrence of such a fault cannot be determined, the rate at which such faults occur within the equipment population on average can be predicted with accuracy.
Random field At its most basic a random field is a list of random numbers whose values are mapped onto a space (of n dimensions). Values in a random field are usually spatially correlated in one way or another, in its most basic form this might mean that adjacent values do not differ as much as values that are further apart.
Random forest In machine learning, a random forest is a classifier that consists of many decision trees and outputs the class that is the mode of the classes output by individual trees. The algorithm for inducing a random forest was developed by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler, and "Random Forests" is their trademark.
Random graph In mathematics, a random graph is a graph that is generated by some random process. The theory of random graphs lies at the intersection between graph theory and probability theory, and studies the properties of typical random graphs.
Random Harvest Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination for their work.
Random House Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. It was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they had acquired the Modern Library imprint.
Random House Dictionary of the English Language The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged was the original name of a large American dictionary, first published in 1966, and recently renamed the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Random Island Random Island is located off Canada's Atlantic coast. Part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, it is located on the east coast of Newfoundland and semi-surrounded by the Bonavista Peninsula on the north and within the confines of Trinity Bay.
Random juxtaposition Random juxtaposition refers to the stimulation of creativity in problem solving, design or other creative pursuit by confronting two unrelated concepts or objects, usually the goal or problem to be solved on the one hand and a randomly selected object or concept on the other.
Random Killing Random Killing is a punk rock band from Toronto, Ontario Canada who were assembled initially as a joke in 1984. Their original name was Roy's Comrades, which was a nod to Roy McMurtry, Attorney General of Ontario at the time.
Random map In gaming, a random map is a map generated randomly by the computer, usually in real-time strategy games. Random maps are often the core of single and multiplayer gameplay, aside from story based campaigns that are often shipped with the game.
Random match possibility Random Match Possibiliy (RMP) is a kind of measure in population genetics to measure the possibility of a person randomly picked out of the general population and matching the genotype measured exactly. A genotype has a number of alleles, and each allele has a frequency in a certain race.
Random mating In genetics, random mating (or panmixus) involves the mating of individuals regardless of any physical, genetic, or social preference. In other words, the mating between two organisms is not influenced by any environmental, hereditary, or social interaction.
Random minimal spanning tree In mathematics, random minimal spanning tree, or random MST, is a model (actually two related models) for a random tree (see also minimal spanning tree). It might be compared against the uniform spanning tree, a different model for a random tree which has been researched much more extensively.
Random neural network The random neural network (RNN) is a mathematical representation of neurons or cells which exchange spiking signals. Each cell is epresented by an integer whose value rises when the cell receives an excitatory spike and drops when it receives an inhibitory spike.
Random number generation The many applications of randomness have led to many different methods for generating random data. These methods may vary as to how unpredictable or statistically random they are, and how quickly they can generate random numbers.
Random number generator attack The security of cryptographic systems depends on some secret data that is known to authorized persons but unknown and unpredictable to others. To achieve this unpredictability, some randomization is typically employed.
Random oracle In cryptography, a random oracle is a theoretical black box that responds to every query with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain, except that for any specific query, it responds the same way every time it receives that query. Put another way, a random oracle is a mathematical function mapping every possible query to a random response from its output domain.
Random password generator A random password generator is software program or hardware device that takes input from a random or pseudo-random number generator (See random number generator) and automatically generates a password. Random passwords can be generated manually, using simple sources of randomness such as dice or coins, or they can be generated using a computer.
Random permutation statistics The statistics of random permutations, such as the cycle structure of a random permutation are of fundamental importance in the analysis of algorithms, especially of sorting algorithms, which operate on random permutations. Suppose, for example, that we are using quickselect (a cousin of quicksort) to select a random element of a random permutation.
Random self-reducibility Random self-reducibility (RSR): A good algorithm for the average case implies a good algorithm for the worst case. RSR is the ability to solve all instances of a problem by solving a large fraction of the instances.
Random Thoughts Random Thoughts is Shulman's third album, released in February of 2006 by Aleph Zero Records. It is a compilation of variously styled tracks, some Shulman remixes of songs made by other electronic artists, and others original Shulman works.
Random variable A random variable is a mathematical function that maps outcomes of random experiments to numbers. It can be thought of as the numeric result of operating a nondeterministic algorithm or performing a non-deterministic experiment to generate a random result.
Random vibration In mechanical engineering, random vibration is motion which is not regularly periodic and must be specified by statistical methods. Some common examples include an automobile riding on a rough road or the load induced on an airplane wing during flight.
Random Virus (Ace Lightning) Random Virus is a neutral character from the BBC show, Ace Lightning. Random is a cyborg who sadly is tormented by two programmes, one derived for good and another (possibly developed from a virus) that is strickened with evil, leading to personality conflicts where at times he wants to help Ace Lightning fight and others Random will help the villains fight Ace (his right eye changes color when his personality does, green to good and red to evil).
Random walk hypothesis The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory stating that stock market prices evolve according to a random walk and thus the prices of the stock market cannot be predicted. It has been described as 'jibing' with the efficient market hypothesis.
Randomized algorithm A randomized algorithm or probabilistic algorithm is an algorithm which employs a degree of randomness as part of its logic. In common practice, this means that the machine implementing the algorithm has access to a pseudo-random number generator.
Randomness The word random is used to express lack of purpose, cause, order, or predictability in non-scientific parlance. A random process is a repeating process whose outcomes follow no describable deterministic pattern, but follow a probability distribution.
Randomness extractor A randomness extractor is a function which, when applied to a high-entropy source (such as radioactive decay, or thermal noise), generates a random output that is shorter, yet uniformly distributed. In other words, outputting a completely random sample from a semi-random input.
Randonneuring Randonneuring is a type of organised long distance bicycle riding, with rides typically covering between 100 and 1,000 kilometres (60-600 miles). A participant is known as a randonneur, and an event is a randonnée.
Randoon Randoon is a middle aged Turgesius Viking fortress south west of Lough Lene. The fortress is situated upon a hill in Ranaghan dominating by its height all other ringforts in Ranaghan, while it overlooks Lough Lene, between the town of Castlepollard and Collinstown.
Randori Randori (乱取り) is a term used in Japanese martial arts to describe free-style practice or sparring, sometimes with multiple attackers. The term literally means "chaos taking" or "grasping freedom," implying a freedom from the structured practice of kata.
Randoseru The Randoseru, borrowed from the Dutch word 'ransel' meaning backpack, is a cultural icon in Japan. It has come to represent the unity, discipline, hard work and dedication that it takes to get a good education.
Rands Rands is a grey-styled alien character in the webcomic Jerkcity. He represents the real-life Michael Lopp, internet comic author and software engineering manager, who has been an active member of the blogosphere since 1996.

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