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RAF Catterick Catterick airfield first opened in 1914 as a Royal Flying Corps aerodrome with the role of training pilots and to assist in the defence of the North East of England. It came under RAF administration in 1918 and housed Number 49 Training Depot.
RAF College Cranwell The Royal Air Force College (RAFC) is the Royal Air Force establishment which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to be commissioned officers. The RAF College is based at RAF Cranwell and is sometimes titled as the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
RAF Coltishall RAF Coltishall was a Royal Air Force station near Norwich in East Anglia England. The Ministry of Defence, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review, announced that the station would close by December 2006.
RAF Cottesmore RAF Cottesmore is a Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market Overton. It houses all the operational Harrier GR7 squadrons in the Royal Air Force, and No 122 Expeditionary Air Wing.
RAF Croughton RAF Croughton is a United States Air Force communications base in Oxfordshire, England, to the southeast of the village of Croughton, (which lies just across the county boundary in Northamptonshire). The base is home to the 422nd Air Base Group and operates one of Europe's largest military switchboards and processes approximately a third of all U.
RAF Daws Hill RAF Daws Hill is a Royal Air Force base on the outskirts of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England; it is on the road towards Flackwell Heath, off the A404 road and adjacent to the M40 motorway. (RAF is pronounced as separate letters.
RAF Elgin RAF Elgin, often referred to as Bogs O’Mayne, was situated 3 miles to the south west of Elgin, to the east of the B9010, in the area bounded by Pittendreich in the North, Wester Manbeen in the west, Easter Manbeen to the south and the River Lossie to the east.
RAF Elvington RAF Elvington was the only airfield in the United Kingdom used by the remainder of the Free French Forces, flying Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers, during World War II. After the war the 400 acre airfield was extended for use by the United States Air Force but was never used.
RAF Feltwell RAF Feltwell is a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, East Anglia that is currently used by the United States Air Forces Europe. Between 1989 and 2003 it also hosted the US Air Force's 5th Space Surveillance Squadron (5 SPSS) which was subordinate to the 21st Operations Group (21 OG) and the 21st Space Wing (21 SW), both at Peterson AFB, Colorado.
RAF Fighter Command Fighter Command was one of three functional commands that dominated the public perception of the RAF for much of the mid-20th century. It was formed in 1936 to reflect the fact that as the RAF expanded prior to World War II, more specialised control of each type of aircraft: fighter, bomber and maritime patrol was needed.
RAF Folkingham RAF Folkingham was an air station of the Second World War period, established in phases on a convex hilltop by the British Royal Air Force, and lent to the United States Army Air Forces. It is now abandoned near Temple Wood, Aslackby, Lincolnshire.
RAF Fylingdales RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station on Fylingdales Moor in the North York Moors, England. It is a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
RAF Gan RAF Gan was a Royal Air Force station on Gan Island, a southerly island of the Maldive Islands, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It was first established in the late 1950s as a stopover on the reinforcement to the RAF Far East Air Force based in Singapore.
RAF Goxhill RAF Goxhill is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force station in England. It is located just to the east of the town of Goxhill, on the south bank of the Humber River estuary opposite the city of Kingston upon Hull in north Lincolnshire.
RAF Greenham Common RAF Greenham Common is a former World War II and NATO Cold War airfield located 45 miles west of London, and 2 miles southeast of Newbury, in Berkshire England. During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Force and the Royal Air Force, and during the Cold War by the United States Air Force for Strategic Air Command bombers and later for BGM-109G Gryphon Cruise missiles.
RAF Grimsby RAF Grimsby was initially opened as a satellite station for RAF Binbrook in November 1941. The station was officially named RAF Grimsby although the name of the nearby village Waltham was used by locals and servicemen.
RAF Habbaniya RAF Habbaniya was a Royal Air Force station about 55 miles west of Baghdad in modern day Iraq, near the town and lake of Habbaniya. It was operational from the late 1930s until the 1950s when then British withdrew their forces from the newly independent Iraq.
RAF High Wycombe RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. Its purpose is to serve the needs of the 2 RAF Command Headquarters, RAF Strike Command and RAF Personnel and Training Command, situated on the site.
RAF Chapel At the eastern end of Westminster Abbey in the magnificent Lady Chapel built by King Henry VII is the RAF Chapel dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940.
RAF Chipping Ongar RAF Chipping Ongar (also known as Willingale) is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located chiefly in the parish of Willingale 2 miles north-east from the town of Chipping Ongar and eight miles from Chelmsford in Essex.
RAF Intelligence The Royal Air Force Intelligence Branch is an organisation within the Royal Air Force that maintains intelligence staff and equipment. Intelligence officers and airmen of the branch and trade are involved in many duties including:
RAF Kemble RAF Kemble was a Royal Air Force airfield that was linked for many years with the Red Arrows, the RAF Aerobatic display team which operated Hawk trainers from there. Eventually the Red Arrows moved operations to RAF Scampton and the base was used by the US Air Force as a maintenance facility for A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft.
RAF Laarbruch RAF Laarbruch (motto: Ein' Feste Burg - "A Fortress Sure"), located on the Germany/Netherlands border, was home to various first-line squadrons, including II (AC) Squadron flying F-4 Phantom II; and 15 and 16 Squadrons flying BAe Buccaneers in the 1970s, followed by Jaguars in the 1980s. These were replaced by Tornadoes with four squadrons (2, 15, 16,and 20) resident.
RAF Legal Branch The Royal Air Force Legal Branch (RAFLB) or Directorate Legal Services (DLS) - as it is better known - is the uniformed "legal service provider" for the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom. It consists of professionally qualified officers (PQO); that is to say, solicitors or barristers - no pupilages or training contracts are offered.
RAF Llanbedr RAF Llanbedr is a former Royal Air Force V-bomber station on the Welsh coast near Snowdonia. It is still in Ministry of Defence ownership, with the main occupants being Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
RAF Luqa RAF Luqa was an airbase of the Royal Air Force on the island of Malta during World War II. Particularly from 1941 to 1943, RAF Luqa was a very important base for British Commonwealth forces fighting against Italy and Germany for naval control of the Mediterranean and for ground control of North Africa.
RAF Machrihanish RAF Machrihanish is a former Royal Air Force station located three miles (5 km) from the town of Campbeltown at the tip of Kintyre. It is now known as MOD Machrihanish and also incorporates Campbeltown Airport which has commercial flights to Glasgow, operated by Loganair.
RAF Membury RAF Membury is a former Royal Air Force station that is now the location for Membury services on the M4 motorway. It was one of the fictional settings of Hammond Innes' novel 'Air Bridge' about the Berlin Airlift.
RAF Metheringham During 1942, around 600 acres of farmland and woods were cleared to create a new airfield for 5 Group , [Bomber Command]. Situated between the villages of [Metheringham] and [Martin], the airfield opened in October 1943.
RAF Molesworth RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force base located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom with a history dating back to 1917. It is one of three bases in Cambridgeshire currently occupied by the United States Air Force; RAF Molesworth, RAF Alconbury, and RAF Upwood are considered the "Tri-Base Area".
RAF Mount Pleasant RAF Mount Pleasant (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport or Mount Pleasant Complex)Falkland Islands Information Portal is a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The facility is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI).
RAF North Creake RAF North Creake was a world war two era RAF Heavy Bomber airfield located just to the north of the Norfolk village of Egmere. The area is now used for agriculture, though some evidence of runways, buildings and facilities remains.
RAF North Witham RAF North Witham at British national grid reference , an air station of the Second World War period, established by the British Royal Air Force, was lent to the United States Army Air Forcess and is now abandoned in Twyford Wood, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire. Its control tower is at National Grid reference SK946222, the centre of .
RAF Northolt RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in North West Greater London, England. Approximately 10 kilometres (6 miles) north of London Heathrow Airport, it also handles a large number of civilian flights.
RAF Oulton Royal Air Force Oulton is located to the west of the market town of Aylsham in Norfolk and was built over 1939 and 1940 as a bomber airfield with T2 type hangars and grass runways, the facility operating as a satellite airfield of nearby RAF Horsham St. Faith between July 1940 and September 1942 after which it operated as a satellite airfield of RAF Swanton Morley.
RAF phonetic alphabet Following the take up of radio, the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) used a succession of radiotelephony spelling alphabets to aid communication. These have now all been superseded by the "NATO phonetic alphabet" actually the ICAO alphabet.
RAF Pembrey RAF Pembrey was a Royal Air Force station, home to 233 Operational Conversion Unit which flew de Havilland Vampires and Hawker Hunters until its closure in 1957. Site of one of only five Dome Trainer Buildings (for training AA gunners) extant in the UK.
RAF Prestwick RAF Prestwick is the home of the "Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (Military)", which is located within the civilian Scottish and Oceanic Area Control Centre, (ScOACC), at the NATS air traffic control (ATC) facility at Prestwick, in Ayrshire, Scotland.
RAF Regiment The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regt) is a specialist corps within the Royal Air Force, responsible for capturing and defending airfields and associated installations. Effectively, its members are the RAF's soldiers.
RAF Rheindahlen RAF Rheindahlen was a non-flying Royal Air Force base, part of the Rheindahlen Military Complex in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Established after World War II it served mainly as the administrative support centre for the 2nd Tactical Air Force.
RAF Rhine RAF Rhine was the name of the Royal Air Force command that comprised units posted to Germany in 1918 as part of the occupying forces following World War I. The RAF presence in Germany was wound down to a single squadron by 1920 and RAF Rhine was disbanded.
RAF Rudloe Manor RAF Rudloe Manor is a Royal Air Force station located south-east of Bath, United Kingdom. It is one of several military installations situated on the Spring Quarries, Copenacre Quarry, the villages of Hawthorn and Hudswell, and the town of Corsham.
RAF Sculthorpe RAF Sculthorpe is a helicopter training facility for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, situated about 3 miles west of Fakenham in Norfolk. Over the years has been home to many visiting airmen and support crews of the RAF and United States Air Force.
RAF St Eval RAF St Eval was a strategic airbase for the RAF Coastal Command in the Second World War (situated in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom). St Eval's primary role was to provided vital anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols off the South West coast of England.
RAF Strike Command The Royal Air Force's Strike Command is the military organization which controls the majority of the United Kingdom's combat aircraft. Strike Command is the larger of only two commands in the RAF, the other being Personnel and Training Command.
RAF Swannington RAF Swannington was a world war two era airfield located just to the north of the Norfolk village of Swannington, England. The site is now used for agriculture though some evidence of runways and buildings remains.
RAF Tangmere RAF Tangmere was a Royal Air Force station famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, located about 3 miles north east of Chichester in West Sussex. American RAF pilot Billy Fiske died at Tangmere and was the first American aviator to die during World War II.
RAF Tempsford RAF Tempsford in Bedfordshire, England was perhaps the most secret RAF airfield in World War II. It was home to the Special Duties Squadrons, 138, which dropped Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents and their supplies into occupied Europe, and 161, which specialised in personnel delivery and retrieval by landing in occupied Europe.
RAF Third Tactical Air Force The RAF Third Tactical Air Force (Third TAF), which was formed in south Asia in December 1943, was one of three tactical air forces formed by the Royal Air Force during World War II. Third TAF was formed shortly after the establishment of South East Asia Command to provide close air support to the Fourteenth Army.
RAF Transport Command RAF Transport Command was an RAF Command which controlled all transport aircraft of the air force. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming of RAF Ferry Command and renamed RAF Air Support Command in 1967.
RAF Upper Heyford RAF Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located 5 miles north-west of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. The base was actually brought into use for flying in July 1918 by the Royal Flying Corps, and it was used by the RAF in World War II as a training facility where RAF flyers learned paratroop tactics.
RAF Upwood RAF Upwood is a United States Air Force installation adjacent to the village of Upwood, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. It is one of three bases in Cambridgeshire used by the US Air Force; RAF Upwood, RAF Molesworth and RAF Alconbury are considered the Tri-Base Area.
RAF Usworth RAF Usworth was a Royal Air Force station near Sunderland which closed in 1958, becoming Sunderland Airport. The site has since been redeveloped as a factory for Nissan cars following the closure of the airport in 1984.
RAF VR(T) The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training) Branch, often abbreviated to RAFVR(T) is a voluntary element of the British Royal Air Force. Members of the RAFVR(T) have no call-up liabaility and often operate part time in the local structure of the Air Cadet Organisation - either the RAF sections of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF), or the Air Training Corps (ATC).
RAF Welford RAF Welford is a UK Royal Air Force station which is presently utilized by the United States Air Force. It is one of the largest ammunition compounds for the United States Air Force in Western Europe for heavy munitions.
RAF West Drayton RAF West Drayton at West Drayton west of London was a Royal Air Force station and the main centre for military air traffic control in Britain. It was co-located with the civilian London Area and Terminal Control Centre to provide a vital link between civil and military flying and airspace requirements.
RAF Woodbridge RAF Woodbridge is a former Royal Air Force station situated to the east of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk, England. It is famous for its wide runway which, along with the one at the former RAF base at Manston, was originally constructed to assist damaged aircraft to land on their return from raids over Germany.
RAF Wormingford RAF Wormingford is a former World War II United States Army Air Force Eighth Air Force fighter field in the United Kingdom. The airfield is located six miles west of Colchester in the parish of Fordham in Essex.
RAF Wroughton RAF Wroughton was a Royal Air Force station located just south of the village of Wroughton, Wiltshire, in the South West England region of the UK. It is situated some 7 km (4 miles) south of the town of Swindon.
RAFAEL Armament Development Authority RAFAEL Armament Development Authority, known as RAFAEL or Rafael, (also spelled as Raphael or Rephael, and in Hebrew: רפ×ל - רשות לפיתוח ×מצעי לחימה) is the Israeli authority for development of weapons and military technology. Rafael is a former sub-division of the Israeli Defence ministry and is considered a governmental firm.
RAG (student society) University Rag societies are student-run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Many universities about the UK, as well as some in South Africa and The Netherlands have a Rag.
RAGBRAI RAGBRAI (pronounced "RAG-brye") is a massive cross-state bicycle ride across Iowa that is draws recreational riders from across the United States and from overseas. RAGBRAI is an acronym for Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.
RAHI Foundation The RAHI (Recovering and Healing from Incest) Foundation is a support centre, based in New Delhi, India. It is the only centre of its kind in the country that specializes in working with adult women survivors of incest and childhood sexual abuse and offers services that are uniquely important to their recovery process.
RACHITT RACHITT (random chimeragenesis on transient templates) is a method to perform molecular mutagenesis at a high recombination rate. DNA shuffling is a similar but less powerful method used in directed evolution experiments.
RAI RAI (RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana and previously known as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the Italian public service broadcaster. It operates three terrestrial television channels and three radio channels, in addition to several satellite and digital terrestrial offerings.
RAI International RAI International is an internationally-broadcast Italian language channel run by Italy's national broadcaster, RAI. Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes, drama and documentaries as well as sports coverage including live games from Italy's top soccer league- Serie A.
RAID In computing, the acronym RAID (originally redundant array of inexpensive disks, also known as redundant array of independent disks) refers to a data storage scheme using multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. Depending on the configuration of the RAID (typically referred to as the RAID level), the benefit of RAID is to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance, throughput or capacity, compared to single drives.
RAIM RAIM is the abbreviation for Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring, a technology developed to assess the integrity of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals in a GPS receiver system. It is of special importance in safety-critical GPS applications, such as in aviation or marine navigation.
RAINMAN RAINMAN, which stands for Remote Area INformation MANager, is the proprietary publishing language of AOL (formerly America Online). It was conceptualized and coding started by Marc Seriff and completed by Craig Dykstra, both AOL founders.
RAISE RAISE (Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering) was developed as part of the European ESPRIT II LaCoS project in the 1990s, led by Dines Bjørner. It consists of a set of tools based around a specification language (RSL) for software development.
RAJAR RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research Limited) was established in 1992 to operate a single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. RAJAR is jointly owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the RadioCentre (Commercial Radio's trade body).
RAL (color space system) RAL is a color space system developed in 1927 by Reichsausschuß für Lieferbedingungen (und Gütesicherung)—German for Commission for Delivery Terms and Quality Assurance, nowadays called Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung e.V.
RAM disk A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual solid state disk that uses a segment of active computer memory, RAM, as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. Access times are greatly improved, because RAM is approximately a million times faster than hard drives.
RAM Image RAM image is a term used to describe a sequence of machine code instructions and associated data kept permanently in the non-volatile ROM memory of an embedded system, which is copied into volatile RAM by a bootstrap loader. Typically the RAM image is loaded into RAM when the system is switched on, and it contains a second-level bootstrap loader and basic hardware drivers, enabling the unit to function as desired, or else more sophisticated software to be loaded into the system.
RAM Mobile Data RAM Mobile Data was originally founded by RAM Broadcasting Corporation as American Mobile Data Communications, Inc. in 1988RAM Broadcasting Corporation was an owner of Regional Paging Companies and Cellular Companies The name of the company was changed to RAM Mobile Data in 1989.
RAM Racing RAM Racing was a Formula One racing team which competed during the racing seasons of 1976 to 1985. The team entered other manufacturers' chassis from 1976 to 1980, then ran March's team from 1981 to 1983, only entering a car entirely their own in 1984 and 1985.
RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter is a combination of three fast DACs with a small SRAM used in graphics display adapters to store the color palette and to generate the analog signals (usually a voltage amplitude) to drive a colour monitor. The logical colour number from the display memory is fed into the address inputs of the SRAM to select a palette entry to appear on the output of the SRAM.
RAMJAC The RAMJAC Corporation is a partly fictional multinational conglomerate, or megacorp, featured in several novels by Kurt Vonnegut. In Jailbird, the company at its height owns 19 percent of the United States, twice as large as the next largest conglomerate in the "Free World".
RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series) RAN (Remote Area Nurse) is an Australian television program (drama series), filmed entirely on Masig Island (Yorke Island) in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northern-most part of Australia (State of Queensland), and the border with Papua New Guinea.
RANCID RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a network management application. RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses Concurrent Version System (CVS) or Subversion (SVN) to maintain history of changes.
RAND The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces. The organization has since expanded to working with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations.
RAND Health Insurance Experiment The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was a comprehensive study of health care cost, utilization and outcome in the United States. It is the only randomized study of health insurance, and the only study which can give definitive evidence as to the causal effects of different health insurance plans.
RAR (file format) In computing, RAR is a proprietary file format for data compression and archiving, developed by Eugene Roshal (hence the name RAR: Roshal ARchive). Some people mistakenly believe that RAR stands for "<B>R</B>ussian <B>AR</B>chiver".
RARDEN The RARDEN cannon is a British 30 mm armoured vehicle weapon. It took its name from the designers, the research department of the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), Enfield, which had a long history of weapon development for the British Armed Forces — the final EN denoting Enfield.
RAS syndrome RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome) is a common tendency to use one of the words which make up an acronym or initialism as well as the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating that word. "RAS syndrome" is itself an humorous example, coined in 2001 in New Scientist magazine.
RASH (film) RASH the film completed in 2005 is a contemporary story of Melbourne Australia and the artists who make it a living host for illegal artwork called street art. RASH the documentary film explores the cultural value of unsanctioned public art and the ways that street art and graffiti contribute to a very public dialogue.
RASSL RASSL, Receptor Activated Solely by a Synthetic Ligand, permits spatial and temporal control of G protein signaling in vivo. The system utilizes G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) engineered to respond exclusively to synthetic small molecule ligands and not to their natural ligand(s).
RAST test A RAST test (short for radioallergosorbent test) is a blood test used to determine what a person is allergic to. This is different from a skin allergy test, which determines allergy by the reaction of a person's skin to different substances.
RATB route 433 Route 433 is a regional bus route run by RATB, the public transport operator of Bucharest, Romania. It runs from Ghencea in Bucharest's Sector 6 to the nearby commune of DÄrÄĹźti in Ilfov County, via the town of MÄgurele.
RATB route 783 Route 783 is an express bus route in Bucharest, Romania, run by RATB. It provides a connection between Henri CoandÄ International Airport (formerly Otopeni) and Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (formerly Baneasa), the two main airports serving Bucharest, and PiaĹŁa Unirii, one of the city's main squares and transport interchanges.
RAW (magazine) RAW was a groundbreaking comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published from 1980 to 1991. It is considered by many to be the flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the underground tradition of Zap and Arcade.
RAW image format A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to use with a bitmap graphics editor, printed, or displayed by a typical web browser.
RAYNET RAYNET (Radio Amateurs Emergency Network) is a British national voluntary communications service provided by amateur radio operators. It was formed in 1953 and exists to supplement national communication channels in the event of an emergency.
RĂas Baixas The RĂas Baixas are the Atlantic facing southern a part of Costa del Marisco in the Galicia region of Spain. They consist of the Southern part of the Province of Coruña and the entire Province of Pontevedra.
RĂo Ceballos The city of RĂo Ceballos is an important tourist destination in the Province of CĂłrdoba located in the center of Argentina. RĂo Ceballos is located at the foot of the Sierras Chicas, about 30 km north of the provincial capital of CĂłrdoba and is part of the Greater CĂłrdoba area.
RĂo de EmociĂłn RĂo de EmociĂłn is the sixth and most recent full-length album by the Japanese group Dragon Ash; released in 2005. It draws heavily on Spanish influences, with several of the tracks drawing influences from Spanish music and instruments.
RĂo de la Plata The RĂo de la Plata (Spanish: "Silver River") — which is often referred to in English-speaking countries as the River Plate (as in the Battle of the River Plate), or sometimes as the [La] Plata River — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River. It is a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America, extending 290 km (180 miles) from the rivers' confluence to the Atlantic Ocean.
RĂo de La Plata Bank RĂo de La Plata is a bank in the Spanish capital of Madrid built by Spanish architect, Antonio Palacios. The building was later the head office of the Banco Central, then of the Banco Santander Central Hispano.
RĂo de Oro RĂo de Oro (Spanish for "Gold River", Arabic: wÄdÄ«-Ă°-Ă°ahab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it was originally taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century. Its name seems to come from an east-west river which was supposed to have run through it formerly.
RĂo Grande (Bolivia) The RĂo Grande (or RĂo Guapay) in Bolivia rises on the southern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, at . At its source it is known as the RĂo Rocha and crosses the Cochabamba valley basin in a westerly direction.
RAF College Cranwell The Royal Air Force College (RAFC) is the Royal Air Force establishment which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to be commissioned officers. The RAF College is based at RAF Cranwell and is sometimes titled as the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
RAF Coltishall RAF Coltishall was a Royal Air Force station near Norwich in East Anglia England. The Ministry of Defence, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review, announced that the station would close by December 2006.
RAF Cottesmore RAF Cottesmore is a Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market Overton. It houses all the operational Harrier GR7 squadrons in the Royal Air Force, and No 122 Expeditionary Air Wing.
RAF Croughton RAF Croughton is a United States Air Force communications base in Oxfordshire, England, to the southeast of the village of Croughton, (which lies just across the county boundary in Northamptonshire). The base is home to the 422nd Air Base Group and operates one of Europe's largest military switchboards and processes approximately a third of all U.
RAF Daws Hill RAF Daws Hill is a Royal Air Force base on the outskirts of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England; it is on the road towards Flackwell Heath, off the A404 road and adjacent to the M40 motorway. (RAF is pronounced as separate letters.
RAF Elgin RAF Elgin, often referred to as Bogs O’Mayne, was situated 3 miles to the south west of Elgin, to the east of the B9010, in the area bounded by Pittendreich in the North, Wester Manbeen in the west, Easter Manbeen to the south and the River Lossie to the east.
RAF Elvington RAF Elvington was the only airfield in the United Kingdom used by the remainder of the Free French Forces, flying Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers, during World War II. After the war the 400 acre airfield was extended for use by the United States Air Force but was never used.
RAF Feltwell RAF Feltwell is a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, East Anglia that is currently used by the United States Air Forces Europe. Between 1989 and 2003 it also hosted the US Air Force's 5th Space Surveillance Squadron (5 SPSS) which was subordinate to the 21st Operations Group (21 OG) and the 21st Space Wing (21 SW), both at Peterson AFB, Colorado.
RAF Fighter Command Fighter Command was one of three functional commands that dominated the public perception of the RAF for much of the mid-20th century. It was formed in 1936 to reflect the fact that as the RAF expanded prior to World War II, more specialised control of each type of aircraft: fighter, bomber and maritime patrol was needed.
RAF Folkingham RAF Folkingham was an air station of the Second World War period, established in phases on a convex hilltop by the British Royal Air Force, and lent to the United States Army Air Forces. It is now abandoned near Temple Wood, Aslackby, Lincolnshire.
RAF Fylingdales RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station on Fylingdales Moor in the North York Moors, England. It is a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
RAF Gan RAF Gan was a Royal Air Force station on Gan Island, a southerly island of the Maldive Islands, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It was first established in the late 1950s as a stopover on the reinforcement to the RAF Far East Air Force based in Singapore.
RAF Goxhill RAF Goxhill is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force station in England. It is located just to the east of the town of Goxhill, on the south bank of the Humber River estuary opposite the city of Kingston upon Hull in north Lincolnshire.
RAF Greenham Common RAF Greenham Common is a former World War II and NATO Cold War airfield located 45 miles west of London, and 2 miles southeast of Newbury, in Berkshire England. During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Force and the Royal Air Force, and during the Cold War by the United States Air Force for Strategic Air Command bombers and later for BGM-109G Gryphon Cruise missiles.
RAF Grimsby RAF Grimsby was initially opened as a satellite station for RAF Binbrook in November 1941. The station was officially named RAF Grimsby although the name of the nearby village Waltham was used by locals and servicemen.
RAF Habbaniya RAF Habbaniya was a Royal Air Force station about 55 miles west of Baghdad in modern day Iraq, near the town and lake of Habbaniya. It was operational from the late 1930s until the 1950s when then British withdrew their forces from the newly independent Iraq.
RAF High Wycombe RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. Its purpose is to serve the needs of the 2 RAF Command Headquarters, RAF Strike Command and RAF Personnel and Training Command, situated on the site.
RAF Chapel At the eastern end of Westminster Abbey in the magnificent Lady Chapel built by King Henry VII is the RAF Chapel dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940.
RAF Chipping Ongar RAF Chipping Ongar (also known as Willingale) is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located chiefly in the parish of Willingale 2 miles north-east from the town of Chipping Ongar and eight miles from Chelmsford in Essex.
RAF Intelligence The Royal Air Force Intelligence Branch is an organisation within the Royal Air Force that maintains intelligence staff and equipment. Intelligence officers and airmen of the branch and trade are involved in many duties including:
RAF Kemble RAF Kemble was a Royal Air Force airfield that was linked for many years with the Red Arrows, the RAF Aerobatic display team which operated Hawk trainers from there. Eventually the Red Arrows moved operations to RAF Scampton and the base was used by the US Air Force as a maintenance facility for A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft.
RAF Laarbruch RAF Laarbruch (motto: Ein' Feste Burg - "A Fortress Sure"), located on the Germany/Netherlands border, was home to various first-line squadrons, including II (AC) Squadron flying F-4 Phantom II; and 15 and 16 Squadrons flying BAe Buccaneers in the 1970s, followed by Jaguars in the 1980s. These were replaced by Tornadoes with four squadrons (2, 15, 16,and 20) resident.
RAF Legal Branch The Royal Air Force Legal Branch (RAFLB) or Directorate Legal Services (DLS) - as it is better known - is the uniformed "legal service provider" for the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom. It consists of professionally qualified officers (PQO); that is to say, solicitors or barristers - no pupilages or training contracts are offered.
RAF Llanbedr RAF Llanbedr is a former Royal Air Force V-bomber station on the Welsh coast near Snowdonia. It is still in Ministry of Defence ownership, with the main occupants being Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
RAF Luqa RAF Luqa was an airbase of the Royal Air Force on the island of Malta during World War II. Particularly from 1941 to 1943, RAF Luqa was a very important base for British Commonwealth forces fighting against Italy and Germany for naval control of the Mediterranean and for ground control of North Africa.
RAF Machrihanish RAF Machrihanish is a former Royal Air Force station located three miles (5 km) from the town of Campbeltown at the tip of Kintyre. It is now known as MOD Machrihanish and also incorporates Campbeltown Airport which has commercial flights to Glasgow, operated by Loganair.
RAF Membury RAF Membury is a former Royal Air Force station that is now the location for Membury services on the M4 motorway. It was one of the fictional settings of Hammond Innes' novel 'Air Bridge' about the Berlin Airlift.
RAF Metheringham During 1942, around 600 acres of farmland and woods were cleared to create a new airfield for 5 Group , [Bomber Command]. Situated between the villages of [Metheringham] and [Martin], the airfield opened in October 1943.
RAF Molesworth RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force base located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom with a history dating back to 1917. It is one of three bases in Cambridgeshire currently occupied by the United States Air Force; RAF Molesworth, RAF Alconbury, and RAF Upwood are considered the "Tri-Base Area".
RAF Mount Pleasant RAF Mount Pleasant (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport or Mount Pleasant Complex)Falkland Islands Information Portal is a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The facility is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI).
RAF North Creake RAF North Creake was a world war two era RAF Heavy Bomber airfield located just to the north of the Norfolk village of Egmere. The area is now used for agriculture, though some evidence of runways, buildings and facilities remains.
RAF North Witham RAF North Witham at British national grid reference , an air station of the Second World War period, established by the British Royal Air Force, was lent to the United States Army Air Forcess and is now abandoned in Twyford Wood, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire. Its control tower is at National Grid reference SK946222, the centre of .
RAF Northolt RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in North West Greater London, England. Approximately 10 kilometres (6 miles) north of London Heathrow Airport, it also handles a large number of civilian flights.
RAF Oulton Royal Air Force Oulton is located to the west of the market town of Aylsham in Norfolk and was built over 1939 and 1940 as a bomber airfield with T2 type hangars and grass runways, the facility operating as a satellite airfield of nearby RAF Horsham St. Faith between July 1940 and September 1942 after which it operated as a satellite airfield of RAF Swanton Morley.
RAF phonetic alphabet Following the take up of radio, the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) used a succession of radiotelephony spelling alphabets to aid communication. These have now all been superseded by the "NATO phonetic alphabet" actually the ICAO alphabet.
RAF Pembrey RAF Pembrey was a Royal Air Force station, home to 233 Operational Conversion Unit which flew de Havilland Vampires and Hawker Hunters until its closure in 1957. Site of one of only five Dome Trainer Buildings (for training AA gunners) extant in the UK.
RAF Prestwick RAF Prestwick is the home of the "Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (Military)", which is located within the civilian Scottish and Oceanic Area Control Centre, (ScOACC), at the NATS air traffic control (ATC) facility at Prestwick, in Ayrshire, Scotland.
RAF Regiment The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regt) is a specialist corps within the Royal Air Force, responsible for capturing and defending airfields and associated installations. Effectively, its members are the RAF's soldiers.
RAF Rheindahlen RAF Rheindahlen was a non-flying Royal Air Force base, part of the Rheindahlen Military Complex in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Established after World War II it served mainly as the administrative support centre for the 2nd Tactical Air Force.
RAF Rhine RAF Rhine was the name of the Royal Air Force command that comprised units posted to Germany in 1918 as part of the occupying forces following World War I. The RAF presence in Germany was wound down to a single squadron by 1920 and RAF Rhine was disbanded.
RAF Rudloe Manor RAF Rudloe Manor is a Royal Air Force station located south-east of Bath, United Kingdom. It is one of several military installations situated on the Spring Quarries, Copenacre Quarry, the villages of Hawthorn and Hudswell, and the town of Corsham.
RAF Sculthorpe RAF Sculthorpe is a helicopter training facility for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, situated about 3 miles west of Fakenham in Norfolk. Over the years has been home to many visiting airmen and support crews of the RAF and United States Air Force.
RAF St Eval RAF St Eval was a strategic airbase for the RAF Coastal Command in the Second World War (situated in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom). St Eval's primary role was to provided vital anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols off the South West coast of England.
RAF Strike Command The Royal Air Force's Strike Command is the military organization which controls the majority of the United Kingdom's combat aircraft. Strike Command is the larger of only two commands in the RAF, the other being Personnel and Training Command.
RAF Swannington RAF Swannington was a world war two era airfield located just to the north of the Norfolk village of Swannington, England. The site is now used for agriculture though some evidence of runways and buildings remains.
RAF Tangmere RAF Tangmere was a Royal Air Force station famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, located about 3 miles north east of Chichester in West Sussex. American RAF pilot Billy Fiske died at Tangmere and was the first American aviator to die during World War II.
RAF Tempsford RAF Tempsford in Bedfordshire, England was perhaps the most secret RAF airfield in World War II. It was home to the Special Duties Squadrons, 138, which dropped Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents and their supplies into occupied Europe, and 161, which specialised in personnel delivery and retrieval by landing in occupied Europe.
RAF Third Tactical Air Force The RAF Third Tactical Air Force (Third TAF), which was formed in south Asia in December 1943, was one of three tactical air forces formed by the Royal Air Force during World War II. Third TAF was formed shortly after the establishment of South East Asia Command to provide close air support to the Fourteenth Army.
RAF Transport Command RAF Transport Command was an RAF Command which controlled all transport aircraft of the air force. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming of RAF Ferry Command and renamed RAF Air Support Command in 1967.
RAF Upper Heyford RAF Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located 5 miles north-west of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. The base was actually brought into use for flying in July 1918 by the Royal Flying Corps, and it was used by the RAF in World War II as a training facility where RAF flyers learned paratroop tactics.
RAF Upwood RAF Upwood is a United States Air Force installation adjacent to the village of Upwood, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. It is one of three bases in Cambridgeshire used by the US Air Force; RAF Upwood, RAF Molesworth and RAF Alconbury are considered the Tri-Base Area.
RAF Usworth RAF Usworth was a Royal Air Force station near Sunderland which closed in 1958, becoming Sunderland Airport. The site has since been redeveloped as a factory for Nissan cars following the closure of the airport in 1984.
RAF VR(T) The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training) Branch, often abbreviated to RAFVR(T) is a voluntary element of the British Royal Air Force. Members of the RAFVR(T) have no call-up liabaility and often operate part time in the local structure of the Air Cadet Organisation - either the RAF sections of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF), or the Air Training Corps (ATC).
RAF Welford RAF Welford is a UK Royal Air Force station which is presently utilized by the United States Air Force. It is one of the largest ammunition compounds for the United States Air Force in Western Europe for heavy munitions.
RAF West Drayton RAF West Drayton at West Drayton west of London was a Royal Air Force station and the main centre for military air traffic control in Britain. It was co-located with the civilian London Area and Terminal Control Centre to provide a vital link between civil and military flying and airspace requirements.
RAF Woodbridge RAF Woodbridge is a former Royal Air Force station situated to the east of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk, England. It is famous for its wide runway which, along with the one at the former RAF base at Manston, was originally constructed to assist damaged aircraft to land on their return from raids over Germany.
RAF Wormingford RAF Wormingford is a former World War II United States Army Air Force Eighth Air Force fighter field in the United Kingdom. The airfield is located six miles west of Colchester in the parish of Fordham in Essex.
RAF Wroughton RAF Wroughton was a Royal Air Force station located just south of the village of Wroughton, Wiltshire, in the South West England region of the UK. It is situated some 7 km (4 miles) south of the town of Swindon.
RAFAEL Armament Development Authority RAFAEL Armament Development Authority, known as RAFAEL or Rafael, (also spelled as Raphael or Rephael, and in Hebrew: רפ×ל - רשות לפיתוח ×מצעי לחימה) is the Israeli authority for development of weapons and military technology. Rafael is a former sub-division of the Israeli Defence ministry and is considered a governmental firm.
RAG (student society) University Rag societies are student-run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Many universities about the UK, as well as some in South Africa and The Netherlands have a Rag.
RAGBRAI RAGBRAI (pronounced "RAG-brye") is a massive cross-state bicycle ride across Iowa that is draws recreational riders from across the United States and from overseas. RAGBRAI is an acronym for Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.
RAHI Foundation The RAHI (Recovering and Healing from Incest) Foundation is a support centre, based in New Delhi, India. It is the only centre of its kind in the country that specializes in working with adult women survivors of incest and childhood sexual abuse and offers services that are uniquely important to their recovery process.
RACHITT RACHITT (random chimeragenesis on transient templates) is a method to perform molecular mutagenesis at a high recombination rate. DNA shuffling is a similar but less powerful method used in directed evolution experiments.
RAI RAI (RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana and previously known as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the Italian public service broadcaster. It operates three terrestrial television channels and three radio channels, in addition to several satellite and digital terrestrial offerings.
RAI International RAI International is an internationally-broadcast Italian language channel run by Italy's national broadcaster, RAI. Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes, drama and documentaries as well as sports coverage including live games from Italy's top soccer league- Serie A.
RAID In computing, the acronym RAID (originally redundant array of inexpensive disks, also known as redundant array of independent disks) refers to a data storage scheme using multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. Depending on the configuration of the RAID (typically referred to as the RAID level), the benefit of RAID is to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance, throughput or capacity, compared to single drives.
RAIM RAIM is the abbreviation for Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring, a technology developed to assess the integrity of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals in a GPS receiver system. It is of special importance in safety-critical GPS applications, such as in aviation or marine navigation.
RAINMAN RAINMAN, which stands for Remote Area INformation MANager, is the proprietary publishing language of AOL (formerly America Online). It was conceptualized and coding started by Marc Seriff and completed by Craig Dykstra, both AOL founders.
RAISE RAISE (Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering) was developed as part of the European ESPRIT II LaCoS project in the 1990s, led by Dines Bjørner. It consists of a set of tools based around a specification language (RSL) for software development.
RAJAR RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research Limited) was established in 1992 to operate a single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. RAJAR is jointly owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the RadioCentre (Commercial Radio's trade body).
RAL (color space system) RAL is a color space system developed in 1927 by Reichsausschuß für Lieferbedingungen (und Gütesicherung)—German for Commission for Delivery Terms and Quality Assurance, nowadays called Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung e.V.
RAM disk A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual solid state disk that uses a segment of active computer memory, RAM, as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. Access times are greatly improved, because RAM is approximately a million times faster than hard drives.
RAM Image RAM image is a term used to describe a sequence of machine code instructions and associated data kept permanently in the non-volatile ROM memory of an embedded system, which is copied into volatile RAM by a bootstrap loader. Typically the RAM image is loaded into RAM when the system is switched on, and it contains a second-level bootstrap loader and basic hardware drivers, enabling the unit to function as desired, or else more sophisticated software to be loaded into the system.
RAM Mobile Data RAM Mobile Data was originally founded by RAM Broadcasting Corporation as American Mobile Data Communications, Inc. in 1988RAM Broadcasting Corporation was an owner of Regional Paging Companies and Cellular Companies The name of the company was changed to RAM Mobile Data in 1989.
RAM Racing RAM Racing was a Formula One racing team which competed during the racing seasons of 1976 to 1985. The team entered other manufacturers' chassis from 1976 to 1980, then ran March's team from 1981 to 1983, only entering a car entirely their own in 1984 and 1985.
RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter is a combination of three fast DACs with a small SRAM used in graphics display adapters to store the color palette and to generate the analog signals (usually a voltage amplitude) to drive a colour monitor. The logical colour number from the display memory is fed into the address inputs of the SRAM to select a palette entry to appear on the output of the SRAM.
RAMJAC The RAMJAC Corporation is a partly fictional multinational conglomerate, or megacorp, featured in several novels by Kurt Vonnegut. In Jailbird, the company at its height owns 19 percent of the United States, twice as large as the next largest conglomerate in the "Free World".
RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series) RAN (Remote Area Nurse) is an Australian television program (drama series), filmed entirely on Masig Island (Yorke Island) in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northern-most part of Australia (State of Queensland), and the border with Papua New Guinea.
RANCID RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a network management application. RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses Concurrent Version System (CVS) or Subversion (SVN) to maintain history of changes.
RAND The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces. The organization has since expanded to working with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations.
RAND Health Insurance Experiment The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was a comprehensive study of health care cost, utilization and outcome in the United States. It is the only randomized study of health insurance, and the only study which can give definitive evidence as to the causal effects of different health insurance plans.
RAR (file format) In computing, RAR is a proprietary file format for data compression and archiving, developed by Eugene Roshal (hence the name RAR: Roshal ARchive). Some people mistakenly believe that RAR stands for "<B>R</B>ussian <B>AR</B>chiver".
RARDEN The RARDEN cannon is a British 30 mm armoured vehicle weapon. It took its name from the designers, the research department of the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), Enfield, which had a long history of weapon development for the British Armed Forces — the final EN denoting Enfield.
RAS syndrome RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome) is a common tendency to use one of the words which make up an acronym or initialism as well as the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating that word. "RAS syndrome" is itself an humorous example, coined in 2001 in New Scientist magazine.
RASH (film) RASH the film completed in 2005 is a contemporary story of Melbourne Australia and the artists who make it a living host for illegal artwork called street art. RASH the documentary film explores the cultural value of unsanctioned public art and the ways that street art and graffiti contribute to a very public dialogue.
RASSL RASSL, Receptor Activated Solely by a Synthetic Ligand, permits spatial and temporal control of G protein signaling in vivo. The system utilizes G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) engineered to respond exclusively to synthetic small molecule ligands and not to their natural ligand(s).
RAST test A RAST test (short for radioallergosorbent test) is a blood test used to determine what a person is allergic to. This is different from a skin allergy test, which determines allergy by the reaction of a person's skin to different substances.
RATB route 433 Route 433 is a regional bus route run by RATB, the public transport operator of Bucharest, Romania. It runs from Ghencea in Bucharest's Sector 6 to the nearby commune of DÄrÄĹźti in Ilfov County, via the town of MÄgurele.
RATB route 783 Route 783 is an express bus route in Bucharest, Romania, run by RATB. It provides a connection between Henri CoandÄ International Airport (formerly Otopeni) and Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (formerly Baneasa), the two main airports serving Bucharest, and PiaĹŁa Unirii, one of the city's main squares and transport interchanges.
RAW (magazine) RAW was a groundbreaking comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published from 1980 to 1991. It is considered by many to be the flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the underground tradition of Zap and Arcade.
RAW image format A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to use with a bitmap graphics editor, printed, or displayed by a typical web browser.
RAYNET RAYNET (Radio Amateurs Emergency Network) is a British national voluntary communications service provided by amateur radio operators. It was formed in 1953 and exists to supplement national communication channels in the event of an emergency.
RĂas Baixas The RĂas Baixas are the Atlantic facing southern a part of Costa del Marisco in the Galicia region of Spain. They consist of the Southern part of the Province of Coruña and the entire Province of Pontevedra.
RĂo Ceballos The city of RĂo Ceballos is an important tourist destination in the Province of CĂłrdoba located in the center of Argentina. RĂo Ceballos is located at the foot of the Sierras Chicas, about 30 km north of the provincial capital of CĂłrdoba and is part of the Greater CĂłrdoba area.
RĂo de EmociĂłn RĂo de EmociĂłn is the sixth and most recent full-length album by the Japanese group Dragon Ash; released in 2005. It draws heavily on Spanish influences, with several of the tracks drawing influences from Spanish music and instruments.
RĂo de la Plata The RĂo de la Plata (Spanish: "Silver River") — which is often referred to in English-speaking countries as the River Plate (as in the Battle of the River Plate), or sometimes as the [La] Plata River — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River. It is a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America, extending 290 km (180 miles) from the rivers' confluence to the Atlantic Ocean.
RĂo de La Plata Bank RĂo de La Plata is a bank in the Spanish capital of Madrid built by Spanish architect, Antonio Palacios. The building was later the head office of the Banco Central, then of the Banco Santander Central Hispano.
RĂo de Oro RĂo de Oro (Spanish for "Gold River", Arabic: wÄdÄ«-Ă°-Ă°ahab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it was originally taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century. Its name seems to come from an east-west river which was supposed to have run through it formerly.
RĂo Grande (Bolivia) The RĂo Grande (or RĂo Guapay) in Bolivia rises on the southern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, at . At its source it is known as the RĂo Rocha and crosses the Cochabamba valley basin in a westerly direction.
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