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Reading University Students' Union The Reading University Students' Union (also known as RUSU) is the recognised student organisation of the University of Reading, in England. It has its own buildings on both Bulmershe and Whiteknights campuses.
Reading Viaduct The Reading Viaduct is the common name for an abandoned railroad viaduct in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formerly owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway. It opened in 1893, and was built by the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad as an approach to the new Reading Terminal.
Reading West (UK Parliament constituency) Reading West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like all such constituencies, it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Reading Window School The Reading Window School is a small non-profit which assists often disadvantaged children with literacy problems in rural central Virginia. The Reading Window School uses an innovative one-to-one tutoring method designed by its founder Piper Martin.
Reading, Berkshire Reading is a town, unitary authority (the Borough of Reading) and urban area in the English county of Berkshire. It is located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway.
Reading, Pennsylvania Reading (pronounced redd'-ing) is the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania. In the 2000 census, the city had a population of 81,207, making it the fifth largest in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and Erie.
Reading/Wokingham Urban Area The Reading/Wokingham Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics to a conurbation in Berkshire, England, with a population of 369,804 (2001 census), up 10.1% from the 1991 figure of 335,757.
Readingrockets.org Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how children learn to read, why so many have trouble, and how parents, teachers, and other adults can help. These resources include documentary television programs, the Reading Rockets website, and professional development tools for teachers and educators such as webcasts and podcasts.
Readington Township Public Schools The Readington Township Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in grades kindergarten through grade eight from Readington Township, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.
Readjuster Party The Readjuster Party was a political faction formed in Virginia in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following the American Civil War. Readjusters aspired "to break the power of wealth and established privilege" and to promote public education.
Readspel Readspel is a new script or writing system invented by Kingsley Read. It is based on the Roman alphabet, but with new meanings for the letters, so that each symbol represents a distinct phoneme in the English language, and, more importantly, each phoneme in English can be represented with only one symbol.
Readville, Massachusetts Readville is a part of Boston. It is officially part of the Hyde Park neighborhood, according to the subdivisions of the city defined by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, although some, consider Readville to be an autonomous neighborhood within Boston.
Ready an' Willing Ready An' Willing was Whitesnake's 1980 album and featured two of the band's UK single-hits from that year: "Fool For Your Loving", which reached No. 13 in the charts in April 1980 and the title-track, "Ready An' Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)", which made No.
Ready at Dawn Ready at Dawn is a video game developer located in Santa Ana, California and is comprised of some of the former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment. Formed in 2003, they have recently released their first title, Daxter, for the PlayStation Portable.
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR (), abbreviated as GTO () was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11 1931 on the initiative by VLKSM. It was a sort of the complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR.
Ready Five Ready Five, also referred to as Alert Five in the movie Top Gun, is a condition of high alert for aircraft crews on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in which they are ready to launch within five minutes. Fighter aircraft are placed on the steam catapult complete with flight crew, armament, and fuel, ready to defend the carrier battle group from any unforeseen threat.
Ready or Not Ready or Not (French title: Premières fois) was a television program which aired on the Showtime Movie Channel and later on the Disney Channel and Global Television Network for 5 seasons and 65 episodes between January 1, 1993 and January 1, 1997. The program follows teenagers Amanda Zimm (Laura Bertram) and Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone (Lani Billard) throughout life's struggles.
Ready or Not (Fugees song) "Ready or Not" is the second single from The Fugees' highly succesful album, The Score. It contains a sample from "Ready Or Not, Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)" written by Thom Bell and William Hart, and from "Boadicea" by Enya, for which Enya was prepared to sue for copyright infringement.
Ready room (Star Trek) In the Star Trek science fiction universe, the ready room is a room located either adjacent to or near the bridge on Federation Starships and Installations. This room serves as an office for the commanding officer.
Ready Records Ready Records was a small but influential independent record label based out of Toronto, Canada that signed a number of influential New Wave and Indie Rock bands from the early to mid-1980s. Focusing primarily on local Toronto-area talent, it released 7" and 12" singles, LPs and cassettes.
Ready to Rumble Ready to Rumble is a 2000 comedy movie directed by Brian Robbins and written by Steven Brill, which is based on the now defunct professional wrestling promotion, World Championship Wrestling. The movie draws its title from Michael Buffer's catchphrase, "Let's get ready to rumble!
Ready-mix concrete Ready-mix concrete is a type of concrete that is manufactured in a factory according to a set recipe, and then delivered to a worksite, often by truck. This results in a precise mixture, allowing specialty concrete mixtures to be developed and implemented on construction sites.
Ready-mix lightweight joint compound Ready-mix lightweight joint compound is a pre-made form of joint compound designed for fast application and easy maintenance. The compound is a complex combination of water, limestone, expanded perlite, ethylene-vinyl acetate polymer and attapulgate.
Ready-to-assemble furniture Ready-To-Assemble (RTA) furniture, also known as 'flat packs' was created to solve a fundamental problem in shipping furniture: the relatively high cost of shipping the products compared to the low cost of actually producing them. All the pieces of the product are shipped in a very compact box with detailed instructions on how to assemble the unit.
Ready-to-wear Ready-to-wear or prĂŞt-Ă -porter is the fashion design term for clothing marketed in a finished condition, in standard clothing sizes (in casual usage, off the rack or "off-the-peg"). Some fashion houses or fashion designers create ready-to-wear lines that are mass-produced and industrially manufactured, while others offer lines that are very exclusive and produced only in limited numbers and only for a limited time.
ReadyLink ReadyLink is a "walkie-talkie" service, which utilizes Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), offered by the Sprint Nextel Corporation. You must have a Sanyo or a Samsung ReadyLink capable phone and a matching service-plan in order to use this feature.
Readymades of Marcel Duchamp The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that he selected then sometimes modified, and deemed art. By choosing the object, giving it a title and signing it, the object became a work of art.
Readymix Corporation Group RMC, a construction supplies company based in the United Kingdom, is a leading international producer and supplier of materials, products and services used primarily in the construction industry. It is one of Europe's largest producers of cement and aggregates as well as the world's largest supplier of ready mixed concrete.
Reaffirmation agreement A reaffirmation agreement in United States bankruptcy law refers to an agreement made between a creditor and the debtor that waives discharge of a debt that would otherwise be discharged in the pending bankruptcy proceeding. A properly executed, timely filed reaffirmation agreement modifies the discharge such that it is rendered inoperable against the subject debt.
Reagan administration scandals The Reagan administration saw several controversies unfold in their ranks which resulted in a number of administration staffers being convicted. The most well known, the Iran-Contra affair, involved a plan whereby weapons were sold to Iran and the profits diverted to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
Reagan coalition The Reagan coalition was the combination of voters that Republican Ronald Reagan assembled to produce a major realignment with his landslide in the 1980. In 1980 the Reagan coalition was possible because of Democrat Jimmy Carter's losses in most social-economic groups.
Reagan Democrat The term Reagan Democrat is used by political commentators to denote traditionally Democratic voters, especially white working-class Northerners, who defected from their party to support President Ronald Reagan, in both the 1980 and 1984 elections. It is also used to refer to the smaller but still substantial number of Democrats who voted for George H.
Reagan Doctrine The Reagan Doctrine was an important strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. While the doctrine lasted less than a decade, it was a centerpiece of American foreign policy from the mid-1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Reagan transfer of power On July 12, 1985, President Ronald Reagan underwent a colonoscopy procedure, during which a pre-cancerous tumor known as a villous adenoma was discovered. The following day, July 13, 1985, Reagan underwent surgery to remove the tumor, leading to the first invocation of Section 3 (the "Acting President" provisions) of the 25th amendment.
Reagan Youth Reagan Youth (a play on Hitler Youth) was a band started by singer Dave Rubinstein (Dave Insurgent) and his friend and guitarist Paul Bakija in Queens in the early 1980s. They have been labeled peace punk as well as hardcore.
Reagan's coattails Reagan's coattails refers to the influence of Ronald Reagan's popularity in elections other than his own, after the American political expression to "ride in on another's coattails." Chiefly, it refers to the "Reagan Revolution" accompanying his 1980 election to the U.
Reaganomics Reaganomics (a portmanteau of "Reagan" and "economics," coined by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey) is a term that has been used to both describe and decry the free market advocacy economic policies of U.S.
Reach (advertising) In the application of statistics to advertising and media analysis, reach is defined as the size of the audience who listen to, read, view or otherwise access a particular work in a given time period. Reach may be stated either as an absolute number, or as a fraction of a given population (for instance 'TV households', 'men' or 'those aged 25-35').
Reach (physical measurement) Reach (also known as wingspan) is the physical measurement of the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height. The average reach correlates to the person's height and is measured in inches.
Reach Entertainment Reach Entertainment is the largest supplier of budget sports home video programs in the USA. In the 1990s, Reach produced over 250 sports bloopers and sports highlight home video programs for labels such as Simitar, Goodtimes, Madacy, Front Row (label), and Diamond.
Reach for the Sky Reach For The Sky is the name of the biography of Douglas Bader, by Paul Brickhill, and also of a film of Bader's story released in 1956, starring Kenneth More and directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the British Academy Award for Best British Film of 1956.
Reach for the Stars Reach for the Stars is one of the earliest of the '4X' (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) computer games, written by SSG of Australia in early 1980s for the Apple II and Commodore 64 platforms which used the MOS Technology 6502 series microprocessors. Version 3 added a DOS port as well, though the DOS port did not share all of the features of that the other platforms had.
Reach for the Top Reach for the Top is a Canadian game show in which teams of high school students participate in local, national and provincial trivia tournaments. The non-televised tournaments held at high schools throughout Canada during the year are known as Schoolreach; both are commonly referred to simply as "Reach".
Reach Out (album) Reach Out is an album recorded by the Four Tops, issued on Motown Records in July 1967 (see 1967 in music). The album was the final Four Tops LP to be produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland, who departed the label in late 1967 over money disputes.
Reach Out I'll Be There "Reach Out I'll Be There" (also formatted as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)") is a 1966 hit song recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s and is today considered The Tops' signature song.
Reach the Beach Relay The Reach The Beach Relay is a long distance relay race that is run through the picturesque hills and valleys of New Hampshire at the start of foliage season. It is the longest running relay race in the North America at approximately 210 miles (336 km), starting from Bretton Woods and ending at Hampton Beach.
Reachback Eric Berne, the founder of transactional analysis, coined the term reachback for the effect an impending atypical event can have on a person's schedule as well as his or her mental state before the event begins. He talks about this in his book What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Reaching definition In compiler theory, a reaching definition for a given instruction is another instruction, the target variable of which may reach the given instruction without an intervening assignment. For example, in the following code:
Reachout Trust Reachout Trust is an evangelical Christian organisation. Its aims to is "Examine in the light of the Christian gospel the beliefs and spirituality of people within the cults, occults, new age and all not upholding to biblical truth.
Reaktor Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio, proprietary license, developed by Native Instruments. It lets musicians and engineers design and build their own instruments, samplers, effects and sound design tools.
Real (galley) The Real, built in Barcelona, was the largest galley of its time and the flagship of Don Juan de Austria in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the largest battle between galleys in history, in which a fleet of the Holy League, an alliance of Christian powers of the Mediterranean, decisively defeated an Ottoman fleet under Grand Admiral ("Kaptan-ı Derya") Ali Pacha.
Real **********ing Talk Real **********ing Talk is a recurring skit on MADtv and is considered to be a show-within-a-show. The show is a spoof of other forum-style shows such as Hardball with Chris Matthews and Real Time with Bill Maher.
Real ale Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for a type of beer defined as "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide".
Real analysis Real analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis dealing with the set of real numbers and functions of real numbers. It can be seen as a rigorous version of calculus and studies concepts such as sequences and their limits, continuity, differentiation, integration and sequences of functions.
Real Academia Española The Real Academia Española (Spanish for "Royal Spanish Academy", RAE) is the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in 21 Spanish-speaking nations.
Real Academia Galega The Real Academia Galega (Galician for Royal Galician Academy) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is based in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Real Aikido Real Aikido is a martial art invented by Ljubomir Vračarević, a self-defence instructor from Serbia. It is a mixture of aikido, judo and jujutsu techniques, with some modifications made by Vračarević himself.
Real Alternative Real Alternative is a codec pack created for playing RealMedia files on Microsoft Windows operating systems without installing RealPlayer. The pack can be used with any DirectShow-enabled media player, such as Media Player Classic, which is included as part of the package.
Real Arroyo Seco Real Arroyo Seco are a football club from Arroyo Seco in Santa Fe, Argentina. They currently play in Torneo Argentino A, which is the regionalised third tier of the Argentine Football Association league system.
Real bills doctrine The Real Bills doctrine (RBD) is a theory of money creation that argues that issuing money in exchange for real bills is not inflationary. In this context a "real bill" is an IOU that is based upon the production and sale of real goods.
Real Book The Real Book can refer to any of a number of popular jazz fake books, but is generally used to refer to Volume 1 of a semi-underground series transcribed and collated by students at Berklee College of Music during the 1970s.
Real Business Cycle Theory Real Business Cycle Theory (or RBC Theory) is a macroeconomic school of thought that holds that the business cycle is caused by random fluctuations in productivity. Unlike other leading theories of the business cycle, it sees recessions and periods of economic growth as the efficient response of output to exogenous variables.
Real computation In computability theory, the theory of real computation deals with hypothetical computing machines using infinite-precision real numbers. They are given this name because they operate on the set of real numbers.
Real Canadian Liquorstore The Real Canadian Liquorstore is an Albertan chain of liquor stores owned by Loblaws subsidiary Westfair Foods. The name is similar to that of the Real Canadian Superstore, a hypermarket chain also owned by Loblaws.
Real Canadian Superstore [logo introduced 2005, currently in use in Ontario|300px]Real Canadian Superstore Spelled the real Canadian Superstore, including the definite article, in most Western Canadian markets. (often shortened to RCSS or "Superstore") is a chain of hypermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies.
Real Cartagena Real Cartagena, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Cartagena. The club was founded in 1971 and play their home games at the Pedro de Heredia Stadium, which has a capacity of 25,000 approximately.
Real Detroit Weekly Real Detroit Weekly (often called just Real Detroit) is a weekly distributed free of charge every Wednesday, focusing mainly on entertainment news from Hollywood and the metro Detroit nightclub scene. It has a proportion of advertisements similar to the Metro Times but is lacking in local news coverage compared to the latter.
Real estate Real estate or immovable property is a legal term (in some jurisdictions) that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. Real estate (immovable property) is often considered synonymous with real property (also sometimes called realty), in contrast with personal property (also sometimes called chattel or personalty).
Real estate appraisal A real estate appraisal is a service performed by a licensed or certified appraiser, who develops an opinion of value based upon the highest and best use of real property. The highest and best use is that use which produces the highest value for the land, as if vacant.
Real estate broker A real estate broker is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy. In the United States, the relationship was originally established by reference to the English common law of agency with the broker having a fiduciary relationship with his clients.
Real estate bubble A real estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets. It is characterized by rapid speculative increases in the valuations of real property such as housing until they reach unsustainable levels relative to incomes and other economic elements, followed by decreases (also known as a house price crash or a market correction) that can result in many owners holding negative equity (a mortgage debt higher than the value of the property).
Real estate contract A real estate contract is a contract for the purchase/sale, exchange, or other conveyance of real estate between parties. Real estate called leasehold estate is actually a rental of real property such as an apartment, and leases (rental contracts) cover such rentals since they typically do not result in recordable deeds.
Real estate economics Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It tries to describe, explain, and predict patterns of real estate prices, building production, and real estate consumption.
Real estate grants The Real Estate Apprentice® Foundation is a non-profit venture created in 2004 to assist newly licensed agents entering the real estate industry to overcome their fears and obstacles and to facilitate them to become successful real estate agents and Realtors. This is accomplished by providing quality guidance, education, products and services.
Real estate investment trust A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (rēt, rhymes with treat) is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes. In return REITs are required to distribute a large majority of their income, which may be taxable in the hands of the investors.
Real evidence Real evidence is a type of physical evidence and consists of objects that were involved in a case or actually played a part in the incident or transaction in question. Examples include the written contract, the defective part, the murder weapon, the gloves used by an alleged murderer.
Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba "real Emotion"/"1000 no Kotoba" was Kumi Koda's 8th domestic CD single. "real Emotion" was the opening theme of Squaresoft's game Final Fantasy X-2 and was used in a cut-scene in the game.
Real freedom Real Freedom is a term coined by the political philosopher and economist Philippe Van Parijs. It is a concept of freedom that expands upon notions of negative freedom by incorporating not simply institutional or other constraints on a person's choices, but also the requirements of physical reality, resources and personal capacity.
Real Gay Real Gay is a 2005 gay-themed "reunion show" hosted by Kim Coles. Airing on the LGBT network Logo, Real Gay featured cast members from a number of different reality television series discussing their experiences being openly gay in the spotlight of national television.
Real GDP Real GDP for a given year is the given year's nominal GDP stated in the base-year price level. Real GDP growth on an annual basis is the nominal GDP growth rate adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percentage.
Real Change Real Change is a weekly alternative newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, USA, with an unusual distribution model. It is sold exclusively by members of the local homeless community, providing them an alternative to panhandling.
Real interest rate The "real interest rate" is the nominal rate of interest, adjusted for compounding, minus the inflation rate. Since the inflation rate over the course of a loan is not known initially, volatility in inflation represents a risk to both the lender and the borrower.
Real Institute Real Institute (or RĂŞl Institiwt in its Welsh version) is an independent multidisciplinary arts organisation founded in 2000 and based in North Wales. Its events have been described as combining entertaining trivial nonsense with erudite contemporary art.
Real Irish Republican Army The Real Irish Republican Army, otherwise known as the Real IRA (RIRA) and styling itself as Óglaigh na hÉireann (Volunteers of Ireland) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. The group was founded before the signing of the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement by former members of the Provisional IRA who opposed the latter's 1997 cease-fire and acquiescence in the Agreement in the aftermath of a Provisional IRA Army Convention in County Donegal.
Real life Real life is a term with multiple meanings. It is most often used to mean life outside of an environment that is generally seen as fiction or fantasy, such as something on the Internet, virtual reality, a dream, a novel, a movie, a hallucination, or a delusion.
Real life experience Real life experience (RLE), sometimes called real life test (RLT), is a process where transsexual and transgender people live in their preferred gender role for a while, in order to demonstrate that they can do so; and historically to gain permission for hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery.
Real live artist Real Live Artist or Real Live Artist Painting Now! is a new form of conceptual artwork characterized by an artist in the real world (as opposed to virtual world) making art that he or she then documents online using blogging software or typically, custom software where the possibility of the artist creating his/her own conceptual taxonomy becomes a viable enterprise.
Real Life (band) Real Life was a Melbourne-based Australian New Wave band that had hits with its debut single, "Send Me an Angel" (1983) and with "Catch Me, I'm Falling" (1984), both of which were featured on the band's debut album Heartland (1983). The band originally consisted of David Sterry (lead vocals/guitar), Richard Zatorski (violin/keyboard), Alan Johnson (bass), Danny Simcic (drums). Steve Williams (keyboard) replaced Zartoski in the mid eighties who was then replaced by George Pappas (keyboards) in 1996 after a long hiatus of band activity.
Real Life Ministries Real Life Ministries is a non-denominational Evangelical Christian church in Post Falls, Idaho, situated in Kootenai County, Idaho. The church was planted in 1998 by four families, including now senior pastor, Jim Putman.
Real Love (Dolly Parton album) Real Love was a 1985 Dolly Parton album. The album was produced by David Malloy (best known for his work with Eddie Rabbitt), and was Parton's last new album for RCA, her label for the previous eighteen years.
Real Love (The Beatles song) "Real Love" is a song originally written and performed as a demo by John Lennon, and later reworked by the three remaining members of The Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) in late 1995. The song was released as a Beatles single in 1996 in the United Kingdom, United States and many other countries; it was the opening track on The Beatles' Anthology 2 album.
Real medicine foundation Real Medicine Foundation (RMF) is a 501C registered non-profit organization committed to helping people afflicted by disaster, or war or poverty. The organization believes that "real" medicine is one that focuses on not only the medical problems but also the social and economic problems that are often the root causes of the medical problems in the first place.
Real mode Real mode (also called real address mode in Intel's manuals) is an operating mode of 80286 and later x86-compatible CPUs. Real mode is characterized by a 20 bit segmented memory address space (meaning that a maximum of 1 MB of memory can be addressed), direct software access to BIOS routines and peripheral hardware, and no concept of memory protection or multitasking at the hardware level.
Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Granada The Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Granada (Royal Cavalry Armory of Granada) is a Spanish maestranza de caballerĂa created in 1686 under the advocacy of the patron saint Nuestra Señora del Triunfo (Our Lady of Victory). One year later it approved a set of bylaws, and since 1992 it has been governed by state law.
Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Sevilla The Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Sevilla (literally Royal Cavalry Armory of Seville) is a noble guild created in 1670 from the remnants of the preceding CofradĂa de San Hermenegildo (or Hermandad Caballeresca). It was created under the advocacy of the patron saint Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary), and its original purpose was to train nobles in the use of arms and war horsemanship in order to better serve the Spanish Crown.
Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Valencia The Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Valencia (Royal Cavalry Armory of Valencia) is a Spanish maestranza de caballerĂa created in 1697. The first set of bylaws were approved seven years later, and currently the organization is governed by the latest draft of 1999.
Real Men Don't Eat Quiche Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, was a bestselling tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity, published in 1982 (ISBN 0-671-44831-5). It is the source of the term quiche-eater, meaning a man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue.
Real Men of Genius Real Men of Genius is a popular long-running humorous series of one-minute-long American radio advertisements for Bud Light beer created by copywriter Bob Winter. Each sixty-second ad pays mock tribute to an "unsung hero" (all of whom are male).
Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda Real Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Rueda (Royal Monastery of Our Lady of the Wheel) is an early Cistercian monastery in the Aragon region of Spain. Founded in the year 1202, it is one of the best extant examples of early Cistercian architecture.
Real options analysis A real option is the right, but not the obligation, to undertake some business decision, typically the option to make a capital investment. For example, the opportunity to invest in the expansion of a firm's factory is a real option.
Reading Viaduct The Reading Viaduct is the common name for an abandoned railroad viaduct in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formerly owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway. It opened in 1893, and was built by the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad as an approach to the new Reading Terminal.
Reading West (UK Parliament constituency) Reading West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like all such constituencies, it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Reading Window School The Reading Window School is a small non-profit which assists often disadvantaged children with literacy problems in rural central Virginia. The Reading Window School uses an innovative one-to-one tutoring method designed by its founder Piper Martin.
Reading, Berkshire Reading is a town, unitary authority (the Borough of Reading) and urban area in the English county of Berkshire. It is located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway.
Reading, Pennsylvania Reading (pronounced redd'-ing) is the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania. In the 2000 census, the city had a population of 81,207, making it the fifth largest in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and Erie.
Reading/Wokingham Urban Area The Reading/Wokingham Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics to a conurbation in Berkshire, England, with a population of 369,804 (2001 census), up 10.1% from the 1991 figure of 335,757.
Readingrockets.org Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how children learn to read, why so many have trouble, and how parents, teachers, and other adults can help. These resources include documentary television programs, the Reading Rockets website, and professional development tools for teachers and educators such as webcasts and podcasts.
Readington Township Public Schools The Readington Township Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in grades kindergarten through grade eight from Readington Township, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.
Readjuster Party The Readjuster Party was a political faction formed in Virginia in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following the American Civil War. Readjusters aspired "to break the power of wealth and established privilege" and to promote public education.
Readspel Readspel is a new script or writing system invented by Kingsley Read. It is based on the Roman alphabet, but with new meanings for the letters, so that each symbol represents a distinct phoneme in the English language, and, more importantly, each phoneme in English can be represented with only one symbol.
Readville, Massachusetts Readville is a part of Boston. It is officially part of the Hyde Park neighborhood, according to the subdivisions of the city defined by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, although some, consider Readville to be an autonomous neighborhood within Boston.
Ready an' Willing Ready An' Willing was Whitesnake's 1980 album and featured two of the band's UK single-hits from that year: "Fool For Your Loving", which reached No. 13 in the charts in April 1980 and the title-track, "Ready An' Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)", which made No.
Ready at Dawn Ready at Dawn is a video game developer located in Santa Ana, California and is comprised of some of the former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment. Formed in 2003, they have recently released their first title, Daxter, for the PlayStation Portable.
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR (), abbreviated as GTO () was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11 1931 on the initiative by VLKSM. It was a sort of the complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR.
Ready Five Ready Five, also referred to as Alert Five in the movie Top Gun, is a condition of high alert for aircraft crews on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in which they are ready to launch within five minutes. Fighter aircraft are placed on the steam catapult complete with flight crew, armament, and fuel, ready to defend the carrier battle group from any unforeseen threat.
Ready or Not Ready or Not (French title: Premières fois) was a television program which aired on the Showtime Movie Channel and later on the Disney Channel and Global Television Network for 5 seasons and 65 episodes between January 1, 1993 and January 1, 1997. The program follows teenagers Amanda Zimm (Laura Bertram) and Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone (Lani Billard) throughout life's struggles.
Ready or Not (Fugees song) "Ready or Not" is the second single from The Fugees' highly succesful album, The Score. It contains a sample from "Ready Or Not, Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)" written by Thom Bell and William Hart, and from "Boadicea" by Enya, for which Enya was prepared to sue for copyright infringement.
Ready room (Star Trek) In the Star Trek science fiction universe, the ready room is a room located either adjacent to or near the bridge on Federation Starships and Installations. This room serves as an office for the commanding officer.
Ready Records Ready Records was a small but influential independent record label based out of Toronto, Canada that signed a number of influential New Wave and Indie Rock bands from the early to mid-1980s. Focusing primarily on local Toronto-area talent, it released 7" and 12" singles, LPs and cassettes.
Ready to Rumble Ready to Rumble is a 2000 comedy movie directed by Brian Robbins and written by Steven Brill, which is based on the now defunct professional wrestling promotion, World Championship Wrestling. The movie draws its title from Michael Buffer's catchphrase, "Let's get ready to rumble!
Ready-mix concrete Ready-mix concrete is a type of concrete that is manufactured in a factory according to a set recipe, and then delivered to a worksite, often by truck. This results in a precise mixture, allowing specialty concrete mixtures to be developed and implemented on construction sites.
Ready-mix lightweight joint compound Ready-mix lightweight joint compound is a pre-made form of joint compound designed for fast application and easy maintenance. The compound is a complex combination of water, limestone, expanded perlite, ethylene-vinyl acetate polymer and attapulgate.
Ready-to-assemble furniture Ready-To-Assemble (RTA) furniture, also known as 'flat packs' was created to solve a fundamental problem in shipping furniture: the relatively high cost of shipping the products compared to the low cost of actually producing them. All the pieces of the product are shipped in a very compact box with detailed instructions on how to assemble the unit.
Ready-to-wear Ready-to-wear or prĂŞt-Ă -porter is the fashion design term for clothing marketed in a finished condition, in standard clothing sizes (in casual usage, off the rack or "off-the-peg"). Some fashion houses or fashion designers create ready-to-wear lines that are mass-produced and industrially manufactured, while others offer lines that are very exclusive and produced only in limited numbers and only for a limited time.
ReadyLink ReadyLink is a "walkie-talkie" service, which utilizes Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), offered by the Sprint Nextel Corporation. You must have a Sanyo or a Samsung ReadyLink capable phone and a matching service-plan in order to use this feature.
Readymades of Marcel Duchamp The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that he selected then sometimes modified, and deemed art. By choosing the object, giving it a title and signing it, the object became a work of art.
Readymix Corporation Group RMC, a construction supplies company based in the United Kingdom, is a leading international producer and supplier of materials, products and services used primarily in the construction industry. It is one of Europe's largest producers of cement and aggregates as well as the world's largest supplier of ready mixed concrete.
Reaffirmation agreement A reaffirmation agreement in United States bankruptcy law refers to an agreement made between a creditor and the debtor that waives discharge of a debt that would otherwise be discharged in the pending bankruptcy proceeding. A properly executed, timely filed reaffirmation agreement modifies the discharge such that it is rendered inoperable against the subject debt.
Reagan administration scandals The Reagan administration saw several controversies unfold in their ranks which resulted in a number of administration staffers being convicted. The most well known, the Iran-Contra affair, involved a plan whereby weapons were sold to Iran and the profits diverted to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
Reagan coalition The Reagan coalition was the combination of voters that Republican Ronald Reagan assembled to produce a major realignment with his landslide in the 1980. In 1980 the Reagan coalition was possible because of Democrat Jimmy Carter's losses in most social-economic groups.
Reagan Democrat The term Reagan Democrat is used by political commentators to denote traditionally Democratic voters, especially white working-class Northerners, who defected from their party to support President Ronald Reagan, in both the 1980 and 1984 elections. It is also used to refer to the smaller but still substantial number of Democrats who voted for George H.
Reagan Doctrine The Reagan Doctrine was an important strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War. While the doctrine lasted less than a decade, it was a centerpiece of American foreign policy from the mid-1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Reagan transfer of power On July 12, 1985, President Ronald Reagan underwent a colonoscopy procedure, during which a pre-cancerous tumor known as a villous adenoma was discovered. The following day, July 13, 1985, Reagan underwent surgery to remove the tumor, leading to the first invocation of Section 3 (the "Acting President" provisions) of the 25th amendment.
Reagan Youth Reagan Youth (a play on Hitler Youth) was a band started by singer Dave Rubinstein (Dave Insurgent) and his friend and guitarist Paul Bakija in Queens in the early 1980s. They have been labeled peace punk as well as hardcore.
Reagan's coattails Reagan's coattails refers to the influence of Ronald Reagan's popularity in elections other than his own, after the American political expression to "ride in on another's coattails." Chiefly, it refers to the "Reagan Revolution" accompanying his 1980 election to the U.
Reaganomics Reaganomics (a portmanteau of "Reagan" and "economics," coined by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey) is a term that has been used to both describe and decry the free market advocacy economic policies of U.S.
Reach (advertising) In the application of statistics to advertising and media analysis, reach is defined as the size of the audience who listen to, read, view or otherwise access a particular work in a given time period. Reach may be stated either as an absolute number, or as a fraction of a given population (for instance 'TV households', 'men' or 'those aged 25-35').
Reach (physical measurement) Reach (also known as wingspan) is the physical measurement of the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height. The average reach correlates to the person's height and is measured in inches.
Reach Entertainment Reach Entertainment is the largest supplier of budget sports home video programs in the USA. In the 1990s, Reach produced over 250 sports bloopers and sports highlight home video programs for labels such as Simitar, Goodtimes, Madacy, Front Row (label), and Diamond.
Reach for the Sky Reach For The Sky is the name of the biography of Douglas Bader, by Paul Brickhill, and also of a film of Bader's story released in 1956, starring Kenneth More and directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the British Academy Award for Best British Film of 1956.
Reach for the Stars Reach for the Stars is one of the earliest of the '4X' (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) computer games, written by SSG of Australia in early 1980s for the Apple II and Commodore 64 platforms which used the MOS Technology 6502 series microprocessors. Version 3 added a DOS port as well, though the DOS port did not share all of the features of that the other platforms had.
Reach for the Top Reach for the Top is a Canadian game show in which teams of high school students participate in local, national and provincial trivia tournaments. The non-televised tournaments held at high schools throughout Canada during the year are known as Schoolreach; both are commonly referred to simply as "Reach".
Reach Out (album) Reach Out is an album recorded by the Four Tops, issued on Motown Records in July 1967 (see 1967 in music). The album was the final Four Tops LP to be produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland, who departed the label in late 1967 over money disputes.
Reach Out I'll Be There "Reach Out I'll Be There" (also formatted as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)") is a 1966 hit song recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s and is today considered The Tops' signature song.
Reach the Beach Relay The Reach The Beach Relay is a long distance relay race that is run through the picturesque hills and valleys of New Hampshire at the start of foliage season. It is the longest running relay race in the North America at approximately 210 miles (336 km), starting from Bretton Woods and ending at Hampton Beach.
Reachback Eric Berne, the founder of transactional analysis, coined the term reachback for the effect an impending atypical event can have on a person's schedule as well as his or her mental state before the event begins. He talks about this in his book What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Reaching definition In compiler theory, a reaching definition for a given instruction is another instruction, the target variable of which may reach the given instruction without an intervening assignment. For example, in the following code:
Reachout Trust Reachout Trust is an evangelical Christian organisation. Its aims to is "Examine in the light of the Christian gospel the beliefs and spirituality of people within the cults, occults, new age and all not upholding to biblical truth.
Reaktor Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio, proprietary license, developed by Native Instruments. It lets musicians and engineers design and build their own instruments, samplers, effects and sound design tools.
Real (galley) The Real, built in Barcelona, was the largest galley of its time and the flagship of Don Juan de Austria in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the largest battle between galleys in history, in which a fleet of the Holy League, an alliance of Christian powers of the Mediterranean, decisively defeated an Ottoman fleet under Grand Admiral ("Kaptan-ı Derya") Ali Pacha.
Real **********ing Talk Real **********ing Talk is a recurring skit on MADtv and is considered to be a show-within-a-show. The show is a spoof of other forum-style shows such as Hardball with Chris Matthews and Real Time with Bill Maher.
Real ale Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for a type of beer defined as "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide".
Real analysis Real analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis dealing with the set of real numbers and functions of real numbers. It can be seen as a rigorous version of calculus and studies concepts such as sequences and their limits, continuity, differentiation, integration and sequences of functions.
Real Academia Española The Real Academia Española (Spanish for "Royal Spanish Academy", RAE) is the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in 21 Spanish-speaking nations.
Real Academia Galega The Real Academia Galega (Galician for Royal Galician Academy) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is based in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Real Aikido Real Aikido is a martial art invented by Ljubomir Vračarević, a self-defence instructor from Serbia. It is a mixture of aikido, judo and jujutsu techniques, with some modifications made by Vračarević himself.
Real Alternative Real Alternative is a codec pack created for playing RealMedia files on Microsoft Windows operating systems without installing RealPlayer. The pack can be used with any DirectShow-enabled media player, such as Media Player Classic, which is included as part of the package.
Real Arroyo Seco Real Arroyo Seco are a football club from Arroyo Seco in Santa Fe, Argentina. They currently play in Torneo Argentino A, which is the regionalised third tier of the Argentine Football Association league system.
Real bills doctrine The Real Bills doctrine (RBD) is a theory of money creation that argues that issuing money in exchange for real bills is not inflationary. In this context a "real bill" is an IOU that is based upon the production and sale of real goods.
Real Book The Real Book can refer to any of a number of popular jazz fake books, but is generally used to refer to Volume 1 of a semi-underground series transcribed and collated by students at Berklee College of Music during the 1970s.
Real Business Cycle Theory Real Business Cycle Theory (or RBC Theory) is a macroeconomic school of thought that holds that the business cycle is caused by random fluctuations in productivity. Unlike other leading theories of the business cycle, it sees recessions and periods of economic growth as the efficient response of output to exogenous variables.
Real computation In computability theory, the theory of real computation deals with hypothetical computing machines using infinite-precision real numbers. They are given this name because they operate on the set of real numbers.
Real Canadian Liquorstore The Real Canadian Liquorstore is an Albertan chain of liquor stores owned by Loblaws subsidiary Westfair Foods. The name is similar to that of the Real Canadian Superstore, a hypermarket chain also owned by Loblaws.
Real Canadian Superstore [logo introduced 2005, currently in use in Ontario|300px]Real Canadian Superstore Spelled the real Canadian Superstore, including the definite article, in most Western Canadian markets. (often shortened to RCSS or "Superstore") is a chain of hypermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies.
Real Cartagena Real Cartagena, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Cartagena. The club was founded in 1971 and play their home games at the Pedro de Heredia Stadium, which has a capacity of 25,000 approximately.
Real Detroit Weekly Real Detroit Weekly (often called just Real Detroit) is a weekly distributed free of charge every Wednesday, focusing mainly on entertainment news from Hollywood and the metro Detroit nightclub scene. It has a proportion of advertisements similar to the Metro Times but is lacking in local news coverage compared to the latter.
Real estate Real estate or immovable property is a legal term (in some jurisdictions) that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. Real estate (immovable property) is often considered synonymous with real property (also sometimes called realty), in contrast with personal property (also sometimes called chattel or personalty).
Real estate appraisal A real estate appraisal is a service performed by a licensed or certified appraiser, who develops an opinion of value based upon the highest and best use of real property. The highest and best use is that use which produces the highest value for the land, as if vacant.
Real estate broker A real estate broker is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy. In the United States, the relationship was originally established by reference to the English common law of agency with the broker having a fiduciary relationship with his clients.
Real estate bubble A real estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets. It is characterized by rapid speculative increases in the valuations of real property such as housing until they reach unsustainable levels relative to incomes and other economic elements, followed by decreases (also known as a house price crash or a market correction) that can result in many owners holding negative equity (a mortgage debt higher than the value of the property).
Real estate contract A real estate contract is a contract for the purchase/sale, exchange, or other conveyance of real estate between parties. Real estate called leasehold estate is actually a rental of real property such as an apartment, and leases (rental contracts) cover such rentals since they typically do not result in recordable deeds.
Real estate economics Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It tries to describe, explain, and predict patterns of real estate prices, building production, and real estate consumption.
Real estate grants The Real Estate Apprentice® Foundation is a non-profit venture created in 2004 to assist newly licensed agents entering the real estate industry to overcome their fears and obstacles and to facilitate them to become successful real estate agents and Realtors. This is accomplished by providing quality guidance, education, products and services.
Real estate investment trust A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (rēt, rhymes with treat) is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes. In return REITs are required to distribute a large majority of their income, which may be taxable in the hands of the investors.
Real evidence Real evidence is a type of physical evidence and consists of objects that were involved in a case or actually played a part in the incident or transaction in question. Examples include the written contract, the defective part, the murder weapon, the gloves used by an alleged murderer.
Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba "real Emotion"/"1000 no Kotoba" was Kumi Koda's 8th domestic CD single. "real Emotion" was the opening theme of Squaresoft's game Final Fantasy X-2 and was used in a cut-scene in the game.
Real freedom Real Freedom is a term coined by the political philosopher and economist Philippe Van Parijs. It is a concept of freedom that expands upon notions of negative freedom by incorporating not simply institutional or other constraints on a person's choices, but also the requirements of physical reality, resources and personal capacity.
Real Gay Real Gay is a 2005 gay-themed "reunion show" hosted by Kim Coles. Airing on the LGBT network Logo, Real Gay featured cast members from a number of different reality television series discussing their experiences being openly gay in the spotlight of national television.
Real GDP Real GDP for a given year is the given year's nominal GDP stated in the base-year price level. Real GDP growth on an annual basis is the nominal GDP growth rate adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percentage.
Real Change Real Change is a weekly alternative newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, USA, with an unusual distribution model. It is sold exclusively by members of the local homeless community, providing them an alternative to panhandling.
Real interest rate The "real interest rate" is the nominal rate of interest, adjusted for compounding, minus the inflation rate. Since the inflation rate over the course of a loan is not known initially, volatility in inflation represents a risk to both the lender and the borrower.
Real Institute Real Institute (or RĂŞl Institiwt in its Welsh version) is an independent multidisciplinary arts organisation founded in 2000 and based in North Wales. Its events have been described as combining entertaining trivial nonsense with erudite contemporary art.
Real Irish Republican Army The Real Irish Republican Army, otherwise known as the Real IRA (RIRA) and styling itself as Óglaigh na hÉireann (Volunteers of Ireland) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. The group was founded before the signing of the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement by former members of the Provisional IRA who opposed the latter's 1997 cease-fire and acquiescence in the Agreement in the aftermath of a Provisional IRA Army Convention in County Donegal.
Real life Real life is a term with multiple meanings. It is most often used to mean life outside of an environment that is generally seen as fiction or fantasy, such as something on the Internet, virtual reality, a dream, a novel, a movie, a hallucination, or a delusion.
Real life experience Real life experience (RLE), sometimes called real life test (RLT), is a process where transsexual and transgender people live in their preferred gender role for a while, in order to demonstrate that they can do so; and historically to gain permission for hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery.
Real live artist Real Live Artist or Real Live Artist Painting Now! is a new form of conceptual artwork characterized by an artist in the real world (as opposed to virtual world) making art that he or she then documents online using blogging software or typically, custom software where the possibility of the artist creating his/her own conceptual taxonomy becomes a viable enterprise.
Real Life (band) Real Life was a Melbourne-based Australian New Wave band that had hits with its debut single, "Send Me an Angel" (1983) and with "Catch Me, I'm Falling" (1984), both of which were featured on the band's debut album Heartland (1983). The band originally consisted of David Sterry (lead vocals/guitar), Richard Zatorski (violin/keyboard), Alan Johnson (bass), Danny Simcic (drums). Steve Williams (keyboard) replaced Zartoski in the mid eighties who was then replaced by George Pappas (keyboards) in 1996 after a long hiatus of band activity.
Real Life Ministries Real Life Ministries is a non-denominational Evangelical Christian church in Post Falls, Idaho, situated in Kootenai County, Idaho. The church was planted in 1998 by four families, including now senior pastor, Jim Putman.
Real Love (Dolly Parton album) Real Love was a 1985 Dolly Parton album. The album was produced by David Malloy (best known for his work with Eddie Rabbitt), and was Parton's last new album for RCA, her label for the previous eighteen years.
Real Love (The Beatles song) "Real Love" is a song originally written and performed as a demo by John Lennon, and later reworked by the three remaining members of The Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) in late 1995. The song was released as a Beatles single in 1996 in the United Kingdom, United States and many other countries; it was the opening track on The Beatles' Anthology 2 album.
Real medicine foundation Real Medicine Foundation (RMF) is a 501C registered non-profit organization committed to helping people afflicted by disaster, or war or poverty. The organization believes that "real" medicine is one that focuses on not only the medical problems but also the social and economic problems that are often the root causes of the medical problems in the first place.
Real mode Real mode (also called real address mode in Intel's manuals) is an operating mode of 80286 and later x86-compatible CPUs. Real mode is characterized by a 20 bit segmented memory address space (meaning that a maximum of 1 MB of memory can be addressed), direct software access to BIOS routines and peripheral hardware, and no concept of memory protection or multitasking at the hardware level.
Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Granada The Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Granada (Royal Cavalry Armory of Granada) is a Spanish maestranza de caballerĂa created in 1686 under the advocacy of the patron saint Nuestra Señora del Triunfo (Our Lady of Victory). One year later it approved a set of bylaws, and since 1992 it has been governed by state law.
Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Sevilla The Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Sevilla (literally Royal Cavalry Armory of Seville) is a noble guild created in 1670 from the remnants of the preceding CofradĂa de San Hermenegildo (or Hermandad Caballeresca). It was created under the advocacy of the patron saint Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary), and its original purpose was to train nobles in the use of arms and war horsemanship in order to better serve the Spanish Crown.
Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Valencia The Real Maestranza de CaballerĂa de Valencia (Royal Cavalry Armory of Valencia) is a Spanish maestranza de caballerĂa created in 1697. The first set of bylaws were approved seven years later, and currently the organization is governed by the latest draft of 1999.
Real Men Don't Eat Quiche Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, was a bestselling tongue-in-cheek book on stereotypes about masculinity, published in 1982 (ISBN 0-671-44831-5). It is the source of the term quiche-eater, meaning a man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue.
Real Men of Genius Real Men of Genius is a popular long-running humorous series of one-minute-long American radio advertisements for Bud Light beer created by copywriter Bob Winter. Each sixty-second ad pays mock tribute to an "unsung hero" (all of whom are male).
Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda Real Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Rueda (Royal Monastery of Our Lady of the Wheel) is an early Cistercian monastery in the Aragon region of Spain. Founded in the year 1202, it is one of the best extant examples of early Cistercian architecture.
Real options analysis A real option is the right, but not the obligation, to undertake some business decision, typically the option to make a capital investment. For example, the opportunity to invest in the expansion of a firm's factory is a real option.
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