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Rebecca Henriette Lejeune Dirichlet Rebecca Henriette Lejeune Dirichlet, née Rebecca Henriette Mendelssohn Bartholdy (* 11 April 1811 in Hamburg, †1 December 1858 in Göttingen) was a granddaughter of Moses Mendelssohn and the younger sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel.
Rebecca Horn Rebecca Horn (24 March, 1944, Michelstadt)- ) is a German installation artist most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out. In May-August, 2005 the Hayward Gallery in London held a Rebecca Horn retrospective.
Rebecca Howe Rebecca Howe, a character on the American television show Cheers, was portrayed by Kirstie Alley, introduced after Shelley Long, who played overeducated barmaid Diane Chambers, left to pursue an ill-fated career in movies. Much of the show's humor had been based around the interaction and sexual tension between the womanizing, working-class main character, bartender Sam Malone, and the high-class, snobby Diane.
Rebecca Jackson Mendoza Rebecca Jackson Mendoza is an Australian actress, singer and dancer, born in Melbourne, Australia of a Filipino father and German Australian mother. She first came to national prominence as half of the pop duo Jackson Mendoza, with her sister Natalie.
Rebecca Jarrett Rebecca Jarrett (1846-1928) was a British former prostitute and procuress who, with reformer and newspaper editor William Thomas Stead, fought against child prostitution and white slavery during the late 19th century.
Rebecca Latimer Felton Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, teacher, reformer, and briefly a politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, filling an appointment on November 21, 1922, and serving until the next day. At 87 years old, she was also the oldest person to enter the Senate.
Rebecca Lee Rebecca Lee (Traditional Chinese: 李樂詩) is an explorer from Hong Kong. She is the first Hongkonger and first woman to have visited all three extremes of the Earth - the North and South Poles, and Mount Everest.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler (February 8, 1846 - March 9, 1922) was the first African American woman to become a physician in the United States, and was one of the first African Americans to author a book about medicine, publishing A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a UK theatre writer and actor. As writer, her plays include Soho for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Night Season for the Royal National Theatre, and Shoreditch Madonna for Soho Theatre.
Rebecca Lobo Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a college basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6'4", played center for much of her career.
Rebecca MacKinnon Rebecca MacKinnon is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in China and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center and lives in Hong Kong.
Rebecca Maddern Rebecca Maddern (Born 19 June, 1972) is an Australian journalist and news reporter and presenter for the Seven Network. She is based in the Melbourne newsroom and presented the national afternoon edition of Seven News, the 4:30 news until the bulletin moved to the network's Sydney studios.
Rebecca Mader Rebecca Mader (born 1979 in Coldham's Lane, Cambridge, England) is an actress who has appeared on several American television series. She played the role of Morgan Gordon on All My Children for about a dozen episodes, and in the fall of 2006 was a regular cast member of the Fox legal drama, Justice.
Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche was famous as the head of the Enron International division of Enron. She later was promoted to Vice-Chairman of Enron, but left the company after a power struggle with CEO Jeffrey Skilling.
Rebecca McClanahan Rebecca McClanahan is the current Democratic Representative of the second district of the Missouri House of Representatives. She won the 2006 election to the seat that was vacated by Republican Bob Behnen in his failed attempt at the eighteenth district Missouri Senate seat.
Rebecca Miller Rebecca Miller (born September 15, 1962 in Roxbury, Connecticut) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Angela, all of which she wrote and directed.
Rebecca Moesta Rebecca Moesta Anderson, born November 17, 1956 in Heidelberg, West Germany, is the author of several science fiction books. Although born in Germany, Rebecca was born to American parents and raised in Pasadena, California, where she lived until her early twenties.
Rebecca Moore Rebecca Moore (May 21, 1968, New York, New York) is a musician and actress. Known mostly for being the lover and onetime muse of Jeff Buckley as well as her participation in FLUXUS inspired theater productions and experimental music.
Rebecca Northan Best known for playing the hippie mother Diane Macleod on the CTV & Comedy Network sitcom Alice, I Think, Rebecca Northan was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary, and an alumna of the Loose Moose Theatre Company where she did her improv training with Keith Johnstone.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917 film) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) is a silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (play) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is an American 1903 children's classic novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin. In 1910, Wiggin co-wrote the play with Charlotte Thompson that was produced for Broadway in 1910 by Klaw & Erlanger.
Rebecca Pitcher Rebecca Pitcher is an American musical theatre actress primarily known for her role as Christine in the Broadway adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Previously, Pitcher had played Christine in the Phantom of the Opera national tour opposite Gary Mauer.
Rebecca Protten Rebecca Protten was a slave and then freed woman of mixed white and African descent, who, while living on the island of St. Thomas during the 1730s became part of the movement to convert African slaves to Christianity.
Rebecca Rotzler Rebecca Rotzler is one of seven co-chairs of the Green Party of the United States, elected to that position on July 24, 2005 She is also currently deputy mayor] and a [[trustee model of representation|trustee of New Paltz, New York, elected on May 6, 2003.
Rebecca Ruter Springer Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) was a nineteenth-century American author who wrote the famous Christian book Intra Muros, better known today as My Dream of Heaven. As the modern name implies, Springer claimed to have a vision of a Christian heaven and she recounts this vision in her book as well as some personal insights.
Rebecca Ryan Rebecca Ryan (born April 27 1991 in Manchester) is an English actress. She has appeared in various television series, including State of Play, in which she played opposite her brother Charlie Ryan, and Holby City.
Rebecca Sommer Rebecca Sommer is a German artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist, representative of international NGO Society for Threatened Peoples - in consultative status to the United Nations (ECOSOC), and founder of Earth Peoples[Sommer has earned a reputation as an outstanding personality in many fields. She was the editor at large for Madison magazine (NYC), Spirit and Scene magazine (London).
Rebecca Twigley Rebecca Twigley (born 1983) is an Australian model, and girlfriend of Australian Football League-(AFL)-star Chris Judd. Twigley is most notable for a dress she wore to the 2004 Brownlow Medal presentation, which made headlines in newspapers the following day.
Rebecca West Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892–March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to "Cicily") Isabel Fairfield, was a British-Irish feminist and writer famous for her novels and for her relationship with H. G.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Rebecca Wirfs-Brock is an author and consultant in object-oriented programming and the founder of the information technology consulting firm Wirfs-Brock Associates,. She is a proponent of CRC cards and is married to Allen Wirfs-Brock.
Rebekah Rebekah (Rebecca or Rivkah) (רִבְקָה "Captivating", "Enchantingly Beautiful", "Noose" or "Snare", Standard Hebrew Rivqa, Tiberian Hebrew RiḇqÄh) is the wife of Isaac.
Rebekah Elmaloglou Rebekah Elmagolou (born January 23, 1974) is an Australian actress who is best known for portraying the role of Sophie Simpson on the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away from 1989 to 2006. Interestingly, her brothers, Peter Elmagolou, Dominic Elmagolou and Sebastian Elmaloglou have appeared on Home and Away (Dominic played Sebastian Harrison in 1996).
Rebekah Johnson Rebekah Johnson, also credited as Rebekah Jordan or Rebekah, is an American singer-songwriter and actress from Ohio. She wrote the song "Beautiful Disaster" for Kelly Clarkson who loved the song so much she put it on both her albums.
Rebekahs The Rebekahs (the Rebekah Lodges) are the female auxiliary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Rebekah Lodges were founded in the early 1850s, largely due to the efforts of an Odd Fellow named Schuyler Colfax.
Rebel (Denmark) REBEL - Revolutionære Unge Socialister (Revolutionary Young Socialists) was an independent Danish far left youth organization founded in 1992. In 2001, REBEL joined forces with the youth network of the Red-Green Alliance / Enhedslisten and established Socialist Youth Front.
Rebel (novel) Rebel (1969), by Bediako Asare, is a novel about the conflict between tradition and modernity in Africa. Set on an imaginary island off the African coast, it tells the story of the remote village of Pachanga, still unknown to the rest of the island, and the inhabitants who still live a traditional lifestyle, untouched by modern innovations.
Rebel Alliance In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Rebel Alliance, or more formally, the Alliance to Restore the Republic, is an interstellar force formed in direct military opposition to the Galactic Empire. The Alliance was started by a group of Loyalists, who wished to preserve the ideals of the Republic.
Rebel Forces (Star Wars) In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Rebel Alliance uses various infantry and special forces in its battle against the Galactic Empire. The creators of the Star Wars universe generally do not diversify rebel forces, but several books, comics, and other sources have expanded the variety of the Rebels' outnumbered array of footsoldiers.
Rebel MC Rebel MC was the stage name of British hip hop artist Michael West (born 27 August 1965, in Tottenham, London). He gained fame as a pop rapper in the late 1980s, but as his career progressed he began to use greater reggae influences in his music and now records for a predominantly Jungle audience as Conquering Lion.
Rebel Meets Rebel Rebel Meets Rebel is a heavy metal/country crossover project with David Allan Coe on vocals, Dimebag Darrell on guitar, Rex Brown on bass, and Vinnie Paul on drums. The project resulted in the self-titled album Rebel Meets Rebel.
Rebel Meets Rebel (album) Rebel Meets Rebel is a heavy metal/country album; the result of a project by American country music singer David Allan Coe and Texas heavy metal band Pantera members Dimebag Darrell, Rex Brown and Vinnie Paul. The project/album was called Rebel Meets Rebel.
Rebel Moon Rising Rebel Moon Rising is a video game made by Fenris Wolf and GT Interactive. In the future, the Moon has been colonized, and due to political conflicts, the Lunar colonies are rebelling against the United Nations.
Rebel Never Gets Old "Rebel Never Gets Old" is a so-called mash-up of the songs "Rebel Rebel" and "Never Get Old", where the two songs are mixed into each other. This was released as a rare single, following some copies of Reality in Europe in 2004.
Rebel Oakes Ennis Telfair "Rebel" Oakes (December 17, 1883 - February 29, 1948). He was born in Arizona, Louisiana, and after attending Louisiana Tech University, Rebel turned his attention to playing baseball, eventually reaching the Majors when he was signed by the Cincinnati Reds in 1909.
Rebel Pigs The Rebel Pigs, in this instance represent the officers and Communist ministers that were executed in the Great Purge before World War 2. In the Great Purge, officers and ministers were tortured into false confessions to provide evidence for their trial.
Rebel Planet Rebel Planet is a single player roleplaying book, written by Robin Waterfield and illustrated by Gary Mayes, originally published in 1985. The book is part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 18 in the original Puffin printing.
Rebel Rebel "Rebel Rebel" is a song by David Bowie, released in 1974 as a single and on the album Diamond Dogs. Originally written for a mooted Ziggy Stardust musical in late 1973,David Buckley (1999) Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story: p.
Rebel Without a Cause Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious teenager who comes to a new town, meets a girl, defies his parents, and faces the local gang. It sought to portray the existing decay of youth in middle America, critique parental style, and expose the rift between two generations.
Rebel Without a Crew Rebel Without a Crew (subtitle: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player) is a 1995 non-fiction book by Robert Rodriguez. Presented in a diary format, Rebel details Rodriguez' beginnings as a young filmmaker; his stint at a medical testing facility to raise money for a feature film; the making of that film (El Mariachi) for $7,000, and his subsequent experiences in Hollywood selling the film and going to film festivals promoting it.
Rebel yell The rebel yell (sometimes called the Pibroch of the Confederacy) was a battle cry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. Confederate soldiers would use the yell during charges to intimidate the enemy and boost their own morale, although the yell had other uses.
Rebel Youth Rebel Youth is the name of the magazine of the Young Communist League of Canada published in the late 1980s and restarted in 2005. The name Rebel Youth was coined from Cuba's youth newspaper, 'Juventude Rebelde'.
Rebelde Rebelde ("rebel" or "rebellious") is a Mexican telenovela (or series) produced by Televisa. It is a remake of an Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way adapted for the Mexican audience therefore leading to differences in character's backgrounds.
Rebellion A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. It may therefore be seen as encompassing a range of behaviours from civil disobedience to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority.
Rebellion Developments Rebellion is a British computer games company, based in Oxford, who are most famous for the first Aliens versus Predator computer game. They also publish comic books since 1999 and launched their own book imprint, Abaddon Books, in 2006.
Rebellion Losses Bill The Rebellion Losses Bill was a controversial law enacted by the legislature of the Province of Canada in 1849. Its passage and subsequent assent by the Governor General, Lord Elgin makes the bill a landmark piece of legislation in Canadian political history.
Rebellion of 1088 The Rebellion of 1088 occurred after the death of William the Conqueror and concerned the division of lands in England and Normandy between his two sons William Rufus and Robert Curthose. Hostilities lasted from 3 to 6 months starting around Easter of 1088.
Rebellion of the Seven States The Rebellion of the Seven States or Revolt of the Seven Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: ä¸ĺ›˝äą‹äą±, traditional Chinese: ä¸ĺś‹äą‹äş‚) took place in 154 BC against China's Han Dynasty to protest the emperor's attempt to further centralize the government.
Rebellions of 1837 The Rebellions of 1837 were a pair of Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838 in response to frustrations in political reform and ethnic conflict. A key shared goal was the allowance of responsible government.
Rebelstar Rebelstar is a 1986 turn-based strategy computer game by Julian Gollop, originally released on the ZX Spectrum. The game is a remake of the earlier Rebelstar Raiders and revolves around an assault by the Raiders (humans supported by combat droids) on Moonbase Delta, which is guarded by the Operatives—all droids (in the single player version) or a combined human/droid force (in the two player game).
Rebelstar: Tactical Command Rebelstar: Tactical Command is a Game Boy Advance videogame developed by Codo Technologies in 2005. It features turn-based tactical combat of similar flavor to the X-COM and Jagged Alliance games while having the same look and feel as some mission based RPGs.
Reber Plan John Reber was an actor, theatrical producer, and schoolteacher who designed and advocated a plan to fill in the San Francisco Bay in the late 1940s. Under the plan, which was known as the San Francisco Bay Project or the Reber Plan, the Sacramento River mouth from Suisun Bay would be channelized by dams and would feed two freshwater lakes within the bay, providing drinking water to the residents of the bay area.
Rebild municipality As of January 1, 2007 Rebild municipality will, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), come into existence as a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Denmark. It will consist of the (what are currently existing, but on January 1 2007) former municipalities of Nørager, Skørping and Støvring municipalities.
Rebirth (Buddhism) Rebirth in Buddhism is the doctrine that streams of consciousness composed of aggregates called skandha causes a new form to emerge and would continue as long as those aggregates abide in ignorance or avidya, which is the root cause of existence in Buddhism.
Rebirth (M2M album) Rebirth is the 2007-2008 M2M album to be released under Virgin Records, this is the first album of new music the band has made since there 2001 album The Big Room. The album will be released worldwide sometime in late 2007 or spring or summer of 2008
Rebirth Brass Band The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band. The group was founded in 1983 by tuba player Philip Frazier, his brother Keith Frazier and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, along with other musicians with them at the Joseph S.
Rebirth of Mothra is the first in a trilogy of kaiju eiga produced by Toho, in which Mothra saves the world from environment-threatening monsters. The so-called "Mothra Trilogy" marks a first for Toho: instead of later being incorporated into the Godzilla series, two daikaiju (Mothra and King Ghidorah, who had debuted in the Godzilla film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster) appear in spin-off films without Godzilla.
Rebirth of Mothra II is a 1997 daikaiju eiga (giant-monster movie), second in Toho's "Mothra Trilogy" of films, which began with Rebirth of Mothra (1996). It was written by Masumi Suetani and directed by Kunio Miyoshi, both newcomers to the genre.
Rebiya Kadeer Rebiya Kadeer (Uyghur: رابىيه قادى, Rabiye Qadir; ) (b. 21 January 1947) is a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist from the northwest region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.
Reboiler Reboilers are heat exchangers typically used to provide heat to the bottom of industrial distillation columns. They boil the liquid from the bottom of a distillation column to generate vapors which are returned to the column to drive the distillation separation.
Reboost The process of boosting the altitude of an artificial satellite, to increase the time until its orbit will decay and it re-enters the atmosphere. For example, the International Space Station is given a reboost by the Space Shuttle every time it visits, because it is in a low-Earth orbit which experiences significant atmospheric drag.
Reboot (continuity) Reboot, in series fiction, means to discard all previous continuity in the series and start anew. Effectively, all previously-known history is declared by the writer to be null and void and the series starts over from the beginning.
Rebop Kwaku Baah Anthony "Rebop" Kwaku BaahSpelling variations include "Reebop" and "Kwakabooah", (born Remi Kabaka, February 13, 1944Steve Winwood fan site in Lagos, NigeriaAOL Music; died January 12, 1983Bitter Suite Band in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Nigerian-Swedish percussionist.
Reborn in the USA Reborn in the USA, was a 2003 ITV reality TV show, in which ten former British pop acts were transported to the USA, where they were not known, in the hope of revitalising their music career. Each week, the American audience voted for their favourite act.
Rebound (basketball) A rebound in basketball is the act of successfully gaining possession of the basketball after a missed field goal or free throw. Rebounds in basketball are a major part in the game, as most possessions end after a missed shot.
Rebound (dating) Within the context of dating, to rebound refers to the undefined period of time following a particularly painful break-up, when the reboundee is psychologically incapable of making healthy judgements and decisions regarding suitable partners often involving breaking The Rules. ie.
Rebound (sports) Rebound is a term used in sports describe the ball (or puck or other object of play) becoming available for possession by either opponent after an attempt to put the ball or puck into the goal has been unsuccessful. Rebounds are generally considered to have a major part in the game, as they often lead either to a possession change or to a second (and often better) opportunity to score by the side whose initial attempt failed.
Rebound Ace Used at the Australian Open, Rebound Ace is a cushioned tennis hardcourt comprised of layers of polyurethane rubber, fiberglass, and other materials on top of an asphalt base. It is manufactured by Rebound Ace® Sports Pty Ltd , based in Brisbane, Australia.
Rebound effect Rebound effect is the tendency of a medication to affect a return of the symptom being treated when the medication is discontinued or when it is no longer effective. Medications with a known rebound effect can be withdrawn gradually or in conjunction with another medication which does not exhibit a rebound effect.
Rebound headache Rebound headaches, also known as medication overuse headaches, occur when pain medications (analgesics) are taken too frequently to relieve headache. Rebound headache can be caused by any painkiller or migraine abortive medication such as triptans as well as NSAIDs, antihistamines, and decongestants.
Rebound hypertension Rebound hypertension is high blood pressure associated with sudden withdrawal of various antihypertensive medications. The increases in blood pressure may result in blood pressures greater than when the medication was initiated.
Rebound insomnia Rebound insomnia is a phenomenon that occurs in people that have used or abused sedative substances such as benzodiazepines or barbiturates. The common medicines known to cause this problem are Lunesta and Ambien.
Rebound rate Rebound rate (available since the 1971 season in NBA) is a statistic used in basketball to gauage how effective a player is at rebounding. Rebound rate is an estimate of the percentage of missed shots a player rebounded while he was on the floor.
Rebound tenderness Rebound tenderness is a clinical sign that a doctor may detect in physical examination of a patient's abdomen. It refers to pain that is felt after the examiner's hand is removed from an area (as distinct from tenderness, which is pain felt when the examiner's hand touches an area).
Rebour The Rebour was a French automobile manufactured from 1905 until 1908. The Puteaux company built "luxury touring cars" and cabs; their model range consisted of 10/12 hp, 18/22 hp, 20/25 hp, and 40/50hp cars.
Rebranding Rebranding is the process by which a product or service developed with one brand or company or product line affiliation is marketed or distributed with a different identity. This involves radical changes to the brand's logo, brand name, image, marketing strategy, and advertising themes.
Rebreather A rebreather is a type of breathing set that provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycles exhaled gas. This recycling reduces the volume of breathing gas used, making a rebreather lighter and more compact than an open-circuit breathing set for long durations in environments where humans cannot safely breathe from the atmosphere.
Rebroadcaster A rebroadcaster, in Canadian broadcasting, is a television or radio transmitter which airs the programming associated with a radio or television station in a different market. A rebroadcaster is essentially the same as an American broadcast translator, although the terminology and policy regulation are different.
Rebuild the Wall Rebuild the Wall is a 2001 album by Canadian alternative country band Luther Wright and the Wrongs. The album is a cover of Pink Floyd's progressive rock classic The Wall, reimagining each track as a bluegrass country song.
Rebuke Rebuke is a punk rock band from Gothenburg in the south-west of Sweden. They formed in 2003 after the split-up of singer/guitarist Petes band Still Lafin', when he and bassist Phil decided to start a band together with drummer Erik.
Rebun Island Rebun Island (礼文島, rebuntō) lies in the Sea of Japan off the northwestern tip of Hokkaidō, Japan. Rebun stretches 29 kilometers in the North-South direction and 8 kilometers East-West, covering about 80 square kilometers.
Rebus Rebus Principle (Linguistics) is using the existing symbols, such as pictograms, purely for their sounds regardless of their meaning, to represent new words. Many ancient writing systems used Rebus principle to represent abstract words, which otherwise would be hard to be represented by pictograms.
Rebuttable presumption Both in common law and in civil law, a rebuttable presumption (in Latin, praesumptio iuris tantum) is an assumption that is made that is taken to be true unless someone comes forward to contest it and prove otherwise. Rebuttable presumptions in criminal law are somewhat controversial in that they do effectively reverse the presumption of innocence in some cases.
Rebuttal In law, rebuttal is a form of evidence that is presented to contradict or nullify other evidence that has been presented by an adverse party. By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.
ReBoot ReBoot was a Canadian animated series that was produced by Mainframe Entertainment, created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace, with character designed by Brendan McCarthy and Ian Gibson. It was credited with being the first full length, completely computer animated TV series.
ReBoot Fandom The ReBoot fandom is a small international and informal web-based community drawn together by the ReBoot television series. The fandom community as produced a wide variety of media, including fan sites, fan fiction, and fan art.
ReBoot: Daemon Rising ReBoot: Daemon Rising is a 2001 Canadian made-for-TV movie based on the series ReBoot. The movie is set after the first three seasons of ReBoot, and along with another ReBoot movie, My Two Bobs, is considered the fourth season.
Rec footy Recreational Football (also known as Rec Footy or Recreational Footy) is a non-contact version of the Australian rules football game sanctioned by the Australian Football League. It is a more accessible version of Australian rules football that people can pick up and play with some degree of skill and ability and it is directly aligned to the traditional game of Australian rules football.
Rec Hall Recreation Building, or Rec Hall as it is more commonly known, is a field house located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was opened on January 15, 1929 and is still in use.
Recalcitrant seed Recalcitrant seeds are seeds that do not survive drying and freezing during ex-situ conservation. Moreover, these seeds cannot resist the effects of drying or temperatures less than 10° C thus they cannot be stored for long periods like orthodox seeds because they can lose their viability.
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