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Red Ryder Red Ryder was a popular American fictional cowboy created by Stephen Slesinger and drawn by artist Fred Harman. Harman had created the Western adventure comic strip Bronc Peeler in 1933, and the central character, Bronc Peeler, evolved over five years, eventually getting a name change to Red Ryder.
Red Ryder (software) Red Ryder is the name of a well known communications and terminal emulation software program created for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. It was written by Scott Watson, who founded The FreeSoft Company of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
Red Ryder BB Gun The Red Ryder BB Gun, is a BB gun made by Daisy Outdoor Products and introduced in 1938. Based on the comic strip and later television and movie cowboy Red Ryder, the BB gun is still in production despite the fact that the comic strip was cancelled in 1963, and it is arguably the most famous BB gun in American history.
Red seal ships Red seal ships (朱印船 Shuinsen) were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with a red-sealed patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships went overseas under this permit system.
Red sees Red This "That 70's show" is the 53rd episode, it explains Red wanting to be a more tough disiplinary. He starts and finally makes Kitty mad by nailing the doors shut and putting her Christmas bells on the front door.
Red squad Red Squads are police intelligence units that specialize in infiltrating, harassing, and gathering intelligence on political and social groups. Dating as far back as the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Red Squads became common in larger cities such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles in the 1920s.
Red state vs. blue state divide Red States and Blue States refer to those states whose residents predominantly vote for the Republican Party or Democratic Party presidential candidates respectively. The term became ubiquitous following the 2000 presidential election.
Red string (Kabbalah) Wearing a thin red string (as a type of talisman) is a custom associated with Judaism's Kabbalah in order to ward off misfortune brought about by an "evil eye" (עין הרע in Hebrew). In Yiddish the red string is called a roite bindele.
Red string of fate The red string of fate (unmei no akai ito,運命の赤い糸) (also referred to as the red thread of destiny, red thread of fate and by other variants) is an East Asian belief. According to this belief, everyone is connected to another person by an invisible red string that is tied to the ankle or little finger of his or her left hand (though there are other variants on the legend).
Red supergiant Red supergiants (RSGs) are supergiant stars (luminosity class I) of spectral type K-M and a luminosity class of I. They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of physical size (volume), although they are not the most massive.
Red Scare The term "Red Scare" has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the late 1950s. These periods were characterized by heightened suspicion of Communists and the fear of widespread infiltration of Communists in U.
Red Scorpion Red Scorpion is a 1989 film starring Dolph Lundgren. Future lobbyist Jack Abramoff wrote the script and was a producer of the film together with his brother Robert Abramoff, which is one of the film's few claims to fame.
Red Sea (album) An expansion of the sound pioneered on the Mosquito Control EP, the Red Sea EP offers a slight evolution toward the direction Isis would begin to take with their first full length, Celestial. The three songs which make up this EP are tied together with spoken word samples from the short-lived television series Hotel Room (specifically, the third episode, entitled "Blackout" The song "Ochre" contains a sample from the film Dead Man[http://www.
Red Sea (Augustus Pablo album) Red Sea is an album by Augustus Pablo recorded and between 1970 and 1973 and features Herman Chin Loy on production duties. The album is one of the earliest instances of Pablo's revolutionary use of the melodica as a viable musical instrument.
Red Sea (state) Red Sea (Arabic: البحر الأحمر; transliterated: al-Bahr al-Ahmar) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 218,887 km² and an estimated population of approximately 700,000 (2000).
Red Sea Riviera The Red Sea Riviera consists of the resort cities lying on the northern and western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba and along the eastern shore of mainland Egypt south of the Gulf of Suez. Although there are large distances between these cities, they are often referred to as a Riviera.
Red Sea sailfin tang The Red Sea sailfin tang or Desjardin's sailfin tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii) is a marine reef tang in the fish family Acanthuridae. They originate in the lagoons and reefs of the Indian Ocean from the southern Red Sea to KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa and as far east as India and Java.
Red Sea Trading Corporation The Red Sea Trading Corporation (commonly known as "09") is the commercial entity created to enact the People's Front for Democracy and Justice's social responsible development program. The company was founded with only $20,000 in 1984.
Red Serge The Red Serge is the formal and ceremonial uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It consists of a scarlet military dress-style coat, replete with a low neck collar, brass buttons, and golden braided ornamentation with a white cotton T-shirt underneath.
Red Service The Civil Air Patrol Red Service ribbon is awarded to cadet or senior members who have completed two years active service in the Civil Air Patrol. Subsequent awards are denoted by a bronze triangular clasp at five years and for every five years thereafter.
Red Shadow is a fictional Japanese superhero featured in manga, tokusatsu and anime movies & TV shows since his first appearance in the 1967 TV series, Masked Ninja Red Shadow, produced by Toei Company Ltd.. Red Shadow, created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, is a ninja who wears a red & black costume and a stylized red domino mask.
Red Shirt (Factory) The Red Shirts were an organization founded by Ellison Adger Smyth. The purpose was to curtail African American influence in politics and keep his Greenville, South Carolina factory-whites only in the years following the American Civil War.
Red Shirt Gordon A criminal who escaped from Folsom Prison in California as leader of the "Big Break" in 1903. Gordon and twelve other prisoners overpowered guards, took hostages, and escaped from the prison, which at the time had no walls.
Red Shirt School of Photography The Red Shirt School of Photography is a trend in photography which first became popular in the 1950s. It was pioneered by National Geographic Magazine photographers, who had subjects wear or chose subjects who wore overly colorful clothes (not necessarily of the color red, though red was preferred as it rendered best on Kodachrome film).
Red Shirts (South Carolina) The Red Shirts of South Carolina were the supporters of Wade Hampton in the South Carolina gubernatorial election of 1876 and the gubernatorial election of 1878. They came to symbolize a revived Southern Nationalism and the redemption of the state from Radical Republican rule during Reconstruction.
Red Shoe Diaries Red Shoe Diaries is a dramatic series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1999 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both.
Red Skelton Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, clubs and casinos, while pursuing another career as a painter.
Red Skies Over Europe Red Skies Over Europe is an action game set in the Eastern Front conflict between the Axis Powers Luftwaffe and the Soviet Air Force in World War II. The player can fly in aircraft such as the MiG-3, Yak-9, IL-2, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Junkers Ju 87.
Red Skull Red Skull is a Marvel Comics supervillain who is the archenemy of Captain America. The character's first modern appearance was in Tales of Suspense #66, although the Red Skull was impersonated by a Nazi agent, George John Maxon in Tales of Suspense #65 (via retcon).
Red Sky at Morning (Speth book) James Gustave Speth authored the book Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, which Yale University Press published in 2004. A central premise of the book is that environmentalism, so far, has been unsuccessful in protecting the natural environment on Earth.
Red Sky, Blue Flame Red Sky, Blue Flame is a short story by Elaine Cunningham, published in Star Wars Gamer #7. It is set in a Chiss military training outpost in the Rata Nebula, a few years before the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War.
Red Slug The Red Slug (Arion rufus; also known as the Chocolate Arion or the European red slug) is a large slug, characterised by its usually red or brown body and lack of a keel. At most, a full-grown Red Slug can extend to be approximately 18cm (7 inches) in length; although they usually only grow to be 7–10cm (2.
Red Smith (baseball player) James Carlisle "Red" Smith (April 6 1890 – October 11 1966) was a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Brooklyn teams of the early 1910s (known by a few different names, Dodgers in 1911 and 1912, Superbas in 1913, and Robins in 1914, now the Los Angeles Dodgers) and the Braves teams of the late 1910s (then located in Boston). He was an interesting player for the time, accumulating a solid .
Red Smith (sportswriter) Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (September 25 1905 in Green Bay, Wisconsin - January 15 1982 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sportswriter who rose to become America's most widely read sportswriter. Today, he is remembered as one of America's most outstanding sportswriters.
Red Smith Handicap The Red Smith Handicap is a turf race for thoroughbred horses open to three-year-olds and up and set at a distance of one and three-eighths miles. Run at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York, it is a Grade II event and offers a purse of $150,000.
Red Snapper (band) Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar). The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records.
Red Snow Red Snow was a British thermonuclear weapon. Its physics package was apparently similar, if not identical, to that of the United States W28 nuclear warhead used in the B28 nuclear bomb and AGM-28 Hound Dog missile, with an explosive yield of approximately 1 megaton.
Red Sonja Red Sonja, a "warrior woman out of majestic Hyrkania," is a low fantasy sword and sorcery heroine created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith. She first appeared in Conan the Barbarian #23 (Marvel Comics).
Red Sonja (film) Red Sonja is a 1985 sword and sorcery/action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger with Brigitte Nielsen as the title character. It was shot in Italy, on location in Celano and Abruzzi, near Rome, and at the Stabilimenti Cinematagrafici Pontini studios.
Red Spear Society The Red Spear Society (Hongqiang Hui) began in northern China during the Warlord Era in the 1920s as a rural self defense movement in Henan, Hebei and Shandong. These were local groups of small-holders and tenant farmers organized to defend villages against roaming bandits, warlords, tax collectors or later Chinese communists or Japanese.
Red Spruce Red Spruce (Picea rubens) is a spruce tree native to eastern North America. Specifically, its habitat ranges from eastern Quebec to Nova Scotia, and from New England south in the Adirondack Mountains and Appalachians to western North Carolina.
Red Square Red Square (, Krasnaya ploshchad) is the most famous city square in Moscow. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter, known as Kitay-gorod.
Red Square (University of Washington) Red Square, officially Central Plaza, is a large open square on the campus of the University of Washington that serves as a hub for two of the University's major axes, connecting the campus's northern Liberal Arts Quadrangle ("The Quad") with the science and engineering buildings found on the lower campus. The plaza is paved with red brick, and becomes notoriously slippery during precipitation.
Red Star Red Star is Alexander Bogdanov’s 1908 science fiction novel about a communist utopia on Mars. Set in early revolutionary Russia and socialist Mars, the novel tells the story of Leonid, a scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars to learn and experience their socialist system and to teach them of his own world.
Red Star Youth Collective Red Star Youth Collective (RSYC) was an organization of Party and non-Party youth allied to the Young Communist League - Preparatory Committee (YCL-PC), a body formed by the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) to reestablish the YCL. The YCL-PC disbanded due to organizational disfunction, leaving the RSYC as the only remaining functional body.
Red Star, Winter Orbit This story from William Gibson's Burning Chrome collection of short fiction is set in an alternate future where the Soviet Union controls most of the Earth's resources, especially oil. As a result of this the United States is no longer a dominant economic power on earth and the Soviets have won the space race.
Red Stars Theory Red Stars Theory were formed in early '95 when James Bertram was looking for someone to play guitar with and found Tonie Palmasani, Jeremiah Green and Jason Talley. They got together, found that something just clicked, and put out first a 10 inch on Deluxe and then a 7 inch and LP on RX Remedy.
Red State Diaries Red State Diaries is a television comedy show starring comedian Lewis Black being developed for Comedy Central to begin airing in 2007. Comedy Central says it will feature Black on the road reaching for a positive understanding of the red states.
Red Steagall Russell (Red) Steagall (December 22, 1937 - )is a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, to South America and to the Far East. He has performed for heads of state including a special party for President Reagan at the White House in 1983, and has completed three overseas tours for the United States Information Agency to the Middle East, the Far East, and South America.
Red Storm Entertainment Red Storm Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ubisoft Entertainment, specializing in PC games, console games, and related merchandise mainly based on the works of the writer Tom Clancy. The head quarters for Red Storm is located in Morrisville, North Carolina.
Red Storm Rising Red Storm Rising is a 1986 techno-thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond about a Third World War in Europe between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, set around the mid-1980s, probably in 1986 or 1987. Though there are other novels dealing with a fictional World War III, this one is notable for the way in which numerous settings for the action — from Atlantic convoy duty to shooting down reconnaissance satellites to tank battles in Germany — all have an integral part to play on the outcome.
Red Strader Norman "Red" Strader (December 21, 1902 - May 26, 1956) was a football player and coach who served in both capacities at the collegiate and professional levels. In the college ranks, he spent two years as head coach at St.
Red String (webcomic) Red String is a webcomic by Gina Biggs, influenced by shĹŤjo manga both in art and story style, it is a drama comic set in Japan and it focuses on the daily life of Miharu Ogawa, a sixteen year old girl who finds out one day that she is betrothed.
Red Stripe Red Stripe is a Jamaican lager-style beer whose logo is a bold, diagonal red stripe. It was originally brewed by the Desnoes and Geddes company (founded by Kingston natives Eugene Desnoes and Thomas Geddes) as early as 1928, but in 1993, that company was purchased by the huge multinational makers of Guinness, Diageo.
Red Stripe (Flying Pickets) Red Stripe (real name David Gittins) was a member of the famous a cappella group The Flying Pickets. The Pickets did a cover of Yazoo's "Only You" and it was the Christmas Number 1 of 1983 and stayed at the top spot for 5 weeks, they also had another hit called "When You're Young and in Love" that made Number 7.
Red Submarine Red Submarine first began in 1995 operating as a recording studio for local musicians in York, partly funded by the Arts Council. Within two years, the company changed direction to become a supplier of computer related products for audio, music, video and graphics applications allowing people to create and play music.
Red Swastika Society The Red Swastika Society () was a voluntary association founded in China in 1922 by Qian Neng-kun (錢能訓), Du Bing-yin (杜秉寅) and Li Jia-bo (李佳白) as the philanthropic branch of the Daodeshe (道德社) "Society of Dao and Virtue", a syncretist taoist school, which changed at the same time its name to Daoyuan. It was one of a number of new transnational world redemptive societies founded at the time in China, drawing on Western examples such as the Red Cross to build charitable institutions grounded in religions such as Buddhism and Daoism.
Red Symons Red Symons (born 13 June, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show. He currently hosts 774 ABC Melbourne's breakfast show.
Red tape Red tape (or sometimes paperwork) is a derisive term for excessive regulations or rigid conformity to formal rules that are considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making. It is usually applied to government, but can also be applied to other organizations like corporations.
Red telephone The "red telephone" was a famous hotline which linked the White House via the National Military Command Center with the Kremlin during the Cold War. It was established following an agreement on June 20, 1963 after the events of the Cuban missile crisis made it clear that reliable, direct communications between the two nuclear powers was a vital necessity.
Red telephone box The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom and Malta, and despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, red boxes can still be seen in many places. The rainy British climate necessitates protection of callers from the elements.
Red tide Red tide is a common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine or marine algae accumulate rapidly in the water column, or "bloom". These algae, more correctly termed phytoplankton, are microscopic, single-celled, plant-like organisms that can form dense, visible patches near the water's surface.
Red triangle The red triangle was a content warning system employed by mainstream terrestrial British TV broadcaster Channel 4 for a brief period in 1986. The channel showed a number of 18 certificate art films in the early hours of the morning as part of the "red triangle" series, gaining unexpectedly large audiences.
Red Team In Wargaming, the opposing force in a simulated military conflict is known as the "Red Team", and is used to reveal weaknesses in current military readiness. The approach and the value is depicted in the movie The Dirty Dozen, where a small team of Red Team infiltrators is able to capture the generals in the Blue team command post.
Red Terror The Red Terror was a campaign of mass arrests and deportations targeted against counterrevolutionaries in Russia during the Russian Civil War. It was initiated and conducted by the Bolsheviks as retribution for the simultaneous successful assassination of Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky, and attempted assassination of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin by Fanya Kaplan on August 30, 1918.
Red Terror (Ethiopia) The Ethiopian Red Terror (1977-1978) was a violent political campaign in Ethiopia undertaken during the leadership of the Derg, a socialist military junta. In December 2006, Mengistu Haile Mariam was convicted in absentia for his role in the Red Terror while leader of Ethiopia.
Red Thunder Cloud Red Thunder Cloud (May 30, 1919 – January 8, 1996), whose real name was Cromwell West and who was also known as Carlos Westez, pretended to be the last native speaker of the Catawba Indian language for most of his life. As an impostor, he was a considerable success, and even had an obituary published in the New York Times.
Red Tilson Trophy The Red Tilson Trophy is an annual award given to the most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League. The award is voted on by OHL writers and broadcasters, and is named for Red Tilson, a former played for the Oshawa Generals who was killed in service in the Second World War.
Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel) The first comic book character called Red Tornado is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe, debuting during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Created by Sheldon Mayer, she first appeared in her civilian identity as Abigail Mathilda "Ma" Hunkel in All-American Publications' All-American Comics #3 (June 1939), and became the Red Tornado in All-American Comics #20 (Nov.
Red Treadway Thadford Leon "Red" Treadway (April 28, 1920 - May 26, 1994) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the New York Giants in 1944 and 1945. A native of Athlone, North Carolina, he stood 5'10" and weighed 175 lbs.
Red Triangle (Pacific Ocean) The Red Triangle is the colloquial name of a roughly triangle-shaped region off the coast of northern California, extending from Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, out to a bit beyond the Farallon Islands, and down to the Big Sur region, south of Monterey. The area has a very large population of marine mammals, such as elephant seals and sea lions, which are a favored meal of great white sharks.
Red velvet cake A Red velvet cake is a type of rich and sweet chocolate cake (though it is often made without chocolate flavoring) which has a distinctive dark red or red-brown color. Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and often either beets, or red food coloring.
Red vs. Blue Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, often abbreviated as RvB, is a machinima comic science fiction video series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed primarily through the Internet and DVD.
Red Valerian Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber) is a popular garden flower with a number of other names, including Spur Valerian, Red Spur Valerian, Jupiter's Beard and others. It is also quite often referred to simply as "Valerian", but this usage is better avoided, because it perpetuates the longstanding confusion between Red Valerian and the related Common Valerian Valeriana officinalis.
Red Vines Red Vines is a brand of candy manufactured by the American Licorice Company of Chicago, Illinois. Red Vines red twists, sometimes known generically as 'red licorice' resemble American black licorice except that they are red and do not have flavor extracted from the roots of the liquorice plant.
Red Voice Choir Red Voice Choir is an progressive dark rock band formed in Oakland, California, USA in 2005. Members are: Miss Kel (vocals) and (keyboards), Adam Beck (vocals) and (guitar), Dawn Hillis (bass), with Kevin Brown (drums).
Red Warbler The Red Warbler Ergaticus ruber is a small, bright red passerine bird endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico. The adults are completely red, with a white or silver ear patch, depending on the subspecies.
Red Water Shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa, the production built three different sharks to depict the single bull shark in the movie. One of those became the first free-swimming animatronic shark ever used in a motion picture.
Red Wattlebird The Red Wattlebird, Anthochaera carunculata, is a honeyeater, a group of birds found mainly in Australia and New Guinea which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding. The tongue is flicked rapidly and repeatedly into a flower, the upper mandible then compressing any liquid out when the bill is closed.
Red Wedge Red Wedge was a collective of British popular musicians who attempted to engage young people with politics in general, and the policies of the Labour Party in particular, during the period leading up to the 1987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
Red Wine Headache Red Wine Headache or RWH is a bad headache often accompanied by queasiness and flushing that occurs in many people after drinking even a single glass of red wine. This syndrome can sometimes develop within 15 minutes.
Red Wing School District Independent School District 256 is a pre-K through grade 12 district located in Red Wing, Minnesota (population 16,000). Red Wing is located in the Mississippi River Valley, fifty miles southeast of the Minneapolis/St.
Red Wings-Avalanche brawl 1997 The Red Wings-Avalanche brawl of 1997 was a large scale on-ice melee that occurred March 26, 1997, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, between two National Hockey League rivals, the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Avalanche. The brawl stemmed from a previous on-ice incident between the two teams during the 1996 Western Conference Finals, perceived by the Red Wings to be a dirty hit.
Red Wizards (Dungeons & Dragons) The Red Wizards of Thay are a fictional organization and social class of evil wizards in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of Dungeons & Dragons. The Red Wizard prestige class makes a character a member of this organization.
Red Wolf The Red Wolf, Canis rufus is the rarest and most endangered of all wolves. It is thought that its original distribution included much of eastern North America, where Red Wolves were found from Pennsylvania in the east, Florida in the south, and Texas in the west.
Red yeast rice Red yeast rice (Chinese: 红][pinyin: hóng qú mǐ; lit. "red yeast rice"), red fermented rice, red kojic rice, red koji rice, or ang-kak, is a bright reddish purple fermented rice, which acquires its colour from being cultivated with the mold [[Monascus purpureus].
Red Youth (marxist-leninist) Red Youth (marxist-leninist) (in Dutch: Rode Jeugd (marxistisch-leninistisch)) was a revolutionary organization in the Netherlands. Red Youth had been divided into two camps, the 'terrorists', who were inspired by the Rote Armee Fraktion and who saw the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare as a path to follow, and the 'economists', who wanted to focus on socioeconomic struggles.
Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth (in Dutch: Rode Jeugd) was a revolutionary organization in the Netherlands. It originated in the group around the periodical Rode Jeugd, which had been started by the pro-China Rode Vlag-grouping in 1966.
Red Youth Front The Red Youth Front ("RYF") is a communist youth organization that is based in Quebec and Toronto and advocates socialism, abolition of social classes, protection of the environment, repression of racism, sexism and homophobia, youth rights and worker's rights. The RYF Manifesto begins by asserting that it is "a group for all those who are tired of being ignored, of getting robbed by the employers and being told what to do by the government, schools and police.
Red Zebra Broadcasting Red Zebra Broadcasting, is a media company based in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Red Zebra is owned by Daniel Snyder, better known as the owner of the Washington Redskins football franchise and CEO of the Six Flags amusement park chain.
Red Zone Cuba Red Zone Cuba (1966), also known as Night Train to Mundo Fine, is an American drama film that follows the meandering adventures of an escaped convict and two ex-convicts he recruits along the way as they become involved in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and try to find a hidden treasure in a Tungsten mine. Though John Carradine receives fourth billing in the credits, and was prominently featured in the advertising and promotional materal for the film, he only appears briefly, during a framing sequence at the beginning of the film.
Red-and-green Macaw The Red-and-green Macaw or Green-winged Macaw (Ara chloroptera) is often mistaken for the Scarlet Macaw because of its predominantly red feathering. The breast of the Red-and-green Macaw is bright red, but the lower feathers of the wing are green.
Red-baiting Red-baiting is the act of accusing someone, or some group, of being communist, socialist or, in a broader sense, of being significantly more leftist at their core than they may appear at the outset. The term is used mainly with the intention of discrediting the individual's or organization's political views as dishonest and/or haphazard.
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher The Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone rufiventer), also known as the Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher, is a medium-sized passerine bird. It was previously classified with the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now normally grouped with the drongos in the family Dicruridae, which has most of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia.
Red-bellied squirrel The Red-bellied squirrel (Rubrisciurus rubriventer) is a species of squirrel. Until recently, it was described as a species in the genus Callosciurus, but since the 1990s it is generally placed in its own genus Rubrisciurus.
Red-billed Brush-turkey The Red-billed Brush-turkey, Talegalla cuvieri also known as Red-billed Talegalla or Cuvier's Brush-turkey is a large, up to 57cm long, black megapode with bare yellow facial skin, reddish orange bill, yellow iris and orange feet. The head is covered with bristle-like black feathers.
Red-billed Leiothrix The Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea is a member of the Old World babbler family. It is a common cagebird and amongst aviculturists it goes by various names: Pekin Robin, Pekin Nightingale, Chinese Nightingale and Japanese Hill Robin.
Red-billed Oxpecker The Red-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus, is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturndidae. It is native to the savannah of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Central African Republic east to Sudan and south to northern and eastern South Africa..
Red-billed Teal The Red-billed Teal (Anas erythrorhyncha) is a dabbling duck species of the genus Anas. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
Red-billed Tropicbird The Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, also known as the Boatswain Bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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