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Renaissance Center The Renaissance Center, nicknamed the RenCen, is a group of seven interconnected skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, Michigan on the Detroit International Riverfront.Detroit International Riverfront Detroitriverfront.
Renaissance College Hong Kong Renaissance College Hong Kong (Chinese: 啓新書院 Abbreviated: RCHK) is a newly opened school in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong. It is part of the English Schools Foundation (ESF) and is the first school, in Hong Kong, offering the IB Primary Years Programme, the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme to all students according to their year levels.
Renaissance Cruises Renaissance Cruises, originally founded in 1989, was a cruise line operator that operated year-round cruise itineraries to the Mediterranean, the Greek Isles, Tahiti and the South Pacific, Northern Europe and Scandinavia. The company ceased operations on 25 September, 2001 and accommodated up to 220,000 guests in 2000.
Renaissance Enterprises Renaissance Enterprises is a nonprofit organization devoted to bringing the arts to residents of long term care facilities and senior centers. They are one of the few agencies to address the need for regular arts and therapeutic music interaction between professional artists, artisans and performers and the isolated elderly.
Renaissance humanism Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as humanism) was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the 14th century. Its focus was on human dignity and potential and the place of mankind in nature; it valued the witnesses of reason and the evidence of the senses in reaching the truth over the Christian values of humility, introspection, and passivity, or "meekness" that had dominated European thought in the previous centuries.
Renaissance Hotels Renaissance Hotels is a worldwide brand of hotels and resorts. The brand is owned by Marriott International and many Renaissance Hotels are managed by Marriott, however some are operated under a franchise license.
Renaissance Child Renaissance Child is the solo debut album by rapper Hell Razah, set for release on February 20, 2007 through Nature Sounds Records. Razah is most famed as a member of Wu-Tang Clan affiliate groups Sunz of Man and Black Market Militia.
Renaissance in Poland The Renaissance in Poland (, literally 'Rebirth') lasted from the late 15th century to the late 16th century and was likely the golden age of Polish culture. The Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 known as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), ruled by the Jagiellon dynasty, actively participated in the European Renaissance.
Renaissance in the Netherlands The Renaissance in the Netherlands coincides with a very turbulent period in the region. In 1500 the Seventeen Provinces were in a personal union under the Burgundian Dukes, and with the Flemish cities as centers of gravity, culturally and economically formed one of the richest parts of Europe.
Renaissance literature Renaissance literature is European literature, after the Dark Ages over an extended period, usually considered to be initiated by Petrarch at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, and sometimes taken to continue to the English Renaissance and into the seventeenth century. The impact of the Renaissance varied across the continent: countries where Catholicism and emergent Protestantism were, or became, dominant experienced the Renaissance in a different manner to areas where the Orthodox Church was the dominant culture and those areas of Europe under Islamic rule.
Renaissance music Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600. Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century.
Renaissance Malibu Renaissance Malibu Treatment Center is an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in Malibu, California. The center can accommodate both men and women seeking residential, outpatient, day treatment, extended care, and/or sober living services.
Renaissance of the 12th century The Renaissance of the 12th century was a period of many changes during the High Middle Ages. It included social political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots.
Renaissance philosophy Renaissance philosophy is the period of the history of philosophy in Europe that falls roughly between the Middle Ages and the Delightedment age. It includes the 12th century; some scholars extend it to as early as the 1534s or as late as the 16th century or early 17th century, overlapping the Reformation and the early modern era.
Renaissance Papacy The Papacy during the Renaissance had a reputation for worldliness.THE RENAISSANCE PAPACY, Christian Chronicler Two of the more notorious popes were the Borgia Alexander VIPope Alexander VI, Catholic Encyclopedia and the Medici Julius II.
Renaissance Pictures Renaissance Pictures is an American film production company. Founded by director Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert and actor Bruce Campbell, with help from publicist Irvin Shapiro, in the late 1970s to produce their film The Evil Dead, which, along with its sequels Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness, are group's best known efforts.
Renaissance Street Singers The Renaissance Street Singers is a New York City-based choir that performs polyphonic sacred music a cappella in free concerts in public spaces around the city. Formed in 1973 by Manhattan resident John Hetland, the group consists of about 25 people who love this kind of music and who wish to share it by singing for passers-by.
Renaissance Weekend A Renaissance Weekend is a private, invitation-only retreats for leaders in business and finance, government, the media, religion, medicine, science, technology and the arts. Renaissance Weekends were founded in 1980 by Linda Lader and Philip Lader, the former U.
Renal anomalies Renal anomalies can include the lack of a kidney and/or adrenal gland, or the presence of an extra kidney and/or renal gland. Patients with renal disease, particularly those with only one kidney, will need to be monitored to ensure that they are free from infection as infections can put a patient at risk for more surgeries or even dialysis if left untreated.
Renal blood flow In the physiology of the kidney, renal blood flow (RBF) is the volume of blood delivered to the kidney per unit time. In humans, the kidneys together receive roughly 20% of cardiac output, amounting to 1 L/min in a 70-kg adult male.
Renal ectopia Renal ectopia or ectopic kidney describes a kidney that is not located in its usual position. It results from the kidney failing to ascend from its origin in the true pelvis or from a superiorly ascended kidney located in the thorax.
Renal osteodystrophy Renal osteodystrophy is a bone pathology, characterized by defective mineralization, that results from renal disease. renal - refers to kidney, osteo - refers to bone, and dystrophy - means degenerative disorder (like dystrophy in muscular dystrophy).
Renal threshold In physiology, the renal threshold is the concentration of a substance dissolved in the blood above which the kidneys begin to remove it into the urine. Renal thresholds vary by substance – the low potency poison urea, for instance, is removed at much lower concentrations than glucose.
Renal-coloboma syndrome Renal-coloboma syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disease marked by underdevelopment (hypoplasia) of the kidney and colobomas of the optic nerve. The syndrome results from mutation of a copy of the PAX2 gene, a gene which is important in the development of both the eye and the kidney.
Renaldo "Obie" Benson Renaldo "Obie" Benson (June 14, 1936 – July 1, 2005) was an African-American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was best known as the bass of Motown group The Four Tops, which he joined in 1953 and continued to perform with for over five decades, until April 8, 2005.
Renaldo and the Loaf An English duo active in the late seventies and most of the eighties, Renaldo and the Loaf consisted of a pathologist (David Janssen or "Ted The Loaf") and an architect (Brian Poole or "Renaldo Malpractice") who made music often considered strange.
Renaldo Nehemiah Renaldo "Skeets" Nehemiah (born March 24, 1959 in Newark, New Jersey), is an American athlete who dominated the 110 m hurdle event from 1978 until 1981. He was the world record holder and the first man to run the high hurdles in under 13 seconds.
Rename Rename (re- + name) is a word meaning change the name of something. Different areas, such as linguistics, relational algebra, and computer science incur renaming actions with different detailed activity, however the principles behind are all the same — change the name of something.
Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week, 2002 On August 10, 2002, the government of Turkmenistan adopted a law to rename all the months and most of the days of week. The names were chosen according to Turkmen national symbols, as described in Ruhnama, a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan's first president for life.
Renard (James Bond) Viktor Lavrentievich Zokas, better known by his alias of Renard, the Anarchist, is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. He was portrayed by Scottish actor Robert Carlyle.
Renard (Stravinsky) Renard, Histoire burlesque chantée et jouée (The Fox: burlesque tale sung and played) is a one-act chamber opera-ballet by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1916. The Russian text by the composer was based on Russian folk tales from the collection by Alexander Afanasyev.
Renasant Financial Partners Renasant Financial Partners Limited (formerly Clearlink Capital Corporation and MFP Financial Services) () is a computer supply and service company, which offers leasing, asset-based financing and equipment trading services to corporate and government clients to meet technology and computer needs.
Renata Beger Renata Beger (born 18 July 1958, in Silno, Poland) is a Polish politician, a prominent member of the populist political party Samoobrona and a member of the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish parliament) since 2001.
Renata Borgatti Renata Borgatti (1894] - [[March 8 1964) was the daughter of the Wagnerian tenor Giuseppe Borgatti. She originally trained as a ballerina but abandoned dance to become a concert pianist specialising in works of Debussy.
Renata Burgos Renata de Oliveira Burgos (born January 3, 1982 in JaĂş, SĂŁo Paulo) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who represented her native country in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She's as resident of RibeirĂŁo Preto.
Renata Fischer Renata Fischer was a former East German cross country skier who competed in the late 1960's and early 1970's. She earned a silver medal in the 3 x 5 km at the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Vysoké Tatry.
Renata of Lorraine Renata of Lorraine (April 20, 1544, Nancy – May 22, 1602, Munich) was the daughter of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine and Christina of Denmark. She married William V, Duke of Bavaria on 22 February 1568, in a large ceremony in Munich, which was described in detail by Massimo Troiano in his Dialoghi (1569).
Renata Rochnowska Renata Rochnowska (born February 2, 1949 in Wawrowice) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7411 votes in 34 ElblÄ…g district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Renata Scotto The Italian opera singer Renata Scotto (born February 24, 1934) is a soprano widely admired for both her musical and dramatic gifts. Since retiring from the stage as a singer in 2002, she has turned to directing opera as well as teaching at her own opera academy in Italy and New York.
Renate Thyssen-Henne Renate Thyssen-Henne was born Renate Kerkhoff on 20 June 1939 in Bottrop, in Germany. She is part of the Westphalian industrial family Kerkhoff (wood sawmill, gravel pits, textile and clothing company), whose founder was her grand-father Hermann Kerkoff.
Renater Renater (Réseau national de télécommunications pour la technologie, l'enseignement et la recherche) is a French national public high speed computer network dedicated to connecting universities, schools (including colleges, high schools, engineer and business schools, etc.), and research centers through the whole country.
Renato Archer Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (1922-1996) was a Brazilian naval officer and politician. The Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer (CenPRA), a federal R&D center located in Campinas, state of SĂŁo Paulo, is named in his honour.
Renato Boavista FlorĂŞncio Renato, real name Renato Boavista FlorĂŞncio, (born May 15, 1980 in Santa Mercedes, Brazil) is a Brazilian football player who currently plays for Sevilla FC. He plays as a central attacking midfielder / playmaker and has been capped 29 times by Brazilian national team.
Renato Brunetta Renato Brunetta (born on 26 May 1950 in Venice) is an Italian economist and politician, former member of the Italian Socialist Party, currently a Member of the European Parliament for the North-East with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, as well as substitute for the Delegation to the European Union-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Renato Carosone Renato Carosone (3 January 1920 – 20 May 2001) was among the greatest figures of Italian music scene in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a modern performer of the so-called canzone napoletana, Naples' song tradition.
Renato Corsetti Renato Corsetti (born March 29 1941) is the current president of the World Esperanto Association (Universala Esperanto Asocio). He was born in Rome, Italy and is a staunch defender of the idea that the people of the world should be able to communicate in a neutral and easy international language.
Renato de Albuquerque Renato de Albuquerque is a Brazilian civil engineer and entrepreneur in the construction and real state businesses. He was the founder of a pioneering construction firm, Albuquerque & Takaoka in 1951 together with his fellow architect and friend Yojiro Takaoka.
Renato Dirnei FlorĂŞncio Renato, real name Renato Dirnei FlorĂŞncio, (born May 15, 1979 in Santa Mercedes) is a Brazilian football player who currently plays for Sevilla FC. He plays as a defensive midfielder and has been capped 29 times by Brazilian national team.
Renato Fasano Renato Fasano (August 21, 1902 – August 3, 1979) was an Italian conductor who founded Virtuosi di Roma in the late 1940s. This small orchestra helped popularize Italian Baroque music, recording works by such composers as Arcangelo Corelli, Baldassarre Galuppi, Alessandro Marcello, Giovanni Paisiello, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Antonio Vivaldi.
Renato M. E. Sabbatini Renato Marcos Endrizzi Sabbatini (born 20 February 1947) is a Brazilian biomedical and computer scientist, educator, publisher, science writer, entrepreneur and administrator, born in Campinas, Brazil. He holds a doctoral degree in physiology from the University of SĂŁo Paulo.
Renato Mannheimer Renato Mannheimer is an Italian pollster and professor of sociology at the Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca. He is a consultant to Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian newspaper, and RAI, the Italian public service broadcaster.
Renato Tosio Renato Tosio (born November 16, 1964 in Wil, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender. He is popular for his energetic style of play, for his sportsmanship and also for being a great entertainer and showman.
Renato Villalta Renato Villalta (born February 3, 1955, Maserada, province of Treviso) is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He was 203 cm (6'8") tall and played as a power forward.
Renaud de Montauban Renaud de Montauban, also known as Rinaldo di Montalbano, was a fictional hero who was introduced to literature in a 12th century Old French chanson de geste. His exploits form part of the Doon de Mayence cycle of chansons, also known as Les Quatre Fils Aymon ("The Four Sons of Duke Aymon").
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres (born March 13, 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), often known as RDDV, is a French politician, currently France's Minister of Culture since 2003. He is a member of the UMP right-wing party, and the grandson of Henri Donnedieu de Vabres.
Renaud Dutreil Renaud Dutreil (born June 12, 1960) is currently the Minister for Small Businesses and Enterprise in France. He was Minister for the Civil Service (2004-2005) and was Minister for Small Businesses and Enterprise previously from 2002 to 2004.
Renaud Van Ruymbeke Renaud van Ruymbeke is a French investigative magistrate, well known for specializing in political and financial corruption cases, who investigated on the French-Taiwan frigates Affair, which has been related to the Clearstream scandal, and on the Urba affair.
Renaude Lapointe Louise Marguerite Renaude Lapointe, PC , CC (January 3, 1912 – May 11, 2002) was a Canadian journalist and a Senator. She was among the first Canadian women to work as a professional journalist and the first French-Canadian woman to preside over the Senate.
Renault 12 The Renault 12 is a large family car produced by the French manufacturer Renault between 1968 and 1980. Available as a saloon and estate, it was also produced under licence in many countries across the globe into the early 21st century.
Renault 20/30 The Renault 20 and Renault 30 are two executive cars produced by the French automaker Renault between 1975 and 1984. The most upmarket and expensive Renaults of their time, the two cars were effectively identical; the 30 was the larger engined and more expensive of the two.
Renault 21 The Renault 21 was a midsize car built by the French manufacturer Renault between 1986 and 1994. It was also sold in North America through American Motors (AMC) dealers as the Renault Medallion and the Eagle Medallion.
Renault 25 The Renault 25 is an executive car produced by the French automaker Renault from 1983 to 1992. The most luxurious and upmarket Renault ever at the time, it placed second in the 1985 European Car of the Year contest.
Renault 3 The Renault 3 was a budget version of the Renault 4 supermini, produced in 1961 and 1962. The difference between the two cars was that the Renault 3 did not have a third side window, hubcaps, a front grille or interior door trims and had a smaller 603 cc engine.
Renault 4 The Renault 4, also known as the 4L (pronounced "Quatrelle", which could be heard as "4 wings" in French), is a hatchback economy car produced by the French automaker Renault between 1961 and 1993. It was the first front-wheel drive Renault.
Renault 4CV The Renault 4CV was an automobile produced by the French manufacturer Renault from 1946 to 1961. An economical "people's car" inspired by the Volkswagen Beetle, it was the first French car to sell over a million.
Renault 5 Turbo The Renault 5 Turbo or R5 Turbo was a high-performance coupé automobile produced by the French manufacturer Renault in the early 1980s. The car was designed for rallying, but was also sold in road-going guise.
Renault 8 The Renault 8 (Renault R8 until 1964) and Renault 10 are two small family cars produced by the French automaker Renault in the 1960s and early 1970s. The 8 was launched in 1962, and the 10, a more upmarket version of the 8, was launched in 1965.
Renault Alliance The Renault Alliance was a compact automobile built and marketed in North America by the American Motors Corporation (AMC) through its partnership with its majority owner Renault between 1982 and 1987, when the Chrysler Corporation acquired AMC. The Alliance was based upon the Renault 9/11, but received its exterior styling courtesy of AMC's Richard Teague.
Renault Alpine 210 RS The Renault Alpine 210 RS is a concept car which will be presented at the Geneva Salon International de l'Auto in 2006. It hints at a possible resurrection of the Alpine brand as a new luxury brand of the Renault group.
Renault Avantime The Renault Avantime was a coupé automobile marketed by the French manufacturer Renault (though in fact designed and built by the French manufacturer Matra) between 2001 and 2003. Despite, or perhaps because of, its radical and unique design, it suffered from very poor sales and was discontinued after only two years of production.
Renault Caravelle The Renault Caravelle was a roadster automobile produced by the French manufacturer Renault between 1958 and 1968. Outside of North America for its first four years of production it was known as the Renault Floride.
Renault Cléon engine The Cléon engine (also called the "C-Type") was a straight-4 automobile engine from Renault. Introduced in 1972 with the Renault 5, the engine was a development of older Renault powerplants from the 1960s.
Renault Fiftie The Renault Fiftie was a concept car presented in 1996 by Renaultto mark the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the 4CV. Its exterior styling drew heavily on its illustrious ancestor's, as did the choice of a rear-wheel-drive layout.
Renault FT-17 The Renault FT-17 (Automitrailleuse à chenilles Renault FT modèle 1917) was a French light tank; it is among the most revolutionary and influential tank designs in history. FT-17 was the first tank with an armament in a fully rotating turret, and its configuration with the turret on top, engine in the back and the driver in front became the classic one, repeated in most tanks until today; indeed so obvious to modern eyes we can now only with difficulty understand its once-revolutionary nature.
Renault Juvaquatre The Renault Juvaquatre was a small automobile produced by the French manufacturer Renault between 1937 and 1953. It was available in both sedan and station wagon body styles; later models of the station wagon (from 1956 on) were known as the Renault Dauphinoise.
Renault Koleos The Renault Koleos is a compact SUV which was first presented as a concept car at the 2006 Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris. Production is expected to start in 2008, and will be performed by Renault subsidiary Samsung Motors in South Korea.
Renault Monasix The Renault Monasix was an automobile manufactured in 1927 by Renault. The car was considered as a commercial failure mainly because the engine size being too small for the car's length and weight which leaded often to cannot control well the car.
Renault Talisman The Renault Talisman is a luxury 2-door sedan/coupé Concept car designed after the 1995 Renault Initiale Concept line by Renault chief designer Patrick le Quément and it was presented at the Frankfurt Autoshow in 2002.
Renault Twingo The Renault Twingo is a city car built by the French automaker Renault, launched at the 1992 Mondial de l'Automobile and going on sale in early 1993. The Twingo quickly became popular in Europe due to its unusual looks and its ease of use.
Renault Vel Satis The Renault Vel Satis is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Renault. It was launched at the 2001 Geneva Motorshow to replace the already-discontinued Safrane and has nothing in common with the 1990s concept car of the same name.
Renaut I of Bar Renaut I of Bar (also called "the One-eyed", Reinald I, Renaud I) was Count of Bar (1105–1150). Barrois, during the Middle Ages, was the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar, in the eastern part of present-day France, bordering Lorraine.
RenĂŞ Weber RenĂŞ Weber full name RenĂŞ Carmo Kreutz Weber, born July 7 1961, in the small city of Roque Gonzales, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil), is a former football player (in Brazil and abroad); and for some time now, until presently (2005), he had been working as soccer coach (in Brazil and in other countries).
Renán Almendárez Coello Renán Almendárez Coello is a Honduran-American radio show host of the show El Cucuy de la Mañana ("The Bogeyman of the Morning") on KLAX-FM in Los Angeles, California. The show, which is widely syndicated, airs weekdays from 4-11 and on Saturdays from 5-10 and has an estimated audience of about three million daily listeners.
René Alvarado René Alvarado (born on January 26, 1979) is an American actor who has had roles in televesion series such as Las Vegas and movies such as Fall to Grace. Most recently he stars in the upcoming film East Side Story where he plays a gay character.
René Auberjonois René Victor Auberjonois (18 August 1872 - 11 October 1957) was a Swiss painter who studied under the famed French painter Luc-Olivier Merson. He was regarded as one of his country's most renowned post-impressionist artists.
René Barjavel René Barjavel (January 24, 1911 - November 24, 1985) was a French author, journalist and critic who supposedly was the first to think of the grandfather paradox. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love.
René Baudichon René Baudichon (1878-1963), French sculptor and medallist. The artist was born in Tours, France, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in his native town, and graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
René Berger René Berger is a "Docteur ès lettres" of the University of Paris (Sorbonne) ; honorary professor at the University of Lausanne and the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; former Director-Curator of the Musée des Beaux Arts ; Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the International Association for Video in the Arts and Culture (AlVAC) ; founder of the cultural movement Pour l'Art; originator-producer of the Colloquia of the International Video Festival of Locarno ; consulting expert to UNESCO and the Council of Europe ; member of the Kuratorium of the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM Karlsruhe) ; member of the Academy of the international Centre of Contemporary Art, Chateau de Beychevelle (GMF Group, France, Suntory Group, Japan).
René Carcan René Carcan (May 25, 1925—1993) was a prominent Belgian engraver and sculptor, who studied under Léon Devos, Jacques Maes and Johnny Friedlaender. He has been shown in numerous international exhibitions including Galerie La Proue, and is closely associated with the work of Graciela Rodo Boulanger, who was also in the Friedlaender school.
René Cassin René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist and judge. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
René de Possel Lucien Alexandre Charles René Possel (1905 - 1974) was a French mathematician, one of the founders of the Bourbaki group, and later a pioneer computer scientist, working in particular on optical character recognition.
René Dahinden René Dahinden (1930 - April 18, 2001) was a well-known Bigfoot (Sasquatch) researcher who was born in Switzerland but moved to Canada in 1953, where he would live for the rest of his life. He became interested in the Bigfoot phenomenon shortly after arriving in Canada, and during the next few decades he conducted many field investigations and interviews throughout the Pacific Northwest.
René Depestre René Depestre (born 29 August 1926) is a Haitian poet and communist. He lived several years in France, and was awarded a French literary prize, the prix Renaudot, in 1988 for his work Hadriana dans Tous mes Rêves.
René Descartes René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics", much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day.
René Dubos René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982), was a French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who exemplified qualities of the modern Renaissance person. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally".
René Duguay-Trouin René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, usually called Réné Duguay-Trouin, (Saint Malo, 10 June 1673 -- 1736) was a famous French privateer, Lieutenant-Général des armées navales du roi (admiral) and Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis.
René Echevarria René Echevarria is a television writer and producer. He has written for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as the TV series Now and Again, Dark Angel and Medium, and is co-creator and writer of The 4400.
René Fonck René Paul Fonck (27 March 1894–18 June 1953) ended the Great War at the top of the list of all Allied fighter aces. His 75 confirmed victories also ranked him second only, for all World War I fighter pilots, to Manfred von Richthofen, who was killed in 1918 with 80 planes shot down, and when all succeeding conflicts are considered, he remains the top scoring Allied Ace of Aces to this day.
René Fontaine Jacques Noe René Fontaine (born November 5, 1933 in Harty, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for most of the period from 1985 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.
René Girard (footballer) René Girard (born on April 4, 1954 in Vauvert, Gard) is a former football midfielder from France. He won seven caps (one goal) for France and was a member of the squad that finished fourth at the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

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