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Rhodesian general election, 1977 The Rhodesia general election of 1977, the last general election dominated by the white minority, took place on August 31, 1977. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, who was conducting negotiations with moderate African nationalists, was forced into an early election by the defection of twelve MPs from his Rhodesian Front party, which denied him the two-thirds majority of the House of Assembly needed to change the constitution.
Rhodesian honours system The Rhodesian honours system was established at the time that Rhodesia declared itself a republic in 1970, when a system of military and civil decorations and awards were instituted by Presidential Warrant in November 1970Rhodesia Medal Roll, p7.
Rhodesian Man Rhodesian Man, frequently classified as Homo rhodesiensis is a hominin fossil that was described from a cranium found in an iron and zinc mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner. In addition to the cranium, an upper jaw from another individual, a sacrum, a tibia, and two femur fragments were also found.
Rhodesian Ridgeback The Rhodesian Ridgeback is a breed of dog from Southern Africa. The breed originated in Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe) where the first breed standard was written in 1922 and the Parent club formed by Francis R.
Rhodeswood Reservoir Rhodeswood reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire. It was constructed in 1855 as part of the Longdendale chain to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.
Rhodiola rosea Rhodiola rosea (Roseroot) is a plant in the family Crassulaceae that grows in cold regions of the world. These include much of the Arctic, the mountains of Central Asia, the Rocky Mountains, and mountainous parts of Europe, such as the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathian Mountains, British Isles, Scandinavia and Iceland.
Rhodium(III) chloride The name rhodium(III) chloride usually refers to hydrated rhodium trichloride, a molecular compound with the formula RhCl3(H2O)3 (CAS number [20765-98-4]). Another prominent rhodium chloride is RhCl3, a polymeric solid with the AlCl3 structure.
Rhodnius prolixus Rhodnius prolixus is the second most important triatomine vector of the Chagas parasite due to its efficient adaptation to the human domicile in northern South America, where sylvatic populations also exist, and in Central America where it is exclusively domestic. It has a wide range of ecotopes, mainly savanna and foot hills (500 to 1500 m above sea level) at different ranges of humidity between 16 and 28°C.
Rhododendron 'President Roosevelt' Rhododendron 'President Roosevelt' is a popular variegated cultivar of Rhododendron with striking variegated leaves and trusses of bright red flowers that fade to white in the centre. It is named after the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
Rhododendron canadense Rhododendron canadense (Rhodora) is a deciduous flowering shrub that is native to northeastern North America. The wild distribution of the rhodora begins at its easternmost extreme in Canada in Labrador and extends into eastern Ontario and the United States, where it has its most famous home in New England and also occurs naturally in New York, New Jersey, and at high altitudes in the Appalachian Mountains further south to Pennsylvania.
Rhododendron County Park Rhododendron County Park is located on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington and contains a small campground. The distinctive feature of the park is that is filled with wild rhododendrons which fill the park with blooms underneath the forest canopy in late spring and early summer.
Rhododendron ferrugineum Rhododendron ferrugineum (sometimes called alpenrose, snow-rose, or rusty-leaved alpenrose) is an evergreen shrub that grows just above the treeline in the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura and northern Apennines, on acid soils. It may grow up to 1 m tall and produces clusters of pinkish-red, bell-shaped flowers throughout the summer.
Rhododendron luteum Rhododendron luteum (Yellow Azalea or Honeysuckle Azalea) is a species of Rhododendron native to southeastern Europe and southwest Asia. In Europe, it occurs from southern Poland and Austria south through the Balkans and east to southern Russia, and in Asia, east to the Caucasus.
Rhododendron macrophyllum Rhododendron macrophyllum (Pacific Rhododendron, Coast Rhododendron or Big Leaf Rhododendron) is a broadleaf evergreen rhododendron species native to western North America. The northern limit of the range of the Pacific Rhododendron is somewhat north of the border between Canada and the US in British Columbia.
Rhododendron ponticum Rhododendron ponticum, called Common Rhododendron or Pontic Rhododendron, is a species of Rhododendron native to southern Europe and southwest Asia. In Europe, it occurs in two areas, in Spain and northern Portugal, and in southeast Bulgaria, and in Asia from Turkey south to the Lebanon and east to Georgia and the Krasnodar area of southern Russia.
Rhododendron schlippenbachii Rhododendron schlippenbachii (Royal Azalea) is a species of Rhododendron native to the Korean Peninsula and adjacent regions of Manchuria (Liaoning, Nei Mongol), Japan, and the Russian Far East. It is the dominant understory shrub in many Korean hillside forests, growing at 400-1500 m altitude.
Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes Rhododendron subgenus Hymenanthes is a subgenus of the genus Rhododendron, with a widespread distribution in the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The species are evergreen shrubs and small to medium-sized trees (up to 20 m tall), with medium-sized to large leaves (very large, over 40 cm long, in a few species).
Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden The Rhododendron Species Foundation and Botanical Garden (22 acres) is a nonprofit botanical garden specializing in rhododendrons, located at 2525 South 336th Street, Federal Way, Washington. It is open to the public daily except Fridays (and Thursdays off-season); an admission fee is charged during peak season.
Rhododendron State Park The Rhododendron State Park in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, USA is a 2,723 acre (1,102 ha) state park containing a 16 acre (6.5 ha) stand of native Rhododendron maximum, the largest of nineteen similar stands in central and northern New England, the northern limit of their growing range.
Rhodolite Rhodolite is a varietal name for rose-pink to red pyrope garnet found in Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. The name is derived from the Greek for "rose-like", in common with many pink mineral types (e.
Rhodomyrtus tomentosa Rhodomyrtus tomentosa is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to southern and southeastern Asia, from India, east to southern China, Taiwan and the Philippines, and south to Malaysia and Sulawesi. It grows in coasts, natural forest, riparian zones, wetlands, moist and wet forests, bog margins, from sea level up to 2400 m elevation Hosaka and Thistle, 1954 in Langeland and Burks, 1999.
Rhodonite Rhodonite is a member of the pyroxene group of minerals, consisting of manganese inosilicate, (Mn,Fe,Mg,Ca)SiO3, and crystallizing in the triclinic system. It commonly occurs as cleavable to compact masses with a rose-red color, often tending to brown because of surface oxidation.
Rhodope Mountains The Rhodopes (Bulgarian: Родопи, Rodopi, usually used with a definite article: Родопите, Rodopite, sometimes also called Родопа, Rodopa or Родопа планина, Rodopa planina; Greek: Ροδόπη, Rodopi, "red aspect") are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, with over 83% of its area in southern Bulgaria and the remainder in Greece. Its highest peak, Golyam Perelik (2,191 m), is the seventh highest Bulgarian mountain.
Rhodopsin Rhodopsin, also known as visual purple, is expressed in vertebrate photoreceptor cells. It is a pigment of the retina that is responsible for both the formation of the photoreceptor cells and the first events in the perception of light.
Rhodotorula Rhodotorula is a pigmented yeast, part of the Basidiomycota phylum, easily identifiable by distinctive orange/red colonies when grown on SDA (Sabaroud's Dextrose Agar). This distinctive colour is the result of pigments that the yeast creates to block out certain wavelengths of light that would otherwise be damaging to the cell.
Rhodotypos Rhodotypos scandens, the sole species of the genus Rhodotypos, is a deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae, closely related to Kerria and included in that genus by some botanists. It is native to China, possibly also Japan.
Rhodri Giggs Rhodri Giggs (born 2 April 1977) is a Welsh football player who plays as a right-sided midfielder for FC United of Manchester. He is notable as being the younger brother of Manchester United and Wales winger Ryan Giggs.
Rhodri Philipps Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, (born 16 September 1966) is the oldest son of the current Viscount St Davids and a discharged bankrupt Guardian Unlimited Business businessman. Philipps has played an influential role in the two companies Crownridge Steel Ltd (dissolved) and Hans Brochier Holdings Ltd (738 workers - according to German newspapers this firm is bankrupt since summer 2006).
Rhogog Rhogog (The Bearer of the Cup of the Blood of the Ancients) is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos. He is the creation of Micheal Saint-Paul and first appeared in his short story "Sacristans of Rhogog" (1991).
Rhoma Irama Rhoma Irama (born December 11, 1946, in Tasikmalaya, West Java) is an Indonesian dangdut singer. During the height of his stardom in the 1970s, he became the self-proclaimed Raja Dangdut (King of Dangdut) with the group Soneta.
Rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb The rhombic dodecahedra honeycomb is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is the Voronoi diagram of the face-centered cubic sphere-packing, which is believed to be the densest possible packing of equal spheres in ordinary space (see Kepler conjecture).
Rhombic drive The rhombic drive is a specific method of transferring mechanical energy, or work, used almost exclusively when a single cylinder is used for two separately oscillating pistons.  A prime example of this use is on beta type-Stirling engines; the drive's complexity and tight tolerances causing a high cost of manufacture is a hurdle for the wide-spread usage of said engines.
Rhombomere In the vertebrate embryo, a rhombomere is a transiently divided segment of the developing neural tube (a neuromere) in the area that will eventually become the rhombencephalon. The rhombomeres appear as a series of slightly constricted swellings in the neural tube, caudal to the cephalic flexure.
Rhombozoa Rhombozoa, or Dicyemida, is a phylum of tiny parasites that live in the renal appendages of cephalopods. Although the name Dicyemida precedes Rhombozoa in usage, and is preferred by most contemporary authors, Rhombozoa still enjoys much popular support.
Rhona Brankin Rhona Brankin (born 19 January 1950) was first elected to represent Midlothian in the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003. Before entering the Scottish Parliament she was a teacher and a lecturer on special educational needs.
Rhonda Corvese Rhonda Corvese is a Toronto-based independent curator committed to the curatorial presentation and examination of Canadian contemporary art within an international framework. Integral to her curatorial projects is the belief that an international exchange of ideas and artistic production is crucial and fundamental to establishing a platform for artists to develop their practice and for cultural growth.
Rhonda Fleming Rhonda Fleming (born August 10, 1923), nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor", is an American actress. Born in Hollywood, California as Marilyn Louis, Fleming made over forty films, mostly in the forties and fifties.
Rhonda Singh Rhonda Singh (February 21, 1961 – July 27, 2001) was born Peggy Simpson, and was a professional wrestler. Though she was a Canadian, and wrestled briefly in the United States in the late 1990s, she spent most of her career, and achieved the most fame, in Japan, where she wrestled under the name Monster Ripper.
Rhondda East (UK Parliament constituency) Rhondda East was a parliamentary constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons to the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1974. Along with Rhondda West it was formed by dividing the old Rhondda constituency .
Rhondda Heritage Park The Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda Valley, south Wales is a tourist attraction which offers a huge insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery.
Rhondda West (UK Parliament constituency) Rhondda West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rhondda district of South Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.
Rhondite Rhondite is a nano-scale helical carbon-based structure that may be used in the production of steels and alloys to increase cohesion, strength, and uniformity. Each helix is actually made up of small spheres called buckyballs or fullerenes.
Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station is a railway station that serves Cardiff International Airport in the village of Rhoose. It is located on the Vale of Glamorgan Line from Cardiff to Bridgend via Barry and Llantwit Major.
Rhopalia Rhopalia (singular: rhopalium) are small sensory structures of scyphozoan and cubozoan jellyfish; in Aurelia they lie in marginal indententions around the bell and are flanked by rhopalial lappets. Specialized structures to sense light (ocelli) and perceive gravity (statoliths) are usually present.
Rhoptry A rhoptry is a specialized secretory organelle. Rhoptries, as well as micronemes, are characteristic of the motile stages of Apicomplexa protozoans, (specifically merozoites), and are usually located toward the apical end of the organism.
Rhos-on-Sea Rhos-on-Sea (Welsh: Llandrillo-yn-RhĂ´s; shorterned to Rhos or sometimes Llandrillo) is a seaside resort in North Wales. It is a mile to the north but effectively a suburb of Colwyn Bay, and lies on the north coast of Wales at Latitude: 53Âş 18'N Longitude: 03Âş 44'W
Rhosnesni High School Rhosnesni High School, also known as Ysgol Rhosnesni High School, is a high school created in 2003 by Wrexham County Borough council as a part of their controversial "super schools" plan. Three secondary schools were merged into two schools: Rhosnesni (formerly known as St.
Rhotic and non-rhotic accents English pronunciation is divided into two main accent groups, the rhotic and non-rhotic, depending on when the phoneme (the letter "r") is pronounced. Rhotic speakers pronounce written "r" in all positions (although many rhotic speakers omit it in French loan words where "r" is silent, such as dossier).
Rhotic consonant Rhotic consonants, or "R"-like sounds, are non-lateral liquid consonants. This class of sounds is difficult to characterise phonetically, though most of them share some acoustic peculiarities, most notably a lowered third formant in their sound spectrum.
Rhoxolani The Rhoxolani were a Sarmatian people, who are believed to be an off-shoot of the Alans. Their first recorded homeland lay between the Don and Dnieper rivers; they migrated in the 1st century BC toward the Danube, to what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania.
Rhoys Wiggins Rhoys Wiggins (born November 4 1987) is a Welsh football player who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship and the Wales national football team. He wears the number 35 shirt and is a defender playing at left back.
Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb was a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes and Harry Secombe. The dialogue consisted entirely of repetitions of the word "rhubarb", all the characters last names were "Rhubarb", and even the license plates on vehicles were "RHU BAR B".
Rhubarb pie Rhubarb pie is a pie that is particularly popular in those areas where the rhubarb plant is actually cultivated, including the British Isles and the New England region of the United States. Besides diced rhubarb, it almost always contains a large amount of sugar to balance the intense bitterness of the plant.
Rhuddlan Rhuddlan is a town in the administrative county of Denbighshire and traditional county of Flintshire, north Wales, overlooking the River Clwyd. The town gave its name to the Welsh district of Rhuddlan from 1974 to 1996.
Rhuddlan (district) The Borough of Rhuddlan was one of six districts of Clwyd, North Wales from 1974 to 1996. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1972 from part of the administrative county of Flintshire, namely the urban districts of Prestatyn and Rhyl and the rural district of St Asaph.
Rhufoniog Rhufoniog was a small sub-kingdom of the Kingdom of Gwynedd and later a cantref in medieval Wales. It was ruled by Rhufon, the third son of the first King of Gwynedd, Cunedda, and his direct descendants from the year 445 until the year 540 when it was likely absorbed back into direct control of Gwynedd proper.
Rhuilles Rhuilles is a frazione of the Italian comune of Cesana Torinese, located at 1,675 of altitude in the valley of the Thuras stream. It is a tiny Alpine hamlet with characteristical grange (traditional agricultural houses in wood or stone).
Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd was the eldest child of Owain Gwynedd (the king of Gwynedd between 1137-1170). His mother was an Irish woman Pyfog (sometimes called Ffynnod Wyddeles) who was one of his father's many mistresses.
Rhus dentata Rhus dentata, Nana Berry (English), Nanabessie (Afrikaans) is a medium sized, deciduous tree, reaching a height of about 5 metres and a spread of 4 metres. It occurs naturally in almost the whole of South Africa except the Western and Northern Cape Provinces.
Rhus glabra Rhus glabra (Smooth Sumac) is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae, native to North America, from southern Quebec west to southern British Columbia in Canada, and south to northern Florida and Arizona in the United States and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.
Rhus integrifolia Rhus integrifolia, also known as Lemonade Berry, Lemonadeberry, or Lemonade Sumac is a shrub to small tree that is one to eight meters in height, with a sprawling form. It is native to Southwestern California from Santa Barbara County to western Riverside County with its range extending into Baja California.
Rhus lancea Rhus lancea Karee (English and Afrikaans) inHlokoshiyne (isiZulu) Umhlakotshane (amaXhosa) Mokalaabata (North Sotho). Evergreen, frost hardy, drought resistant tree, which can reach up to 8 metres in height with a 5 metre spread.
Rhus leptodictya Rhus leptodictya is known as Mountain Karee in English, Bergkaree in Afrikaans, and Mohlwehlwe in Sotho. An evergreen tree reaching a height of 5 metres and a similar spread, it is drought resistant but only semi frost hardy.
Rhus lucida Rhus lucida, Varnished Kuni-Rhus (English) Blinktaaibos (Afrikaans). This small tree has a distribution along the West Coast of South Africa from Saldanha Bay around the Cape and up the East Coast almost until the Mozambique border.
Rhus ovata Rhus ovata (S.Watson), also known as Sugar Bush or Sugar Sumac, is an evergreen shrub to small tree that grows in chaparral in dry canyons and south-facing slopes below 1300 m in Southern California, Arizona and Baja California.
Rhus pyroides Rhus pyroides (Common Currant-Rhus English, Gewone Taaibos Afrikaans, Nhlokoshiyane isiZulu) is a species of Rhus, native to southern Africa. This tree occurs throughout the whole of South Africa, a part of Botswana and Zimbabwe and in some areas of Namibia near Windhoek.
Rhus typhina Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina, synonym: R. hirta), is a deciduous shrub to small tree in the Anacardiaceae or Cashew family, native to eastern North America, from Ontario and Quebec south to northern Georgia and Mississippi [1].
Rhyacian The Rhyacian (IPA: , , meaning "stream of lava") is the second geologic period in the Paleoproterozoic Era and lasted from 2300 Ma to 2050 Ma (million years ago). Instead of being based on stratigraphy, these dates are defined chronometrically.
Rhyd Ddu railway station Rhyd Ddu is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1881 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the LNWR. The station was originally called South Snowdon and the railway was extended southwards to Beddgelert and Porthmadog in 1923.
Rhygin Famed Jamaican outlaw Ivanhoe 'Rhygin' Martin, died of gunshot wounds sustained during a shootout with police officers on September 9 1948, in Lime Cay, Jamaica. He was the inspiration for the film The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe Martin and directed by Perry Henzel.
Rhyl Rhyl (Welsh: Y Rhyl) is a seaside town located on the Irish Sea, in the administrative county of Denbighshire and the traditional county of Flintshire, North Wales, United Kingdom, at the mouth of the River Clwyd (Welsh: Yr Afon Clwyd). Once an elegant Victorian resort, there was a large influx of people from Liverpool and Manchester after World War II.
Rhyl Miniature Railway The Rhyl Miniature Railway is a 15 inch gauge miniature railway line located in Rhyl on the North Wales Coast. The line runs in a circle around a boating lake near the promenade, to the west of the town centre.
Rhyl railway station Rhyl railway station is on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line and serves the major holiday resort of Rhyl. There are frequent services to Chester via Prestatyn and Flint, as well as to Bangor and across Anglesey to Holyhead.
Rhyme A rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar terminal sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes.
Rhymefest Che Smith, known by the stage name of Rhymefest, is an American hip hop artist and rapper (born January 1, 1977) from the south side of Chicago whose first official album, Blue Collar, was released on July 11, 2006. The Grammy Award winning co-writer of Kanye West's "Jesus Walks" is signed to Mark Ronson's Allido Records.
Rhymes Galore Rhymes Galore is the 11th track from When Disaster Strikes by Busta Rhymes. The track is appropriately named, as it really does have "rhymes galore", and it is known as one of the most Lyrical rap songs ever, a rarity for typical rap-style music.
RhymeZone RhymeZone is a website owned and operated by Datamuse, created in 1996, that allows the user to search for rhymes in the same way that they would for definitions in an online dictionary. It offers additional content such as quotations, complete Shakespearian plays, famous Primary Sources and traditional dictionary capabilities.
Rhyming dictionary A rhyming dictionary is a specialist dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words which rhyme with one another.
Rhyming spiritual The rhyming spiritual is a religious genre of music found in the Bahamas, and also the songs, usually spirituals, and vocal-style within that genre. Rhyming does not refer to rhyme but to verse, the rhymer, or lead-singer, singing the couplets of the verses against the sung background of the repeated chorus.
Rhymney Rhymney () is a town located in the county borough of Caerphilly, traditional county of Monmouthshire, south Wales, United Kingdom. The place was well known for its neighboring coal mines, which used to employ almost the entire population, in the beginning of the 20th century.
Rhymney Line The Rhymney Line is the name given to the railway services in the Rhymney valley, South Wales. The route runs north from Cardiff to Heath, Llanishen, via a tunnel through Caerphilly mountain, onto Caerphilly, Bargoed and Rhymney.
Rhymney Railway The Rhymney Railway (Rhymney) was virtually a single stretch of main line, some fifty miles in length, by which the Rhymney Valley was connected to the docks at Cardiff in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales pre-Grouping Atlas.
Rhynchelmis Rhynchelmis is the genus of 30 species of aquatic oligochaetes from the Northern Hemisphere, with 11 species from North America and 19 from Eurasia. They are part of the family Lumbriculidae, which are among the largest of the microdriles.
Rhynchocalyx Rhynchocalyx lawsonioides is a small flowering tree, the sole species of family Rhynchocalycaceae. It is endemic to the KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic ecoregion of the Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.
Rhynchokinesis Rhynchokinesis is an ability possessed by some birds to flex their upper mandible. Rhynchokinesis is one of two types of cranial kinesis, the other being prokinesis, in which the upper mandible moves at the point where it is hinged with the bird's skull.
Rhynchonellida Rhynchonellida is one of the two main groups of living articulate brachiopods, the other being the Terebratulida. They are recognized by their strongly ribbed wedge-shaped or nut-like shells, and the very short hinge line.
Rhynchosaur Rhynchosaurs were a group of unusual Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs. They were herbivores, and at times abundant (in some fossil localities accounting for 40 to 60% of specimens found), with stocky bodies and a powerful beak.
Rhynchospora Rhynchospora (Beak-sedge or Star-sedge) is a genus of about 400 species of sedges with a cosmopolitan distribution. The most distinctive feature of the genus is the one to ten or more long bracts at the base of the inflorescence, resembling a bird's beak (if one) or a star, whence the common names.
Rhynchospora colorata White Star Sedge (Rhynchospora colorata), also known as White-topped Sedge and Starrush Whitetop, is perennial sedge with white bracts, giving it the appearance of white petals with long, green points. It is native to southeastern North America, from Virginia west to New Mexico in the United States, and south into the Caribbean islands.
Rhynie chert Rhynie chert is the name for fossiliferous material from a uniquely well-preserved layer in one site near the village of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The bulk of the fossil bed consists of primitive plants (which had water-conducting cells and sporangia but no leaves), along with arthropods: Collembola, Opiliones (harvestmen), pseudoscorpions and the extinct, spider-like trigonotarbids.
Rhyniophyta Rhyniophyta is a name sometimes used for the group of plants found in the Rhynie Chert, Lagerstätte (rich fossil beds) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Rhyniophyta or Rhynie flora are unusual for their excellent preservation of very early fossils of primitive vascular plants, in addition to plants with uncertain vascular traces, and non-vascular plants.
Rhynoc Rhynocs are a fictional species in the Spyro the Dragon series of video games. Rhynocs are anthropomorphic rhinoceros, relatively skilled in most troop work, and always willing to throw themselves at a war under any type of general.
Rhyolite/Aquacade Rhyolite and later, Aquacade are reportedly code names for a class of SIGINT reconnaissance satellites operated by the National Reconnaissance Office for the United States Department of Defense. The program remains classified.
Rhys Day Rhys Day (born 31 August 1982 in Bridgend) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Nationwide Conference side Aldershot Town. Day is a tall and strong central defender, who was once regarded as one of the most talented defenders in the lower leagues of English football.
Rhys Fulber Rhys Fulber (born October 10, 1970) is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He is a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium along with Bill Leeb, and records on his own under the name of the solo project Conjure One.
Rhys Ifans Rhys Ifans (approximately "hris EEvans") (born 22 July 1968, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Welsh actor. The son of Eirwyn and Beti Evans, Rhys has adopted the Welsh spelling of his surname.
Rhys L. Isaac Rhys Llywelyn Isaac (born 1937 in Cape of Good Hope) is Emeritus Professor of American History at La Trobe University, Australia and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early American History at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1983 he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.
Rhys Lewis Rhys Lewis is a novel by Daniel Owen, written in the Welsh language and first published in 1885. Its full title is Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel ("The autobiography of Rhys Lewis, minister of Bethel").
Rhys Lloyd Rhys Lloyd, (born June 5, 1982) in Dover, England, to parents Denise and Bryn Lloyd, United Kingdom, is a kicker in the NFL. He attended Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota, before attending the University of Minnesota.
Rhys Lovegrove Rhys Lovegrove (born March 11, 1987 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is in the second row.

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