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The Romanov Prophecy The Romanov Prophecy is 2004 novel written by Steve Berry and is an amalgam of fact & fiction. The novel relates the adventures of Miles Lord, an African-American lawyer in a post-communist Russia on finding the descendants of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, who were thought to survive the massacre that took their family's lives.
The Romans (Doctor Who) The Romans is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 16 to February 6, 1965. The story is set during the era of the Roman Empire in the reign of Nero.
The Romantic Anonymous Fellowship The Romantic Anonymous Fellowship was founded by the Stuckist painter Odysseus Yakoumakis on September of 2004, as the first, and currently the only, Greek group of Stuckism International. It has an international membership.
The Romantic Manifesto The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature is a non-fiction work by Ayn Rand, a collection of essays regarding the nature of art. It was first published in 1969, with a second, revised edition published in 1975.
The Romaunt of the Rose The Romaunt of the Rose is a partial translation into Middle English of the French allegory, the Roman de la Rose. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women he confirms that he has translated at least part of the poem but the extant work is of dubious authenticity.
The Rome-Berlin Axis The Rome-Berlin Axis: A History of the Relations between Hitler and Mussolini is a 1949 book by British historian Elizabeth Wiskemann. It is a study of the Axis alliance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany with particular emphasis on the relationship between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
The Romulans (band) The Romulans, one of several bands going by the same name, was a psychedelic rock band based in Madison, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band members all used the surname, Romulan, on their first two releases.
The Ron Clark Story The Ron Clark Story (also known as Triumph in the Philipines)is a 2006 film sponsored by Johnson & Johnson that premiered on TNT on Sunday, August 13, 2006. It centers on the title character, a teacher from a small town who moves to New York City and makes a difference in the lives of his students, despite nobody, including the students themselves, believing in them.
The Rondelles The Rondelles are an indiepop band originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The band, which formed when the three members were still in high school, originally consisted of Juliet Swango on guitar and vocals, Yukiko Moynihan on bass, and Oakley Munson on drums and keyboard.
The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards are a set of fan-based awards created by David Colton and Kerry Gammill in 2002. The award itself, sculpted by Gammill and cast by Tim Lindsay, is a bust of actor Rondo Hatton, similar to a sculpture of the actor which appears in the Universal Studios film House of Horrors (1946).
The Ronnie Johns Half Hour The Ronnie Johns Half Hour (full name The Ronnie Johns Good Times Campfire Jamboree Half Hour Show (Now on Television)) is an Australian sketch comedy show produced by Jigsaw Entertainment and the Ten Network, which premiered in October 2005. The cast of the show came from a series of stage shows called The 3rd Degree, produced by Laughing Stock Productions, which featured selections from Australian university revues, and consists of Heath Franklin, Jordan Raskopoulos, Felicity Ward, Dan Ilic, James Pender, Caroline Fitzgerald and Becci Gage.
The Roof (song) "The Roof", also known as "The Roof (Back in Time)", is a song co-written by American singer Mariah Carey, Cory Rooney and the Trackmasters (Samuel Barnes and Jean Claude Oliver) for Carey's seventh album Butterfly (1997). Co-produced by Carey and the Trackmasters, it is built around a sample of the Mobb Deep song "Shook Ones Pt.
The Rook The Rook is a time-traveling comic book character whose adventures were chronicled in various issues of Eerie magazine published by Warren Publishing in the 1970s and 80s, before getting his own title. He was created by writer Bill DuBay.
The Rookies The Rookies was a television series running from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified California city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD).
The Room The Room, the first play written by Harold Pinter, has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party. Both take place in run-down buildings claiming to be a "boarding house" which become the scene of a visitation by apparent strangers.
The Roosevelt Academy Graduate School of Music The Roosevelt Academy Graduate School of Music is the only graduate program of the Roosevelt Academy, a small and prestigious liberal arts college in Middelburg, the Netherlands. It is unique in that it combines music practice with music theory.
The Rooster Prince The Rooster Prince, also sometimes translated as The Turkey Prince, is a parable by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, founder of the Breslov form of Hasidic Judaism. It was first told orally, and later published by Nathan of Breslov in Sippurei Ma'asiot, a collection of stories by Rebbe Nachman.
The Roosters The Roosters (ザ・ルースターズ Za Rūsutāzu) were a Japanese rock band that mixed punk, blues-rock, ska and straight-forward rock and roll. They were active throughout the 1980s and released 10 albums of original material and one live album.
The Root Glass Company The Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana was the one of the bottle supliers for Coca-Cola. It was the company that designed the original of what is now the world-famous bottle design used by Coca-Cola, and the bottle used today is based on that original.
The Roots The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Fifth Dynasty, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning Philadelphia-based hip hop group, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. Inspired by the "hip-hop band" concept pioneered by Stetsasonic, the Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced later hip-hop and R&B acts.
The Roots of Coincidence The Roots of Coincidence, written by Arthur Koestler, is an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It postulates links between elements of quantum mechanics, such as the behaviour of neutrinos and their interaction with time, and these paranormal phenomena.
The Roots of Heaven The Roots of Heaven is a 1958 adventure film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by John Huston and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a screenplay by Romain Gary and Patrick Leigh-Fermor based on the novel Les racines du ciel by Romain Gary.
The Rootsman John Bolleton, better known as the Rootsman is a musician and DJ based in Bradford, England. His musical career began when he was living in Edinburgh, Scotland and taught himself to play guitar in 1978 at the age of 13 and formed his first punk band.
The Rosa Parks Story The Rose Parks Story is a 2002 TV movie about the civil rights heroine Rosa Parks, whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice. The film stars Angela Bassett as Rosa Parks; she won an Image Award for her role.
The Rose (film) The Rose is a 1979 film which tells the story of a 1960s drug-addled rock music star whose life comes unraveled when she travels to her home town in Florida to put on a concert in order to show the people she grew up with that she had "made it." The story is loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin.
The Rose Consort of Viols The Rose Consort of Viols takes its name from the celebrated family of viol makers, whose work spanned the growth and flowering of the English consort repertoire. With its unique blend of intimacy, intricacy, passion and flamboyance, this music ranges from Taverner and Byrd, to Lawes, Locke and Purcell, forming the basis of the Rose Consort's programmes, which may also include singers, lutes and keyboard instruments.
The Rose of Persia The Rose of Persia; or, The Story-Teller and the Slave, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on November 29 1899, closing on June 28 1900 after a run of 220 performances.
The Rose of Tralee The Rose of Tralee festival is an international competition which takes inspiration from a nineteenth century Irish ballad of the same name about a woman called Mary, who because of her beauty was called 'The Rose of Tralee'. The words of the song are credited to C.
The Roseanne Show The Roseanne Show was a talk show hosted by American actress Roseanne following the end of her long-running sitcom. The show featured the coupling of quirky guests with Roseanne's signature style of brassy, in-your-face, domestic goddess comedy.
The Rosebuds The Rosebuds are an indie rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Its current members are Ivan Howard (vocals/guitar/ drums/ bass/keyboards/programming) and Kelly Crisp (vocals/keyboard/drums/guitar).
The Roses of Heliogabalus The Roses of Heliogabalus is a famous painting of 1888 by the Anglo-Dutch academician Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, at present in private hands, and based on a probably invented episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, (204-222), taken from the Augustan History. Elagabalus is portrayed attempting to smother his unsuspecting guests in rose-petals released from false ceiling panels.
The Roses Of Success "The Roses Of Success" is an "up tempo" song and musical number from the popular 1968 Cubby Broccoli motion picture, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the film it is sung when "Grandpa Potts" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is caught in the Vulgarian inventors' workshop and is forced to create a car that both floats and flies or face the consequences.
The Rospigliosi Cup The Rospigliosi Cup (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City), sometimes referred to as the Cellini Cup, is a decorative ornament, in gold and enamel, previously attributed to Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) now known to be a forgery of nineteenth-century manufacture.
The Rosses The Rosses is a geographical and social region in County Donegal, Ireland. Defined by physical boundaries in the form of rivers, as well as history and language use, the area has a distinctive identity, separate to the rest of Donegal.
The Rossington-Collins Band The Rossington-Collins Band was an off-shoot of legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, founded in 1979 by guitarists Allen Collins and Gary Rossington following the tragic 1977 plane crash which killed three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, thus ending that band's career. The band released two albums, but disbanded in 1982 due to increasing instablity with guitarist Allen Collins following the death of his wife in 1980.
The Rosy Crucifixion The Rosy Crucifixion is considered by many to be Henry Miller's masterpiece. Consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, it documents the period of his life from his first divorce to just up until his departure for France.
The Rotary Foundation The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
The Rotten Fruit The Rotten Fruit is a stop motion animated series created by Eli Roth and Noah Belson. The series revolves around a rock band comprised of various fruits and vegetables who sing "feel good" songs in the style of The Monkees and other popular musical groups.
The Rotten Stench of Early Days When We Raped Dead Angels The Rotten Stench of Early Days When We Raped Dead Angels is a bootleg album by Cradle of Filth. It is a compilation of three of their earlier demos, namely Invoking The Unclean, The Black Goddess Rises and Orgiastic Pleasures, all recorded in 1992.
The Rotunda (University of Virginia) The Rotunda is a building located on the grounds of the University of Virginia. It was designed by Thomas Jefferson to represent the "authority of nature and power of reason" and was inspired by the Pantheon in Rome.
The Roundup The Roundup was a weekday afternoon program on the Radio One network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Tetsuro Shigematsu and Bill Richardson at different times. It was heard Monday to Friday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.
The Rouse The Rouse is a bugle call is most often associated with the military in Commonwealth countries. It is commonly played following The Last Post at military services, and is known in popular parlance as Reveille.
The Rover (song) "The Rover" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, being the second track on their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. It was originally meant to be an acoustic piece, being written at Bron-Yr-Aur in 1970 and then recorded during the Houses of the Holy sessions in 1972.
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is the one of the oldest golf clubs in the world, the oldest being the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield. It is based in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, regarded as the worldwide "Home of Golf".
The Royal Academy of Turku The Royal Academy of Turku (Fi: Turun akatemia), (Sv: Ă…bo Kungliga Akademi), was the name of the University of Helsinki until 1809, when it was renamed the Imperial Academy of Turku. In 1828 the institution was moved from Turku (Ă…bo in Swedish) after the Great Fire to Helsinki (Helsingfors), in line with the relocation of Finland's capital.
The Royal British Legion The Royal British Legion is the United Kingdom's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces, and their dependants.
The Royal Burgess Golfing Society The Royal Burgess Golfing Society is a parkland golf course and is considered to be one of the oldest courses in Scotland. It is currently an exclusive golf club (situated in the area of Barnton, Edinburgh, capital of Scotland) where the golfers are mainly middle aged and elderly men, as the club has a strict clientele.
The Royal Diaries The Royal Diaries is a series of twenty books published by Scholastic Press from 1999 to 2005. In each of the books, a fictional diary of a real female figure of royalty as a child throughout world history was written by the author.
The Royal Family (TV series) The Royal Family was a 1991-1992 sitcom starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese. The Royal Family was produced by Eddie Murphy (as part of a development deal with CBS), who had previously worked with Redd Foxx and Della Reese on the 1989 film Harlem Nights.
The Royal Game The Royal Game (Schachnovelle in the original German) is a novel by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1944, after the author's death. The novella was Zweig's last stand, his last testimony to the world and therefore carries the very heavy burden of representation.
The Royal Guardsmen The Royal Guardsmen were a rock band from Ocala, Florida, a sextet composed of Bill Balough (bass), John Burdett (drums), Chris Nunley (vocals), Tom Richards (guitar), Billy Taylor (organ), and Barry Winslow (vocals/guitar). Originally known as the Posmen, the band adopted their Anglophile monicker during the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and other British artists.
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) During the imperial age, home defence units were raised in various British colonies with the intention of allowing Regular Army units tied-up on garrison duty to be deployed elsewhere. These units have generally been organised along British Territorial Army lines.
The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny The RIN Mutiny (Also called the Bombay Mutiny) encompasses a total strike and subsequent mutiny by the Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay (Mumbai) harbour on 18 February 1946. From the initial flashpoint in Bombay, the mutiny spread and found support through India, from Karachi to Calcutta and ultimately came to involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors.
The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was raised on June 20, 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. The regiment would see action during the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the League of Augsburg and the War of the Spanish Succession at the Battle of Blenheim, Battle of Ramillies and the Battle of Malplaquet.
The Royal Palace of Belgium The Royal Palace of Belgium ("Palais Royal de Bruxelles") is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings and one of the most prominent examples of Renaissance architecture during the mid 1600s-1700s. Standing opposite the Parliament Building on the other side of the Royal Park, the Royal Palace symbolises Belgium's system of government, a constitutional monarchy.
The Royal Plaza The Royal Plaza (Thai ลานพระบรมรูปทรงม้า) is a public square in Bangkok, Thailand (). It is located in front of the Ananta Samakom in Dusit Palace, Dusit, Bangkok, which was the former residence of King Chulalongkorn, and was later used as the first parliament building.
The Royal Regiment of Scotland The Royal Regiment of Scotland is the senior line infantry regiment and only Scottish regiment of the British Army Infantry. It consists of five regular and two territorial battalions, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of one battalion, which will be a merger of two regiments).
The Royal Scots The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest, and therefore most senior, infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland. The regiment existed until 2006, when it amalgamated with the King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the 1st Battalion of the newly-formed Royal Regiment of Scotland.
The Royal School, Armagh The Royal School, Armagh is a co-educational voluntary grammar school in the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was one of a number of 'free schools' created by James I in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster.
The Royal Society (album) The Royal Society is the second album of British psychobilly band The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, released on October 25, 2004, on the No Death label in the UK. There were three singles off this album: "Mister Mental", "I Could Be an Angle" and "Rise of the Eagles".
The Royal Tenenbaums The Royal Tenenbaums is the 2001 dark comedy about three genius siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentric father leaves them in their adolescent years. A rather off-beat, ironic, absurdist sense of humor pervades the entire film, as with all of director Wes Anderson's work, manifest as a tone of hilarious tragedy and as pleasure taken in the small joys of conversation and camaraderie.
The Royalist The Royalist was a 142-ton schooner belonging to the first White Rajah of Sarawak, Sir James Brooke. Brooke purchased it with money he had inherited from his father and intended to use it in expeditions to the East Indies.
The Rub The Rub is a band formed by ex-Stone Roses drummer Alan "Reni" Wren. The band's line up is Reni as lead singer & lead guitar, Casey Longden from Manchester on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, Neil Nisbet (also from Manchester) on bass and backing vocals with Mik Grant (from Greenock, Scotland) on drums.
The Rubettes The Rubettes were an English pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage.
The Rucksack Club The Rucksack Club was founded in Manchester in 1902 and has a current membership of well over 400 men and women. According to the Rules, "The objects of the Club are to facilitate walking tours, cave explorations and mountaineering in the British Isles and elsewhere, and bring into fellowship men and women who are interested in these pursuits, and to do whatever shall be deemed by the Committee from time to time to be conducive to the foregoing objects.
The Rude Awakening Show The Rude Awakening Show is a local morning show that currently runs from 6am until 10am weekdays on WOCM, a radio station based out of Ocean City, MD. It's hosted by Chicago-bred, but world traveled, radio personality David "Bulldog" Rothner.
The Rudimentals The Rudimentals are a nine-piece ska reggae band from Cape Town, South Africa. The band members are Teboho Maidza (vocals), Ross MacDonald (trombone, backing vocals), Simon Bates (saxophone, flute), Jodi Engelbrecht (flugel, trumpet), Michael Levy (lead guitar), Duane Heydenrych (drums, percussion), Dirk Meerkotter (keyboards), Etienne Harris (rhythm guitar), Errol 'Bong' Strachan (bass guitar).
The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show was a programming block of animated cartoons for Turner Network Television (TNT) during the 1990s. Hosted by Rowdy Rudy (a puppet of a young boy, who looked a little like Howdy Doody), and his pet goat Gogo (actually derived from black and white footage of Violet the Goat from the MGM-era Our Gang comedies), the show featured a variety of cartoon short subjects from Turner Entertainment's library, including Warner Bros.
The Ruff & Reddy Show The Ruff & Reddy Show was a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera.
The Ruff Guide to Genre-Terrorism The Ruff Guide to Genre-Terrorism is the first full-length release by Manchester, UK based Sonic Boom Six. This album marks the first recording by SB6 since the departure of original guitarist Dave "Hellfire" Kelly.
The Ruffian on the Stair The Ruffian On the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton and was first performed on BBC radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives.
The Rugrats Movie The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 animated film, produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. Based on the popular nicktoon series of the same name, this film introduced Tommy's baby brother Dil Pickles named after Didi Pickles's cousin.
The Ruin The Ruin is an 8th century Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book by an unknown author. The language used is Old English, a West Germanic language similar to Frisian, which is not intelligible to modern English speakers without translation.
The Ruin (Ukrainian history) The Ruin () is a period of Ukrainian history from the death of hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky in 1657 and until ascension of hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1687. This period is characterised by continuous strife, civil war, and foreign intervention of Ukraine's neighbours.
The Ruins of Athens The Ruins of Athens (Die Ruinen von Athen), Opus 113, is a set of incidental music written in 1811 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The music was written to accompany the play of the same name by August von Kotzebue, for the dedication of a new theatre at Pest.
The Ruins of Kunark The Ruins of Kunark (RoK, Kunark, or simply the Kunark expansion) was the first expansion to EverQuest; a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It introduced a new land area to the game, the continent of Kunark, which had been previously unexplored.
The Rule of Four The Rule of Four is a novel written by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, and published in 2004. Caldwell, a Princeton University graduate, and Thomason, a Harvard University graduate, are childhood friends who wrote the book after their respective graduations.
The Rule of the Blessing The Rule of the Blessing is a very fragmentary text once thought to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls book known as the Community Rule. It is added as one of two appendices (including the equally eschatological Rule of the Congregation) following the book of the Community Rule, on one of the first seven scrolls discovered at the Qumran site.
The Rule of the Congregation One of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at the Qumran site in 1946 contained the three sectarian texts: The Community Rule, The Rule of the Congregation, and The Rule of the Blessing. The Rule of the Congregation and the Rule of the Blessing were at first overlooked by researchers and considered a continuation of the much longer Community Rule.
The Rules of Attraction (film) The Rules of Attraction (2002) is a dark satire based on the novel The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. It was directed by Roger Avary and stars James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Biel, and Kip Pardue.
The Rules of the Game The Rules of the Game (original French title: La règle du jeu) is a 1939 comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir about upper-class French society just before the start of World War II. Renoir's film is in part an adaptation of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne, a popular 19th-century comedy of manners, and is widely regarded to be Renoir's greatest film.
The Rumble in the Jungle The Rumble in The Jungle was a historic boxing event that took place on October 30, 1974, in the May 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). It pitted then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali, who was looking to become the second fighter ever, after Floyd Patterson, to recover the world's Heavyweight crown.
The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who) The Runaway Bride is a special episode of the long running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. The special was produced for Christmas 2006, aired on 25 December (Christmas Day), and played much the same role that The Christmas Invasion played the previous year, introducing the third series while not actually being part of it.
The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw is a book by Mario Puzo. The plot revolves around a boy named Davie Shaw, who is left with his grandparents for the summer while his parents take off on a round-the-world trip in celebration of their wedding anniversary.
The Runaways The Runaways were a teenage, American all-girl band who performed Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Rock and Roll and so called Pre Punk Rock in the 1970s. They are best known for songs/singles like Cherry Bomb, Queens Of Noise, Neon Angels (On The Road To Ruin) and Born To Be Bad.
The Runaways (book) The Runaways is a 1987 novel written by Ruth Thomas about two children, Julia Winter and Nathan Browne, who run away from their individual homes once their teachers and parents find out that they have money that does not belong to them.
The Rundown The Rundown (also known as Welcome to the Jungle) is an action film starring The Rock and Seann William Scott about a bounty hunter/enforcer/aspiring chef named Beck who must head for the Amazon jungle to capture someone.
The Runelords The Runelords is a fantasy series by author David Farland. In the universe of The Runelords, there exists a unique magical system which relies on the existence of distinct bodily attributes, such as brawn, grace, and wit.
The Runner (Davandeh) The Runner is a film by Amir Naderi, one of the major directors of Iranian Cinema before and after the Iranian Revolution. Its original title in the Persian language is 'Davandeh', and was released in 1985 [http://imdb.
The Runners The Runners (born in Orlando, Florida) are a team of hip hop producers, consisting of Andrew "Dru Brett" Harr and Jermaine "Mayne" Jackson. They came together to form the team in 2000, but they have known each other since they were in kindergarten.
The Running Man (film) The Running Man is a film loosely based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, released in 1987, and was directed by Paul Michael Glaser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards. It also featured future governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, Arnold's bodybuilding-buddy Sven-Ole Thorsen, and pro football legend Jim Brown.
The Rush for Second Place The Rush for Second Place is a posthumous collection of essays by William Gaddis. Edited and introduced by Joseph Tabbi, it was published in 2002 by Penguin Press at the same time as Gaddis's last novel, Agapē Agape.
The Rush Limbaugh Show The Rush Limbaugh Show is a conservative radio talk show hosted by Rush Limbaugh syndicated nationally in the United States. The Rush Limbaugh Show is distributed nationally by Premiere Radio Networks, a division of Clear Channel.
The Russia House The Russia House is a novel by John le Carré published in 1989. The title refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet government.
The Russia Journal The Russia Journal is an independent, English-language, web news daily from Russia published also as a monthly glossy print magazine available by subscription. It was founded in 1998 by Ajay Goyal as a newspaper.
The Russian Debutante's Handbook The Russian Debutante's Handbook was the debut novel by author Gary Shteyngart, published in 2003. It follows the exploits of young Russians both in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan and the fictitious European city of Prava.
The Russian Dolls The Russian Dolls (French: Les Poupées russes) is a 2005 French-British film directed by Cédric Klapisch. It is a romantic comedy and the sequel to The Spanish Apartment (2002) starring among others Romain Duris (Xavier), Audrey Tautou (Martine), Kelly Reilly (Wendy), Lucy Gordon (Celia) and Kevin Bishop (William).
The Rust Belt Fables The Rust Belt Fables was a book of articles first published in 1981 by Ron Jenkins, a Cleveland-born author and researcher. The Rust Belt, from where Jenkins got the name, is a geographical area of the midwest that's annually losing population in part to the failing of steel mills and other factories.
The Rutles The Rutles was a parody of The Beatles, jointly created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes. The fictional group is best known for the 1978 mockumentary film about them, entitled All You Need Is Cash (often referred to as just The Rutles).
The Ruts The Ruts were a reggae-influenced British punk band notable for the 1979 top 10 hit "Babylon's Burning" (right), and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was never a hit but was much played and highly regarded by disc jockey John Peel. The band consisted of Malcolm Owen (vocals), Paul Fox (guitar), John "Segs" Jennings (bass) and Dave Ruffy (drums).

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