Rainbow A rainbow is an optics and meteorology phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous optical spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a colour circle, with red on the outside and violet on the inside.
	Rainbow Lorikeet The Rainbow Lorikeet is a parrot common to the eastern seaboard of Australia, ranging from Queensland to South Australia. It is also found around northwest Tasmania. Its habitat is rainforest, coastal bush and woodland areas.
	Rainbow smelt Rainbow Smelt is a anadromous species of fish inhabiting rivers and coastal areas of North America from New Jersey to Labrador on the east coast and from Vancouver Island to the Arctic Ocean on the west coast. It has been introduced to the Great Lakes and from there has made its way to various other inland bodies of water in Ontario and the midwestern United States.
	Rainbow trout The rainbow trout, aka redband trout, is a species of Pacific salmon native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. Fish which have gone to sea are known as steelhead, or ocean trout. The species has been introduced for food or sport to at least 45 countries, and every continent except Antarctica.
	Raincoat The raincoat, a garment worn to protect the upper body from rain, is a compromise between fashion and utility. Important styles of raincoat, often associated with particular manufacturers, include: *Mackintosh *Gannex *waxed jacket *anorak *cagoule or kagoule
	Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke is generally considered the German language's greatest 20th century poet. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
	Rainforest A rainforest, or a wet forest, is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests arise due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but temperate rain forests also exist. In addition to prodigious rainfall, many rainforests are characterized by a high number of resident species and tremendous biodiversity of ,,,their flora and fauna.
	Rainy Day Rainy Day is the third episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse. It first aired on September 27, 1986 on CBS. Pee-Wee tries to entertain himself and his playhouse friends during a rainy day, by playing games, making hot chocolate, telling a ghost story, watching cartoons and even making prank phone calls, but eventually suffers from "playhouse fever" before eventually wishing away the rainy day.
	Raisin Raisins are dried grapes. They can be eaten raw or used in cooking and baking. They are produced in many regions of the world, such as the United States, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, Iran, and South Africa. Raisins come in many varieties, depending on the type or varietal of grape that is dried.
	Raisin Bran Raisin bran is a breakfast cereal generally consisting of wheat bran flakes mixed with raisins. It is manufactured by several companies under a variety of brand names including General Mills' Total and Raisin Nut Bran; and Kraft Foods' Post Cereals.
	Rajiformes Rajiformes is the order of true rays and skates, flat-bodied Chondrichthyes related to sharks.
	Rajput Rajputs are a prominent social group of India and Nepal. They claim descent from the ancient royal dynasties of the region. Within the Hindu caste system, Rajputs constitute one of the principal groups belonging to the Kshatriya varna. Rajput dynasties played a prominent role in the history of North India.
	Rallidae The family Rallidae is a large group of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. Nearly all members are associated with wetlands. There are exceptions, however, notably the Corncrake which breeds on farmland.
	Rally Rally refers to a gathering, as in * rallying , a category of motorsport * a Demonstration , a demonstration, march, or parade Rally can also refer to * Rally , a sequence of shots in tennis * Rally , a Japanese rock supergroup * Rally's, the name of an United States fast-food restaurant chain; see Checkers Drive-In.
	Rallying Rallying or rally racing is a form of motor competition that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. This motorsport is distinguished by running not on a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants and their co-drivers drive between set control points, leaving at regular intervals from one or more start points.
	Ralph Bunche Ralph Johnson Bunche was an United States political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine in the late 1940s that led to an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in the region. He was the first
	Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison was a scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man , which won the National Book Award in 1953 in literature.
	Ralph Richardson Sir Ralph David Richardson was an England actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film.
	Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, Order of Merit was an influential United Kingdom composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge and served as a lieutenant in World War I. He wrote nine symphony between 1910 and 1958 as well as numerous other works including chamber music, opera, choral music and film Film score.
	Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was an United States author, poet, and philosopher.
	Rama Ramachandra, or Rama Rama's life and journey is one of perfect adherence of dharma despite harsh tests of life and time. For the sake of his father's honour, Rama abandons his claim to Kosala's throne to serve an exile in the forest. The kidnapping of his wife Sita by Ravana, the Rakshasa monarch of Lanka leaves him desperate.
	RAMA RAMA is a first-person adventure game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1996. The game is based on Arthur C. Clarke's books Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II and supports both DOS and Microsoft Windows 95. It is the second Rama game to be produced.
	Ramadan Ramadan is the ninth month of Hijri calendar. It is considered the most venerated, blessed and holiest month. Prayers, fasting, self-accountability and charity have special association with Ramadan. The religious observances of Ramadan occur throughout the entire Islamic calendar month.
	Ramayana The is an ancient Sanskrit Indian epic poetry attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hinduism canon . The name ' is a tatpurusha compound of ' and ' "going, advancing", translating to "the travels of Rama". The ' consists of 24,000 verses in seven cantos and tells the story of a prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon king of Lanka, Ravana.
	Ramble On "Ramble On" is a song by England rock music band Led Zeppelin from their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II. It was co-written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Influenced by The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, the song's lyrics include: The opening line of the song is probably a paraphrase of the opening line of Tolkien's poem "Namarie".
	Rambutan The Rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeast Asia, and the fruit of this tree. It is believed to be native to the Malay Archipelago although its precise natural distribution is unknown. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits including the Lychee, Longan and Mamoncillo.
	Ramekin A ramekin or ramequin is a small dish, often white in colour, typically preferred for the preparation and serving of various baked recipes. These can be either sweet or savoury, including desserts such as the classic crme brūle or molten chocolate cake, and savoury dishes such as moimoi, cheese recipes, potted shrimps and souffl.
	Ramesses II Ramesses II was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt. He was born ca. 1302 BC. At age fourteen, Ramses II was appointed Prince Regent by his father. He is believed to have taken the throne in his early 20s and to have ruled Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC for a total of 66 years and 2 months.
	Ramie Ramie is a flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern Asia. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 - 2.5 m tall(1); the leaf are heart-shaped, 7-15 cm long and 6-12 cm broad, and white on the underside with dense small hairs - this gives it a silvery appearance; unlike nettles, the hairs do not sting.
	Ramjet A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a stovepipe jet, is a type of jet engine. It contains no moving parts and can be particularly useful in applications requiring a small and simple engine for high speed use; such as missiles. They have also been used successfully, though not efficiently, as tipjets on helicopter rotors.
	Ramona Ramona is a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1884 in literature.
	Ramose Ramose was Vizier under both Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV. His tomb is located near the tombs of several other nobles on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor. Ramose's tomb has a main room containing 32 columns and a corridor with 8 columns. This tomb is notable for the high quality decorations in both the traditional and Amarna styles.
	Ramsons Ramsons, buckrams, wood garlic or bear's garlic is a wild relative of chives. The specific name derives from the fact that brown bears like to eat the bulbs of the plant and dig up the ground to get at them, as do wild boar. Ramsons grow mainly in swampy deciduous woodlands, being most common in areas with slightly acidic soils.
	Ranch A Ranch is an area of landscape, including buildings and structures, given primarily to the grazing of livestock on rangeland. Ranches may be of nearly any size and if the ranch includes arable or irrigated land, the ranch may also engage in raising crops, especially hay and feed grains. Some ranches also cater to tourists.
	Ranching Ranching is the raising of cattle or sheep on rangeland, although one might also speak of ranching with regard to less common livestock such as Red Deer, American Bison or emu. The word applies in the western United States, in Canada, Latin America and South America.
	Rancor The rancor is a ten meter-tall carnivore present in the Star Wars universe. In ', the infamous criminal Jabba the Hutt had a "pet" rancor below his pad to get rid of unwanted or displeasing guests. Victims, such as the slave girl Minor residents of Tatooine, were dropped through a trap door into the pit below and eaten by the rancor for the amusement of Jabba and his guests.
	Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell, was a United States author, writer and poet.
	Random access memory Random-access memory refers to data storage formats and equipment that allow the storing data to be accessed in any order — that is, at random, not just sequential access. In contrast, other types of memory devices can access data on the storage medium only in a predetermined order due to constraints in their mechanical design.
	Random walk In mathematics and physics, a random walk, sometimes called a "drunkard's walk," is a formalisation of the intuitive idea of taking successive steps, each in a random direction. A one-dimensional random walk can also be looked at as a Markov chain whose state space is given by the integers , for some number , .
	Rangeland Category:Livestock
	Ransack Ransack is the name of several fictional characters in the universe of the Transformers, featuring robots that transform into vehicles or animals.
	Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family has been universally recognized by taxonomists, and is also known as the "buttercup family" or "crowfoot family". Members include anemones, buttercups, lesser celandine, Aconitum, and clematis.
	Ranunculales Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family. The APG system and the APG II system both recognize the order and place it among the basal eudicots, not assigned to a further clade. These systems use this circumscription:
	Ranunculus Ranunculus is a large genus of about 400 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae. It includes the buttercups, spearworts, water crowfoots and the lesser celandine . They are mostly herbaceous perennials with bright yellow or white flowers; some are Annual plant or Biennial plants.
	Ranunculus aquatilis The Ranunculus aquatilis or Common Water-crowfoot is a plant species of the genus Ranunculus.
	Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy was a France Fauvism painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.
	Rape Rape is the act of forcing sexual penetration sexual acts, against another's will through violence, force, threat of injury, or other duress, or where the victim is unable to decline, due to the effects of drugs or alcohol. Rape is considered one of the most serious sex crimes in general.
	Rapeseed Rapeseed, also known as Rape, Oilseed Rape, Rapa, Rapaseed and Canola, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae. The name is derived through Old English language from a term for turnip, rapum. Some botanists include the closely related Brassica campestris within B.
	Raphael Raphael or Raffaello , born in Urbino, was a master painter and architect of the Florence school in the Italy High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and softness of his paintings. He was also called Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello da Urbino or Rafael Sanzio da Urbino.
	Raphanus Raphanus is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. Two or three species are currently classified in Raphanus. They include the cultivated radish, Raphanus sativus, the common wild radish or jointed charlock, R. raphanistrum. Some authors accept the podding or rattail radish, R.
	Raphidae The Raphidae is a family of extinct flightless birds, part of the order Columbiformes, comprising the genera Pezophaps and Raphus. The former comprised the species Pezophaps solitaria; the latter Raphus cucullatus. Recent genetic evidence tends to support the submergence of the family within the Columbidae.
	Rapid A rapid is a section of a river where it loses elevation over a relatively short distance , causing an increase in water Volumetric flow rate and turbulence. A rapid is a hydrology feature between a run and a cascade. A rapid is recognized by the river becoming shallower and having Rock s exposed above the flow surface.
	Rapid eye movement Rapid eye movement sleep is the stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements. During this stage, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the phenomenon is often called paradoxical sleep.
	Rapid transit A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic. Characteristics and nomenclature
	Rapier A rapier is a relatively slender, sharply pointed sword, used mainly for thrusting attacks, developed in Europe around the 16th century.
	Rappahannock River The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia in the United States, approximately 184 mi in length. It traverses the entire northern part of the state, from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west across the Piedmont to Chesapeake Bay south of the Potomac River.
	Rapture The Rapture is an event in certain systems of Christian eschatology in which it is believed that all true Christians will be taken from Earth by Jesus Christ into Heaven. Although almost all forms of Christianity believe that those who are "saved" will enter Heaven, the term "rapture" is usually applied specifically to the belief that Christians will be "taken" into heaven.
	Rash A rash is a change in the skin which affects its appearance or texture. A rash may be localized to one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, dry, cracked or blistered, swell and may be painful. The causes, and therefore treatments for, rashes vary widely.
	RASH Red and Anarchist Skinheads is a left-wing politics anti-racist, anti-fascist skinhead group. RASH was officially launched on January 1, 1993 by members of the Mayday Crew, a left-wing skinhead and punk crew based in the New York City area, and that was itself a result on in-figthing within NYC SHARP over the murder of a homosexual man by anti-racist, yet right-wing, skinheads.
	Rasht Rasht is the capital of Gilan province in northwestern Iran. It is a major trade center between Caucasia, Russia and Iran using the port of Bandar-e Anzali. Rasht is also a major tourist center. Rasht had an estimated population of 560,123 in 2005.
	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is a Hindu nationalism organization in India. It was started in 1925 by K.B. Hedgewar. The RSS is active throughout India and also abroad as the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, "Hindu Volunteers' Union". The RSS is the largest volunteer organization in India.
	Rasmus Christian Rask Rasmus Rask , Denmark scholar and philologist, was born at Brndekilde on the Danish island of Funen. He studied at the University of Copenhagen, and at once showed remarkable talent for the acquisition of languages. In 1808 he was appointed assistant keeper of the university library, and some years afterwards professor of literary history.
	Rasp A rasp is a woodworking tool used for shaping wood. It consists of a long narrow bar of steel, flat or rounded, usually with a single handle on one end. The bar has had triangular teeth cut into it. Rasps generally cut more coarsely than File. They are useful for rapidly removing wood from curved surfaces.
	Raspberry The Raspberry or Red Raspberry is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit in summer or early autumn. In proper botany language, it is not a berry at all, but instead an Fruit#Aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core.
	Rat A rat is any one of about 56 different species of small, omnivore rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.
	Rat snake Rat snakes are a large, polyphyletic, group of snakes from the Colubrid subfamily Colubrinae. There is considerable variation between different types of rat snake but most are medium to large, rodent eating snakes. Previously most were assigned to the genus Elaphe but many have been since renamed.
	Rat Terrier akcfss = part of the akc fss | akcgroup = Terrier | akcstd = altname = American Rat TerrierFeistDecker Giant | country = United States | image = AmRatTerr2_wb.jpg | image_caption = Tricolor Rat Terrier; note pale black ticking on white coat | name = Rat Terrier | ukcgroup = Terriers | ukcstd = End Infobox Dogbreed info.
	Rat-catcher The rat-catcher is a profession centered around catching rats as a form of pest control. While no longer a profession in developed countries there are still rat-catchers in India and other developing countries. Keeping the rat population under control was practiced in Europe to prevent the spread of diseases to man, most notoriously the Black Plague and to prevent damage to food supplies.
	Ratel The Ratel, also known as the Honey Badger, is a member of the Mustelidae family. They are distributed throughout most of Africa and western and south Asia. It is the only species classified in the genus Mellivora and the subfamily Mellivorinae.
	Rates Rates is a Portugal parish and town located in the municipality of Pvoa de Varzim. In the census of 2001, it had a population of 2,539 inhabitants and a total area of 13.88 Km. Rates was a former town and municipality until 1836, but lost both status and was incorporated in the municipality of Pvoa de Varzim.