Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/ VAHG-nər; German: [ˈvɪlˌhɛlm ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer…
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Richard Williams (RAAF officer)

Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, KBE, CB, DSO (3 August 1890 – 7 February 1980) was an Australian military officer who is widely regarded as th…

Richie Farmer

Richard Dwight Farmer Jr. (born August 25, 1969) is an American former collegiate basketball player and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Kentu…
Society

Richmond Bridge, London

Richmond Bridge is an 18th-century stone arch bridge that crosses the River Thames at Richmond, connecting the two halves of the present-day London Borough of R…

Ricketts Glen State Park

Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United …

Ride the Lightning

1984 studio album by Metallica.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlis…
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Riders Field

Riders Field, formerly known as Dr Pepper/Seven Up Ballpark and Dr Pepper Ballpark, is a baseball park in Frisco, Texas, United States. The home of the Double-A…

Ridge Route

The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic–Tejon Route and colloquially known as the Grapevine, was a two-lane highway between Los Angeles County and Kern County, …

Riegelmann Boardwalk

The Riegelmann Boardwalk (also known as the Coney Island Boardwalk) is a 2.7-mile-long (4.3 km) boardwalk on the southern shore of the Coney Island peninsu…

Rigel

Rigel Location of Rigel (circled) Observation dataEpoch J2000      Equinox J2000 Constellation Orion Pron…

Right whale

Right whalesTemporal range: Late Miocene – Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Southern right whale breaching Size compared to an average human …

Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (/riˈænə/ ⓘ ree-AN-ə; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman, and actress. An influential figure in popular cultur…

Rinaldo (opera)

Almirena's recitative, and few bars of "Lascia ch'io pianga", from Handel's 1711 autograph score Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, composed…

Ring ouzel

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Ring-tailed lemur

Ring-tailed lemur Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I  Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum…

Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drumme…
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Rings of Jupiter

A schema of Jupiter's ring system showing the four main components. For simplicity, Metis and Adrastea are depicted as sharing their orbit. (In reality, Metis i…

Rings of Neptune

Rings of Neptune imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument The rings of Neptune consist primarily of five principal rings. They were first di…

Rings of Uranus

An updated image of Uranus's rings system (the epsilon/ε, zeta/ζ, mu/μ and nu/ν rings are annotated) as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared…

Rise of Neville Chamberlain

The early life, business career and political rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated on 28 May 1937, when he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands" a…
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Rivadavia-class battleship

The Rivadavia class consisted of two battleships designed by the American Fore River Shipbuilding Company for the Argentine Navy. Named Rivadavia and Moreno aft…

Riven

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River Parrett

The River Parrett is a river that flows through the counties of Dorset and Somerset in South West England, from its source in the Thorney Mills springs in the h…

Riverina

The Riverina (/ˌrɪvəˈriːnə/) is an agricultural region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions …