Ritz
Ritz was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion. It was launched in 1976 by David Bailey and David Litchfield, who acted as co-editors.
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum.
Red tides
Red tide is a phenomenon caused by algal blooms during which algae become so numerous that they discolor coastal waters.
Roy Gardner
Roy Gardner was once America's most infamous prison escapee and the most celebrated outlaw and escaped convict during the Roaring Twenties.
Raymond Roussel
Raymond Roussel was an eccentric genius millionaire, chess enthusiast, and poet.
Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer.
Red mercury
Red mercury is a mythical substance of uncertain composition purportedly used in the creation of nuclear bombs, as well as a variety of unrelated weapons systems.
Rhino Runner
The Rhino Runner is a type of armored bus used extensively in Iraq, especially on the infamous Route Irish between Baghdad International Airport and The Green Zone.
Ryugyong Hotel
Ryugyong Hotel is a hotel in North Korea. Construction began in 1987 and ceased in 1992, due to the government's financial difficulties. The unfinished hotel remained untouched until April 2008, when construction resumed after being inactive for 16 years.
Russian criminal tattoos
During the 20th century in the Soviet Union, Russian criminal and prison communities maintained a culture of using tattoos to indicate members' criminal career and ranking. Specifically among those imprisoned under the Gulag system of the Soviet era, the tattoos served to differentiate a criminal leader or thief in law from a political prisoner. The practice grew in the 1930s, peaking in the 1950s and declining in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.