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R.A.F. Penrose, Jr.
R. A. F. Penrose, Jr. (December 17, 1863 – July 31, 1931) was an American mining geologist and entrepreneur. After graduating in 1886 with a Ph.D. from Harvard for work on phosphates, he performed Geological Surveys in Texas and Arkansas until 1892, and then traveled the country doing mining ..
Ra, Fiji
Ra is one of Fiji's fourteen Provinces. Occupying the northern area of Viti Levu, the largest island, it is one of eight Viti Levu-based Provinces. With a land area of 1341 square kilometers, it had a population of 30,904 at the 1996 census, the last to date. The main urban centre is at Vaileka, ..
Rafa-e-Aam Society
Rafa-e-Aam Society is one of the neighborhoods of Shah Faisal Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. There are several ethnic groups in Shah Faisal Town including Urdu speakers, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis. Over 99% of the population is Muslim. T..
Rafaela
|} Rafaela is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, about 96 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Castellanos Department. It has a population of 83,642 as per the 2001 census [INDEC]. The town was founded in 1881 by Guillermo Lehmann, and officially became a..
Rafaela Zanella
Rafaela Köhler Zanella (born September 8, 1986 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is the Brazilian representative to the Miss Universe 2006 pageant, which will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA on July 23, 2006. She was elected Miss Brasil Universe on April 8, 2006 at the age of 19...
Rafaelle Monti
Rafaelle Monti Rafaelle Monti (1818-1881) was born in Italy; the son of noted sculptor Gaetano Monti, he studied under his father. By way of Vienna and Milan, he came to London in 1848, and settled there. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, and Monti soon earned recognition for his piece for the Duke..
Rafael "Churumba" Cordero Santiago
Date of birth October 24, 1942 Place of birth La Playa Ponce, Puerto Rico Date of death January 17, 2004 (brain hemorrhage) Place of death Medical Center of Río Piedras San Juan, Puerto Rico Occupation Mayor of Ponce. Education Bachelor's degree in Arts. Political history..
Rafael (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Rafael Rafael (ラフェール Rafēru), is a fictional character from the Waking the Dragons (or Doma) arc in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Of Doma's Three Swordsm..
Rafael A. Lecuona
Rafael A. Lecuona, Ph.D. (born June 2, 1928 in Havana, Cuba) was a gymnast, a former member of the Cuban gymnastics team (1948-1955), and Professor Emeritus of Texas A&M International University in Laredo. He competed in the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires (1951) and Mexico City (1955) and was a..
Rafael Acevedo
--> Rafael Acevedo is a US DJ, musician and producer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a DJ and musician in the San Francisco electronica/trip hop band Karmacoda. External links http://www.karmacoda.com ..
Rafael Addiego Bruno
Rafael Addiego Bruno (1923-) is a Uruguayan jurist and political figure. He was President of Uruguay February - March 1985 as an interim measure, following the resignation, and accession to office, respectively, of Presidents Gregorio Alvarez and Julio María Sanguinetti. Addiego was President of ..
Rafael Addison
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Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti Rafael Alberti (El Puerto de Santa María,16 December 1902 - El Puerto de Santa María,28 November 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. After flirting with a career as a painter, Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: ..
Rafael Alencar
Rafael Alencar is a gay porn star and model who has appeared in numerous American-produced gay videos as well as magazine covers all over the world. He was born on July 18, 1972, in Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. Videography 8 Inches (Marcostudio 2003, Brazil) Starring Rafael Alencar, Sidney Samp..
Rafael Alers
Rafael Alers (October 16, 1903 – March 20, 1978) born in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, was a musician, composer, bandleader and the first Puerto Rican to compose the music score for a Hollywood feature film. Rafael (born Rafael Alers Gerena), received his primary and secondary education..
Rafael Alkorta
Rafael Alkorta Martinez ( born Bilbao, Vizcaya, September 16th 1968) was a Spanish footballer who played for Athletic Bilbao, Real Madrid and Spain. Alkorta began playing as a junior with Athletic Bilbao in 1978 and made his professional debut with Bilbao Athletic in 1985. He made 40 appearances wi..
Rafael Altamira y Crevea
Rafael Altamira y Crevea (February 10, 1866 - June 1, 1951) was a Spanish historian and jurist. ..
Rafael Ángel Calderón
There have been two presidents of Costa Rica named Rafael Ángel Calderón. (The two politicians are father and son.) Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, president from 1940 to 1944.Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, president from 1990 to 1994. ..
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier President of Costa Rica Term of office: 8 May 1990 to8 May 1994 – Preceded by: Óscar Arias Sánchez – Succeeded by: José María Figueres Olsen Date of birth: 14 March 1949 Place of birth: Diriamba, Nicaragua Party: PUSC Rafael Ángel Calde..
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia
--> Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia President of Costa Rica Term of office: 8 May 1940 to8 May 1944 – Preceded by: León Cortés Castro – Succeeded by: Teodoro Picado Michalski Date of birth: 10 March 1900 Place of birth: San José Date of death: 9 June 1970 Place of death: San José..
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez
General Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez (24 October 1845–9 January 1921) was born in Ilobasco, Cabañas Department, El Salvador. His father was a Spaniard and his mother was named Marcela Gutierrez. His wife was Carlota Mejía and their children were Rafael Antonio, Carlos, Carlota, Tulio, Marcela, ..
Rafael Araújo
Rafael Paulo Araújo [pronounced ha-fai-YEL ah-rah-OO-zho/ah-ROO-zho] (born August 12 1980 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a professional basketball player in the NBA currently with the Utah Jazz. College career After attending Padre Anacleto High School in São Paulo, Araújo came to the United..
RAFAEL Armament Development Authority
See Raphael (archangel) about the archangel. For other uses, see Raphael (disambiguation). RAFAEL logo State of Israel Geography Land of Israel · Districts · Cities Transport · Mediterranean Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · ..
Rafael Arráiz Lucca
Rafael Arráiz Lucca, (born January 3, 1959, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan essayist, poet, historian and professor. Arraiz Lucca is professor in the Metropolitan University of Caracas (Unimet). Since 2001 he has been in charge of "La Fundación Para la Cultura Urbana", Caracas. Became a la..
Rafael Arutunian
Rafael Arutunian is a figure skating coach. He currently coaches five-time world champion Michelle Kwan. Arutunian has also worked with the Olympic silver medalist Jeffrey Buttle and with Russian skater Alexander Abt. ..
Rafael Belliard
Rafael Leonidas Belliard Matias (born October 24, 1961) is a former Major League Baseball backup shortstop. First signed to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1980, he was eventually traded to the Atlanta Braves in 1991 for their breakout National League Champion year. Belliard is best remembered in the hea..
Rafael Benítez
Rafael Benítez Maudes (born April 16 1960, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish football manager. Also referred to as Rafa Benítez (or just Rafa), he has been manager of Liverpool F.C. since 2004. He has previously managed Valencia CF, CD Tenerife, CF Extremadura, CA Osasuna, Real Valladolid and Real Madri..
Rafael Betancourt
Rafael José Betancourt (born April 29, 1975 Cumaná, Sucre State, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher who has pitched with the Cleveland Indians since 2003. On July 8, 2005 he became the 6th MLB player to be suspended for testing positive in steroids testing. Accordi..
Rafael Bielsa
Rafael Bielsa (center), speaking in the press room of the Casa Rosada on 2005-10-04 Rafael Antonio Bielsa (born February 15 1953) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Rosario, province of Santa Fe. In 1977 during the Dirty War, suspected of being a member of the montoneros radic..
Rafael Boban
Rafael Ranko Boban (1907-1945) was a member of the Croatian World War II Ustaše regime, and the commander of the "Black Legion"/Crna Legija. Boban was born in Sovići near Grude on December 22, 1907. He emigrated from Yugoslavia in 1932 and it was at this time that he met and joined Ante Pavelić...
Rafael Bolivar Coronado
Rafael Bolivar Coronado was born June 6, 1884 in Villa de Cura, (Aragua State), He is the author of the lyrics of the popular joropo "Alma Llanera". He arrives to Caracas in 1912 and he begins to canalize his restlessness towards to the intellectuality, collaborating with the most important public..
Rafael Bombelli
Rafael Bombelli (1526–1573) was an Italian mathematician. Born in Bologna, he is the author of a treatise on algebra and is a central figure in the understanding of imaginary numbers. Bombelli used a method related to continued fractions to calculate square roots. His method for finding [ ..
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March1846, Lisbon, Portugal - 23 January1905, Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration, caricatures, sculpture and ceramics designs. Zé Povinho, the most famous Bordalo Pinheiro´s carachter Eça de Queiroz caricature Life He was di..
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum is a municipal museum, in Lisbon, entirely dedicated to the life and works of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. It shows many of his collections of caricatures and ceramics. ..
Rafael Bracero
Rafael Bracero (born approx. 1950) is a famous Puerto Rican sportscaster. Bracero graduated from college with a degree in telecommunications, and then he joined Puerto Rico's Perez Perry Channel 11 to cover sports as their main reporter. The Perez Perry Network soon went bankrupt and then Bracero f..
Rafael Bustillo Province
Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivian department of Potosí. ..
Rafael Caldera
Rafael Caldera Rodríguez (born 24 January, 1916) was president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999. Caldera taught sociology and law at various universities before entering politics. He was a founding member of COPEI, Venezuela's Christian Democratic party. He first ran fo..
Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo Pomar (1813 1890) was President of El Salvador 12 February 1856 - 1 February 1858. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta (October 10, 1865–February 26, 1930) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal (Cardinal Priest of Santa Prassede) from 1903 until his death. He was born in London to Spanish diplomatic parents and lived in the United Kingdom until 1878. He was ordained a priest on Oct..
Rafael Cardones
Rafael Cardones is a fictional character in the Honorverse. "Rafe" is a Manticoran naval officer. He serves as Honor Harrington's assistant tactical officer in On Basilisk Station, as her tactical officer in The Honor of the Queen and The Short Victorious War, and as her executive officer in Honor..
Rafael Carrera
José Rafael Carrera Turcios (24 October 1814 – 14 April 1865) was the ruler of Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. He was the President of Guatemala, representing the Conservatives, on two occasions: 4 December 1844 to 16 August 18486 November 1851 - 14 April 1865 (from the adoption o..
Rafael Carreras
Rafael Carreras (right) and Tommy Brandt (left) in Ghetto Rafael Carreras (born 1971 in Cuba) is a male porn star, now living in Spain, who has appeared in many gay movies, usually as a top, although he describes himself as "versatile" and has bottomed on camera. He is renowned for the size of..
Rafael Carvajal
Rafael Carvajal Guzmán was President of Ecuador 31 August 1865 to 7 September 1865. ..
Rafael Castillo
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since July 2006. Rafael C. Castillo was the ..
Rafael Cepeda
Rafael Cepeda Atiles a.k.a. "The Patriarch of the Bomba and Plena" (July 10, 1910 – July 21, 1996) born in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico, was the patriarch of the Cepeda family, known internationally as the exponents of Puerto Rican-African folk music. Cepeda who was born to Mod..
Rafael Cordero
Rafael Cordero may refer to: Rafael Churumba Cordero (1942–2004), former mayor of Ponce, Puerto RicoRafael Cordero (educator) (1790–1868) ..
Rafael Cordero (educator)
Rafael Cordero (1790 – 1868), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and known as "The Father of Public Education in Puerto Rico", was a self-educated Puerto Rican of African ancestry who provided free schooling to children regardless of their race. Rafael Cordero Codero was born into a poor fa..
Rafael Cortijo
Rafael Cortijo (January 11, 1928 – October 3, 1982), was a Puerto Rican musician, orchestra leader and composer. Cortijo as a child became interested in Caribbean music, showing interest in the works of some of the era's most important Plena music stars. He eventually met some Plena celebrit..
Rafael del Pino
For the Cuban pilot and political dissident, See Rafael del Pino (Cuban). Rafael del Pino (and family) (born 10 November 1920 in Madrid, Spain) is one of the wealthiest men in the world. He had a net worth of approximately 5 billion US dollars in 2005. Del Pino founded the construction company Ferr..
Rafael del Pino (Cuban)
For the Spanish Billionaire, See Rafael del Pino. Rafael del Pino is a Cuban airplane pilot and political dissident. He was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, on September 22nd 1938 and currently lives somewhere between France and the United States. Del Pino joined Fidel Castro’s 26 of July Movement at..
Rafael del Riego
Rafael del Riego Rafael del Riego y Nuñez (9 April, 1784 - 7 November, 1823) was a Spanish general and liberal politician. Del Riego was born on 9 April 1784 (according to other sources 24 November 1785) in Santa María de Tuñas in Asturias. After graduating from the University of Oviedo in..
Rafael Diaz-Balart
Rafael L. Diaz-Balart Gutierrez (1926-2005) was a Cuban politician, and served as Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives. In 1955, he gave a speech before the Cuban House of Representatives in opposition to the amnesty granted to his former brother-in-law, Fidel Castro, for his involv..
Rafael Dropulić
Rafael Dropulić, best known by his nickname Rafo is Croatian pop singer from Ploče, famous for winning Story Supernova Music Talents, reality show aired on Nova TV in late 2003. Although he had questionable vocal talents, many observers attributed his victory to bad boy image - popular among teen..
Rafael Dudamel
Rafael Dudamel (born on January 7, 1973 in San Felipe, Yaracuy) is a Venezuelan football (soccer) goalkeeper. During his career, he has played for several Venezuelan and Colombian football clubs. Among the Venezuelan clubs are Universidad de Los Andes, Vigia, Atlético Zulia, UA Maracaibo and Depor..
Rafael E. Martinez
Rafael E. Martinez was the 2003 United States' candidate to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the human rights arm of the Organization of American States. Since his candidacy was unsuccessful, as of January 2004 there was no U.S. national on the seven-member Commission for the..
Rafael E. Núñez
Rafael E. Núñez is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego and is well known for promoting the idea of embodied cognition. He co-authored Where Mathematics Comes From with George Lakoff. External links [Academic home page] ..
Rafael Eitan
For the Mossad operative in-charge of capturing Adolf Eichmann, former Director of the Israeli Bureau of Scientific Relations and current leader of Gimla'ey Yisrael, see Rafi Eitan Rafael Eitan (Hebrew: רפאל איתן) (January 11, 1929 – November 23, 2004) was an Israeli general, former C..
Rafael Escalona
Rafael Escalona Rafael Escalona Born May 27 1927 Patillal, Cesar, Colombia Occupations Vallenato music composer, troubador, Co-Founder of the Vallenato Legend Festival, Colombian General Consul to Panama (1975) Genre(s) Vallenato Related website [Vallenato Legend Festival&#..
Rafael Ferrer
Rafael Ferrer is an American Actor. He is the son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, and the brother of Miguel and Gabriel. He is a cousin of George Clooney. Ferrer is best known for his work in the popular videogame [[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]], where he provided the voice for Dart..
Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly
Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly Fondeur (August 22, 1904 - December 28, 1979), President of the Dominican Republic from 1962-1963. Lawyer, scholar and diplomat. His Early Life The son of Mr Carlos Sully Bonnelly Arnoud and Ms Luisa Fondeur, Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly Fondeur was born in Santiago de los ..
Rafael Flores
Rafael Flores is from Andújar, Spain, and has recorded a number of albums since 1981, under his own name and also as Comando Bruno. Many collaboration works followed with like-minded musicians (Francisco López, Zan Hoffman, Avant Dernières Pensées, Seiei Jack Nakahara and Thomas Park, to name a ..
Rafael Franco
Rafael Franco was President of Paraguay February 18 1936 - August 13 1937. List of Presidents of Paraguay ..
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (born September 15, 1933 in Burgos) is a Spanish conductor. He studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He graduated summa cum laude from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich in conducting and won the Richard Strauss prize. He has..
Rafael Furcal
Rafael Antoni Furcal (born August 24 1977 in Loma de Cabrera, Dominican Republic) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Called up from the minor leagues by the Atlanta Braves to replace the injured Walt Weiss for 15 days, he went on to take the National Lea..
Rafael García
Rafael García is a Mexican professional wrestler, better known as Super Calo. He also competed in WCW and ECW. Profile Height: 5 ft 8 inWeight: 192 lbBirthday: February 22, 1971Debut: August 5, 1990Trainer: Bello Greco, Pepe CasasPrevious Gimmicks: Love Warrior, El RaperoFinisher: Senton Headsciss..
Rafael García Torres
For Mexican professional wrestler, see Rafael García. José Rafael García Torres (born August 14, 1974) is a Mexican soccer player, who currently plays as a midfielder for CF Atlas in the Primera División de México. ..
Rafael García Valiño
--> Rafael García Valiño (1898–1975) was a Spanish Army Officer during the Spanish Civil War. He enrolled in the Infantry Academy at 15 years old. In 1916 he earned his commission as a lieutenant, volunteering to fight in the Army of Africa. In Morocco he was wounded several times and w..
Rafael Garralda
Rafael Garralda Garre (born January 21, 1956) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. ..
Rafael Gely
Rafael Gely is a Puerto Rican born American law professor. He currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife Yoko Ito-Gely and their three children, Sebastian, Yumiko, and Pablo. Professor Gely joined the law faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 2000 after teaching at IIT's Chicago-Kent Colleg..
Rafael Godoy
Rafael Godoy was a well-known Colombian composer born in Natagaima, Tolima, in 1907. From a young age, he was linked to the trade-union movement in Barrancabermeja, Santander, from where he had to emigrate when his personal security was threatened. He fled to Venezuela, where he developed his music..
Rafael Gomez Ortega
"El Gallo" Rafael Gomez Ortega, (July 16, 1882 - May 25 1960) also known as El Gallo ("the rooster") was an early 20th century bullfighter, today remembered for several of his unique fighting techniques such as the espantada - or "sudden flight," which simply consisted of him fleeing when the..
Rafael Guerra Bejarano
Rafael Guerra Bejarano "Guerrita" was born in Cordoba, in the household of an employee of the slaughterhouse, one and half months before his side-whiskered uncle José "El Pepote" was killed in Madrid by "Jocinero", on March 6, 1862. In 1878 he started a long apprenticeship as banderillero (banderil..
Rafael Hernández (disambiguation)
Rafael Hernández may refer to: Rafael Hernández Colón, (PDP), 4th Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Rafael Hernández Marín, Puerto Rican composer.Rafael Hernández Airport, an airport named after the Puerto Rican composer in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.Rafael Tobías Hernández Alvarado, ..
Rafael Hernández Airport
This article is about an airport located in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. For other uses of the name Rafael Hernández, see Rafael Hernández (disambiguation). {| class="infobox bordered" style="width: 220px; font-size: 95%;" |- ! colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: w..
Rafael Hernández Colón
This article is about the 4th Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. For other uses of the name Rafael Hernández, see Rafael Hernández (disambiguation). Rafael Hernández Colón (born October 24, 1936 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican politician who was the fourth Governor of the Co..
Rafael Hernández Marín
This artcile is about a famous Puerto Rican composer. For other uses of the name Rafael Hernández, see Rafael Hernández (disambiguation). Rafael Hernández Marín (October 24, 1892 – December 11, 1965), born in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, is considered by many to be the greatest com..
Rafael Hui
Rafael Hui Rafael Hui Si Yan, GBS JP (Traditional Chinese: }, born 1948) is the 3rd Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong and a former career civil servant. He was appointed by the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, on the nomination of Chief Executive Don..
Rafael Ithier
Rafael Ithier (born 1926 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Salsa musician and the creator of the highly successful orchestra, "El Gran Combo". Ithier was born in the large San Juan area known as "Rio Piedras". Ithier showed a passion for music since he was very young. His father, Nicolas Ithier, had p..
Rafael Jimenez
Rafael Jimenez is associate conductor of Michigan State University Orchestras and assistant professor of conducting at the Michigan State University School of Music. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from MSU, where he was awarded the MSU Distingu..
Rafael José
Rafael José Dr. Rafael José Diaz (born April 22,1955) is a Latino television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital. His family eventually moved to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where he w..
Rafael Joseffy
Rafael Joseffy (July 3 1852–June 25 1915) was a pianist and composer. He studied in Budapest with Brauer, the teacher of Stephen Heller. In 1866 he went to Leipzig, where his teachers were Ignaz Moscheles and Ernst Friedrich Wenzel. In 1868 he became a pupil of Carl Tausig in Berlin, remainin..
Rafael Kayanan
Rafael Kayanan (born September 13 1962, Manila) is a Filipino-born naturalised American artist of comic books. Since 1983 Kayanan has illustrated for every major Comic book publisher. His most notable works have been on Marvel Comics's Conan, Acclaim Comics's Turok and DC Comics's Firestorm. He ink..
Rafael Kubelík
Rafael Jeroným Kubelík (June 29, 1914 in Býchory, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic – August 11, 1996 in Lucerne, Switzerland) was a Czech conductor and composer. He was the son of the violinist Jan Kubelík. He studied at the conservatory in Prague. From 1936 to 1939 and again from 1942..
Rafael L. Bras
Dr. Rafael L. Bras, P.E. is a Puerto Rican engineer and researcher who is considered one of the world's leading experts in hydrometeorology and global warming. Born in 1950, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, he decided to become a civil engineer like his father, and enrolled in MIT, where he received a B.S..
Rafael Landestoy
Rafael Landestoy (born May 28, 1953) in Bani, Dominican Republic) was an eight year major league baseball veteran who played for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He amassed 291 hits, a .237 batting average, and an extraordinary 4 home runs, primarily as a pinch hitter. ..
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero was born on 14 November 1943 in Tegucigalpa in Honduras, and was President of Honduras January 27 1990 to January 27 1994, representing the National Party of Honduras (PNH). Career He studied agricultural economics at the University of Mississippi, becoming an exper..
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
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Rafael Limon
Rafael Limon (born approx 1956) is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Jr. Lightweights two times. Limon shares his nickname, Bazooka, with at least two other known world boxing champions: Puerto Rico's Wilfredo 'Bazooka' Gomez and Ghana's Ike 'Bazooka' Quartey. Limon is very fam..
Rafael López Gutiérrez
General Rafael López Gutiérrez (1855 1924) was President of Honduras between February 1, 1920 and March 10, 1924. ..
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He created what may be the world's largest interactive installation, Vectorial Elevation; a work that was installed in Mexico Cit..
Rafael Macedo de la Concha
Rafael Macedo de la Concha (b. May 6, 1950 in Mexico City) is a Mexican army general and former Attorney General in the cabinet of Vicente Fox (December 1, 2000 – April 27, 2005). Macedo de la Concha has taught several law courses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the ..
Rafael Marin
Rafael Marín Trechera (Cádiz, Spain, 1959) is a spanish science fiction comic book writer and co-plotter. He is best known in the United States for his work with artist Carlos Pacheco on the Fantastic Four Vol.3 title in 2000 and 2001. Novels LÁGRIMAS DE LUZ. Editorial Fénix, col. Los libros ..
Rafael Marques
Rafael Marques is an Angolese freelance journalist and a representative for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa in Angola. His criticisms of the corruption and abuse of power by the government and president dos Santos have repeatedly caused him to be indicted on charges violating his fr..
Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez Álvarez (born February 13, 1979 in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico) also called "El Kaiser de Michoacán" is a Mexican soccer player, specializing as both a centre back and defensive midfielder, who is currently playing for FC Barcelona in the Spanish La Liga. Biography Márquez beg..
Rafael Márquez (boxer)
Rafael Márquez (born March 25, 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a boxer in the bantamweight division. His record is 35-3 (31 KOs). He is the current IBF and IBO world bantamweight champion. Márquez's professional boxing debut was an eighth-round knockout loss to former WBC bantamweight champion Vi..
Rafael Márquez Lugo
Rafael Márquez Lugo (born November 2, 1981 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican football striker, who currently plays for CA Monarcas Morelia of the Primera División de México. He is known as Márquez Lugo in order to differentiate between the Barcelona and Mexican National team player, Rafael M�..
Rafael Martinez
Rafael Martinez can refer to: Rafael E. Martinez, politicianRafael Martinez (minister)Rafael Martinez (gymnast) ..
Rafael Martín Vázquez
Rafael Martín Vázquez (born September 25, 1965 in Madrid) was a Spanish football midfielder. Rafael joined the youth teams of Real Madrid in 1980. He made his debut in the first team in 1983 and grew famous as a part of the Quinta del Buitre. Martín Vazquéz stayed in Madrid until the 1990 sea..
Rafael Méndez
Rafael Méndez (March 26, 1906 - September 15, 1981) was a popular virtuoso solo trumpeter. As a young child in his native Mexico, Mendez was the cornetist for Pancho Villa. Mendez is legendary for his tone, range and technique. His most famous recording, "Moto Perpetuo," was written by Paganin..
Rafael Molina Sanchez
Rafael Molina Sanchez "Lagartijo", the son of "Niño de Dios", and nephew of "Poleo", was born in Cordoba on November 27, 1841. He had already fought is his home town in September 8, 1851. when he was 11 years old. On September 29, 1865, he became a full bullfighter (take the alternativa) at Ubeda. ..
Rafael Moneo
The extension to Atocha Railway Station José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid from which he received his architectural..
Rafael Moreira
Rafael Moreira is a Brazilian-born guitarist and vocalist who is best known as the lead guitarist for the hit CBS series, Rock Star. He has also performed as the lead guitarist for grammy-winning artists Pink and Christina Aguilera. In addition to these performances, Rafael was invited to record on ..
Rafael Moreu
Rafael Moreu was the writer of the movies Hackers (1995) and The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999). ..
Rafael Nadal
For other people named Nadal, See Nadal (disambiguation). Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (born June 3, 1986 in Manacor, Mallorca) is a Mallorcan Spanish tennis player [link]. He is the nephew of former F.C. Barcelona footballer Miguel Ángel Nadal. He is currently the world's No. 2 male tenni..
Rafael Nadal's winning streak on clay
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Rafael Nazaryan
Rafael Nazaryan is an Armenian football striker. He is a member of the national team, and has played 19 matches and scored 1 goal since his debut in 1997 [link]. Clubs FC AraratErebuni-Homenmen YerevanConstructorul ChisinauFC TsementFC AraxZvartnots YerevanFC PyunikFC BanantsFC PyunikFC ..
Rafael Nepomuceno
Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno (born January 30, 1957 in Manila) is a Filipino bowler has won the World Cup in bowling four times in three decades: In Tehran, Iran on November 19, 1976In Jakarta, Indonesia on November 1, 1980In Le Mans, France on November 8, 1992In Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 2..
Rafael Nieto
Rafael Nieto is the creator of Zen-Do, a martial arts style deriving from Wado Ryu Karate via Mugendo. He is a leading martial artist and trainer who is often sought as a reference by print and broadcast media. Born in Spain, he moved with his family to London as a child. He took up martial arts i..
Rafael Noboa
Rafael Noboa, born December 1, 1976, is an Iraq War veteran and political activist. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the third son of noted Puerto Rican educator Abdin Noboa and Migdalia Noboa. He is also the third cousin of Pedro Rosselló, the former Governor of Puerto Rico. Noboa has ..
Rafael Núñez
Rafael Núñez can refer to: Rafael Núñez, a politicianRafael E. Núñez, a cognitive scientistRafael Núñez, a Governor of Córdoba, Argentina ..
Rafael Núñez (politician)
Rafael Núñez (1825-1904) was a Colombian politician. Little is known about the first years of the life of Rafael Núñez. It is known that he served as Judge of the circuit of Chiriquí, Panama in 1848. Later that year he founded in Cartagena, Colombia, the newspaper 'La Democracia' with the in..
Rafael Núñez International Airport
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Rafael of Makuria
Rafael (c. 1002) was a ruler of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria. Contemporary Arab writers record that he constructed a red brick building in Old Dongola around 1002, which excavations have yet to identify.1 References P.L. Shinnie, Ancient Nubia (London: Kegan Paul, 1996), pp. 129. ..
Rafael Olarra
Rafael Olarra Guerrero (born May 26, 1978 in Santiago, Chile) is an association football player. He plays as a defender, currently for the Israeli League champions, Maccabi Haifa F.C. He began his carrer in Audax Italiano, then spent time with Universidad de Chile where he made a name for himse..
Rafael Olarra Guerrero
Rafael Olarra Guerrero (born May 25, 1978) is a Chilean football player. Married to Carolina Zaio, Guerrero has one daughter, Josefa Antonia. He is nicknamed "Flaco Olarra" due to his very thin and tall bodyshape (Flaco referring to these characteristics in Spanish). Guerrero has played on many t..
Rafael Osuna
Rafael Herrera Osuna (September 15, 1938 – June 6, 1969), was a Mexican tennis player. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico and is best remembered for his victory at the U.S. Championships in 1963. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979. References [Rafael Osu..
Rafael Paasio
Rafael Paasio (Kustaa) (1903 - 1980) was a Finnish editor and political figure. He was prime minister of Finland twice, 1966-1968 and 1972. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Rafael Pacheco
Rafael Pacheco is a Spanish astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. ..
Rafael Palmeiro
"Palmeiro" redirects here. For , see . Rafael Palmeiro Position First Base/Designated Hitter Team Free Agent Years of experience 19 years Age 41 Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Weight 215 lb (98 kg) Bats Left Throws Left College Mississippi State University ..
Rafael Peralta
Sergeant Rafael Peralta (April 7, 1979 – November 15, 2004) was a United States Marine who was killed in Iraq in 2004 during Operation Phantom Fury in the city of Fallujah. Peralta is under consideration to receive the Medal of Honor. Contents 1 Personal history2 Killed in act..
Rafael Pérez
Rafael Pérez Pareja (died 1897) was President of Ecuador 15 October 1883 to 23 November. ..
Rafael Pérez (baseball player)
Rafael Pérez (born May 15, 1982) is currently a relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. Pérez was born 1982 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Indians in 2002, the left-handed pitcher has quickly become one of the top pitching prospects in the Clevela..
Rafael Pineda
Rafael Pineda on Noticias 41 in Junio 2006. Cuban born Rafael Pineda is a television news anchor for the Spanish language station WXTV the Univision affiliate in New York City. He has been in the position since 1972. For more than 30 years, Rafael Pineda has been the lead news anchor on WXTV...
Rafael Pólit
Rafael Pólit Cevallos (1823 - 1897) was President of Ecuador from 1875 to 9 December 1875. He studied at the Central University of Quito and joined the Conservative Party of Ecuador of Gabriel García Moreno. He was President of the Municipal Council of Guayaquil and at 2 October 1875 he was elect..
Rafael Rabello
--> Rafael Baptista Rabello (October 31 1962 - 1995), was a virtuoso Brazilian guitar player and composer. He was considered by many, including Pat Metheny, to be one of the best guitar players of his generation. He used to play many different styles with his guitar, but specialised in choro compos..
Rafael Ramirez
Rafael Ramirez can refer to: Rafael Ramírez, a Dominican baseball player.Rafael Ramirez, a Venezuelan official. ..
Rafael Ramirez (Venezuela)
Rafael Ramirez is a venezuelan politician. He is the current president of Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA. He once served as Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Mines. He was appointed to that position on July 2002 by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Ramirez once headed Venezuela's ..
Rafael Rangel Sostmann
Rafael Rangel Sostmann was born in Parral, Chihuahua, México, in August of 1941. Rangel Sostmann received in 1965 his undergraduate degree B.S. Mechanical with Minor in Electrical Engineering from the Tecnológico de Monterrey and his doctorate in Engineering (1973) from the University of Wisc..
Rafael Rincón González
Rafael Rincón González was born in Maracaibo, Zulia, September 30, 1922, in the populated marabino district of El Saladillo, son of the recognized zuliano painter Neptalí Rincón, from very young he feels vocation for the music, one graduates as teacher, a part of his educative work inclines by..
Rafael Ritz
Rafael Ritz (1829-1894), was a Swiss painter. His son Walter Ritz was a famous physicist. Paintings Prayer in Alps ..
Rafael Robles
Rafael Orlando Robles Natera (October 20 1947 – August 13 1998) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He was born in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. He was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent before the 1967 season, and later drafted by the San Diego..
Rafael Rojas
Rafael Rojas (born Rafael Humberto Rojas Morales on April 16, 1961 in San José, Costa Rica) is a former male fashion model an actor of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico. Contents 1 Biography2 Films3 Telenovelas4 Theater5 External links Biography Rafael started his ..
Rafael Rozendaal
Rafael Rozendaal (Born June 06 1980 in Amsterdam) is an artist whose work explores the digital pop culture. He is part of the art movement neen. He wrote: "Most people know me for my websites. My subjects range from clouds to blood, from waves to farts, from highways to dollars, from gradients to..
Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. Contents 1 Life2 Works2.0.1 Series2.0.2 Scaramouche2.0.3 Captain Blood2.0.4 Novels2.0.5 Collections2.0.6 Plays2.0.7 Anthologies edite..
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (born 4 December 1927) is a Spanish writer. His father Rafael Sánchez Mazas, a minor writer himself, was a founder and leader of Falange. Sánchez Ferlosio won the Nadal Award for his novel El Jarama, a realistic description of a weekend party turned awkward. He contribu..
Rafael Sanchez Guerra
Rafael Sánchez Guerra was chairman of Real Madrid from 1935 to 1939. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Rafael Sánchez Navarro
Rafael Sánchez Navarro (born 1958), is a famous Spanish-Mexican actor. He is the son of Manolo Fábregas, a famous actor from Spain who established himself in Mexico, who also acted in Puerto Rico and whose birthname is Ricardo Sánchez Navarro. Sanchez Navarro is also the cousin of Manuel Sánchez..
Rafael Santa Cruz
Rafael Santa Cruz is a renowned Afro-Peruvian musician and author of the book El Cajón Afroperuano on the cajón, a South American instrument created from wooden boxes by slaves when their owners tried to ban the drum culture, fearing the drums would help form slave uprisings. Reference () [H..
Rafael Santos Torroella
(Born in Port-Bou, 1914, died in Barcelona 2002) This renknowned Spanish art critic has written several books on Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí amongst others. His role in helping renovate the avant-garde art scene in Spain after the Spanish Civil War is undeniable. He also demonstrate..
Rafael Segovia
Rafael Segovia, born in Mexico City in 1952 is a writer who also practices photography, filmmaking, theatre, television and video. He was the founder of the Consejo Ciudadano de Cultura y las Artes de Morelos. He also founded the Red de Diversidad Cultural in Mexico, associated to the UNESCO networ..
Rafael Septien
Jose Rafael Septien (born December 12, 1953 in Mexico City) was an American football place kicker for the Dallas Cowboys from 1978 through 1986. He was the scorer leader for the Cowboys those nine years. He initially played for the Los Angeles Rams in 1977 after finishing college at the University o..
Rafael Sóbis
Rafael Augusto Sóbis (17 June 1985) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for SC Internacional. He is considered one of Internacional's top prospects, and he played in 35 league matches (scoring 19 goals) in the 2004-05 season at the age of 19. He is currently recovering from injury and ..
Rafael Solis (boxer)
Rafael Solis (born approx. 1959) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. Raised at Caimito, a San Juan barrio that is actually much closer to the center of the city of Caguas than it is to that of San Juan, Rafael used to train at the Caimito Gym, but he also frequented the Bairoa Gym. Rafael Solis is ..
Rafael Soriano
Rafael Soriano (born December 19, 1979 in San Jose, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball Pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He made his Major League debut on May 5, 2002. He bats and throws right. Soriano throws a moving fastball in the low nineties along with a slider and changeup. ..
Rafael Sorkin
Rafael Dolnick Sorkin is a professor of physics at Syracuse University. He is one of the many physicists working to combine the theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. Childhood Rafael grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Education He was educated at: New Trier Township High School (valed..
Rafael Stupin
Rafael Stupin (1798-1860s) was a Russian painter. He studied painting at the Academy in St. Petersburg from 1809 until 1818; he was granted the title of Academician in 1829. He is known to have taught for a time at a school in Arzamas. Reference Russian Portrait [sic] of the 18th and 19t..
Rafael T. Caballero
Rafael T. Caballero Corral (born September 18, 1923 in Chinipas, Chihuahua, Mexico) is an Mexican business executive, founder of San Carlos, Sonora and CEO of Grupo Caballero, mainly involved in the premium Mexican real estate segment. Mr. Caballero is of Mexican ancestry. Contents 1 Overv..
Rafael Trujillo (disambiguation)
Rafael Trujillo is the name of: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (died 1961), former President of the Dominican RepublicRafael Trujillo (born 1926), an advocate of gay rightsRafael Trujillo (sailor), an Olympic sailor from Spain.See also Trujillo ..
Rafael Urdaneta
Rafael José Urdaneta y Faría (October 24, 1788 – August 23, 1845) was a hero of the Latin American war for independence. Urdaneta was born in the province of Maracaibo in Venezuela to an aristocratic family of Spanish descent. Prior to the independence war he was a student of Latin and phi..
Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael van der Vaart with his wife Sylvie Meis. Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart (born 11 February 1983) in is a Dutch footballer that plays for Hamburger SV and the Dutch national team. Van der Vaart was born to a Spanish mother and a Dutch father in Heemskerk, in North Holland. He has mana..
Rafael Verga
Rafael Verga is a Brazilian 'supermodel'. Born July 27, 1981, in Florianópolis, capital of Santa Catarina state, his modeling career has taken off with campaigns such as 2ixst. In 2005 he was named Brazilian male model of the year. He also finished #2 in the world in the 'most beautiful man' 2005..
Rafael Vidal
Rafael Antonio Vidal Castro (January 6, 1964 – February 12, 2005) was a Venezuelan swimmer and sports commentator. He was a native of Caracas, Venezuela. At age 19, Vidal became the first Venezuelan swimmer to win an Olympic medal in the 200m butterfly competition in the 1984 Summer Olympic..
Rafael Viñoly
Rafael Viñoly (born 1944) is a world-famous architect. Contents 1 Biography2 Buildings2.1 Completed2.2 In Progress2.3 Unbuilt3 External links4 References Biography He was born in Montevideo,Uruguay to Román Viñoly Barreto, (a film and theater director) and M..
Rafael Ximeno y Planes
Rafael Ximeno y Planes (1759—1825) was a Spanish painter. Some of his work appears in the Basílica de la Asunción, in the town of Cieza. ..
Rafael Yglesias
Rafael Yglesias (born May 12, 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Yglesias was born and raised in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood and has lived there throughout his entire life. He dropped out of high school upon publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After i..
Rafael Yglesias Castro
Rafael Yglesias Castro President of Costa Rica Term of office: 8 May 1894 to8 May 1902 (two consecutive terms) – Preceded by: José Joaquín Rodríguez – Succeeded by: Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra Date of birth: 18 April 1861 Place of birth: Date of death: 10 April 1924 Place of death..
Rafael Zaldívar
Rafael Zaldívar (1834-1903) was President of El Salvador from 1 May 1876 until 21 June 1885. It was under his administration that liberal reforms abolished the existence of collectively-owned ejidos and tierras comunales throughout the country. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Rafah
Rafah (Arabic: رفح Hebrew: רפיח) is a town in the Gaza Strip, on the Egyptian border, and a nearby town on the Egyptian side of the border, on the Sinai Peninsula. Over the ages is has been known as Robihwa by the ancient Egyptians, Rafihu by the Assyrians, Raphia by the Greeks and Romans, an..
Rafah Elementary Co-Ed “B” School
Rafah Elementary Co-Ed “B” School is a school in Rafah, a town in the Gaza Strip, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). It stands 800 meters from the border with Israel and has been damaged by weapons fire on several occasions. On January 31, 2005, p..
Rafaï
Rafaï is a town on the Mbomou River, located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou at [4°59′N 23°55′E]. Its estimated population is about 14,000 people. Rafaï has a small civil airport (IATA code: RFA) with an unpaved 4,200 feet runway. ..
Rafalus
Rafalus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Rafalus christophori Prószyn'ski, 1999 (Egypt, Israel)Rafalus feliksi Prószyn'ski, 1999 (Egypt)Rafalus insignipalpis Simon, 1882 (Yemen, Socotra)Rafalus karskii Prószyn'ski, 1999 (Israel)Rafalus lymphus (Próchniewic..
Rafan Sidibé
Rafam Sidibe (born March 12, 1984) is a Malian football player who, as of 2004 was playing for Stade Malien. He was part of the Malian 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the quarter finals, finishing top of group A, but losing to Italy in the next round. ..
Rafard
Rafard is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [23°00′42″S, 47°31′37″W]. The population in 2004 was estimated 8,243, the area is 132,82 km². The elevation is 515 m. People Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), born in the area of Fazenda São Bernardo. The..
Rafat
Rafat ([31°52′N 35°12′E]; Arabic: ‎) is a Palestinian village, located approximately 4 kilometres southwest of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. ..
Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz
Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz Rafał Aleksander Ziemkiewicz (born September 13 1964) is a Polish political fiction and science fiction author and journalist. During his studies at the University of Warsaw (Polish language and literature) in 1984 he joined SFAN science fiction fan association and sta..
Rafał Blechacz
Rafał Blechacz (born June 30 1985 Nakło n. Notecią, Poland) is a Polish classical pianist. He completed his secondary education in the National Arthur Rubinstein Music School in Bydgoszcz, and now continues his studies in the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz under Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. He is al..
Rafał Grupiński
Rafał Grupiński (born September 26, 1952 in Wronki) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 8168 votes in 36 Kalisz district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list. See also Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2009 External links [Rafał Grupiński - parli..
Rafał Grzelak
Rafał Grzelak (born June 24, 1982 in Łódź) is a Polish footballer who plays for Boavista FC. Grzelak is 5'10" tall and weighs 12 stone. In his first professional season he played for Widzew Łódź before moving through Orzeł Łódź, ŁKS Łódź, Ruch Chorzów, MSV Duisburg, moving back to W..
Rafał Leszczyński
Rafał Leszczyński can refer to: Rafał Leszczyński (-1467), castellan of PrzemyslRafał Leszczyński (-1501), Court MarshalRafał Leszczyński (-1527), bishop of PłockRafał Leszczyński (-1592) starosta radziejowskiRafał Leszczyński (1579-1636), voivode of Kalisz and Bełsk, one of the leader..
Rafał Leszczyński (1579-1636)
Rafał Leszczyński (October 1579 - 29 March 1636) was a Polish noble. Castellan of Kalisz since 1618, voivode of Bełz since 1620, starost of Hrubieszów since 1633. Extensively educated (law, humanities, teology, military science, natural sciences - including studies under Galileo), he has travele..
Rafał Leszczyński (1650–1703)
Rafał Leszczyński Noble Family Leszczyński Coat of Arms Wieniawa Parents Bogusław LeszczyńskiAnna Denhoff Consorts Anna Jabłonowska Children with Anna JabłonowskaStanisław Leszczyński Date of Birth 1650 Place of Birth ? Date of Death January 31, 1703 Place of D..
Rafał Muchacki
Rafał Muchacki (born February 03, 1955 in Bielsko-Biała) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12015 votes in 27 Bielsko-Biała district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list. See also Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2009 External links [Rafał Much..
Rafał Olbiński
Rafał Olbiński (b. 1945 in Kielce, Poland) is a Polish graphic artist, stage designer and surrealist painter. ..
Rafał Szukała
Rafał Marek Szukała (born April 9, 1971 in Poznań) is a former butterfly swimmer from Poland, who won the silver medal in the Men's 100m Butterfly at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He competed in three consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. Szuka�..
Rafał Wiechecki
Rafał Wiechecki (born September 25, 1978 in Piotrków Trybunalski) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6058 votes in 41 Szczecin district, candidating from Liga Polskich Rodzin list. See also Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2009 External links [Rafał Wie..
Rafał Wojaczek
Rafał Wojaczek (1945-1971) was a Polish poet of the postwar generation. His short career took place during the turbulent years of modern Poland when the younger generation began to realize that they were trapped in a mendacious political system. Wojaczek's work, which translates this situation into..
Rafał z Tarnowa
Rafał z Tarnowa Noble Family Tarnowski Coat of Arms Leliwa Parents Spytek z MelsztynaStanislawa z Bogoryi i Skotnik Consorts Dzierżka z Wielowsi Children with Dzierżka z WielowsiJan z TarnowaSpytek z Tarnowa Date of Birth abt. 1330 Place of Birth Tarnow Date of Death ..
Rafe's chasm
Rafe's Chasm is a coastal rock formation located at the approximate coordinates of 42.5765, -70.7013. ..
Rafed.net
Rafed.net is one of the biggest Shi'a sites online, the site has both an Arabic [link] and an English [link] section, and has Qur'an tranlations in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Russian, English and Arabic [link]. As of 2006-06-10, the site had a Ale..
Rafeeq Ellias
Rafeeq Ellias is a well known advertising professional, photographer and film maker of India. He made the award winning documentary film "The Legend of Fat Mama".This is a bittersweet story of the Chinese community in Calcutta . ..
Rafeiro do Alentejo
The Rafeiro do Alentejo, known also as Portuguese Sheepdog or Portuguese Mastiff, is a breed of dog. Appearance The Rafeiro is a large dog, with males weighing around 110 pounds (50 kg) and females, 90 pounds (41 kg). The following is the summary taken from standard of the Continental Kenne..
Rafer Alston
Rafer Jamel Alston, a.k.a. Skip To My Lou or Skip 2 My Lou, (born July 24, 1976 in New York City) is a professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Houston Rockets. Alston grew up in Jamaica, Queens as a street basketball legend and has received most of his recognition for that aspect ..
Rafer Johnson
Rafer Lewis Johnson (born August 18, 1935) is a former American decathlete. Johnson was born in Hillsboro, Texas, but moved to Kingsburg, California at age 9. In high school, he played on the school's football, baseball and basketball teams. As a versatile athlete, he was attracted to the decathl..
Rafet El Roman
Rafet El Roman (born August 25, 1968 in Edirne, Turkey), is a pop star in his home country. He moved to Germany at the age of 7 with his family. He got his name from a fictional character named "El Romano". He has 5 solo albums so far. His first album sold 800,000 official copies which was a signi..
Rafe and Alison
Rafe Kovich and Alison Barrington were a popular supercouple on the American soap opera Port Charles. Rafe was played by Brian Gaskill and Alison was played by Erin Hershey Presley. ..
Rafe Champion
Rafe Champion (born July 1945) is an Australian writer. He was born in the Australian state of Tasmania, and grew up on a farm in the northern part of that state, near Irishtown. He studied agricultural science at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, then went to the University of Adelaide for post..
Rafe Custance
Rafe Custance (born 1995) is a New Zealand actor. He is currently staring in the New Zealand children's drama The New Tomorrow. His character, Dan, is a bit of a rebel and wants to leave The Ants and join The Barbs. ..
Rafe de Crespigny
Dr Rafe de Crespigny (full name: Richard Rafe Champion de Crespigny; born 1936) is a retired Adjunct Professor with the China and Korea Centre, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He specialises in Chinese history, geography and literature in the Han Dynasty period and has b..
Rafe Esquith
Rafe Esquith is an American teacher at Hobart Elementary School, the second largest elementary school in the United States, located in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of UCLA, Esquith began teaching in 1981. His teaching honors include the 1992 Disney National Outstanding Teacher of the Year A..
Rafe Furst
Rafe Furst Nickname(s) None Hometown Marina del Rey, California World Series of Poker Bracelet(s) 1 Money finishes 3 Highest ITM main event finish None Rafe Furst is an American professional poker player, based in Marina del Rey, California. Contents 1 Before poker2 ..
Rafe Judkins
Rafe Judkins (born January 8, 1983 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a contestant on the 11th season of Survivor, which took place in Guatemala. Judkins was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah in a huge Mormon family that is said to include 60 first cousins. Rafe's childhood involved him spending tim..
Rafe Mair
Rafe Mair (b. December 31, 1931) is a political commentator and former radio personality and politician in British Columbia, Canada. Mair was born in Vancouver, BC where he worked as a lawyer for many years. His political career began in 1975, when he was elected as a Member of the Legislative As..
Rafe McGregor
Rafe McGregor is the author of the Secret trilogy, a series of crime fiction novellas. He was born in Durban in 1973. He lived in South Africa until moving to the UK in 1998. He has a Bachelor degree in Politics and Psychology, and lives with his wife in East Yorkshire. ..
Rafe Spall
Rafe Spall Rafe Joseph Spall (born 10 March 1983) is an English actor. The son of actor Timothy Spall, he was born in East Dulwich, London, England. He attended the school Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross Gate and is a former member of the National Youth Theatre. He is curre..
Raffaëla (album)
Raffaëla is the debut album by the Dutch 2006 Idols winner Raffaëla. The album was released on April 21, 2006 in the Netherlands and contains songs Raffaëla sung during her Idols carreer. The album also contains two dutch songs about pregnancy (as Raffaëla is pregnant) and a duet with Floort..
Raffaëla Anderson
Raffaëla Anderson, whose ethnic background is partly Arab, was born in Montfermeil, France, on January 8 1976. A former adult films performer, she is now a non-fiction writer and occasionally acts in mainstream productions. La Petite Morte, the 2003 documentary by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about th..
Raffaëla Paton
Raffaëla Paton (born on June 1, 1983, Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer, winner of the 2006 Dutch talentshow Idols. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Sung on Idols III2 Discography2.1 Albums2.2 Singles3 External links Biography Raffaëla moved to Assen when she was a little gir..
Raffaele Cadorna
Raffaele Cadorna (1815-1897) was an Piedmontese general who served as one of the major Italian leaders responsible for the unification of Italy during the mid-19th century. Born in Milan, Italy, Cadorna entered the Piedmontese military academy at Turin in 1832. Entering the engineering corps in 18..
Raffaele Esposito
Raffaele Esposito was the Italian owner of a tavern called Pizzeria di Pietro e Basta Cosi in the Nineteenth Century. It is suggested by some that he was the father of the modern pizza, having cooked one for the royal family of Italy in 1889. Deeming the traditional garlic topping to be unfit for th..
Raffaele Lombardo
Raffaele Lombardo (born on 29 October 1950 in Catania) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for Autonomy and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committee on th..
Raffaele Palladino
Raffaele Palladino (born 17 April 1984 in Mugnano, Province of Naples) is an Italian football striker. Palladino scored 41 goals in 61 games for Juventus youth team, between 2002 to 2004. During on loan to Salernitana, he scored 15 goals, became team topscorer; 5 goals behind Serie B topscorer Gi..
Raffaele Riario
Raffaele Riario (May 3, 1451 - july 9, 1521), was a Roman Catholic Cardinal. he was a famous patron of the arts Biography Riario was born in Savona (then part of the Republic of Genoa), a son of Violante Riario and Antonio Sansoni, who preferred to take the surname of his mother, for the connect..
Raffaele Sacco
Raffaele Sacco (Naples, 1787 - 1872) was a neapolitan opticist (inventor of the 'aletoscopio') and lyricist, author of one of the most known neapolitan songs, 'Te voglio bene assaje'. ..
Raffaella Barker
Raffaella Barker is an English author. She lives in Norfolk, England with her family. Publications Phosphorescence (2005), ISBN 0330410245Green Grass (2002), ISBN 0747269416Summertime (2002), ISBN 0375503870Hens Dancing (2000), ISBN 0747262217Come and Tell Me Some Lies (2000), ISBN 0747264813 ..
Raffaella Carrà
Raffaella Roberta Pelloni (born in Bellaria on 18 June, 1943), better known by her artistic name Raffaella Carrà, is an Italian [TV hostess], singer and actress. She is especially popular in her native country and in Spain and Latin America where during the past decades she has conducted ..
Raffaellino della Colle
Raffaellino della Colle, Italian painter, was born at Colle, near Borgo San Sepolcro, in Tuscany, about 1490. A pupil of Raphael, whom he is held to have assisted in the Farnesina and the Vatican, Della Colle, after his master's death, was the assistant of his chief scholar, Giulio Romano, at Rome a..
Raffaellino del Colle
Raffaellino del Colle is an Italian Mannerist painter active mostly in Umbria. He was born in 1490 in Borgo Sansepolcro and died in 1566. Worked under Giulio Romano in the Fresco of Constantine in the Vatican, and like most of Romano's studio exited after the 1527 Sack of Rome. In Città di Castello..
Raffaellino del Garbo
Raffaellino del Garbo (1466, or perhaps 1476-1524), Florentine painter. His real name was Raffaello Capponi; Del Garbo was a nickname, bestowed upon him seemingly from the graceful nicety (garbo) of his earlier works. He has also been called Raffaello de Florentia, and Raffaello de Carolis. He was..
Raffaello Carboni
Raffaello Carboni (15 December 1817 - 24 October 1875) was an Italian writer. He is primarily remembered now as the author of the main eyewitness account of the events at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Australia. He was born in Urbino, Italy in 1817. Dedicated to the cause of Italian nationalism..
Raffaello Maffei
Raffaello Maffei (17 February1451-25 January1522) was an Italian humanist, historian and theologian. He was a native of Volterra, Italy, and therefore is called Raphael Volaterranus or Raphael of Volterra; also Maffeus Volaterranus, or Raffaello Volterrano. Life From earliest youth he devoted hims..
Raffaello Sanzio Morghen
Raffaello Sanzio Morghen (June 19th 1758, Naples - April 8th 1833, Florence) was an Italian engraver. He received his earliest instructions from his father, himself an engraver; but, in order to be initiated more fully in the art, he was afterwards placed as a pupil under the celebrated Volpato. He..
Raffelstetten
Raffelstetten was a Toll-Bar on the Danube for German slave traders coming to and from the Slav borderlands in the 10th century. Salt, weapons, and ornaments were sought by slave trading adventurers, and wax, horses and slaves were received at the Toll-Bar on their return. Source George Duby, The..
Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series about the life of Magistrate, Michael Raffery (played by Australian actor John Wood). The Magistrate's eldest daughter was played by Australian actress Rebecca Rigg. The series is based at the Magistrate's Court, in suburban Sydney, over..
Rafferty (comics)
Rafferty was a fictional assassin from the Malibu Comics' Ultraverse imprint. He was a foe of Firearm (Alec Swan), first appearing in Firearm #12, written by James Robinson. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Born to a poor family in Georgia, Rafferty mur..
Raffi
The Armenian name Raffi can refer to: Raffi (musician) (born 1948), children's musician and entertainerRaffi (poet), the pen name for Hakob Melik-Hakobian (1835–1885), Armenian author and poetRaffi Armenian (born 1942), Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacherRaffi Lavie (born 1937),..
Raffi's Christmas Album
Raffi's Christmas Album is a 1983 music album by popular children's entertainer Raffi. The album was later remastered and rereleased on October 22, 2002. The rerelease contains an aditional track "A Child's Gift of Love" Track listing Frosty the Snowman - 2:01Up on the House-Top - 1:57On Christm..
Raffia palm
The Raffia palm (Raphia) is a genus of tropical palms, native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar, Central America and South America. They are remarkable for their compound pinnate leaves, the longest in the plant kingdom; leaves up to 25 m long and 3m wide are known. Cultivation and uses ..
Raffinate
In solvent extraction, a raffinate is a liquid stream that remains after the extraction with the immiscible liquid to remove solutes from the original liquor. From French raffinere, to refine. ..
Raffingora
Raffingora is a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. It is located about 43 km west of Chinhoyi in one of Zimbabwe's leading tobacco growing districts. ..
Raffinose
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Raffique Shah
Raffique Shah is a Trinidad and Tobago trade union leader and political commentator. He is also a former Member of Parliament and mutineer, having led a mutiny of Trinidad and Tobago Regiment in 1970. He was born the son of a sugar cane worker and housewife in March, 1946. His early education was a..
Raffi (musician)
For other uses of the name "Raffi", see Raffi (disambiguation). Raffi on the cover of his album Bananaphone Raffi Cavoukian, OC, OBC (born July 8, 1948), usually known simply as Raffi, is a popular children's entertainer in Canada, the United States, and the Western world at large. Some of hi..
Raffi (poet)
For other uses of the name "Raffi", see Raffi (disambiguation). Hakob Melik-Hakobian (also Hagop Hagopian) (1835 Bayajuk (Salmas area), Persia - 1888 Tbilisi, Georgia), better known by his pen name Raffi, was an Armenian author and poet. Raffi was a seminal Armenian novelist, often called the foun..
Raffi Armenian
Raffi Armenian (born June 4, 1942) is a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher. Armenian was born in Cairo and had his first music lessons there, moving in 1959 to Vienna to study piano with Bruno Seidlhofer. After graduating, he put his musical studies aside and attended the University..
Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band
Raffi in Concert with the Rise & Shine Band is a music album by popular children's entertainer Raffi, released in 1996. Track listing Time to SingTingalayoRise and ShineFive Little DucksBathtimeApples and BananasDe ColoresThe Banana Boat Song (Day-O)Knees up Mother BrownLike Me and YouBaby Beluga..
Raffi Lavie
Raffi Lavie (b. 1937) is an Israeli artist. His work stands at the meeting-point of graffiti and abstract expressionism; it has been compared to that of Cy Twombly in the United States. ..
Raffi Radio
Raffi Radio is a music album by popular children's entertainer Raffi, released in 1997. Track listing OpeningRaffi RadioKitchen Sing SingBerry Nice News -- SeasonsSunflowerRoving Reporter [Excerpt]Sleido's SongSilly Panel-AudioCoconutWeather ReportSkip to My LouBerry Nice News -- Bananas..
Raffi Torres
Raphael "Raffi" Torres (b. 8 October, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League who has played for the New York Islanders and who currently plays for the Edmonton Oilers. Playing career Torres was drafted in the 1st Round, 5th ove..
Raffi Torres (Edmonton Oilers)
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Raffle
For other uses of the word raffles, see raffles (disambiguation). A raffle is a competition in which people buy numbered tickets. A raffle is often be held in order to raise funds for a specific event, charity or occasion. The raffle either involves many people buying tickets for the chance to wi..
Raffles' Landing Site
The Raffles' Landing Site (Chinese: 莱佛士登陆点) is denoted by a statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, and is located on the north bank of the Singapore River. The site is located within the Civic District, in the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. History..
Raffles, Gentleman Thug
Raffles, Gentleman Thug is a comic strip featured in adult comic Viz featuring a nineteenth-century nobleman given to 'immense erudition and wanton violence'. The basic premise is a nod/ripoff of E. W. Hornung's Raffles the Thief character, the main difference being that this Raffles is very much a ..
Rafflesia
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains 15-19 species (including four incompletely known species as recognized by Meijer 1997), all found in southeastern Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Kalimantan, West Malaysia, and the Philippines. The flowers have no le..
Rafflesiaceae
Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic plants found in east and southeast Asia, including Rafflesia arnoldii, the plant with the largest flower of all plants. Rafflesiaceae was considered an unplaced family in the APG II system, while other authors placed it into the order Rafflesiales together wi..
Rafflesiales
Rafflesiales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The name was first published by Oliver in 1895. The Cronquist system used this name for an order placed in subclass Rosidae with the following [[wiktionary:circumscription|circumscription]] (1981) : order Rafflesiales: family Hydnor..
Rafflesia (band)
Rafflesia is a European metalcore band from Zeebrugge, Belgium Line up Bart Teetaert — VocalsLazar Zec — Lead GuitarMaxim Aneca — Second GuitarJerre Deschrijver — BassNick Dapper — Drums External links [Official website] ..
Rafflesia arnoldii
Rafflesia arnoldii is a member of the genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on earth. There are some plants with larger flowering organs, Amorphophallus for example, but these are technically clusters of many flowers. It occurs only in the rainforests of Sumatra ..
Rafflesia kerrii
Rafflesia kerrii is a member of the genus Rafflesia. It is found in the rainforest of southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia, with the largest population in the Khao Sok National Park. The local Thai name is Bua Phut (บัวผุด). Flower and bud in Khao Sok National Park The red..
Raffles (disambiguation)
Raffles are games of chance involving buying numbered tickets. Raffles also refers to: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore.The Raffles Hotel in Singapore, named after Thomas Stamford RafflesRaffles International, a chain of hotels, owner of The Raffles HotelA.J. ..
Raffles City
Raffles City Raffles International Centre (initial name) Buildings in Singapore Chinese: 莱佛士城 Location   Address   - Postal code   Planning   - region   - area   - subzone 252 North Bridge Road (tower and shopping mall) 179103 Central Downtown ..
Raffles Girls' Primary School
Name Raffles Girls' Primary School Abbreviation RGPS School Code 1073 Chinese Name 莱佛士女子小学 Pinyin Láifóshì Nǘzǐ Xiaoxué Address 21, Hillcrest Road Country Singapore Founded 1844 Type Government, Secular, Double session Students Girls Levels Primary ..
Raffles Girls' School (Secondary)
Raffles Girls' School (Secondary) 莱佛士女子中学 (Láifóshì Nǘzǐ Zhōngxué) Filiae Melioris Aevi Established 1879 School Type Independent, Single Principal Deborah Tan Location Orchard, Singapore School Code 3008 Enrollment approx. 2000 School colours green, blac..
Raffles Holdings
Raffles Holdings SGX: [R03] is the parent company of Raffles International. It is owned by Temasek Holdings which is the investment arm of the Singapore government. In 2005, Raffles Holdings' hotel business ranked 17th or 18th in the world in terms of market capitalization and number of..
Raffles Holmes
Raffles Holmes, the son of Sherlock Holmes, is a fictional character in the 1906 novel "Raffles Holmes and Company" by John Kendrick Bangs. He also is featured in the Wold Newton family, where he is described as the son of Sherlock Holmes by Marjorie Raffles, the daughter of gentleman thief A.J. Raf..
Raffles Hotel
The grand entrance of the Raffles Hotel The Raffles Hotel as seen from Beach Road surrounded by lush greenery Interior view of Raffles Hotel Raffles Hotel (Chinese: 莱佛士酒店) is a colonial-style hotel in Singapore, dating from 1887, and named after Singapore's founder Sir..
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution 莱佛士书院 (Láifóshì Shūyuàn) Institusi Raffles ராப்பிள்ஸ் கல்வி நிலையம Auspicium Melioris Aevi Established June 5, 1823 School Type Independent, Single-Session Principal Bob Koh Chin Nguang Location Bishan,..
Raffles Institution Lane
Raffles Institution Lane is a small street inside Raffles Institution. It is the only steet within the campus, extending from the entrance all the way towards the main blocks just after the junction at the boarding complex's dining hall. External links [The official website of Raffles Institut..
Raffles Institution Military Band
Raffles Institution Military Band Name Raffles Institution Military Band Abbreviation RIMB Country Singapore Motto We Should! We Must! We Can! We Will! Website [Link] The Raffles Institution Military Band (RIMB) is the military band of Raffles Institution, a premi..
Raffles International
Raffles International is a Singapore-based hotel chain in the Raffles Holdings group, which is in turn owned by Los-Angeles, CA based Colony Capital, LLC. The group manages two brands of hotels under their arm, Raffles and Swissôtel, with 41 hotels and resorts in 35 destinations, including the hi..
Raffles Junior College
Raffles Junior College 莱佛士初级学院 (LáiFóShì ChūJī XuéYuàn) Maktab Rendah Raffles Auspicium Melioris Ævi Established 1982 School Type Independent, Single-session Principal Winston James Hodge Location Bishan, Singapore School Code 0704 Enrollment approx. 260..
Raffles Lighthouse
Raffles Lighthouse (Chinese: 莱佛士灯塔) is a lighthouse located in the Straits of Singapore, about 14 kilometres south of the main island of Singapore. The Raffles Lighthouse was first mooted in 1833, but the foundation stone was only laid in 1854 when William J. Butterworth was the Govern..
Raffles Place
Raffles Place is the financial heart of Singapore. It is located within the Downtown Core and the Central Area and, as such, is home to the some of the tallest buildings and landmarks in Singapore. It is situated south of the mouth of the Singapore River. Contents 1 History2 Notab..
Raffles Place MRT Station
Exterior view of Raffles Place MRT Station South Bound Train platform at Raffles Place Station Raffles Place MRT Station (EW14/NS26) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North South Line and the East West Line in Singapore. It is directly beneath the centre of the f..
Raffles The Plaza
Raffles The Plaza Formerly: Westin Plaza Buildings in Singapore Chinese: 莱佛士大厦 Location   Address   - Postal code   Planning   - region   - area   - subzone 80 Bras Basah Road 189560 Central Downtown Core CBD Building type High-rise Usage H..
Raffles v. Wichelhaus
Raffles v. Wichelhaus [1864] 2 Hurl. & C. 906 Court of Exchequer – often called the Peerless case – is a leading case on mutual mistake in the English law of contracts. The case established that when both parties of a contract are mistaken as to an essential element of the cont..
Raffles Voices
Raffles Voices is the choir of Raffles Institution, a premier secondary school in Singapore. The choir's current conductor is Mr. Toh Ban Sheng, who is also the residential conductor for the Raffles Junior College Chorale and many other school choirs. Its teacher advisors are Mdm. Charmaine Chiang ..
Rafford
Rafford is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 2.5 miles south-west of the town of Forres, and 5.5 miles north-east of the village of Dallas. ..
Raffy Francisco
Raffy Francesco is a music video director in the Philippines. He has directed close to 50 music videos. He trained as a film and video director at The New York University. He has also directed some 'specialist interest' videas such as Erotic Dancing (by the Viva Hot Babes)[link] He is inv..
Raffæle Marcellino
Raffæle Marcellino (born 1964) is an Australian composer. Contents 1 Life2 Works3 Awards4 External links Life Raffæle Marcellino graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with merit in 1985. In 1995 Marcellino joined the staff of the University of Tasmania Conservat..
Rafha
Rafha (رفحة) is a town in northeastern Saudi Arabia, close to the border with Iraq. It is located at around [29°38′19″N, 43°30′5″E]. ..
Rafi
Rafi may refer to Rafi, an Israeli political party in the 1960s.Mohammed Rafi, a Hindi playback singer This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to..
Rafi's Revenge
Rafi's Revenge is an album from 1998 by Asian Dub Foundation. The album mixed jungle-style drum and bass, bhangra, dub, breakbeat and punkish guitars with politically- and socially-conscious rapped lyrics. The lyrics railed against racism, both in life and the "institutional racism" highlighte..
Rafiah Salim
Datuk Rafiah Salim (born in Klata, Kelantan, Malaysia) is the first female Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Malaya since 1st May 2006. Rafiah Salim is presently executive director of the International Centre for Leadership in Finance (ICLIF) and had served as lecturer, deputy dean and dean at the Law..
Rafiah Yam
The Israeli settlement of Rafiah Yam was originally established in 1984 as a secular community in the southern end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, only 200 metres from the Egyptian border and close to the Palestinian city of Rafah. Residents of the yishuv worked mainly in agriculture. Being one ..
Rafic Hariri International Airport
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Rafida
Rafida (رافضة,pl. Rawafid) is an Arabic collective noun which means "turncoats, dissenters, deserters", from the Arabic verb root ر ف ض which can mean "to reject". It is an Islamic term, which refers in a derogatory way to those who (in the opinion of the person using the term) reject legit..
Rafiganj
Rafiganj is a city and a notified area in Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Bihar. Geography Rafiganj is located at [24.82° N 84.65° E][Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Rafiganj]. It has an average elevation of 89 metres (291 feet). Demographics As o..
Rafiganj train disaster
The Rafiganj rail disaster was the derailment of a train on a bridge over the Dhave River in North-Central India, on the 10 September 2002. At least 130 people were killed in the accident, which was reportedly due to sabotage by a local Marxist terrorist group, the Naxalites. The accident occurred ..
Rafig Guliyev
Rafig Guliyev is a Azerbaijani artist and a director of photography, he was born in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan in 1957. He studied at Azerbaijan State Art Institute from 1965-1969. In 1982-1987 he studied in the All Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He took part as a ca..
Rafig Tullou
Raffig Tullou (Raphaël, Jean), alias Neven Lewarc’h (January 6, 1909, Mordelles - January 16, 1990 in Saint-Herblain) was a Breton sculptor and set designer. The artist As an artist, Tullou worked in a variety of fields. He created both the regional furnishing art of Rennes, as well as works in ..
Rafiki
Rafiki is a fictional mandrill character (commonly mistaken for a baboon) who first appeared in the Walt Disney Pictures animated film The Lion King. He is an old, wise mandrill whose activities are often shamanistic, but also sometimes quite silly. Rafiki provides important counsel to the adult S..
Rafik Hariri
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri Rafik Bahaa Edine Hariri — Arabic: رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري — (November 1 1944 – February 14 2005), a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from ..
Rafik Hariri Martyr List
The March 14 Alliance is a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon, led by Saad Hariri, younger son of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon. At the last legislative elections, May and June 2005, the party became the dominant group in parliament. The a..
Rafik Khachatryan
Rafik Khachatryan (1937-1993) was an Armenian sculptor. Contents 1 Biography2 Activities3 Works4 See also Biography He was a direct descendant of the house of Daniel-Bek of Sassun (province Sassun of Western Armenia) (second half of the 18th century) and Khachatur-Bek of..
Rafik Schami
Rafik Schami (real name Suheil Fadél) is a Syrian-German author, story-teller and critic. Contents 1 Biography2 Assessment3 Literary prizes4 List of fictional writings5 Published speeches and interviews6 Source7 See also Biography Born in Damascus, Syria, 23 ..
Rafik Sorman
Rafik Sorman Founded 1959 Colours orange and black Stadium Rafik Sorman Stadium Capacity 8 000 Rafik Sorman is a Libyan football club based in Sorman, Libya. ..
Rafik Sorman Stadium
Rafik Sorman Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sorman, Libya. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Rafik Sorman. The stadium holds 8,000 people. ..
Rafil A. Dhafir
Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir is an American physician and Muslim. who was sentenced on October 28, 2005, to 22 years in prison. Dhafir had been convicted, in February, of 59 charges. Dhafir had run an unregistered charity, "Help the Needy", and most of those charges were related to that charity. The 59 ch..
Rafina
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Rafiqul Alam
Rafiqul AlamBangladesh (Ban) Batting style - Bowling type - Tests ODIs Matches - 2 '''Runs scored - 24 Batting average - 12.00 100s/50s - -/- Top score - 14 ..
Rafiqul Islam
Rafiqul IslamBangladesh (Ban) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type - Tests ODIs Matches 1 1 '''Runs scored 7 - Batting average 3.50 - 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score 6 - ..
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami is a citizen of Tunisia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Department of Defense, April 20 2006 His detainee ID number is 892. Contents 1 Combatant Status Review..
Rafiq Sabir
Rafiq Sabir (Refîq Sabir) (born in 1950) is a contemporary Kurdish poet. He was born in Qeladzê in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1974, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Baghdad University. He moved to Sweden in 1989. He writes in the sorani dialect. He belongs to the post-Abdulla Goran generation o..
Rafiq Zakaria
--> Rafiq Zakaria (April 5, 1920, Nala Sopara — July 9, 2005, Mumbai) was an Indian politician and Islamic scholar. He was closely associated with India's freedom movement and the Indian National Congress party. He spent over 25 years in public service, including years as a Cabinet Minister i..
Rafitropolis
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Rafi (party)
The Rafi party (רשימת פועלי ישראל Reshimat Po'aley Yisrael "List of the workers of Israel") was formed in 1965 by former Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion, after he and a number of other Mapai members split with his successor, Levi Eshkol. The split was over the Lavon affair, ..
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was an Indian freedom fighters and socialist politician. He was a major ally of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and India's first Minister for Communications. External source [Biography]           India..
Rafi Eitan
For the former Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff and former Israeli Minister of Agriculture, see Rafael Eitan Rafael ('Rafi') Eitan (Hebrew: רפי איתן) (born November 23, 1926) is the leader of Gil - Gimla'ey Yisrael LaKneset (pensioners of Israel to the Knesset) party which has won an u..
Rafi Escudero
Rafi Escudero (born December 30, 1945 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a musician, singer, composer and poet. Rafi Escudero Rafi was raised in the capital city of Puerto Rico. His parents were well aware that their son was musically inclined at a young age. They also stressed that their son rece..
Rafi Khawar Nanna
Rafi Khawar, alias, Nanna is renowned comedian actor of Pakistani films and tv drama. His first Urdu film was Watan ka sipahi released in 1966 whereas Punjabi film Pasoori Badshah (1991) was his last film. He died on June 3, 1986 in Lahore ..
Rafi Manoukian
Rafi Manoukian is a member of the city council in Glendale, California. He was recently notified that he has been selected by the Board of Directors and the Selection Committee of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) as a recipient of the 2006 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Extern..
Rafi Pitts
Rafi Pitts (Born 1967 Iran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film directors. Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit. In 2006, he was nominated for Golden Bear awa..
Rafi Sharif Bey
Rafi Yahya Abdullah Sharif-Bey (d. February 2006) was a pioneer in the development of the Islamic culture in the United States. He attended the Staunton Military Academy as a youth and belonged to a fraternity. He was the founder of the Sufi group The Noble Order of Moorish Sufis and a member of th..
Rafi Ud-Daulat
Rafi ud Daulat (رفي الدولت) also known as Shah Jahan II (شاهجهان ۲) was Mughal emperor for a brief period in 1719 AD. He succeeded his short-lived brother Rafi Ul-Darjat in that year, being proclaimed Badshah by the Sayyid brothers. Like his brother, he also died in 1719 AD at Delhi..
Rafi Ul-Darjat
Rafi-ul Darajat, son of Rafi-us-shaan (brother of Azim ush Shan) was the 10th mughal emperor. He succeeded Furrukhsiyar in 1719, being proclaimed Badshah by the Sayyid brothers. He was a controversial figure and was deposed shortly afterwards and killed at the behest of the Sayyid brothers in 1719 a..
Rafi Zabor
Rafi Zabor (born 1946) is a Brooklyn, New York music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist. His first novel, The Bear Comes Home, follows an alto saxophonist - who happens to be a bear - in his pursuit of musical perfection, and received the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award. Bibliography The Bear Comes H..
Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv
The Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv (short in French for the Vélodrome d'hiver's raid) is the name of the July 16, 1942 raid during the Vichy regime, when the French police forces arrested 12,884 Jews — including 4,051 children which the Gestapo had not asked for — 5,802 women and 3,031 men. Regardl..
Rafo
Read And Find Out – A phrase coined by author Robert Jordan, used often when asked about what sort of events will occur in his future books, or details on events that have already occurred but not revealed. ..
Rafo Muñiz
Rafo Muñiz (born 1956) is a famous Puerto Rican actor, comedian, director and, more notably, producer of television shows and concerts. The son of legendary comic actor and producer Tommy Muniz and brother of Pedro Muñiz; who is also a comedian, producer and actor, Rafo began acting as the you..
Rafsanjan
Rafsanjan (Persian: رفسنجان) is a city in Iran, in the province of Kerman. It is Iran's center of pistachio cultivation. It had an estimated population of 134,848 in 2005.[link] Rafsanjan is also a major center of carpet production even though t..
Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences
Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS), is a medical school in Kerman Province of Iran. Located in south-central Iran in the city of Rafsanjan, the university fell under the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in 1986. The university administers all public hospitals in the city of R..
Rafsbotn
Rafsbotn is a small village in the municipality of Alta, Norway. Its population is 370. ..
Raft
Traditional raft, from 1884 edition Huckleberry Finn and Jim Children successfully test their raft, in Brixham harbour, south Devon, England. The raft is made from wooden poles, rope and blue barrels. A raft is any flat floating structure for travel over water. It is the most basic of b..
Rafter
For the tennis player, see Patrick Rafter. A rafter is a structural member, a type of beam, which supports the roof of a building. In home construction, rafters are typically made of wood. Rafters are a feature of traditional roof styles. In many buildings, rafters have been replaced by engineered..
Rafters club
The Rafters Club is a nightclub situated in Fleetwood town centre. It is the most well-known night spot in town and attracts interest from visitors from all around the world. The club is open from 11pm - 3am on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The club was originally opene..
Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming
Rafter J Ranch is a census-designated place (CDP) in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,138 at the 2000 census. Geography Rafter J Ranch is located at [43°26′2″N, 110°47′18″W] (43.433761, -110.788224)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to t..
Rafting
Rafting is a recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other body of water. Usually it is done on whitewater of different degrees of difficulty, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the m..
Rafto Foundation for Human Rights
The Rafto Foundation for Human Rights was established in 1986, in gratitude of the efforts and inspiration given by Professor Thorolf Rafto. It based in Bergen, Norway. The main objectives for the Rafto Foundation are to promote freedom of spirit, political freedom and freedom of trade as fundamen..
Raftsund Bridge
Raftsund Bridge (Raftsundbrua) is a cantilever road bridge that crosses Raftsundet between Austvågøya and Hinnøya in Nordland county, Norway. The bridge is 711 metres long, the main span is 298 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 45 metres. The bridge has 4 spans. Raftsund Bridge was..
RAFT (chemistry)
RAFT or Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer is a form of living radical polymerization. Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization was discovered by the [CSIRO] in 1998.[#endnote_chiefari_1998] This is a new method for the synthesis o..
Raft (novel)
Raft is a 1991 science fiction book by author Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's first novel and first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present. The book serves as a worthy introduction to the imaginative Xeelee sequence, although some of the later books in the series re..
Raft Cove Provincial Park
Raft Cove Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Contents 1 History2 Conservation3 Recreation4 Location5 Size6 See also7 External links History The park was established 1990. Conservation Raft Cove contains features characteristic of..
Raft Island
Raft Island is a private island near the city of Gig Harbor, Washington, USA. There are approximately 200 homes on the island. Raft Island contains parks, roads, several private beaches, a private tennis court, private boat launch, and a church camp. Because of its picturesque setting, Raft Island ..
Raft of Dead Monkeys
Raft of Dead Monkeys was a rock band from Seattle, WA, USA, known for their controversy within the Christian punk scene. Described as a hypothetical band mocking rock culture, their early stage shows consisted of vulgar lyrics, male strippers and bloody nurses. They broke up in late 2001. Contents..
Raft River
The Raft River is a river that flows from Utah to Idaho. It begins in the Raft River Mountains in northern Utah, and flows north to join the Snake River in Cassia County, Idaho. The river is named after a crossing of the Oregon Trail where pioneers built rafts out of whatever was available to ai..
Raft spider
The raft spider, Dolomedes fimbriatus, is a spider in the family Pisauridae. Found only in or near damp places, raft spiders are the largest in Great Britain. They are capable of moving across water and submerging themselves for periods of time to protect themselves from prey. Adult females are t..
Raful Neal
Raful Neal (b. 6 June 1936 Chamberlin, Louisiana - d. 1 September 2004) was a blues singer and composer. Nine of his eleven children are also blues musicians, and several performed with him on his later releases on the Alligator Records label. External links [Raful Neal biography from Louisan..
Rafu Shimpo
The Rafu Shimpo began in April 1903 as a simple news sheet posted on local bulletin boards and today is the nation's leading bilingual Japanese American daily newspaper, read by over 45,000 each day. Rippo Iijima, Masaharu Yamaguchi, and Seijiro Shibuya, attending the University of Southern Calif..
Rafz
Rafz is a municipality in the District of Bülach in the northwest of the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. External link [Gemeinde Rafz] — The township's official website (in German). ..
RAF (disambiguation)
RAF can mean: Royal Air Force, the air force of the United KingdomRed Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion), a German terrorist organisationRīgas Autobusu Fabrika, a Latvian bus factoryRapid Action ForceRačunarski FakultetRussian Air ForceRaf (musician), the pseudonym of 1980s Italian musician, Raff..
RAF Abingdon
RAF Abingdon was a Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The base was opened in 1932, initially as a training station for RAF Bomber Command. It continued in this role through World War II. After World War II RAF Abingdon became part of RAF Transport Command, and also the home of 1 P..
RAF Advanced Air Striking Force
The RAF Advanced Air Striking Force was formed on 24 August 1939 from No. 1 Group. It was dispatched to France to allow its medium and light bombers to come into range of Germany. It was an independent command from the British Expeditionary Force and at first reported directly to the Air Ministry. H..
RAF Air Support Command
Air Support Command of the Royal Air Force was formed on 1 August 1967 by the redesignation of Transport Command. Its change of name reflected the change of emphasis of the Command from merely transporting materials and men around the world to providing general support to RAF operations around the w..
RAF Akrotiri
RAF Akrotiri is a large Royal Air Force station on the island of Cyprus. It is located in the south of the island, in the UK sovereign base area of Akrotiri. It is one of the few full-scale RAF stations left outside the United Kingdom. Although located on the island of Cyprus, it is not part of ..
RAF Alconbury
RAF Alconbury is a United States Air Force installation adjacent to the Stukeleys, near Alconbury and Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. It is home to the 423rd Air Base Group whose sole mission is to support the US European Command Joint Analysis Center at RAF Molesworth. RAF Alc..
RAF Aldergrove
Aldergrove Crest USAF C-17 operating from Aldergrove in support of U.S. Presidential visit, 2003. Credit Ulster Aviation Society RAF Aldergrove is a Royal Air Force station situated 18 miles north-west of Belfast. It adjoins Belfast International Airport, sometimes referred to simply as ..
RAF Aldermaston
RAF Aldermaston was an airfield in Berkshire during the Second World War. In 1941 the higher part of the Aldermaston Court estate was chosen by the government as a site for development as a Bomber Operations Training Unit (OTU). The woodland was cleared and a standard 'A Class' airfield with three ..
RAF Andover
Andover Airfield is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station now used by the Army Air Corps. It has a notable place in history, being the site of both the first attempt to develop a viable long-range electronic navigation system and also of the first British military helicopter unit a..
RAF Army Cooperation Command
RAF Army Cooperation Command was a short-lived major command of the Royal Air Force during World War II. It was formed on 1 December 1940 when No. 22 Group was raised to major command status. Its function was to act as the focus for activities connected with the interaction of the British Army and t..
RAF Ascension Island
Ascension Island Base is a British airbase on Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. It was known as RAF Ascension Island until 1 April 2004 when control of the base passed from Royal Air Force Strike Command to the Permanent Joint Headquarters. The first aircraft to land on Ascension Island was..
RAF Ballyhalbert
RAF Ballyhalbert was a Royal Air Force station at Ballyhalbert on the Ards Peninsula, County Down. RAF Kirkistown was a satellite to the larger Ballyhalbert. Construction began in 1940 and Ballyhalbert was opened in May 1941, prior to completion of the works, as a Fighter Command base where the pri..
RAF Ballykelly
RAF Ballykelly was a Royal Air Force station near Limavady, Northern Ireland. It is now used by the Army and known as Shackleton Barracks. History RAF Ballykelly opened in 1941 as a base for RAF Coastal Command. It was closed at the end of World War II, but re-opened in 1947 as the home of the RAF..
RAF Bampton Castle
RAF Bampton Castle is a non-flying Royal Air Force station in Oxfordshire. It is currently the home of numbers 2 and 81 signals units, which deal with High Frequency radio communications. ..
RAF Barford St John
RAF Barford St John is an airfield in Oxfordshire, England operated by the United States Air Force. The three runways are inactive, used instead as a site for several large communications aerials as a satellite of RAF Croughton. It is said to provide secure communications for CIA and US diplomatic ..
RAF Barkston Heath
RAF Barkston Heath is a Royal Air Force station near Grantham, Lincolnshire. RAF Barkston Heath was opened in 1941 and was used by the 61st Troop Carrier Group of the United States Army Air Forces. Currently it is home to the Joint Elementary Flying Training School, which provides elementary flying..
RAF Bassingbourn
RAF Bassingbourn is a former military airbase located in Cambridgeshire approximately three miles north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 miles southwest of Cambridge. During World War II it served first as an RAF station and then as a bomber base of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Now known as Ba..
RAF battle honours
Battle Honours are awarded by the Sovereign to Royal Air Force squadrons to commemorate the squadron's role in a particular operation. This practice was inherited by the RAF from its Army and Navy precedesors upon its creation in 1918. Several squadrons therefore carry honours awarded when they we..
RAF Bawtry
RAF Bawtry was located at Bawtry Hall in Bawtry this was No.1 Group Bomber Command Headquarters and administration unit. There is no airfield at RAF Bawtry. RAF Bawtry became the centre of the RAF Meteorological Service and ceased all military operations in 1986. See also List of RAF stations ..
RAF Benson
RAF Benson is a Royal Air Force station near Benson in Oxfordshire, England. It is home to the Royal Air Force's medium transport helicopters, the Puma and Merlin. Benson is currently home to 28 Sqn and 33 Sqn and also to Oxford UAS and 6 AEF. Previous units to be based here include the Queen's F..
RAF Bentley Priory
RAF Bentley Priory is a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It was famous as the headquarters of Fighter Command during World War II. Bentley Priory was a country house, built in 1766 on a site previously occupied by Augustinian friars. It served as a ..
RAF Bentwaters
RAF Bentwaters is a former Royal Air Force station in Suffolk in the UK. It closed in the early 1990s although it was not disposed of until some years later. Its final occupant was the United States Air Force, as one of the "twin bases" with RAF Woodbridge, which is now an Army Air Corps base unde..
RAF Bircham Newton
RAF Bircham Newton was a Royal Air Force airfield in the west of the county of Norfolk in the United Kingdom. The site was first used during the First World War and received the largest British bomber of the time, the Handley Page V/1500. They would have carried out bombing missions against Berlin..
RAF Bishopscourt
RAF Bishopscourt was a Royal Air Force radar control and reporting station located on the south east coast of Northern Ireland, approximately 5 miles (8 km) from Downpatrick, County Down and 23 miles (37 km) from Belfast. A Marconi Type 84 radar was located on the airfield and a Type 80 radar was lo..
RAF Blackbushe
RAF Blackbushe was a Royal Air Force station in Hampshire during World War II. ..
RAF Boddington
RAF Boddington is a non-flying Royal Air Force station in Boddington, Gloucestershire. It is currently the home of 9 Signals Unit. ..
RAF Bomber Command
Bomber Command badge RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAF's bomber forces. It was formed on 14 July 1936 from the bomber element of the Air Defence of Great Britain and absorbed into the new Strike Command in 1968. Bomber Command first found fame during World War II..
RAF Boulmer
RAF Boulmer is a Royal Air Force station near Alnwick in Northumberland. In 1940 a dummy airfield was set up near the village of Boulmer in order to divert German attacks from nearby RAF bases. In 1943 RAF pilots began using the dummy airfield as a relief landing ground. Later that year the airfiel..
RAF Bovingdon
RAF Bovingdon was a Royal Air Force station, located two miles south of Berkhamstead, and 7 miles west of Watford in Hertfordshire, UK. During World War II it was known as United States Army Air Force Station 112. Contents 1 RAF Use2 USAAF Use3 Postwar Uses4 Closure and Ci..
RAF Brampton
RAF Brampton is a Royal Air Force station near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Administratively Brampton is now part of the combined base RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow. It is home to the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre; JARIC produces intelligence from all forms of imagery and provides tra..
RAF Brawdy
RAF Brawdy was a Royal Air Force station in Wales. The Pembrokeshire base was formerly a Royal Naval air station and then home to the RAF's No 1 Tactical Weapons Unit. In the late 80's it operated Hawk (234 Sqn), Jet Provost T4 (79 Sqn) and Sea King (202 Sqn B Flt)aircraft. The RAF withdrew in 19..
RAF Brize Norton
RAF VC-10 USAF C-17 A No. 216 Squadron Tristar RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, about 50 miles west of London, England, United Kingdom, is the largest airbase of the Royal Air Force. It is home to the RAF's heavy transport aircraft, the C-17 Globemaster, and its Tristar and ..
RAF Bruggen
RAF Bruggen, Germany was until June 15 2001 a major station of the Royal Air Force. RAF Bruggen was situated next to the village of Elmpt, approximately 43 km west of Düsseldorf near the German-Netherlands border. The base was named after the village of Bruggen, the nearest rail depot. Constructio..
RAF Bruntingthorpe
Bruntingthorpe is a former Royal Air Force station in Leicestershire. It is now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and the home of the Avro Vulcan XH558, the former Vulcan Display Flight aircraft. There is a long term project ongoing to return XH558 to the air. External links Grid reference - middle of r..
RAF Buchan
RAF Buchan is a Royal Air Force station near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. It has been there since 1952, although the domestic site in Boddam is now closed. Until 2005 it was also home of one of the two Control and Reporting Centres for the United Kingdom in the form of an impressive two story underg..
RAF Burtonwood
RAF Burtonwood is the name of the Royal Air Force station that used to be situated just North-West of Warrington, Cheshire. When it was in active service it was the largest American military base in Western Europe, possibly one of the largest military bases during World War II. The base opened in 1..
RAF Butzweilerhof
RAF Butzweilerhof was a Royal Air Force station in Germany situated in the northern suburbs of Cologne (Koln). It was closed down c. 1967. In fact, the station was closed at the end of January 1967. The few civilian employees remaining at the beginning of 1967 were required to leave by the e..
RAF Carlisle
RAF Carlisle was a Royal Air Force base, the home to No. 14 Maintaince Unit (14MU). The base was located on the northern edge of Carlisle, just past the present Asda supermarket, and split into several different sites. The main site, Harker was 0.7km North east, Heathlands was 0.5km North, Rockclif..
RAF Catterick
Catterick airfield first opened in 1914 as a Royal Flying Corps aerodrome with the role of training pilots and to assist in the defence of the North East of England. It came under RAF administration in 1918 and housed Number 49 Training Depot. In 1927 it temporarily came under the administration o..
RAF Chelveston
RAF Chelveston was a military air base located on the south side of the A45, 5 miles east of Wellingborough, near the village of Chelveston in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. During World War II the base was occupied by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. It was give..
RAF Chicksands
RAF Chicksands was a Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England (but not an airfield). It is named for Chicksands Priory, a 12th century Gilbertine monastery now located within the perimeter of the camp. Chicksands is close to the small town of Shefford. The Crown Commissioners acquired the ..
RAF Chinook
RAF Chinook HC.2 The Royal Air Force is the second largest operator of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook of the 16 nations which use the type. RAF Chinooks have been widely deployed; serving in the Falklands War, Operation Desert Storm, large peace-keeping commitments in the Balkans, the evacuation o..
RAF Church Fenton
RAF Church Fenton is a Royal Air Force airfield in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Opened in 1937, it saw the peak of its activity during the years of World War II, when it served within the defence network of fighter bases of the RAF providing protection for the Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Humbe..
RAF Coastal Command
Coastal Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force which defended the United Kingdom from naval threats and countered German U-boats by air. Contents 1 History1.1 WWII1.1.1 Equipment1.1.2 Formations1.2 Post-war2 Commanders in Chief History WWII It was ..
RAF College Cranwell
The Royal Air Force College (RAFC) is the Royal Air Force establishment which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to be commissioned officers. The RAF College is based at RAF Cranwell and is sometimes titled as the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. History The Royal ..
RAF Coltishall
RAF Coltishall was a Royal Air Force station near Norwich in East Anglia England. The Ministry of Defence, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review, announced that the station will close by December 2006. The future of the station was in doubt since the Ministry of Defence announced tha..
RAF Coningsby
RAF Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England. For many years forming part of the UK air defence system, the station is now the home of No. 3 Squadron, No. XVII Squadron and No. 29 Squadron flying the Eurofighter Typhoon F2 and T1. In addition, No. 6 Squadron's Jaguar GR3as w..
RAF Cosford
RAF Cosford is a Royal Air Force station in Shropshire, just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton. It is a major centre of ground training, shortly to become the RAF's largest ground training centre. RAF Cosford opened in 1938 as a joint aircraft maintenance, storage and technic..
RAF Cottesmore
RAF Cottesmore Station Crest Role Harrier flying Location Rutland, England Date Founded 11 March 1938 RAF Cottesmore is a Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated beteen Cottesmore and Market Overton. It houses all the operational Harrier GR7 squadrons in the Royal Air Fo..
RAF Cranwell
RAF Cranwell Station Crest Role Officer and Aircrew Training Location Near Sleaford, England Date Founded November 1915 (as RNAS base) RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire close to the village of Cranwell, near Sleaford. Sir Frank Whittle attended RAF Cranwell in ..
RAF Croft
RAF Croft, known locally as Croft Aerodrome is a former Royal Air force base. It is now better known as a Croft Circuit, a regular venue for the British Touring Car Championship and British Superbike Championships. It is located in County Durham near the villages of Dalton Gates and Dalton-on-Tee..
RAF Croughton
RAF Croughton is a United States Air Force communications base in Oxfordshire, England, to the southeast of the village of Croughton, (which lies just across the county boundary in Northamptonshire). The base is home to the 422nd Air Base Group and operates one of Europe's largest military switchb..
RAF Daws Hill
RAF Daws Hill is a Royal Air Force base on the outskirts of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England; it is on the road towards Flackwell Heath, off the A404 road and adjacent to the M40 motorway. (RAF is pronounced as separate letters.) The base is occupied by the United States Navy. An importan..
RAF Debden
RAF Debden (also known as Station 356 during WWII) is located approximately 1 mile north of the village of Debden, in Essex, England. The airfield was built in 1935-37. The runways were laid in 1940. It was first occupied by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in September, 1942. It was re..
Raf de Gregorio
Raf de Gregorio (Born May 20, 1977) is a New Zealand soccer player. He plays as a midfielder. He plays for the New Zealand national soccer team, the All Whites and collected 23 caps (2 goals). Club history FC Dordrecht (1998-2000) (22 matches, 1 goal)The Football Kingz (2002-2003) (21 matches, 1 ..
RAF Digby
RAF Digby is about 15 miles south of Lincoln and 8 miles north of Sleaford. Although nominally an RAF station, over the last thirty years it has been used by the Army, Navy, Air Force and more recently, by United States military personnel. Home to two Signals Units, Joint Service Signals Unit (nee..
RAF Dishforth
RAF Dishforth is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire. It is currently an Army Air Corps helicopter base and a Relief Landing Ground for RAF Linton-on-Ouse. The RAFGSA Cleveland Gliding Club operates from there. Dishforth opened in 1936. In 1939 it became part of 4 Group, Bomber Command, an..
RAF Drem
RAF Drem is a former RAF station, just north of the village of Drem in East Lothian, Scotland. The motto of the station was Exiit Hinc Lumen which means "Ascend from this Light". The foundation of Drem as an air base, precedes the creation of the RAF as by 1916, an airfield had been established und..
RAF Eastleigh
RAF Eastleigh was a Royal Air Force airbase in Kenya, near Nairobi. It played a significant role during the struggle for Kenyan independence. The name was also used during 1935 for the airbase that became RAF Southampton in 1936. Eastleigh was the primary RAF station for East Africa. However becaus..
RAF East Fortune
RAF East Fortune is a former RAF station, just south of the village of East Fortune in East Lothian, Scotland. The motto of the station was "Fortune Favours the Bold". The foundation of East Fortune as an air base, precedes the creation of the RAF as in 1915, East Fortune was established as a fight..
RAF East Kirkby
RAF East Kirkby opened on the 20th August 1943 as a Bomber Command Station and is situated in Lincolnshire (not far from RAF Coningsby). Stationed at East Kirkby were: No. 57 Squadron RAF (5 Group) 27 August 1943 - 27 November 1945No. 630 Squadron RAF (5 Group) 15 November 1943 - 18 July 1945 The..
RAF Elvington
RAF Elvington was the only airfield in the United Kingdom used by the remainder of the Free French Forces, flying Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers, during World War II. After the war the airfield was extended for use by the United States Air Force but was never used. The runway at Elvington is n..
RAF enlisted ranks
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RAF Fairford
RAF Fairford was the site of a mass protest against the Iraq War RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, near Fairford. It is a standby airfield, not in everyday use. Its most prominent use in recent years has been as a base for United States Air Force B-52s dur..
RAF Far East Air Force
The RAF Far East Air Force was the command organisation that controlled all Royal Air Force assets in the east of Asia. The first organisation dedicated to this task was formed in Singapore in 1930 as Royal Air Force Base Singapore. This was upgraded to Headquarters Air Force Far East Command in 193..
RAF Fauld Explosion
The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11am on Monday, November 27 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage site. Between 3,100 and 3,600 metric tons (3,500 and 4,000 tons) of ordnance exploded – mostly comprising high explosives but including a variety of..
RAF Feltwell
RAF Feltwell is a Royal Air Force station in Norfolk, East Anglia that is currently used by the United States Air Forces Europe. As part of the US Space Surveillance Network, RAF Feltwell hosts the US 5th Space Surveillance Squadron - which operates under the The US Space Command's 21st Space Wing. ..
RAF Ferry Command
The RAF Ferry Command had a short life, but it spawned, in part, an organisation that lasted well beyond the dark war years during which is was formed. Ferry Command was formed on 20 July 1941, by the raising of the RAF Atlantic Ferry Service to Command status. Its commander for its whole existence..
RAF Fighter Command
Fighter Command was one of three functional commands that dominated the public perception of the RAF for much of the mid-20th century. It was formed in 1936 to reflect the fact that as the RAF expanded prior to World War II, more specialised control of each type of aircraft: fighter, bomber and mari..
RAF Finningley
RAF Finningley was a Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It has now developed into an international airport named Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, which opened on April 28, 2005. Contents 1 In the Beginning2 WWII3 Post WWII and The Cold War4 Aircre..
RAF Fiskerton
RAF Fiskerton was located in the Lincolnshire village of Fiskerton, 5 miles east of Lincolnshire. It was one of many new bomber airfields built in the early part of WWII. The airfield was situated north of the village. No. 49 Squadron RAF and No. 576 Squadron RAF were stationed at RAF Fiskerton. ..
RAF Folkingham
RAF Folkingham at British national grid reference [SK0530], an air station of the Second World War period, was established in phases on a convex hilltop, by the British Royal Air Force and was lent to the United States Army Air Forces. It is now abandoned near Temple Wood, Aslackby, Linc..
RAF Foulsham
RAF Foulsham at Foulsham in Norfolk was built between 1941 and 1942 for No.2 Group RAF Bomber Command and opened on 26 June 1942. Foulsham was one of the few airfields to be fitted with FIDO in 1944, a fog dispersal system which used fires at the sides of the runways. The airfield was equipped wit..
RAF Fullarton
RAF Fullarton was a Royal Air Force Ground Control Intercept station. The station was established during World War 2 and initially it consisted of mobile vans, but was later upgraded to a stage 2 station with operations blocks made out of brick. The station was never fully updated and remained as ..
RAF Fylingdales
BMEWS solid-state phased-array radar at RAF Fylingdales RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station on Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire, England. It is a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). Under the special relationshi..
RAF Gailes
RAF Gailes was a radar station. It was later taken over by civil staff from the Air Traffic Control at Prestwick Airport. Gailes was finally closed in the 1970's and the buildings demolished. ..
RAF Gan
RAF Gan was a Royal Air Force station on Gan Island, a southerly island of the Maldive Islands, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It was first established in the late 1950s as a stopover on the reinforcement to the RAF Far East Air Force based in Singapore. The previous reinforcement route had pass..
RAF Gaydon
RAF Gaydon is a former Royal Air Force station in Warwickshire in the UK. In 1974, when RAF usage as a V-bomber base ceased, it was taken over by British Leyland as a proving ground. It was then sold by BMW with Land Rover to Ford. Ford later decided to use Gaydon as the location for the new purpo..
RAF Geilenkirchen
RAF Geilenkirchen was a Royal Air Force station in German, built by the British who used the facility mainly as a base for RAF fighter squadrons from May 1953 until January 1968. Squadrons Based 2 Squadron (1955-1957) operated the Gloster Meteor FR10 and later the Supermarine Swift FR5.3 Squadron ..
RAF Gibraltar
RAF Gibraltar, previously known as North Front, is a Royal Air Force station on Gibraltar. No military aircraft are currently stationed there, but there are regular visits. The station functions as the Rock's civilian airport, Gibraltar Airport The biggest expansion took place during World War II w..
RAF Goxhill
RAF Goxhill is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force station in England. It is located just to the east of the town of Goxhill, on the south bank of the Humber River Estuary opposite the City of Kingston-Upon-Hull, in North Lincolnshire. During World War II it was known as US..
RAF Greenham Common
Greenham Common is a piece of land in the south of England near the town of Newbury, Berkshire. During World War II it was taken over by the military to be an airfield, serving as a base for airborne troops. Subsequently the airfield was best known both for the Royal International Air Tattoo held ..
RAF Grimsby
RAF Grimsby was initially opened as a satellite station for RAF Binbrook in November 1941. The station was officially named RAF Grimsby although the name of the nearby village Waltham was used by locals and servicemen. Three squadrons served at RAF Grimsby during its operation: 142 Squadron, 100 S..
RAF Halton
RAF Halton Station Crest Role Ground Training Location Near Aylesbury, England Date Founded July 1914 (as Army camp) RAF Halton is one of the larger Royal Air Force (RAF) stations in the United Kingdom, located near the village of Halton, Buckinghamshire. History The first recorded m..
RAF Harrier II
RAF Harrier GR7 The Harrier GR5, GR7, GR7A, GR9 and GR9A are all Royal Air Force variants of the BAE Systems/Boeing Harrier II. The Aircraft was solely designed and built by British Aerospace, though the U.S. eventually purchased them as well (in U.S. service, they go by the designation "AV-..
RAF Harwell
RAF Harwell was a Royal Air Force airfield in Oxfordshire, England, and later the site of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. From its opening in February 1937 until March 1944 various bomber squadrons were stationed at the airfield. On the outbreak of war, it became part of 38 Group, ini..
RAF Headley Court
RAF Headley Court is a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Leatherhead in Headley, Surrey, England. Headley Court became the headquarters of Canadian forces in Europe and Headley Heath was used as a training ground for engineers building airstrips and trench systems then demolishing them again...
RAF Heathfield
Sometimes known as RAF Ayr/Heathfield due to its proximity to Prestwick Airport which was also used by military flights, any evidence of the existence of RAF Heathfield is now largely gone. Like many other wartime airfields, its runways were of the triangular layour. After World War 2, Heathfield ..
RAF Henlow
RAF Henlow is a Royal Air Force station near Luton. It houses the Centre of Aviation Medicine, the RAF Signals museum and the 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron. Henlow was chosen as a military aircraft repair depot in 1917. The Officers Engineering School moved there in 1927. During World War II Hen..
RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe Station Crest Role HQ Strike Command Location Walters Ash, England Date Opened 1938 RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, outside High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the headquarters of RAF Strike Command. The base was opened during World War II a..
RAF Holbeach
RAF Holbeach is a Royal Air Force bombing range situated on The Wash, in Lincolnshire, eastern England. The range provides facilities for RAF and other NATO aircraft to practice dropping bombs and firing their cannon. Targets include several old trawlers which have been beached on the sands of The..
RAF Honington
RAF Honington is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England. Opened in 1937, Honington was used as a bomber station during World War II. The last aircraft (of the Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit) based at Honington left in 1993. The base is now the RAF Regiment depot and home to the Joint NBC Re..
RAF Hornchurch
RAF Hornchurch was an airfield in the south of Hornchurch in what is now the London Borough of Havering. Its operational life spanned 47 years. It was opened in 1915 and closed in 1962. It was a key air force installation between both wars and in to the jet age. During World War I it was called Su..
RAF Hospital Wegberg
The RAF Hospital Wegberg was a hospital located near the city of Mönchengladbach, in Germany. It was opened in 1953 and shut down in 1996. The hospital's motto was "Inter Fera Salus" and its crest was a wild boar passant overlaid with a Staff of Asclepius. ..
RAF Innsworth
RAF Innsworth is a non-flying Royal Air Force station, near Gloucester. It is currently the headquarters of Personnel and Training Command but is scheduled to close by the end of 2008. The station opened in 1940, the first unit based there being No 7 School of Technical Training who trained engine..
RAF Intelligence
RAF Intelligence Crest The Royal Air Force (RAF) Intelligence branch is a dedicated organisation within the RAF that maintains intelligence staff and equipment. Intelligence Officers and Enlisted Personnel of the branch and trade are involved in many duties including: Air Intelligence Analys..
RAF Iraq Command
Iraq Command was the RAF-led tri-service command in charge of all British forces in Iraq in the 1920s and early 1930s. Origins Following the end of World War One and the accompanying British defence cuts, the newly-independent RAF took up the task of policing the Empire from the air. It was argued..
RAF Kai Tak
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RAF Kemble
RAF Kemble was a Royal Air Force airfield that was linked for many years with the Red Arrows, the RAF Aerobatic display team which operated Hawk trainers from there. Eventually the Red Arrows moved operations to RAF Scampton and the base was used by the US Air Force as a maintenance facility for A-..
RAF Kenley
RAF Kenley (or Kenley Aerodrome) was a station of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I and the RAF in World War II. It is located near Kenley, U.K.. Its active phase commenced in 1917 and ceased in 1959 when Fighter Command left the aerodrome. The airfield at Kenley now hosts 615VGS, a gliding squ..
RAF Kinloss
RAF Kinloss is a Royal Air Force station near Kinloss on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. It is home to all of the Nimrod MR2 fleet in the Royal Air Force. Numbers 120 and 201 squadrons, plus 42 squadron (the Operational Conversion Unit), equipped with the Nimrod MR2 are based at Kinloss...
RAF Kirkistown
RAF Kirkistown was a satellite to the Royal Air Force (Fighter Command) base at Ballyhalbert on the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland. Kirkistown is approximately 8km due south of Ballyhalbert. Today the site is a regular venue for car and motorcycle races. See also List of RAF stations ..
RAF Kirknewton
RAF Kirknewton is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station in West Lothian, Scotland. It was primarily an RAF radar base which also housed United States Air Force personnel. Now officially closed, it houses No. 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron flying Grob Viking gliders. No. 289 Squadron was formed a..
RAF Kirmington
RAF Kirmington was a Royal Air Force Bomber Command station in North Lincolnshire during World War II. It took its name from the village of Kirmington nearby; the most notable squadron based there was 166 Squadron and a memorial plaque to the members of that unit is in the parish church. After the..
RAF Kuala Lumpur
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RAF Laarbruch
RAF Laarbruch (motto: Ein' Feste Burg - "A Fortress Sure"), located on the Germany/Netherlands border, was home to various first-line squadrons, including II (AC) Squadron flying F-4 Phantom II; and 15 and 16 Squadrons flying BAe Buccaneers in the 1970s, followed by Jaguars in the 1980s. These were ..
RAF Lakenheath
A 493d Fighter Squadron F-111F equipped with Pave Tack A 492d Fighter Squadron F-15E from Lakenheath lifts off from the airfield's runway A F-15D of the 48th FW over England with a P-51 Mustang in 357th FG markings RAF Lakenheath is a United States Air Forces in Europe bas..
RAF Langford Lodge
RAF Langford Lodge is a former Royal Air Force station near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Today the airfield is owned by Martin Baker, the world's leading manufacturer of ejection seats. Langford Lodge is located on the eastern shores of Lough Neagh and close to RAF Aldergrove/Belfast International Ai..
RAF Leconfield
RAF Leconfield Station Crest Role Defence School of Transport Location Beverley, Yorkshire Date Opened 1936 Date Closed 199? RAF Leconfield was a Royal Air Force station in Leconfield (near Beverley), East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site is now used by the MOD Defence School o..
RAF Leeming
RAF Leeming is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1940 as a bomber base during World War II. Following the war, it functioned as a training base until 1988 when it reopened as a frontline air defence base armed with Tornado F3s. Until October 2005, it housed two T..
RAF Leuchars
RAF Leuchars is the most northerly air defence station in the United Kingdom. It is located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland, near to the university town of St Andrews. Leuchars is currently home to three squadrons of Panavia Tornado F3s. They are No. 111 Squadron, No. 43 Squadron &..
RAF Linton-on-Ouse
RAF Linton-on-Ouse is a Royal Air Force station at Linton-on-Ouse near York in Yorkshire, England. It is currently a major flying training centre, one of the RAF's busiest airfields. It has a satellite station at RAF Topcliffe. RAF Linton-on-Ouse opened in 1937. It has been used as a Bomber, Trans..
RAF Little Rissington
RAF Little Rissington is a former RAF station in Gloucestershire, England. It was once home to the Central Flying School and the Red Pelicans. It is now home to 637 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, who cater for Combined Cadet Force and Air Training Corps cadets and also civilians. It was also used to s..
RAF Llanbedr
RAF Llanbedr is a former Royal Air Force V-bomber station on the Welsh coast near Snowdonia. It is still in Ministry of Defence ownership, with the main occupants being Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. The base has been scheduled for closure, however, and its future is unclear. ..
Raf locking
RAF Locking was a RAF base just outside Weston super Mare in Somerset. It was the home of the RAF's No.1 Radio School until its relocation in 1999 to RAF Cosford. ..
RAF Logistics Command
The Royal Air Force's Logistics Command was formed on 1 April 1994 from elements of Support Command. Its role was to provide logistics support to the RAF. Logistics Command was headquartered across two sites, RAF Brampton and RAF Wyton. Its motto was Sustentamus et Relient. Logistics Command was d..
RAF Long Kesh
RAF Long Kesh was a Royal Air Force station near Lisburn, Northern Ireland, from 1941 until 1971. Various aircraft operated from the base during World War II including the Supermarine Seafire and Spitfire. Long Kesh was a target in Operation Green (Ireland), a second front to Operation Sealion wh..
RAF Lossiemouth
617 Squadron badge RAF Lossiemouth is a Royal Air Force station to the west of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland. It houses three operational Tornado GR4 squadrons, and the Tornado GR4 Operational Conversion Unit. The station is also home to No. 140 Expeditionary Air Wing. It is the R..
RAF Luqa
RAF Luqa was an airbase of the Royal Air Force on the island of Malta during World War II. Particularly from 1941 to 1943, RAF Luqa was a very important base for British Commonwealth forces fighting against Italy and Germany for naval control of the Mediterranean and for ground control of North Afri..
RAF Lyneham
RAF Lyneham is a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England. It is the home of all the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force. The station is also home to No.38 Expeditionary Air Wing Lyneham is scheduled for closure by 2012 with functions and aircraft relocating to RAF Brize N..
RAF Machrihanish
RAF Machrihanish is a former Royal Air Force station located three miles (5 km) from the town of Campbeltown at the tip of Kintyre. It is now known as Campbeltown Airport and has commercial flights to Glasgow, operated by Loganair. The base has been involved in many well-documented top-secret proje..
RAF Marham
RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Marham in Norfolk, England. It houses the Tornado GR4A and Canberra PR9 fleets, two Tornado GR4 squadrons, and No. 138 Expeditionary Air Wing Contents 1 History2 Squadrons2.1 Tornado GR42.2 Tornado GR4A2.3 Canbe..
RAF Medmenham
RAF Medmenham is a Royal Air Force base near Medmenham, in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. RAF Medmenham at Danesfield House was to Imagery Intelligence, what Bletchley Park was to Signals Intelligence. It was once the home of the RAF Intelligence Branch. In April 1941 an RAF Photographic interpr..
RAF Membury
RAF Membury is a former Royal Air Force station that is now the location for Membury services on the M4 motorway. It was one of the fictional settings of Hammond Innes' novel 'Air Bridge' about the Berlin Airlift. The other locations in the novel were RAF Gatow, RAF Wunstorf and the city of Berlin i..
RAF Menwith Hill
Menwith Hill from the air RAF Menwith Hill is an intelligence-gathering base located approximately eight miles west of the town of Harrogate, UK, [54°00′N 1°41′W]. Founded in the 1950s to monitor High Frequency radio communications, it has been operated since 1966 by the United..
RAF Merlin HC3
The RAF Merlin HC Mk3 is a medium support helicopter of the Royal Air Force. It is a variant of the AgustaWestland EH101 helicopter. The Merlin was originally developed as a bilateral project between Italy and the United Kingdom. Its main role in service with those nations is as an anti-submarine ..
RAF Metfeld
RAF Metfeld is a former United States Army Air Force station in England. It is located just to the southeast of the town of Metfield in Suffolk. During World War II it was known as USAAF Station 366. Metfield was one of the most isolated Eighth Air Force stations in Suffolk. When it was const..
RAF Middleton St. George
RAF Middleton St. George was a Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command station during World War II. It was located in County Durham, five miles east of Darlington, England. The aerodrome opened as a Bomber Command station in 1941. Squadrons based here include: 76 Squadron, which flew Halifaxes, 78 Sq..
RAF Mildenhall
RAF Mildenhall is a Royal Air Force station located at [52°21′44″N, 0°29′17″E] in Suffolk, England. It is currently used by the United States Air Force. RAF Mildenhall and its sister base RAF Lakenheath are known as the largest United States Air Force bases in the United Kingdo..
RAF Molesworth
RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force military base at Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom with a history dating back to 1917. It is one of three bases in Cambridgeshire currently occupied by the United States Air Force; RAF Molesworth, RAF Alconbury, and RAF Upwood are considered the Tri-Base ..
RAF Mona
RAF Mona is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales. It is primarily used as a relief landing ground for RAF Valley. Mona was opened as an airship base in 1915. During World War II it was used as an air gunnery school, flying Avro Ansons. Today Mona is used for circuit practice..
RAF Montrose
RAF Montrose was a Royal Air Force station in Angus, Scotland. In 1912, the British government planned twelve "Air Stations" operated by the Royal Flying Corps. The first of these was at Montrose, which became operational on February 26th, 1913, with No 2 Squadron in residence, firstly, at Upper Dy..
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport or Mount Pleasant Complex) [Falkland Islands Information Portal] is a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The facility is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands ..
RAF Mullaghmore
RAF Mullaghmore was a Second World War Coastal Command base in Northern Ireland. The airfield is located on the west bank of the River Bann approximately 10km south-west of Ballymoney. The airfield, now in private hands, is used as a microlight base. See also List of RAF stations ..
RAF Museum
An Avro Lancaster in the main hangar of the RAF Museum London The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular. The museum is spread over two sites; The RAF Museum London at Colindale (Hendon) in north Lon..
RAF Neatishead
RAF Neatishead is a Royal Air Force radar station in Norfolk, England. Its primary function is as a Control and Reporting Centre for the south of the UK; it forms a part of the UK's air defenses. Neatishead houses the Air Defense Radar Museum. In April 2004 the decision was taken to substantially ..
RAF News
The RAF News is the newspaper of the Royal Air Force. Published every fortnight, the paper brings the latest news, features on topical issues and life in the service, developments in military aviation and air power, reviews of significant events and changing times during the history of the RAF. Th..
RAF Nordhorn
RAF Nordhorn is a bombing and gunnery range near Nordhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany, used by the Royal Air Force and other NATO air forces. The first use for gunnery purposes was by the Wehrmacht in 1933, when the heaths to the east of the town of Nordhorn were used for artillery target practice. The..
RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt Station Crest Role Communications Flying Location Ruislip, England Date Founded May 1915 RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in the London borough of Hillingdon, in west London, England. Approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of London Heathrow Airport, it also ..
RAF North Luffenham
RAF North Luffenham was a Royal Air Force station in Rutland, United Kingdom. It is near to the village of North Luffenham. The station was built as a training airfield, opening in 1940. It was later taken over by 5 Group of Bomber Command as a heavy bomber base, and was expanded by the building ..
RAF North Witham
for at grid reference SK947229 RAF North Witham at British national grid reference [SK947229], an air station of the Second World War period, established by the British Royal Air Force, was lent to the United States Army Air Forcess and is now abandoned in Twyford Wood, Colsterworth..
RAF Nutts Corner
BEA Viscount RAF Nutts Corner was a Royal Air Force station in County Antrim near Belfast. It was originally a civil airfield, then a military base and subsequently Northern Ireland's main civil airport until the 1960s. During World War II it was an important Coastal Command station and was a..
RAF Oakhanger
RAF Oakhanger was a Royal Air Force station in Bordon, Hampshire. It is the focal point of military satellite communications in the United Kingdom. The RAF handed over operation of the base to Paradigm services in 2003. ..
RAF Oakley
RAF Oakley was a World War Two three-runway airfield between Oakley and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire. It was located in a flat, damp wooded area. Intended as RAF Westcott's satellite, the land at Field Farm had been requisitioned by the War Office, and the airfield built. Oakley was ready before i..
RAF Odiham
RAF Odiham crest RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station situated a little to the south of the historic small town of Odiham in Hampshire, England. It is the home of the Royal Air Force's heavy lift helicopter, the Chinook HC.2. History Aircraft operations began from the site in 1925 but it wa..
RAF officer ranks
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RAF Oulton
Royal Air Force Oulton is located to the west of the market town of Aylsham in Norfolk and was built over 1939 and 1940 as a bomber airfield with T2 type hangars and grass runways, the facility operating as a satellite airfield of nearby RAF Horsham St. Faith between July 1940 and September 1942 aft..
RAF Pembrey
RAF Pembrey was a Royal Air Force station, home to 233 Operational Conversion Unit which flew de Havilland Vampires and Hawker Hunters until its closure in 1957. Site of one of only five Dome Trainer Buildings (for training AA gunners) extant in the UK. During World War II, in 1942 a Focke-Wulf Fw 1..
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RAF phonetic alphabet
The RAF phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in which that term is used in phonetics, i.e., it is not a system for transcribing speech sounds. See the phonetic alphabet disambiguation page, and also phonetic notation. Following the take up of radio, the United Kingdom Royal Ai..
RAF Podington
RAF Podington is a former World War II United States Army Air Force (USAAF) base in England. It is located six miles southeast of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire near Milton Keynes. Today, it is the home of Santa Pod Raceway. Podington airfield was originally built in 1940/41 to accommodate tw..
RAF Polebrook
RAF Polebrook is a former World War II airfield located 3.5 miles east-south-east of Oundle, Northamptonshire, UK. The airfield was built on Rothchild estate land starting in August 1940. It was also notable as the base from which the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force carried out its ..
RAF Raydon
RAF Raydon is a former United States Army Air Force station in England. It is located just to the northeast of the town of Raydon, about 6 miles from Ipswich on the B1070 in Suffolk. During World War II it was known as United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Station 157. Raydon was primarily a figh..
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RAF Rheindahlen
RAF Rheindahlen was a non-flying Royal Air Force base, part of the Rheindahlen Military Complex in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Established after World War II it served mainly as the administrative support centre for the 2nd Tactical Air Force. It was disbanded in 1993 and amalgamated with the o..
RAF Rhine
RAF Rhine was the name of the Royal Air Force command that comprised units posted to Germany in 1918 as part of the occupying forces following World War I. The RAF presence in Germany was wound down to a single squadron by 1920 and RAF Rhine was disbanded. External links [RAFWeb] ..
RAF Ringway
RAF Ringway, was a Royal Air Force station near Manchester, UK, situated in the parish of Ringway. Originally, Barton Aerodrome, at Eccles was expected to be the main airport for the Manchester, but it became clear soon after the second world war that Barton had little room for suitable runways ..
RAF Ronaldsway
RAF Ronaldsway was a Royal Air Force base near Ronaldsway, Isle of Man. The airfield, now Ronaldsway or Isle of Man Airport, came under Royal Air Force control at the outbreak of World War 2 although it was one of the few airfields that continued operating civilian flights throughout the wartime pe..
RAF Rudloe Manor
RAF Rudloe Manor is a Royal Air Force station located south-east of Bath, United Kingdom. It is one of several military installations situated on the Spring Quarries, Copernacre Quarry, the villages of Hawthorn and Hudswell, and the town of Corsham. In World War II the Ministry of Aircraft Producti..
RAF Saint Athan
RAF Saint Athan is a Royal Air Force station in the Vale of Glamorgan, southern Wales. It claims to be the largest RAF station (though several gunnery ranges such as RAF Spadeadam are larger in area). RAF St Athan officially opened on 1 September 1938. The first unit to take up residence was No ..
RAF Saxa Vord
RAF Saxa Vord is a radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It is situated in the island of Unst, part of the Shetland Islands islands off Scotland. Its radar provides long-range coverage of the airspace to the North of Scotland. Saxa Vord has been a radar station since 1957, and was a vital ..
RAF Scampton
RAF Scampton is a Royal Air Force station situated north of Lincoln in England, near the village of Scampton. Scampton was an old World War I landing field. Contents 1 World War II2 Postwar3 Recent developments4 External links World War II The Dambusters, 617 Squadron, were f..
RAF Scorton
RAF Scorton was a satellite station of RAF Catterick during WWII. It was located near the village of Scorton in North Yorkshire. The famous No. 56 Squadron RAF flew Spitfires from Scorton during WWII. The Aerodrome has now been extensively quarried away for sand and gravel extraction. The location ..
RAF Sculthorpe
RAF Sculthorpe is a helicopter training facility for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, located near Fakenham. Built during World War II, it was refurbished for United States Air Force use following the war, and by 1957 was the largest airfield in the UK, home to the B-45 Tornados of the [47..
RAF Sealand
RAF Sealand is a Royal Air Force station in Flintshire, North Wales. Sealand is a communications support base for RAF operations around the world. It functions as a third line repair base for avionics equipment for all three services. No 631 Volunteer Gliding Squadron operated at Sealand between ..
RAF Second Tactical Air Force
The RAF's Second Tactical Air Force was one of three tactical air forces within the Royal Air Force during World War II. It was formed in June 1943 in connection with preparations then in train to invade Europe a year later. It took units from both Fighter Command and Bomber Command in order to for..
RAF Seletar
RAF Seletar was a Royal Air Force station in Singapore between 1928 and 1971. Plans for establishing an airfield, flying boat and naval base in Singapore were first agreed by the RAF in 1921. In 1923 two sites in the northern region of the island were approved. The first planes to arrive at the ba..
RAF Shawbury
RAF Shawbury is a Royal Air Force station near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The station at Shawbury was first used for military flying training in 1917, but it was returned to agricultural use in 1920. In 1938 it was reactivated as a training establishment. It primarily prepared pilots for operational s..
RAF Signals Command
Signals Command of the Royal Air Force was formed on 3 November 1958. The Command was formed by raising No. 90 Group to Command status. It was a relatively short-lived Command, lasting only until 1 January 1969, when it was absorbed by Strike Command by being reduced to group status. It had five Air..
RAF Silverstone
RAF Silverstone, located in Northamptonshire, was a Royal Air Force bomber station opened in 1943 during World War II. The station was the base for No. 17 Operational Training Unit operating the Vickers Wellington bomber. Today the airfield is a major racing circuit known as Silverstone Circuit. ..
Raf Simons
Raf Simons (1968-) is a Belgian fashion designer. He studied industrial design, but after a few years of self-study he became a menswear designer in 1995. Initially he worked with Walter Van Beirendonck in Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Martin Margiela and Jean-Paul Gaultier. His colle..
RAF Snailwell
RAF Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, located 3 miles North of Newmarket, Suffolk. Also known as Station 361 of the USAAF. The site has now returned to agriculture and paddocks. Units Royal Air Force 268 SquadronArmy Cooperation CommandUS 41st Base Complement Squadron51st Service Squadron9th USAAF 350..
RAF Southampton
RAF Southampton was a Royal Air Force airbase. It was acquired from the Fleet Air Arm in 1936 and was briefly known as RAF Eastleigh. It was eventually transferred to civilian ownership as Southampton Airport. ..
RAF Spadeadam
RAF Spadeadam is a Royal Air Force station spanning England and Scotland. It is the home of the 9000 acre (36 km²) Electronic Warfare Tactics Range, making it the largest RAF base in the United Kingdom. Its primary purpose is to provide a location for teaching of electronic warfare to RAF and o..
RAF Spitalgate
RAF Spitalgate, located close to Grantham, was an OCTU in the 1950's. External links [RAF in Lincolnshire] ..
RAF St. Mawgan
RAF St. Mawgan Station Crest Role Search and Rescue Location Near Newquay, Cornwall Date Founded 1933 RAF St. Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near Newquay in Cornwall. Opened as a civilian airfield in 1933, it was requisitioned at the outbreak of World War II and named RAF Trebel..
RAF Stafford
RAF Stafford's gate guardian is a Hawker-Siddeley Harrier. RAF Stafford is a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stafford in Staffordshire, England. Originally home to No 16 Maintenance Unit as an Equipment Supply Depot, this part of the station is now run by the Defence Logistics Organis..
RAF station
An RAF station is a Royal Air Force military base. Many RAF stations are air bases, being the home to one or more flying squadrons. Other RAF stations are training units, administrative units or carry out ground-based operational tasks. The senior officer on a station is the Station Commander, wh..
RAF Staxton Wold
RAF Staxton Wold is a Royal Air Force radar station near Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The official RAF descriptions states that RAF Staxton Wold has been used as an early warning station since the 3rd Century AD, when it was the site of a warning beacon. It was first used as a radar station in 1..
RAF Stenigot
RAF Stenigot was a World War 2 radar station situated near Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire, England. It was part of the Chain Home radar network to provide long range early warning for raids from Luftflotte V and the northern elements of Luftflotte II along the approaches to Sheffield and Nottingha..
RAF Stornoway
RAF Stornoway was a Royal Air Force station near the burgh of Stornoway, in the Western Isles of Scotland. It was built on the site of a former golf course. Beginnings The station was founded in World War II during which it was home to various Coastal Command squadrons patrolling the North Atlantic..
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RAF Support Command
Support Command of the Royal Air Force was formed on 31 August 1973 by the renaming of Maintenance Command. Its responsibilities included all logistical and maintenance support requirements of the RAF. Its role was further increased on 13 June 1977, when it absorbed Training Command, making it respo..
RAF Swinderby
RAF Swinderby opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. Under the command of Number 1 Group, Swinderby came under the auspices of RAF Bomber Command and housed numbers 300 and 301 squadrons, mainly Polish manned initially flying ..
RAF Syerston
RAF Syerston is a Royal Air Force station near Newark, Nottinghamshire. It was used as a bomber base during World War II. Syerston was built as part of the bomber expansion in the late thirties, but did not open until December 1940. The first aircraft were Vickers Wellingtons crewed by Polish flyer..
RAF Tain
RAF Tain is a bombing range (formal designation: Air Weapons Range) on the Moray Firth near Tain in Scotland. The original airfield is abandoned, but still exists within the boundaries of the range. The current station is the largest live bombing range in Europe.[[Citing sources citation&..
RAF Tangmere
RAF Tangmere was a Royal Air Force station famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, located about 3 miles north east of Chichester in West Sussex. Present usage It is today the site for Tangmere Aviation Museum and in their collection they have an original Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker H..
RAF Tempsford
RAF Tempsford was perhaps the most secret RAF airfield in World War II. It was home to the Special Duties Squadrons, 138, which dropped Special Operations Executive agents and their supplies into occupied Europe, and 161, which specialised in personnel delivery and retrieval by landing in occupied E..
RAF Tengah
RAF Tengah was a former Royal Air Force station in Singapore. Situated in the North West of the Island on the Choa Chu Kang Road. During the Malayan Emergency, it housed Avro Lincolns of the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force which performed bombing missions on Chinese guerrillas. In 19..
RAF Ternhill
RAF Ternhill is a small Royal Air Force station at Ternhill in Shropshire, near the towns of Newport and Market Drayton. The station was a helicopter base. It is now principally used as an outpost for the tri-service helicopter training establishment at RAF Shawbury. Training flights use the airfiel..
RAF Third Tactical Air Force
The RAF Third Tactical Air Force (Third TAF), which was formed in south Asia in December 1943, was one of three tactical air forces formed by the Royal Air Force during World War II. Third TAF was formed shortly after the establishment of South East Asia Command to provide close air support to the F..
RAF Thurleigh
RAF Thurleigh was a Royal Air Force station located five miles north of Bedford, England. Thurleigh was transferred to the U.S. Eighth Air Force on December 9, 1942, designated Station 121, and used for heavy bomber operations against Nazi Germany. After the war, the base was returned to the RAF..
RAF Topcliffe
RAF Topcliffe is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire. It is a satellite station of RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Topcliffe opened in September 1940 as a bomber station in RAF Bomber Command and was home to 77 and 102 Squadrons flying the Whitley Heavy Bomber. There was a decoy site at Raskelf. Concr..
RAF Training Command
Training Command was the RAF's command responsible for flying and ground training. Training Command was formed on 1 May 1936 and absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977. From 27 May 1940 until 1 June 1968, Training Command did not exisit as its functions were split into Flying Training C..
RAF Transport Command
RAF Transport Command was an RAF Command which controlled all transport aircraft of the air force. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming of RAF Ferry Command and renamed RAF Air Support Command in 1967. During World War II it at first ferried aircraft from factory to operational unit ..
RAF Twinwood Farm
RAF Twinwood Farm is a former World War II airfield in England, located 4 miles N of Bedford. Twinwood Farm was where USAAF Major Glenn Miller aircraft took off on 15 December 1944 for Paris. His plane disappeared over the English Channel and was never found. Contents 1 World War II Use By R..
RAF Typhoon F2
For history and background of the Eurofighter programme please see Eurofighter Typhoon. RAF Typhoon T1 The Typhoon F2 and Typhoon T1 are the initial variants of the Eurofighter Typhoon entering service with the Royal Air Force. The T1 and F2 are aircraft from "Tranche 1" of the Eurofighter p..
RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located 5 miles NW of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, UK. The base was actually brought into use for flying in July 1918 by the Royal Flying Corps, and it was used by the RAF in World War II as a training facility where RAF fl..
RAF Upwood
RAF Upwood is a United States Air Force installation adjacent to the village of Upwood, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. It is one of three bases in Cambridgeshire used by the US Air Force; RAF Upwood, RAF Molesworth and RAF Alconbury are considered the Tri-Base Area. Contents 1 Histor..
RAF Uxbridge
RAF Uxbridge is a Royal Air Force station in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon. RAF Uxbridge is best known as the headquarters of No. 11 Group RAF during the Battle of Britain. 11 Group was responsible for the defence of London and the South-East of England, and therefore was the main ar..
RAF Valley
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales. It provides advanced pilot training using the BAE Hawks for pilots. No. 4 Flying Training School takes RAF and Royal Navy pilots from 1FTS at RAF Linton on Ouse and trains them to fly fast jets, prior to training on an Operat..
RAF VR(T)
The Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve (Training Branch), often abbreviated to RAFVR(T) is a branch of the RAFVR, which is itself a voluntary element of the British Royal Air Force. Members of the RAFVR(T) are usually commissioned officers whose duty involves working with members of the air cadet org..
RAF Waddington
Waddington-based Hawker-Siddeley (now BAE Systems) Nimrod R.1 RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire England. It is presently home to the RAF's Sentry AEW1 and Nimrod R1 aircraft. The station is also home to No. 34 Expeditionary Air Wing The airfield will also soon be hom..
RAF Wainfleet
RAF Wainfleet is a Royal Air Force weapons range on The Wash on the east coast of England. Other ranges nearby include RAF Holbeach, also on The Wash, and Donna Nook. The range is a Site of Special Scientific Interest thanks to the large number of resident and migrating birds found there. The locat..
RAF Wattisham
RAF Wattisham was a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England. Wattisham opened on 5 April 1939 as a medium bomber station, the squadrons there being equipped with Bristol Blenheim bombers. On 4 September 1939, just 29 hours after the declaration of war, bombers from Wattisham took off on the fir..
RAF Welford
RAF Welford is a UK Royal Air Force station which is presently occupied by the United States visiting forces. It is the main ammunition compound for the United States Air Force in Western Europe for heavy munitions. Its location on the Berkshire / Wiltshire border can be identified by an access roa..
RAF Westcott
RAF Westcott was a World War II Royal Air Force station in Buckinghamshire. It was used by 11 OTU (Operational Training Unit) during the war, along with its satellite station RAF Oakley. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was the home of the Rocket Propulsion Establishment. The site is now a Venture Park, f..
RAF Weston-on-the-Green
RAF Weston-On-The-Green is a Royal Air Force station located in Oxfordshire, England. The station comes under the control of the nearby RAF Brize Norton. It is used for parachute training for the UK military. The No. 1 Parachute Training School is based at RAF Brize Norton and uses Weston-On-The-Gre..
RAF West Drayton
RAF West Drayton at West Drayton west of London was a Royal Air Force station and the main centre for military air traffic control in Britain. It was co-located with the civilian London Area and Terminal Control Centre to provide a vital link between civil and military flying and airspace requiremen..
RAF West Malling
RAF West Malling was a Royal Air Force station near West Malling in Kent, England. It was an operational airfield from 1939 to 1967 and subsequently was used for recreational flying. It is now the site of Kings Hill, a mixed development of residential and business developments. External links ..
RAF West Raynham
RAF West Raynham was a Royal Air Force station located to the west of the village of West Raynham in Norfolk, England. It opened in the 1930s and closed in the 1990s. The airfield and technical site remain the property of the Ministry of Defence but the site is currently disused and falling into d..
RAF Wethersfield
RAF Wethersfield is a British Ministry of Defence training facility located north of the village of Wethersfield, Essex, about 5 miles NW of the town of Braintree. During World War II it was used by the United States Army Air Forces and Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1946. With the advent of the..
RAF Wildenrath
RAF Wildenrath, with RAF Bruggen and RAF Laarbruch were clustered fairly closely together and came under the auspices of NATO 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force. RAF Wildenrath housed numbers 19 Squadron, which formed at Wildenrath in October 1976, and 92 Squadron which formed there in April 1977. Both..
RAF Wittering
RAF Wittering is a Royal Air Force station near Stamford, Lincolnshire. Although this is the nearest town its runways cross the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Wittering's use as a military airfield dates back to 1916. The Central Flying School was at Wittering until 1935, whe..
RAF Wombleton
RAF Wombleton was a World War II training base located in the county of North Yorkshire, three miles northeast of Helmsley, England. Wombleton opened in 1943 as a substation of RAF Topcliffe. It was part of RAF Bomber Command's No. 6 Group RCAF, and designated No. 61 Training Base. In November 1944..
RAF Woodbridge
RAF Woodbridge is a former Royal Air Force station situated to the east of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk, England. It was closed as an air force base in the early 1990s, the last occupant being the United States Air Force, who also occupied RAF Bentwaters to the north-east. It is famous for..
RAF Woodhall Spa
RAF Woodhall Spa was a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, UK. Constructed on farmland 1km south of Woodhall Spa, the station opened in February 1942 as a satellite station to RAF Coningsby. In August 1943 it became No 54 Base Substation. After the end of the Second World War it was used as ..
RAF Woodvale
RAF Woodvale is a Royal Air Force airfield in Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, United Kingdom. It was built as a fighter base during World War II, opening 7 December 1941. The base is currently used by the RAF's Liverpool University Air Squadron (LUAS), Manchester and Salford University Air Squadron (MA..
RAF Wroughton
RAF Wroughton was a Royal Air Force station based near Wroughton, Wiltshire which was closed in the late 70s. The airfield and some of the original buildings still exist today. Wroughton handled 62 different types of aircraft during the war, more than 7000 aircraft. When the war was over, most of..
RAF Wyton
RAF Wyton is a Royal Air Force station near St. Ives, Cambridgeshire. In terms of organisation RAF Wyton is now part of the combined station RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow, a merger of Wyton with two previously separate bases, RAF Brampton and RAF Henlow. Wyton is the largest of the three. It is home to..
Ra (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji)
History of Fiji Timeline Discovery The rise and fall of Cakobau Colonial Fiji Fiji since 1970 Main article Constitutional crisis of 1977 Coups of 1987 Coup of 2000 Main article Timeline - Mutinies Aftermath - AllegationsMara deposed - Iloilo plotInvestigations - TrialsCourt Martial - Military..

 

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