Rainbow (disambiguation)

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A rainbow is an optical or meteorological phenomenon.

Rainbow may also mean:

In culture:

• The Rainbow, a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence.
• Rainbow (a.k.a. Raduga), a fictional planet of the Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Rainbow, a British pre-school children's television series made by Thames Television during the 1970s and 1980s.
• Rainbow Rumpus, a magazine for children being raised by gay parents.
• Rainbow party, type of group sex

Social / Political:

• Rainbow Warrior, a sailing ship operated by Greenpeace.
• Rainbow Family, an international movement, hosts rainbow gatherings.
• The Rainbow flag (not to be confused with the flag of the Rainbow Family).
• Rainbow Coalition is the name of several separate organisations.
• Rainbow is a small political party in Greece.
• A human rainbow is a rainbow colour pattern formed by people.
• Rainbow Nation is a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to describe post-apartheid (1994) South Africa.
• Rainbow Guides are the youngest members of Girlguiding UK, aged between five and seven in Great Britain.
• Rainbows is an international charity supporting child bereavement.

In music:

• Rainbow, a classic hard-rock band, formed by former Deep Purple guitarist and co-founder Ritchie Blackmore.
• Rainbow, a concert venue in London UK, sometimes called 'The Rainbow'.
  • e.g. Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert, Remember Me This Way.
• Rainbow, a 1973 album by Neil Diamond.
• Rainbow, a 1985 album by Johnny Cash.
• Rainbow, an album by Mariah Carey.
• Rainbow, an album by Ayumi Hamasaki.
• Rainbow, an album by Dolly Parton.
• L'Arc~en~Ciel (Japanese band, 'The Rainbow' in French).
• Rainbow, one of Paul Stanley's and Gene Simmons' pre-KISS era bands.
• "Rainbows", a song by Madvillain from his album Madvillainy.
• "The Rainbow" by Talk Talk on their 1988 album Spirit of Eden

In computers:

• Rainbow, open source content management system.
• The Rainbow was a magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer.
• Rainbow 100 personal computer, from Digital Equipment Corporation.
• Rainbow table is an array of plaintext and hashed values, used in password cracking.
• Rainbow is also the name of the representing company of Apple Computer in Greece.
• Rainbow, a data storage technique which uses paper to store digital media.

Brandnames:

• Rainbow Sandals, a brand of footwear. Company headquarters are in San Clemente, California.
• Rainbow (supermarket), a UK supermarket part of the Co-Op group
• Rainbow Shops, a retail store chain based in Brooklyn, New York.
• Rainbow (speakers), a high end automotive speaker company headquartered in Germany.

In mythology:

Main article: Rainbows in mythology

• Iris (mythology)
• Bifröst
• Rainbow serpent

Military:

• HMS Rainbow, a ship that took part in the Battle of Gravelines against the Spanish Armada.
• HMCS Rainbow, a Apollo-second class protected cruiser that was the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
• AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow, an experimental U.S. anti-radiation missile.
• Project Rainbow, often associated with the Philadelphia Experiment.

Other uses:

• Rainbow, California, a census-designated place in San Diego County
• Rainbow, Victoria, a town in the state of Victoria, Australia.
• Rainbow Islands, a platform game.
• Rainbow Six (novel), a novel by Tom Clancy about a fictional anti-terrorist team codenamed "Rainbow".

• Rainbow Six (computer game), and computer and video game series created by Tom Clancy about a fictional anti-terrorist team codenamed "Rainbow".
• Rainbow Codes, a series of colour related code names used by the British Ministry of Supply.
• Rainbow Bar and Grill, a bar in Los Angeles.