Ra (disambiguation)

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RA or Ra can refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Groups 3 Places 4 Other 5 See also

[edit] People

• Research assistant, a graduate student employed by a college or university for the purpose of academic research
• Resident assistant, a college student charged with supervising students living in a residence hall
• Royal Academician, a member of the Royal Academy, also known as the Royal Academy of Arts
• Ra, the sun god of ancient Heliopolis
• Rā, the sun god of the New Zealand Māori
• Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate
• Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology
• Alternate spelling of Roua, a Polynesian deity
• Short for Rakim

[edit] Groups

• Registration authority, maintenance agency is a body given the responsibility of maintaining lists of codes
• Regular Army, the permanent force of the United States Army that is maintained during peacetime
• Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), as used by its sympathizers ("The 'RA")
• Rise Against, melodic hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Rowing Australia, the governing body for the sport of rowing in Australia.
• Royal Artillery, a Corps of the British Army
• Ra (Norwegian band), a Norwegian psytrance act
• Ra (U.S. band), an American rock band

[edit] Places

• RA Nightclub at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas
• Right ascension, an astronomical term for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system
• Robert Academy, the name for the former college section of Robert College of Istanbul
• Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands
• Ra, Fiji, a province of Fiji

[edit] Other

• Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ
• Radium or Ra on the periodic table
• Ra (board game), a board game for three to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture
• RemoteAccess BBS software
• Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program under Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Resident Advisor, an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene
• Revenue Assurance, a niche business activity most commonly undertaken within businesses that provide telecommunication services
• Rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints
• Rocket Arena, a free mod for the multiplayer first-person shooter Quake series
• Royal Nepal Airlines, IATA code
• A half-step below Re on the solfege musical scale
• Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl's transatlantic expeditions
• Rayleigh number, in physics
• The Winged Dragon of Ra, from the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
• Ra Cailum class battleship, a class of spaceships in the Gundam anime universe
• The file extension of a RealAudio file
• The abbreviation for Command & Conquer: Red Alert or its sequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
• The irreverant "Religious Advisor" of a Hash House Harriers club

[edit] See also

• RAH (disambiguation)
• RAS
• Ras (disambiguation)