Rainbow (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look up rainbow in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A rainbow is an optical or meteorological phenomenon.

Main article: Rainbow

Rainbow may also refer to:

Contents

[edit] Places

[edit] People

[edit] Social/Political

  • Rainbow Warrior, the name of two ships operated by Greenpeace
  • Rainbow Family, an international movement, hosts rainbow gatherings
  • The Rainbow flag, a multi-colored flag consisting of stripes in the colors of the rainbow (not to be confused with the flag of the Rainbow Family)
  • Rainbow Coalition is the name of several separate organizations
  • Rainbow (political party), a small political party in Greece
  • Human rainbow, a rainbow color pattern formed by people
  • Rainbow Nation, a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to describe post-apartheid (1994) South Africa
  • Rainbow Guides, the youngest members of Girlguiding UK, aged between five and seven in Great Britain
  • Rainbows (charity), an international charity supporting child bereavement

[edit] Mythology

Main article: Rainbows in mythology

[edit] Publications

  • The Rainbow, a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence
  • Rainbow (comic) - a comic and Annual featuring such characters as Tiger Tim and his friends, the Bruin Boys
  • Rainbow Six (novel), a novel by Tom Clancy about a fictional counter-terrorist team codenamed "Rainbow"
  • Rainbow (Noon Universe) (a.k.a. Raduga), a fictional planet of the Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

[edit] Film

  • The Rainbow (film), a 1989 UK production directed by Ken Russell based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence
  • Rainbow (1996 film), a 1996 UK-Canadian co-production directed by Bob Hoskins
  • Rainbow Song, a 2006 Japanese film by director Naoto Kumazawa and produced by Shunji Iwai

[edit] Music

[edit] Television

  • Rainbow (TV series), a British pre-school children's television series made by Thames Television from 1972 to 1992
  • Rainbow Brite, an animated television series by Hallmark aired from 1984-1985

[edit] Computer games

[edit] Computers

  • The Rainbow, a former magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer
  • Rainbow 100 personal computer, from Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Rainbow table, an array of plaintext and hashed values, used in password cracking
  • Rainbow, the name of the representing company of Apple Computer in Greece
  • Rainbow (data storage), a data storage technique which uses paper to store digital media
  • RainbowCrack a computer program which uses rainbow tables for password cracking

[edit] Brands

[edit] Military

  • XF-12 Rainbow, a four-engine monoplane designed by the Republic Aviation Company in the late 1940s
  • HMS Rainbow, a British ship that took part in the Battle of Gravelines against the Spanish Armada
  • HMCS Rainbow, an 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
  • Rainbow Herbicides, a series of U.S. military defoliants used in the Vietnam War
  • The Rainbow Plans, a series of color-coded war plans developed by the U.S. Army in the 1920s and 1930s

[edit] Other