Rainbow (disambiguation)
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A rainbow is an optical or meteorological phenomenon.
Rainbow may also refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Rainbow, California, a census-designated place in San Diego County
- Rainbow, Victoria, a town in the state of Victoria, Australia
- Rainbow Ski Area, a ski resort in New Zealand
- Rainbow Range, a mountain range associated with the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
- Rainbow Range, a mountain range associated with the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
[edit] People
- Bernarr Rainbow (1914-1998), historian of music education, organist, and choir master
- Edward Rainbowe (1608–1684), Bishop of Carlisle
[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
[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
- In Rainbows, the seventh studio album by Radiohead
- Rainbow, a classic hard-rock band, formed by former Deep Purple guitarist and co-founder Ritchie Blackmore
- Rainbow (person), guitarist, composer, and lyricist of the synth rock band The Birthday Massacre
- Rainbow (London), a concert venue in London UK, sometimes called 'The Rainbow'
- Rainbow, a 1973 album by McGuinness Flint
- Rainbow (Neil Diamond album), a 1973 album by Neil Diamond
- Rainbow (Johnny Cash album), a 1985 album by Johnny Cash
- Rainbow (Mariah Carey album), a 1999 album by Mariah Carey
- Rainbow (Ayumi Hamasaki album), an album by Ayumi Hamasaki
- Rainbow (Dolly Parton album), an album by Dolly Parton
- Rainbow (Boris collaborative album), a collaborative album between Boris and Michio Kurihara
- 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 the album Madvillainy
- "The Rainbow (song)" by Talk Talk on their 1988. album Spirit of Eden
- Rainbow Records, a record label
[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
- Rainbow Islands, a platform game
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, a computer and video game series created by Tom Clancy about a fictional counter-terrorist team codenamed "Rainbow"
[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
- Rainbow Sandals, a brand of footwear. Company headquarters are in San Clemente, California
- Rainbow, a supermarket in the United Kingdom, part of Anglia Regional Co-operative Society Ltd.
- Rainbow Shops, a retail store chain based in Brooklyn, New York
- Rainbow, a brand of vacuums sold by Rexair LLC
[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
- Rainbow party (sexuality), type of group sex
- 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
- The Rainbow Room, a well-known upscale restaurant and nightclub on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center
- Rainbow (ride), an amusement ride
- Rainbow (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby chameleon produced by Ty, Inc.
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