Redshirt, Red Shirt, or Redshirts may refer to:
Entertainment
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''Red Shirts'' (film), a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi by Franco Rossi
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Redshirt (stock character)
A "redshirt" is a stock character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced. The term originates from the original ''Star Trek'' ( NBC, 1966–69) television series in which the red-shirted security personnel frequently die during episodes ...
, originally derived from ''Star Trek'', a stock character who dies soon after being introduced
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''Redshirts'' (novel), a 2012 novel by John Scalzi
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"Redshirts" (song), a 2012 song by Jonathan Coulton
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''Redshirt'' (video game), a 2013 video game by Mitu Khandaker
Places
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Red Shirt Lake
Nancy Lake State Recreation Area is a park near Willow in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska. Founded on July 6, 1966, and set aside specifically for recreational use, the park is home to more than a hundred lakes as well as extensive wet ...
, a lake in Alaska
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Red Shirt, South Dakota
Red Shirt ( Lakota: ''ógle šá'' or ''ógle lúta'') is a small unincorporated Oglala Lakota village southeast of Hermosa in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. It is on the Pine Ridge Reservation, just outside Badlands Nat ...
, a Lakota village in South Dakota
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Red Shirt Table
Red Shirt Table is a table mountain in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The table, named after Chief Red Shirt is approximately long, generally extending in a north–south ...
, a table mountain in South Dakota
Politics
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Khudai Khidmatgar
Khudai Khidmatgar ( ps, خداۍ خدمتګار; literally "servants of God") was a predominantly Pashtun nonviolent resistance movement known for its activism against the British Raj in colonial India; it was based in the country's North-Wes ...
or Red Shirts, a Pashtun movement against British rule in colonial India
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Redshirts (Italy)
The Redshirts ( Italian: ''Camicie rosse'' or ''Giubbe rosse''), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns. The name derived from the color of their shirts or loose fitting ...
, followers of guerrilla leader Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Red Shirts (Mexico)
The Red Shirts ( es, Camisas Rojas) were a paramilitary organization, existing in the 1930s, founded by the atheist and anti-Catholic anticlerical Governor of Tabasco, Mexico, Tomás Garrido Canabal, during his second term. During the ongoing ...
, a Mexican anti-Catholic paramilitary organization of the 1930s
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Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM, , in English: "the residents of the shacks") is a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which organises land occupations, builds communes or Red shirts, a South African shack-dwellers' movement
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red shirts scandal
The red shirts scandal was an Australian political scandal involving the Andrews Government of Victoria, Australia.
The scandal originated following a report by the Herald Sun that the Australian Labor Party had arranged for electorate officers ...
, an Australian political scandal that involved the Victorian Labor Party
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Red Shirts (Taiwan)
Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go (百萬人民反貪腐倒扁運動) was a Taiwanese mass campaign led by former Chairman Shih Ming-teh of the Democratic Progressive Party to pressure the Taiwanese then President Chen ...
or Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go
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Red Shirts (Thailand)
The Red Shirts () are a political movement in Thailand, formed following the 2006 coup d'état which deposed then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Originally synonymous with the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), a group f ...
, a political movement in Thailand opposing the 2006 military coup
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Red Shirts (United States)
The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Re ...
, a militant white supremacist group during and after the Reconstruction Era
People
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Red Shirt (Oglala)
Red Shirt (Oglala Lakota: ''Ógle Šá'' in Standard Lakota Orthography) (a/k/a "Ogilasa" and "Joseph Red Shirt") (1847 – January 4, 1925) was an Oglala Lakota chief, warrior and statesman. Red Shirt is notable in American history as a U.S. Arm ...
(1847–1925), chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe
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Delphine Red Shirt
Delphine Red Shirt (born 1957) is a Native American author and educator, who is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation.Mihesuah 678
Early life and education
Delphine Red Shirt is Oglala Lakota from the Pine ...
(born 1957), Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
Other uses
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Redshirt (college sports)
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with th ...
, delaying a college athlete's participation to lengthen eligibility
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Red Shirt School of Photography
The red shirt school of photography is a trend which first became popular in the 1950s. It was pioneered by ''National Geographic'' photographers, who had subjects wear, or chose subjects who wore overly colorful clothes (not necessarily of red, th ...
, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers
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Redshirting (academic)
Redshirting is the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth. In the United States, this also refers to creating laws that set cuto ...
, the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten
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Kuilix
Kuilix (meaning "Red Shirt" or "Red One"), also known as Kuiliy, Mary Quille, and Marie Quilax, was a woman of the Kalispel or Pend d'Oreilles in Montana. She was the leader of a team of warriors who rescued other warriors while fighting the Blackf ...
, Pend d'Oreilles tribal war leader
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Lalkurti (literal translation: Red Shirt), a locality in Rawalpindi cantonment in Pakistan
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