Redshirt, Red Shirt, or Redshirts may refer to:
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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: The Original Series, Star Trek'' (NBC, 1966–69) television series in which the red-shirted security personnel ...
, 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, 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, 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-West ...
or Red Shirts, a Pashtun movement against British rule in colonial India
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Redshirts (Italy), 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 ongoin ...
, 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 (Taiwan) 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 fo ...
, 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. Red ...
, a militant white supremacist group during and after the Reconstruction Era
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 the ...
, delaying a college athlete's participation to lengthen eligibility
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Redshirting (academic), the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten
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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 ...
(died 1925), chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe
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Red Shirt School of Photography, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers
People with the surname
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Delphine Red Shirt
Delphine Red Shirt (born 1957) is a Native Americans in the United States, 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 ...
(born 1957), Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
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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 Black ...
, Pend d'Oreilles tribal war leader
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Lalkurti
Lalkurti (literally ''red shirt''; referring to British Infantry " Red coats" from colonial era), is a locality in the heart of Rawalpindi cantonment in Pakistan. Places with the same name are also found in many other garrison cities of Pakis ...
(literal translation: Red Shirt), a locality in Rawalpindi cantonment in Pakistan
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Red coat (disambiguation)
Red coat, Redcoat or Redcoats may refer to:
Entertainment
* Red Coat (Pretty Little Liars), Red Coat (''Pretty Little Liars''), a fictional character
* Red Coats (film), ''Red Coats'' (film), the English title for ''Giubbe rosse'' an Italian fil ...
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