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Romanche Trench The Romanche Trench, also called Romanche Furrow, Romanche Gap, or Romanche Fracture Zone, is the third deepest of the major trenches of the Atlantic Ocean, after the Puerto Rico Trench and the South Sandwich Trench. It dissects the Mid-Atlantic Ridge just north of the equator at the narrowest part of the Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa, extending from 2°N to 2°S and from 16°W to 20°W.
Romani CRISS Romani CRISS (full name: Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies, or Centrul Romilor pentru Intervenţie Socială şi Studii in Romania) is a Romanian non-government organisation which seeks to protect the rights of the country's Roma minority and to prevent discrimination against the Roma. It also conducts a series of projects in order to improve the situation of the Roma in education and health care.
Romani language Romani (or Romany) is the language of the Roma and Sinti, peoples often referred to in English as "Gypsies". The Indo-Aryan Romani language should not be confused with either Romanian (spoken by Romanians), or Romansh (spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland), both of which are Romance languages.
Romani writing systems Writing systems known to be used for the Romani language are Latin, Devanāgarī, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic. However, until now, the writing of Romani with any of these scripts might be considered sporadic, none of these has gained enough popularity among people in order to develop a certain tradition.
Romania at the 1924 Summer Olympics Romania competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It was the first time that Romania sent a team to compete at the Olympic Games, and the second appearance overall after a lone Romanian athlete competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Romania at the Summer Olympics Romania has appeared in 18 of the 25 editions of the Summer Olympic Games. The nation debuted at the 1900 Summer Olympics, appeared again three times between the World Wars, and has competed at every edition since the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Romania during World War II After a brief period of nominal neutrality, Romania joined the Axis Powers in June 1941, under the government of Ion Antonescu. An August 1944 coup led by King Michael deposed the Antonescu dictatorship and put Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of the war.
Romania in the Early Middle Ages This article (also known as Romania in the Dark Ages) treats the history of Romania and of the Romanian people, and refers to the time period roughly from the 5th century to the 10th century, that is between the Hunnic invasion, to the last phase of the Age of Migrations.
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest Romania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest eight times, debuting in the 1994 contest. After the 1994 contest Romania had a four year Eurovision hiatus, and has since participated in most years (with the exceptions of 1999 and 2001 due to poor 1998 and 2000 placings respectively).
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Romania will choose their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 during Selecţia Naţională Eurovision 2007, which consists of two semi-finals on 27 January and 3 February and a final on 10 February 2007. Twelve songs will participate in each semi-final, with the top 6 qualifying for the final.
Romania national under-21 football team The Romania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.
Romania women's national handball team The Romanian national team, silver medal winner at 2005 World Women's Handball Championship, the 17th team handball world championship for women, is played in Saint Petersburg, Russia between December 5 and December 18, 2005.
Romania's role in the Kosovo crisis The Kosovo crisis certainly demanded a response from the European Union (EU). There was a clear need to promote stability in South-Eastern Europe and tying Romania more firmly into the EU was regarded as one means by which to achieve this.
Romanian Academic Society The Romanian Academic Society (Societatea Academică Română in Romanian) is a Bucharest-based think tank and NGO founded in 1995, which seeks "to contribute to good governance and development through policy research and advocacy", among other goals, such as European integration for Romania and enhancement of public dialogue with the government. The current president of the Romanian Academic Society is Alina Mungiu-Pippidi.
Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad This article is trying to present a detailed and accurate picture of Romanian involvement in the Battle of Stalingrad. Its aim is not to minimise or downplay the other participants role or commitment in the conflict.
Romanian Athenaeum The Romanian Athenaeum (Romanian: Ateneul Român) is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's main concert hall and the home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and the home of an annual international music festival also named after George Enescu.
Romanian Border Police The Romanian Border Police (Romanian: Poliţia de Frontieră) is the structure of the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior responsible for the border security and passport control at border crossing points, airports and ports.
Romanian Bridgehead The Romanian Bridgehead (Polish: Przedmoście rumuńskie) was an area in southeastern Poland, now located in Ukraine. During the Polish Defensive War of 1939 (at the start of World War II), on September 14 the Polish Commander in Chief Marshal of Poland Edward Rydz-Śmigły ordered all Polish troops fighting east of Vistula (approximately 20 divisions still retaining cohesion) to withdraw towards Lwów and then to the hills along the borders with Romania and the Soviet Union.
Romanian Broadway festival Romanian Broadway Festival in New York City on Broadway avenue is a Romanian cultural festival. It has been held every year since 1999 on the first Saturday of May to commemorate the Romanian emigration to the United States.
Romanian capital market Since the Romanian Revolution of 1989, successive Romanian governments have tried to promote reform programs in all sectors: politics, economics, civil rights, local administration, etc., and these changes have been rapid.
Romanian car number plates The standard Romanian License plate consist of a blue vertical strip (the European strip) on the left side of the plate containing the Flag of Romania and the country code of Romania (RO), always followed on a white surface, using black font, by the county code and a combination of two digits and three capital letters. The digits and letters are usually assigned at random, unless a customization fee is paid.
Romanian cuisine Romanian cuisine is diverse, blending the dishes of the several traditions which it has come into contact with, as well as maintaining its own character. It has been greatly influenced by Balkan cuisine but also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbours, such as Germans, Serbians, and Hungarians.
Romanian Communist Party The Romanian Communist Party (Romanian: Partidul Comunist Român, PCR) was a Communist political party in Romania. Illegal for much of its early existence, it emerged as a successful force in Romanian politics after World War II.
Romanian Crown Jewels The Romanian Crown Jewels consist of three crowns: the Steel Crown, the Crown of Queen Elisabeta and the Crown of Queen Maria; two scepters: the Scepter of Ferdinand I and the Scepter of Carol II; swords and jewelry belonging to the Kings and Queens of Romania.
Romanian Cultural Foundation The Romanian Cultural Foundation (Romanian: Fundaţia Culturală Română) is a Romanian non-governmental organization created by writer Augustin Buzura, with the objective of stimulating cultural, artistic and scientific creations, promoting Romanian spiritual values in Romania and abroad, and fostering inter-cultural dialogue. The foundation, created in 2004, continues the work of the previous Romanian Cultural Foundation (1990-2003), which was an organization of public interest.
Romanian Cultural Institute The Romanian Cultural Institute (Romanian: Institutul Cultural Român, abbrevation: ICR) is a state-funded institution that promotes Romanian culture and civilization in Romania and abroad. The ICR was formerly set up through reorganization of the Romanian Cultural Fundation and Romanian Cultural Publishing Fundation.
Romanian Cyrillic alphabet The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet was used to write Romanian language before 1860-1862, when it has been officially replaced by a Latin-based alphabet. It is not the same as the Russian-based Moldovan alphabet used in Moldavian ASSR since 1926, and then in the Moldavian SSR between 1940 and 1989.
Romanian dialects Romanian dialects are not as varied as in many other Romance languages. The differences between distantly related dialects are mainly in vocabulary and in phonology, as the grammar is almost identical all over the area inhabited by Romanians.
Romanian diaspora "Romanian diaspora" is a term that encompasses the total ethnic Romanian population located outside Romania. The term does not usually count those ethnic Romanians living as natives in the states surrounding Romania, chiefly those Romanians living in Moldova, Ukraine and Serbia.
Romanian ethnic minorities parties The Romanian Constitution reserves 18 seats in the Chamber of Deputies for parties and cultural associations of the ethnic ethnic minorities in Romania. At the 2004 legislative elections, the following parties and associations were granted a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
Romanian Education System According to the Law on Education adopted in 1995, the Romanian Educational System is regulated by the Ministry of Education and Research (Ministerul Educaţiei şi Cercetării - MEC)]. Each level has its own form of organization and is subject to different legislations.
Romanian Football Federation The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) (Romanian: Federaţia Română de Fotbal) is the governing body of football in Romania. It organizes the football league, the Romanian Football League, and the Romania national football team.
Romanian French Romanian French is the term for a French citizen of Romanian heritage and origins, born in Romania and living as an emigrant in France or being born in France from a Romanian immigrant family, that came to France at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, there are over 500,000 French citizens of Romanian origin or ancestry.
Romanian grammar Romanian (technically called Daco-Romanian) shares practically the same grammar and most of the vocabulary and phonological processes with the other three surviving Eastern Romance languages: Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian.
Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic (in Romanian: Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică) is an Eastern Rite or Greek-Catholic Church ranked as a Major Archiepiscopal Church, which uses the Byzantine liturgical rite in the Romanian language.
Romanian language Romanian (limba română, ) is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 26 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It enjoys official status in Romania, Moldova and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbia).
Romanian lexis The lexis of the Romanian language (or Daco-Romanian), a Romance language, has changed over the centuries as the language evolved from Vulgar Latin, to Proto-Romanian, to medieval, modern and contemporary Romanian.
Romanian Land Forces The Romanian Land Forces have completely overhauled their equipment and today they are one of the most modernized armies in Eastern Europe. The modernized battle tank TR-85 M1 is the main pride of the Romanian army alongside its new Gepard anti-aircraft system, however the full modernization will not be over until 2007.
Romanian mythology This article on Romanian mythology covers both the mythology traditional to the Romanian people and to certain earlier civilizations that occupied the same geographic area, and whom the ethnic Romanians tend to claim either as spiritual or as more literal ancestors. Thus it covers Dacian and Thracian gods, elements of Roman mythology, and Norse Mythology, but does not cover Hungarian mythology.
Romanian nouns This article on Romanian nouns is related to the Romanian grammar and belongs to a series of articles on the Romanian language. It describes the morphology of the noun in this language, and includes details about its declension according to number, case, and application of the definite article, all of which depend on specific gender and plural formation rules.
Romanian National Party The Romanian National Party (Romanian: Partidul Naţional Român, PNR), initially known as the Romanian National Party in Transylvania and Banat (Partidul Naţional Român din Transilvania şi Banat), was a political party which was initially designed to offer ethnic representation to Romanians in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Transleithanian half of Austria-Hungary, and especially to those in Transylvania and Banat. After the end of World War I, it became one of the main parties in Romania, and formed the government with Alexandru Vaida-Voevod between November 1919 and March 1920.
Romanian Old Kingdom The Romanian Old Kingdom (Romanian: Vechiul Regat or just Regat; German: Regat or Altreich) is a colloquial term referring to the territory covered by the first independent Romanian nation state, which was composed of the Danubian Principalities — Wallachia and Moldavia. It was achieved when, under the auspices of the Treaty of Paris (1856), the ad hoc Divans of both countries - which were under Imperial Ottoman suzerainty at the time - voted for Alexander John Cuza as their prince, thus achieving a de facto unification.
Romanian Ombudsman The Romanian Ombudsman (Avocatul Poporului in Romanian, literally meaning "People's Advocate") is an independent institution of the Government of Romania, responsible for investigating and addressing complaints made by citizens against other government institutions.
Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada The Romanian Archdiocese of America and Canada is a jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church under Teoctist, the Patriarch of Romania. The Archdiocese currently covers all of the Americas under the leadership of his Eminence Dr.
Romanian Orthodox icons In the Romanian Orthodox Church, icons serve much the same purpose as they do in other Eastern Orthodox traditions. The art of painting them has survived communism and today there are many active icon painters in Romania.
Romanian People's Tribunals The Romanian People's Tribunals (Romanian: Tribunalele Poporului), the Bucharest People's Tribunal and the Northern Transylvania People's Tribunal (which sat in Cluj) were two tribunals set up by the post-World War II government of Romania, overseen by the Allied Control Commission to try suspected war criminals, in line with Article 14 of the Armistice Agreement with Romania. References RICHR: Ch.
Romanian Revolution of 1989 The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of riots and fighting in late December of 1989 that overthrew the Communist regime of Nicolae CeauĹźescu. The increasingly violent clashes culminated in a summary trial and the execution of CeauĹźescu and his wife Elena.
Romanian Roman-Catholic Church The Romanian Roman-Catholic Church is a Latin Rite church, part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. It is the second largest Romanian denomination after the Romanian Orthodox Church, having more than one million members, of which 350,000 Romanians, 580,000 Hungarians, 36,000 Germans and 20,000 Roma people, most of them in Transylvania and Bacău County (see: Csángó).
Romanian School of Neurology Romanian School of Neurology represents the totality of Romanian neurologists and those of Romanian origin living abroad, who are descending of the first group of co-workers of Gheorghe Marinescu at the Neurological Department of the Colentina Hospital, Bucharest University (Romania). One is therefore entitled to speak of Marinescu's School of Neurology.
Romanian Social Democratic Party (defunct) The Romanian Social Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Social Democrat Român, or Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) was a social-democratic political party in Romania. It published the magazine România Muncitoare, and later Socialismul, Lumea Nouă, and Libertatea.
Romanian Supercup The Romanian Super Cup is a football competition, held annually between the winner of Romanian Liga I and winner of Romanian Cup, at the beginning of every next season. It is usually played at Lia Manoliu Stadium in Bucharest, except for years in which it is under renovation and the host is some other venue, also in Bucharest.
Romanian units of measurement The measures of the old Romanian system varied greatly not only between the three Romanian states (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania), but sometimes also inside the same country. The origin of some of the measures are the Latin (such as iugăr unit), Slavic (such as vadră unit) and Greek (such as dram unit) and Turkish (such as palmac unit) systems.
Romanian wine Romania is one of the world's largest wine producers, producing (as of 2003) around 545,700 tonnes of wine. In recent years, Romania has attracted many European business people and wine buyers, due to the cheap prices of both vineyards and wines compared to other wine producing nations such as France, Germany, and Holland.
Romanian-American University The Romanian-American University (Romanian:Universitatea Româno-Americană) is a private university in Bucharest, Romania which offers courses and degrees in the English language. It was founded by the controversion Ion Smedescu .
Romanian-Australians Romanian-Australians may include those who have immigrated to Australia from Romania, and those born in Australia from Romanian ancestry. According to ABS (2001 census) figures, those identifying with some degree of Romanian ancestry number somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000, with 12,950 reporting as Romanian-born (but not necessarily all of Romanian ancestry)ABS 2001 census figures.
Romanian-Canadian Romanian-Canadians are Romanian immigrants who have come to Canada recently, or descendants of the Romanian immigrants, many of whom arrived in Canada and the United States between 1895 and 1920. Sources estimates that there are about 400,000 Romanians in Canada.
Romanian-Italians Italian citizens of Romanian origin, residing in Italy as emigrants or born there to Romanian parents, are a notable presence mostly after 1999, when a very large wave of emigration known in Romania as Fenomenul către UE from Romania took the road to Western Europe (with 80% of the immigrants going to Spain or Italy), and also after 2002, when Romanian citizens obtained the right to leave their country and go to any Schengen Zone country without having a visa requirement. As of 2006, almost 300,000 Romanians are living inside Italy's borders.
Romanianization Romanianization or Rumanization is the term used to describe a number of ethnic assimilation policies implemented by the Romanian authorities during the 20th century. The term often refers to Romanian government policy in several periods toward the Hungarian minority in Romania and the Ukrainian minority in Bukovina or Bessarabia.
Romanians of Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (Romanian: Regiunea Cernăuţi) comprises a significant Romanian community which was persecuted by Soviet authorities on ethnic grounds, especially in the first 16 years after the region was taken from Romania in 1940. All official declarations referring to this issue since the Romanian Revolution of 1989, both those of the representatives of the Romanian community and those of the Romanian government, have stated that there is no intent to revise the present internationally recognized border.
Romanians of Serbia Romanians (Romanian: Românii din Serbia, Serbian: Rumuni or Румуни) are a recognised national minority in Serbia, numbering 34,576 according to 2002 census. They are mostly concentrated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, where their number is 30,419, while remaining 4,157 are concentrated in Central Serbia, mainly in Belgrade.
Romanica Romanica is a planned language created by Josu Lavin in May 2001, built up from elements common to the Romance languages, the modern descendants of Latin. It is similar to the planned language Interlingua, of which it is sometimes described as a variant.
RomaniĹŁa Iordache RomaniĹŁa Iordache is a Romanian human rights activist and the current president of ACCEPT, Romania's largest LGBT rights organisation. Between July 2003 and 2004, she was the vice president of the association.
Romanization In linguistics, romanization (or Latinization, also spelled romanisation or Latinisation) is the representation of a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system (or none). Methods of romanization include transliteration, representing written text, and transcription, representing the spoken word.
Romanization (cultural) Romanization was a gradual process of cultural assimilation, in which the conquered "barbarians" (non-Greco-Romans) gradually adopted and largely replaced their own native culture (which in many cases were quite developed, like the culture of the Gauls or Carthage) with the culture of their conquerors - the Romans. The acculturation proceeded from the top down, the upper classes adopting Roman culture first and the old ways lingering longest in outlying districts among peasants; the identification of countryfolk as pagani is discussed at paganism.
Romanization of Arabic Different approaches and methods for romanizing Arabic exist. They vary in the way that they address the inherent problems of rendering written and spoken Arabic; they also use different symbols for Arabic phonemes that do not exist in English or other European languages.
Romanization of Japanese The romanization of Japanese is the use of the Latin alphabet (called in Japanese) to write the Japanese language, which is normally written in logographic characters borrowed from Chinese (kanji) and syllabic scripts (kana). This is done in any context where Japanese text is targeted at those who do not know the language: for example, for names on street signs, passports, and in dictionaries and textbooks for foreign learners of the language.
Romanization of Khmer Khmer romanization refers to the representation of the Khmer (Cambodian) language utilizing letters of the Latin (Roman) alphabet. Romanization of Khmer is usually applied to Khmer proper nouns such as names of people and geographical names as in a gazetteer.
Romanization of Persian Due to the fact that the Persian language has a number of phonemes that have no equivalent in English or other European languages, a number of different transliteration methods have been invented to represent certain Arabic characters used in writing Persian, due to various conflicting goals.
Romanization of Russian There exist many possible systems for transliterating the Cyrillic alphabet of the Russian language — the Russian alphabet — into the Latin alphabet as such, and the English alphabet and other Latin alphabets in particular — and even into non-Latin alphabets. Such transliteration is necessary for writing Russian names and other words in the alphabet of one's own language.
Romanized Popular Alphabet The Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA) or Hmong RPA (also Roman Popular Alphabet), is a system of romanization for the various dialects of the Hmong language. Created in Laos between 1951 and 1953 by a group of missionaries and Hmong advisers, it has gone on to become the most widespread system for writing the Hmong language in the West.
Romano Artioli Romano Artioli is an Italian entrepreneur, born in Moglia (Mantova) and raised in Bolzano and one-time owner of Bugatti and Lotus. Under Artioli's stewardship Bugatti was revived, produced a single car, the Bugatti EB110, and went bust.
Romano Felmang Romano Felmang (1941 - ) is an Italian artist best known for his illustrations of American comic strip characters such as The Phantom and Flash Gordon. His first work, in 1962, was a Phantom story titled Kaniska, which was never published in its original form, but which gained him entry to the SPADA brothers, neighbors who published Italian comic books.
Romano Kristoff Romano Kristoff was a Spanish-born B-movie actor (and occasional writer/director) working in the Philippines in the 80's and early 90's. He was also credited as Rom Kristoff, Ron Kristoff, Run Kristoff, Ron Krastoff, and other similar variants.
Romano L. Mazzoli Romano L. "Ron" Mazzoli (born November 2, 1932, in Louisville, Kentucky) represented Kentucky's Third Congressional District (Louisville, Kentucky and other parts of Jefferson County, Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 through 1995 as a Democrat.
Romano Mussolini Romano Mussolini (September 26, 1927 - February 3, 2006) was the third and youngest son of Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Romano was never involved in politics, but rather was a well-appreciated jazz pianist, painter, and an unsuccessful film producer native of Forlì] ([[Emilia-Romagna), Romano Mussolini studied music as a child playing classical pieces with his father on the violin (see World War II], he started playing jazz under an assumed name and by the mid 1950s, he had formed a trio.
Romano Pontifici Eligendo Romano Pontifici Eligendo was the Apostolic Constitution governing the election of popes that was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1975. It instituted a number of far-reaching reforms in the process of electing popes.
Romano-British The term Romano-British describes the romanised culture of Britannia under the rule of the Roman Empire, when Roman and Christian culture had extensively entered into the life of the native Brythonic peoples of Britain.
Romanos III Romanos III Argyros or Romanus III Argyrus (Greek: Ρωμανός Γ΄ Αργυρός, Rōmanos III Argyros), (968 – April 11, 1034) was Byzantine emperor (November 15, 1028 - April 11, 1034). His last name is Greek for "Silver".
Romanov The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country for five generations from 1613 to 1760. From 1760 to 1917 Russia was ruled by a line of the House of Oldenburg (of which Prince Charles is also a member) descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.
Romanov Family Association The Romanov Family Association, Obyedineniye Chlenov Roda Romanovykh (Объединение Членов Рода Романовых), is an organization for male-line descendants of Emperor Paul I of Russia. The president is Prince Nicholas RomanovThe association accepts that the Russian monarchy legally ended on 3 March] ([[Julian Calendar)/ 16 March (Gregorian Calendar), 1917 with the decree of Emperor Mikhail II renouncing the throne and recognizing the Provisional Government.
Romanovsky and Phillips Romanovsky & Phillips - openly gay singing duo named after its members, Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips. They are best known for their original recordings and live performances featuring songs combining humor with poignant observations about the lives of gay men (and to a lesser extent, lesbian women) in contemporary American society.
Romanowsky stain Romanowsky staining was a prototypical staining technique that was the forerunner of several distinct but similar methods, including Giemsa, Jenner, Wright, and Leishman stains, which are used to differentiate cells in pathologic specimens.
Romans road The Romans Road refers to a set of scriptures from the book of Epistle to the Romans that Christian evangelists use to present a clear and simple case for personal salvation for each person. All passages are in the English Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.
Romans Vainsteins Romans Vainsteins (born March 3, 1973 in Talsi) is a professional cyclist from Latvia. He won the road race and therefore the title of World Cycling Champion at the 2000 World Cycling Championship in Plouay, France.
Romansh Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. It is one of the three Rhaeto-Romance languages, believed to have descended from the Vulgar Latin variety spoken by Roman era occupiers of the region, and, as such, somewhat resembles Italian, French, Spanish and Catalan.
Romanthony Romanthony (born Roman Anthony Moore) is an American disc jockey, producer, and singer. He is best known for his work with French duo Daft Punk (he provided the vocals for '"One More Time" and "Too Long" on their Discovery album).
Romantic ballet The Romantic period in ballet occurred in the early to mid 1800s, and roughly corresponds to Romanticism movements in art and literature. Like these movements, Romantic ballet's focused on the conflict between man and nature, society and supernatural.
Romantic comedy film Romantic comedy films are movies with light, humorous dramatic stories that often revolve around romantic clichés such a "true love" that surmounts all obstacles Bill Johnson, "The Art of the Romantic Comedy", Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing (1996) or the "perfect couple." Romantic comedy films (sometimes shortened to "ro-co"s or "rom-com"s) are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and they are sometimes colloquially described as "chick flicks," because they are designed to appeal to women viewers.
Romantic Egoist Romantic Egoist is a series of manga shorts drawn by Bisco Hatori. So far, there's a total of 4 chapters collected in some volumes of Ouran High School Host Club (1 per volume), which is another of Hatori's works.
Romantic friendship The term romantic friendship refers to a very close but non-sexual relationship between friends, often involving a degree of physical closeness beyond that common in modern Western society, for example holding hands, cuddling, sharing a bed, as well as open expressions of love for one another.
Romantic love Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from mere needs driven by sexual desire, or lust. Romantic love generally involves a mix of emotional and sexual desire, as opposed to Platonic love.
Romantic music The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. The Romantic period was preceded by the classical period, and was followed by the modern period.
Romantic Mode Romantic Mode was a Japanese pop group that debuted in 1996 with their first single, "Dreams." The members are Akira Asakura (vocals), Masaki Suzukawa (guitars/keyboards), and Joe Rinoie (keyboards/backup vocals).
Romantic nationalism Romantic nationalism (also National Romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs. This includes, depending on the particular manner of practice, the language, race, culture, religion and customs of the "nation" in its primal sense of those who were "born" within its culture.
Romantic Novelists' Association The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is a writers' association in the UK. Founded in 1960, mainly through the efforts of Alex Stuart and Lucilla Andrews, it is currently chaired by Jenny Haddon (Mills and Boon author Sophie Weston) and has around 700 members.
Romantic poetry Romantic poetry was part of the Romantic movement of European literature during the 18th-19th centuries. Some have attributed the Romantic era of poetry as a reaction against the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Romantic Rights Romantic Rights is Toronto-based duo Death from Above 1979's second recording, a four song EP consisting of two early versions of songs from their upcoming album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, a song exclusive to the EP, and a remix of the title track. It was released by Sound Virus Records in the U.
Romantic Road The Romantic Road (German: Romantische StraĂźe) is a term coined by travel agents in the 1950s to describe the stretch of highway in southern Germany (in Bavaria and Baden-WĂĽrttemberg), between WĂĽrzburg and FĂĽssen. This region is thought by travelers (especially from the United States) to possess "quintessentially" German scenery and culture, such as Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Romanticism Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. In part a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a reaction against the rationalization of nature, in art and literature it stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature.
Romanticism in Poland Romanticism in Poland was a period in the evolution of Polish arts and culture that began with the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822 and ended with the suppression of the January 1863 Uprising in 1864. The latter event ushered in a new era in Polish culture: "Positivism.

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