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Rosane Collor Rosane Malta Collor de Mello was the Brazilian first lady during the first presidency of her husband, Fernando Collor de Mello. Rosane was Collor's second wife and part of the politically powerful Malta family of Alagoas.
Rosanjin Kitaoji Rosanjin (北大路éŻĺ±±äşş) (1883 – 1959) was a calligrapher, ceramicist and restauranteur in Japan during the first half of the twentieth century. Born in the village of Kamigano he founded the Bishoko Club (Gourmet's Club) in 1921.
Rosanna Davison Rosanna Diane Davison, born April 17, 1984, was Miss World 2003, from the Republic of Ireland. At the same pageant she was also awarded the title of Queen of Europe, and was the first ever Beach Beauty contest winner.
Rosanna DeSoto Rosanna DeSoto (born September 2, 1950 in San Jose, California, USA) is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. She is best known for her role in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur, the daughter of Chancellor Gorkon.
Rosanna Scotto Rosanna Scotto co-anchors WNYW's FOX 5 Newscasts at 5:00 PM (EST) and 10PM (EST) with Ernie Anastos. Rosanna Scotto got her start in broadcasting at Atlanta's WTBS in 1980, and by 1982 she was working at WABC-TV as a reporter and morning anchor.
Rosanna Tat Rosanna Clare Tat was born in Wegberg in 1980 to Rosamund Jane Raw and Carlo Luigi Tat and moved to England the following year. She grew up in Isleham, a small village in East Anglia before moving to Cambridge when she was 17.
Rosanne Cash Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter. Although she is most often classified as a country artist, her music also draws on other genres including folk, pop, rock and roll and blues.
Rosanne Cash (album) All but her most devoted fans probably think that Rosanne Cash's début album was Right or Wrong, but her eponymous Rosanne Cash, which was recorded and released in Germany, actually takes that honor. Barely known or available at all in the United States, it is a good collector's item, or the answer to an obscure trivia question.
Rosara Joseph Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand mountain biker, who won a Silver Medal for New Zealand at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is also the current Oceania champion, and a Rhodes Scholar.
Rosario Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. It is located 300 km (187 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River.
Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the generation of 1950, she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century.
Rosario Department The Rosario Department (in Spanish, Departamento Rosario) is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the . It is located on the south of the province, with its eastern border coinciding with the provincial border along the Paraná River.
Rosario Marchese Rosario Marchese (born 1952 in Calabria, Italy) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina for the New Democratic Party of Ontario.
Rosario Parrino Rosario "Sasa" Parrino (1890-May 31, 1930) was a made member of the Schiro crime family (the present day the Bonanno crime family) in New York City. During the 1920s, Parrino moved to Detroit and joined the mafia family of Gaspare Milazzo and, during the early months of Milazzo's family's war against Joseph "Joe the Boss" Masseria, Parrino was shot and killed with Milazzo in a Detroit fish market on May 31, 1931.
Rosario Robles Rosario Robles Berlanga is a left-wing Mexican politician who was appointed substitute Head of Government of the Federal District ("Mayor of Mexico City") when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run (unsuccessfully) for the presidency in 2000.
Rosario Weiss Maria del Rosario Weiss (Madrid 1814 - Madrid 1843) was a student and possibly a daughter of Francisco de Goya. She was officially a daughter of don Isidore Weiss and Dona Leocadia Zorrilla, the latter - a housekeeper in the house of Goya and his lover since the death of the painter's wife Josefa Bayeu in 1812.
Rosario Ybarra Rosario Ybarra de Piedra (born in Saltillo, Coahuila in 1927) is an activist and prominent figure of the Politics of Mexico. She has been a presidential candidate and is currently the president of Comité Eureka.
Rosario-CĂłrdoba Highway The Rosario–CĂłrdoba Highway is a highway under construction in the central region of Argentina, which will link the second- and third-largest cities in the country (CĂłrdoba and Rosario, respectively). Besides these, it will pass by the cities of Carcarañá (Santa Fe Province), Marcos Juárez, and Villa MarĂa (CĂłrdoba Province).
Rosario-Victoria Bridge Rosario-Victoria Bridge (in Spanish, Puente Rosario-Victoria) is the informal name of the physical connection between the Argentine cities of Rosario (province of Santa Fe) and Victoria (province of Entre RĂos). This roadlink is composed of several bridges, viaducts and earth-filled sections.
Rosarium philosophorum The Rosarium philosophorum sive pretiosissimum donum Dei ('Rose-garden of the philosophers, or most valuable gift of God') is an illuminated manuscript containing an alchemic treatise dated to 1578. It contains a Czech translation of an earlier medieval Latin alchemic tract titled Rosarium philosophorum.
Rosary The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, "Rose Garden"), is an important and traditional devotion of the Catholic Church (Roman and Eastern) consisting of a set of prayer beads and a system of set prayers. The Rosary combines vocal prayer and meditation centered around sequences of reciting the Lord's Prayer followed by ten recitations of the "Hail Mary" prayer; and one recitation of "Glory Be to the Father" one such sequence is known as a decade.
Rosary School Rosary School is a coeducational R-7 facility with an enrolment of 420 students, divided into sixteen classes. Rosary School was dedicated to the Holy Rosary and was solemnly opened and blessed on 8th August 1908.
Rosaryhill School Rosaryhill School () is a Catholic co-educational institution founded by the Dominican Fathers in Hong Kong in 1959, at 41B, Stubbs Road. It has four sections: Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary (including sixth-form), and Business Studies (which also provides sixth-form courses independent from the Secondary Section).
Rosasen rō-zǎ-zěn) is a line of golf-inspired, fashion forward clothing for men and women. The company was founded by Chris Rosaasen and David Kasischke in 1999, teaming up with streetwear designer, Greg Lucci, to design a line of clothing that can be worn as active golf-wear, as well as streetwear.
Rosasite Rosasite is a carbonate mineral with minor potential for use as a zinc and copper ore. Chemically, it is a copper zinc carbonate hydroxide with a copper to zinc ratio of 3:2, occurring in the secondary oxidation zone of copper-zinc deposits.
Rosângela Matheus Rosângela Rosinha Garotinho Barros Assed Matheus de Oliveira was the first woman to be elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Elected in 2002, she was successor of Benedita da Silva, whom the position due to resignation of then governor Anthony Garotinho was exerting, husband of Rosinha, that if moved away from the position to concur for the presidency of the republic.
Rosé (song) "Rosé" is a song by British rock band The Feeling, which appears on their debut album, Twelve Stops and Home. The song is to be released as the band's fifth and final single from Twelve Stops and Home on 12 February 2007.
Rosboro, Arkansas Rosboro, Arkansas is a community located in Pike County, Arkansas, about 5 miles west of Amity, Arkansas and 6 miles east of Glenwood, Arkansas. Once a thriving and populated mill town, with several stores, a large mill and kiln, and over one hundred shotgun houses, it now has only one store, and a few homes, with a population of less than 100.
Roscellin Roscellin (circa 1050–1120) was a philosopher opposed to Platonism and every kind of realism. This stance induced him to outline a criticism of language which has impressed some as being quite modern in scope.
Roscellinus Roscellinus, also called Roscelin of Compiègne or in Latin Roscellinus Compendiensis and Rucelinus, (~1050 - ~1122) was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism (cfr. Scholasticism).
Rosco Gordon Rosco Gordon (April 10, 1928 - July 11, 2002) was an African American blues singer and songwriter. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he was one of the "Beale Streeters", a moniker given to a group of musicians who helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues.
Roscoe (novel) Roscoe is a novel by William Kennedy which was published in 2002, and depicts an aging politician who is a key behind-the-scenes player in Albany, New York's Democratic Party machine. Although many names have been changed and events added, the book is clearly based on the O'Connell Machine that controlled Albany for nearly forty years, and some occurrences in the novel are based on actual events.
Roscoe (rapper) Roscoe (born David Williams in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a West Coast rapper from Hawthorne, California. He was only 15 when he rapped on his first track, Roscoe was introduced to the rap industry by his brother, Tha Dogg Pound MC and former Death Row Records associate Kurupt.
Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24 1887 – June 29 1933) was an American silent film comedian. He was given the nickname Fatty (a name he detested and used only professionally) because of his substantial girth.
Roscoe C. Patterson Roscoe Conkling Patterson (September 15, 1876 - October 22, 1954) was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri. Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, (Springfield) and the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Roscoe Holcomb Roscoe Holcomb (1911-1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for John Cohen's coining of the term "high, lonesome sound.
Roscoe Lee Browne Roscoe Lee Browne (born May 2, 1925 in Woodbury, New Jersey) is a prolific American character actor (Topaz) and voiceover actor of film, theatre and television. He is noted for the timbre of his baritone voice and because of this he is often typecast as a mild-mannered, erudite, sometimes acid-tongued authority figure.
Roscoe Orman Roscoe Orman (born June 11, 1944, in The Bronx, New York) is an American actor that plays Gordon Robinson on the television show Sesame Street. Roscoe joined the show in 1973, taking over as the third actor to play Gordon on the show.
Roscoe Sarles Roscoe Sarles (4 January 1892 New Albany, Indiana – 17 September 1922 Kansas City, Kansas) was an American racecar driver active in the formative years of auto racing. Sarles was killed in an Indy car event, when his steering broke.
Roscoe Village, Ohio Roscoe Village, located in Coshocton, Ohio, is a restored Ohio and Erie Canal town operated by the non-profit Montgomery Foundation. The goal of the Foundation is to maintain the historic buildings of Roscoe Village and promote education with regard to life along the Ohio and Erie Canal in the mid 19th century.
Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles is a Hollywood, California-based soul food restaurant chain founded by Herb Hudson, a Harlem native, in 1976. It is best known, as the name states for serving chicken and waffles, both together and separately, although they do offer more traditional menu items as well.
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad The Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad is a very small railroad based in Roscoe, Texas, just west of Sweetwater, where it connects with the Union Pacific. When first constructed, the railroad ran from a connection with the Texas & Pacific Railroad at Roscoe north through Snyder and then westward to interchange with the Santa Fe at Fluvanna, a distance of about 32 miles.
Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency) __TOC__Roscommon was an parliamentary constituency in the Irish Free State and in the Republic of Ireland, returning Teachtaà Dála (TDs) to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament). It covered the whole of County Roscommon, and elections were held by the method of proportional representation known as the Single Transferable Vote (known as STV, or PR-STV).
Roscommon Senior Football Championship The Roscommon Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Roscommon Clubs. The winners of the Roscommon Championship receive the Fahey Cup and qualify to represent their county in the Connacht Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Roscommon Senior Hurling Championship The Roscommon Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top teams of Roscommon Clubs. The winners of the Roscommon Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Connacht Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Roscommon-South Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency) Roscommon-South Leitrim is a new parliamentary constituency which will come into being at the 30th Irish general election (due no later than June 2007), and will elect three Teachtaà Dála (TDs) to Dáil Éireann.
Roscrea Roscrea (Ros Cré in Irish) is a small town in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, located near the midlands of Ireland (). The placename comes from the Irish with Ros Cré meaning "wood of Cré", Cré being a female name of olden times.
Rose "Casper" Mazzola Rose "Casper" Mazzola (born Rosalyn Mazzola) was a member of the punk rock band The Distillers, where she played back-up guitar and sometimes sang. She left the band after the making of Sing Sing Death House.
Rose (Doctor Who) Rose is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on March 26, 2005. This story marked the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion, Rose Tyler.
Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School is an Armenian-American private school located in Los Angeles, California, USA, and predominantly consists of a large Western Armenian population. The school is K-12, covering both primary and secondary education.
Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center The Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center is part of the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus. The theater is a 500-seat auditorium.
Rose Bay Secondary College Rose Bay Secondary College is a co-educational public high school located in Dover Heights, NSW Australia, on Hardy Street. The school, officially created in 2004, is now compromised of Dover Heights High School and Vaucluse High School, which have come together to create this college.
Rose Bay, New South Wales Rose Bay is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 7 km east of the Sydney central business district and is covered by the local government areas of Waverley Municipal Council east of Old South Head Road and Woollahra Council on its western side, towards the bay.
Rose Belker Rose Belker was an elderly fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, portrayed by the late actress Esme Melville. She first appeared in 2002 and continued to do so on a recurring basis for four years.
Rose Bertin Marie-Jeanne Rose Bertin (2 July, 1747, Abbeville, Picardie, France - 22 September, 1813, Epinay sur Seine) was the French milliner and modist to Queen Marie Antoinette. She was the first celebrated French fashion designer, and is widely credited with having brought fashion and haute couture to the forefront of popular culture.
Rose Bird Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936–December 4, 1999) served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court until removed from that office by the voters. Bird received her undergraduate degree from Long Island University in 1958 and her law degree from Boalt Hall in 1965.
Rose Blumkin Rose Blumkin (born 1893, died 1998) was the owner of Nebraska Furniture Mart as well as a business partner of investor Warren Buffett. Born Rose Gorelick near Minsk, Russia, she moved to the US in 1917 and started up numerous business ventures with her husband, opening the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937.
Rose Bowl Game The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday.
Rose Bruford College Rose Bruford College is a prestigious British drama school, offering professional vocational training for the performing arts to BA and MA level. It was the first drama school in the United Kingdom to offer a degree in acting and it has pioneered innovative degree courses in drama training, including degrees in European and American Theatre Arts.
Rose Center for Earth and Space The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a notable part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The main entrance is located on the northern side of the museum on 81st Street near Central Park West.
Rose City Freeway The Rose City Freeway was a proposed freeway alignment through the Northeast sector of Portland, Oregon. The freeway's path would have began at the I-5/I-405 interchange near the Fremont Bridge's east approach.
Rose City Park, Portland, Oregon The Rose City Park is a neighborhood (and a park of the same name) in Northeast Portland, Oregon. It borders Beaumont-Wilshire and the Hollywood District on the west, Cully on the north, Roseway and Madison South on the east, and Center on the south.
Rose engine lathe A rose engine lathe is a specialized kind of ornamental lathe. The headstock rocks back and forth, controlled by a rubber moving against a rosette or cam-like pattern mounted on the spindle, while the lathe spindle rotates.
Rose Edith Kelly Rose Edith Kelly was born on the 23 July 1874 at 78 Cambridge Terrace, Paddington, England, to parents Frederick Festus Kelly and Blanche Bradford Kelly. She was the oldest of three children, her siblings being Eleanor Constance Mary and Gerald Festus.
Rose Education Foundation The Rose Education Foundation is a non-profit educational organization that seeks to provide high quality educational opportunities for children in Guatemala. The Rose Foundation works with Brigham Young University and Universidad Galileo to provide teacher training programs every summer in Guatemala city.
Rose Friedman Rose Director Friedman, also known as Rose D. Friedman and Rose Director, is the widow of Milton Friedman, the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, and sister of Aaron Director, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Rose Garden Arena The Rose Garden Arena is the main sports arena in Portland, Oregon, USA and is currently managed by Global Spectrum, a company which manages sports facilities (and which also owns several sports franchises). The arena, which opened on October 12, 1995 with a ceremony to honor Blazers' fans and the construction workers who built it, was originally capable of seating 20,340 spectators for NBA basketball.
Rose Garden, San Jose, California The Rose Garden neighborhood in San Jose, California, is an upper class residential area, with significant commercial presence along its major streets. Located west of Sunol-Midtown, north of Burbank, northeast of Winchester, and east of Cory neighborhood, and southeast of the City of Santa Clara, the Rose Garden can be considered either the easternmost neighborhood of West San Jose, or the westernmost of the central neighborhoods, although being in City Council District 6 and San Jose Unified School District politically ties the area with central San Jose.
Rose Gentle Rose Gentle was the mother of Gordon Gentle, a 19 year old from Pollok who was killed while serving in Iraq. Some claimed that this was through the failure of the UK government to provide adequate equipment to their armed forces.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (May 20, 1851–July 9, 1926) was an American Roman Catholic nun and social worker. Born in Lenox, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia, she was educated in London, Paris, Rome and Florence.
Rose Heilbron Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE, QC, (19 August 1914 - 8 December 2005) was one of the outstanding defence barristers of the post-war period in the UK, whose career included many 'firsts' for a woman - she was the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, the first woman to be appointed King's Counsel, the first to lead in a murder case, the first woman Recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey and the first woman Treasurer of Gray's Inn.
Rose Hill Drive Rose Hill Drive is a young American rock power trio. Combining hard-driving rock and blues with modern touches and arrangements, they are often described by reviewers as reminiscent of 1970's rock bands Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Cream.
Rose Hill Gymnasium, Fordham University Rose Hill Gym is a 3,470-seat multi-purpose arena on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in The Bronx, New York City. The arena, which opened in 1925, is the oldest currently in use by a NCAA Division I basketball team.
Rose Hill, New South Wales Founded on the 2 November, 1788, Rose Hill in New South Wales was the first colonial settlement, established by Governor Phillip. On the King's Birthday in 1791 it was renamed to the town of Parramatta , after the indigenous Aborigines of the region, the Burramatta people, a clan of the Darug nation.
Rose Hills Memorial Park Rose Hills Memorial Park is a large cemetery located just outside the city limits of Whittier, California. It is not only considered to be the largest memorial park in the United States, but also considered to be the largest and most beautiful memorial park in the world.
Rose Hobart (film) Rose Hobart (1936) is a short, 19 minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film East of Borneo into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her.
Rose chafer The rose chafer (Cetonia aurata), also known as the goldsmith beetle, leaf chafer, june bug or golden fly, is a reasonably large beetle growing to 18 mm (0.7 in) long that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct v shape across the upper back just below the head and having several other irregular small white lines and marks.
Rose Chan Rose Chan (1925 – May 26, 1987) was a cabaret dancer turned "Queen of Striptease" who has become something of a legend in Malaysia. Her brazen exploitation of her sexuality, predating Madonna, made her a controversial icon in her homeland.
Rose Chronicles Rose Chronicles was a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The band, from Vancouver, consisted of vocalist Kristy Thirsk, guitarist Richard Maranda, bassist Judd Cochrane and drummer Steve van der Woerd.
Rose in the Fist The Rose in the Fist (Italian Rosa nel Pugno) is an Italian political federation of parties founded in 2005. Its members are the Italian Democratic Socialists and the Italian Radicals, whereas the left-wing of the Socialist Party New PSI has shown some interest in joining this federation.
Rose Is Rose Rose Is Rose is a syndicated comic strip, written by Pat Brady since its creation in 1984, and drawn since March of 2004 by Don Wimmer. The strip revolves around Rose and Jimbo Gumbo, their son Pasquale, and the family cat Peekaboo.
Rose Island (amusement park) Rose Island was a popular amusement park near Charlestown, Indiana, situated on a peninsula (the "Devil's Backbone") created by Fourteen Mile Creek emptying into the Ohio River. It was originally a recreational area known as Fern Grove as early as the 1880s, mostly used as a church camp.
Rose Kennedy Greenway The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a series of parks and public spaces planned for downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the final part of the massive Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) (or Big Dig) that put Interstate 93 underground and removed the obsolete elevated freeway that served as the main highway through downtown for more than 40 years.
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember Rose Kennedy: A Life To Remember is a short documentary directed by Terry Sanders and produced by Sanders with Freida Lee Mock. It was nominated for a "Documentary Short Subject" Academy Award in 1991.
Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, GCVO (née Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon, 6 May 1890–17 November 1967) was the third daughter of 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
Rose Li Rose Li, teacher of the Chinese internal martial arts, was born into an upper-middle-class, mandarin, family in Beijing around 1914. To protect her health she was given what would more normally have been a boy's name, Shao-Chiang, or 'continuing strong', and was sent to study Tai Chi Chuan, Baguazhang and Xingyiquan with the distinguished teachers Teng Yun-Feng (1873-1941) and Liu Feng-Shan (1852-1937).
Rose Lodge, Oregon Rose Lodge is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It received its name from the fact the postmaster, Julia Dodson, when the post office was first established in 1908, had a rose bower over her front gate.
Rose metal Rose metal, is also known as “Rose's metal” and “Rose's alloy” is a fusible alloy with a low melting point. Rose metal consists of 50% Bi (bismuth), 25–28% Pb (lead) and 22–25% Sn (tin); its melting point is 100 °C (212 °F).
Rose Macaulay Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August, 1881 - 30 October, 1958), affectionately known as Emilie (her actual first name), was an English novelist. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel.
Rose Madder (novel) Rose Madder is a 1995 novel by Stephen King. It deals with the effects of domestic violence (which King had touched upon before in the novels It, Dolores Claiborne and Needful Things) and, unusually for a King novel, relies for its fantastic element on Greek mythology, most notably in the monster Erinyes (who appears to have been based on the Minotaur).
Rose Marie (singer) Rose-Marie is a singer, television personality, actress and radio presenter from Northern Ireland. Her parents are Ann and Owen, and she is one of six siblings who were raised on a farm outside Newry, County Down.
Rose Melberg Rose Melberg is a musician and songwriter from Sacramento, California who has sung and played guitar as a member of Tiger Trap, The Softies and Go Sailor as well as on her own material. She also played drums and made some songwriting contributions with the band Gaze.
Rose Meth Rose Grunapfel Meth (b. 1925, Zator, Poland), born Ruzia Grunapfel, also known as Reisel Grunapfel-Meth, surviving participant in the October 7, 1944 "Sonderkommando uprising" of inmates in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Rose Neill Rose Neill is a Northern Irish television newscaster, who is currently an anchor and presenter for BBC Newsline.She was educated at The Mount School, York in England, and at the City and East London College where she studied Optics.
Rose of Jericho The Rose of Jericho, Resurrection plant, or Anastatica hierochuntica is a member of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae) and the only member of the genus Anastatica. Both of the families are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, the class Magnoliopsida.
Rose of Lancaster Stakes The Rose of Lancaster Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 120 yards (2,121 metres) at Haydock Park Racecourse in August
Rose of Sharon The Rose of Sharon is a flower of uncertain identity mentioned in English language translations of the Bible. The word in question is the Hebrew חבצלת , which has been uncertainly linked to the words בצל , meaning 'bulb', and חמץ , which is understood as meaning either 'pungent' or 'splendid' (The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon).
Rose oil Rose oil, meaning either rose otto or rose absolute, is the essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of rose. Rose ottos are extracted through steam distillation, while rose absolutes are obtained through solvent extraction or supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, with the absolute being used more commonly in perfumery.
Rose Of Kingston Rose of Kingston was a mare who raced with a great deal of success in Australia, particularly as a three year old. She was the Australian Horse of the Year in 1981, and was the mother of Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule by the great Secretariat (USA).
Rose Petal Place Rose Petal Place was a cartoon and its corresponding toy line from the United States. During the 1980s, the advertising of plastic collectibles in their own cartoon adventures was a successful marketing scheme, most prominently in the line of barbarian action dolls known as the Masters of the Universe.
Rosanjin Kitaoji Rosanjin (北大路éŻĺ±±äşş) (1883 – 1959) was a calligrapher, ceramicist and restauranteur in Japan during the first half of the twentieth century. Born in the village of Kamigano he founded the Bishoko Club (Gourmet's Club) in 1921.
Rosanna Davison Rosanna Diane Davison, born April 17, 1984, was Miss World 2003, from the Republic of Ireland. At the same pageant she was also awarded the title of Queen of Europe, and was the first ever Beach Beauty contest winner.
Rosanna DeSoto Rosanna DeSoto (born September 2, 1950 in San Jose, California, USA) is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. She is best known for her role in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur, the daughter of Chancellor Gorkon.
Rosanna Scotto Rosanna Scotto co-anchors WNYW's FOX 5 Newscasts at 5:00 PM (EST) and 10PM (EST) with Ernie Anastos. Rosanna Scotto got her start in broadcasting at Atlanta's WTBS in 1980, and by 1982 she was working at WABC-TV as a reporter and morning anchor.
Rosanna Tat Rosanna Clare Tat was born in Wegberg in 1980 to Rosamund Jane Raw and Carlo Luigi Tat and moved to England the following year. She grew up in Isleham, a small village in East Anglia before moving to Cambridge when she was 17.
Rosanne Cash Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter. Although she is most often classified as a country artist, her music also draws on other genres including folk, pop, rock and roll and blues.
Rosanne Cash (album) All but her most devoted fans probably think that Rosanne Cash's début album was Right or Wrong, but her eponymous Rosanne Cash, which was recorded and released in Germany, actually takes that honor. Barely known or available at all in the United States, it is a good collector's item, or the answer to an obscure trivia question.
Rosara Joseph Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand mountain biker, who won a Silver Medal for New Zealand at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is also the current Oceania champion, and a Rhodes Scholar.
Rosario Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. It is located 300 km (187 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River.
Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the generation of 1950, she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century.
Rosario Department The Rosario Department (in Spanish, Departamento Rosario) is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the . It is located on the south of the province, with its eastern border coinciding with the provincial border along the Paraná River.
Rosario Marchese Rosario Marchese (born 1952 in Calabria, Italy) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina for the New Democratic Party of Ontario.
Rosario Parrino Rosario "Sasa" Parrino (1890-May 31, 1930) was a made member of the Schiro crime family (the present day the Bonanno crime family) in New York City. During the 1920s, Parrino moved to Detroit and joined the mafia family of Gaspare Milazzo and, during the early months of Milazzo's family's war against Joseph "Joe the Boss" Masseria, Parrino was shot and killed with Milazzo in a Detroit fish market on May 31, 1931.
Rosario Robles Rosario Robles Berlanga is a left-wing Mexican politician who was appointed substitute Head of Government of the Federal District ("Mayor of Mexico City") when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run (unsuccessfully) for the presidency in 2000.
Rosario Weiss Maria del Rosario Weiss (Madrid 1814 - Madrid 1843) was a student and possibly a daughter of Francisco de Goya. She was officially a daughter of don Isidore Weiss and Dona Leocadia Zorrilla, the latter - a housekeeper in the house of Goya and his lover since the death of the painter's wife Josefa Bayeu in 1812.
Rosario Ybarra Rosario Ybarra de Piedra (born in Saltillo, Coahuila in 1927) is an activist and prominent figure of the Politics of Mexico. She has been a presidential candidate and is currently the president of Comité Eureka.
Rosario-CĂłrdoba Highway The Rosario–CĂłrdoba Highway is a highway under construction in the central region of Argentina, which will link the second- and third-largest cities in the country (CĂłrdoba and Rosario, respectively). Besides these, it will pass by the cities of Carcarañá (Santa Fe Province), Marcos Juárez, and Villa MarĂa (CĂłrdoba Province).
Rosario-Victoria Bridge Rosario-Victoria Bridge (in Spanish, Puente Rosario-Victoria) is the informal name of the physical connection between the Argentine cities of Rosario (province of Santa Fe) and Victoria (province of Entre RĂos). This roadlink is composed of several bridges, viaducts and earth-filled sections.
Rosarium philosophorum The Rosarium philosophorum sive pretiosissimum donum Dei ('Rose-garden of the philosophers, or most valuable gift of God') is an illuminated manuscript containing an alchemic treatise dated to 1578. It contains a Czech translation of an earlier medieval Latin alchemic tract titled Rosarium philosophorum.
Rosary The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, "Rose Garden"), is an important and traditional devotion of the Catholic Church (Roman and Eastern) consisting of a set of prayer beads and a system of set prayers. The Rosary combines vocal prayer and meditation centered around sequences of reciting the Lord's Prayer followed by ten recitations of the "Hail Mary" prayer; and one recitation of "Glory Be to the Father" one such sequence is known as a decade.
Rosary School Rosary School is a coeducational R-7 facility with an enrolment of 420 students, divided into sixteen classes. Rosary School was dedicated to the Holy Rosary and was solemnly opened and blessed on 8th August 1908.
Rosaryhill School Rosaryhill School () is a Catholic co-educational institution founded by the Dominican Fathers in Hong Kong in 1959, at 41B, Stubbs Road. It has four sections: Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary (including sixth-form), and Business Studies (which also provides sixth-form courses independent from the Secondary Section).
Rosasen rō-zǎ-zěn) is a line of golf-inspired, fashion forward clothing for men and women. The company was founded by Chris Rosaasen and David Kasischke in 1999, teaming up with streetwear designer, Greg Lucci, to design a line of clothing that can be worn as active golf-wear, as well as streetwear.
Rosasite Rosasite is a carbonate mineral with minor potential for use as a zinc and copper ore. Chemically, it is a copper zinc carbonate hydroxide with a copper to zinc ratio of 3:2, occurring in the secondary oxidation zone of copper-zinc deposits.
Rosângela Matheus Rosângela Rosinha Garotinho Barros Assed Matheus de Oliveira was the first woman to be elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Elected in 2002, she was successor of Benedita da Silva, whom the position due to resignation of then governor Anthony Garotinho was exerting, husband of Rosinha, that if moved away from the position to concur for the presidency of the republic.
Rosé (song) "Rosé" is a song by British rock band The Feeling, which appears on their debut album, Twelve Stops and Home. The song is to be released as the band's fifth and final single from Twelve Stops and Home on 12 February 2007.
Rosboro, Arkansas Rosboro, Arkansas is a community located in Pike County, Arkansas, about 5 miles west of Amity, Arkansas and 6 miles east of Glenwood, Arkansas. Once a thriving and populated mill town, with several stores, a large mill and kiln, and over one hundred shotgun houses, it now has only one store, and a few homes, with a population of less than 100.
Roscellin Roscellin (circa 1050–1120) was a philosopher opposed to Platonism and every kind of realism. This stance induced him to outline a criticism of language which has impressed some as being quite modern in scope.
Roscellinus Roscellinus, also called Roscelin of Compiègne or in Latin Roscellinus Compendiensis and Rucelinus, (~1050 - ~1122) was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism (cfr. Scholasticism).
Rosco Gordon Rosco Gordon (April 10, 1928 - July 11, 2002) was an African American blues singer and songwriter. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he was one of the "Beale Streeters", a moniker given to a group of musicians who helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues.
Roscoe (novel) Roscoe is a novel by William Kennedy which was published in 2002, and depicts an aging politician who is a key behind-the-scenes player in Albany, New York's Democratic Party machine. Although many names have been changed and events added, the book is clearly based on the O'Connell Machine that controlled Albany for nearly forty years, and some occurrences in the novel are based on actual events.
Roscoe (rapper) Roscoe (born David Williams in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a West Coast rapper from Hawthorne, California. He was only 15 when he rapped on his first track, Roscoe was introduced to the rap industry by his brother, Tha Dogg Pound MC and former Death Row Records associate Kurupt.
Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24 1887 – June 29 1933) was an American silent film comedian. He was given the nickname Fatty (a name he detested and used only professionally) because of his substantial girth.
Roscoe C. Patterson Roscoe Conkling Patterson (September 15, 1876 - October 22, 1954) was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri. Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, (Springfield) and the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Roscoe Holcomb Roscoe Holcomb (1911-1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for John Cohen's coining of the term "high, lonesome sound.
Roscoe Lee Browne Roscoe Lee Browne (born May 2, 1925 in Woodbury, New Jersey) is a prolific American character actor (Topaz) and voiceover actor of film, theatre and television. He is noted for the timbre of his baritone voice and because of this he is often typecast as a mild-mannered, erudite, sometimes acid-tongued authority figure.
Roscoe Orman Roscoe Orman (born June 11, 1944, in The Bronx, New York) is an American actor that plays Gordon Robinson on the television show Sesame Street. Roscoe joined the show in 1973, taking over as the third actor to play Gordon on the show.
Roscoe Sarles Roscoe Sarles (4 January 1892 New Albany, Indiana – 17 September 1922 Kansas City, Kansas) was an American racecar driver active in the formative years of auto racing. Sarles was killed in an Indy car event, when his steering broke.
Roscoe Village, Ohio Roscoe Village, located in Coshocton, Ohio, is a restored Ohio and Erie Canal town operated by the non-profit Montgomery Foundation. The goal of the Foundation is to maintain the historic buildings of Roscoe Village and promote education with regard to life along the Ohio and Erie Canal in the mid 19th century.
Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles is a Hollywood, California-based soul food restaurant chain founded by Herb Hudson, a Harlem native, in 1976. It is best known, as the name states for serving chicken and waffles, both together and separately, although they do offer more traditional menu items as well.
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad The Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad is a very small railroad based in Roscoe, Texas, just west of Sweetwater, where it connects with the Union Pacific. When first constructed, the railroad ran from a connection with the Texas & Pacific Railroad at Roscoe north through Snyder and then westward to interchange with the Santa Fe at Fluvanna, a distance of about 32 miles.
Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency) __TOC__Roscommon was an parliamentary constituency in the Irish Free State and in the Republic of Ireland, returning Teachtaà Dála (TDs) to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament). It covered the whole of County Roscommon, and elections were held by the method of proportional representation known as the Single Transferable Vote (known as STV, or PR-STV).
Roscommon Senior Football Championship The Roscommon Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Roscommon Clubs. The winners of the Roscommon Championship receive the Fahey Cup and qualify to represent their county in the Connacht Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Roscommon Senior Hurling Championship The Roscommon Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top teams of Roscommon Clubs. The winners of the Roscommon Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Connacht Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Roscommon-South Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency) Roscommon-South Leitrim is a new parliamentary constituency which will come into being at the 30th Irish general election (due no later than June 2007), and will elect three Teachtaà Dála (TDs) to Dáil Éireann.
Roscrea Roscrea (Ros Cré in Irish) is a small town in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, located near the midlands of Ireland (). The placename comes from the Irish with Ros Cré meaning "wood of Cré", Cré being a female name of olden times.
Rose "Casper" Mazzola Rose "Casper" Mazzola (born Rosalyn Mazzola) was a member of the punk rock band The Distillers, where she played back-up guitar and sometimes sang. She left the band after the making of Sing Sing Death House.
Rose (Doctor Who) Rose is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on March 26, 2005. This story marked the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion, Rose Tyler.
Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School is an Armenian-American private school located in Los Angeles, California, USA, and predominantly consists of a large Western Armenian population. The school is K-12, covering both primary and secondary education.
Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center The Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center is part of the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus. The theater is a 500-seat auditorium.
Rose Bay Secondary College Rose Bay Secondary College is a co-educational public high school located in Dover Heights, NSW Australia, on Hardy Street. The school, officially created in 2004, is now compromised of Dover Heights High School and Vaucluse High School, which have come together to create this college.
Rose Bay, New South Wales Rose Bay is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 7 km east of the Sydney central business district and is covered by the local government areas of Waverley Municipal Council east of Old South Head Road and Woollahra Council on its western side, towards the bay.
Rose Belker Rose Belker was an elderly fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, portrayed by the late actress Esme Melville. She first appeared in 2002 and continued to do so on a recurring basis for four years.
Rose Bertin Marie-Jeanne Rose Bertin (2 July, 1747, Abbeville, Picardie, France - 22 September, 1813, Epinay sur Seine) was the French milliner and modist to Queen Marie Antoinette. She was the first celebrated French fashion designer, and is widely credited with having brought fashion and haute couture to the forefront of popular culture.
Rose Bird Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936–December 4, 1999) served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court until removed from that office by the voters. Bird received her undergraduate degree from Long Island University in 1958 and her law degree from Boalt Hall in 1965.
Rose Blumkin Rose Blumkin (born 1893, died 1998) was the owner of Nebraska Furniture Mart as well as a business partner of investor Warren Buffett. Born Rose Gorelick near Minsk, Russia, she moved to the US in 1917 and started up numerous business ventures with her husband, opening the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937.
Rose Bowl Game The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday.
Rose Bruford College Rose Bruford College is a prestigious British drama school, offering professional vocational training for the performing arts to BA and MA level. It was the first drama school in the United Kingdom to offer a degree in acting and it has pioneered innovative degree courses in drama training, including degrees in European and American Theatre Arts.
Rose Center for Earth and Space The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a notable part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The main entrance is located on the northern side of the museum on 81st Street near Central Park West.
Rose City Freeway The Rose City Freeway was a proposed freeway alignment through the Northeast sector of Portland, Oregon. The freeway's path would have began at the I-5/I-405 interchange near the Fremont Bridge's east approach.
Rose City Park, Portland, Oregon The Rose City Park is a neighborhood (and a park of the same name) in Northeast Portland, Oregon. It borders Beaumont-Wilshire and the Hollywood District on the west, Cully on the north, Roseway and Madison South on the east, and Center on the south.
Rose engine lathe A rose engine lathe is a specialized kind of ornamental lathe. The headstock rocks back and forth, controlled by a rubber moving against a rosette or cam-like pattern mounted on the spindle, while the lathe spindle rotates.
Rose Edith Kelly Rose Edith Kelly was born on the 23 July 1874 at 78 Cambridge Terrace, Paddington, England, to parents Frederick Festus Kelly and Blanche Bradford Kelly. She was the oldest of three children, her siblings being Eleanor Constance Mary and Gerald Festus.
Rose Education Foundation The Rose Education Foundation is a non-profit educational organization that seeks to provide high quality educational opportunities for children in Guatemala. The Rose Foundation works with Brigham Young University and Universidad Galileo to provide teacher training programs every summer in Guatemala city.
Rose Friedman Rose Director Friedman, also known as Rose D. Friedman and Rose Director, is the widow of Milton Friedman, the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, and sister of Aaron Director, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Rose Garden Arena The Rose Garden Arena is the main sports arena in Portland, Oregon, USA and is currently managed by Global Spectrum, a company which manages sports facilities (and which also owns several sports franchises). The arena, which opened on October 12, 1995 with a ceremony to honor Blazers' fans and the construction workers who built it, was originally capable of seating 20,340 spectators for NBA basketball.
Rose Garden, San Jose, California The Rose Garden neighborhood in San Jose, California, is an upper class residential area, with significant commercial presence along its major streets. Located west of Sunol-Midtown, north of Burbank, northeast of Winchester, and east of Cory neighborhood, and southeast of the City of Santa Clara, the Rose Garden can be considered either the easternmost neighborhood of West San Jose, or the westernmost of the central neighborhoods, although being in City Council District 6 and San Jose Unified School District politically ties the area with central San Jose.
Rose Gentle Rose Gentle was the mother of Gordon Gentle, a 19 year old from Pollok who was killed while serving in Iraq. Some claimed that this was through the failure of the UK government to provide adequate equipment to their armed forces.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (May 20, 1851–July 9, 1926) was an American Roman Catholic nun and social worker. Born in Lenox, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia, she was educated in London, Paris, Rome and Florence.
Rose Heilbron Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE, QC, (19 August 1914 - 8 December 2005) was one of the outstanding defence barristers of the post-war period in the UK, whose career included many 'firsts' for a woman - she was the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, the first woman to be appointed King's Counsel, the first to lead in a murder case, the first woman Recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey and the first woman Treasurer of Gray's Inn.
Rose Hill Drive Rose Hill Drive is a young American rock power trio. Combining hard-driving rock and blues with modern touches and arrangements, they are often described by reviewers as reminiscent of 1970's rock bands Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Cream.
Rose Hill Gymnasium, Fordham University Rose Hill Gym is a 3,470-seat multi-purpose arena on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in The Bronx, New York City. The arena, which opened in 1925, is the oldest currently in use by a NCAA Division I basketball team.
Rose Hill, New South Wales Founded on the 2 November, 1788, Rose Hill in New South Wales was the first colonial settlement, established by Governor Phillip. On the King's Birthday in 1791 it was renamed to the town of Parramatta , after the indigenous Aborigines of the region, the Burramatta people, a clan of the Darug nation.
Rose Hills Memorial Park Rose Hills Memorial Park is a large cemetery located just outside the city limits of Whittier, California. It is not only considered to be the largest memorial park in the United States, but also considered to be the largest and most beautiful memorial park in the world.
Rose Hobart (film) Rose Hobart (1936) is a short, 19 minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film East of Borneo into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her.
Rose chafer The rose chafer (Cetonia aurata), also known as the goldsmith beetle, leaf chafer, june bug or golden fly, is a reasonably large beetle growing to 18 mm (0.7 in) long that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct v shape across the upper back just below the head and having several other irregular small white lines and marks.
Rose Chan Rose Chan (1925 – May 26, 1987) was a cabaret dancer turned "Queen of Striptease" who has become something of a legend in Malaysia. Her brazen exploitation of her sexuality, predating Madonna, made her a controversial icon in her homeland.
Rose Chronicles Rose Chronicles was a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The band, from Vancouver, consisted of vocalist Kristy Thirsk, guitarist Richard Maranda, bassist Judd Cochrane and drummer Steve van der Woerd.
Rose in the Fist The Rose in the Fist (Italian Rosa nel Pugno) is an Italian political federation of parties founded in 2005. Its members are the Italian Democratic Socialists and the Italian Radicals, whereas the left-wing of the Socialist Party New PSI has shown some interest in joining this federation.
Rose Is Rose Rose Is Rose is a syndicated comic strip, written by Pat Brady since its creation in 1984, and drawn since March of 2004 by Don Wimmer. The strip revolves around Rose and Jimbo Gumbo, their son Pasquale, and the family cat Peekaboo.
Rose Island (amusement park) Rose Island was a popular amusement park near Charlestown, Indiana, situated on a peninsula (the "Devil's Backbone") created by Fourteen Mile Creek emptying into the Ohio River. It was originally a recreational area known as Fern Grove as early as the 1880s, mostly used as a church camp.
Rose Kennedy Greenway The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a series of parks and public spaces planned for downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the final part of the massive Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) (or Big Dig) that put Interstate 93 underground and removed the obsolete elevated freeway that served as the main highway through downtown for more than 40 years.
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember Rose Kennedy: A Life To Remember is a short documentary directed by Terry Sanders and produced by Sanders with Freida Lee Mock. It was nominated for a "Documentary Short Subject" Academy Award in 1991.
Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, GCVO (née Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon, 6 May 1890–17 November 1967) was the third daughter of 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
Rose Li Rose Li, teacher of the Chinese internal martial arts, was born into an upper-middle-class, mandarin, family in Beijing around 1914. To protect her health she was given what would more normally have been a boy's name, Shao-Chiang, or 'continuing strong', and was sent to study Tai Chi Chuan, Baguazhang and Xingyiquan with the distinguished teachers Teng Yun-Feng (1873-1941) and Liu Feng-Shan (1852-1937).
Rose Lodge, Oregon Rose Lodge is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It received its name from the fact the postmaster, Julia Dodson, when the post office was first established in 1908, had a rose bower over her front gate.
Rose metal Rose metal, is also known as “Rose's metal” and “Rose's alloy” is a fusible alloy with a low melting point. Rose metal consists of 50% Bi (bismuth), 25–28% Pb (lead) and 22–25% Sn (tin); its melting point is 100 °C (212 °F).
Rose Macaulay Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August, 1881 - 30 October, 1958), affectionately known as Emilie (her actual first name), was an English novelist. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel.
Rose Madder (novel) Rose Madder is a 1995 novel by Stephen King. It deals with the effects of domestic violence (which King had touched upon before in the novels It, Dolores Claiborne and Needful Things) and, unusually for a King novel, relies for its fantastic element on Greek mythology, most notably in the monster Erinyes (who appears to have been based on the Minotaur).
Rose Marie (singer) Rose-Marie is a singer, television personality, actress and radio presenter from Northern Ireland. Her parents are Ann and Owen, and she is one of six siblings who were raised on a farm outside Newry, County Down.
Rose Melberg Rose Melberg is a musician and songwriter from Sacramento, California who has sung and played guitar as a member of Tiger Trap, The Softies and Go Sailor as well as on her own material. She also played drums and made some songwriting contributions with the band Gaze.
Rose Meth Rose Grunapfel Meth (b. 1925, Zator, Poland), born Ruzia Grunapfel, also known as Reisel Grunapfel-Meth, surviving participant in the October 7, 1944 "Sonderkommando uprising" of inmates in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Rose Neill Rose Neill is a Northern Irish television newscaster, who is currently an anchor and presenter for BBC Newsline.She was educated at The Mount School, York in England, and at the City and East London College where she studied Optics.
Rose of Jericho The Rose of Jericho, Resurrection plant, or Anastatica hierochuntica is a member of the family Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae) and the only member of the genus Anastatica. Both of the families are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, the class Magnoliopsida.
Rose of Lancaster Stakes The Rose of Lancaster Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 120 yards (2,121 metres) at Haydock Park Racecourse in August
Rose of Sharon The Rose of Sharon is a flower of uncertain identity mentioned in English language translations of the Bible. The word in question is the Hebrew חבצלת , which has been uncertainly linked to the words בצל , meaning 'bulb', and חמץ , which is understood as meaning either 'pungent' or 'splendid' (The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon).
Rose oil Rose oil, meaning either rose otto or rose absolute, is the essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of rose. Rose ottos are extracted through steam distillation, while rose absolutes are obtained through solvent extraction or supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, with the absolute being used more commonly in perfumery.
Rose Of Kingston Rose of Kingston was a mare who raced with a great deal of success in Australia, particularly as a three year old. She was the Australian Horse of the Year in 1981, and was the mother of Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule by the great Secretariat (USA).
Rose Petal Place Rose Petal Place was a cartoon and its corresponding toy line from the United States. During the 1980s, the advertising of plastic collectibles in their own cartoon adventures was a successful marketing scheme, most prominently in the line of barbarian action dolls known as the Masters of the Universe.
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