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Rosslynn Taylor Rosslynn Taylor or also known as Rosslynn Taylor-Jordan is an american actress/ voice-over artist/ casting director. She is best known for her starring role on Nickelodeon's Chalkzone as the voice of the spunky, Queen Rapsheeba.
Rossmann fold The Rossmann fold is a protein structural motif found in proteins that bind nucleotides, especially the cofactor NAD. The structure is composed of three or more parallel beta strands linked by two alpha helices in the topological order beta-alpha-beta-alpha-beta.
Rossmoor, Maryland Rossmoor is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is an area primarily inhabited by retirees, and comprises almost entirely the large retirement community of Leisure World.
Rossmore Community College Rossmore Community College is a 12-18 mixed specialist school with Sports College status serving the Rossmore, Parkstone, Newtown, Wallisdown and Alderney, Poole areas of Poole, UK. It was previously named The Martin-Kemp Welch School before changing to Rossmore Community College in 2001 in a final attempt to shake off the bad reputation associated with the Kemp-Welch name.
Rosso (band) ROSSO is a one of a few Japanese Garage bands which formed around the end of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. Musically, ROSSO can be said to pick up where TMGE left off, carrying on TMGE's evolved sound in their final single & album; Electric Circus & Sabrina No Heaven.
Rosso corsa Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of Italy. Since the 1920s, Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati and later Ferrari and Abarth were (and often still are) painted in rosso corsa ("race red").
Rosso JosĂ© Serrano Rosso josĂ© Serrano Cadena was born on August 30, 1942 in VĂ©lez, Colombia. Head chief of the Colombian National Police from 1994 to 2000 during Ernesto Samper's presidency and was one of the masterminds behind the dismantling of the Cali Cartel and MedellĂn Cartel.
Rossport Five The Rossport Five are James Brendan Philbin, brothers Philip and Vincent McGrath, Willie Corduff and Micheál Ó Seighin. These five men from County Mayo, Ireland were jailed on 29 June 2005 by Justice Finnegan, President of the High Court of the Republic of Ireland for contempt of court.
Rossport Solidarity Camp Rossport Solidarity Camp was established in the middle of June 2005, at the request of residents of Rossport, in north-west Mayo, Ireland, opposing the construction of a high pressure gas pipeline and inland gas refinery in their area. It was born out of a solidarity gathering held in Rossport on the first weekend in June that year.
Rosston, Texas Rosston is a small farming community in southwest Cooke County, Texas on FM 922 along Clear Creek, mid-way between Forestburg in Montague County and Era in Cooke County. In 2000, it reported a population of 110.
Rosstown Railway, Melbourne The Rosstown Railway was built in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia in the late 19th century by William Murray Ross with the intention of transporting processed sugar from his sugar beet mill to the Melbourne ports. When the mill failed to begin production, the line fell into disrepair without being used and was eventually disassembled and the land sold to developers.
Rosthern Junior College Rosthern Junior College, an independent high school, has been a landmark institution in the town of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada since 1905. Opening in that year as the German-English Academy, it was founded by Mennonite settlers in response to a need for trained teachers to work in the schools being established in homestead communities in Saskatchewan.
Rostislav (1896) The Rostislav (Đ ĐľŃтиŃлав - named after Grand prince Rostislav I of Kiev) was a Russian Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Built by Nikolayev dockyard , laid down in 1895 launched in September 1896 and completed in 1898.
Rostislav II of Kiev Rostislav Rurikovich (Đ ĐľŃтиŃлав Рюрикович in Russian) (1173 - before 1214), Prince of Torchesk (1195-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev (1204-1206), Prince of Vyshhorod (1205-1210), Prince of Halych (1207). Son of Rurik Rostislavich.
Rostock Power Station Rostock Power Station is a bituminous coal-fired combined heat and power plant operated by Kraftwerks- und Netzgesellschaft mbH (KNG), located in Rostock, Germany. Construction on the plant began in June 1991, and test firing and Grid connection were carried out from March to September, 1994.
Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast (, Rostovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. Rostov Oblast lies in the south of Russia with an area of 100,800 km² and a population of 4,404,013 (2002 Census) making it the fifth most populous federal subject in Russia.
Rostra The Rostra, located in the Roman Forum, was the platform beside the Curia from which orators spoke to the assembled people. Its name was taken from the bronze ships' beaks (rostrum) that decorated the front (some of the first of which, were taken from the victories in the battles of Anzio against the Volscians and Mylae in 260 BC), their supporting vertical slots and large [holes still to be seen.
Rostral migratory stream The rostral migratory stream (RMS) is a pathway along which neuronal precursors that originated in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the brain migrate to reach the main olfactory bulb, where they differentiate into interneurons. Neurogenesis has been shown to occur in the SVZ into adulthood (it was previously thought that neurons could not regenerate in the adult brain).
Rostraver Ice Garden The Rostraver Ice Garden is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, USA. It hosts locals sporting events and concerts, and in 2007 will be home to the Pittsburgh RiverRats indoor football team and part-time home of the M.
Rostrevor Rostrevor (in Irish: Ros Treabhair, ie Trevor’s Wood, also Caislean Ruairi, ie Rory's Castle) is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on Carlingford Lough and the hill of Slieve Martin, at the base of the Mountains of Mourne and on the Kilbroney River.
Rostrevor Baptist Church The Rostrevor Baptist Church is an evangelical Baptist Church in the suburb of Rostrevor in Adelaide. Its membership has been at odds with Australian percentagewise church adherence decline, growing steadily throughout the 1990s under the leadership of Pastor Dean Eaton.
Rostrevor College Rostrevor College is a Catholic all boys' day and boarding school in Adelaide, South Australia. It was founded in 1923 by the Christian Brothers and today enrols more than 1,000 students from Reception to Year 12, including International Students.
Rostrum (anatomy) A rostrum (Latin for "beak") is an anatomical structure resembling a bird's beak, such as the snout of a crocodile or dolphin or the foremost extension of a crustacean's carapace. Since the rostrum is typically located about the thorax of an arthropod, it is differentiated from the cauda or tail.
Rostrum camera A rostrum camera is a specially adapted camera used in television and film to animate a still picture or object. It consists of a moving lower platform on which the article to be filmed is placed, while the camera is placed above on a column.
Rostyle wheel Rostyle wheels are a notable design of wheels for cars made by the British firm of Rubery Owen, a diversified industrial company which made many car parts. The wheels had an unusual pressed steel form to imitate the few ribs of mag wheels at the time, but were painted black (or perhaps body color) and aluminium.
Rosuvastatin Rosuvastatin is a member of the drug class of statins, used to treat hypercholesterolemia and related conditions, and to prevent cardiovascular disease. It is currently being marketed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca as Crestor®.
RosUkrEnergo RosUkrEnergo is a Swiss-registered venture company that transports natural gas from Turkmenistan to East European countries. 50 percent of the company is owned by Gazprom, through its daughter Swiss-registered ARosgas Holding A.
Rosvall and Voutilainen Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen were two Finnish-Canadian unionists from Thunder Bay, Ontario and members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada who mysteriously disappeared on November 18, 1929. The two were on their way to a bushcamp near Onion Lake to recruit sympathetic bushworkers for a large strike which was gaining momentum west of Thunder Bay in Shabaqua and Shebandowan.
Roswell Daily Record The Roswell Daily Record is a local newspaper located in Roswell, New Mexico], and has a circulation of Under 25,000. The paper is notorious in the UFO community because it was the newspaper that reported in [[1947 the alleged Roswell UFO crash.
Roswell High Roswell High is a young adults' book series written by Melinda Metz and published by Pocket Books. The 10-book series chronicles the adventures of 3 teen aliens and their human friends, who attend the fictional Ulysses F.
Roswell S. Ripley Roswell Sabine Ripley (March 14, 1823 – March 26, 1887) was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and, despite bring Northern-born, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was also an author and a prosperous South Carolina businessman.
Roswell UFO incident The Roswell UFO incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947 which have since become the subject of intense speculation and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened, and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed.
Rosy Cross The rosy cross (also called "rose cross" and "rose croix") is a symbol largely associated with the semi-mythical Christian Rosencreutz (1378-1484), alchemist and founder of the Rosicrucian Order. It has several meanings, depending on the source.
Rosy retrospection Rosy retrospection refers to the finding that subjects later rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred, reminiscent of the Latin phrase memoria praeteritorum bonorum ("The past is always well remembered.")
Rosy Senanayake Bernadine Rosemarie Ramanayake Senanayake (Rosy Senanayake) is a working committee member of the main opposition United National Party in Sri Lanka and a formerSri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia[http://pgoh13.free.
Rosy-faced Lovebird The Rosy-faced Lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), also known as the Peach-faced Lovebird, is a species of lovebird native to arid regions in southwestern Africa such as the Namib Desert. A loud and constant chirper, these birds are very social animals and often congregate in small groups in the wild.
Rosyface shiner The rosyface shiner (Notropis rubellus) is a small North American fish found throughout the central and eastern United States and southern Canada in clear pools and riffles in large creeks and small rivers. It can grow to 3.
Rosyth Rosyth (pronounced Ross-sythe) (Scottish Gaelic: <I>Ros Saoithe</I>) is a town located on the Firth of Forth on Scotland's east coast, a mile (1.6 km) south of Dunfermline, Fife, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) north west of Edinburgh.
Rot Front Open Joint-Stock Company Rot Front Open Joint-Stock Company () is one of the oldest Russian confectionary manufacturers and a member of Obyedinyonnye Konditery holding company. Rot Front produces over 200 types of confectionery and sells in all Russian regions, CIS countries, Western Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Rot Weiss Deuten SV Rot Weiss Deuten is a German football club from Deuten, North Rhine-Westphalia which is near the town of Borken, close to the Dutch border. A group put together in late 1959 was formally organized into a sports association in 1964 and began play in 1967 in the 2.
Rot-WeiĂź Ahlen Rot-WeiĂź Ahlen is a German football club based in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Until recently the club was known as LR Ahlen for its major sponsor, but underwent a name change when the sponsor withdrew its support after the team was relegated to the Regionalliga (III) in 2006.
Rot-WeiĂź Oberhausen Rot-Weiss Oberhausen is a German football club in Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The club was formed as Oberhausener SV in December, 1904 out of the merger of Emschertaler SV (1902) and the football enthusiasts of Oberhausener TV 1873.
Rota (architecture) The rota was a cylinder, open on one side, that was built inside a wall of a monastery; it was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world. It was usually about 50 centimeters wide by 30 centimeters high, and its opening did not permit visual or tactile contact with the uncloistered.
Rota (island) Rota (Chamoru: Luta) also known as the "peaceful island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the second southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago. It lies slightly northeast of the United States territory of Guam.
Rota Romântica The Rota Romântica, Portuguese for the "Romantic Route", is a scenic tourist route which runs through 13 municipalities located in the moutainous Serra Gaúcha in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The area was originally colonized by German immigrants in the first half of the 19th century.
Rotamah Island Bird Observatory Rotamah Island Bird Observatory was established in 1979 on Rotamah Island in the Gippsland Lakes National Park in eastern Victoria, Australia, by Birds Australia as Australia's second bird observatory, in order to provide a base for the study and enjoyment of the birds of the area. Rotamah Island had previously been a farming property, and the observatory was established in 'Overstrand', the homestead built in 1908.
Rotana Hotels Rotana Hotels Management Corporation is a hotel management chain based in the Middle East. Rotana is considered the first Middle Eastern hotel chain and has experienced rapid growth since its inception in 1992.
Rotaract Rotaract was founded in 1968 by Rotary International, a worldwide association of service-minded business and professional leaders. Today there are more than 7,500 Rotary-sponsored Rotaract Clubs in some 156 countries around the world, with over 173,000 members.
Rotary biological contactor Rotating Biological Contactors are used in the treatment of wastewater as a secondary treatment process. The primary treatment process removes the grit and other solids through a screening process followed by a period of settlement.
Rotary combination lock A rotary combination lock is a lock commonly used to secure safes and as an unkeyed padlock mechanism. This type of locking mechanism consists of a single dial which must be rotated left and right in a certain combination in order to open the lock.
Rotary dial The rotary dial is a device mounted on or in a telephone or switchboard that is designed to send interrupted electrical pulses, known as pulse dialing, corresponding to the number dialed. It was invented in 1888 by Almon Strowger.
Rotary dryer The rotary dryer is a type of industrial dryer employed to reduce or minimise the liquid moisture content of the material it is handling by bringing it into direct contact with a heated gas. The dryer is made up of a large, rotating cylindrical tube, usually supported by concrete columns or steel beams.
Rotary encoder A rotary encoder, also called a shaft encoder, is an electro-mechanical device used to convert the angular position of a shaft or axle to a digital code, making it a sort of transducer. These devices are used in robotics, in top-of-the-line photographic lenses, in computer input devices (such as optomechanical mice and trackballs), and in rotating radar platforms.
Rotary evaporator A rotary evaporator, or rotavap, is a device used in chemical and biochemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle evaporation of solvents. The main components of a rotary evaporator are a vacuum system, consisting of a vacuum pump and a controller, a rotating evaporation flask which can be heated in a heated fluid bath, and a condenser with a condensate collecting flask.
Rotary hammer drill The rotary hammer drill (also known as roto hammer drill or masonry drill) is an electric drill type dedicated to drilling holes in masonry or concrete. The rotary hammer drill is a percussion drill that uses a weight to create the impact force on the masonry bit.
Rotary Interact Rotary Interact (commonly shortened to Interact, short for "International Action") is a high school service club founded in 1962 by Rotary International. It is a student-led, non-profit organization in which 239,000 young people ages 14-18 currently participate.
Rotary International Rotary International is an organization of Rotary Clubs (service clubs) located all over the world (more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas). The members of Rotary Clubs are known as Rotarians.
Rotary polarization Rotary polarization is an optical phenomenon occurring in certain crystalline materials. The vibrational direction of light passing through such a crystal (or sometimes liquids) is rotated so that it varies in a circular manner.
Rotary printing press A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the impressions are curved around a cylinder so that the printing can be done on long continuous rolls of paper, cardboard, plastic, or a large number of other substrates. Rotary drum printing was invented by Richard March Hoe, and then significantly improved by William Bullock
Rotary reciprocation The action in which a body's displacement returns to its starting location in a given time repeatedly in a Rotary axis but without traversing a full rotation, ie back and forth not round and round. The velocity over which the displacement occurs with each repetition not necessarily being constant.
Rotary Reciprocating saw Rotary reciprocating saws are a class of saw that oscillates a cutting implement around a rotary axis, instead of the traditional linear, 'plunging' fashion. Their first use was in the medicine, where cutting through bone warranted the need for a saw with minimal stroke length, and a cutting action that could be implemented through depth cut rather than a follow through cut.
Rotary Rocket Roton was a concept developed in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten.
Rotary saw A rotary saw or spiral cut saw is a type of mechanically powered saw used for making accurate cuts without the need for a pilot hole in wallboard, plywood, or another thin, solid material. Another name in use is RotoZip, a trademark of Bosch Tool Corp.
Rotary screw compressor A rotary screw compressor is a type of gas compressor which uses a rotary type positive displacement mechanism. The mechanism for gas compression utilises either a single screw element or two counter rotating intermeshed helical screw elements housed within a specially shaped chamber.
Rotary snowplow A rotary snowplow is a piece of railroad snowfighting equipment. It is characterized by the large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate as a unit to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it.
Rotary switch A rotary switch is a type of switch that is used on devices which have two or more different "states" or modes of operation, such as a three-speed fan or a CB radio with multiple frequencies of reception or "channels".
Rotary tiller A Rotary tiller is a motorised cultivator that works the soil by means of rotating blades. Rotary tillers are either self propelled or drawn behind a tractor where they are attached by means of a three-point hitch and driven by a Power Take-Off (PTO).
Rotary tool A Rotary tool is a handheld power tool with a variety of rotating accessory bits and attachments that can be used for cutting, carving, sanding, polishing and many other applications. Popular brands include Dremel and Foredom.
Rotary valve A rotary valve is a type of valve in which the rotation of a passage or passages in a transverse plug regulates the flow of liquid or gas through the attached pipes. The common stopcock is the simplest form of rotary valve.
Rotary vane pump A rotary vane pump is a positive-displacement pump that consists of vanes mounted to a rotor that rotates inside of a cavity. In some cases these vanes can be variable length and/or tensioned to maintain contact with the walls as the pump rotates.
Rotary wheel blow molding systems Rotary wheel blow molding systems are used for the high-output production of a wide variety of plastic extrusion blow molded articles. Containers may be produced from small, single serve bottles to large containers up to 20-30 liters in volume - but wheel machines are often sized for the volume and dimensional demands of a specific container, and are typically dedicated to a narrow range of bottle sizes once built.
Rotary Wing Society of India The Rotary Wing Society of India is a non-profit professional society that was founded on 18 June 1998 to aid the growth of the helicopter industry in India. RWSI has approximately 81 corporate members and 550 aviation professionals from the Indian civil and military aviation and has chapters in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, India.
Rotary Youth Exchange Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) is a Rotary International student exchange program for students in secondary school. Since 1927, Rotary International has sent young people around the globe to experience new cultures.
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, or RYLA, is a Rotary International program to help promote youths to become leaders. After a competition and interviews, students in their junior year of high school are sent to a camp setting in which they do leadership activities and listen to speakers.
Rotating beacon A rotating beacon is a device used to assist pilots in finding an airport, particularly those flying in IMC or VFR at night. Additionally, the rotating beacon provides information about the type of airport through the use of a particular set of color filters.
Rotating black hole A rotating black hole (Kerr black hole or Kerr-Newman black hole) is a black hole that possesses angular momentum. It is one of three possible types of black holes that could exist in the theory of gravitation called General Relativity.
Rotating furnace A rotating furnace is a device used to create lenses or primary mirrors for optical telescopes. It was observed that the centrifugal-force-induced shape of a spinning liquid is approximately the same as the shape of a telescope's primary focusing mirror.
Rotating line camera A rotating line camera, is a digital camera which uses a linear CCD array (called "the line") to assemble a digital image during a rotation of the camera, line by line. The CCD array can actually consist of three sensor lines, each for one color channel (Red, Green, and Blue).
Rotating reference frame A rotating frame of reference is a special case of a non-inertial reference frame in which the coordinate system is rotating relative to an inertial reference frame. An everyday example of a rotating reference frame is the surface of the Earth.
Rotating Reserve A number of ships whose construction was authorized during World War I entered service at a time when the post-war cutbacks in funds and personnel seriously curtailed American peacetime naval operations. The Navy established the rotating reserve to maintain a force in readiness.
Rotation (disambiguation) The term rotation can be used in several ways and includes various topics. Generally, it is used to denote (in 3D) the rotation of movement of a rigid body in such a way that any given point of that body remains at a constant distance from some fixed line (in 2D: point).
Rotation (mathematics) In linear algebra and geometry, a rotation is a type of transformation from one system of coordinates to another system of coordinates such that distance between any two points remains invariant under the transformation. In other words, a rotation is a type of isometry – note however that there are isometries other than rotations, such as translations, reflections, and glide reflections.
Rotation around a fixed axis The simplest three-dimensional case of rotation is rotation of a body about a fixed axis of rotation: each point of the body moves in a plane perpendicular to the axis, carrying out a circular motion, with the circle centered at the intersection of the plane and the axis.
Rotation group In mechanics and geometry, the rotation group is the set of all rotations about the origin of 3-dimensional Euclidean space, R3. By definition, a rotation about the origin is a linear transformation that preserves the length of vectors, and also preserves the orientation, or handedness, of space.
Rotation matrix A rotation matrix is a matrix which when multiplied by a vector has the effect of changing the direction of the vector but not its magnitude. Rotation matrices do not include inversions, which can change a right-handed coordinate system into a left-handed coordinate system and vice versa.
Rotation of axes Rotation of Axes is a form of Euclidean transformation in which the entire xy-coordinate system is rotated in the counter-clockwise direction with respect to the origin (0, 0) through a scalar quantity denoted by θ.
Rotation representation (mathematics) In geometry a rotation representation expresses the orientation of an object (or coordinate frame) relative to a coordinate reference frame. This concept extends to classical mechanics where rotational kinematics is the science of describing purely rotational motion of an object.
Rotation-powered pulsar A rotation-powered pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star, whose electromagnetic radiation is observed in regularly spaced intervals, or pulses. It differs from other types of pulsars in that the source of power for the production of radiation is the loss of rotational energy.
Rotational delay Rotational delay is a term from computing applicable to rotating storage devices (such as a hard disk or floppy disk drive but also the older drum memory systems). The rotational delay is the time required for the addressed area of the disk (or drum) to rotate into a position where it is accessible by the read/write head.
Rotational invariance In mathematics, a function defined on an inner product space is said to have rotational invariance if its value does not change when arbitrary rotations are applied to its argument. For example, the function f(x,y) = x2 + y2 is invariant under rotations of the plane around the origin.
Rotational spectroscopy Rotational spectroscopy or microwave spectroscopy studies the absorption and emission electromagnetic radiation (typically in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum) by molecules associated with a corresponding change in the rotational quantum number of the molecule. The use of microwaves in spectroscopy essentially became possible due to the development of microwave technology for RADAR during World War II.
Rotational transition A rotational transition is an abrupt change in angular momentum in quantum physics. Like all other properties of a quantum particle, angular momentum is quantized, meaning it can only equal certain discrete values, which correspond to different rotational energy states.
Rotationplasty Rotationplasty is an operative procedure where a portion of a limb is removed, while the remaining limb below the involved portion is rotated and reattached. This procedure is used when a portion of an extremity is injured or involved with a disease, such as cancer.
Rotax 912 The Rotax 912 is a normally-aspirated, air- and water-cooled, horizontally-opposed, four-cylinder, four-stroke, gear reduction-drive engine commonly used on light sport aircraft and ultralight aircraft. The engine is available in four versions:
Rotax Max The Rotax Max group of classes were designed by Bombardier to provide cost-effective but high speed kart racing. The engine used is a fixed-gear 125 cc reed valve engine which is sealed, and only authorised "Service Centres" are allowed to carry out maintenance.
Rotaxane A rotaxane is a mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture consisting of a dumbbell-shaped molecule that is threaded through a macrocycle or ring-like molecule. The two components are kinetically trapped as the two end-groups of the dumbbell (often called stoppers) are larger than the internal diameter of the ring, and thus prevent dissociation (unthreading) since this would require significant distortion of the covalent bonds.
Rotbold II of Provence Rotbold II (also Rothbold, Rotbald, Rodbald, Roubaud, or Rotbaud; died 1008) was the Count of Provence from 968 to his death and margrave from 993. He was the elder of two sons of Boso II of Arles and Constance, the younger being William I, who took up the title of marchio in 979 and that of dux later.
Rotbold III of Provence Rotbold III (also Rothbold, Rotbald, Rodbald, Roubaud, or Rotbaud; died 1014 or 1015) was the Count and Margrave of Provence from 1005 to his death. He was the only son of Rotbold II and Emilde, daughter of Stephen, Viscount of GĂ©vaudan.
Rote Insel Rote Insel (literally, Red Island) is the name colloquially given to a neighborhood in the Schöneberg district of the German capital, Berlin. As such, the Island is part of Berlin's 7th administrative borough, Tempelhof-Schöneberg.
Rote learning Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding the inner complexities and inferences of the subject that is being learned and instead focuses on memorizing the material so that it can be recalled by the learner exactly the way it was read or heard. In other words, it is learning "just for the test".
Rossmann fold The Rossmann fold is a protein structural motif found in proteins that bind nucleotides, especially the cofactor NAD. The structure is composed of three or more parallel beta strands linked by two alpha helices in the topological order beta-alpha-beta-alpha-beta.
Rossmoor, Maryland Rossmoor is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is an area primarily inhabited by retirees, and comprises almost entirely the large retirement community of Leisure World.
Rossmore Community College Rossmore Community College is a 12-18 mixed specialist school with Sports College status serving the Rossmore, Parkstone, Newtown, Wallisdown and Alderney, Poole areas of Poole, UK. It was previously named The Martin-Kemp Welch School before changing to Rossmore Community College in 2001 in a final attempt to shake off the bad reputation associated with the Kemp-Welch name.
Rosso (band) ROSSO is a one of a few Japanese Garage bands which formed around the end of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. Musically, ROSSO can be said to pick up where TMGE left off, carrying on TMGE's evolved sound in their final single & album; Electric Circus & Sabrina No Heaven.
Rosso corsa Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of Italy. Since the 1920s, Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati and later Ferrari and Abarth were (and often still are) painted in rosso corsa ("race red").
Rosso JosĂ© Serrano Rosso josĂ© Serrano Cadena was born on August 30, 1942 in VĂ©lez, Colombia. Head chief of the Colombian National Police from 1994 to 2000 during Ernesto Samper's presidency and was one of the masterminds behind the dismantling of the Cali Cartel and MedellĂn Cartel.
Rossport Five The Rossport Five are James Brendan Philbin, brothers Philip and Vincent McGrath, Willie Corduff and Micheál Ó Seighin. These five men from County Mayo, Ireland were jailed on 29 June 2005 by Justice Finnegan, President of the High Court of the Republic of Ireland for contempt of court.
Rossport Solidarity Camp Rossport Solidarity Camp was established in the middle of June 2005, at the request of residents of Rossport, in north-west Mayo, Ireland, opposing the construction of a high pressure gas pipeline and inland gas refinery in their area. It was born out of a solidarity gathering held in Rossport on the first weekend in June that year.
Rosston, Texas Rosston is a small farming community in southwest Cooke County, Texas on FM 922 along Clear Creek, mid-way between Forestburg in Montague County and Era in Cooke County. In 2000, it reported a population of 110.
Rosstown Railway, Melbourne The Rosstown Railway was built in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia in the late 19th century by William Murray Ross with the intention of transporting processed sugar from his sugar beet mill to the Melbourne ports. When the mill failed to begin production, the line fell into disrepair without being used and was eventually disassembled and the land sold to developers.
Rosthern Junior College Rosthern Junior College, an independent high school, has been a landmark institution in the town of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada since 1905. Opening in that year as the German-English Academy, it was founded by Mennonite settlers in response to a need for trained teachers to work in the schools being established in homestead communities in Saskatchewan.
Rostislav (1896) The Rostislav (Đ ĐľŃтиŃлав - named after Grand prince Rostislav I of Kiev) was a Russian Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Built by Nikolayev dockyard , laid down in 1895 launched in September 1896 and completed in 1898.
Rostislav II of Kiev Rostislav Rurikovich (Đ ĐľŃтиŃлав Рюрикович in Russian) (1173 - before 1214), Prince of Torchesk (1195-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev (1204-1206), Prince of Vyshhorod (1205-1210), Prince of Halych (1207). Son of Rurik Rostislavich.
Rostock Power Station Rostock Power Station is a bituminous coal-fired combined heat and power plant operated by Kraftwerks- und Netzgesellschaft mbH (KNG), located in Rostock, Germany. Construction on the plant began in June 1991, and test firing and Grid connection were carried out from March to September, 1994.
Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast (, Rostovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. Rostov Oblast lies in the south of Russia with an area of 100,800 km² and a population of 4,404,013 (2002 Census) making it the fifth most populous federal subject in Russia.
Rostra The Rostra, located in the Roman Forum, was the platform beside the Curia from which orators spoke to the assembled people. Its name was taken from the bronze ships' beaks (rostrum) that decorated the front (some of the first of which, were taken from the victories in the battles of Anzio against the Volscians and Mylae in 260 BC), their supporting vertical slots and large [holes still to be seen.
Rostral migratory stream The rostral migratory stream (RMS) is a pathway along which neuronal precursors that originated in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the brain migrate to reach the main olfactory bulb, where they differentiate into interneurons. Neurogenesis has been shown to occur in the SVZ into adulthood (it was previously thought that neurons could not regenerate in the adult brain).
Rostraver Ice Garden The Rostraver Ice Garden is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, USA. It hosts locals sporting events and concerts, and in 2007 will be home to the Pittsburgh RiverRats indoor football team and part-time home of the M.
Rostrevor Rostrevor (in Irish: Ros Treabhair, ie Trevor’s Wood, also Caislean Ruairi, ie Rory's Castle) is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on Carlingford Lough and the hill of Slieve Martin, at the base of the Mountains of Mourne and on the Kilbroney River.
Rostrevor Baptist Church The Rostrevor Baptist Church is an evangelical Baptist Church in the suburb of Rostrevor in Adelaide. Its membership has been at odds with Australian percentagewise church adherence decline, growing steadily throughout the 1990s under the leadership of Pastor Dean Eaton.
Rostrevor College Rostrevor College is a Catholic all boys' day and boarding school in Adelaide, South Australia. It was founded in 1923 by the Christian Brothers and today enrols more than 1,000 students from Reception to Year 12, including International Students.
Rostrum (anatomy) A rostrum (Latin for "beak") is an anatomical structure resembling a bird's beak, such as the snout of a crocodile or dolphin or the foremost extension of a crustacean's carapace. Since the rostrum is typically located about the thorax of an arthropod, it is differentiated from the cauda or tail.
Rostrum camera A rostrum camera is a specially adapted camera used in television and film to animate a still picture or object. It consists of a moving lower platform on which the article to be filmed is placed, while the camera is placed above on a column.
Rostyle wheel Rostyle wheels are a notable design of wheels for cars made by the British firm of Rubery Owen, a diversified industrial company which made many car parts. The wheels had an unusual pressed steel form to imitate the few ribs of mag wheels at the time, but were painted black (or perhaps body color) and aluminium.
Rosuvastatin Rosuvastatin is a member of the drug class of statins, used to treat hypercholesterolemia and related conditions, and to prevent cardiovascular disease. It is currently being marketed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca as Crestor®.
RosUkrEnergo RosUkrEnergo is a Swiss-registered venture company that transports natural gas from Turkmenistan to East European countries. 50 percent of the company is owned by Gazprom, through its daughter Swiss-registered ARosgas Holding A.
Rosvall and Voutilainen Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen were two Finnish-Canadian unionists from Thunder Bay, Ontario and members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada who mysteriously disappeared on November 18, 1929. The two were on their way to a bushcamp near Onion Lake to recruit sympathetic bushworkers for a large strike which was gaining momentum west of Thunder Bay in Shabaqua and Shebandowan.
Roswell Daily Record The Roswell Daily Record is a local newspaper located in Roswell, New Mexico], and has a circulation of Under 25,000. The paper is notorious in the UFO community because it was the newspaper that reported in [[1947 the alleged Roswell UFO crash.
Roswell High Roswell High is a young adults' book series written by Melinda Metz and published by Pocket Books. The 10-book series chronicles the adventures of 3 teen aliens and their human friends, who attend the fictional Ulysses F.
Roswell S. Ripley Roswell Sabine Ripley (March 14, 1823 – March 26, 1887) was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and, despite bring Northern-born, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was also an author and a prosperous South Carolina businessman.
Roswell UFO incident The Roswell UFO incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947 which have since become the subject of intense speculation and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened, and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed.
Rosy Cross The rosy cross (also called "rose cross" and "rose croix") is a symbol largely associated with the semi-mythical Christian Rosencreutz (1378-1484), alchemist and founder of the Rosicrucian Order. It has several meanings, depending on the source.
Rosy retrospection Rosy retrospection refers to the finding that subjects later rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred, reminiscent of the Latin phrase memoria praeteritorum bonorum ("The past is always well remembered.")
Rosy Senanayake Bernadine Rosemarie Ramanayake Senanayake (Rosy Senanayake) is a working committee member of the main opposition United National Party in Sri Lanka and a formerSri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia[http://pgoh13.free.
Rosy-faced Lovebird The Rosy-faced Lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), also known as the Peach-faced Lovebird, is a species of lovebird native to arid regions in southwestern Africa such as the Namib Desert. A loud and constant chirper, these birds are very social animals and often congregate in small groups in the wild.
Rosyface shiner The rosyface shiner (Notropis rubellus) is a small North American fish found throughout the central and eastern United States and southern Canada in clear pools and riffles in large creeks and small rivers. It can grow to 3.
Rosyth Rosyth (pronounced Ross-sythe) (Scottish Gaelic: <I>Ros Saoithe</I>) is a town located on the Firth of Forth on Scotland's east coast, a mile (1.6 km) south of Dunfermline, Fife, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) north west of Edinburgh.
Rot Front Open Joint-Stock Company Rot Front Open Joint-Stock Company () is one of the oldest Russian confectionary manufacturers and a member of Obyedinyonnye Konditery holding company. Rot Front produces over 200 types of confectionery and sells in all Russian regions, CIS countries, Western Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Rot Weiss Deuten SV Rot Weiss Deuten is a German football club from Deuten, North Rhine-Westphalia which is near the town of Borken, close to the Dutch border. A group put together in late 1959 was formally organized into a sports association in 1964 and began play in 1967 in the 2.
Rot-WeiĂź Ahlen Rot-WeiĂź Ahlen is a German football club based in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Until recently the club was known as LR Ahlen for its major sponsor, but underwent a name change when the sponsor withdrew its support after the team was relegated to the Regionalliga (III) in 2006.
Rot-WeiĂź Oberhausen Rot-Weiss Oberhausen is a German football club in Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The club was formed as Oberhausener SV in December, 1904 out of the merger of Emschertaler SV (1902) and the football enthusiasts of Oberhausener TV 1873.
Rota (architecture) The rota was a cylinder, open on one side, that was built inside a wall of a monastery; it was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world. It was usually about 50 centimeters wide by 30 centimeters high, and its opening did not permit visual or tactile contact with the uncloistered.
Rota (island) Rota (Chamoru: Luta) also known as the "peaceful island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the second southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago. It lies slightly northeast of the United States territory of Guam.
Rota Romântica The Rota Romântica, Portuguese for the "Romantic Route", is a scenic tourist route which runs through 13 municipalities located in the moutainous Serra Gaúcha in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The area was originally colonized by German immigrants in the first half of the 19th century.
Rotamah Island Bird Observatory Rotamah Island Bird Observatory was established in 1979 on Rotamah Island in the Gippsland Lakes National Park in eastern Victoria, Australia, by Birds Australia as Australia's second bird observatory, in order to provide a base for the study and enjoyment of the birds of the area. Rotamah Island had previously been a farming property, and the observatory was established in 'Overstrand', the homestead built in 1908.
Rotana Hotels Rotana Hotels Management Corporation is a hotel management chain based in the Middle East. Rotana is considered the first Middle Eastern hotel chain and has experienced rapid growth since its inception in 1992.
Rotaract Rotaract was founded in 1968 by Rotary International, a worldwide association of service-minded business and professional leaders. Today there are more than 7,500 Rotary-sponsored Rotaract Clubs in some 156 countries around the world, with over 173,000 members.
Rotary biological contactor Rotating Biological Contactors are used in the treatment of wastewater as a secondary treatment process. The primary treatment process removes the grit and other solids through a screening process followed by a period of settlement.
Rotary combination lock A rotary combination lock is a lock commonly used to secure safes and as an unkeyed padlock mechanism. This type of locking mechanism consists of a single dial which must be rotated left and right in a certain combination in order to open the lock.
Rotary dial The rotary dial is a device mounted on or in a telephone or switchboard that is designed to send interrupted electrical pulses, known as pulse dialing, corresponding to the number dialed. It was invented in 1888 by Almon Strowger.
Rotary dryer The rotary dryer is a type of industrial dryer employed to reduce or minimise the liquid moisture content of the material it is handling by bringing it into direct contact with a heated gas. The dryer is made up of a large, rotating cylindrical tube, usually supported by concrete columns or steel beams.
Rotary encoder A rotary encoder, also called a shaft encoder, is an electro-mechanical device used to convert the angular position of a shaft or axle to a digital code, making it a sort of transducer. These devices are used in robotics, in top-of-the-line photographic lenses, in computer input devices (such as optomechanical mice and trackballs), and in rotating radar platforms.
Rotary evaporator A rotary evaporator, or rotavap, is a device used in chemical and biochemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle evaporation of solvents. The main components of a rotary evaporator are a vacuum system, consisting of a vacuum pump and a controller, a rotating evaporation flask which can be heated in a heated fluid bath, and a condenser with a condensate collecting flask.
Rotary hammer drill The rotary hammer drill (also known as roto hammer drill or masonry drill) is an electric drill type dedicated to drilling holes in masonry or concrete. The rotary hammer drill is a percussion drill that uses a weight to create the impact force on the masonry bit.
Rotary Interact Rotary Interact (commonly shortened to Interact, short for "International Action") is a high school service club founded in 1962 by Rotary International. It is a student-led, non-profit organization in which 239,000 young people ages 14-18 currently participate.
Rotary International Rotary International is an organization of Rotary Clubs (service clubs) located all over the world (more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas). The members of Rotary Clubs are known as Rotarians.
Rotary polarization Rotary polarization is an optical phenomenon occurring in certain crystalline materials. The vibrational direction of light passing through such a crystal (or sometimes liquids) is rotated so that it varies in a circular manner.
Rotary printing press A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the impressions are curved around a cylinder so that the printing can be done on long continuous rolls of paper, cardboard, plastic, or a large number of other substrates. Rotary drum printing was invented by Richard March Hoe, and then significantly improved by William Bullock
Rotary reciprocation The action in which a body's displacement returns to its starting location in a given time repeatedly in a Rotary axis but without traversing a full rotation, ie back and forth not round and round. The velocity over which the displacement occurs with each repetition not necessarily being constant.
Rotary Reciprocating saw Rotary reciprocating saws are a class of saw that oscillates a cutting implement around a rotary axis, instead of the traditional linear, 'plunging' fashion. Their first use was in the medicine, where cutting through bone warranted the need for a saw with minimal stroke length, and a cutting action that could be implemented through depth cut rather than a follow through cut.
Rotary Rocket Roton was a concept developed in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten.
Rotary saw A rotary saw or spiral cut saw is a type of mechanically powered saw used for making accurate cuts without the need for a pilot hole in wallboard, plywood, or another thin, solid material. Another name in use is RotoZip, a trademark of Bosch Tool Corp.
Rotary screw compressor A rotary screw compressor is a type of gas compressor which uses a rotary type positive displacement mechanism. The mechanism for gas compression utilises either a single screw element or two counter rotating intermeshed helical screw elements housed within a specially shaped chamber.
Rotary snowplow A rotary snowplow is a piece of railroad snowfighting equipment. It is characterized by the large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate as a unit to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it.
Rotary switch A rotary switch is a type of switch that is used on devices which have two or more different "states" or modes of operation, such as a three-speed fan or a CB radio with multiple frequencies of reception or "channels".
Rotary tiller A Rotary tiller is a motorised cultivator that works the soil by means of rotating blades. Rotary tillers are either self propelled or drawn behind a tractor where they are attached by means of a three-point hitch and driven by a Power Take-Off (PTO).
Rotary tool A Rotary tool is a handheld power tool with a variety of rotating accessory bits and attachments that can be used for cutting, carving, sanding, polishing and many other applications. Popular brands include Dremel and Foredom.
Rotary valve A rotary valve is a type of valve in which the rotation of a passage or passages in a transverse plug regulates the flow of liquid or gas through the attached pipes. The common stopcock is the simplest form of rotary valve.
Rotary vane pump A rotary vane pump is a positive-displacement pump that consists of vanes mounted to a rotor that rotates inside of a cavity. In some cases these vanes can be variable length and/or tensioned to maintain contact with the walls as the pump rotates.
Rotary wheel blow molding systems Rotary wheel blow molding systems are used for the high-output production of a wide variety of plastic extrusion blow molded articles. Containers may be produced from small, single serve bottles to large containers up to 20-30 liters in volume - but wheel machines are often sized for the volume and dimensional demands of a specific container, and are typically dedicated to a narrow range of bottle sizes once built.
Rotary Wing Society of India The Rotary Wing Society of India is a non-profit professional society that was founded on 18 June 1998 to aid the growth of the helicopter industry in India. RWSI has approximately 81 corporate members and 550 aviation professionals from the Indian civil and military aviation and has chapters in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, India.
Rotary Youth Exchange Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) is a Rotary International student exchange program for students in secondary school. Since 1927, Rotary International has sent young people around the globe to experience new cultures.
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, or RYLA, is a Rotary International program to help promote youths to become leaders. After a competition and interviews, students in their junior year of high school are sent to a camp setting in which they do leadership activities and listen to speakers.
Rotating beacon A rotating beacon is a device used to assist pilots in finding an airport, particularly those flying in IMC or VFR at night. Additionally, the rotating beacon provides information about the type of airport through the use of a particular set of color filters.
Rotating black hole A rotating black hole (Kerr black hole or Kerr-Newman black hole) is a black hole that possesses angular momentum. It is one of three possible types of black holes that could exist in the theory of gravitation called General Relativity.
Rotating furnace A rotating furnace is a device used to create lenses or primary mirrors for optical telescopes. It was observed that the centrifugal-force-induced shape of a spinning liquid is approximately the same as the shape of a telescope's primary focusing mirror.
Rotating line camera A rotating line camera, is a digital camera which uses a linear CCD array (called "the line") to assemble a digital image during a rotation of the camera, line by line. The CCD array can actually consist of three sensor lines, each for one color channel (Red, Green, and Blue).
Rotating reference frame A rotating frame of reference is a special case of a non-inertial reference frame in which the coordinate system is rotating relative to an inertial reference frame. An everyday example of a rotating reference frame is the surface of the Earth.
Rotating Reserve A number of ships whose construction was authorized during World War I entered service at a time when the post-war cutbacks in funds and personnel seriously curtailed American peacetime naval operations. The Navy established the rotating reserve to maintain a force in readiness.
Rotation (disambiguation) The term rotation can be used in several ways and includes various topics. Generally, it is used to denote (in 3D) the rotation of movement of a rigid body in such a way that any given point of that body remains at a constant distance from some fixed line (in 2D: point).
Rotation (mathematics) In linear algebra and geometry, a rotation is a type of transformation from one system of coordinates to another system of coordinates such that distance between any two points remains invariant under the transformation. In other words, a rotation is a type of isometry – note however that there are isometries other than rotations, such as translations, reflections, and glide reflections.
Rotation around a fixed axis The simplest three-dimensional case of rotation is rotation of a body about a fixed axis of rotation: each point of the body moves in a plane perpendicular to the axis, carrying out a circular motion, with the circle centered at the intersection of the plane and the axis.
Rotation group In mechanics and geometry, the rotation group is the set of all rotations about the origin of 3-dimensional Euclidean space, R3. By definition, a rotation about the origin is a linear transformation that preserves the length of vectors, and also preserves the orientation, or handedness, of space.
Rotation matrix A rotation matrix is a matrix which when multiplied by a vector has the effect of changing the direction of the vector but not its magnitude. Rotation matrices do not include inversions, which can change a right-handed coordinate system into a left-handed coordinate system and vice versa.
Rotation of axes Rotation of Axes is a form of Euclidean transformation in which the entire xy-coordinate system is rotated in the counter-clockwise direction with respect to the origin (0, 0) through a scalar quantity denoted by θ.
Rotation representation (mathematics) In geometry a rotation representation expresses the orientation of an object (or coordinate frame) relative to a coordinate reference frame. This concept extends to classical mechanics where rotational kinematics is the science of describing purely rotational motion of an object.
Rotation-powered pulsar A rotation-powered pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star, whose electromagnetic radiation is observed in regularly spaced intervals, or pulses. It differs from other types of pulsars in that the source of power for the production of radiation is the loss of rotational energy.
Rotational delay Rotational delay is a term from computing applicable to rotating storage devices (such as a hard disk or floppy disk drive but also the older drum memory systems). The rotational delay is the time required for the addressed area of the disk (or drum) to rotate into a position where it is accessible by the read/write head.
Rotational invariance In mathematics, a function defined on an inner product space is said to have rotational invariance if its value does not change when arbitrary rotations are applied to its argument. For example, the function f(x,y) = x2 + y2 is invariant under rotations of the plane around the origin.
Rotational spectroscopy Rotational spectroscopy or microwave spectroscopy studies the absorption and emission electromagnetic radiation (typically in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum) by molecules associated with a corresponding change in the rotational quantum number of the molecule. The use of microwaves in spectroscopy essentially became possible due to the development of microwave technology for RADAR during World War II.
Rotational transition A rotational transition is an abrupt change in angular momentum in quantum physics. Like all other properties of a quantum particle, angular momentum is quantized, meaning it can only equal certain discrete values, which correspond to different rotational energy states.
Rotationplasty Rotationplasty is an operative procedure where a portion of a limb is removed, while the remaining limb below the involved portion is rotated and reattached. This procedure is used when a portion of an extremity is injured or involved with a disease, such as cancer.
Rotax 912 The Rotax 912 is a normally-aspirated, air- and water-cooled, horizontally-opposed, four-cylinder, four-stroke, gear reduction-drive engine commonly used on light sport aircraft and ultralight aircraft. The engine is available in four versions:
Rotax Max The Rotax Max group of classes were designed by Bombardier to provide cost-effective but high speed kart racing. The engine used is a fixed-gear 125 cc reed valve engine which is sealed, and only authorised "Service Centres" are allowed to carry out maintenance.
Rotaxane A rotaxane is a mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture consisting of a dumbbell-shaped molecule that is threaded through a macrocycle or ring-like molecule. The two components are kinetically trapped as the two end-groups of the dumbbell (often called stoppers) are larger than the internal diameter of the ring, and thus prevent dissociation (unthreading) since this would require significant distortion of the covalent bonds.
Rotbold II of Provence Rotbold II (also Rothbold, Rotbald, Rodbald, Roubaud, or Rotbaud; died 1008) was the Count of Provence from 968 to his death and margrave from 993. He was the elder of two sons of Boso II of Arles and Constance, the younger being William I, who took up the title of marchio in 979 and that of dux later.
Rotbold III of Provence Rotbold III (also Rothbold, Rotbald, Rodbald, Roubaud, or Rotbaud; died 1014 or 1015) was the Count and Margrave of Provence from 1005 to his death. He was the only son of Rotbold II and Emilde, daughter of Stephen, Viscount of GĂ©vaudan.
Rote Insel Rote Insel (literally, Red Island) is the name colloquially given to a neighborhood in the Schöneberg district of the German capital, Berlin. As such, the Island is part of Berlin's 7th administrative borough, Tempelhof-Schöneberg.
Rote learning Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding the inner complexities and inferences of the subject that is being learned and instead focuses on memorizing the material so that it can be recalled by the learner exactly the way it was read or heard. In other words, it is learning "just for the test".
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