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Rotterdam Termination Source Rotterdam Termination Source is a Dutch gabber / hardcore group, based around the nucleus of Maurice Steenbergen, initially with Danny Scholte. The group is most famous for its minimalist 1992 single Poing, which topped the charts in the Netherlands and Denmark and reached number 27 in the British pop charts.
Rotterdam Terror Corps Rotterdam Terror Corps is a Dutch gabber group formed in 1993 that is well known for its hard beats and is considered by many as a pioneer in the genre. Originally formed by five Dutch DJ's (DJ Distortion, MC Raw, DJ Reanimator, DJ Petrov, and DJ Rob), currently there are only two of the original left.
Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram RET (Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram) is the main public transport operator in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It currently operates 28 bus lines, 9 tram lines and two metro/light rail lines in Rotterdam and the surrounding municipalities.
Rotting (band) Rotting is a Canadian death metal band, formed in the early 90's with influences such as Deicide, Suffocation and Autopsy. Rotting's lyrical aspect stems from anti-religion, death and gore; keeping it simple while still retaining an original sound.
Rotting Piñata Rotting Piñata is the debut album by the band Sponge, released in 1994 on Sony Records. Hit singles from this album, such as "Molly (Sixteen Candles)" and "Plowed", helped launch the band's career.
Rottum (Groningen) Rottum (or Röppen) is a small village on an artificial dwelling hill between Kantens and Usquert in the municipality of Eemsmond, falling under the province Groningen in the Netherlands. The village currently counts about 165 inhabitants.
Rottumeroog Rottumeroog (or also known as Rottum) is one of the three islands that make up Rottum, a group of islands that are part of the West Frisian Islands archipelago. The island is situated off the Dutch coast in the North Sea.
Rotuma Rotuma is a Fijian Dependency, consisting of the island of Rotuma and the nearby islets of Hatana, Hafleua, Solkope, Solnohu and Uea. These volcanic islands are located at , approximately 465 kilometers north of Fiji.
Rotuma (Rotuman Communal Constituency, Fiji) Rotuma Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, the sole communal constituency reserved for citizens of Rotuman descent. Its boundaries encompass the entire nation; Rotuman-descendants anywhere in Fiji are eligible to vote for, and be a candidate for, this constituency.
Rotuma Group The Rotuma Group is a group of islands dominated by Rotuma Island, and including the nearby islets of Hatana, Hafleua, Solkope, Solnohu and Uea. These volcanic islands are located at , approximately 465 kilometers north of Fiji.
Rotuman language Rotuman, also referred to as Rotunan, Rutuman or Faeag Rotuma, is a language spoken by the indigenous people of the South Pacific island group of Rotuma, a Polynesian island that was incorporated as a dependency into the Colony of Fiji in 1881. Classification of Rotuman is difficult due to the large number of loan words from Samoan and Tongan, as a result of much cultural exchange over the history of the Pacific.
Rotunda Hospital The Rotunda Hospital is one of the three main maternity hospitals in the city of Dublin, the others being The Coombe and Holles Street. The hospital is located just off the top of O'Connell Street, on Parnell Square, on the north side of the city.
Rotvoll Rotvoll is an area of Trondheim, Norway located between Leangen to the west and Ranheim to the east. The area has some suburban housing and is otherwise dominated by the Statoil research facility and Sør-Trøndelag University College campus for teacher education.
Roud Folk Song Index The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000 references to over 5,900 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index".
Roudbar Roodbar (also spelled "Roudbar" or "rudbar") is the highest city near the Caspian (viewed on Google Earth in Northern Iran/Southern Caspian). It is located in a mountainous area and therefore is surrounded by many hills and mountains such as "Dorfak".
Roue de Paris The Roue de Paris is a giant transportable ferris wheel, originally installed in Paris, France, for the 2000 millennium celebrations. It needs no permanent foundations, because it uses water ballast tanks to provide a stable base.
Roue Magazine Roue magazine, once described as the 'Rolls Royce' of spanking magazines, established an international reputation for style and content. The 1970s and '80s, often described as the Golden era of British spanking, saw Roue and its rival publications Janus & Blushes dominate British spanking in this time.
Rouen duck The Rouen duck is a heavyweight breed of domesticated duck raised primarily for decoration or as general purpose ducks, since they are not prolific egg layers. The breed originated in France sometime before the 19th century.
Rouge - Neighbourhood Rouge is a neighbourhood in the North East corner of the city of Toronto, more specifically Scarborough. The neighbourhood as defined by the city of Toronto contains many 'niche' areas that are more common to residents in the area.
Rouge (pop group) Rouge was a commercially successful, Spice Girls-like Brazilian vocal group and girl band, formed in the first season of the reality show Popstars, broadcated by SBT in 2002. In four years of career, they achieved four Gold, three Platinum and one Diamond album in Brazil and released various hit singles, becoming the most successful Brazilian girl group of all time.
Rouge (TV series) Rouge was a English-language Action/Adventure television series from Singapore that ran on both Channel 5 and throughout Southeast Asia on MTV Asia in 2004 (both companies also co-produced the program). The show also ran in Australia (on MTV Australia) and the United States (on AZN Television).
Rouge Brésil Rouge Brésil is a French historical novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin which recounts the unsuccessful French attempt to conquer Brazil in the 16th century, against a background of wars of religion and a rite-of-passage discovery of the charms and secrets of the Amerindian world.
Rouge Herald Extraordinary Rouge Herald of Arms Extraordinary (HĂ©raut Rouge extraordinaire in French) is the title of one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa. Herald Extraordinary is an honorary position reserved for people who have made notable contributions to Canadian heraldry.
Rouge Hill (GO Station) Rouge Hill GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located at 6251 Lawrence Avenue East, near the former Port Union station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line train service.
Rouge Park Rouge Park is a large "urban" park located in east end Toronto. Most of it is actually not an urban park in the strictest sense of the term, but is actually a rather large rural area where development was declared off-limits, then established as a park.
Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association The Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association puts on the second- or third- oldest Threshermen’s Reunion in the United States. It is held in the middle of August each year, from Wednesday through Saturday, in Kinzers, Pennsylvania, about eight miles east of the city of Lancaster.
Rough Auditing Tool for Security Rough Auditing Tool for Security (RATS) is an automated code review tool, provided by Secure Software Inc. It scans C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python source code and flagging common security related programming errors such as buffer overflows and TOCTOU (Time Of Check, Time Of Use) race conditions.
Rough cast Rough cast in architecture, is the exterior coating originally given to the walls of common dwellings and outbuildings, but now frequently employed for decorative effect on country houses, especially those built in half timber. It is a composition of small gravel and sand, mixed with strong lime mortar, and is thrown on the walls already covered with two ordinary coats of plaster.
Rough consensus Rough consensus is a term used in consensus decision-making to indicate the "sense of the group" concerning a particular matter under consideration. It has been defined as the "dominant view" of a group as determined by its chairperson.
Rough Collie A Rough Collie is a breed of dog developed originally for herding in Scotland. It is well known because of the works of author Albert Payson Terhune, and was popularized in later generations by the Lassie novel, movies, and television shows.
Rough Creek Ranch Rough Creek Ranch is a small (approximately 1000 acres) ranch located northwest of Thomas, Oklahoma. It is the first parcel to be purchased in a long-term plan to re-establish the equivalent of conditions in Oklahoma which existed prior to the arrival of Europeans in the 16th through 18th centuries.
Rough Diamonds/Anything Goes (EP) Rough Diamonds/Anything Goes EP is the debut release by the Australian Rock band End of Fashion. The songs Rough Diamonds and She's Love were later re-recorded for End of Fashions debut album simply titled End of Fashion.
Rough Draft (Russian novel) Rough Draft is a 2005 Russian novel by famous author Sergey Lukyanenko. It's city fantasy, story of a young man who was appointed at a work position in bizarre system unifying several parallel worlds (with organic supernatural abilities).
Rough fuzzy hybridization Rough fuzzy hybridization is a method of hybrid intelligent system or soft computing, where Fuzzy set theory is used for linguistic representation of patterns, leading to a fuzzy granulation of the feature space. Rough set theory is used to obtain dependency rules which model informative regions in the granulated feature space.
Rough Fell (sheep) The Rough Fell is an upland breed of sheep, originating in the UK. It is common on its 'native' mountain and moorland farms, its distribution embracing a large proportion of South Cumbria, parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, North Lancashire and, more recently, upland parts of Devon.
Rough Fescue Rough Fescue (Festuca scabrella) is a a native, perennial bunchgrass found throughout north-western North America. The Canadian province of Alberta is home to the largest area of rough fescue grassland in North America, and hosts the plains, foothills, and northern variaties.
Rough Mix Rough Mix was a collaboration between The Who guitarist Pete Townshend and Faces bassist Ronnie Lane, released in 1977. It features a number of guest performers, including John Entwistle, Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts and John "Rabbit" Bundrick.
Rough number A k-rough number, as defined by Finch in 2001 and 2003, is a positive integer whose prime factors are all greater than or equal to k. For example, every integer that is congruent to 3 mod 6 is 3-rough; every integer that is congruent to 5 or 25 mod 30 is 5-rough.
Rough Point Rough Point is one of the fabled Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum. It a English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbiltwww.
Rough River The Rough River is a tributary of the Green River, 136 mi (219 km) long Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry , in west-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Green and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River DeLorme (2005).
Rough scallop Rough Scallop Aequipectin muscosus (=Chlamys muscosus) grows up to 1 3/4 inches. It is typically a small, scallop-shaped shell with about twenty strong ribs which have many erect scales or small spines near the margin.
Rough Science Rough Science is a UK factual television series made by the BBC in collaboration with the Open University and has, as of 2005, had six series. It is broadcast in prime time on BBC Two and is considered something of a "break-out hit" for the Open University.
Rough Trade (band) Rough Trade was a Canadian new wave rock band in the 1970s and 1980s. The band are most famous for their 1981 hit "High School Confidential", one of the first explicitly lesbian-themed Top 40 hits in the world.
Rough Trade Shop The Rough Trade Shop is an independent music store in the Portobello district of West London, England. It was founded in 1976, and in 1978 spawned the famous Rough Trade Records, which was to go on to be home to bands from The Smiths to The Strokes.
Rough-head whiptail The rough-head whiptail or oblique banded rattail, Caelorinchus aspercephalus, is a rattail of the genus Caelorinchus, found around New Zealand including islands to New Zealand's south, at depths of between 30 and 300 m. Its length is between 15 to 35 cm.
Rough-skinned Newt The rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) is a North American newt known for its strong poison. They are available in some places as pets, sometimes with names "Oregon newt" or "orange-bellied newt.
Roughan Castle Roughan Castle is a castle situated near Newmills, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on the Dungannon to Stewartstown road. It was built about 1618 by Andrew Stewart, eldest son of Andrew Stewart the third Lord Ochiltree, Lord Castlestewart who came from Scotland during the plantation and established the nearby town of Stewartstown.
Roughing Roughing is a ice hockey penalty when a player uses a level of aggression on another player that is not necessary or is not within the rules of the game of hockey. This includes punching another player (when it´s not a fight).
Roughing pump A roughing pump is any vacuum pump (typically mechanical) used to initially evacuate a vacuum system, as a first stage towards achieving high vacuum or ultra high vacuum. Pumps that operate in the high vacuum ranges don't operate or operate inefficiently at atmospheric pressures, whereas pumps that work efficiently at atmospheric pressure usually can't produce a vacuum lower than approximately 1x10-3 torr.
Roughler The Roughler Magazine chronicled life in Ladbroke Grove in the 80s and 90s before the last Bohemians were forced out. The Roughler was single-handedly produced by Ray Roughler Jones, a refugee from Swansea, and contained contributions from The Clash, Will Self, Jock Scott, Shane McGowan, Neneh Cherry, Joe Rush of Mutoid Waste, Keith and Kevin Allen plus local heroes such as Steve Underground, John The Hat and Ian Bone of Class War.
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (Starship Troopers: The Series in the United Kingdom) was a CGI animated television series based on both the novel by Robert A. Heinlein and the 1997 film adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven (who served as executive producer for the series).
Roughness Roughness or rugosity is a measurement (see surface metrology) of the small-scale variations in the height of a physical surface. This is in contrast to large-scale variations, which may be either part of the geometry of the surface or unwanted 'waviness'.
Roughness and Toughness Roughness and Toughness was an album released in 2003 by Graveslime, an Icelandic heavy metal band. Roughness and Toughness was their debut work as well as the last one, since the group had disbanded before the record went to the streets.
Roughness Length Roughness length (z_0) is a parameter that is a measure of terrain roughness as "seen by" the surface wind. It is the height (in meters) at which the wind speed becomes zero when the logarithmic wind profile above the roughness sub-layer is extrapolated to zero wind speed.
Roughskin dogfish The roughskin dogfish, Centroscymnus owstoni, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found circumglobally on continental shelves in tropical, subtropical and temperate seas, at depths of between 100 and 1,500 m. It reaches a length of 120 cm.
Roughtail catshark The roughtail catshark, Galeus arae, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from the western central Atlantic from South Carolina to Florida, northern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean coast from Belize to Nicaragua, at depths of between 290 and 730 m. Its length is up to 36 cm.
Rouché's theorem In complex analysis, Rouché's theorem tells us that if the complex-valued functions f and g are holomorphic inside and on some closed contour C, with |g(z)| < |f(z)| on C, then f and f + g have the same number of zeros inside C, where each zero is counted as many times as its multiplicity. This theorem assumes that the contour C is simple, that is, without self-intersections.
Rouketopolemos Rouketopolemos (Greek Рουκετοπόλεμος, literally "Rocket-war") is the name of a local traditional event held annually at Christmass in the town of Vrontados (Βροντάδος) on the Greek island of Chios. As a variation of the Greek habit of throwing fireworks during the celebration of the Christmass service at midnight before Easter Sunday, two rival church congregations in the town perform an Christmas War by firing thousands of rockets across the town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side.
Roulette Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French word meaning "small wheel". In the game a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular surface running around the circumference of the wheel.
Roulette Records Roulette Records is a record label which was started in late 1956 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Khals, but the label was soon sold to Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed as director.
Round & Round "Round & Round" is a song by New Order and the second single from their 1989 album Technique. It was rerecorded for single release with Stephen Hague, who had previously worked with the group on their hit True Faith.
Round (music) A round is a musical composition in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody over and over again, but with each voice beginning at different times. "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is a well known children's round for 4 voices.
Round (Theosophy) A round in the esoteric cosmology of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism is a cosmic cycle or sequence by which an evolving reincarnating being passes through the various stages of existence as the Earth, the Solar System or the Cosmos comes into and passes out of manifestation.
Round and Round (Amiel song) "Round and Round" is a pop song written by Amiel Daemion and Stephen Lironi, recorded by Amiel for her second studio album These Ties. It was released in Australia as a digital download on August 1, 2005 then as a CD single on September 4, 2005.
Round and Round (Ratt song) Round and Round is a hit song by the glam metal band Ratt, and appears as the third track of their successful album Out of the Cellar. "Round and Round" is without a doubt Ratt's most popular and instantly recognizable composition.
Round Bobbin A Round Bobbin is a term used in computing to describe a process that sends its output back to the input source ("Round Bobbin" style). It was derived from the wrap around style of a Bobbin, which is another word for a "Cotton Reel".
Round Britain Quiz Round Britain Quiz (or RBQ for short) is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio. It was based on a format called Transatlantic Quiz, a contest between American and British teams on which Alistair Cooke was an early participant.
Round Every Corner "Round Every Corner", with words and music by Tony Hatch, was Petula Clark's fourth American single release. The 1965 song, predicting "man will soon be standing on the moon above, just imagine all the things that he'll discover," encouraged listeners to look "round every corner" in order to fulfill their dreams and achieve their goals.
Round fifty cent coin (Australian) The round fifty cent coin was made of 80% silver and 20% copper, but as the value of a free-floating silver price became higher, the coins' bullion value became more valuable than their face value and so were withdrawn from circulation.
Round Green Round Green is a ward (politics) in the north-east of Luton. Formally a small hamlet between Biscot, Leagrave and Stopsley, Round Green is one of the oldest parts of Luton with references to the area dating back to 1170.
Round Hill School The Round Hill School for Boys in Northampton, Massachusetts, founded by George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell in 1823, though it failed as a viable venture— it closed in 1834— was an early effort to elevate secondary education in the United States for the sons of the New England elite. The incompatability of the two founders was a fundamental cause of the eventual dissolution of the project.
Round House (Somerville, Massachusetts) The Round House is a cylindrical wood-frame residential structure at 36 Atherton Street in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. It was built in 1856 by hardware manufacturer Enoch Robinson, and is considered an offshoot of the Octagon House style popularized by phrenologist Orson Fowler.
Round House Overalls Round House Overalls are produced by the Shawnee Garment Manufacturing Company of Oklahoma established in 1903. Round House Brand overalls and workwear are named after the "roundhouse", which was the name for a steam locomotive's repair station.
Round Island Light Round Island Lighthouse, located on Round Island, was built in 1887 and automated in 1987. Round Island, the most northerly outpost of the Scillies is a 40m mass of granite, the top forming a platform on which Trinity House built a lighthouse and dwellings in 1887 under conditions of extreme difficulty.
Round Island skink The Round Island skink (Leiolopisma telfairii), also known as Telfair's skink, is a species of skink endemic to Round Island (Mauritius). The next relatives of the genus Leiolopisma occur on New Caledonia and New Zealand.
Round ligament of liver In anatomy, the round ligament of (the) liver (also commonly known by its Latin name, ligamentum teres - or more specifically ligamentum teres hepatis as the human body has three round ligaments in total) is a degenerative string of tissue that exists in the free edge of the falciform ligament of the liver.
Round Lake High School Round Lake High School, officially Round Lake Senior High School, and commonly RLHS, is a public four-year high school located in Round Lake, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Round Lake Area Schools District 116.
Round Midnight (film) Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier that tells the story of a tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who is befriended by a poor Frenchman who idolizes the musician and tries to help him to get out of his life of alcohol abuse. The protagonist jazzman, "Dale Turner," was based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lester Young (tenor sax) and the tortured and enigmatic Bud Powell (piano).
Round My Family Tree "Round My Family Tree" is a manic song from the 2000 Disney film: The Tigger Movie which is sung by the film's main character "Tigger" (voiced by Jim Cummings) as he anticipates what his family reunion will be like.
Round number Generally speaking, a round number is a number that ends with one or more zeroes (0), meaning that they are multiples of 10, 100, 1000, and so on. There are variations on this theme, where multiples of 5 or 25 might also be considered "round.
Round of 16 In sport, the Round of 16 is a stage of a knockout competition in which sixteen teams remain in the competition. It consists of eight matches, with the winner of each proceeding to the quarter final stage of the competition.
Round Omega Round Omega is a misleading Unicode name of so-called Cyrillic letter "Broad On" (Ѻ, ѻ), a variant of regular Cyrillic letter "On" (О, о). Broad On is used in Church Slavonic as the 1st letter of word's root: in the initial position (ѻгнь, ѻтрокъ), after a prefix (праѻтецъ), in compound words (ѻбоюдуѻстрый), and in two geographical names (iѻрданъ—Jordan River, iѻппiа—city of Jaffa) and their derivatives, and as the numerical sign to represent number 70 (whereas Omega represents 800).
Round River Conservation Studies Round River Conservation Studies is a non-profit organization focused on international conservation research and education. Round River's student programs are designed to involve small groups of students with inspiring people and actual research projects that are finding and implementing solutions to real conservation issues.
Round Rock Express The Round Rock Express is a minor league baseball franchise based in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin, Texas. As of 2005, the Express plays in the Pacific Coast League as the Class AAA affiliate of the Houston Astros.
Round square copula The "Round square copula" is a common example of the Dual Copula Strategy used in reference to the problem of nonexistent objects as well as their relation to problems in modern Philosophy of language. The issue arose, most notably, between the theories of Alexius Meinong, Bertrand Russell - Gilbert Ryle playing a minor part as well in the eventual dismissal of Meinong's object theory (see Meinong's 1904 book, Theory of Objects).
Round Square The Round Square Conference of Schools is a worldwide association of schools whose students share a commitment, beyond academic excellence, to personal development and responsibility through service, challenge, adventure and international understanding.
Round table A round table is one which has no "head" and no "sides", and therefore no one person sitting at it is given a privileged position and all are treated as equals. The idea stems from the Arthurian legend about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot.
Round the Bend Round the Bend was a British children's television series, which ran for three seasons on Children's ITV, beginning in 1988. It was cancelled, supposedly following complaints from Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association about the coarseness of the humour and for being politically incorrect.
Round the Bend (1951 novel) Round the Bend was a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine "Connie" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work.
Round the Horne Round the Horne was one of the most influential BBC Radio comedy programmes, comparable to The Goon Show in its influence on other comedy programmes. It was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from April 1965 until 1968.
Round tuit A round tuit is an imaginary object whose name is derived by word play from the phrase "when I get around to it". The phrasal verb "to get around to" means to attend to a task after finishing one or more others, often with the implication that the final task has been avoided for some time due to laziness or disinclination.
Round turn and two half-hitches The round turn and two half hitches is a hitch used to secure the end of a rope to a fixed object such as a post. Its main advantages are that you can tie and untie the knot under load, and when tied around a post it is unlikely to slip down.
Round Table (band) ROUND TABLE is a J-pop (Japanese pop) band known mostly for their anime soundtracks. The band was formed in 1997 with Katsutoshi Kitagawa (vocals, guitar, and bass guitar) and Rieko Ito (vocals and keyboard) as band members.
Round Table (club) The Round Table is a friendship organisation, founded in Norwich, England, in 1927. The Round Table is a club for young men aged between 18 and 45 (originally 40, which is still retained as the age limit outside the United Kingdom and Ireland) that provides a selection of social and community service related opportunities for its members.
Round Table (Camelot) In the legend of King Arthur, the Round Table was a mystical table in Camelot around which King Arthur and his knights sat to discuss matters crucial to the security of the realm. In some versions, the wizard Merlin also has a seat.
Round Table (horse) Round Table (1954-1987) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is considered the best turf horse in American racing history. Because most North American races are run on dirt tracks, he raced primarily on the dirt but won 14 of his 16 races on the grass.
Round Table class landing ship logistics The Round Table class is a class of Landing Ship Logistics (LSL), also known as the 'Sir' class, are designed for amphibious warfare missions, in support of the major amphibious ships. They have both bow and stern doors leading onto the main vehicle deck, making them roll-on/roll-off, combined with ramps that lead to upper and lower vehicle decks.
Round Table Conference (Western New Guinea) The Round Table Conference was a meeting from August to October 1949 in the The Hague regarding Indonesian independence. The conference involved representatives from the Netherlands and Indonesia (Dutch East Indies).
Round Table Society The Round Table Society is a volunteer-run charitable non-profit organization in Chicago, Illinois. Endorsed by the Romanian General Consulate, the organization's mission is to facilitate intercultural exchange, strengthen the Romanian-American community and create a sense of unity and belonging.
Round Towers GAA (Kildare) Round Towers is a GAA club based in Kildare Town in County Kildare, winner of 10 Kildare county senior football championships in all, six as Round Towers, three as Kildare and one as St Patrick's. Glenn Ryan featured on the Kildare football team of the millennium and was an All Stars Award winner in 1997 and 1998.

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