- Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of (prime minister of United Kingdom)
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of Rosebery was a British prime minister from March 3, 1894, to June 21, 1895; faced with a divided Cabinet and a hostile House of Lords, his ministry achieved little of consequence. His father, Archibald Primrose, son of the 4th earl, died before Archibald was
- Roseboro, John (American baseball player)
Juan Marichal: …hit Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. Indeed, the fact that a pitcher could amass the kind of statistics that Marichal did without ever winning the Cy Young Award (given annually to the outstanding pitcher in each league) shows how the altercation shadowed him.…
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (people)
The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band: …such as the Sisseton (Dakota), Sicangu (Lakota), and Yankton (Nakota), came to be called bands.
- Roseburg (Oregon, United States)
Roseburg, city, seat (1854) of Douglas county, southwestern Oregon, U.S., on the South Umpqua River, between the Coast (west) and Cascade (east) ranges. Settled in 1851, it was known as Deer Creek but was renamed for Aaron Rose, who laid out the town site in 1854. The city’s economy was based for
- Rosecrance, Richard (author)
cultural globalization: Challenges to national sovereignty and identity: Similarly, Richard Rosecrance, in The Rise of the Virtual State (1999), wrote that military conflicts and territorial disputes would be superseded by the flow of information, capital, technology, and manpower between states. Many scholars disagreed, insisting that the state was unlikely to disappear and could continue…
- Rosecrans, William S (United States general)
William S. Rosecrans was a Union general and excellent strategist early in the American Civil War (1861–65); after his defeat in the Battle of Chickamauga (September 1863), he was relieved of his command. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1842, Rosecrans served 12
- Rosecrans, William Starke (United States general)
William S. Rosecrans was a Union general and excellent strategist early in the American Civil War (1861–65); after his defeat in the Battle of Chickamauga (September 1863), he was relieved of his command. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1842, Rosecrans served 12
- Rosedale (Ontario, Canada)
Toronto: City layout: …northeast of Queen’s Park is Rosedale, one of the most attractive residential areas in Toronto. It is an older neighborhood of dignified houses and winding tree-lined streets quite close to the downtown center, which itself contains many attractive streets of modest well-designed houses. South of Rosedale and bounded on the…
- Rosedale (Kansas, United States)
Kansas City: Rosedale, also south of the river and the seat of the University of Kansas Medical Center, was annexed in 1922. Absorbed earlier was Quindaro, which had been founded by antislavery leaders as a free port on the Missouri. The entire metropolitan area is subject to…
- rosefinch (bird)
rosefinch, any of the 21 or so species of the genus Carpodacus, of the songbird family Fringillidae. Rosefinches are about 15 cm (6 inches) long and mostly gray or brownish; males are red on the head, breast, and rump. The common, or scarlet, rosefinch (C. erythrinus) of Eurasia, sometimes called
- rosefish (fish)
redfish, (Sebastes norvegicus), commercially important food fish of the scorpionfish family, Scorpaenidae (order Scorpaeniformes), found in the North Atlantic Ocean along European and North American coasts. Also known as ocean perch or rosefish in North America and as Norway haddock in Europe, the
- Rosegger, Peter (Austrian writer)
Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer known for his novels describing provincial life. The son of a farmer, Rosegger became a travelling tailor and then studied at a commercial school in Graz, Austria. His first published work (1869) was a collection of poems in dialect, but he soon began to write
- Roseingrave, Thomas (Irish writer)
Domenico Scarlatti: Early life and vocal works: Italy: …have met a young Irishman, Thomas Roseingrave, who many years later described Domenico’s harpsichord playing to the English musicologist Charles Burney as sounding as if “ten hundred d…s had been at the instrument; he had never heard such passages of execution and effect before.” Scarlatti may have also formed a…
- Roseires Dam, Er- (dam, Sudan)
Sudan: Mechanized agriculture: …Atbara River and by Al-Ruṣayriṣ Dam, which provides irrigation water for the Rahad Scheme.
- Roseland Theater (theater, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Viola Desmond: Roseland Theatre: On the evening of November 8, 1946, Desmond made an unplanned stop in the small community of New Glasgow after her car broke down en route to a business meeting in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Told that the repair would take a number of…
- rosella (plant)
roselle, (Hibiscus sabdariffa), plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae) and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. Roselle is probably native to West Africa and includes Hibiscus sabdariffa, variety altissima, grown for fibre, and H. sabdariffa, variety sabdariffa, cultivated for the
- rosella (bird)
rosella, any of several species of popular caged birds, particularly certain Australian species, classified as parakeets. See
- roselle (plant)
roselle, (Hibiscus sabdariffa), plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae) and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. Roselle is probably native to West Africa and includes Hibiscus sabdariffa, variety altissima, grown for fibre, and H. sabdariffa, variety sabdariffa, cultivated for the
- Roselle and Roselle Park (borough, New Jersey, United States)
Roselle and Roselle Park, boroughs (towns) in Union county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Elizabeth on the west. Originally part of Linden until 1894, Roselle was settled before the American Revolution; Abraham Clark, one of New Jersey’s signers of the Declaration of Independence, was a
- Roselle Park (borough, New Jersey, United States)
Roselle and Roselle Park: Roselle Park, boroughs (towns) in Union county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Elizabeth on the west. Originally part of Linden until 1894, Roselle was settled before the American Revolution; Abraham Clark, one of New Jersey’s signers of the Declaration of Independence, was a native son.…
- Rosellini, Ippolito (Italian scholar)
Egyptology: He and an Italian scholar, Ippolito Rosellini, led a combined expedition to Egypt in 1828 and published their research in Monuments de l’Égypte et Nubie. Karl Richard Lepsius followed with a Prussian expedition (1842–45), and the Englishman Sir John Gardner Wilkinson spent 12 years (1821–33) copying and collecting material in…
- rosemaling (Scandinavian art form)
Norway: The arts: …Scandinavian decorative art form called rosemaling, widely practiced in Norway, involves painting objects such as furniture with floral designs; special schools called folkehøgskoler offer classes in this and other crafts.
- rosemary (herb)
rosemary, (Salvia rosmarinus), small evergreen plant of the mint family (Lamiaceae), the leaves of which are used to flavour foods. Native to the Mediterranean region, rosemary has naturalized throughout much of Europe and is widely grown in gardens in warm climates. The leaves have a pungent,
- Rosemary’s Baby (novel by Levin)
William Castle: King of the Gimmick: …the film rights to the novel Rosemary’s Baby (1967) by Ira Levin, but Paramount studio head Robert Evans refused to allow Castle to direct. Instead, Roman Polanski was handed the reins, and Castle served only as a producer. The horror film (1968) was a box-office smash and became a classic…
- Rosemary’s Baby (film by Polanski [1968])
Rosemary’s Baby, American horror film, released in 1968, that is considered a landmark within the horror genre for its focus on the occult as well as for a naturalistic mise-en-scène that emphasizes psychological tension over cartoonish thrills. The movie, an adaptation of Ira Levin’s best-selling
- Rosemeyer, Bernd (German race–car driver)
Bernd Rosemeyer was a German automobile racing driver who established himself as one of the world’s great drivers in three seasons of racing (1935–37). Rosemeyer began racing as a member of the Auto Union motorcycle team but switched to racing cars in 1935. In 1935 he won his first major race, the
- Rosen Motors (American company)
Harold Rosen: …the computer manufacturer Compaq, founded Rosen Motors, which developed a hybrid automobile that was powered by a flywheel and a gasoline-driven turbine. However, the company failed to interest the automobile industry in the technology and closed in 1997. Rosen and engineer J.B. Straubel cofounded Volacom, Inc., which sought to develop…
- Rosen, Harold (American engineer)
Harold Rosen was an American engineer who designed Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite. Rosen received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1947. Beginning in 1948, he worked at Raytheon Manufacturing Company (now Raytheon
- Rosen, Harold Allen (American engineer)
Harold Rosen was an American engineer who designed Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite. Rosen received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1947. Beginning in 1948, he worked at Raytheon Manufacturing Company (now Raytheon
- Rosen, Kay (American artist)
Gaylen Gerber: …performance art), American text-based conceptualist Kay Rosen (who explores the verbal and visual structures of words), and Swiss text-based conceptualist Rémy Zaugg (who also explored words and their context and presentation). Gerber’s gray paintings, associated with institutional neutrality, integrated cohesively with the other diverse works. By becoming part of the…
- Rosen, Michael (English author)
Michael Rosen is a prolific English children’s author who has written picture books, nonfiction works, and collections of poetry. Much of his work, often composed in humorous verse, incorporates events and people from his life. He has often appeared on radio and television as well as in schools to
- Rosen, Nathan (Israeli physicist)
quantum mechanics: Paradox of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen: …United States, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, analyzed a thought experiment to measure position and momentum in a pair of interacting systems. Employing conventional quantum mechanics, they obtained some startling results, which led them to conclude that the theory does not give a complete description of physical reality. Their results,…
- Rosena (California, United States)
Fontana, city, San Bernardino county, southwestern California, U.S. Lying just west of the city of San Bernardino, the site was once part of the Rancho San Bernardino land grant (1813). The community, then known as Rosena, was developed in 1903 after it was bought by Fontana Development Company. It
- Rosenbach Company (American company)
A. S. W. Rosenbach: …brother Philip in launching the Rosenbach Company, A.S.W. handling books and Philip the antiques. The firm was soon able to buy entire libraries, expanding their business into what may have been the most lucrative book concern in the world. Among his clients were Henry E. Huntington, founder of the library…
- Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography (American organization)
A. S. W. Rosenbach: In 1930 he established the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania and willed his estate to the Rosenbach Foundation, established in 1950 to foster interest in books, paintings, and art works. His other works include Books and Bidders (1927), The Unpublished Memoirs (1917), and A Book Hunter’s…
- Rosenbach Foundation (American organization)
A. S. W. Rosenbach: …willed his estate to the Rosenbach Foundation, established in 1950 to foster interest in books, paintings, and art works. His other works include Books and Bidders (1927), The Unpublished Memoirs (1917), and A Book Hunter’s Holiday (1936).
- Rosenbach, A S W (American book collector)
A. S. W. Rosenbach was a U.S. book and manuscript collector and dealer who combined solid scholarship and exceptional business acumen. Rosenbach attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1898; Ph.D. 1901), where as a freshman he bought for $3.60 a first edition of Dr. Johnson’s prologue at the
- Rosenbach, Abraham Simon Wolf (American book collector)
A. S. W. Rosenbach was a U.S. book and manuscript collector and dealer who combined solid scholarship and exceptional business acumen. Rosenbach attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1898; Ph.D. 1901), where as a freshman he bought for $3.60 a first edition of Dr. Johnson’s prologue at the
- Rosenbach, Philip (American collector)
A. S. W. Rosenbach: …1903 he joined his brother Philip in launching the Rosenbach Company, A.S.W. handling books and Philip the antiques. The firm was soon able to buy entire libraries, expanding their business into what may have been the most lucrative book concern in the world. Among his clients were Henry E. Huntington,…
- Rosenbaum, Alissa Zinovievna (American author)
Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American writer whose commercially successful novels promoting individualism and laissez-faire capitalism were influential among conservatives and libertarians and popular among generations of young people in the United States from the mid-20th century. Her father,
- Rosenbaum, Børge (American comedian and musician)
Victor Borge was a Danish-born American pianist and comedian who was known worldwide for his irrepressible humour, which combined deadpan delivery, clever wordplay, satire, irreverence, and physical comedy as well as music. Borge’s mother began teaching him to play the piano when he was three, and
- Rosenberg, Alfred (German Nazi leader)
Alfred Rosenberg was a German ideologist of Nazism. Born the son of a cobbler in what was at the time a part of Russia, Rosenberg studied architecture in Moscow until the Revolution of 1917. In 1919 he went to Munich, where he joined Adolf Hitler, Ernst Röhm, and Rudolf Hess in the nascent Nazi
- Rosenberg, Ethel (American spy)
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg: Ethel Greenglass worked as a clerk for some years after her graduation from high school in 1931. When she married Julius Rosenberg in 1939, the year he earned a degree in electrical engineering, the two were already active members of the Communist Party of the…
- Rosenberg, Harold (American art critic)
Harold Rosenberg was an American art critic known for championing the work of such painters as Jackson Pollock. He coined the term Action painting to describe the work of American Abstract Expressionists. Rosenberg studied at the City College of New York (1923–24) and at Brooklyn Law School (1927).
- Rosenberg, Isaac (British poet and painter)
Isaac Rosenberg was a British poet and painter who was killed in World War I. Rosenberg first trained to be a painter, winning several prizes at the Slade School of Art, London. He enlisted in the British Army in 1915 and is best known for his “trench poems,” written between 1916 and 1918, which
- Rosenberg, Janet (president of Guyana)
Janet Jagan was an American-born Guyanese politician who was the first white president of Guyana (1997–99) and the first elected female president in South America. She was born into a middle-class Jewish family. In 1942, while working as a student nurse in Chicago, she met Cheddi Jagan, a dentistry
- Rosenberg, Julius (American engineer and spy)
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg: When she married Julius Rosenberg in 1939, the year he earned a degree in electrical engineering, the two were already active members of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). In the following year Julius obtained a job as a civilian engineer with the U.S.…
- Rosenberg, Julius; and Rosenberg, Ethel (American spies)
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were the first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime. Ethel Greenglass worked as a clerk for some years after her graduation from high school in 1931. When she married Julius
- Rosenberg, Leon (American psychologist)
intelligence test: …Hopkins Perceptual Test, developed by Leon Rosenberg in the early 1960s to measure the intelligence of preschool children, has a child try to match random forms (ordinary geometric forms, such as circles, squares, and triangles, are avoided because some children may be more familiar with the forms than are others).…
- Rosenberg, Leonard (American actor)
Tony Randall was an American actor who was most closely identified with the character Felix Unger, the fastidious fussbudget he portrayed opposite Jack Klugman’s sloppy Oscar Madison on the TV series The Odd Couple (1970–75); he won an Emmy Award for the last season of the show. Randall studied
- Rosenberg, Lev Samoylovich (Russian artist)
Léon Bakst was a Jewish Russian artist who revolutionized theatrical design both in scenery and in costume. His designs for the Ballets Russes, especially during its heyday (1909–14), were opulent, innovative, and extraordinary, and his influence on fashion and interior design was widespread. The
- Rosenberg, Stuart (American director)
Stuart Rosenberg was an American television and film director who was best known for the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke. Rosenberg studied Irish literature at New York University before working in television as an editor. In 1957 he helmed episodes of Decoy, and he subsequently became a sought-after
- Rosenberg, Walter (Slovak-Jewish biochemist)
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak Jewish biochemist, one of five Jewish prisoners to ever escape Auschwitz, the most lethal of the extermination camps in existence during World War II. Vrba’s detailed retelling of events at Auschwitz informed the 1944 Vrba-Wetzler Report, a critical account of the protocol
- Rosenberg, William Samuel (American composer)
Billy Rose was an American theatrical impresario and composer of more than 50 song hits. Rose became an expert at taking shorthand dictation and during World War I was the chief stenographer for the financier Bernard Baruch, head of the War Industries Board. In the 1920s he began to write songs and
- Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (law case)
Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) on June 29, 1995, that the University of Virginia’s denial of funding to a Christian student magazine constituted viewpoint discrimination in violation of the free speech clause
- Rosenblatt, Frank (American computer scientist)
perceptrons: …artificial neural network investigated by Frank Rosenblatt, beginning in 1957, at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Rosenblatt made major contributions to the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI), both through experimental investigations of the properties of neural networks (using computer simulations) and through detailed…
- Rosenblatt, Susan (American writer)
Susan Sontag was an American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles. She attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year and then transferred to the University
- Rosenblum, Robert (American art historian)
United States: The visual arts and postmodernism: …scrutiny; and the art historian Robert Rosenblum has persuasively argued that many of the elements of Abstract Expressionism, for all their apparent hermetic distance from common experience, are inspired by the scale and light of the American landscape and American 19th-century landscape painting—by elements that run deep and centrally in…
- Rosenblum, Sigmund (Russian spy)
Sidney Reilly was a spy who obtained Persian oil concessions and German naval secrets for Britain. Many of the romanticized stories about him may have been inventions of his own. Born the illegitimate son of a Jewish doctor in Odessa, he studied chemistry in Vienna (1890–93) before going to Brazil.
- Rosenbusch, Harry (German geologist)
Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch was a German geologist who laid the foundations of the science of microscopic petrography (the study of rocks in thin section, based on the optical properties of constituent mineral grains). He was appointed professor (extraordinary) of petrography at Strasbourg
- Rosenbusch, Karl Heinrich Ferdinand (German geologist)
Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch was a German geologist who laid the foundations of the science of microscopic petrography (the study of rocks in thin section, based on the optical properties of constituent mineral grains). He was appointed professor (extraordinary) of petrography at Strasbourg
- Rosencrantz (fictional character)
Hamlet: …by hiring Hamlet’s onetime friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on him. Hamlet quickly sees through the scheme and begins to act the part of a madman in front of them. To the pompous old courtier Polonius, it appears that Hamlet is lovesick over Polonius’s daughter Ophelia. Despite Ophelia’s loyalty…
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (fictional characters)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former schoolmates of the title character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Unaware of the true reason they have been summoned, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are commissioned to spy on Hamlet. Minor figures in Shakespeare, the pair are the central characters in Tom Stoppard’s
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play by Stoppard)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: …characters in Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (produced 1966; film 1990). Stoppard’s characters play games, tell jokes, and have philosophical discussions in the intervals of time between the scenes in which they figure in Shakespeare’s play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead addresses such issues as free will,…
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (film by Stoppard [1990])
Richard Dreyfuss: …of his later films—such as Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), What About Bob? (1991), and Once Around (1991)—were more critical favourites than box-office successes. His sensitive multilayered performance as a musician who foregoes dreams of a composing career to teach high school in Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) earned Dreyfuss…
- Roseneath Terrier (breed of dog)
West Highland white terrier, a short-legged dog standing 10 to 11 inches (25 to 28 cm) tall and weighing 13 to 19 pounds (6 to 8.5 kg). Its coat is pure white and consists of a soft furry undercoat overlaid by a straight, hard outer coat. It is thought that this breed of terrier is descended from
- Rosenfeld, Bella (wife of Chagall)
Marc Chagall: Maturity: In 1915 he married Bella Rosenfeld, the daughter of a wealthy Vitebsk merchant; among the many paintings in which she appears from this date onward are the depiction of flying lovers entitled Birthday (1915–23) and the high-spirited, acrobatic Double Portrait with a Glass of Wine (1917).
- Rosenfeld, Irene (American executive)
Irene Rosenfeld is an American business executive, who was CEO (2006–17) of processed-foods giant Kraft Foods Inc. and, after the company’s restructuring in 2012, of Mondelēz International. Under her leadership, Kraft, already the largest food-products company in the United States, expanded its
- Rosenfeld, Lev Borisovich (Soviet government official)
Lev Kamenev was an Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great Purge. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.)
- Rosenfeld, Morris (American poet)
Yiddish literature: Writers in New York: Another, Morris Rosenfeld, wrote numerous poems describing the harsh conditions experienced by Jewish immigrants, who often worked in the textile industry. One famous poem, “Mayn yingele” (1887; “My Little Boy”), for example, expresses a worker’s estrangement from his family—resulting from endless hours spent in a sweatshop.…
- Rosenfeld, Otto (Austrian psychologist)
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychologist who extended psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and creativity and who suggested that the basis of anxiety neurosis is a psychological trauma occurring during the birth of the individual. Rank came from a poor family and attended trade
- Rosenius, Karl Olof (Swedish religious leader)
Protestantism: Revivalism in the 19th century: Karl Olof Rosenius (1816–68), influenced by Methodist preaching, introduced revivalism into Swedish Lutheranism. Although Rosenius was also influenced by Zinzendorf and Pietism, his new movement was quite unlike the little groups of Pietism. The Pietists wanted to bring men to salvation from the world, whereas…
- Rosenkavalier, Der (opera by Strauss)
Der Rosenkavalier, comic opera in three acts by German composer Richard Strauss (German libretto by Austrian dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal) that premiered at the Dresden Royal Opera House on January 26, 1911. Hofmannsthal had written the play upon which Strauss based Elektra, but Der
- Rosenkreuz, Christian (legendary traveler)
Rosicrucian: … (1616) recount the travels of Christian Rosenkreuz, the putative founder of the group, who is now generally regarded as a fictional character rather than a real person. According to the books, Rosenkreuz was born in 1378 and lived for 106 years. After visiting the Middle East and North Africa in…
- Rosenman, Leonard (American composer)
East of Eden: Production notes and credits:
- Rosenmontag (work by Hartleben)
Otto Erich Hartleben: …was the tragedy Rosenmontag (1900; Love’s Carnival, 1904), which portrays the tragedy of a Prussian officer in love with a working class girl. Social criticism in his works gave way to humorous anecdote, satire, and eroticism reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant, as seen in the tales Vom gastfreien Pastor (1895;…
- Rosenmüller, Johann (German composer)
chamber music: Sources and instruments: In the same year Johann Rosenmüller, a German composer working in Venice, published a set of Sonate da camera cioè Sinfonie… (Chamber Sonatas, that is, Symphonies…), each consisting of four to six dance movements with an introductory movement (sinfonia) not in dance style. The development of chamber music for…
- Rosenplüt, Hans (German dramatist)
Fastnachtsspiel: Hans Rosenplüt of Nürnberg and his younger contemporary, the barber Hans Folz of Worms, who also settled in Nürnberg, were the most notable Fastnachtsspiele playwrights in the mid-15th century. Their plays were formless, uninhibited comedy, usually featuring the traditional character of the Narr, or fool,…
- Rosenquist, James (American artist)
James Rosenquist was one of the seminal figures of the Pop art movement, who took as his inspiration the subject and style of modern commercial culture. Through a complex layering of such motifs as Coca-Cola bottles, kitchen appliances, packaged foods, and women’s lipsticked mouths and manicured
- Rosenstein, Rod (American attorney)
Robert Mueller: Later work and Russia investigation: …he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had decided that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Trump had obstructed justice.
- Rosenstock, Joseph (American conductor)
Eve Queler: She continued her work with Joseph Rosenstock of the Metropolitan Opera, whose original strong misgivings about her prospects in the virtually all-male field of conducting were partially allayed by her manifest talent. Her work with the New York City Opera, with which she was associated from 1958 as rehearsal and…
- Rosenstock, Samuel (French author)
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian-born French poet and essayist known mainly as the founder of Dada, a nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts, the purpose of which was the demolition of all the values of modern civilization. The Dadaist movement originated in Zürich during World War I, with the
- Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen (German historian and jurist)
Franz Rosenzweig: …(especially the jurist and historian Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy), who were equally critical of the academic philosophy of the day, had found the solution to the problem of man in religious faith (specifically, conversion to Christianity) and in a dialogical relationship between man and God. After an intense inner struggle Rosenzweig decided…
- Rosenthal’s canal (anatomy)
human ear: Organ of Corti: …osseous spiral lamina, called the canal of Rosenthal. The bipolar cell bodies of these neurons constitute the spiral ganglion. Beyond the ganglion their distal processes extend radially outward in the bony lamina beneath the limbus to pass through an array of small pores directly under the inner hair cells, called…
- Rosenthal, canal of (anatomy)
human ear: Organ of Corti: …osseous spiral lamina, called the canal of Rosenthal. The bipolar cell bodies of these neurons constitute the spiral ganglion. Beyond the ganglion their distal processes extend radially outward in the bony lamina beneath the limbus to pass through an array of small pores directly under the inner hair cells, called…
- Rosenthal, Lyova Haskell (American actress and director)
- Rosenthal, M. L. (American literary critic and poet)
confessional poetry: Differences between confessional poetry and earlier styles: In 1959 literary critic M.L. Rosenthal published “Poetry as Confession,” a review in The Nation of Lowell’s Life Studies, in which he describes how Lowell’s work signaled a departure from that of earlier poets. Many scholars credit this review with the origin of the term confessional poetry.
- Rosenthal, Norman (American psychiatrist)
seasonal affective disorder: …in 1984 by American psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal.
- Rosenwald schools (schools, United States)
Rosenwald schools, any of roughly 5,000 rural schools for African American students that were built in the American South in the early 20th century. Rosenwald schools were the result of a collaboration between Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, the president and part owner of Sears, Roebuck
- Rosenwald, Julius (American merchant and philanthropist)
Julius Rosenwald was an American merchant and unorthodox philanthropist who opposed the idea of perpetual endowments and frequently offered large philanthropic gifts on the condition that they be matched by other donations. He was especially noted for his aid to the education of African Americans.
- Rosenzweig, Franz (German philosopher)
Franz Rosenzweig was a German-Jewish religious Existentialist who, through his fresh handling of traditional religious themes, became one of the most influential modern Jewish theologians. In 1913, although his conversion to Christianity had seemed imminent, a religious experience caused him to
- roseola infantum (disease)
roseola infantum, infectious disease of early childhood marked by rapidly developing high fever (to 106° F) lasting about three days and then subsiding completely. A few hours after the temperature returns to normal, a mildly itchy rash develops suddenly on the trunk, neck, and behind the ears but
- Roses and Buckshot (work by Flagg)
James Montgomery Flagg: In his autobiography, Roses and Buckshot (1946), Flagg represented himself as a bohemian, unfettered by convention.
- Roses Are Red (My Love) (recording by Vinton)
Bobby Vinton: …decision paid off, as “Roses Are Red (My Love),” a country-tinged ode to young romance, reached number one on the Billboard singles chart in 1962. Vinton, whose clean-cut boyish appearance made him a favourite of teenagers, subsequently topped the chart with the straightforward emotional ballads “Blue Velvet” (1963), “There!…
- roses, attar of (essential oil)
attar of roses, fragrant, colourless or pale-yellow liquid essential oil distilled from fresh petals of Rosa damascena and R. gallica and other species of the rose family Rosaceae. Rose oils are a valuable ingredient of fine perfumes and liqueurs. They are also used for flavouring lozenges and
- Roses, Wars of the (English history)
Wars of the Roses, (1455–85), in English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife preceded the strong government of the Tudors. Fought between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, the wars were named many years afterward from the supposed badges
- Roset, Michel (Swiss diplomat)
Michel Roset was a Swiss political figure who, with Theodore Beza, played the most important role in the affairs of Geneva after the death of John Calvin in 1564. A supporter of the theocracy and an opponent of the anti-Calvinist Libertine Party, Roset assisted Beza in maintaining the Calvinist
- Rosetta (Egypt)
Rosetta, town, northern Al-Buḥayrah muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in the northwestern Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. It lies on the left bank of the Rosetta (ancient Bolbitinic) Branch of the Nile River, 8 miles (13 km) southeast of its entrance into the Mediterranean and 35 miles (56 km) northeast of
- Rosetta (river, Egypt)
Nile River: Physiography of Nile River: …through two main distributaries, the Rosetta and the Damietta (Dumyāṭ) branches.
- Rosetta (film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne [1999])
Dardenne brothers: …the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta. The movie is an unsentimental account of a young woman determined to find work in order to escape the grinding poverty of her life. It was followed in 2002 by Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, with L’Enfant (The Child), the brothers for the…