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Rosario Ferré

Rosario Ferré (1938–2016) was a Puerto Rican poet, narrator, and essayist, born in Ponce, best known for Papeles de Pandora (1976) and The House on the Lagoon.

Rosario Parmegiani

Rosario Parmegiani (1937-2019), nicknamed Freccia, was an Italian water polo player who won gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics as one of the 'Poker d'Assi', later coached Ligurian clubs and received CONI's Collare d'Oro in 2015.

Rosario Rizzuto

Rosario Rizzuto, born in Rome in 1962, is an Italian physician-scientist and professor of General Pathology at the University of Padua, known for mitochondrial calcium signaling research.

Rosario Tijeras (Mexican TV series) season 5

Season 5 of Rosario Tijeras, the Mexican crime drama series, was released on Netflix on June 10, 2026, with 38 episodes at launch and two final episodes added June 20.

Rosarito

Rosarito (Playas de Rosarito) is a Pacific coast resort city and municipality in Baja California, Mexico, south of Tijuana; a municipality since 1995, population 126,890 (2020), known for border proximity, tourism, and a planned desalination plant.

Rosarito Gas Pipeline

The Rosarito Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto Rosarito) is a natural gas pipeline system in Baja California, Mexico, owned by IEnova, a subsidiary of Sempra Infrastructure, carrying US gas westward.

Rosarium

Розарій (rosarium, rose garden): a park or botanical-garden section for growing and exhibiting rose varieties. Largest in Ukraine is the 3.5 ha rosarium at the Hryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv, a national heritage object since 2006.

Rosary

The rosary is a Catholic Marian devotion combining vocal prayers counted on beads with meditation on mysteries in the lives of Jesus and Mary, officially approved in 1569.

Rosas era

The Rosas era (época de Rosas) is the period of Argentine history, 1829 to 1852, when Juan Manuel de Rosas dominated the Argentine Confederation from Buenos Aires.

ROSAT

ROSAT, the Roentgen Satellite, was a German, US, and UK X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 1990 that performed the first all-sky survey with an imaging X-ray telescope.

ROSAT All-Sky Survey

The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) was the first all-sky X-ray survey made with an imaging telescope, carried out by the Roentgen Satellite from 30 July 1990 into 1991.

Rosatom (Росатом)

Rosatom, formally the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, is the Russian state corporation established in 2007 that manages the country's entire nuclear sector, from uranium mining to plant exports.

Rosaura a las diez

Rosaura a las diez is a 1955 crime novel by Argentine writer Marco Denevi, set in a Buenos Aires boarding house and told through five contradictory testimonies.

Rosavtodor

Rosavtodor (Russian: Росавтодор), formally the Federal Road Agency, is the federal executive body managing Russia's federal highway network, operating under the Ministry of Transport since 1991.

ROSCAPLI study

ROSCAPLI (NCT05262881) is an Italian retrospective observational cohort study of 38 aTTP patients treated with caplacizumab plus plasma exchange and immunosuppression (2019-2021), reporting median 2.0-day platelet recovery, no deaths, and no serious adverse events.

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle, known as Fatty Arbuckle, was an American silent-film comedian and director who was second only to Chaplin in popularity until a 1921 scandal, despite acquittal.

Roscoe Born

Roscoe Born (Roscoe Conklin Born, 1950-2020) was an American actor and songwriter known for soap opera villains, especially Mitch Laurence on One Life to Live, and for his Emmy-nominated dual role on Santa Barbara.

Roscoe Cook

Roscoe Cook (1939-2011), American sprinter, University of Oregon; world record holder at 100 yards (9.3, 1959) and indoor 60 yards (6.0, 1960-61); not the Australian boxer Rusty Cook.

Roscoe Lee Browne

Roscoe Lee Browne (1925-2007), American stage, film, and television actor from Woodbury, New Jersey; Obie and Emmy winner, Tony nominee, narrator of Babe, former champion track athlete.

Roscoe Lockwood

Roscoe Conkling Lockwood (1875–1960), American rower from Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey; won gold in the men's eight for Vesper Boat Club at the Paris 1900 Olympics.

Roscoe O. Brady

Roscoe O. Brady (1923–2016) was an American physician-biochemist at NIH who identified the enzyme defects behind Gaucher, Fabry, and Tay-Sachs diseases and developed the first effective enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease.

Roscoe Pound

Roscoe Pound (1870–1964) was an American legal scholar, Harvard Law School dean 1916–1936, and founder of sociological jurisprudence and the social engineering theory of law; he was also a trained botanist with a lichen named roscoepoundia after him.

Roscoe Wind Farm

The Roscoe Wind Farm is a 781.5-megawatt onshore wind complex near Roscoe, Texas, whose 627 turbines made it the world's largest wind farm on completion in 2009.

Roscosmos

Roscosmos (Роскосмос), also called the Russian Federal Space Agency, is the state corporation running Russia's civil space program, created in 1992 and reorganized in 2015.

Roscovitine

Roscovitine, also known as seliciclib or CYC202, is an experimental CDK-inhibiting drug candidate developed by Cyclacel and studied in phase 2 trials against cancers and Cushing disease.

Roscrea

Roscrea (Ros Cré) is a heritage market town in North Tipperary, Ireland, population 5,542 (2022), grown around St. Crónán's seventh-century monastery, with a 13th-century castle, Damer House, and a Franciscan friary.

Rose

Rose (genus Rosa, family Rosaceae), also called China rose yuejihua in key lineage Rosa chinensis; Northern Hemisphere genus of about 350 prickly shrub species, five-petaled flowers, hips with achenes, and over 30,000 cultivated garden varieties.

Rosé

Rosé is a pink wine made from dark-skinned grapes with limited skin contact, via direct pressing, short maceration, saignée, or (in Champagne) blending; no precise legal definition exists, and Provence sets the pale dry benchmark.

Rose (2026 film)

Rose (2026) is an Austrian-German black-and-white historical drama by Markus Schleinzer, starring Sandra Hüller as a woman passing as a man in 17th-century Germany; it premiered in Berlinale competition, won Hüller a Silver Bear, and is Austria's 2027 International Feature Oscar candidate.

Rose (color)

Rose is a color name for a pink or pinkish red, named after the flower and used as a noun and an adjective since the early modern period.