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Rosetta (1999 film)
Rosetta is a 1999 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a poor teenage girl seeking work; it won the 1999 Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Actress for Émilie Dequenne, and inspired Belgium's Rosetta Law.
Rosetta (software)
Rosetta is a binary translation layer from Apple, announced in 2020, that lets Macs with Apple silicon run Intel applications; macOS 27 is the last release to support it.
Rosetta (spacecraft)
Rosetta was a European Space Agency spacecraft, launched in 2004, that in 2014 became the first mission to orbit comet 67P and deploy the Philae lander onto its surface.
Rosetta 2
Rosetta 2 is Apple's translation process that runs Intel-based Mac apps on Apple silicon Macs, translating x86_64 instructions ahead of time, with support ending after macOS 27.
Rosetta Gariboldi
Rosetta Gariboldi (born 1905), Italian sprinter of SG Milanese Forza e Coraggio; ran on the 28.0 world-record 4x55 yards relay team (Milano, 12 October 1924) and won four Italian relay titles, 1924-1925. Not the tennis player Rosetta Gagliardi.
Rosetta LeNoire
Rosetta LeNoire (1911–2002), American actress and producer, goddaughter of Bojangles Robinson, founder of AMAS Repertory Theatre, Mother Winslow on Family Matters, 1999 National Medal of Arts recipient.
Rosetta Oil and Gas Field
Rosetta Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field offshore the Nile Delta, Egypt, discovered in 1997, producing from January 2001 into Egypt's domestic market, and now depleted.
Rosetta Planitia
Rosetta Planitia is a 480-km-wide plain on Pluto at 22.31 S, 157.22 E, IAU-approved May 27, 2022 and named for ESA's Rosetta comet mission; it lies southwest of Sputnik Planitia and preserves evidence of highlands glaciation from roughly 2 Ga to 50 Ma.
Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone: granodiorite stela of 196 BC bearing a Ptolemy V decree in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek; found 1799 near Rashid, deciphered by Champollion in 1822, now in the British Museum.
Rosetta, Beheira
Rosetta, also known as Rashid, is a port city in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, on the Nile near the Mediterranean, best known as the Rosetta Stone's 1799 discovery site.
RoseTTAFold
RoseTTAFold is a deep learning tool that predicts the 3D structure of proteins from amino acid sequences, developed in David Baker's lab at the University of Washington in 2021.
Rosette formation (cell biology)
Rosette formation is a cell biology assay in which indicator red blood cells cluster around any cell bearing a complementary surface receptor, forming countable rosettes used to identify and enrich cells.
Rosette sampler
A rosette sampler is an oceanographic water-sampling device with 12 to 36 bottles around a CTD sensor package, lowered from a ship to profile the water column.
Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor
Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor (RGNT) is a rare WHO grade 1 mixed neuronal-glial brain tumor of the fourth ventricle or cerebellum in young adults, defined by neurocytic rosettes, a pilocytic astrocytoma-like glial component, and FGFR1 hotspot mutations.
Roseville, California
Roseville, California, is the largest city in Placer County, northeast of Sacramento. Founded as a Central Pacific rail junction in 1864, incorporated 1909; population 147,773 (2020), a retail, healthcare, and technology hub.
Rosewater (film)
Rosewater (2014) is Jon Stewart's directorial debut, a drama adapted from Maziar Bahari's memoir Then They Came for Me about Bahari's 118-day imprisonment and torture in Iran after a Daily Show interview; starring Gael García Bernal and Kim Bodnia.
Rosewood
Rosewood, also known as palisander, is a trade name for dense, fragrant, dark red tropical timbers chiefly from Dalbergia trees, prized for fine furniture and guitar fretboards.
Rosewood (film)
Rosewood is a 1997 American historical drama directed by John Singleton, dramatizing the 1923 destruction of Rosewood, Florida, by a white mob, starring Jon Voight and Ving Rhames.
Rosewood (TV series)
Rosewood is a Fox police procedural (2015-2017) created by Todd Harthan, starring Morris Chestnut as Miami private pathologist Beaumont Rosewood Jr. and Jaina Lee Ortiz as Det. Villa; two seasons, 44 episodes, canceled May 2017 amid a near-50% ratings drop, 9% on Rotten Tomatoes versus a 6.8 IMDb user score.
Rosewood Hong Kong
Rosewood Hong Kong (香港瑰丽酒店) is an ultra-luxury hotel that opened in 2019 in the Victoria Dockside district on Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, Rosewood's first Hong Kong property.
Rosewood massacre
Rosewood massacre: January 1-7, 1923 racist attack that destroyed the predominantly Black town of Rosewood, Levy County, Florida, after Fannie Taylor's assault allegation; no prosecutions, later 1994 Florida reparations of $2.1 million.
Rosewood, Florida
Rosewood, Florida was a mostly Black Levy County town founded circa 1855 and destroyed by a white mob in the January 1923 Rosewood massacre; the 1994 state reparations law was the first of its kind.
Rosey (wrestler)
Rosey (Matthew Tapunu'u Anoa'i, 1970-2017), also Kimo, American WWE wrestler; son of Wild Samoan Sika, brother of Roman Reigns; 3-Minute Warning, World Tag Team Champion with The Hurricane.
Rosey Brown
Rosey Brown (Roosevelt Brown Jr., 1932–2004), Hall of Fame offensive tackle for the New York Giants 1953–1965; 27th-round 1953 draft steal from Morgan State, 8 All-NFL selections, 9 Pro Bowls, 1956 NFL champion, Hall of Fame class of 1975.
Rosey Grier
Rosey Grier (Roosevelt Grier, born July 14, 1932), NFL defensive tackle for the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams, member of the Fearsome Foursome, 1956 NFL champion, later actor, minister, and the man who subdued Sirhan Sirhan in 1968.
Rosh Chodesh (ראש חודש)
Rosh Chodesh (ראש חודש, "head of the month") is the Jewish observance of the beginning of each lunar month, marked in the liturgy by additional prayers.
Rosh HaNikra grottoes (מערות ראש הנקרה)
The Rosh HaNikra grottoes (מערות ראש הנקרה) are sea caves worn by the Mediterranean into white chalk cliffs on Israel's northern coast, near the border with Lebanon.
Rosh Hashanah (ראש השנה)
Rosh Hashanah (ראש השנה), the Jewish New Year, is observed on 1–2 Tishrei with about a hundred shofar blasts, opening the Ten Days of Awe before Yom Kippur.
Rosh yeshiva (ראש ישיבה)
Rosh yeshiva (ראש ישיבה) is the head of a yeshiva, the academy where Jewish students study Talmud; the rosh yeshiva delivers the main Talmud lecture and shapes the institution.
Roshan (music director)
Roshan, born Roshan Lal Nagrath (1917–1967), was an Indian music director for Hindi films who was known as the King of Qawwalis and father of Rakesh Roshan.