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Rote Fabrik
Rote Fabrik, meaning Red Factory, is a collectively run cultural center in a former silk factory on Lake Zurich in Zurich, occupied by artists and activists in 1980.
Rote Island
Rote Island (Pulau Rote) is a southern Indonesian island in East Nusa Tenggara Province, located southwest of Timor. It is the principal island of the Rote Ndao Regency.
Rote learning
Rote learning, or rote memorization, is learning by repetition without comprehension. Contrasted with meaningful learning; produces poorer long-term retention but retains uses in vocabulary, tables, and foundational facts.
Rotem Sela (רותם סלע)
Rotem Sela (רותם סלע), also known as Rotem Sela-Rotter, is an Israeli model, presenter, and actress who starred in Beauty and the Baker and won Best Actress at Séries Mania 2023.
Rotem Sorek
Rotem Sorek (רותם סורק) is an Israeli microbial genomicist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for discovering dozens of bacterial antiphage defense systems.
Rotenburg/Taaken Gas Field
Rotenburg/Taaken is a natural gas field in Landkreis Rotenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, discovered in 1982 and Germany's most productive gas field in most recent years.
Rotenone
Rotenone, a rotenoid from Derris and Lonchocarpus roots, is a botanical insecticide and piscicide inhibiting mitochondrial complex I; EPA-registered only for fish control since 2007.
ROTEX (robot)
ROTEX, short for RObot Technology EXperiment, was a small six-axis robot built by the German Aerospace Center and the first remotely controlled robot in space.
Roth 401(k)
The Roth 401(k) is a designated Roth account inside an employer-sponsored 401(k) plan, funded with after-tax pay, with tax-free qualified withdrawals and no income limit.
Roth IRA
A Roth IRA is an individual retirement account funded with after-tax contributions whose qualified withdrawals, including all investment earnings, are free of federal income tax.
Roth's theorem on arithmetic progressions
Roth's theorem on arithmetic progressions is a 1953 result of Klaus Roth that any set of integers with positive density contains a three-term arithmetic progression.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob der Tauber: medieval walled town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria; free imperial city from 1274, annexed to Bavaria 1802, 40–45% destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt; about 11,400 residents and over 2.5 million visitors a year.
Rotherham
Rotherham, South Yorkshire: metropolitan borough of 271,195 on the River Don, known for town centre regeneration, the November 2019 record Don flood, and commuter links to Sheffield.
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal: abuse of at least 1,400 children in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1997–2013, exposed by the 2014 Jay report, followed by the Casey inspection, government intervention, and IOPC Operation Linden.
Rotherham United F.C.
Rotherham United F.C. (The Millers), English club formed 27 May 1925 from the merger of Rotherham County and Rotherham Town; three-time fourth/third-tier champions, League Cup finalist 1961, plays at AESSEAL New York Stadium.
Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe, a Thames peninsula in Southwark, south-east London, formerly home to the Surrey Docks and regenerated from the 1980s; known for Edward III's manor, the Brunel Thames Tunnel, Flood Zone 3 tidal risk, and the Canada Water Masterplan.
Rotherhithe Tunnel
The Rotherhithe Tunnel is a single-bore road tunnel under the River Thames in east London, connecting Rotherhithe with Shadwell. Built between 1904 and 1908, it remains toll-free today.
Rothesay (insurer)
Rothesay is a British specialist insurance company, founded in 2007, that takes on the pension obligations of UK defined-benefit schemes through bulk annuities, buy-ins, and buy-outs.
Rothko Chapel
The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, housing fourteen monumental dark paintings commissioned from Mark Rothko, opened to the public in February 1971.
Rothley
Rothley is a village and civil parish in Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, on a tributary of the Soar. Known for its Domesday record, Knights Templar Rothley Temple, a scheduled Roman villa, and a Saxon cemetery at The Grange.
Rothmans International
Rothmans International, also known as Rothman's of Pall Mall, was a British-founded multinational tobacco manufacturer founded by Louis Rothman in 1890, which merged into British American Tobacco in 1999.
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS, congenital poikiloderma) is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis caused by RECQL4 or ANAPC1 variants, marked by infantile poikiloderma, sparse hair, short stature, cataracts, and osteosarcoma risk.
Rothschild & Co
Rothschild & Co, also known as N M Rothschild & Sons, is a family-controlled investment bank headquartered in Paris, descended from the Rothschild banking house founded in 1810.
Rothschild banking family of England
The Rothschild banking family of England, founded by Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), ran the London bank N M Rothschild & Sons, probably the world's biggest in the early 19th century.
Rothschild Egg
The Rothschild Egg is a jewelled 1902 Fabergé egg with a clock and automaton cockerel, made by Michael Perkhin as an engagement gift for Germaine Halphen.
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family is a Jewish banking dynasty founded in Frankfurt by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, whose five sons built the world's largest bank by the 1820s.
Rothschild family residences
Rothschild family residences: the country houses, chateaux, and villas built by the Rothschild banking dynasty, including Waddesdon Manor, Mentmore, Ferrieres, and the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, in the Le Gout Rothschild style.
Rothschild Island (landform)
Rothschild Island, Antarctica: 39-km ice-covered island with Desko Mountains peaks, 8 km west of Alexander Island; sighted 1821, named 1909 by Charcot for Baron Édouard de Rothschild.
Rothschild's Fiddle
Rothschild's Fiddle (Skripka Rotshilda) is an 1894 short story by Anton Chekhov in which the coffin-maker Yakov Ivanov leaves his violin to Rothschild, the flutist he had hated.
Roti (रोटी)
Roti (रोटी), also called chapati or phulka, is an unleavened whole wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa and eaten across South Asia with dal and curries; distinct from layered paratha and leavened tandoor naan, with 30-plus regional varieties and diaspora forms.