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Roti (रोटी) (1942 film)
Roti (रोटी, Bread) is a 1942 Hindi-Urdu social film directed by Mehboob Khan at National Studios, Bombay, starring Chandra Mohan, Sheikh Mukhtar, Sitara Devi, and Begum Akhtar; a capitalist critique contrasting a tribal couple with an imposter millionaire, with music by Anil Biswas.
Roti canai
Roti canai, called roti prata in Singapore, is a Malaysian flaky griddled flatbread descended from South Indian parotta, brought by Indian-Muslim migrants to Penang in the 19th century, ranked first bread in the world by TasteAtlas in 2023.
Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (रोटी कपड़ा और मकान)
Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (रोटी कपड़ा और मकान), a 1974 Hindi social drama written, directed, produced by and starring Manoj Kumar; 1974's highest-grossing film, inspired by Indira Gandhi's Garibi Hatao-era slogan, with three Filmfare Awards and Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman in the cast.
Roti Kapda Romance
Roti Kapda Romance (Telugu: రోటి కదా రొమాన్స్) is a 2024 Telugu romantic comedy-drama, Vikram Reddy's directorial debut, starring Harsha Narra, Sandeep Saroj, Supraj Ranga, and Tarun Ponugoti as four friends on a Goa road trip; released 28 November 2024, streamed on ETV Win from 12 December 2024.
Rotifer
Rotifers (phylum Rotifera, wheel animals) are microscopic aquatic animals with a ciliated corona and jawed mastax, over 2,200 species, mostly freshwater, used as fish-larvae feed and water-quality bioindicators.
Rotimi (actor)
Rotimi (Olurotimi Akinosho, born 1988) is a Nigerian-American actor and R&B singer, born in Maplewood, New Jersey, known for Dre on Power, Darius on Boss, the gold single "In My Bed," and the album All or Nothing.
Rotisserie
Rotisserie (spit roasting): cooking meat skewered on a rotating spit, or spit, over a heat source so it self-bastes; historically turned by servants, turnspit dogs, smoke jacks, and clockwork, now motorized.
Rotliegend
The Rotliegend is a stratigraphic unit of the Central European Permian, named from a miner's term for the red rock beneath the Mansfeld copper shale.
Rotogravure
Rotogravure, also called gravure printing, is an intaglio process in which ink moves from recessed cells engraved in a rotating cylinder onto a moving web, prized for continuous tone and long runs.
Rotolactor
Rotolactor: first rotary milking parlor, installed 1930 at Walker-Gordon Farms, Plainsboro, New Jersey, by Henry W. Jeffers for Borden; 50-stall revolving platform, 12.5-minute rotation, featured at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Rotor (electric)
The rotor is the rotating part of an electric machine such as a motor or generator, with types including the squirrel-cage, wound, salient-pole, and permanent-magnet rotor.
Rotor kite
A rotor kite, also called a gyro kite or rotary-wing kite, is an unpowered tethered flying machine whose spinning rotor generates lift through autorotation, best known through the German Fa 330 of World War II.
Rotor syndrome
Rotor syndrome (Rotor-type hyperbilirubinemia) is a rare benign autosomal recessive digenic disorder from SLCO1B1 and SLCO1B3 mutations causing OATP1B1/OATP1B3 deficiency, chronic conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, coproporphyrinuria, normal liver histology, and no required treatment.
Rotorcraft
A rotorcraft, also called a rotary-wing or rotorwing aircraft, is an aircraft lifted by spinning rotors instead of fixed wings, spanning helicopters, autogyros, and tiltrotors like the V-22.
Rotorcraft records
Rotorcraft records are FAI-ratified aviation records set by helicopters and autogyros, including the 400.87 km/h absolute speed record set by a Westland Lynx in 1986.
Rotorua
Rotorua, New Zealand city on Lake Rotorua's southern shore, built 1880s as a government spa tourist town on Ngāti Whakaue land; geothermal fields, Te Arawa iwi, 1886 Tarawera eruption, 2006 lakes Treaty settlement.
RotorWay
RotorWay, also known as Rotorway International, was an American kit helicopter manufacturer based in Chandler, Arizona, producing two-seat amateur-built helicopters from 1967 until its sale and collapse in the 2020s.
RotorWay Exec
The RotorWay Exec is a family of two-seat, piston-powered kit helicopters built in Chandler, Arizona since 1980, including the Exec 90, Exec 162F, and A600 Talon.
Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping: animation and VFX technique of tracing live-action footage frame by frame, also called the Fleischer process. Invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, patented 1917 (US1242674); first used in Out of the Inkwell (1919), later by Disney for Snow White, Ralph Bakshi, and Sabiston's digital Rotoshop.
Rototom Sunsplash
Rototom Sunsplash is a reggae festival held every August in Benicàssim, Spain. Founded in Italy in 1994, it is considered the largest reggae culture festival in Europe.
Rotte (lyre)
Rotte, also known as the Anglo-Saxon harp, is a plucked lyre from North-western Europe. The best-known surviving example is the six-string Sutton Hoo lyre from the early 7th century.
Rotten
Rotten is a Netflix investigative documentary series (2 seasons, 2018 and 2019) from Zero Point Zero Production, with lead researcher Christine Haughney, exposing food fraud and supply-chain corruption one ingredient per episode.
Rotten and pocket boroughs
Rotten and pocket boroughs were pre-1832 British parliamentary boroughs with tiny electorates controlled by patrons, exemplified by Old Sarum, Dunwich, and Gatton; the Reform Act 1832 disenfranchised 56 of them and redistributed 111 seats.
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American website that aggregates professional film and TV reviews into a Tomatometer percentage score. It was founded in 1998 by Senh Duong.
Rotten.com
Rotten.com, also called Rotten dot com, was an early American shock site (1996-2017) founded by Thomas E. Dell, alias Soylent; it hosted death imagery and disturbing content and inspired later shock sites like Goatse.
Rotterdam
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands: second-largest Dutch city and home of Europe's largest seaport. Defined by the 14 May 1940 German bombing that destroyed its medieval centre and by the 1940–1965 reconstruction that created its modern architecture.
Rotterdam coal price
The Rotterdam coal price is the benchmark price of steam coal delivered CIF into the ARA ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Antwerp, quoted in US dollars per tonne.
Rotterdam Rhine Pipeline
The Rotterdam Rhine Pipeline is a pair of underground oil pipelines from Rotterdam to German refineries, opened in 1960 and operated by RRP, a Shell, Ruhr Oel, and bp venture.
Rotterdam Rules
Rotterdam Rules (UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, New York 2008): door-to-door sea cargo regime succeeding Hague-Visby and Hamburg Rules; 25 signatories, 5 parties, not in force.
Rotterdam Terror Corps
Rotterdam Terror Corps is a Dutch gabber and hardcore live act formed in 1993 in Rotterdam, led by DJ Distortion and known for tracks like 'The Horror'.