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  Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roses are one of the most popular garden shrubs in temperate climates, and are also among the most common flowers sold by florists.
Roses are of great economic importance both as a crop for florists' use and for use in perfume.
Rose perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam-distilling the crushed petals of roses.
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 Encyclopedia: Rose
Binomial name Rosa gallica L. The Gallic Rose (also French Rose, Rose of Provinces) is a Rose species native to Southern and Central Europe and is one of the earliest cultivated species of roses, being cultivated by the Greek and Romans and it was commonly used in Mediaeval gardens.
The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses, and is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary.
The sentence Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rose   (5301 words)

  
 Rose - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Despite the presence of the thorns, roses are frequently heavily browsed by deer.
Roses are one of the most popular garden shrubs, and are also among the most common flowers sold by florists.
The rose is the national flower of England, the provincial flower of Alberta (the wild rose), and the state flower of North Dakota.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /rose.htm   (1806 words)

  
 Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Four china roses ('Slater's Crimson China', 1792; 'Parsons' Pink China', 1793; 'Hume's Blush China', 1809; and 'Parks' Yellow Tea Scented China', 1824) were brought to Europe in the late 18th Centuryeighteenth and 19th Centurynineteenth centuries/ which brought about the creation of the repeat flowering old garden roses and later the modern garden roses.
Roses are so important that the word means pink or red in a variety of languages (such as Romance languages and Greek languageGreek/).
A red rose (often held in a hand) is also a symbol of socialism or social democracy; it is also used as a symbol by the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK)Labour Party/.
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 Hybrid Tea Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But not all decisions about roses are rational; after all the rose is a symbol of passion.
Sometimes we've used number of awards as a criterion, sometimes it is a rose in a rare color, sometimes it is a high ARS rating.
For people uninterested in spending long hours tending their roses, this means that selecting good Hybrid Teas is more of a chore.
www.rosefile.com /TheTables/hytea.html   (540 words)

  
 Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Native Flora Garden
Cinnamon fern derives its name from the tall, orange-brown fertile fronds that appear in the spring.
The interrupted fern is so named because the leaflets in the center part of each fertile frond ripen and wither in early summer, leaving a space.
By late spring, the perimeter of the kettle pond is ringed with clumps of royal and cinnamon fern, and highlighted by the beautiful blooms of the blue flag iris.
www.bbg.org /exp/stroll/nativeflora.html   (3494 words)

  
 McCartney Wedding
She carried a bouquet of 11 McCartney Roses and two peonies — in 1993 roses growers named a red/pink rose in McCartney’s honor — and she briefly faltered and wept while saying her vows.
The BBC also reported that the castle’s church bells rang out at noon ET, “to indicate that the couple had taken their vows.” There was no official word from inside Castle Leslie, but fans outside took the ringing of bells — and the reported appearance of a rainbow — to mean they’d tied the knot.
Two security guards who would not give their names said the service was over, and that the newlyweds had left the chapel for a reception on the grounds.
www.not2tech.com /beatles/paul-wedding.htm   (2951 words)

  
 Tattoos | Tattoo Arists | Celebrity Tattoos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Celebrities probably don't want just anyone inking them when they go for a tattoo.
Jonathan Shaw has been tattooing for a long time and is a familiar name to anyone interested in tattoos.
The strangest tattoo he's been asked to do is Bart Simpson (maybe he's not a fan.) Kevin's shop used to be THE place to get tattooed but he put his ink and gun away so he could spend time as a guitarist for the rock band, American Pearl.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p2004.htm   (377 words)

  
 Celebrity Cemetery
Yesss...we are heating up, just in time for summer...stay tuned, players...Remember, a roll of Mentos and a yet-to-be-revealed mystery prize is on the line...not to mention your name engraved upon the imaginary-yet-coveted Esther Rolle Memorial Trophy.
He was named rookie of the year that season at age 32.
Adams became a household name in Britain when his 1979 cult science fiction saga, about a group of galactic travelers who survive the demolition of earth to build a space by-pass, sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.
after.hours.tripod.com /jul01obit.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Celebrity Direct Entertainment - ARTIST ROSTER
One is immediately taken back to the sixties when the name is mentioned, "Peppermint Twist," the multi-million selley was written and recorded by Joey, starting a whole new trend in music and dance.
One.” A world-wide release of their first single occurred on December 21, 1997, when “Heather and Red Roses,” a song commemorating the Pan Am flight 103 crash over Lockerbie, Scotland, was simultaneously released in over 40 countries and heard by an estimated 550 million radio listeners.
Eric is available through Celebrity Direct for a variety of personal appearances, and is always gracious with fans at autograph signings throughout the country.
www.celebritydirect.org /cde/roster.htm   (5155 words)

  
 Diana Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Famous people who lend their names to a rose don't get paid to do it.
Britain's Harkness Roses named a white floribunda "Princess of Wales" and
Roses are developed by breeders, who are almost always employed by a large
www.viennarose.com /portfolio/dianarose.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Homestore.com: Lawn & Garden - Roses - Celebrity Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His brilliant orange petals, which intensify in color as the season progresses, are as bright and cheerful as we remember the person he's named for from the screen.
Indeed, rose lovers with stars in their eyes can fully populate their plots with hybrids that would be perfectly appropriate for the forecourt of the Chinese Theater.
In the case of Streisand and friends, it would be nice to think that a rose in their name is an honor bestowed for life achievement, but, given the commercial nature of things, it's thornier than that.
www.homestore.com /HomeGarden/Gardening/Features/Flowers/CelebrityRoses.asp?poe=homestore   (763 words)

  
 The Material Girl Gets Immaterial - The social nuances of The English Roses. By Polly Shulman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The English Roses is written from the point of view of four girls—the Roses of the title, whom Madonna says she named for a group of girls who go to school with Lourdes in London.
One day the mother of one of the Roses lectures the girls about judging people on the basis of their looks.
Conscience-struck, the Roses decide to be nice to Binah after all, and the book ends with five English Roses instead of four.
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
The Roman name of the Brittany peninsula had been "Armorica." There was also a tradition that Celtic soldiers had stayed in the region after crossing over from Britain with the usurper Magnus Maximus.
The names of the Dukes of Gascony thus are much like the names with patronymics of the early Basque Kings of Navarre, e.g.
However, her name is also given as "Prisca," and her father is variously given as Sancho William, William Sancho, and William Sánchez.
www.friesian.com /flanders.htm   (9945 words)

  
 Celebrity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A name is very important to a career in entertainment since it's a part of the image being created.
Carmen Electra is a sexy name but no mother put that on a birth certificate.
She changed her name when she applied for a SAG card and another actress was named Julie Roberts.
channels.netscape.com /ns/celebrity/becksmith.jsp?p=bsf_namegame   (701 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Della Reese gets rose named after her   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Actress Della Reese is joining an elite group of famous people who have roses named after them.
With the "Della" rose, she joins the ranks of the late Princess Diana, President John F. Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth and Dolly Parton.
Reese, 73, who starred in the long-running series "Touched by an Angel," also grows several dozen varieties of roses at her home, said her publicist Eric Raymond.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/10/30/della_reese_gets_rose_named_after_her?mode=PF   (194 words)

  
 Paul McCartney marries Heather Mills
Women dressed in traditional Indian costume on the castle grounds and were expected to entertain during a vegetarian feast, toasted by crates of champagne, and 150 kegs of Ireland's famous fl Guinness stout.
Estimates of the lavish lakeside ceremony, held at the 17th century Castle Leslie in the Ulster border county of Monaghan, were as high as £1 million.
Celebrity wedding guests included fellow surviving Beatle Ringo Starr, Fab Four producer Sir George Martin, Sir Elton John, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, Twiggy, Jools Holland, and Chrissie Hynde.
www.rockontour.net /wtn9b.html   (564 words)

  
 Pita Revilla SPCM HS'75 :: St Paul College of Manila High School '75 :: www.Paulinians.com
When asked for the names of his 28 grandchildren, he says, "Forget it." He tries to name his eight children, but starts to fumble with the sixth child, saying he has not seen her in 10 years because she lives in the States.
He borrowed a cousin's first name and his mother's maiden name, which was already the surname of a popular pre-war actress, Lucita Goyena.
Paquita Roses, a great beauty, succumbed to ALS (an untreatable and unstoppably debilitating disease which attacks the nerves and the muscles of a person, thus sentencing him/her to a long, lonely, slow death) last March.
paulinians.homestead.com /files/ag.htm   (9257 words)

  
 Celebrity Hypocrites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I have to constantly try to remember to celebrate the miracle of life.
Rice used to have an oil tanker named after her.
And she used to be on the corporate board of Chevron...so she knows the importance Iraq plays in terms of access to oil.
www.celebrityhypocrites.com /bstreisand.html   (577 words)

  
 Rose_cultivars_named_after_celebrities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Gabriela Sabatini, a fiery orange-red rose named after Gaby in 1992, the first time in history that a rose has been named after a tennis player
Exhibition chronicling the Texas Rose Festival and the role of rose-growing.
Information on rose growing and exhibition, the Mesa Community College Rose Garden, antique and modern roses, rose pruning and propagation.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Celebrity_named_roses   (1045 words)

  
 Dreamscape - I'm A Celebrity ... : Page One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She will join nine other celebrities in the Australian jungle for two weeks when the show starts at the end of April.
She will join nine other celebrities in the Australian jungle for two weeks when the show begins at the end of April.
The 44-year-old is the tenth and final member of the celebrity lineup heading out to the Australian bush at the end of the month.
www.littletears.co.uk /celebrity1.html   (4060 words)

  
 Celebrity
Martin Sheen who was born Ramon Estevez reportedly changed his name so that he would not be typecast by his ethnicity.
Spike Lee who has sued people over his name was actually born Shelton Lee but his mother nicknamed him Spike due to his tough nature.
Country singer Tim McGraw was named Samuel Timothy Smith but didn't know who his father was until finding his birth certificate which listed professional baseball player Tug McGraw.
channels.netscape.com /netcenter/celebrity/becksmith.jsp?p=bsf_namegame   (701 words)

  
 Celebrity Wedding: Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
The star-filled ceremony included names such as former Beatle Ringo Starr, ex-model Twiggy, Beatles producer George Martin, The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde, Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour, and tennis player Monica Seles among the guests.
The chapel, located at the historic hotel, was filled with flowers imported from Holland including carnations, Casablanca lilies, red, pink and yellow roses, white, pink and yellow tulips, hydrangeas, and cymbidium orchids.
You might not have a rose named after you, but you or your fiance could grow your own roses to use at your ceremony.
www.lovetripper.com /legendary-lovers/mccartney-mills.html   (409 words)

  
 Celebrity Encounters
While I try to remember the name of the boxer i served ice cream to while working at dairy-queen, I'll tell you that my dad dated Bette Midler in high school, and in thier "forecast" section of the senior paper, it predicted Bette would be a broadway star.
I saw Slash from Guns N' Roses in a bar in the LA airport.
I can't name all the celebs I hung with, but with that pass, we went anywhere we wanted backstage.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/funlight/41012/276127   (1529 words)

  
 Lance Armstrong Motivational Speaker Lance Armstrong Celebrity
Affectionately named "Casa Linda" in honor of his mother, the Mediterranean-style home became his new address when Lance was just four months shy of his 25th birthday - an age when few men achieve such status and recognition, and even fewer are faced with their own mortality...
Comeback In May of 1998 Lance celebrated his victory over cancer and his "official" return to U.S. cycling by winning under the lights in dramatic fashion the Sprint 56K Criterium along the streets of downtown Austin.
All American Speakers is your source for sports and celebrity speakers, entertainers, celebrity talent, sports stars, and professional athletes for endorsements, personal appearances, and speaking engagements.
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 Excite - Celebrity Gossip
Some of the biggest names in ABC News and Sports gathered Monday at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan to bid farewell to broadcasting giant Roone Arledge, who died Thursday of cancer at age 71.
With 13 shows to go, Guns N' Roses have cancelled their first tour in a decade.
No reason was given, but the move follows recent no-shows in Vancouver and Philadelphia...
entertainment.excite.com /celebgossip/tvgnews/id/12_10_2002.html   (711 words)

  
 Employment news for Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Celebrity Birthdays Nov 10, 2004 Actor Stanley Tucci is 44.
Tara Reid - another struggling celebrity to show out left breast Nov 10, 2004 As the 'American Pie' actress turned up to hip hop star P Diddy's birthday bash in New York, she whipped off her fur coat for the photos and exposed her breast...
Actress Della Reese to have rose named after her Oct 29, 2004 LOS ANGELES - Actress Della Reese's is joining an elite group of famous people who have roses named after them.
www.jobtitles.net /A/Actress.html   (2307 words)

  
 LifeNetwork.ca :: Articles :: Celebrity Pets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
So many celebrities choose to own pets and have a little fur-ball run to the hotel room, trailer or tour bus door to greet them after a long day.
Fred Durst named his bulldog Bizkit, after his band Limp Bizkit.
Pop queen supreme Madonna has a tiny Chihuahua named Chiquita who was featured in her "Human Nature" video.
www.lifenetwork.ca /features/articles/article10_1.asp   (747 words)

  
 More celebrity sightings!
And she was with that lass that used to be Mark Fowler's wife in Eastenders, whatever her name is. Perhaps not the Uisge Beatha, maybe the one off Gibson Street, before the Hogshead coming from the University.
Hyndland was full of famous folk from the BBC last week performing at Cottiers as a tribute to Kenny McIntyre - it was like celebrity stars in their eyes with Elizabeth Quigley, political commentator impersonating a blues diva.
Name Eileen Mc Cusker (matt@matt83.freeserve.co.uk) from Scotland on Thu, Mar 23, 2000
www.glasgowwestend.co.uk /people/famous2.html   (6064 words)

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