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Rosewood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rosewood refers to a number of richly hued timbers, brownish with darker veining. All the real rosewoods belong to the genus Dalbergia, but note that the reverse is not true: only a few (perhaps not much over a dozen) species of the genus are recognized as rosewoods. The keys of a marimba or xylophone should be made of a dense wood that resonates strongly: Honduras rosewood is a favourite wood for this purpose. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosewood   (409 words)

Rosewood. (movie reviews). Rosewood is based on the terrible, historically-repressed events that took place in the small, thriving fl town of that name, located on the edge of the Florida cypress swamps. As Rosewood ends, the camera looks down in a long shot on a shack, and we hear the screams and blows of Fannie, as she is brutally beaten by her husband, mixed with the lush, poignant music signifying ideological and narrative resolution. Although Rosewood wasn't commercially successful at the box office, the issues it explores will continue to resonate for some time to come, since the film is sure to have a long run in the video store, in the classroom, and within the critical discourse about Black Cinema. www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/rosewood.html   (2066 words)

Untitled Document Rosewood, Florida was a small village of twenty-five to thirty fl families located in central Florida, about nine miles east of Cedar Key in Western Levy County. The men of Rosewood fought valiantly to protect their homes and their families, but they were overwhelmed by the large numbers of vigilantes and decided to evacuate their children. The Rosewood Bill came before the legislature because Arnett Doctor, the son of Philomena Goins, was a childhood friend and played in the same sandbox with his young white friend, Martha Barnett, who later became an attorney. www.directblackaction.com /roserep.htm   (2064 words)

Essential Oil Dictionary, Detailed Reference Guide, Herbal Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Rosewood oil is non-toxic, non-irritant and non-sensitizing and generally reputed to be a safe oil. Rosewood oil may help for colds, coughs, fever and infections; it could be valuable for the immune system. Although Rosewood oil is not very powerful, it has a place in aromatherapy and could help with the respiratory system, with sexual problems, with stress-related conditions and for skin care. www.deancoleman.com /essentialref.htm   (12287 words)

Rosewood Bed and Breakfast : Greymouth Accommodation, Bed And Breakfast West Coast New Zealand Rosewood is a beautifully restored Bed & Breakfast close to the centre of Greymouth on the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Rosewood was built around the early 1920's as a Gentleman's residence. Today Rosewood has retained these features combining modern luxuries such as ensuite bathrooms in 3 rooms (one with facilities for the disabled) and a huge guest share bathroom for the remaining 2 rooms, tasteful furnishings with top quality King and Queen sized beds (cotton linen, your choice of pillows, cosy duvets and extra woollen blankets). www.rosewoodnz.co.nz   (550 words)

Civil Rights Journal: Remembering Rosewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Rosewood made national news in the mid 1990s, mostly because of the Florida State legislature's controversial debate over whether to award reparations to the victims and their children. Rosewood is a story of romance and violence set in the remote hammocks of north central Florida, and its very absence of ascertainable fact seems to license the imagination. The dogs led the mob to Rosewood, where a local flsmith named Sam Carter was strung up on an old, moss-covered oak and threatened with hanging until he confessed to having driven the suspect away in his wagon. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HSP/is_1_4/ai_66678563   (1560 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) ROSEWOOD AND THE RACIAL VIOLENCE OF JANUARY 1923 Lynching had become so common in the United States, especially in the South, that in 1921 Representative L. Dyer of Missouri introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to make lynching a federal crime. Rosewood and nearby Sumner constituted a precinct of 307 people in 1910 (158 whites, 128 fls, and 21 mulattoes); by 1920 the population had more than doubled to 638, except now fls were a majority with 344 people, while white residents numbered 294. Rosewood is located nine miles east of Cedar Key in western Levy County which was established March 10, 1845. www.tfn.net /doc/rosewood.txt   (17236 words)

David Cookson&Co., Inc. - Glossary The first being the introduction of synthetic linalool to replace Rosewood in the cheap fragrance sector in the early 1960’s. Steffen Arctander in his important tome (or as one man used to call it "The Essential oils Bible")- "Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin" saw the writing on the wall in 1960 stating that: "Bois de Rose today is fighting for survival in strong competition with other essential oils and particularly with synthetic Linalool". So far, so good with Rosewood - it’s still out there and producers seem to be hanging in there despite the plethora of problems they are facing; working with government officials, paying the licensing fees, looking at plantation options and supplying the market what it demands. www.cooksonco.com /ROSEWOOD.HTM   (900 words)

Rosewood Victims vs State of Florida The residents of Rosewood did not return due to fear, and it appears that many simply abandoned their property because the area was not secured for their safety. In the Rosewood claim, although the claimants are now elderly, the damage they sustained was as children, and while ascertaining an amount of damage for emotional harm is subjective, the Gamble case provides guidance as to prior legislative enactments in this regard. Accordingly, it appears that those Rosewood claimants who as children were subjected to the violence and forced to leave their homes should each be awarded compensation in the amount of $150,000. afgen.com /roswood2.html   (4465 words)

Rosewood Bibliography/State Library of Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Florida House bill HR 1359, 1994 Rosewood compensation fund and appropriation for erection of a monument. Florida House bill HR 1923, 1993 Resolution commending Minnie Lee Langley for her courage in escaping from the Rosewood massacre. Florida Senate bill SB 1752, 1994 Rosewood compensation fund and appropriation for erection of a monument. dlis.dos.state.fl.us /stlib/rosewood_bib.html   (603 words)

Solid Rosewood Furniture - Wharfside Furniture - solid rosewood dining tables, cabinets, wallunits, coffee tables & ... Rosewood furniture is amazingly beautiful and highly sought after. Rosewood ranges from a dark Brown to slightly purplish in colour. Wharfside Furniture, based in London and Surrey in the UK, specialises in solid wood furniture and many rosewood dining tables, rosewood cabinets, rosewood wall units, rosewood coffee tables, rosewood nests of tables and rosewood entertainment centre furniture examples are available on our website or in our showrooms. www.wharfside.co.uk /solidrosewoodfurniture.html   (166 words)

rosewood ROSEWOOD AND THE RACIAL VIOLENCE OF Lynching had become so common in the United States, especially in the South, that in 1921 Representative L. Dyer of Missouri introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to make lynching a federal crime. Although newspapers had their biases in reporting the Rosewood events, the editorial responses of white and fl state, regional, and national newspapers and other publications are important in evaluating the Rosewood affair. This condensation of Rosewood's history is based on research by Tom Dye who utilized minutes of the Levy County Board of Commissioners, state and federal manuscript census reports, Florida Railroad Commissioner reports, Levy County deed record books, other primary sources, official and unofficial, and a large number of secondary sources. mailer.fsu.edu /~mjones/rosewood/rosewood.html   (19895 words)

Handbook of Texas Online: ROSEWOOD, TX Rosewood is on State Highway 154 eight miles west of Gilmer in western Upshur County. By 1914 Rosewood had Baptist and Methodist churches, two sawmills, four general stores, a bank, and an estimated population of 500. In 1990 Rosewood was a dispersed rural community with an estimated population of 100. www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/hlr41.html   (308 words)

Rosewood (1997) - MovieWeb During the first week of January, 1923, Rosewood, a flourishing fl town in central Florida, was burned to the ground by whites from the neighboring, less prosperous, town of Sumner. Fueled by a white woman's falsified story that she was assaulted and beaten by a fl stranger, a mob of Sumner men declared war on their unsuspecting neighbors. Many of Rosewood's inhabitants were murdered in cold blood and scores more were driven from their beds into the surrounding dank woods, never to return to their homes -- or their secure way of life -- again. movieweb.com /movie/rosewood   (232 words)

ROSEWOOD - Online Information article about ROSEWOOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) ROSEWOOD, the name given to several distinct kinds. Kingdom is Brazilian rosewood, the palissandre of the See also: The heartwood attains large dimensions, but as it begins to decay before the tree arrives at maturity it is always faulty and hollow in the centre. encyclopedia.jrank.org /RON_SAC/ROSEWOOD.html   (491 words)

Rosewood Family Scholarship - Modified on 081905   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The Rosewood Family Scholarship was created to provide student financial assistance for a maximum of twenty-five eligible minority students who attend a state university, public community college, or public postsecondary vocational-technical school. The amount of an annual award for the Rosewood Family Scholarship will be the amount of tuition and fees for 15 semester hours or 450 clock hours per term of undergraduate study, not to exceed $4,000, or the amount established in the General Appropriations Act, whichever is less. The Rosewood Family Scholarship award may be received for a maximum of 8 semesters or 12 quarters or the equivalent or until receipt of the first bachelor's degree, whichever occurs first. www.firn.edu /doe/bin00065/rosewoodfactsheet.htm   (1776 words)

The Films of John Singleton: Rosewood (1997) In 1923, the predominantly fl town of Rosewood, Florida was burned to ground, its population almost entirely wiped out, by white men from the neighboring town of Sumner... The event that triggers the massacre does not come until about a half hour or so in, when one Fannie Taylor (Catherine Kellner), a white housewife, claims that she was assaulted by a fl stranger (in actuality, she was assaulted by her lover, who was also white). However, with his triumphant return to form with Rosewood, his talent as a filmmaker should no longer be called into question. www.godamongdirectors.com /singleton/rosewood.html   (504 words)

WCJB - TV20 News - Your Home Team - Gainesville - Lake City - Ocala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) In the small town of Rosewood, a historical marker now stands outside the only original home that lasted through the 1923 Rosewood Massacre. "This marker will ensure that Rosewood is remembered and that when the voice of the last survivor is stilled, we will all bear witness to what happened here and learn the lessons of its legacy," says Governor Bush. Researchers and survivors say a white woman living in nearby Sumner falsely accused a fl Rosewood man of attacking her. www.wcjb.com /news.asp?id=9716   (335 words)

Bolivian Rosewood - Machaerium, sclieroxylon Bolivian Rosewood offers a wide range of colors from medium to light browns through to almost fl brown purplish tones, on top of which there is frequent fl striping. Bolivian Rosewood undergoes a substantial degree of color change as the wood lightens over time and more so in direct sunlight from the darker brown tones to lighter gold/tan tones with a muting the fresh milled color variation. Bolivian Rosewood may be used both residentially and commercially wherever the rich bold look of a rosewood is desired. www.wflooring.com /Technical_Info/Species_Tech_Info/Species_Pages/rosewood_bolivian.htm   (338 words)

The Real Rosewood®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Author Lizzie PRB Jenkins is a direct Rosewood descendant. This website as well as Jenkins' book The Real Rosewood Volume I are a compilation of years of research and devotion to disclose the true history of the 1923 Rosewood Massacre and to serve as the voice for justice of the survivors and descendants of those who suffered this historical tragedy. Several Rosewood residents worked at this sawmill believed to be the Sumner sawmill. www.rosewoodflorida.com   (146 words)

Images - Rosewood He has been making money off of the Rosewood citizens for several years and hopes to one day take his family and his savings and high-tail it for the big city. He isn't particularly interested in helping out the town of Rosewood, but when the lynching party hits Rosewood, looking for any excuse to start stringing up fl men and women, Wright has to rethink his commitment to the community. Instead of seeing Rosewood as a simple venue for showing the horrific results of a lynching party gone crazy, where the fl men and women become victims, producer Peters and director Singleton have seen the opportunity to create an uplifting story of people fighting back against the oppressors. www.imagesjournal.com /issue02/reviews/rosewood.htm   (1058 words)

City of Reno - Rosewood Lakes Golf Course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Rosewood Lakes Golf Course, opened on July 1, 1991, has provided golfers from all over the world extraordinary golf surrounded by the natural beauty of the Nevada desert. Rosewood Lakes Golf Course is renowned for its generous greens, berm-lined fairways and panoramic views. Rosewood is a member of the USGA'S Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program. www.rosewoodlakes.com   (262 words)

Rosewood High School Guidance Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The school is located in the western part of Wayne County, in the Rosewood community. Rosewood High School offers an extensive curriculum, competent and caring faculty and staff, valuable extracurricular opportunities, and many support services. Rosewood High School is ready to assist parents with helping students to be all they can be. www.waynecountyschools.org /372/Guidance/index.htm   (223 words)

Honduran Rosewood Dalbergia, stevensonii Honduran Rosewood may be used both residentially and commercially wherever the rich bold look of a true rosewood is desired. Honduran Rosewood is known to have adverse reactions when certain oil based finishes are used with this wood. Honduran Rosewood is known to cause both contact dermatitis and respiratory reactions when coming into contact with the dust. www.wflooring.com /Technical_Info/Species_Tech_Info/Species_Pages/rosewood_honduran.htm   (283 words)

Materials on the Destruction of Rosewood, Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Information about the Destruction of Rosewood, Florida in January, 1923 continues to be of interest. This report, prepared for the Legislature by five professors from FAMU, FSU and UF, was submitted to the Board of Regents in December 1993. The State Library has prepared a Bibliography of additional materials which are available on Rosewood. dlis.dos.state.fl.us /fgils/rosewood.html   (284 words)

DVD.net : Rosewood - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) While the official death toll of the Rosewood Massacre stands at two white folks and six fl folks, the estimated body count is anywhere between 40 and 150. Rosewood documents this story from start to finish over its 136 minutes and while there are moments you may wish to shy away from, this story is important and needs to be heard. In Rosewood, a small, mostly fl community is going about its business. www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3271   (961 words)

Rosewood™ font family : MyFonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Rosewood™ is a Linotype font family with 2 styles priced from $21.00. Rosewood, like its relatives Zebrawood, Pepperwood and Ponderosa, was created by the designer trio K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, and has its roots in the slab serif style. Rosewood, like Zebrawood and Schwennel, is a bicolor font, meaning that the weight Rosewood fill can be used as a decoration for the inner spaces of Rosewood regular. www.myfonts.com /fonts/linotype/rosewood   (268 words)

Rosewood Bed & Breakfast - Bethany (Oklahoma City area), Oklahoma - BBOnline.com / Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Our guests find the Rosewood Inn to be a sanctuary from the busy schedules of a fast paced life. Some of our guests choose to have breakfast in the Rosewood Gardens where they can watch the birds and listen to the babbling brook, while others come downstairs to the Gathering dining room for breakfast and a visit with the innkeepers. Of course, most of our guests prefer to have their breakfast delivered to their room, where they can continue to relax and enjoy the moment in the privacy of luxurious surroundings. www.bbonline.com /ok/rosewood   (589 words)

Rosewood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) In 1923, the town of Rosewood was destroyed by the residents of nearby Sumner. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Sanaa Lathan is starring in Something New, a romantic comedy where she finds love with someone unexpected and hears about it from her family and friends. www.rottentomatoes.com /m/rosewood/about.php   (619 words)

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