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(Encyclopedia) CE5 Pasture rose, Rosa carolina rose, common name for some members of the Rosaceae, a large family of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed over most of the earth, and for plants of…

Mauri Rose

Born: May 26, 1906Auto racer 3-time winner of Indy 500 (1941,47-48).Died: Jan. 1, 1981

Murray Rose

Born: Jan. 6, 1939Australian swimmer won 3 gold medals at 1956 Olympics; added a gold, silver and bronze in 1960.

Pete Rose

Born: Apr. 14, 1941Baseball OF-IF all-time hits leader with 4,256 and games leader with 3562; led NL in batting 3 times; regular-season MVP in 1973; World Series MVP in 1975; had 44-game hitting…

Tokyo Rose

(Encyclopedia) Tokyo Rose: see D'Aquino, Iva Toguri.

Schneiderman, Rose

(Encyclopedia) Schneiderman, RoseSchneiderman, Roseshnīˈdərmən [key], 1884–1972, American labor leader, b. Poland. She emigrated to the United States in 1890. After working as a lining stitcher in a…

Rose, Gustav

(Encyclopedia) Rose, GustavRose, Gustavg&oobreve;sˈtäf rōˈzə [key], 1798–1873, German mineralogist. He served as professor at the Univ. of Berlin from 1839. Noted especially as a crystallographer…

Rose, Irwin

(Encyclopedia) Rose, Irwin, 1926–2015, American biochemist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1952. Rose was on the faculty of Yale Medical School from 1954 to 1963 and a senior member of…