Roseau Roseau, population 14,847 , is the capital of Dominica. It is a small and compact urban settlement surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, the Roseau River, Dominica and Morne Bruce. Built on the site of the ancient Kalinago village of Sairi, it is the oldest and most important urban settlement on the island.
	Rosebud Rosebud can refer to: * the buds of the rose flower * Rosebud, Victoria city in Australia * Rosebud Indian Reservation, a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, USA * People's_Park_(Berkeley)#Rosebud_Abigail_Denovo, a political activist at Berekeley
	Rosemaling Rosemaling is the name of a form of decorative flower painting that originated in the low-land areas of eastern Norway in about 1750, when Baroque, Rengeny and Rococo, artistic styles of the upper class, were introduced into Norways rural culture. Rosemaling designs use C and S strokes and feature scroll and flowing lines, floral designs, and subtle colors.
	Rosemary Rosemary is a woody, perennial plant herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaf. It is native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae, which also includes many other herbs. Forms range from upright to trailing; the upright forms can reach 1.5 m tall, rarely 2 m.
	Rosetta Stone The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish stone inscribed with the same passage of writing in two Egyptian language language scripts and in classical Greek language. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799, and translated in 1822. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously Decipherment examples of Hieroglyphs writing.
	Rosh Hashanah The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for planning, developing, fielding, operating, and supporting command, control, communications, and information systems that serve the needs of the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant commanders, and other Department of Defense components under all conditions of peace and war.
	Rosicrucian The Rosicrucian Order is a legendary and secretive Order publicly documented in the early 17th century. The Rosicrucian Order is viewed among earlier and many modern Rosicrucianists as an Plane Order, composed of great "Adepts." When compared to human beings, the consciousness of these Adepts is said to be like that of demi-The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception#The Rosicrucian conception of God and the scheme of evolution.
	Rosin Rosin, formerly called colophony or Greek pitch, is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly Pinophyta, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporise the volatile liquid terpene components. It is semi-transparent and varies in color from yellow to black.
	Rosinweed The rosinweeds are a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America. They are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 0.5-4 m tall, with yellow flowerheads.
	Rosmarinus Rosmarinus is a small genus of woody, perennial plant herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaves in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region. There are just two species, R. officinalis, widespread in the Mediterranean region, and R. eriocalyx, native to northwest Africa and southern Spain.
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	Rostock Rostock is a city in northern Germany. It is the largest city in the States of Germany of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Rostock is located on the Warnow river; the quarter of Warnemnde 12 km north of the city centre lies directly on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
	Rostov ---- Rostov is one of the oldest towns in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero in Yaroslavl Oblast. Population—35,300. While the official name of the town is Rostov, it is better known to Russians as Rostov Veliky, i.e.
	Rosy boa The Rosy Boa is one of only two members of the Boidae family native to the United States. The other is the Rubber Boa,.
	Rotary engine The rotary engine was a common type of internal-combustion engine aircraft engine in the early years of the 20th century. It was also used in a few motorcycles and automobile. In concept, a rotary engine is simple. It is a standard Otto cycle engine, but instead of having an orthodox fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it.
	Rotary International Rotary International is an organization whose members make up Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The members of Rotary Clubs are known as Rotarians and are business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
	Rotation Rotation is the movement of an object in a circular motion. A two-dimensional object rotates around a center of rotation. A three-dimensional object rotates around a line called an axis. If the axis of rotation is within the body, the body is said to rotate upon itself, or spin— which implies relative speed and perhaps free-movement with angular momentum.
	Rotavirus Rotavirus A Rotavirus B Rotavirus C Rotavirus D Rotavirus E Rotavirus F Rotavirus G Rotaviruses are a genus of viruses belonging to the Reoviridae family. Seven major groups have been identified, three of which infect humans, with group A being the most common and widespread one.
	Rotenone Rotenone is a colorless-to-red, odorless solid. In solution it is used as a broad-spectrum insecticide that works by inhibiting the transfer of electrons from Fe-S centers in Complex I to ubiquinone. This prevents Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide from being converted into usable cellular energy.
	Rotifer The rotifers make up a phylum of microscopic, and near-microscopic body cavity animals. They were first described by John Harris in 1696 . Anton van Leeuwenhoek is mistakenly given credit for being the first to describe rotifers but Harris had produced sketches in 1703.
	Rotisserie Rotisserie is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit and revolves over a flame or other heat source. The rotation cooks the meat evenly in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting if desired. Historically, rotisseries were turned by hand or by clockwork contrivances.
	Rotogravure Gravure may also refer to Gravure idol Rotogravure is a type of intaglio printing process, in that it involves engraving the image onto an Category:Engraving es:Huecograbado fr:Hliogravure ja:?????? pl:Rotograwiura fi:Syvpaino
	Rotor Rotor usually refers to the rotating part of a machine such as a electric motor, generator, alternator, pump, or helicopter. The part of the machine that does not rotate is called a stator.
	Rotterdam Rotterdam , located in the province of South Holland, is the second largest municipality in the Netherlands. The city has the largest port in Europe and was until recently the world's busiest port; it is found on the banks of the river the Nieuwe Maas, one of the streams in the delta formed by the Rhine and Meuse rivers.
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	Rouge Rouge means red in French language and it can refer to: * A cosmetics, used to color the cheeks and emphasize the cheekbones. * A fine powder of iron(III) oxide, used for polishing or cosmetics. * A similar abrasive powder, with composition and particle size of each type varying from manufacturer to manufacturer:
	Rougé Roug? is a France town in the department of Loire-Atlantique, Region Pays de la Loire in the historical province of Bretagne (West of France), near Rennes. The name "Roug?" comes from the Latin "Rubiacus", means the red place. The name was used to call "the red place" because of the high iron-composition of the ground.
	Rough Riders "The Rough Riders" was the name bestowed by the United States journalism on the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War.
	Rough-skinned Newt The rough-skinned newt is a North American newt known for its strong poison. They are available in some places as pets, often sold under the trade names "Oregon newt" or "orange-bellied newt."
	Roughhouse Roughhouse is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe and the occasional enemy of Wolverine. His first appearance was in Wolverine #4. The character was created by Chris Claremont and John Buscema.
	Roughneck Roughneck is a slang term for an unskilled or slightly skilled labourer in a number of industries. In particular, is the official name of a semi-skilled role on a North American oil rig. Originally the term was used in the travelling carnivals of 19th century United States, almost interchangeably with roustabout.
	Roulette Roulette is a casino and gambling game . A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a sphere must land. The main pockets are numbered from 1 to 36 alternate between red and black, but the pockets are not in numerical order around the wheel, and there are instances of consecutive numbers being the same color.
	Roulettes The Roulettes are the Royal Australian Air Force formation aerobatics display team. They provide about 150 flying displays a year, in Australia and in friendly countries around the South-east Asian region. The Roulettes form part of the RAAF Central Flying School at RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria.
	Round shot Round shot is a type of projectile fired from guns or cannons. Along with pellet shot and grapeshot, round shot was one of the early projectiles used in firearms. As the name implies, round shot is sphere with a diameter slightly less than the Caliber of the firearm it is to be used in.
	Round table A round table is one which has no "head" and no "sides", and therefore no one person sitting at it is given a privileged position and all are treated as equals. The idea stems from the King Arthur about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot.
	Round the Bend Round the Bend was a British television children's television series, which ran for three seasons on CiTV, beginning in 1988 in television. It was cancelled, supposedly following complaints from Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association about the coarseness of the humour and for being political correctness.
	Round whitefish Round Whitefish is a freshwater species of fish that is found in lakes from Alaska to New England, including the Great Lakes. It is has an olive-brown back with light silvery sides and underside and its size is generally between 9 and 19 inches long. They are bottom feeders, feeding mostly on invertebrates, such as crustaceans, insect larvae, and fish eggs.
	Round-bottom flask Round-bottom flasks are types of flasks having spherical bottoms used as laboratory glassware, mostly for chemistry or biochemistry work. They are typically made of glass for chemical inertness; and in modern days, they are usually made of heat-resistant glass called Pyrex.
	Roundabout A roundabout or rotary is a type of road junction at which traffic streams around a central island, after first yielding to the circulating traffic. In the United States it is technically called a "modern roundabout", to emphasize the distinction from the older, larger type of traffic circle.
	Roundedness In phonetics, vowel roundedness refers to the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. That is, it is vocalic labialization. When pronouncing a rounded vowel, the lips form a circular opening, while unrounded vowels are pronounced with the lips relaxed.
	Roundel A roundel is a distinctive, mostly round insignia or identifying emblem, commonly painted today on military aircraft to indicate which nation's air force or navy they belong to. However, some corporations and other organizations also make use of roundels in their branding, employing them as a trademark, or logo, such as the famous roundels of BMW, Imperial Chemical Industries, and the London Underground.
	Rounders Rounders is a sport which originated in Great Britain and Ireland. The game is regulated by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland and the National Rounders Association in England. Both regulating bodies operate a slightly different, although broadly similar, game-play and culture.
	Roundhouse A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotive engines. Roundhouses are large, circular or semicircular structures that were traditionally located surrounding or adjacent to turntable. The defining feature of the traditional roundhouse was the turntable, which facilitates access when the building is used for repair facilities or for storage of steam locomotives.
	Router A router is a computer networking device that forwards data packets across a network toward their destinations, through a process known as routing. Routing occurs at layer 3 of the OSI model protocol stack.
	Roux Roux is a mixture of wheat flour and fat. It is the basis of three of the five Sauce#Sauces in French cuisine of classical French cooking: Sauce bchamel, Sauce velout, and Sauce Espagnole. Butter, Vegetable oil, or lard are common fats used.
	Rove beetle The rove beetles are a large family of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra that leave more than half of their abdomens exposed. With over 46,000 species in thousands of genera, the group is the second largest family of beetles after the Curculionidae, and also ancient, with fossil rove beetles known from the Triassic, 200 million years ago.
	Rowan ---- The rowans are plants of the Family Rosaceae, in the Genus Sorbus, Subgenus Sorbus. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomixis microspecies occur.
	Rowlock A rowlock or oarlock is a device that attaches an oar to a rowboat. When a boat is rowed, the rowlock acts as a fulcrum, and, in doing so, the propulsive force that the rower exerts on the water with the oar is transferred to the boat by the thrust force exerted on the rowlock.
	Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent United States pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible".
	Roy Orbison Roy Kelton Orbison , nicknamed "The Big O", was an influential United States singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll, whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as "Only The Lonely", "In Dreams ", "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Crying " and "Running Scared
	Roy Wilkins Roy Wilkins was a prominent American Civil Rights Movement activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and between 1931 and 1934 was assistant NAACP secretary under Walter Francis White.
	Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Piccadilly, London.
	Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. Although the 'Junior Service' the RAF is the oldest independent air force in the world, formed on April 1, 1918. The RAF has taken a significant role in British military history since then, playing a large part in World War II, and more recently in conflicts such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Mounties, also The RCMP acts as the federal police for all of Canada, enforcing certain federal laws. It also has contracts with Canada's three Territories of Canada and eight of its Provinces of Canada to serve as their provincial/territorial police force.
	Royal family A royal family is the extended family of a monarch. Generally, the head of a royal family is a monarch or monarch regnant. The term "imperial family" more appropriately describes the extended family of an emperor or empress regnant, while the terms "ducal family", "grand ducal family" or "princely family" are more appropriate in reference to the relatives of a reigning duke, grand duke, or prince.
	Royal fern Royal fern, Osmunda regalis, belongs to the oxymoronically named flowering fern family, so called because the densely-clustered sporangium resemble flowers. It is said by some to be one of the most handsome European ferns, hence the name. It is widely distributed in Europe, Asia and North America.
	Royal Poinciana The Royal Poinciana, Delonix regia, is a tropics or subtropical flowering plant. It is also known by the names Gulmohar, Flamboyant Tree, Peacock Flower, Flame of the Forest, and Flame Tree. The Royal Poinciana has been described as the most colourful tree in the world.
	Royal Purple Royal Purple is a company that specializes in the manufacture of multipurpose Synthetic oil. Royal Purple is primarily known and recognized for its flagship product, Royal Purple Motor Oil.
	Royal Road The Persian Royal Road was an ancient highway built by the Persian Empire king Darius I of Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. Darius built the road to facilitate rapid communication throughout his very large empire from Susa to Sardis. These couriers could travel 1,677 miles in seven days.
	Royal Society The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, was founded in 1660 and claims to be the oldest learned society still in existence. Although a voluntary body, it serves as the academy of sciences of the United Kingdom, and is a learned society for science.
	Roystonea Roystonea is a genus of 10-12 species of Arecaceae, native to tropical regions of Florida, the Caribbean, and the adjacent coasts of Central America and South America. They are sometimes referred to as Bottle palms due to their shape. They are single-stemmed trees growing to 10-30 m tall with a trunk which may be thickened either at the base or the central portion, depending on the species.
	Rubber Rubber is an elastic hydrocarbon polymer which occurs as a milky emulsion in the sap of several varieties of plants. Rubber can also be produced synthetically. Synthetic rubber is made through the polymerisation of a variety of monomers to produce polymers. These form part of a broad study covered by Polymer science and Rubber technology.
	Rubber band A rubber band is a short length of rubber and latex formed in the shape of a loop. Such bands are typically used to hold multiple objects together. The rubber band was patented in England on March 17, 1845 by Stephen Perry. Rubber bands are sometimes used to power model aircraft or other mechanical toys.
	Rubber Boa The Coastal Rubber Boa is a type of boa. It is one of the most docile boas alive. Rubber Boas are one of only two boas native to the USA, the other being the Rosy Boa. The Southern Rubber Boa is a closely related species found only in Southern California. Some consider it to be merely a subspecies of Charina bottae.
	Rubber bullet Rubber bullets are rubber or rubber-coated projectiles fired from guns. They are usually non-lethal, unless fired at short range, but are often heavy enough to pierce skin. See also plastic bullet. Rubber and wooden bullets are often used in riot control and to disperse protests.
	Rubber stamp Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an Category:Paper art de:Stempel nl:Handstempel
	Rube Goldberg Reuben Lucius Goldberg was a cofounder and president of the American National Cartoonists Society. He is one of the most famous cartoonists in history, who earned lasting fame for his "Rube Goldberg machines", exceedingly complex devices that perform simple tasks in very indirect and convoluted ways.
	Rubella Rubella is a disease caused by the Rubella virus. It is often mild and an attack can pass unnoticed. However, this can make the virus difficult to diagnose. The virus usually enters the body through the nose or throat. The disease can last 1-5 days. Children recover more quickly than adults.
	Rubiaceae Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the madder, bedstraw, or coffee family. Common plants included here are cinchona, Mitchella, uncaria, ixora, and noni. A number of formerly accepted families are now incorporated within the Rubiaceae following genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
	Rubicon The Rubicon is an ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy. In Roman times it flowed into the Adriatic Sea between Ariminum and Caesena. The actual modern identity of the river is uncertain; it is usually identified as the Pisciatello in its upper reaches and then the Fiumicino to the sea.