Roselle Park
a borough of New Jersey in Union co., adjoining on the west the borough of Roselle. It is a separate borough and is entirely a residential place. Pop. (1910) 3,138; (1920) 5,438.
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Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Rosen
ROMAN ROMANOVITCH, ARON, a Russian diplomat, BARON, 1849. He was educated at Reval, Dorpat, and Petrograd. He early entered the Department of Justice in the Russian Government, from which he was promoted to the Department of Foreign Affairs. From 1886 to 1894 he was Consul at New York and was chargé d'affaires at Washington, during the first administration of President Cleveland. He served as Secretary of Legation in Japan for one term and as Minister for two terms. In 1905 he was appointed Ambassador to the United States and was one of the Russian delegates during the peace negotiations at Portsmouth, N. H. He was appointed to the Council of the Empire following his services in the United States, and remained in this position at the outbreak of the Revolution, in 1917, when he escaped to the United States. He wrote in 1920 "Forty Years of a Diplomat's Life."
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Rosen, Paul
A sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33rd degree of the French rite of Masonry, who in 1888 decided that Masonry was diabolic in conception, and to prove his strictures published a work called Satan et Cie. The Satanism credited to Masonry by Rosen is social anarchy and the destruction of the Catholic religion.
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Rosenfeld
MAURICE (BER- NARD), an American pianist and music critic, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1867. He came to the United States in 1873. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and the Chicago Musical College. From 1888 to 1911 he was a member of the faculty of this institution, from 1911 to 1912 of the Sherwood Musical School, and from 1912 a member of the board of musical directors of the Chicago Musical College. In April, 1916, he established, at Chicago, a piano school bearing his name. He was music editor of the Chicago "Examiner" (1907 to 1915) and of the Chicago "Daily News," beginning with 1917. He was also a contributor to the "Musical Courier," "Musical America," and several newspapers and was a member of several musical and journalistic societies. His appearances as a pianist were frequent and accompanied with success.
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Rosenthal
MORITZ, a pianist; born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Dec. 18, 1862. In 1876 he gave his first concert, which led to fame; in 1878 was pianist to the Rumanian Court; in 1878- 1895 played in the principal cities of Europe; and in 1895 made his first appearance in London, where he was enthusiastically received. This was followed by many tours in Europe and the United States.
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Rosetta
a town of the Nile delta river, 9 miles from its entrance into the Mediterranean and 44 miles N. E. of Alexandria. In the time of the Crusades it was a place of great strength; and St. Louis made it the basis of his crusading operations. Sultan Beybers, after that inland. The Arabs call it Raschid, be- (in 1251) founded the present city farther lieving that Haroun al-Raschid founded the town was discovered the ROSETTA the old city. A few miles to the N. of rage works for holding up the Nile water STONE (q. v.). At Rosetta, too, are barchannels. These works, originally contill it can be directed into the irrigation almost entirely rebuilt by Sir C. Scott structed by Mougel Bey ( 1843-1861), were Moncrieff in 1886-1890 . The barrage is 508 yards long and has 61 arches. Pop. about 16,000. inscrip-
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Rosetta Wood
a good-sized East inches in diameter; it is handsomely veined, and its general color is a lively red-orange. The wood is close, hard, and very beautiful when first cut, but soon becomes darker by exposure to the air. TIN, a Rumanian poet and politician;
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Rosetti
or ROSETI, CONSTAN- 1816. He published a volume of poems born in Bucharest, Rumania, June 14, under the title of "Hours of Contentment" (1843); and wrote many political treatises, poems, and translations, a new edition of which appeared in Bucharest in 1885. He died April 19, 1885.
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Rosewater
VICTOR, an Ameriin 1871. He was educated at Columbia can journalist, born in Omaha, Nebraska, University. In 1893 he began his journalistic career on the Omaha "Bee," becoming managing editor in 1895, editor in 1906, and publisher in 1917. He took being a member of the Republican Naan active interest in Republican affairs, tional Committee, 1908 to 1912. He was also at various times a member of the National Civic Federation, the American Jewish Committee, and of several historical and economic associations. During the World War he served as a member of the Committee on Labor, Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, as well as the Nebraska State Administrator of paper and pulp of the War Industries Board. He has frequently 1 contributed to magazines and wrote "Special Assessments-a Study in Municipal Finance" (1898).
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Rosin and Resin
. See Turpentine Rosse, Earl of. See Telescope
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Roslin
a Midlothian village, near the wooded glen of the North Esk, 61/2 miles S. of Edinburgh, Scotland. Its castle, dating from the 14th century, was the seat of the St. Clairs, Earls of Orkney from 1379 to 1471, and afterward of Caithness, and hereditary grand-master of Masons of Scotland from 1455 to 1736. The exquisite "chapel" built about 1450, is really the choir of an intended collegiate church, and is only 70 feet long, 35 broad, and 42 high. Its beauty lies not in the outline, but in the profusion of stone-carving lavished on pinnacles, niches, vaulted roof, and clustered columns, and especially on the famous "Prentice pillar." Much damaged by an Edinburgh mob in 1688, it was restored by the 3d Earl of Rosslyn and has served since 1862 as an Episcopal church. On Roslin Moor the Scotch are said to have twice defeated the English in one day, Feb. 24, 1303.
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Rosmini
ANTONIO ROSMINI- SERBATI, an Italian philosopher; born of noble family at Roveredo in the Italian Tyrol, March 25, 1797. After a stainless youth of devotion and study, he decided for the priesthood against his parents' wishes, and began the course at Padua in 1817. Three years later his father's death gave him an ample estate. He was ordained priest in 1821, and devoted the next five years at home to study, meditation and prayer. He formed a comprehensive and coherent system to serve as a basis for the truths of revelation, and planned a new institution for the training of teachers and priests in wisdom and holiness. From 1826 to 1828 he lived mostly in Milan, next thought out the rule of his new order in a period of retirement and severe mortification at Domodossola in the Piedmontese Alps, visited Rome, gained the approval of Pius VIII. both for his special studies and for the institution of his order, and published his "New Essay on the Origin of Ideas" (4 vols. 1830), which at once carried his name over the Catholic world. He identified himself with rational movements and lost power with the Pope. His works filled 35 volumes and they were placed on the Index in 1849. Rosmini retired to Stresa, where he died in 1855.
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