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Rosa's Law [1] is a United States law which replaced several instances of "mental retardation" in law with "intellectual disability". The bill was introduced as S.2781 in the United States Senate on November 17, 2009, by Barbara Mikulski ( D - MD ). It passed the Senate unanimously on August 5, 2010, then the House of Representatives on ...
Composer (s) Traditional, arranged by Jón Ásgeirsson (1960) Lyricist (s) Rósa Guðmundsdóttir. Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu ( English: "Verses by Rósa of Vatnsendi") is a traditional Icelandic song. The lyrics are a poem written by Rósa Guðmundsdóttir (1795–1855); the melody is a traditional lullaby, arranged by Jón Ásgeirsson (1928 ...
Rosaceae ( / roʊˈzeɪsiː.iː, - si.aɪ / ), [4] the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. [5] [6] [7] The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but some are evergreen. [8]
Jack Crenshaw, attorney. James F. Blake, bus driver. The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.
Rose of Viterbo. Rose of Viterbo, TOSF ( Italian: Rosa da Viterbo; c. 1233 – 6 March 1251), was a young woman born in Viterbo, then a contested commune of the Papal States. She spent her brief life as a recluse, and was outspoken in her support of the papacy. Otherwise leading an unremarkable life, she later became known for her mystical ...
Rosa rubiginosa sepals, prickles, glandular hairs. Ripe fruits (called "hips") It is a dense deciduous shrub 2–3 meters high and across, with the stems bearing numerously hooked prickles. The foliage has a strong apple -like fragrance. The leaves are pinnately compound, 5–9 cm long, with 5–9 rounded to oval leaflets with a serrated margin ...
The Rose Period ( Spanish: Período rosa) comprises the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1904 and 1906. It began when Picasso settled in Montmartre at the Bateau-Lavoir among bohemian poets and writers. Following his Blue Period – which depicted themes of poverty, loneliness, and despair in somber, blue tones ...
Rosa's rule. By the Ordovician, trilobites such as Dindymene didymograpti had taken on a fixed number of thoracic segments. Rosa's rule, also known as Rosa's law of progressive reduction of variability, [1] is a biological rule that observes the tendency to go from character variation in more primitive representatives of a taxonomic group or ...