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The Yorkist rose is used in the seal of the City of York, Pennsylvania, which is known as "White Rose City". The town's minor league baseball team, which played in different leagues for several decades, was called the York White Roses. The white rose appears on one of the hats for York's current minor league baseball team, the York Revolution.
Rosa × alba, the white rose of York, is a hybrid rose of unknown parentage [1] that has been cultivated in Europe since ancient times. [2] It may have originally been grown mainly for the sweet scent of the flowers, but is now also used as a winter-hardy garden shrub. [2] Cultivated forms have white or pink flowers, and most have many petals.
the White rose of York; a Rose en soleil (a combination of the last two badges) a Rose Gules or a Rose Gules en soleil (referring to his marriage with Elizabeth Woodville, of the Lancastrian party) King Edward V (1483) a Falcon Argent, in a fetterlock of gold; a Rose Argent King Richard III (1483–1485) a Boar Argent, armed and bristled Or ...
The Tudor rose is a combination of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white ...
The people, divided in their affections, took different symbols of party: the partisans of the house of Lancaster chose the red rose as their mark of distinction; those of York were denominated from the white; and these civil wars were thus known over Europe by the name of the quarrel between the two roses.
Police have identified the remains of the child found buried in the backyard of a home in a cul-de-sac in Rose Hill on Sept. 11. DNA has confirmed the remains are those of Kennedy Jean Schroer ...
The red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York The term "Roses rivalry" refers to the rivalry between the English counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire . The rivalry originated in the aftermath of the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) which was fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York .
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