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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...
The Roses of Heliogabalus. The Roses of Heliogabalus by Alma-Tadema (1888), oil on canvas. The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus (203–222 AD) hosting a banquet.
Rosa × damascena ( Latin for damascene rose ), more commonly known as the Damask rose, [ 1][ 2] or sometimes as the Iranian Rose, Bulgarian rose, Taif rose, Ispahan rose and Castile rose, is a rose hybrid, derived from Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata. [ 3] DNA analysis has shown that a third species, Rosa fedtschenkoana, has made some genetic ...
The song "American Beauty Rose" was written in 1950 and popularized by Frank Sinatra . In the musical "Funny Girl", protagonist Fanny Brice humorously refers to herself as an "American beauty rose / with an American beauty nose / and ten American beauty toes" in the song " I'm the Greatest Star ." In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged ...
The Rose Hall of Fame contains roses considered world favourites by a vote of members of the World Federation of Rose Societies. [ 1] Inductees are announced every three years at World Rose Conventions. [ 2] Additionally, popular historical roses and roses of genealogical importance are inducted in the Old Rose Hall of Fame.
The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Peace', synonym Mme A. Meilland, is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. The cultivar has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It is hardy and vigorous and relatively ...
The Wonderful Rose-Tree, advertised as having been based on a legend from Hinduism, was released by Méliès' Star Film Company and is numbered 634–636 in its catalogues. It was sold both in black-and-white and, at a higher price, in a hand-coloured version. Méliès' catalogue says that the film "was made especially for coloring.
Origin. Selected by George Folliott Harison, United States, c.1824. [1] Rosa 'Harison's Yellow', also known as R. × harisonii, the Oregon Trail Rose or the Yellow Rose of Texas, is a rose cultivar which originated as a chance hybrid in the early 19th century. It probably is a seedling of Rosa foetida and Rosa pimpinellifolia.