ROSETTA

rōzĕtˈə, former name of Rashidräshēdˈ, city (1986 pop. 51,789), N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. The city once dominated the region's rice market; rice milling and fish processing are the main industries of modern Rashid. Founded in the 9th cent., the city was formerly an important port but declined after the building (1819) of the Mahmudiyah Canal, which diverted its trade to Alexandria.

The Rosetta Stone is a granitoid slab inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek with identical texts of a decree by a council of priests during the reign of Ptolemy V. Part of a stele dating from 196 b.c., it was found (1799) by Napoleon's troops near the city, was taken (1801) by the British, and since 1802 has been displayed at the British Museum. It gave Jean-François Champollion, Thomas Young, and others the key to Egyptian hieroglyphic.

See study by R. B. Parkinson (1999).

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Writing and Presenting in English: The Rosetta Stone of Science
Book by Petey Young; Elsevier, 2007
Subjects: Communication Of Technical Information, English Language--Textbooks For Foreign Speakers, Technical Writing
Writing and Presenting in English: The Rosetta Stone of Science
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The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History through Stories
Book by Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Samuel Scheer; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997
Subjects: Teachers--United States--Biography, Teachers--United States--History, Teachers--United States--Social Conditions
...Jessica LaPlace Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data Cohen Rosetta Marantz. The work of teachers in America : a social history through stories / Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Samuel Scheer. p. cm Includes biographical references and...
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Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights
Book by Rosetta E. Ross; Fortress Press, 2003
Subjects: African American Women Civil Rights Workers--Religious Life--History--20th Century, African Americans--Religion, Civil Rights--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History--20th Century, Civil Rights--Religious Aspects--Islam--History--20th Century, Civil Rights--United States--History--20th Century, Womanist Theology--History--20th Century
...by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ross, Rosetta E. Witnessing and testifying : Black women, religion, and civil rights / Rosetta E. Ross. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index...
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Michelangelo Antonioni: an Introduction
Book by Pierre Leprohon, Scott Sullivan, Michelangelo Antonioni; Simon and Schuster, 1963
Subjects: Antonioni, Michelangelo, Fiction
ROSETTA: Look at me, darling. 350. Lorenzo stops short. Rosetta is frightened by this abrupt stop. She stumbles, then...pockets. LORENZO: What do you want? Go back to them. ROSETTA: No, I don't want to see them any more. LORENZO...
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Italian Grotesque Theater
Book by Michael Vena; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001
Subjects: Grotesque In Literature, Italian Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism
ROSETTA. (Rising) My friends, this evening...Make a hint to rise and bow gaily) ROSETTA . with the promise that I would reveal...the first time? THE GUESTS. Long live Rosetta! SECOND GUEST. One must acknowledge that...
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Italo Calvino's Legacy: the Constant and Consistent Vision
Journal article by Rosetta Di Pace-Jordan; World Literature Today, Vol. 66, 1992
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...constitutes a duty to a constant and a consistent vision. By ROSETTA Di PACE-JORDAN Calvinos is fundamentally a phenomenological...with his philosophical need to move toward sweeping, encom ROSETTA DI PACE-JORDAN is Associate Professor of Italian at the University...
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Schools Our Teachers Deserve: A Proposal for Teacher-Centered Reform
Journal article by Rosetta Marantz Cohen; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 83, 2002
Subjects: Educational innovations--Technique, Educational planning--Technique, Teachers--Planning
...Teachers Deserve: A Proposal for Teacher-Centered Reform. by Rosetta Marantz Cohen By improving the morale of even a handful of...Organization Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). ROSETTA MARANTZ COHEN is an associate professor in the Department of...
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Using School Reform to Teach Modern U.S. History
Journal article by Rosetta Marantz Cohen; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 26, 2001
Subjects: Educational innovations--Usage, Educational planning--History, Teaching--Technique, United States history--Study and teaching
USING SCHOOL REFORM TO TEACH MODERN U.S. HISTORY. by Rosetta Marantz Cohen The history of the modern American high school is...Act (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994). Rosetta Marantz Cohen Smith College
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Brown V. Board of Education at 40: a Legal History of Equal Educational Opportunities in American Public Education
Journal article by Charles J. Russo, J. John Harris III, Rosetta F. Sandidge; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 63, 1994
Subjects: Civil rights, Court decisions, Desegregation, History, Schools
...Public Education by Charles J. Russo , J. John Harris III , Rosetta F. Sandidge INTRODUCTION On May 17, 1954, the United States...McCutchan. Charles J. Russo, J. John Harris III, and Rosetta F. Sandidge, University of Kentucky
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Preliminary Bibliography of Best-Known Black Appalachian Musicians
Journal article by Mark Freed; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 24, 2004
Subjects: African American music--Analysis, African Americans--Analysis, African Americans--Music, Bibliographies, Bibliography, Black musicians--Performances, Musicians, Black--Performances
...York: Vanguard VSD25/26. Reitz, Rosetta. 1980. Sorry, but I cant take you: Womens railroad blues. Rosetta RR 1301. Rowe, Mike. 1999. Harlem...a rare batch. Stash ST 107. Reitz, Rosetta. 1980. Sorry, but I cant take you...
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Speaking in Tongues: Rosetta Stone's TOTALE Adds 'Social' to Language Learning
Magazine article by Sonya A. Donaldson; Black Enterprise, Vol. 41, September 2010
Subjects: Rosetta Stone Technologies Inc.--Services, Second language learning
Speaking in Tongues: Rosetta Stones TOTALE Adds Social to Language Learning...Then came programs from Berlitz Language and Rosetta Stone, which offered ease and convenience. Recently, Rosetta Stone has upped the ante on Rosetta Course Version...
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The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt
Magazine article; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Winter 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt (Book)--Book reviews
The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. John Ray. Profile...addition to the Wonders of the World series looks at the Rosetta stone as an icon of Egyptology since its discovery by...
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Romancing the Stone: Discovered during the French Occupation but Seized by the Victorious British after Six Months of Desert Battle, the Rosetta Stone Symbolized the Struggle for Cultural Supremacy between Two Great Rivals, Both on a Quest for Knowledge and Archaeological Riches. Jonathan Downs Tells How Exactly the Rosetta Stone Found Its Way to Britain
Magazine article by Jonathan Downs; History Today, Vol. 56, May 2006
Subjects: Egypt--History, Egyptian foreign relations
...after Six Months of Desert Battle, the Rosetta Stone Symbolized the Struggle for Cultural...Jonathan Downs Tells How Exactly the Rosetta Stone Found Its Way to Britain. by Jonathan...had set the academic world ablaze: the Rosetta Stone--the possible key to the mysteries...
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The Rosetta Disk
Magazine article by Kevin Kelly; Whole Earth, Winter 2000
Subjects: Archivists--Conduct of life, Digital libraries--Planning, Information storage and retrieval--Planning, J. Paul Getty Museum--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Kahle, Brewster--Conduct of life, Libraries--Innovations, Long Now Foundation--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Museum conservation methods--Innovations
THE ROSETTA DISK by Kevin Kelly Another tool project...would be parallel the disk could serve as a Rosetta disk. If in the far future a text in a...would be at least one source (the 10K Rosetta disk) etched into a noncorroding material...
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Rosetta Disk Rescues Deteriorating Archives
Magazine article by Jennifer Harper; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, August 21, 2000
Subjects: Archival materials--Innovations
Rosetta Disk Rescues Deteriorating Archives by...down the road. That is if the gleaming Rosetta Disk, a 3-inch computer disc made of...engineer Jim Mason of the first-ever Rosetta Disk, micro-encoded with three chapters...
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Rosetta Revives Language Learning
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 8, 2008
Subjects: Computer software industry, Software industry
Rosetta Revives Language Learning. Byline: Mark...are good reasons to give it another try. Rosetta Stone Inc., which recently moved its...software-based language courses. But Rosetta Stone isnt just selling software. The...
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Another Stone Upturned; Egyptians Ask for Their Rosetta Back
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 9, 1996
...Stone Upturned; Egyptians Ask for Their Rosetta Back. Byline: Daily Mail Reporter WHATS...Scotland, Egypt is now demanding its Rosetta Stone back. Now housed in the British...the British Prime Minister to return the Rosetta Stone to Cairos Egyptian Museum, just...
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Egyptian Scholar Tells Britain to Give Back the Rosetta Stone
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 8, 2009
Subjects: British Museum, Hawass, Zahi
...Scholar Tells Britain to Give Back the Rosetta Stone. Byline: Terry Kirby THE British...after Egypt demanded the return of the Rosetta Stone. Dr Zahi Hawass, head of Egypts...them," he said. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone -- a public decree from 196BC relating...
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Egyptian Scholar Tells Britain to Give Back the Rosetta Stone
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 8, 2009
Subjects: British Museum, Hawass, Zahi
...Scholar Tells Britain to Give Back the Rosetta Stone. Byline: Terry Kirby THE British...renewed demands for the return of the Rosetta Stone. Dr Zahi Hawass, head of Egypts...has sought their return. "Icon": the Rosetta Stone helped decipher ancient Egyptian...
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Billionaire Lover Says Goodnight, Sienna; (1) the Abandoned Lover: Sienna Is Said to Be Heartbroken (2) Homeward Bound: A Repentant Balthazar Getty (3) the Abandoned Wife:: Rosetta with Their Daughter June
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 4, 2008
...Balthazar Getty (3) the Abandoned Wife:: Rosetta with Their Daughter June. Byline: Laura...Angeles for a reconciliation with his wife Rosetta. According to sources close to the couple...four children. But it is understood that Rosetta, his wife of eight years, has agreed...
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encyclopedia articles on: Rosetta  - 13 results

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Rosetta Stone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROSETTA STONE see under Rosetta . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Rosetta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROSETTA rozet , former name of Rashid rashed , city (1986 pop. 51,789), N...of the Mahmudiyah Canal, which diverted its trade to Alexandria . The Rosetta Stone is a granitoid slab inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek...
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Champollion, Jean FranÇois
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...two-volume work on the geography of ancient Egypt, which appeared when he was 24. In 1821 by use of the Rosetta Stone (see under Rosetta ) he established the principles for deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Champollion became director...
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British Museum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...History Museum. One of the major exhibits of the Egyptian department is the granitoid slab known as the Rosetta Stone (see under Rosetta ). The Greek treasures include the Elgin Marbles and a caryatid from the Erechtheum. The museums special...
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Archaeology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...because of the wealth of material preserved in the dry Egyptian climate, were laid by the recovery of the Rosetta Stone (see under Rosetta ) and the work of French scholars who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt. Investigations that have...
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