Rolex, Swiss manufacturer of rugged but luxurious watches. Company headquarters are in Geneva. Founder Hans Wilsdorf was born in Germany but moved to Switzerland when he was a young man. There he found work at a watch-exporting company in La Chaux-de-Fonds, one of the centres of the Swiss

Rollo was a Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandy. According to later Scandinavian sagas, Rollo, making himself independent of King Harald I of Norway, sailed off to raid Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditions. Early in the 10th century, Rollo’s Danish army

Johannes Ewald: …resulted in the historical drama Rolf Krage (1770), taken from an old Danish legend that was recorded by the medieval historian Saxo Grammaticus.

Fields Medal: Selection process and prize recipients: A related award, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, was also presented at each ICM from 1982 to 2018; it was replaced by the IMU Abacus Medal in 2022. This prize is awarded to one young mathematician for work dealing with the mathematical aspects of information science.

Frederick William Rolfe was an English author and eccentric, best known for his autobiographical fantasy Hadrian the Seventh. He provides the curious example of an artist rescued from obscurity by his biographer; many years after Rolfe’s death A.J.A. Symons wrote a colourful biographical fantasy,

John Rolfe was a Virginia planter and colonial official who was the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief Powhatan. John Rolfe sailed for Virginia in 1609, but a shipwreck in the Bermudas delayed his arrival until the following year. About 1612 he began to experiment with growing

Santana: …1947, Autlán de Navarro, Mexico), Gregg Rolie (b. June 17, 1947, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), David Brown (b. February 15, 1947, New York, U.S.—d. September 4, 2000), Mike Carabello (b. November 18, 1947, San Francisco, California, U.S.), José (“Chepito”) Areas (b. July 25, 1946, León, Nicaragua), and Mike Shrieve (b. July…

Dominique Rolin was a Belgian novelist noted for embracing new narrative techniques. Author of more than 30 books in 50 years, Rolin produced a body of fiction that centres on the themes of birth, death, family, and physical dislocation. Between 1942 and 1946, influenced by German Romanticism,

Rogier van der Weyden: …Burgundy, and his powerful chancellor, Nicolas Rolin. Rogier may well have also been influenced by the writings of Thomas à Kempis, the most popular theologian of the era, whose “practical mysticism,” like Rogier’s painting, stressed empathetic response to episodes from the lives of Mary, Christ, and the saints.

ship: Ship motions in response to the sea: …freedom, the other four being roll (rotation about a longitudinal axis), pitch (rotation about a transverse axis), heave (vertical motion), and surge (longitudinal motion superimposed on the steady propulsive motion). All six are unwanted except in the special circumstance where yaw is necessary in changing course.

baking: Breads and rolls: Most of the bakery foods consumed throughout the world are breads and rolls made from yeast-leavened doughs. The yeast-fermentation process leads to the development of desirable flavour and texture, and such products are nutritionally superior to products of the equivalent chemically leavened doughs, since…

Roll Call, American newspaper covering the U.S. Congress. It was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1955 by Sid Yudain, a former congressional press secretary. Roll Call was initially a weekly newspaper but eventually was published Monday through Thursday during weeks in which Congress was in session.

mineral processing: Crushing/grinding: …crushing and grinding, is the roll crusher. This consists essentially of two cylinders that are mounted on horizontal shafts and driven in opposite directions. The cylinders are pressed together under high pressure, so that comminution takes place in the material bed between them.

technology of photography: Roll film: The term roll film is usually reserved for film wound up on a spool with an interleaving light-tight backing paper to protect the wound-up film. The spool is loaded into the camera in daylight, the backing paper leader threaded to a second spool,…

forging: In roll forging, the metal blank is run through matched rotating rolls with impressions sunk in their surfaces. Impact forging is essentially hammer forging in which both dies are moved horizontally, converging on the workpiece. Counterblow forging is similar, except that the dies converge vertically. A…

molding: Single curved: (6) A roll, or bowtell, molding is convex, approximating three-quarters of a circle. (7) An astragal is a small torus. (8) An apophyge molding is a small, exaggerated cavetto.

Chuck Berry: …hit after hit, including “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956), “School Day” (1957), “Rock and Roll Music” (1957), “Sweet Little Sixteen” (1958), “Johnny B. Goode” (1958), and “Reelin’ and Rockin’” (1958). His vivid descriptions of consumer culture and teenage life, the distinctive sounds he coaxed from his guitar, and the rhythmic…

Etta James: …but it was retitled “The Wallflower” because of its perceived sexual connotation; the lyrics and title were changed to “Dance with Me, Henry” for singer Georgia Gibbs’s 1955 rendition, which reached number one on the charts. After signing (1960) with Chess Records, James became its first major female star,…

technology of photography: The medium-size hand camera: This type of camera takes sheet film (typical formats of from 2 1 2 × 3 1 2 inches to 4 × 5 inches), roll film, or 70-mm film in interchangeable magazines; it has interchangeable lenses and may have a coupled rangefinder.…

mineral deposit: Roll-front deposits: Uranium occurs in two valence states, U4+ and U6+. Weathering of rocks converts uranium into the +6 state, in which state it forms the uranyl ion (UO2)2+. Uranyl compounds tend to be soluble in groundwater, whereas U4+ compounds are not. So long as…

mineral deposit: Roll-front deposits: Uranium occurs in two valence states, U4+ and U6+. Weathering of rocks converts uranium into the +6 state, in which state it forms the uranyl ion (UO2)2+. Uranyl compounds tend to be soluble in groundwater, whereas U4+ compounds are not. So long as…

harbours and sea works: Roll-on, roll-off facilities: An enormous increase in the use of the roll-on, roll-off technique of loading and unloading developed in the late 1960s. The principle of embarking whole vehicles under their own power was not new. The report of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the…

Rolla, city, seat (1861) of Phelps county, south-central Missouri, U.S. It is located in the Ozark Mountains, near the Gasconade River and units of the Mark Twain National Forest (headquartered at Rolla). Originating about 1856 as a construction site for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, it

Romain Rolland was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, an idealist who was deeply involved with pacifism, the fight against fascism, the search for world peace, and the analysis of artistic genius. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. At age 14, Rolland went to Paris to

Rolle’s theorem, in analysis, special case of the mean-value theorem of differential calculus. Rolle’s theorem states that if a function f is continuous on the closed interval [a, b] and differentiable on the open interval (a, b) such that f(a) = f(b), then f′(x) = 0 for some x with a ≤ x ≤ b. In

Los Angeles: The contemporary city: As historian Andrew Rolle wrote,

Rolle’s theorem: …1691 by the French mathematician Michel Rolle, though it was stated without a modern formal proof in the 12th century by the Indian mathematician Bhaskara II. Other than being useful in proving the mean-value theorem, Rolle’s theorem is seldom used, since it establishes only the existence of a solution and…

Richard Rolle was an English mystic and author of mystical and ascetic tracts. Rolle attended the University of Oxford but, dissatisfied with the subjects of study and the disputatiousness there, left without a degree. He established himself as a hermit on the estate of John Dalton of Pickering,

oats: Rolled oats, flattened kernels with the hulls removed, are used mostly for oatmeal; other breakfast foods are made from the groats, which are unflattened kernels with husks removed. Oat flour is not generally considered suitable for bread but is used to make cookies and puddings.…

ʿAin Ghazal: …mostly led by American anthropologist Gary Rollefson. In 2004 the World Monuments Fund placed ʿAin Ghazal on its watch list of endangered cultural heritage sites, citing urban development as the greatest threat to the site’s preservation.

Rolleiflex, twin-lens reflex roll-film camera introduced by the German firm Franke & Heidecke in 1928. It had two lenses of identical focal length—one transmitting the image to the film and the other functioning as a viewfinder and part of the focusing mechanism. Twelve exposures, 6 cm square each,

railroad: Operations: …technology called “Rolling Highway” (Rollende Landstrasse), because it employs low-floor cars that, coupled into a train, form an uninterrupted drive-on, drive-off roadway for highway trucks or tractor-trailer rigs. Rolling Highway cars are carried on four- or six-axle trucks with wheels of only 36-cm (14-inch) diameter so as to lower…

roller, any of about 12 species of Old World birds constituting the family Coraciidae (order Coraciiformes), named for the dives and somersaults they perform during the display flights in courtship. The family is sometimes considered to include the ground rollers and cuckoo rollers. Rollers inhabit

roller, farm implement used to break up lumps left by harrows and to compact the soil, eliminating large air spaces. The plain roller is often used to compact grassland damaged by winter heaving. Corrugated rollers, single or tandem, crush clods and firm the soil after plowing. A type usually

roller bearing, one of the two members of the class of rolling, or so-called antifriction, bearings (the other member of the class is the ball bearing). Like a ball bearing, a roller bearing has two grooved tracks, or races, but the balls are replaced by rollers. The rollers may be cylinders or

chain: A roller chain is a development of the block chain in which the block is replaced by two side plates, a pair of bushings, and rollers. (See Figure 3.) This type of chain is used on bicycles and is adaptable to many other needs, from small-strand…

roller coaster, elevated railway with steep inclines and descents that carries a train of passengers through sharp curves and sudden changes of speed and direction for a brief thrill ride. Found mostly in amusement parks as a continuous loop, it is a popular leisure activity. On a traditional

roller-skating: Roller sports: Roller Derby was one of the first roller sports to succeed on the professional level. The sport originated in Chicago in 1935 as an endurance competition between male-female couples. The teams would circle a banked rink for 57,000 laps, a total distance that was said…

dairy product: Drum dryers: The simplest and least expensive is the drum, or roller, dryer. It consists of two large steel cylinders that turn toward each other and are heated from the inside by steam. The concentrated product is applied to the hot drum in a thin…

roller-skating: Roller sports: The first recorded game of roller hockey took place in London in 1878. Speed roller-skating events began in the 1890s and were popular through the first quarter of the 20th century. Major speed roller-skating events for men, women, and relay teams involve racing counterclockwise around an oval track or on…

chain: …assembled from pin links and roller links. A pin link consists of the two side plates connected by two tightly fitted pins. A roller link consists of two side plates connected by two tightly fitted bushings on which hardened steel rollers are free to rotate. When assembled, the pins are…

sugar: Juice extraction: …the crusher, a set of roller mills in which the cane cells are crushed and juice extracted. As the crushed cane proceeds through a series of up to eight four-roll mills, it is forced against a countercurrent of water known as water of maceration or imbibition. Streams of juice extracted…

coin: Early modern minting: At the same time the roller press was under development in Germany. Initially, the die designs were engraved or punched into the curved surfaces of two rollers that were geared together so that the whole fillet (rather than single blanks) could be fed between them and emerge impressed. This method…

roller printing, method of applying a coloured pattern to cloth, invented by Thomas Bell of Scotland in 1783. A separate dye paste for each colour is applied to the fabric from a metal roller that is intaglio engraved according to the design. The technique can be used with almost any textile

Michael DeBakey: …1932 DeBakey devised the “roller pump,” an essential component of the heart-lung machine that permitted open-heart surgery. He also developed an efficient method of correcting aortic aneurysms by grafting frozen blood vessels to replace diseased vessels. By 1953 DeBakey had developed a technique of using plastic tubing (Dacron) instead…

tunnels and underground excavations: Preserving rock strength: …the hard-faced rolling disks, and roller-bit cutters using bits initially developed for fast drilling of oil wells. As later entrants in the field, European manufacturers have generally tried a different approach—milling-type cutters that mill or plane away part of the rock, then shear off undercut areas. Attention is also focusing…

roller: A type usually called a roller-packer or land presser has heavy, wedge-shaped wheels about 3 feet (1 m) in diameter and is used in dry seasons to compress the soil after plowing.

roller-skating, recreational and competitive sport in which the participants use special shoes fitted with small wheels to move about on rinks or paved surfaces. Roller-skating sports include speed skating, hockey, figure skating, and dancing competitions similar to the ice-skating sports, as well

Norman Jewison: …then helmed the futuristic dystopia Rollerball (1975); the union saga F.I.S.T. (1978), starring Sylvester Stallone; and the legal drama ...And Justice for All (1979), with Al Pacino. He again examined racial prejudice in A Soldier’s Story (1984), about the murder of an African American army sergeant. Later efforts included

roller-skating: Development of the roller skate: …of a new generation of in-line roller skates by hockey-playing brothers Scott and Brennan Olson, the founders of Rollerblade, Inc. They developed in-line skates with four wheels that extended the full length of the boot, giving the skater greater maneuverability (compared with previous in-line skates) and much more speed. The…

roller-skating: Development of the roller skate: …of a new generation of in-line roller skates by hockey-playing brothers Scott and Brennan Olson, the founders of Rollerblade, Inc. They developed in-line skates with four wheels that extended the full length of the boot, giving the skater greater maneuverability (compared with previous in-line skates) and much more speed. The…

coraciiform, (order Coraciiformes), any member of an order made up of 10 families of birds that include the kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoes, and hornbills. Among the members of the order that have attracted special attention are certain kingfishers that plunge headfirst

New Zealand: Fluctuation of the economy: William Rolleston, minister of lands in the early 1880s, first proposed that the state help men to become small farmers as state tenants; John (later Sir John) McKenzie and the Liberal government applied that remedy with vigour in the 1890s. But closer settlement and intensive…

French Foreign Legion: History: The legion’s first inspector general, Paul Rollet, who had commanded the RMLE in the last year of the war, sought to secure the legion’s place in the public imagination and in the French army by reviving pre-1914 “traditions,” beginning with the uniform. Legionnaires in the 19th century, particularly those in…

Paolo Antonio Rolli was a librettist, poet, and translator who, as Italian master to the English royal household, helped to Italianize 18th-century English taste. The son of an architect, Rolli studied with the major Italian literary critic of the day, Gian Vincenzo Gravina. In 1715 he went to

rolling, in technology, the principal method of forming molten metals, glass, or other substances into shapes that are small in cross-section in comparison with their length, such as bars, sheets, rods, rails, girders, and wires. Rolling is the most widely used method of shaping metals and is

tea: Rolling: At this stage, the withered leaf is distorted, acquiring the distinctive twist of the finished tea leaf, and leaf cells are burst, resulting in the mixing of enzymes with polyphenols.

naval architecture: Ship motions in waves: The theory of rolling was developed in the 19th century by Froude. The theory of coupled pitching and heaving is more recent, stimulated by the work of Boris Korvin-Kroukovsky in the 1950s, who applied a so-called “strip” method in which the ship was divided longitudinally into strips or…

bearing: …rollers; these are known as rolling bearings. In the illustration, the inner race turns with the shaft.

rolling friction, type of friction that occurs when a wheel, ball, or cylinder rolls freely over a surface, as in ball and roller bearings. In general, friction is the force that resists the sliding or rolling of one solid object over another. The main source of friction in rolling appears to be

dam: Gates: …vertical-lift gate that, sliding or rolling against guides, can be raised to allow water to flow underneath. Radial, or tainter, gates are similar in principle but are curved in vertical section to better resist water pressure. Tilting gates consist of flaps held by hinges along their lower edges that permit…

railroad: Operations: …technology called “Rolling Highway” (Rollende Landstrasse), because it employs low-floor cars that, coupled into a train, form an uninterrupted drive-on, drive-off roadway for highway trucks or tractor-trailer rigs. Rolling Highway cars are carried on four- or six-axle trucks with wheels of only 36-cm (14-inch) diameter so as to lower…

Adele: …earthy gospel- and disco-inflected “Rolling in the Deep” to the affecting breakup ballad “Someone like You.” Both songs hit number one in multiple countries, and, despite a vocal-cord ailment that forced Adele to cancel numerous tour dates in 2011, the album became the biggest-selling release of the year in…

logistics: Logistic systems before 1850: …its smaller, mobile version, the rolling magazine, which carried a few days’ supply for an army on the march. Secure lines of communication became vital, and whole armies were deployed to protect them. The increasing size of armies and of artillery and baggage trains placed heavier burdens on transport. Also,…

mechanics: Rotation about a moving axis: …combined rotation and translation is rolling motion, as exhibited by a billiard ball rolling on a table, or a ball or cylinder rolling down an inclined plane. Consider the latter example, illustrated in Figure 22. Motion is impelled by the force of gravity, which may be resolved into two components,…

Charles Sheeler: “Rolling Power” (1939; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.), another major work, emphasized the abstract power of the driving wheels of a locomotive. Sheeler also treated architectural subjects in his abstract-realist style. His later works tended toward a less literal rendering of their subjects.

railroad: Cars: After the first crude beginnings, railroad-car design took divergent courses in North America and Europe, because of differing economic conditions and technological developments. Early cars on both continents were largely of two-axle design, but passenger-car builders soon began constructing cars with three and then…

Rolling Stone, biweekly American magazine that reports on music, pop culture, and politics. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, a former student at the University of California at Berkeley, and Ralph Gleason, a jazz critic for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

the Rolling Stones, British rock group, formed in 1962, that drew on Chicago blues stylings to create a unique vision of the dark side of post-1960s counterculture. The original members were Mick Jagger (b. July 26, 1943, Dartford, Kent, England), Keith Richards (b. December 18, 1943, Dartford),

strike: …the greatest economic harm, and rolling strikes, which target a succession of employer sites, making it difficult for the employer to hire replacements because the strike’s location is always changing.

Vietnam War: The United States enters the war: …the North that were code-named Rolling Thunder.

T Bone Burnett: …a guitarist on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour. His second solo album, Truth Decay (1980), shows Burnett’s maturation as an artist, but he found greater success in the production booth than he did as a performer.

Martin Scorsese: Films of the 2010s: Shutter Island, Hugo, and The Wolf of Wall Street: …2019 Scorsese directed the documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, recounting the musician’s freewheeling 1975 tour. Later that year The Irishman appeared, first in theaters and then on Netflix. The mob drama reunited Scorsese with De Niro and Pesci, and it marked the first time…

Jōgan style: The drapery, known as hompa (“wave”), is one of the most distinguishing features of the Jōgan style. The folds are cut deeply in a simple measured rhythm, a technique suggestive of the string drapery of the colossal image of the Buddha at Bāmīān, Afghanistan, which was a focal figure…

bearing: …rollers; these are known as rolling bearings. In the illustration, the inner race turns with the shaft.

Rollinia, genus of 65 tropical American trees and shrubs belonging to the family Annonaceae (order Magnoliales). Many have edible fruits similar in flavour and appearance to those of the genus Annona. Two species (R. mucosa and R. pulchrinervis), both called biriba by some authorities, are

Rollinia: Two species (R. mucosa and R. pulchrinervis), both called biriba by some authorities, are cultivated for their fruit. Most species of Rollinia are spined or segmented, green-skinned, small trees, with soft fruits about 7.6 cm (3 inches) across. The flowers have three spurlike outside petals and three…

Rollinia: mucosa and R. pulchrinervis), both called biriba by some authorities, are cultivated for their fruit. Most species of Rollinia are spined or segmented, green-skinned, small trees, with soft fruits about 7.6 cm (3 inches) across. The flowers have three spurlike outside petals and three minute inner petals.

Lollapalooza: …United States and Canada, included the Rollins Band, Nine Inch Nails, and Ice-T. The events were profitable, so a similar tour was planned for 1992 with a second stage added. The festival again visited many cities across North America, establishing the format of Lollapalooza through 1997. The tour began losing…

Henry Rollins is an American singer, poet, monologuist, and publisher whose tenure as the lead vocalist of Los Angeles hardcore group Black Flag made him one of the most recognizable faces in the 1980s punk scene. Rollins was an avid fan of hardcore music, and, as a teenager, he performed with a

Sonny Rollins is an American jazz musician, a tenor saxophonist who is among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s. Rollins grew up in a neighbourhood where Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins (his early idol), and Bud Powell were playing. After recording with the

Sonny Rollins is an American jazz musician, a tenor saxophonist who is among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s. Rollins grew up in a neighbourhood where Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins (his early idol), and Bud Powell were playing. After recording with the

Jacob Abbott: …accompany the earlier books (Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play), Abbott wrote a volume for teachers, The Rollo Code of Morals; or, The Rules of Duty for Children, Arranged with Questions for the Use of Schools (1841). In following Rollo’s world travels with his all-knowing Uncle George, the young…

Rollo was a Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandy. According to later Scandinavian sagas, Rollo, making himself independent of King Harald I of Norway, sailed off to raid Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditions. Early in the 10th century, Rollo’s Danish army

Rollo was a Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandy. According to later Scandinavian sagas, Rollo, making himself independent of King Harald I of Norway, sailed off to raid Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditions. Early in the 10th century, Rollo’s Danish army

Alan J. Pakula: Films of the 1980s: …one of Pakula’s lesser works, Rollover (1981), a thriller about high finance, paired Fonda with Kris Kristofferson. However, his next film, Sophie’s Choice (1982), was one of his best as a director. Adapted from William Styron’s award-winning novel, it featured Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning performance as a

maritime law: Historical development: …the Mediterranean was the “Rolls of Oléron,” named for an island in the Bay of Biscay and apparently dating from the 12th century. Whether the Rolls were of French or of Anglo-Norman origin, they became the nucleus of the maritime law not only of England and France but also…

Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motorist, aviator, and automobile manufacturer who was one of the founders of the Rolls-Royce Ltd. automobile company. He was the first aviator to fly across the English Channel and back nonstop (June 1910). Rolls drove a 12-horsepower Panhard car in the Thousand

Rolls-Royce PLC, major British manufacturer of aircraft engines, marine propulsion systems, and power-generation systems. Noted for much of the 20th century as a maker of luxury automobiles, the company was separated from its car-making operations and nationalized following bankruptcy in 1971. It

Rolls-Royce PLC, major British manufacturer of aircraft engines, marine propulsion systems, and power-generation systems. Noted for much of the 20th century as a maker of luxury automobiles, the company was separated from its car-making operations and nationalized following bankruptcy in 1971. It

rolltop desk, desk with a sliding roll top, or tambour, that encloses the working surface of the upper part and can be locked. The portion of the desk that gives the form its name is constructed of narrow slats of wood glued to some flexible material, the slats running along slides or grooves

partridge: The crested wood partridge, or roulroul (Rollulus roulroul), of Malaysia has an iridescent blue-green body, red feet and eye region, and crimson crest.

South Africa: Growth of the colonial economy: …African communities such as the Rolong, Tlhaping, Hurutshe, and Ngwaketse. For self-defense some of these African communities formed larger groupings who competed against each other in their quest to control trade routes going south to the Cape and east to present-day Mozambique.

diana monkey: The roloway monkey (C. d. roloway) is a subspecies or closely related species with a longer beard and broader diadem (browband). The diana monkey is active, hardy, and readily tamed. Although engaging when young, it is less friendly as an adult.

Holmes Rolston III is an American utilitarian philosopher and theologian who pioneered the fields of environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.) Rolston was the son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers. He earned a bachelor’s degree in

O. E. Rölvaag was a Norwegian-American novelist and educator noted for his realistic portrayals of Norwegian settlers on the Dakota prairies and of the clash between transplanted and native cultures in the United States. Rölvaag immigrated to the United States in 1896 and was naturalized in 1908.

O. E. Rölvaag was a Norwegian-American novelist and educator noted for his realistic portrayals of Norwegian settlers on the Dakota prairies and of the clash between transplanted and native cultures in the United States. Rölvaag immigrated to the United States in 1896 and was naturalized in 1908.

computer memory: Semiconductor memory: Some nonvolatile memories, such as read-only memory (ROM), are not rewritable once manufactured or written. Each memory cell of a ROM chip has either a transistor for a 1 bit or none for a 0 bit. ROMs are used for programs that are essential parts of a computer’s operation, such…

Roma, an ethnic group of traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India but live in modern times worldwide, principally in Europe. Most Roma speak some form of Romany, a language closely related to the modern Indo-European languages of northern India, as well as the major language

coal mining: Coal preparation: Therefore, run-of-mine (ROM) coal—the coal that comes directly from a mine—has impurities associated with it. The buyer, on the other hand, may demand certain specifications depending on the intended use of the coal, whether for utility combustion, carbonization, liquefaction, or gasification. In very simple terms, the…