Rosemary’s Baby, American horror film, released in 1968, that is considered a landmark within the horror genre for its focus on the occult as well as for a naturalistic mise-en-scène that emphasizes psychological tension over cartoonish thrills. The movie, an adaptation of Ira Levin’s best-selling

Bernd Rosemeyer was a German automobile racing driver who established himself as one of the world’s great drivers in three seasons of racing (1935–37). Rosemeyer began racing as a member of the Auto Union motorcycle team but switched to racing cars in 1935. In 1935 he won his first major race, the

Harold Rosen: …the computer manufacturer Compaq, founded Rosen Motors, which developed a hybrid automobile that was powered by a flywheel and a gasoline-driven turbine. However, the company failed to interest the automobile industry in the technology and closed in 1997. Rosen and engineer J.B. Straubel cofounded Volacom, Inc., which sought to develop…

Harold Rosen was an American engineer who designed Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite. Rosen received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1947. Beginning in 1948, he worked at Raytheon Manufacturing Company (now Raytheon

Harold Rosen was an American engineer who designed Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite. Rosen received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1947. Beginning in 1948, he worked at Raytheon Manufacturing Company (now Raytheon

Gaylen Gerber: …performance art), American text-based conceptualist Kay Rosen (who explores the verbal and visual structures of words), and Swiss text-based conceptualist Rémy Zaugg (who also explored words and their context and presentation). Gerber’s gray paintings, associated with institutional neutrality, integrated cohesively with the other diverse works. By becoming part of the…

Michael Rosen is a prolific English children’s author who has written picture books, nonfiction works, and collections of poetry. Much of his work, often composed in humorous verse, incorporates events and people from his life. He has often appeared on radio and television as well as in schools to

quantum mechanics: Paradox of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen: …United States, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, analyzed a thought experiment to measure position and momentum in a pair of interacting systems. Employing conventional quantum mechanics, they obtained some startling results, which led them to conclude that the theory does not give a complete description of physical reality. Their results,…

Fontana, city, San Bernardino county, southwestern California, U.S. Lying just west of the city of San Bernardino, the site was once part of the Rancho San Bernardino land grant (1813). The community, then known as Rosena, was developed in 1903 after it was bought by Fontana Development Company. It

A. S. W. Rosenbach: …brother Philip in launching the Rosenbach Company, A.S.W. handling books and Philip the antiques. The firm was soon able to buy entire libraries, expanding their business into what may have been the most lucrative book concern in the world. Among his clients were Henry E. Huntington, founder of the library…

A. S. W. Rosenbach: In 1930 he established the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania and willed his estate to the Rosenbach Foundation, established in 1950 to foster interest in books, paintings, and art works. His other works include Books and Bidders (1927), The Unpublished Memoirs (1917), and A Book Hunter’s…

A. S. W. Rosenbach: …willed his estate to the Rosenbach Foundation, established in 1950 to foster interest in books, paintings, and art works. His other works include Books and Bidders (1927), The Unpublished Memoirs (1917), and A Book Hunter’s Holiday (1936).

A. S. W. Rosenbach was a U.S. book and manuscript collector and dealer who combined solid scholarship and exceptional business acumen. Rosenbach attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1898; Ph.D. 1901), where as a freshman he bought for $3.60 a first edition of Dr. Johnson’s prologue at the

A. S. W. Rosenbach was a U.S. book and manuscript collector and dealer who combined solid scholarship and exceptional business acumen. Rosenbach attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1898; Ph.D. 1901), where as a freshman he bought for $3.60 a first edition of Dr. Johnson’s prologue at the

A. S. W. Rosenbach: …1903 he joined his brother Philip in launching the Rosenbach Company, A.S.W. handling books and Philip the antiques. The firm was soon able to buy entire libraries, expanding their business into what may have been the most lucrative book concern in the world. Among his clients were Henry E. Huntington,…

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American writer whose commercially successful novels promoting individualism and laissez-faire capitalism were influential among conservatives and libertarians and popular among generations of young people in the United States from the mid-20th century. Her father,

Victor Borge was a Danish-born American pianist and comedian who was known worldwide for his irrepressible humour, which combined deadpan delivery, clever wordplay, satire, irreverence, and physical comedy as well as music. Borge’s mother began teaching him to play the piano when he was three, and

Alfred Rosenberg was a German ideologist of Nazism. Born the son of a cobbler in what was at the time a part of Russia, Rosenberg studied architecture in Moscow until the Revolution of 1917. In 1919 he went to Munich, where he joined Adolf Hitler, Ernst Röhm, and Rudolf Hess in the nascent Nazi

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg: Ethel Greenglass worked as a clerk for some years after her graduation from high school in 1931. When she married Julius Rosenberg in 1939, the year he earned a degree in electrical engineering, the two were already active members of the Communist Party of the…

Harold Rosenberg was an American art critic known for championing the work of such painters as Jackson Pollock. He coined the term Action painting to describe the work of American Abstract Expressionists. Rosenberg studied at the City College of New York (1923–24) and at Brooklyn Law School (1927).

Isaac Rosenberg was a British poet and painter who was killed in World War I. Rosenberg first trained to be a painter, winning several prizes at the Slade School of Art, London. He enlisted in the British Army in 1915 and is best known for his “trench poems,” written between 1916 and 1918, which

Janet Jagan was an American-born Guyanese politician who was the first white president of Guyana (1997–99) and the first elected female president in South America. She was born into a middle-class Jewish family. In 1942, while working as a student nurse in Chicago, she met Cheddi Jagan, a dentistry

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg: When she married Julius Rosenberg in 1939, the year he earned a degree in electrical engineering, the two were already active members of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). In the following year Julius obtained a job as a civilian engineer with the U.S.…

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were the first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime. Ethel Greenglass worked as a clerk for some years after her graduation from high school in 1931. When she married Julius

intelligence test: …Hopkins Perceptual Test, developed by Leon Rosenberg in the early 1960s to measure the intelligence of preschool children, has a child try to match random forms (ordinary geometric forms, such as circles, squares, and triangles, are avoided because some children may be more familiar with the forms than are others).…

Tony Randall was an American actor who was most closely identified with the character Felix Unger, the fastidious fussbudget he portrayed opposite Jack Klugman’s sloppy Oscar Madison on the TV series The Odd Couple (1970–75); he won an Emmy Award for the last season of the show. Randall studied

Léon Bakst was a Jewish Russian artist who revolutionized theatrical design both in scenery and in costume. His designs for the Ballets Russes, especially during its heyday (1909–14), were opulent, innovative, and extraordinary, and his influence on fashion and interior design was widespread. The

Stuart Rosenberg was an American television and film director who was best known for the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke. Rosenberg studied Irish literature at New York University before working in television as an editor. In 1957 he helmed episodes of Decoy, and he subsequently became a sought-after

Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak Jewish biochemist, one of five Jewish prisoners to ever escape Auschwitz, the most lethal of the extermination camps in existence during World War II. Vrba’s detailed retelling of events at Auschwitz informed the 1944 Vrba-Wetzler Report, a critical account of the protocol

Billy Rose was an American theatrical impresario and composer of more than 50 song hits. Rose became an expert at taking shorthand dictation and during World War I was the chief stenographer for the financier Bernard Baruch, head of the War Industries Board. In the 1920s he began to write songs and

Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) on June 29, 1995, that the University of Virginia’s denial of funding to a Christian student magazine constituted viewpoint discrimination in violation of the free speech clause

perceptrons: …artificial neural network investigated by Frank Rosenblatt, beginning in 1957, at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Rosenblatt made major contributions to the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI), both through experimental investigations of the properties of neural networks (using computer simulations) and through detailed…

Susan Sontag was an American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles. She attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year and then transferred to the University

United States: The visual arts and postmodernism: …scrutiny; and the art historian Robert Rosenblum has persuasively argued that many of the elements of Abstract Expressionism, for all their apparent hermetic distance from common experience, are inspired by the scale and light of the American landscape and American 19th-century landscape painting—by elements that run deep and centrally in…

Sidney Reilly was a spy who obtained Persian oil concessions and German naval secrets for Britain. Many of the romanticized stories about him may have been inventions of his own. Born the illegitimate son of a Jewish doctor in Odessa, he studied chemistry in Vienna (1890–93) before going to Brazil.

Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch was a German geologist who laid the foundations of the science of microscopic petrography (the study of rocks in thin section, based on the optical properties of constituent mineral grains). He was appointed professor (extraordinary) of petrography at Strasbourg

Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch was a German geologist who laid the foundations of the science of microscopic petrography (the study of rocks in thin section, based on the optical properties of constituent mineral grains). He was appointed professor (extraordinary) of petrography at Strasbourg

Hamlet: …by hiring Hamlet’s onetime friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on him. Hamlet quickly sees through the scheme and begins to act the part of a madman in front of them. To the pompous old courtier Polonius, it appears that Hamlet is lovesick over Polonius’s daughter Ophelia. Despite Ophelia’s loyalty…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former schoolmates of the title character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Unaware of the true reason they have been summoned, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are commissioned to spy on Hamlet. Minor figures in Shakespeare, the pair are the central characters in Tom Stoppard’s

Richard Dreyfuss: …of his later films—such as Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), What About Bob? (1991), and Once Around (1991)—were more critical favourites than box-office successes. His sensitive multilayered performance as a musician who foregoes dreams of a composing career to teach high school in Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) earned Dreyfuss…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: …characters in Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (produced 1966; film 1990). Stoppard’s characters play games, tell jokes, and have philosophical discussions in the intervals of time between the scenes in which they figure in Shakespeare’s play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead addresses such issues as free will,…

West Highland white terrier, a short-legged dog standing 10 to 11 inches (25 to 28 cm) tall and weighing 13 to 19 pounds (6 to 8.5 kg). Its coat is pure white and consists of a soft furry undercoat overlaid by a straight, hard outer coat. It is thought that this breed of terrier is descended from

Marc Chagall: Maturity: In 1915 he married Bella Rosenfeld, the daughter of a wealthy Vitebsk merchant; among the many paintings in which she appears from this date onward are the depiction of flying lovers entitled Birthday (1915–23) and the high-spirited, acrobatic Double Portrait with a Glass of Wine (1917).

Irene Rosenfeld is an American business executive, who was CEO (2006–17) of processed-foods giant Kraft Foods Inc. and, after the company’s restructuring in 2012, of Mondelēz International. Under her leadership, Kraft, already the largest food-products company in the United States, expanded its

Lev Kamenev was an Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great Purge. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.)

Yiddish literature: Writers in New York: Another, Morris Rosenfeld, wrote numerous poems describing the harsh conditions experienced by Jewish immigrants, who often worked in the textile industry. One famous poem, “Mayn yingele” (1887; “My Little Boy”), for example, expresses a worker’s estrangement from his family—resulting from endless hours spent in a sweatshop.…

Otto Rank was an Austrian psychologist who extended psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and creativity and who suggested that the basis of anxiety neurosis is a psychological trauma occurring during the birth of the individual. Rank came from a poor family and attended trade

Protestantism: Revivalism in the 19th century: Karl Olof Rosenius (1816–68), influenced by Methodist preaching, introduced revivalism into Swedish Lutheranism. Although Rosenius was also influenced by Zinzendorf and Pietism, his new movement was quite unlike the little groups of Pietism. The Pietists wanted to bring men to salvation from the world, whereas…

Der Rosenkavalier, comic opera in three acts by German composer Richard Strauss (German libretto by Austrian dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal) that premiered at the Dresden Royal Opera House on January 26, 1911. Hofmannsthal had written the play upon which Strauss based Elektra, but Der

Rosicrucian: … (1616) recount the travels of Christian Rosenkreuz, the putative founder of the group, who is now generally regarded as a fictional character rather than a real person. According to the books, Rosenkreuz was born in 1378 and lived for 106 years. After visiting the Middle East and North Africa in…

East of Eden: Production notes and credits:

Otto Erich Hartleben: …was the tragedy Rosenmontag (1900; Love’s Carnival, 1904), which portrays the tragedy of a Prussian officer in love with a working class girl. Social criticism in his works gave way to humorous anecdote, satire, and eroticism reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant, as seen in the tales Vom gastfreien Pastor (1895;…

chamber music: Sources and instruments: In the same year Johann Rosenmüller, a German composer working in Venice, published a set of Sonate da camera cioè Sinfonie… (Chamber Sonatas, that is, Symphonies…), each consisting of four to six dance movements with an introductory movement (sinfonia) not in dance style. The development of chamber music for…

Fastnachtsspiel: Hans Rosenplüt of Nürnberg and his younger contemporary, the barber Hans Folz of Worms, who also settled in Nürnberg, were the most notable Fastnachtsspiele playwrights in the mid-15th century. Their plays were formless, uninhibited comedy, usually featuring the traditional character of the Narr, or fool,…

James Rosenquist was one of the seminal figures of the Pop art movement, who took as his inspiration the subject and style of modern commercial culture. Through a complex layering of such motifs as Coca-Cola bottles, kitchen appliances, packaged foods, and women’s lipsticked mouths and manicured

Robert Mueller: Later work and Russia investigation: …he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had decided that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Trump had obstructed justice.

Eve Queler: She continued her work with Joseph Rosenstock of the Metropolitan Opera, whose original strong misgivings about her prospects in the virtually all-male field of conducting were partially allayed by her manifest talent. Her work with the New York City Opera, with which she was associated from 1958 as rehearsal and…

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian-born French poet and essayist known mainly as the founder of Dada, a nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts, the purpose of which was the demolition of all the values of modern civilization. The Dadaist movement originated in Zürich during World War I, with the

Franz Rosenzweig: …(especially the jurist and historian Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy), who were equally critical of the academic philosophy of the day, had found the solution to the problem of man in religious faith (specifically, conversion to Christianity) and in a dialogical relationship between man and God. After an intense inner struggle Rosenzweig decided…

human ear: Organ of Corti: …osseous spiral lamina, called the canal of Rosenthal. The bipolar cell bodies of these neurons constitute the spiral ganglion. Beyond the ganglion their distal processes extend radially outward in the bony lamina beneath the limbus to pass through an array of small pores directly under the inner hair cells, called…

human ear: Organ of Corti: …osseous spiral lamina, called the canal of Rosenthal. The bipolar cell bodies of these neurons constitute the spiral ganglion. Beyond the ganglion their distal processes extend radially outward in the bony lamina beneath the limbus to pass through an array of small pores directly under the inner hair cells, called…

seasonal affective disorder: …in 1984 by American psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal.

Rosenwald schools, any of roughly 5,000 rural schools for African American students that were built in the American South in the early 20th century. Rosenwald schools were the result of a collaboration between Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, the president and part owner of Sears, Roebuck

Julius Rosenwald was an American merchant and unorthodox philanthropist who opposed the idea of perpetual endowments and frequently offered large philanthropic gifts on the condition that they be matched by other donations. He was especially noted for his aid to the education of African Americans.

Franz Rosenzweig was a German-Jewish religious Existentialist who, through his fresh handling of traditional religious themes, became one of the most influential modern Jewish theologians. In 1913, although his conversion to Christianity had seemed imminent, a religious experience caused him to

roseola infantum, infectious disease of early childhood marked by rapidly developing high fever (to 106° F) lasting about three days and then subsiding completely. A few hours after the temperature returns to normal, a mildly itchy rash develops suddenly on the trunk, neck, and behind the ears but

James Montgomery Flagg: In his autobiography, Roses and Buckshot (1946), Flagg represented himself as a bohemian, unfettered by convention.

Bobby Vinton: …decision paid off, as “Roses Are Red (My Love),” a country-tinged ode to young romance, reached number one on the Billboard singles chart in 1962. Vinton, whose clean-cut boyish appearance made him a favourite of teenagers, subsequently topped the chart with the straightforward emotional ballads “Blue Velvet” (1963), “There!…

attar of roses, fragrant, colourless or pale-yellow liquid essential oil distilled from fresh petals of Rosa damascena and R. gallica and other species of the rose family Rosaceae. Rose oils are a valuable ingredient of fine perfumes and liqueurs. They are also used for flavouring lozenges and

Wars of the Roses, (1455–85), in English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife preceded the strong government of the Tudors. Fought between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, the wars were named many years afterward from the supposed badges

Michel Roset was a Swiss political figure who, with Theodore Beza, played the most important role in the affairs of Geneva after the death of John Calvin in 1564. A supporter of the theocracy and an opponent of the anti-Calvinist Libertine Party, Roset assisted Beza in maintaining the Calvinist

Nile River: Physiography of Nile River: …through two main distributaries, the Rosetta and the Damietta (Dumyāṭ) branches.

Rosetta, European Space Agency spacecraft that carried Philae, the first space probe to land on a comet. Rosetta was launched on March 2, 2004, by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on a 10-year mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The expectation was that, like the Rosetta

Dardenne brothers: …the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta. The movie is an unsentimental account of a young woman determined to find work in order to escape the grinding poverty of her life. It was followed in 2002 by Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, with L’Enfant (The Child), the brothers for the…

Rosetta, town, northern Al-Buḥayrah muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in the northwestern Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. It lies on the left bank of the Rosetta (ancient Bolbitinic) Branch of the Nile River, 8 miles (13 km) southeast of its entrance into the Mediterranean and 35 miles (56 km) northeast of

Rosetta Stone, ancient Egyptian stone bearing inscriptions in several languages and scripts; their decipherment led to the understanding of hieroglyphic writing. An irregularly shaped stone of black granite 3 feet 9 inches (114 cm) long and 2 feet 4.5 inches (72 cm) wide, and broken in antiquity,

stem: Stem types and modifications: …head (cabbage, lettuce), or a rosette (dandelion, plantain).

Roseville, city, Placer county, central California, U.S. It lies in the Sacramento Valley, 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Sacramento. The region around Roseville was once home to the Maidu Indians. The city began in 1864 as Roseville Junction on the Central Pacific Railroad, but it did not develop

Ken Rosewall is an Australian tennis player who was a major competitor for 25 years, winning 18 Grand Slam titles, 8 of which were in men’s singles. Although he was short and had a slight build, Rosewall remained a powerful force in tennis far longer than many stronger players and was never badly

Ken Rosewall is an Australian tennis player who was a major competitor for 25 years, winning 18 Grand Slam titles, 8 of which were in men’s singles. Although he was short and had a slight build, Rosewall remained a powerful force in tennis far longer than many stronger players and was never badly

Jon Stewart: …made his directorial debut with Rosewater (2014), adapted from a memoir by journalist Maziar Bahari (played by Gael García Bernal in the film), who was detained in Iran in 2009 on suspicion of espionage while covering election protests there; Bahari had appeared in a Daily Show segment that satirized Iranian…

John Singleton: …of three college freshmen (1993); Rosewood (1997), based on a true story of racial violence in Florida in the 1920s; a remake of the landmark blaxploitation film Shaft (2000); the action film 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003); and Four Brothers (2005), starring Mark Wahlberg and Tyrese Gibson.

Rosewood massacre of 1923: …predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. In the years since, some have estimated that as many as 200 people were killed, but an official study in 1993 placed the death toll at eight: six African Americans and two whites. In addition, virtually every building was burned to the ground…

rosewood, any of several ornamental timbers, products of various tropical trees native to Brazil, Honduras, Jamaica, Africa, and India. The most important commercially are the Honduras rosewood, Dalbergia stevensoni, and the Brazilian rosewood, principally D. nigra, a leguminous tree up to 125 feet

Rosewood massacre of 1923, an incident of racial violence that lasted several days in January 1923 in the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. In the years since, some have estimated that as many as 200 people were killed, but an official study in 1993 placed the death

Asher ben Jehiel was a major codifier of the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary. His work was a source for the great codes of his son Jacob ben Asher (1269–1340) and of Joseph Karo (1488–1575). When the German authorities began to persecute the Jews, Asher fled to France

Rosh Hashana, a major Jewish observance now accepted as inaugurating the religious New Year on Tishri 1 (September or October). Because the New Year ushers in a 10-day period of self-examination and penitence, Rosh Hashana is also called the annual Day of Judgment; during this period each Jew

Rosh Hashana, a major Jewish observance now accepted as inaugurating the religious New Year on Tishri 1 (September or October). Because the New Year ushers in a 10-day period of self-examination and penitence, Rosh Hashana is also called the annual Day of Judgment; during this period each Jew

Rosh Hashana, a major Jewish observance now accepted as inaugurating the religious New Year on Tishri 1 (September or October). Because the New Year ushers in a 10-day period of self-examination and penitence, Rosh Hashana is also called the annual Day of Judgment; during this period each Jew

New Moon, (Hebrew: “Head of the Month”), the start of the Hebrew month, a minor Jewish festival on which fasting and mourning are not allowed. The modern observance consists principally in preserving the ancient custom of reciting a blessing on the Sabbath preceding the New Moon and in singing or

Muḥammad Shah was an ineffective, pleasure-seeking Mughal emperor of India from 1719 to 1748. Roshan Akhtar was the grandson of the emperor Bahādur Shah I (ruled 1707–12) and the son of Jahān Shah, Bahādur Shah’s youngest son. Jahān Shah was killed in 1712, early in the succession struggle

Vairochana, the supreme Buddha, as regarded by many Mahayana Buddhists of East Asia and of Tibet, Nepal, and Java. Some Buddhists regard Vairochana, or Mahavairochana, as a being separate from the five “self-born” Dhyani-Buddhas, one of whom is known as Vairochana. Among the Shingon sect of Japan,

Josel of Rosheim: Thus, when Rosheim’s Jewish community was threatened in 1525 by marauding peasants, Josel, by a combination of bribery and persuasion, elicited their promise to pillage Rosheim last of all the towns. When its time came, the peasants were too tired and sated to sack Rosheim. Soon after…

Rosicrucian, member of a worldwide brotherhood claiming to possess esoteric wisdom handed down from ancient times. The name derives from the order’s symbol, a rose on a cross, which is similar to the family coat of arms of Martin Luther. Rosicrucian teachings are a combination of occultism and

angiosperm: Annotated classification: Rosids A group that can be divided into two distinct lineages, which APG IV identifies as the fabids and the malvids. The order Vitales is unplaced within the group. Order Vitales Family: Vitaceae. Fabids

Rosie O’Donnell: …1996 O’Donnell’s celebrity-studded talk-variety program, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, debuted and immediately earned high ratings. She endeared herself to audiences with her frankness, neighbourly chatter, and unabashed love for popular culture, namely television theme songs, commercial jingles, and actor Tom Cruise. O’Donnell capped her show’s first season with an Emmy…

Rosie O’Donnell: O’Donnell later hosted The Rosie Show (2011–12), a talk show that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She returned to cohost The View for one season (2014–15). In 2016 she appeared in the TV movie Hairspray Live!, which was based on a Broadway musical. Four years later…

Rosie the Riveter: In 1943 the song “Rosie the Riveter,” by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, was released. This song touts the patriotic qualities of the mythical female war employee who defends America by working on the home front. Following the release of this song, Norman Rockwell’s drawing of his version…

Rosie the Riveter, media icon associated with female defense workers during World War II. Since the 1940s Rosie the Riveter has stood as a symbol for women in the workforce and for women’s independence. Beginning in 1942, as an increasing number of American men were recruited for the war effort,