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unusual facts about Roses, Girona



4hero

In 2006, 4hero was featured on the track, "Bed of Roses" by Jody Watley, on her album, The Makeover.

A-Eiropa

A-Eiropa's hits have included "Baltās rozes"/"Белые розы" (White roses), "Jūrmala"/"Юрмала" (Jūrmala) and others.

Bell's Hill Burial Ground

Wildflowers include common knapweed and lady's bedstraw, while brambles and roses climb the tombs in wilder areas.

Bendemeer, New South Wales

In 1854 the village was renamed Bendemeer after a line in the 1817 poem Lalla-Rookh by Thomas Moore: There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream; And the nightingale sings round it all day long.

Betty Lou Keim

The same year, she repeated her A Roomful of Roses role in its movie adaptation Teenage Rebel, as Ginger Rogers' daughter.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Ethan Snow of the UNITE HERE labor union expressed the continuity of the labor struggle by linking the Occupy Wall Street Movement's "99 percent" slogan to the 1912 strikers and to the plight of modern laborers in Lawrence: “One hundred years ago, workers took a stand against the greed of the 1%. Today we are faced with a similar situation in Lawrence, and we too will take up the fight for current day Bread & Roses.”

Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City.

Carroll Bierman

Gallahadion paid $72.40 on a $2 bet for winning the "Run for the Roses" in the colors of Ethel V. Mars, heiress to the Mars Candy fortune.

Citizens – Party of the Citizenry

Everywhere else, it remained under 4%, with the worst results in the provinces of Girona (1.69%) and Lleida (1.79%).

Concours international de roses nouvelles de Bagatelle

Established in 1907 by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, the city's Commissioner of Gardens, it was the first international competition to assess new roses and remains one of the most prestigious events in the commercial rose growers' calendar.

Edith Massey

A sample of Edith Massey's voice as "Aunt Ida" from the film Female Trouble appears in the track "The Days of Swine and Roses", on the album Confessions of a Knife by the band, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.

Emmott Robinson

Neville Cardus, The Roses Matches 1919 - 1939, Collins, 1982

Héctor Simón

Héctor Simón Escudero (born 13 March 1984 in Llançà, Girona, Catalonia) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Oviedo as an attacking midfielder.

Horn, Rutland

Proximity to the parish meant that the Battle of Losecoat Field during the War of the Roses was once called the Battle of Hornfield.

I Am the Resurrection

John Squire designed the "I Am the Resurrection" cover, (an up-close shot from the cover of the first album) continuing the Jackson Pollock-influenced theme of singles from The Stone Roses.

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

produce a further 14 roses named after characters in the novels of Sir Walter Scott, including the Jeanie Deans Hybrid Rose.

Joan Roget

According to the Catalan optometrist and amateur historian Simon de Gualleuma, Juan was married to Juana of Malaville and migrated to the Catalan town of Girona, Spain, where he worked as a master spectacle maker.

John L. Reese

That led to Guns N' Roses manager Doug Goldstein hiring him to become the band's tour manager for their 1989 Los Angeles Coliseum concerts with the Rolling Stones, then as the tour manager for the massive Use Your Illusion Tours and then as a partner and personal manager with Big FD Entertainment, representing a number of artists including Guns N' Roses, The Stone Roses, Blind Melon and many more.

Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar

During those months Don Mazarredo, who had relieved Lángara did several operations in the Mediterranean Sea, one of them was the evacuation of soldiers and civilians from Roses, a city in the Catalan coast that was being besieged by the French.

La voix du bon Dieu

The album contains Dion's first three singles: "Ce n'était qu'un rêve" (co-written by herself), "La voix du bon Dieu" and "L'amour viendra" (French adaptation of Dario Baldan Bembo's song "Dolce Fiore"), as well as two covers: Renée Lebas' "T'ire l'aiguille" and Berthe Sylva's "Les roses blanches."

Lady Lilith

He and G. P. Boyce gathered large baskets of white roses from John Ruskin's garden in Denmark Hill, and returned with them to Rossetti's house in Chelsea.

Marie Henrieta Chotek

In 1910, at the Liegnitz (today Legnica in Silesia) congress, count Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss, mentioned the thee rosaria by stating: "Today chains of roses link Germany with France and Austria-Hungary".

Mark Abley

It was translated into French, Spanish and Japanese, and was largely responsible for Abley being awarded the LiberPress Prize in Girona, Spain, in October 2009.

Mary garden

Such plants may include laurel trees, strawberries, ladyslippers, lilies of the valley, peonies, violets, irises and roses, all of which are identified as symbolic and significant in the story of Mary as recounted in the Bible and other Christian stories.

Mediapro

MediaPro is based in Barcelona, with branch offices in Girona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Madeira, Madrid, Miami, Porto, Qatar, Seville and Tenerife.

Medieval Welsh literature

Guto was also a soldier who fought on the Yorkist side during the War of the Roses, but spent his last years as a lay guest at the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis, near Llangollen.

Mimi Fariña

Fariña used her connections with the folksinging community to elicit help in her focus with Bread and Roses, including Pete Seeger, Paul Winter, Odetta, Judy Collins, Taj Mahal, Lily Tomlin, Carlos Santana, and Bonnie Raitt, amongst others.

Mindflow

In Spain, the group appeared at the Prog Metal Fest, a multi-venue festival that visited four cities: Madrid, Palencia, Barcelona and Girona.

Naurzum Nature Reserve

In the shrub dominated parts, typical steppe shrubs are Russian almond (Amygdalus nana), cherry (Cerasus fruticosa), greenweed (Cytisus ruthenicus) (western distribution boundary), species of wild roses (Rosa) and juniper (Juniperus sabinea).

Neurotic Outsiders

Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses, and Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy, and Mickey Curry, all from The Cult, which Matt Sorum played with both before and after Guns N' Roses, all made guest appearances on the Steve Jones solo album Fire and Gasoline.

Peter Daltrey

His first album, Dream On (Voiceprint VP182), was released on the British Voiceprint label in 1995, followed by two albums released in Japan: English Roses (Evangel EV001-1995) and When We Were Indians (Evangel EV003 - 1996).

Prudenci Bertrana Prize

The Fundació Prudenci Bertrana makes the award in September of each year at a ceremony in Girona.

Richard Neville

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), known as "Warwick the Kingmaker", English noble, fought in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

Rosa fedtschenkoana

Recent DNA research has discovered that R. fedtschenkoana is one of the parents of the damask group of garden roses (the other species involved being R. moschata and R. gallica).

Rosen aus dem Süden

Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses From the South), Op. 388, is a waltz medley composed by Johann Strauss II in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin (The Queen's Lace Handkerchief) inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-Riegen.

Roses in the Hospital

#"Roses in the Hospital" (O G Psychovocal mix) (Remixed by Ashley Beedle)

Roses, Girona

It seems more probable, however, that it was founded in the 5th century BC by Greeks from Massalia (Marseilles), perhaps with an admixture of colonists from neighbouring Emporion (today's Empúries).

Rota International Airport

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Rota International Airport is assigned GRO by the FAA and ROP by the IATA (which assigned GRO to Girona-Costa Brava Airport in Girona, Spain).

The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns

The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns is a novel written by Margaret Dilloway.

The Shackshakers

• You Drive Me Insane
• Please Don't Tell Me (featuring Joe Terry of The Morells)
• Sweet Nothins
• (She's My) Rockabilly Baby
• When Will This Heartache End (featuring Bill Cowsill)
• The Ballad Of Desiree
• Morse Code Of Love
• Hey Doll Baby
• I'll Find A Way
• Hurricane (featuring Steve Bloomfield of Matchbox)
• Lotta Lovin' (featuring The Roses)
• No Other Love
• Hit The Brakes
• They Don't Know

The Vals

To celebrate the release of their debut single 'Yesterday Today', the band played a special show in Belfast with Chris Helme of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band The Seahorses.

Tik-Tok of Oz

They arrive at a large greenhouse that is the domain of the Rose Kingdom, where the roses tell them that no strangers are allowed.

Todd Loren

Appearing in the film are Alice Cooper, publishers Gary Groth (Fantagraphics) and Denis Kitchen (Kitchen Sink Press), famed groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster, underground painter and RevCom cover artist Robert Williams (known for his controversial album art for the first Guns N' Roses LP), RnR Comics co-creator Jay Allen Sanford, Gene Simmons (audio only), and more.

Tokamak de Fontenay aux Roses

The Tokamak de Fontenay-aux-Roses (TFR) was the first French tokamak, built in a research centre of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

Under My Wheels

It was re-recorded in 1988 by Cooper as a duet with Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses for the Slash Records release The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, which came out after the release of the Raise Your Fist and Yell album, with its supporting US tour being opened by Guns N' Roses.

Web of Spies

They are summoned to meet Judas at the bullfighting arena in Girona where he intends to sell Todd to the highest bidder.

White Rose of York

At the Battle of Minden on 1 August 1759, Yorkshiremen of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry's predecessor the 51st Regiment picked white roses from bushes near to the battlefields as a tribute to their fallen comrades who had died.

Zora Wolfová

Her translations of individual stories by Edith Pargeter, Henry Lawson, Alan Marshall, Vance Palmer, Doris Lessing, Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, Hal Porter, and the story titled Dead Roses from the book The Burnt Ones by Patrick White have been published in Czech literary magazine Světová literatura World Literature.


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