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The rose that grows in many different forms in gardens all over the world today is an evolution of rose-like plants that lived in the northern hemisphere between 33 million and 23 million years ago. Traces of them have been found in the fossil...

The Mary Rose was a carrack warship built for the Royal Navy of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547). The ship infamously sank in the Solent off the south coast of England on 19 July 1545, probably because water entered its open gun ports...

Rose-and-nightingale paintings and patterns (gul-u-bulbul) are a subtheme of the bird-flower (gul-u-morḡ) genre in Persian art. Bird-and-flower paintings are of Chinese origin and include pictorial elements such as flowers and plants, birds...

The 19th century CE rose window of north transept of the Gothic Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Orléans, France. 13-14th century CE.

Persian vanity box decorated with a rose-and-nightingale motif, by Muhammad Baqir, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The 1907 Rose Trellis Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg is made of gold with pink and green enamel. The latticework is decorated with rose...

Rosa Noisettiana, aka Noisette rose, print by Pierre Joseph Redouté, published in 1817-24. Print Collection, The New York Public Library.

The salvage of the Mary Rose wreck in 1982 CE. The English warship was part of Henry VIII's naval fleet but sank in a confrontation with a French fleet in July 1545 CE. The wreck is now on display in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England...

The North Rose window of Chartres Cathedral, France, 1190-1220 CE. The stained glass window shows scenes of Jesus Christ, the prophets and 12 kings of Judah.

The South Rose window of Chartres Cathedral, France, 1190-1220 CE. The stained glass window shows scenes of Jesus Christ and the Judgement of the Apocalypse.