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

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...

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...

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 carrack (nao in Spanish, nau in Portuguese, and nef in French) was a type of large sailing vessel used for exploration, to carry cargo and as a warship in the 15th and 16th centuries. Famous carracks include the Santa Maria of Christopher...

Henry VIII of England ruled as king from 1509 to 1547 CE. The second Tudor king after his father Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509 CE), Henry had inherited a kingdom which enjoyed both unity and sound finances. Famous for his six wives as...

Kikimora (pronounced Kih-kee-mora) is a female house spirit from Slavic lore who can be helpful or malevolent depending on the behavior of the homeowner. In differing versions of her stories, there are two kinds of spirit, one generally helpful...

"Plucking the Red & White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens" by Henry Payne (1868 - 1940 CE). The painting depicts Richard of York challenging Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset to choose between the White Rose of House York and the Red...

Illustration depicting Sushruta (Father of Plastic Surgery) from the Sardar Patel Medical College in Bikaner, India.