Rose in Human Culture
- Geography
- British historian John William Burgon famously described the Jordanian city of Petra as being colored rose, writing:
- Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
- A rose-red city – half as old as time!
- Marrakech, Morocco is called the Rose City because many of its buildings are colored various tones of rose.
- Holocaust
- The Rosenstrasse protest (Rose Street protest) took place on 27 February 1943 during the Holocaust when the Nazis wanted to round up the last of the Jews in Berlin during Fabrikaktion, but were successfully resisted by the victims' non-Jewish marriage partners, preventing these Jews from being sent to Auschwitz. It is the only example in Nazi Germany of a successful non-violent protest against the Holocaust in which the protesters were unharmed. The event is commemorated by a rose colored Litfaß column in Berlin.
- Music
- "La Vie en rose" (French for "Life through rose-coloured glasses", literally "Life in pink") was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf. Piaf first popularized the song in 1946. It has been covered by many artists since.
- Rose Colored Glasses is the 1978 debut album by country singer-songwriter John Conlee.
- Occult
- According to New Age author C.W. Leadbeater, who claimed to be clairvoyant, of the seven types of etheric atoms that he claimed to be able to observe with his third eye circulating through the human etheric body (colored violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, dark red, and rose), the flow of the rose colored etheric atoms (also called by Leadbeater the rose vitality globule) from the sun into the rainbow colored spleen chakra is the most important since all the other etheric atoms are derived from it and the rose colored atom vivifies the nervous system. Leadbeater also asserted that humans feel good around pine trees because they radiate more rose colored etheric atoms than any other plant.
- Politics
- The revolution in which current Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in 2003 was called the "Rose Revolution".
- Religion
- In the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, priests may wear rose colored vestments on Gaudete Sunday (the third Sunday of Advent) and Laetare Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent).
- Royal palaces
- The Salon of Mercury in the Grand appartement du roi in the Versailles Palace is decorated with rose colored wallpaper.
- Vexillology
- The Spanish province of Leon has a rose colored flag.
- The ensign of the Ukrainian Ground Forces has a rose colored background File:Ensign of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.svg.
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