Look up: Rosetta

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   Rosetta
   Rosetta was once a thriving seaport in Egypt. It was here that the Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799.
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   Rosetta
   `Rosetta` ( `Rashid`) is a port city on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt. It is located 65 km (40 miles) east of Alexandria, at , in al-Buhayrah governorate. It was founded around AD 800. With the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in the 16th century, Rashid boomed, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival. During the 19th century it was a popular British tourist destination, known for its charming Ottoma...
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   Rosetta
   (from the article `Nile River`) ...Nile as fanning out into seven delta distributaries. The flow has since been controlled and redirected, so that the river now flows across the ...
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   Rosetta
   (from the article `Physical Sciences`) ...would then leave Vesta in May 2012 and arrive at Ceres in February 2015. Vesta was believed to be an entirely rocky body, but Ceres was believed ... ESA launched its Rosetta craft on a 10-year mission to obtain sample materials from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The expectation was that, like...
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   Rosetta
   town, northern Al-Buayrah mufaah (governorate), in the northwestern Nile Delta, Lower Egypt. It lies on the left bank of the Rosetta (ancient ...
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   Rosetta
   Rosetta is a Italian girl name. The meaning of the name is `Beautiful Rose` Where is it used? The name Rosetta is mainly used In Italian. In combination with other names: In Italian: Rosangela (F) See also In Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and In Scandinavian: Rosa (F) In Spanish: Rosita (F) In Italian: Rosina (F) In Italian: Rosella (F) In French: Rosine
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   Rosetta
   An ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft, launched on Mar. 2, 2004, that will rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. Along the way it will fly past two asteroids: Steins, only a few km across, in September 2008, and Lutetia, 100 km wide, in July 2010. The Steins rendezvous will ta...
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   Rosetta
   Rosetta (rōzet'u) , former name of Rashid (räshēd') , city (1986 pop. 51,789), N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. The city once dominated the region's rice market; rice milling and fish processing are the main industries of modern Rashid. Founded in the 9th cent., the city wa...
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