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Rota (genus)
Rota or ROTA may refer to: Places * Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, an island and municipality * Rota (volcano), in Nicaragua * Rota, Andalusia, a town in Andalusia, Spain * Naval Station Rota, Spain People * Rota (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Rota Waitoa (died 1866), New Zealand Anglican clergyman Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Rota'' (poem), once proposed to be the national anthem of Poland * ''Rota'', a collection of poems by A. W. Yrjänä * Rota, a type of round (music) * Rota, Rotta, Rotte, Rote, a medieval musical instrument resembling a harp * Crwth also called Rote, a medieval bowed lyre Organizations * Rota (formation), an infantry or cavalry unit * Reach Out To Asia, a non-governmental organization based in Qatar * Roman Rota, the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church * Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar, a military police force in São Paulo * Rota Club, a 1659–1660 London debate society * Royal Rota, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rota, Northern Mariana Islands
Rota (), also known as the "Friendly Island", is the southernmost island of the United States Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the third southernmost of the Mariana Islands, Marianas Archipelago (the first being Cocos Island (Guam), Cocos Island). Early Spanish records called it ''Zarpana''; the name ''Rota'' may have come from the Andalusia, Andalusian municipality of Rota, Andalusia, Rota. It lies approximately north-northeast of the separately administered Territories of the United States, United States territory of Guam. Sinapalo village is the largest and most populated, followed by Songsong village. Rota functions as one of the four municipalities of the CNMI. History In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship ''Victoria'', Lope Navarro. However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rota (architecture)
The rota or "turn" is a cylinder on a vertical axis, open on one side, that is built inside a wall of a monastery, nunnery or foundling hospital. It was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world. University Press, Cambridge, 1897, pages 70-71. It is usually about 50 centimeters wide by 30 centimeters high, and its opening does not permit visual or tactile contact with the uncloistered. Messages or food are put into the cylinder, then the ''rota'' is revolved so that the opening faces the other side. |
Rotary International
Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world. The self-declared mission of Rotary, as stated on its website, is to "provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through hefellowship of business, professional, and community leaders". It is a non-political and non-religious organization. Membership is by application or invitation and based on various social factors. There are over 46,000 member clubs worldwide, with a membership of 1.4 million individuals, known as Rotarians. Rotary International is the organization of service clubs with the largest membership in the world, with 1.9 million volunteers, including all the members of clubs that make up the Rotary family, namely Rotary, Interact and Rotaract clubs. History The first years of the Rotary Club The first Rotary Club was formed when attorney Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business acquaintances in downtown Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examples dating to around 1450 BC. It is adapted from the earlier Linear A, an undeciphered script perhaps used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the Minoan palace, palace archives at Knossos, Kydonia, Pylos, Thebes, Greece, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing. Linear B was deciphered in 1952 by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris based on the research of American classicist Alice Kober. It is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have been deciphered, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Open Championship
The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. Later the venue rotated between a select group of coastal Links (golf), links golf courses in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom. It is organised by The R&A. The Open is one of the four men's major golf championships, the others being the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open. Since the PGA Championship moved to May in 2019, the Open has been chronologically the fourth and final major tournament of the year. It is held in mid-July. It is called The Open because it is in theory "open" to all, i.e. professional and amateur golfers. In practice, the current event is a professional tournament in which a small number of the world's leading amateurs also play, by invitation or qualific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rota System
The rota (or rotation) system or the lestvitsa system (from the Old Church Slavonic word for "ladder" or "staircase") is a historiographical concept introduced by historian Sergei Soloviev in 1860, attempting to describe a system of collateral succession practiced (though imperfectly) in Kievan Rus', later appanages, and early the Principality of Moscow. In this system, the throne passed not linearly from father to son ( agnatic primogeniture), but laterally from brother to brother (usually to the fourth brother) and then to the eldest son of the eldest brother who had held the throne. Scholarly discussions Scholars have debated the nature and existence of the rota system, with some claiming that no formal system of succession existed in the Kievan Rus'. No sources from the period describe such a system. Proponents of the rota system usually attribute its introduction or rationalisation to Yaroslav the Wise (died 1054), who assigned each of his sons a principality based on s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rota Fortunae
In Medieval philosophy, medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or ''Rota Fortunae'' is a symbol of the capricious nature of destiny, Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (mythology), Fortuna (Greek mythology, Greek equivalent: Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls. The metaphor was already a cliché in ancient times, complained about by Tacitus, but was greatly popularized for the Middle Ages by its extended treatment in the ''Consolation of Philosophy'' by Boethius from around 520. It became a common image in manuscripts of the book, and then other media, where Fortuna, often blindfolded, turns a large wheel of the sort used in watermills, to which kings and other powerful figures are attached. Origins The origin of the word is from the "wheel of fortune"—the zodiac, referring to the Celestial spheres of which the 8th holds the stars, and the 9th is where the si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return On Assets
The return on assets (ROA) shows the percentage of how profitable a company's assets are in generating revenue. ROA can be computed as below: :\mathrm = \frac The phrase return on average assets (ROAA) is also used, to emphasize that average assets are used in the above formula. This number tells you what the company can do with what it has, ''i.e.'' how many dollars of earnings they derive from each dollar of assets they control. It's a useful number for comparing competing companies in the same industry. The number will vary widely across different industries. Return on assets gives an indication of the capital intensity of the company, which will depend on the industry; companies that require large initial investments will generally have lower return on assets. ROAs over 5% are generally considered good. Usage Return on assets is one of the elements used in financial analysis using the Du Pont Identity. See also *Return on equity (ROE) *List of business and finance abbre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roto
''Roto'', f. ''rota'', (literally "torn" or "broken") is a term used to refer to Chilean people and in particular to the common Chilean. In Chile, from the start of the 20th century, it was applied with a negative classist connotation to poor city-dwellers. It is also used contemptuously in other Spanish-speaking countries, especially Bolivia and Peru, to refer to Chileans in a derogatory manner. Otherwise, despite its defects, the roto is also considered a figure of national identity and pride in Chile. Historical usage The term ''roto'' has been used in Peru since the times of the Spanish conquest, when Diego de Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco (after a failed gold-seeking expedition in Chile) with their torn clothes, due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot through the Atacama Desert. In the early days of Santiago its inhabitants were notoriously poorly dressed as result of a lack of food and supplies. Some Spanish came to dress with hides from do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) and represented a total of five Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire into the wealthy, aristocratic Spencer family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schedule (workplace)
A schedule, often called a rota or a roster, is a list of employees, and associated information e.g. location, department, working times, responsibilities for a given time period e.g. week, month or sports season. A schedule is necessary for the day-to-day operation of many businesses e.g. retail store, manufacturing facility and some offices. The process of creating a schedule is called scheduling. An effective workplace schedule balances the needs of stakeholders such as management, employees and customers. A ''daily'' schedule is usually ordered chronologically, which means the first employees working that day are listed at the top, followed by the employee who comes in next, etc. A ''weekly'' or ''monthly'' schedule is usually ordered alphabetically, employees being listed on the left hand side of a grid, with the days of the week on the top of the grid. In shift work, a schedule usually employs a recurring shift plan. A schedule is most often created by a man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Róta
In Norse mythology, Róta is a valkyrie. Róta is attested in chapter 36 of the ''Prose Edda'' book ''Gylfaginning'', where she is mentioned alongside the valkyries Gunnr and Skuld, and the three are described as "always idingto choose who shall be slain and to govern the killings."Faulkes (1995:31). Otherwise, Róta appears in two kennings, one by Egill Skallagrímsson and one by Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld.Finnur Jónsson. Lexicon Poeticum. http://www.septentrionalia.net/lex/index2.php?book=e&page=178&ext=png Theories have been proposed about the possible appearance of Róta in and the meaning of her name. Theories Name According to Guðbrandur Vigfússon, the name ''Róta'' is connected to the Old Norse noun ''róta'' (meaning "sleet and storm") and Róta is "a goddess who sends storm and rain."Vigfusson (1874:503). ''Gesta Danorum'' In book two of , a female by the name of "Ruta" is mentioned: :Arise too, Ruta, and show your snow-pale head, :come forth from hiding and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
