Roslin may refer to:
Scotland
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Roslin, Midlothian
Roslin (formerly spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn; Scottish Gaelic: Riasg Linne) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, 11 kilometres (7 mi) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It stands on high ground, near the northwest bank of the river ...
(sometimes spelt ''Rosslyn'' or ''Roslyn''), a village in Midlothian, south of Edinburgh, Scotland
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Rosslyn Chapel
Rosslyn Chapel, formerly known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, is a 15th-century chapel located in the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland.
Rosslyn Chapel was founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a Catholic collegiate church ...
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Roslin Castle
Roslin Castle (sometimes spelt Rosslyn) is a partially ruined castle near the village of Roslin in Midlothian, Scotland. It is located around 9 miles south of Edinburgh, on the north bank of the North Esk, only a few hundred metres from the fa ...
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Roslin Institute
The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
It is best known for creatin ...
, where Dolly the Sheep was cloned
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Battle of Roslin
The Battle of Roslin on 24 February 1303 was a Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence. It took place near the village of Roslin, where a force led by the Scots John Comyn and Sir Simon Fraser ambushed and defeated an Engl ...
, 1303
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Barony of Roslin
Baron of Roslin or Rosslyn was a Scottish feudal barony held by the St Clair or Sinclair family.
History
No certain record exists but it is likely that the Sinclairs came from Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in Normandy. According to traditional history ...
United States
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Roslin House Roslin House in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, was built in 1911 for Horace B. Forman Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Chandlee Forman. The Philadelphia Quaker architect William L. Price designed and built the house from sketches provided by the ...
, the Spanish House of Haverford College
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Roslin Art Gallery The Roslin Art Gallery is an art gallery located in Glendale, California, that is dedicated to preserving Armenian folk art.
History
The Roslin Art Gallery is named after Toros Roslin, the most prominent master of the Armenian illuminated manusc ...
People
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Alexander Roslin
Alexander Roslin (spelled Alexandre in French, ; 15 July 17185 July 1793) was a Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, Warsaw and St. Petersburg, primarily for members of aristocratic families. He combined insig ...
(1718–1793), Swedish painter
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Gaby Roslin
Gaby Roslin (born 12 July 1964) is an English television and radio presenter who rose to fame co-presenting ''The Big Breakfast'' on Channel 4 between 1992 and 1996. Roslin also presented the '' Children in Need'' charity telethons on the BBC ...
(born 1964), British television presenter
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Helisaeus Roeslin
Helisaeus Roeslin or Helisäus Röslin (17 January 1545 – 14 August 1616) was a German physician and astrologer who adopted a geoheliocentric model of the universe. He was one of five observers who concluded that the Great Comet of 1577 was loc ...
(1544–1616), German physician, astrologer and astronomer, 1544–1616
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Toros Roslin
Toros Roslin (, ); –1270) was the most prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in the High Middle Ages.Parry, 399 Roslin introduced a wider range of narrative in his iconography based on his knowledge of western European art while contin ...
, 13th-century Armenian Byzantine-style manuscript illuminator (active 1256–1268)
Characters
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Laura Roslin
Laura Roslin is a fictional character in the re-imagined '' Battlestar Galactica'' series, portrayed by Mary McDonnell. She is the President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol and is one of the primary characters in the show.
Character biography ...
, a main character from ''Battlestar Galactica''
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Roslin Frey
George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' saga features a large cast of characters. The series follows three interwoven plotlines: a dynastic war for control of Westeros by several families; the rising threat of the superhuman Others beyo ...
(also written as 'Roslyn'), a minor character from ''A Song of Ice and Fire''
See also
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Roslyn (disambiguation) Roslyn may refer to:
People
* Louis Frederick Roslyn (1878–1940), British sculptor
* Roslyn Atkins (born 1974), British journalist and broadcaster for the BBC
Places
* Roslyn, Palmerston North, a suburb of the city of Palmerston North, North I ...
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Rosslyn (disambiguation) Rosslyn can refer to: Places
Africa
* Rosslyn, Gauteng, South Africa
* Rosslyn Academy, a school in Nairobi, Kenya
Australia
* Rosslyn, Queensland, a town on the Capricorn Coast in the Shire of Livingstone
Europe
* Roslin, Midlothian, Scotl ...
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