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! •
Marrakesh, Morocco is called the
Rose City because many of its buildings are colored various tones of rose. •
Portland, Oregon is nicknamed "The Rose City" for the number of roses and rose gardens that thrive there. on the Rosenstrasse in
Berlin today commemorates the
Rosenstrasse protest (the building in which the detainees were held no longer exists).
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 previous
Georgian president
Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in 2003 was called the "
Rose Revolution" • The color is used by the
French Socialist Party in the
Versailles Palace and is decorated with rose colored wallpaper.
Religion • In the
Latin liturgical rites 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). ==See also==