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Rosa

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Rosa1
Salvator . 1615--73, Italian artist, noted esp for his romantic landscapes

Rosa2 Monte
a mountain between Italy and Switzerland: the highest in the Pennine Alps. Height: 4634 m (15 204 ft.)


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The pet pupil of the Nuns' House is Miss Rosa Bud, of course called Rosebud; wonderfully pretty, wonderfully childish, wonderfully whimsical.
" Then the Breithorn and the Dent Blanche caught the radiant glow; but "the intervening mass of Monte Rosa made it necessary for us to climb many long hours before we could hope to see the sun himself, yet the whole air soon grew warmer after the splendid birth of the day.
In this case the Queen is Margherita of Italy and the professor is Signor Mosso, the astronomer, who studies the heavens from an observatory on Monte Rosa.
 
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