Rosa 'John Franklin' is a red shrub rose cultivar, bred by Canadian rose breeder, Felicitas Svejda in 1970. It was introduced in Canada in 1979 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It is one of the least hardy of the Canadian Explorer roses that...
Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic.
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the "Queen of Soul", she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time. As a child,...
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his work in Hollywood comedy films. Candy first rose to prominence in Canada during the 1970s as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second...
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws,...
Ronald Marapon dela Rosa (born January 21, 1962), known by his nickname Bato, is a Filipino politician, retired police officer, and fugitive. He has been a senator of the Philippines since 2019. He served under the Duterte administration as the...
The Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery is a cemetery located in Santa Rosa, California, United States. Originally founded in the 1850s as four distinct cemeteries: the Old Rural Cemetery; the Fulkerson Cemetery; the Moke Cemetery; and the Stanley Cemetery-...
Between May 11 and 13, 2026, attempts to arrest Senator Ronald dela Rosa, for whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued an arrest warrant on charges of crimes against humanity related to the Philippine drug war, caused disorder in the...
Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950) is a Costa Rican which whom became an American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins'...
Rose of Lima (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 – 24 August 1617) (Latin: Rosa Limana, Spanish: Rosa de Lima), was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe...
