Who founded the red rose?
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The rose with the longest history of cultivation is probably Rosa gallica, the original French or gallica rose, a plant with strongly perfumed flowers of various shades of red. Rosa gallica officinalis was known as the apothecary's rose, as it was widely grown in medieval times for medicinal purposes. Its fragrant, thickly textured petals also were useful in the strewing of floors and in the making of potpourri
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The Rose - United States National Flower\n\nThe term rose is applied to numerous shrubs and vines in the genus Rosa. They come in a variety of colors, have a fragrant scent and thorns on their stems. The rose has been favored by many everywhere. The edible petals have been added to salads and used in medicines since the times of antiquity. It was sacred to Aphrodite. It is the national flower of the United States. It is the official flower of New York State. The wild rose is the Iowa State flower and the prairie rose the state flower of North Dakota. The American Beauty is the flower of the District of Columbia. The rose is also the emblem of England. Two of the most famous roses are the white rose that served as the emblem for the house of York and the red rose for the house of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses. For a brief sojourn of the official flowers of the various states click here.\n\nThe Making of the National Floral Emblem\n\nSeptember 23, 1986, the House of Representatives passed a joint resolution naming the rose as the "national floral emblem" of the United States. The Senate had passed the resolution in 1985.\n\nThe measure then went to President Ronald Reagan. He signed the resolution into law on October 7, 1986 in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.\n\nOn November 20, 1986, President Reagan signed Proclamation 5574: The National Floral Emblem of the United States of America: The Rose. (Note: a proclamation announces an act by the government; it does not have the effect of law.)\n\nSources:\n"President Rose To The Occasion", San Jose Mercury News, October 8, 1986, p. 6A\nFacts on File, 1986 p. 774\nChase's Annual Events, 1988 p. 284\nVanderbilt University. Television News Archive.\n\nBelow is listed a copy of both the U.S. law that proclaims the rose as the National Flower, and the Proclamation made by the President of the United Sates of America, that the law requested be written. \n\n \n\n \nUNITED STATES CODE\nTITLE 36. PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES\nCHAPTER 10--PATRIOTIC CUSTOMS\n\n \n\ns 187. National floral emblem\n\nThe flower commonly known as the rose is designated and adopted as the national floral emblem of the United States of America, and the President of the United States is authorized and requested to declare such fact by proclamation.\n\n(Pub.L. 99-449, Oct. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 1128.)\n\n \n\nProclamation No. 5574. The Rose Proclaimed the National\nFloral Emblem of the United States of America\n\nProc. No. 5574. Nov. 20, 1986, 51 F.R. 42197, provided:\n\nAmericans have always loved the flowers with which God decorates our land. More often than any other flower, we hold the rose dear as the symbol of life and love and devotion, of beauty and eternity. For the love of man and woman, for the love of mankind and God, for the love of country, Americans who would speak the language of the heart do so with a rose.\n\nWe see proofs of this everywhere. The study of fossils reveals that the rose has existed in America for age upon age. We have always cultivated roses in our gardens. Our first President, George Washington, bred roses, and a variety he named after his mother is still grown today. The White House itself boasts a beautiful Rose Garden. We grow roses in all our fifty States. We find roses throughout our art, music, and literature. We decorate our celebrations and parades with roses. Most of all, we present roses to those we love, and we lavish them on our altars, our civil shrines, and the final resting places of our honored dead.\n\nThe American people have long held a special place in their hearts for roses. Let us continue to cherish them, to honor the love and devotion they represent, and to bestow them on all we love just as God has bestowed them on us.\n\nThe Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 159 [Pub.L. 99.449, Oct. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 1128, which enacted this section], has designated the rose as the National Floral Emblem of the United States and a
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Guns N' Roses was founded in Los Angeles in March, 1985 by singer Axl Rose and guitarist Tracii Guns, as an informal merger of Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns, both of which Axl Rose had been a member of, and the second of which Tracii Guns had been a member of.
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The UK, as the name implies(United Kingdom)is a union of several nations, each having their own floral emblem: the rose for England, the daffodil for Wales, the thistle for Scotland, and the shamrock for Northern Ireland.  I don't know about Germany, but I think the emblem for France is the fleur-de-lys - literally "lily flower" although in reality it is a stylised iris.
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I could pretend to already know WHO invented the idea, even though I do know what it means, but instead I'll just give you the link to the Wikipedia article that tells you who came up with it:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-strategy\n\n\nHope that helps.
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Roses are red, \nViolets are blue, \nSugar is sweet, \nAnd so are you. \n\nMost believe that the original source of the poem were the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser for his epic The Faerie Queene \n\nShe bathed with roses red, \nAnd violets blew \nAnd all the sweetest flowres \nThat in the forrest grew.
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The origin of the name, Red Rover, and its usage in association with this game is not clear. Red Rover appears to have been used as a name for boats in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1828 a steamboat called 'The Red Rover' was the first to service the Hatchie River.\n\nIn 1855, J. Fenimore Cooper, wrote a book called 'The Red Rover':\n\n"...the lawless vagaries of the Red Rover himself, the pirate chief who glories in chaos and who orders his men 'All hands to mischief, ahoy!'"\n\nOn Christmas Eve 1862, Sisters of the Holy Cross, pioneers of the US Navy Nurse Corps, boarded the first hospital ship, the Red Rover, which aided the wounded soldiers of both sides during the American Civil War.\n\nIt is possible the name of the game derives either from the shuttling motion of a ship across a river, or, in the case of the nurses/sisters, from aid being given to both sides of a conflict.
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Romulus and Remus, the twins who were adopted by a mother wolf.  They founded Rome itself.\n\nThe beginning is always important...
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every rose has its thorns
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Scientific classification: Roses make up the family Rosaceae of the order Rosales. The representative genus is Rosa. Hybrid perpetuals, or remontant roses, are derived mainly from the hybrid species Rosa borboniana; polyantha roses from the hybrid species Rosa rehderana; tea roses from Rosa odorata; and China roses from Rosa odorata and Rosa chinensis.
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Here's an interesting tidbit - I love the story of Adonis and Aphrodite. When Adonis falls from his wound, his drops of blood turned to blood red anemone flowers. Well, here's the neat thing - I went on a trip to Greece and went all around the Peloponnese and up to Delphi and to Delos and Crete, etc. All around the countryside in the fields and by the roadsides, there were these little wildflowers blooming. They are scattered about in springtime and are the brightest irridescent red you've ever seen on a flower! This is what I love - finding concrete evidence that still exists today that links us to these ancient myths.
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Ask Shakespeare, its his line (the answer is yes by the way.  A rose is a rose, call it whatever you want)
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SEE YOU AT THE BAR, I WILL BE WEARING A RED ROSE
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He was a high ranking official in the former Soviet Union and he later became President of the Republic of Georgia.  He was removed from office following the famous Rose Revolution.
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In 1860, Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) formed an army of volunteer soldiers to drive out the foreign rulers. Garibaldi's soldiers became known as the 'red shirts' because they all wore bright red shirts. The red shirts soon took over all the states except Rome and Venetia, and in 1861, the states joined together to become one country called Italy. The new country was ruled by Victor Emmanual 11, who was the King of Sardinia. He was the first king of Italy. Nine years later Rome and Venetia joined the other states and became part of Italy.
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Karl Marx was the founder of Marxism and the author if the book Das Capital he was born in Germany in 1818 and died in London in 1883.
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The ancient Greek Theophrastus, who lived from around 372 B.C. to around 287 B.C., is known as the founder of botany (the science and study of plants).