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Geology

• Rock (geology), a hard substance composed of mineral that can consist in particulate form or in large form (mountains, tectonic plates, planets).
• Rock salt or Halite, an unrefined form of sodium chloride.
• A gemstone (slang), usually understood to be a diamond.

The rocky side of a mountain creek near Orosí, Costa Rica. ... For Halite Bittorrent client , see Halite Client. ... A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive grit, in a rotating drum. ...

Music

• Rock and roll, a genre of music.
• Rock music, a general genre of styles of popular music evolved from rock and roll.
• Rocks (album), an album by Aerosmith.
• Rock!!!!!, an album by the Violent Femmes.
• I Wanna Rock, a song by rock band, Twisted Sister.
• Rock Records, a record label.

Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Rocks is the fourth album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... Aerosmith is a prominent American rock band, regarded by some as Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. [1][2] Although they are known as the bad boys from Boston[3], none of the bands members are actually from that city. ... Rock!!!!! is an album released by Violent Femmes Track Listing Living a Lie (2:23) Tonight (1:55) Bad Dream (3:31) I Danced (2:12) Thanksgiving (No Way Out) (3:37) Dahmer Is Dead (0:38) Life Is an Adventure (2:53) She Went to Germany (2:23) I... I Wanna Rock is a song by Twisted Sister. ... Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from New York City. ... Rock Records is a record label founded in 1980 by Sam and Johnny Duan (段鍾沂). They had their first multiseller in 1989 with Sarah Chen. ...

People

• Chris Rock, (1965–), American comedian.
• Joseph Rock, (1884–1962), Austrian-American explorer, geographer and botanist.
• Andrew Rock, (1982–), Olympic athlete.
• Rock (rapper), half of the hip hop duo Heltah Skeltah.
• The Rock (entertainer) (1972-), Dwayne Johnson, a professional wrestler and actor.
• Bob Rock, (1954–), musician, sound engineer and record producer.
• David M. Rock, former mayor of Central Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
• John Rock, one of the inventors of the contraceptive pill.
• Kid Rock, (1971-), American rapper and rock musician.
• Rockdrigo Gonzalez, (1950-1985), Rock musician and poet.

Christopher Julius Rock III[1] (born February 7, 1965)[2] is an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. ... Joseph Francis Charles Rock, (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. ... Andrew Rock (born January 23, 1982) is an American athlete who specializes in the 400 metre dash. ... Heltah Skeltah is a Hip Hop duo consisting of members Rock aka Da Rockness Monstah and Ruck aka Sean Price. ... Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972) is an American actor and third-generation professional wrestler, best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment as The Rock. ... Image:Hff026 112. ... The Municipality of Central Elgin is a township in southwestern Ontario, Canada in Elgin County on Lake Erie. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Robert James Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), best known as Kid Rock, is an American rapper, singer and rock musician most notable for his albums Devil Without a Cause and Cocky and his hit singles Bawitdaba and Picture. ...

Places

• Rock, Kansas, USA.
• Rock, Cornwall, UK.
• Rock, Worcestershire, UK.
• Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, and Rock County, Wisconsin USA.
• Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA.
• Rock, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
• Rock County, Minnesota.
• Rock County, Nebraska.
• Rock River (disambiguation).
• Gibraltar, nicknamed "The Rock".
• Alcatraz Island otherwise known as "The Rock", slang name for the federal prison in San Francisco Bay.
• Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, nicknamed "The Rock".

Rock is a community in Cowley County, Kansas. ... Rock is a village in Cornwall, England, lying on the North/Western bank of the River Camel, at its estuary. ... Rock is a village in Worcestershire, which lies south-west of Bewdley. ... Rock is a town located in Rock County, Wisconsin. ... Rock County is a county located in the state of Wisconsin. ... Rock is a town located in Wood County, Wisconsin. ... Rock is a small village in east County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. ... Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Rock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. ... Rock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. ... Rock River may refer to: the Rock River, a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and Illinois in the United States the Rock River, a tributary of the Big Sioux River in Minnesota and Iowa in the United States any of three Rock Rivers in Michigan in the United... Alcatraz Island (sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or by its pop-culture name, The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. ... The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark RI) was a Class 1 railroad in the United States. ...

Food

• Rock (confectionery), a confectionery made and sold in many of the UK's seaside holiday resorts.
• Rock candy, a type of confectionery composed of large sugar crystals.
• Rock (chicken), a breed of chicken.
• Ice (slang), commonly referred to as "rocks" when used with alcoholic beverage.

Some rock confectionery (Sticky, Sydney) Rock is a type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery most usually flavoured with peppermint. ... Rock candy is a type of confectionery composed of relatively large sugar crystals. ... The Rock chicken is a breed of chicken sometimes crossbread with the Cornish chicken to produce game hens. ... Snowflakes by Wilson Bentley, 1902 Ice is the name given to any one of the 14 known solid phases of water. ...

Computers

• Rocks Cluster Distribution, a Linux distribution for cluster computing.
• ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit, for building customized linux distributions.
• Rock processor, a Sun Microsystems microprocessor currently in development.

Rocks Cluster Distribution is a Linux distribution intended for computer clusters. ... ROCK Linux is a source-based GNU/Linux distro, similar to Gentoo Linux or Source Mage, in that it compiles programs from source code and has a package manager called mine. ... Rock is planned multithreading, multicore microprocessor currently in development at Sun Microsystems. ...

Other

• A basketball (slang), the ball used in the sport.
• Rock (manga character), a dark young boy who is a recurrent character of Osamu Tezuka's manga.
• Rock, the name of Mega Man in the Japanese versions of the games.
• Rock Lee, a character from the anime and manga series Naruto.
• The Rock (film), a 1996 motion picture about the Alcatraz prison.
• Nathaniel "Rock" Adams, a character from the Soul Calibur series of games.
• Cocaine (Slang) or its variants, a drug.
• Crystal methamphetamine, a drug.
• An islet, usually a small island.
• Rock (slang), a complimentary verb meaning to be cool, great, awesome; e.g. "You rock!".
• Rock Howard, a character from the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series of games.
• ROCK1, a human gene involved in signaling by the Rho kinase OMIM Entry.

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