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Encyclopedia > Rocks

Rock may refer to:

  • Rock, a geologic substance composed of minerals
  • Rock, short for Rock and Roll music
  • Rock, a small offshore islet with minimal soil
  • Rock, 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, a slang term for a jewel, usually understood to be a diamond
  • Rock, a slang term for the drug cocaine
  • ROCK, a Linux distribution build kit
  • Rock, the main character of the main Mega Man series before his transformation into "Mega Man".
  • Rock, a dark-haired "bad boy" who is a recurrent character of Osamu Tezuka's mangas.

People named Rock include:

The Rock may refer to:

  • The Rock, slang for Newfoundland, Canada
  • The Rock, slang for Alcatraz, a federal prison in San Francisco Bay
  • The Rock, a 1996 motion picture about the prison
  • The Rock, a nickname for Gibraltar
  • The Rock, a professional wrestler and actor
  • The Rock, nickname of The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad

Rock may also refer to:

  • Rock, Wisconsin
    • Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin
    • Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin
  • Ayers Rock or Uluru, Australia

  Results from FactBites:
 
Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2780 words)
Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll), is a defined genre of music that originated in the United States in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country and on to the world.
In the rock and roll style of the early 1950s, the saxophone was often the lead instrument, replaced by guitar in the mid 1950's.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the late 1940's, when it was called RandB, and, with the present name, in the early 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records as far back as the 1920s.
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