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Rochester Knighthawks
Rochester Knighthawks, NLL box lacrosse team in Rochester, New York, playing at The Blue Cross Arena. Expansion franchise since 2019-20 under the Knighthawks brand; Seneca Nation-owned since 2025; original team won three straight titles 2012-14.
Rochester racial slur video incident
The Rochester racial slur video incident: Shiloh Hendrix called a Black autistic boy a slur at Soldiers Field Park in April 2025; Sharmake Omar's viral video led to charges and a 2026 split verdict.
Rochester Red Wings
Rochester Red Wings, Triple-A International League team in Rochester, NY, Washington Nationals affiliate since 2021; established 1899, oldest continually operating Minor League club, 20 championships including the 2026 IL title.
Rochester Rhinos
Rochester Rhinos (Raging Rhinos, later Rochester New York FC), US soccer club founded 1996 in Rochester, NY; won 1999 US Open Cup beating four MLS teams, last non-MLS winner; four league titles; folded after 2017, returned 2022 in MLS Next Pro.
Rochester, Kent
Rochester, Kent: historic town on the east bank of the River Medway, England, also Roman Durobrivae. Known for its Norman castle (sieges of 1088, 1215, 1264), cathedral founded in 604, Dickens associations, and loss of city status in 1998.
Rochester, Minnesota
Rochester, Minnesota: third-largest Minnesota city and Olmsted County seat on the Zumbro River, home of Mayo Clinic, IBM Rochester, and the $5.6 billion Destination Medical Center redevelopment initiative.
Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York: western New York city on the Genesee River, county seat of Monroe County; Erie Canal boomtown, Flour City, Kodak's home, 2020 population 211,328.
Rochester, NY Metro Area
Rochester, NY Metro Area: five-county metropolitan statistical area (Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Wayne) around Rochester, New York; third-largest in the state with about 1.06 million people, a $77 billion GDP, and a health care and higher education economy.
Röchling Automotive
Röchling Automotive is the automotive division of the family-owned German Röchling Group, headquartered in Mannheim, which develops plastic vehicle parts including aerodynamics and battery solutions.
Rochus E. Vogt
Rochus E. Vogt, known as Robbie, is a Caltech physicist and the first director of the LIGO project from 1987 to 1994, where he led the 1989 construction proposal that won funding.
Rochus Misch
Rochus Misch (1917–2013), German Waffen-SS Oberscharführer, served as Hitler's bodyguard, courier, and telephone operator 1940–1945 and was the last surviving occupant of the Führerbunker, later a memoirist.
Rocinante
Rocinante is Don Quixote's old, worn-out horse in Cervantes' 1605 novel, named from rocín (nag) plus ante (before) to mean the foremost of former nags; the name also entered English and names The Expanse's spaceship.
Rocinha
Rocinha is the largest favela of Rio de Janeiro, in the South Zone between São Conrado and Gávea. Occupied since the early 1900s, subdivided in the 1920s, it reaches about 118,000 inhabitants per km² and has seen PAC upgrading, UPP pacification, and growing tourism.
Rocio Borrego-Varillas
Rocío Borrego-Varillas is a Spanish physicist and senior researcher at IFN-CNR in Milan who leads attosecond molecular laboratories; her 2022 attosecond spectroscopy review was cited by the 2023 Nobel Committee for Physics.
Rocío Dúrcal
Rocío Dúrcal (María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz, 1944–2006), Spanish singer and actress, Madrid-born film star who became the celebrated interpreter of Mexican rancheras via Juan Gabriel songs.
Rocío Saiz
Rocío Saiz is a Spanish singer and LGBT activist from Madrid, born in 1991, who fronted Las Chillers and Monterrosa before going solo in 2021.
Rock
A rock is a naturally occurring solid mass of one or more minerals, classified into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic types, which the rock cycle slowly transforms between over geologic time.
Rock 'n' Roll (John Lennon album)
Rock 'n' Roll is a 1975 solo studio album by John Lennon, his last before a five-year retirement, made up entirely of cover versions produced with Phil Spector.
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 New World Pictures musical comedy directed by Allan Arkush, starring P.J. Soles as Riff Randell and the Ramones as themselves at Vince Lombardi High School; a cult classic, first feature aired on MTV.
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith was an enclosed Vekoma LSM launched coaster at Disney's Hollywood Studios, opened July 29, 1999: 0-57 mph in 2.8 seconds, three inversions, limo trains with Aerosmith soundtracks; rethemed to The Muppets in 2026.
Rock (geology)
A rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals, or of matter like volcanic glass or coal, forming the Earth's crust.
Rock & Chips
This British comedy-drama, written by John Sullivan, follows the Trotter family and the life of Del Boy as a teenager in Peckham during the early 1960s.
Rock & Rule
Rock & Rule is Nelvana's 1983 Canadian animated rock-musical feature, Canada's first English-language animated film, about rock star Mok kidnapping singer Angel to summon a demon; an $8-million flop that became a cult classic.
Rock Abrasion Tool
The Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) was a diamond-tipped grinding device on the robotic arms of NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, serving as the mission's geologist's rock hammer.
Rock Against Racism
Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a British grassroots movement, 1976–1981, founded after Eric Clapton's racist 1976 Birmingham speech, uniting punk and reggae against the National Front through carnivals such as Victoria Park 1978.
Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
Rock am Ring and Rock im Park are twin German rock festivals sharing one lineup each June: Rock am Ring at the Nürburgring racetrack, Rock im Park at Nuremberg's Zeppelinfeld, with 90,000 and about 80,000 daily fans in 2026.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is the American popular music genre of the late 1940s-1950s, born from rhythm and blues, electric blues, gospel, boogie-woogie, and country; popularized by DJ Alan Freed, mainstreamed by Bill Haley in 1955, and marked by debates over race and appropriation.
Rock and Roll (Gary Glitter song)
Rock and Roll (Part 2), the 1972 glam rock B-side by Gary Glitter and Mike Leander, is the mostly instrumental "Hey Song" stadium anthem; UK No. 2, US Billboard No. 7, rights sold, tainted by Glitter's convictions.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Cleveland museum and honors institution founded by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, open since 1995; inducts artists 25 years after first release via a 1,200-plus voter body.
Rock and Roll Over
Rock and Roll Over is KISS's fifth studio album, released November 11, 1976 on Casablanca Records. Produced by Eddie Kramer at the Star Theatre in Nanuet, New York, it peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200, went platinum, and yielded the singles Calling Dr. Love and Hard Luck Woman.