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Rock Garden of Chandigarh
Rock Garden of Chandigarh (Nek Chand's Rock Garden): a 25–40 acre sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India, built from waste materials in secret by road inspector Nek Chand, inaugurated 1976, now a major heritage tourist site.
Rock glacier
A rock glacier is a lobate or tongue-shaped landform of rock debris containing ice that creeps slowly downslope under permafrost, marked by a steep front and ridges.
Rock Hard (Germany)
Rock Hard is a German heavy metal and hard rock magazine founded in 1983 as a fanzine by Uwe Lerch and Holger Stratmann, based in Dortmund.
Rock Hill, South Carolina
Rock Hill, South Carolina, known as Football City USA, is the largest city in York County, about 20 miles south of Charlotte, with a 2020 population of 74,372.
Rock Hsu
Rock Hsu (许胜雄) is a Taiwanese electronics executive who co-founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973 and chaired Compal Electronics for 32 years until 2024, now leading the Kinpo Group.
Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr., 1925-1985) was an American actor, star of Giant and the Doris Day comedies and McMillan & Wife, and the first major celebrity to die of AIDS after a 1985 public disclosure.
Rock hyrax
Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, dassie): a small Afrotherian mammal of rocky African and Arabian habitats, closest living relative of elephants and sirenians, with 6-8 month gestation, colonies up to 80, and IUCN least concern status.
Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is Aerosmith's seventh studio album, released August 27, 1982, recorded without Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, with Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay on guitar; it sold poorly before the band's 1980s reunion comeback.
Rock in Japan Festival
Rock in Japan Festival (ロック・イン・ジャパン・フェスティバル) is a Japanese rock festival produced by Rockin'on Japan, first held in 2000 at Hitachi Seaside Park and held since 2022 in Chiba City.
Rock in Rio
Rock in Rio is a music festival founded by Brazilian businessman Roberto Medina. Its first edition took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1985, bringing Brazilian performers together with international acts such.
Rock in Rio Madrid
Rock in Rio Madrid was the Spanish edition of the Brazilian festival Rock in Rio, held three times at Arganda del Rey near Madrid in 2008, 2010, and 2012.
Rock Is a Lady's Modesty
Rock Is a Lady's Modesty (Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite, ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) is Hiroshi Fukuda's manga in Young Animal since 2022, about academy ladies secretly forming an instrumental rock band; anime aired April 2025 on TBS, Yen Press publishes in English.
Rock Island
Rock Island, Illinois, a Quad Cities city on the Mississippi River, home of Douglas Park, site of the first NFL game (1920, Rock Island Independents), extensive parks, karting Grand Prix, and Madison Keys's hometown.
Rock Island Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal is a 946-acre active US Army installation on an island in the Mississippi River, established by Congress July 11, 1862. The largest government-owned and operated US arsenal, it houses RIA-JMTC weapons manufacturing, the Army's only remaining foundry, and over 80 tenant organizations.
Rock Island County
Rock Island County, Illinois, a Mississippi River county established February 9, 1831, county seat Rock Island, part of the Quad Cities metro area; population 144,672 (2020), township government since 1856.
Rock Island Dam
Rock Island Dam is a run-of-river hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River near Wenatchee, Washington, completed in 1932 as the first dam to span the Columbia River.
Rock Island, Illinois
Rock Island, Illinois: county seat on the Mississippi in the Quad Cities; home of Rock Island Arsenal (est. 1862), Fort Armstrong, the 1856 first Mississippi bridge, and a Civil War Confederate prison camp; population 37,108 (2020).
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (site)
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Chelbacheb), Palau's first UNESCO World Heritage Site (2012, mixed), a 100,200 ha Koror State marine protected area of 445 limestone islands, 52 marine lakes, and abandoned stonework villages.
Rock latino
Rock latino, or Latin rock, is a Latin American rock movement of the late 1980s and 1990s fusing rock with cumbia, salsa, and other rhythms.
Rock Lee (ロック・リー)
Rock Lee (ロック・リー, Rokku Rī) is a Naruto manga and anime character, a Hidden Leaf ninja on Team Guy who cannot use ninjutsu or genjutsu and fights only with taijutsu, mastering the Eight Gates under Might Guy.
Rock Lobster
Rock Lobster: 1978 debut single by the B-52s (also styled The B-52's), the Athens, Georgia new wave band, on DB Records; surf-guitar dance track that hit No. 1 in Canada and inspired John Lennon's Double Fantasy return.
Rock Machine Motorcycle Club
The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club founded in Montreal, best known for fighting the Hells Angels in the Quebec Biker War.
Rock mass classification
Rock mass classification is a family of geotechnical methods, including RMR, Q, and GSI, that rate rock strength, discontinuities, and groundwater to estimate rock quality and tunnel support requirements.
Rock mass rating
The rock mass rating (RMR) system, also called the Geomechanics Classification, rates a rock mass from 0 to 100 using six parameters, guiding tunnel support, mining, slope, and foundation design.
Rock Me Amadeus
Rock Me Amadeus is Falco's 1985 synth-pop rap tribute to Mozart, produced by Rob and Ferdi Bolland for the album Falco 3; in 1986 it became the only German-language song to top the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart.
Rock mechanics
Rock mechanics is the study of how intact rock and fractured rock masses respond to forces, applied to the design of tunnels, dam foundations, mines, and slopes.
Rock mexicano
Rock mexicano is the rock music scene of Mexico, from 1950s Spanish-language rock and roll through the 1971 Avándaro festival to acts like Maná and Caifanes.
Rock Mosques and Associated Sacred Sites of Mangystau
Rock Mosques and Associated Sacred Sites of Mangystau (underground mosques of Beket-Ata, Shopan-Ata, Karaman-Ata, Shakpak-Ata, Sultan-Epe) are five Sufi rock-cut sacred complexes with necropolises on Kazakhstan's Mangystau Peninsula, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2026 under criteria (ii) and (iii).
Rock music
Rock music: broad popular-music genre from mid-20th-century rock and roll, blues, country, R&B; guitar-driven, with 1950s US origins, hundreds of subgenres, and heavy classic-rock catalog streaming today.
Rock music in Australia
Rock music in Australia, also known as Oz rock, is rock made by Australian artists from 1955 through the pub rock era to today's streaming market.