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Rock urbano
Rock urbano is a Spanish rock scene of working-class bar circuits playing riff-based hard rock with street castellano lyrics, from Leño and Rosendo to Extremoduro.
Rock with You
Rock with You: 1979 disco-funk single by Michael Jackson from Off the Wall, written by Rod Temperton, produced by Quincy Jones; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in early 1980.
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Rock You Like a Hurricane is a 1984 hard rock song by Germany's Scorpions, lead single of Love at First Sting. Written by Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, and Herman Rarebell, it peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the 1980s' most licensed metal anthems.
Rock Your Body
"Rock Your Body" is a 2002 Justin Timberlake song from Justified, written and produced by the Neptunes for Michael Jackson, who passed on it; it hit No. 5 in the US, No. 2 in the UK, and featured in the 2004 Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.
Rock-a-bye Baby
"Rock-a-bye Baby", also known as "Hush-a-Bye Baby", is an English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby first printed in London around 1765, picturing a cradle in a treetop.
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958 film)
Rock-a-Bye Baby is a 1958 Paramount comedy directed by Frank Tashlin, produced by and starring Jerry Lewis as a TV repairman babysitting a movie star's triplets; loosely remade from Preston Sturges's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
Rock-a-Doodle
Rock-a-Doodle is a 1992 animated musical comedy film directed by Don Bluth about Chanticleer, a rooster the farm animals believe makes the sun rise with his crowing.
Rock-Eval pyrolysis
Rock-Eval pyrolysis is a standardized laboratory thermal-analysis method that heats small rock samples in stages to measure organic-carbon content, petroleum potential, kerogen type, and thermal maturity.
Rock-fill dam
A rock-fill dam is an embankment dam built mainly of quarried rock, made watertight by an earth core, concrete face, or asphaltic membrane, and favored for seismic sites.
Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela are eleven medieval monolithic churches in northern Ethiopia, carved from volcanic rock and attributed by tradition to King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela.
Rock-salt structure
The rock-salt structure is a crystal structure of two interpenetrating face-centered cubic lattices, first determined for sodium chloride by W. L. Bragg in 1913 from X-ray diffraction.
ROCK1
ROCK1 (p160ROCK, ROKβ), Rho-associated coiled-coil containing protein kinase 1, is a serine/threonine kinase at 18q11.1 activated by GTP-bound Rho, regulating the actin cytoskeleton; distinguished from ROCK2 by caspase-3 cleavage and blood/thymus expression.
ROCK2
ROCK2 (ROCK-II, KIAA0619), Rho-associated coiled-coil containing protein kinase 2, is a human chromosome 2 serine/threonine kinase effector of RhoA driving actomyosin contractility; selectively inhibited by FDA-approved belumosudil (KD025) for chronic graft-versus-host disease.
Rocka Rolla
Rocka Rolla is Judas Priest's debut album, released September 6, 1974 on Gull, produced by Rodger Bain, recorded live in London studios; the band criticized its sound and omitted songs later appeared on Sad Wings of Destiny.
Rockabilly
Rockabilly is an early rock and roll style from the mid-1950s American South, blending country (hillbilly) music with rhythm and blues; born at Sun Records with Elvis Presley, defined by slapped upright bass and bluesy lead guitar.
Rockabye (song)
Rockabye is a 2016 Clean Bandit single featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie; a dancehall-tinged tropical pop track about a single mother. It topped the UK chart for nine weeks, was 2016's Christmas Number 1, and reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Rockall
The granite islet of Rockall lies 162.7 nautical miles west of St Kilda; it is subject to annexation disputes and fisheries conflicts between the UK and other nations.
Rockall Plateau
Rockall Plateau, part of the Hatton-Rockall plateau, a submerged continental microcontinent in the northeast Atlantic west of Scotland and Ireland, separated by the Rockall Trough; its only land is the granite islet Rockall.
Rockaway Festival
Rockaway Festival, also billed as Rockaway Fest, is a rock music festival held in and around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, described as the country's biggest and first of its kind.
Rockaway, Queens
Rockaway, Queens: neighborhoods on the 11-mile Rockaway Peninsula between Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic, from Far Rockaway to Breezy Point, with NYC's first legal surfing beaches, about 47,500 peninsula residents, and post-Sandy coastal defenses.
Rockbitch
Rockbitch were a British gothic-industrial metal band (formed mid-1990s from Red Abyss members) whose feminist, pagan French commune informed explicit live shows, one 1999 album Motor Driven Bimbo, European bans, a 2002 split, and the MT-TV successor.
Rockbourne
Rockbourne Roman Villa, a Roman courtyard villa at West Park near Rockbourne, Hampshire, discovered in 1942, excavated by A. T. Morley Hewitt, largest known villa in its area, with a 1967 hoard of 7,714 coins.
Rockbridge Network
Rockbridge Network is a conservative donor coalition founded in 2019 by JD Vance and Chris Buskirk, focused on the MAGA movement.
Rockchip (福州瑞芯微电子股份有限公司)
Rockchip, also known as Fuzhou Rockchip, is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in Fuzhou in 2001 that designs system-on-chip processors for AIoT devices such as tablets, robots, and automotive systems.
Rockcliff Energy
Rockcliff Energy is a Houston-based private natural gas producer in the East Texas Haynesville shale, founded in 2015 and sold to TG Natural Resources for $2.7 billion in 2023.
Rockcliffe Park
Rockcliffe Park is a historic residential neighbourhood northeast of downtown Ottawa, laid out in 1864 by Thomas Keefer on Thomas MacKay's estate, a Heritage Conservation District since 1997 and a National Historic Site since 2023.
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a large Art Deco complex of office towers, studios, and public spaces in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, built between 1932 and 1939.
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a giant tree displayed each holiday season at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, a tradition begun by construction workers in 1931 and formalized in 1933.
Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family, known as the Rockefellers, is an American industrial, banking, and philanthropic dynasty founded by John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil dominated American petroleum from 1870.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a private American philanthropy founded in 1913 by John D. Rockefeller Sr. and his son John D. Rockefeller Jr., one of the largest in the United States.