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ROC
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'''ROC''' can be:
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Roc is a mythical
bird
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Roc, Croatia Roč is a historic town in
Croatia
* The
Blackburn Roc was a
Fleet Air Arm British naval fighter-bomber aircraft of
World War II
* ''
Roc (television) Roc'' is an American television sitcom starring
Charles S. Dutton which aired 1991 – 1994
* Roc Candy is a brand of confectionery sold in
Australia and is similar to
Rock (confectionery)
*
ROC (publisher) ROC, a primarily
fantasy-oriented
imprint of the
publishing company
New American Library
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RoC, a brand of cosmetics manufactured by RoC S.A., a division of
Johnson & Johnson Consumer France
Société par actions simplifiée S.A.S.
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ROC, a name of a disc used in
disc golf, made by Innova Discs. It is named after the mythical bird, maybe because, like the bird, the disc has great lifting powers through the air.
Abbreviations
* The
IATA airport code for
Greater Rochester International Airport
*
Rochester, New York
*
Roc-a-Fella Records, a
Hip hop music hip hop record label founded by
Damon Dash and
Jay-Z
* ROC is the stock symbol ({{nyse|ROC}}) of [http://www.rockwoodspecialties.com/index.htm Rockwood Holdings, Inc.]
Acronyms
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Race of Champions
*
Radius of curvature
*
Rate of change (technical analysis)
* RoC
Rate of Closure
*
Receiver operating characteristic
*
Redwall Online Community
*
Region of convergence (relates to the
Laplace transform)
*
Warcraft III Reign of Chaos
*
Republic of China (Taiwan) (former
List of IOC country codes IOC country code)
*
Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
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Republic of Cuba
*
English Canada Rest of Canada (slang)
*
Return On Capital
*
New Zealand Conservative Party Right of Centre, a shortlived
New Zealand political party.
* ROC (Rite of
Confirmation), a subset of the
LIFETEEN Roman Catholic Church Catholic youth education program
*
Romanian Orthodox Church
*
Royal Observer Corps
*
Russian Orthodox Church
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''This article is about the Roc, a mythical bird. For other meanings, see ROC.''
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A '''roc''' or '''rukh''' (from
Persian language Persian رخ ''rokh'') is a mythical white
bird of enormous size and strength that is reputed to have been able to lift and eat
elephants.
The origin of the
myth about the roc is unknown, and it is possible that the myth originated from an actual bird, with references to it being known from early as the
8th century from Middle-Eastern authors. There are reported sightings of this bird as recently as the
16th century by an English traveller who visited the
Indian Ocean.
Another source could be the enormous
Aepyornis or elephant bird from Madagascar, an extinct three-meter tall
flightless bird. One theory is that the existence of rocs was postulated from the sight of an
ostrich, which because of its flightlessness and unusual appearance, was mistaken for the chick of a presumably much larger species.
The
rook (chess) Rook chess piece may originally have been based on a roc, although the dominant hypothesis is a
siege tower mounted on an elephant.
The legend of the roc, popularized in the
Western world West in the
1001 Nights' tales of
Sindbad the Sailor, was widely spread in the
Asia East; and in later times the home of the bird was sought in the region of
Madagascar, whence gigantic fronds of the
raffia palm very like a quill in form appear to have been brought under the name of roc's feathers (see;
Sir Henry Yule Yule's ''
Marco Polo'', bk. iii. ch. 33, and ''Academy'', 1884, No. 620). Such a feather was brought to the
Great Khan, and we read also of a gigantic stump of a roc's quill being brought to Spain by a merchant from the China seas (Abu Hamid of Spain, in Damiri, s.v.).
The roc is hardly different from the Middle-Eastern `anqa "عنقاء"(see
phoenix (mythology) phoenix); it is also identified with the Persian ''
simurgh'', the bird which figures in
Firdausi's epic as the foster-father of the hero Zal, father of
Rustam.
Going farther back into Persian antiquity, there is an immortal bird, ''amrzs'', or (in the Minoi-khiradh) ''slnamurv'', which shakes the ripe fruit from the mythical tree that bears the seed of all useful things. ''Sinmartt'' and ''simurgh'' seem to be the same word. In Indian legend the
garuda on which
Vishnu rides is the king of birds (
Theodor Benfey Benfey, ''
Panchatantra'', 98). In the Pahlavi translation of the Indian story as represented by the
Syrian
Kalilag and Damnag (ed.
Gustav Bickell, 1876), the simurgh takes the place of the garuda, while Ibn al-Molaffa (''
Calila et Dimna'', ed.
Silvestre de Sacy De Sacy, p. 126) speaks instead of the `anl~a. The later Syriac, curiously enough, has
behemoth -- apparently the behemoth of
Job (person) Job transformed into a bird. The
ziz of Jewish tradition is also a giant bird.
For a collection of
legends about the roc, see Lane's ''Arabian Nights'', chap; xx. notes 22, 62, and Yule, ut supra. Also see Bochart, ''Hieroz'', bk. vi. ch. xiv.; Damfri, I. 414, ii. 177 seq.; Kazwini, i. ~I9 seq.; Ibn Batuta, iv. 305 seq.; Spiegel, ''Eran. Altertumsk''. ii. 118.
See also
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Homa (mythology) Homa
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Simurgh
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