Rockford College
an institution for the higher education of women, founded at Rockford, Ill., in 1849. In 1919 there were 194 students and 30 instructors. President, W. A. Maddox, Ph.D.
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These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rockford College, Rockhampton, Rockhill.
Rockhampton
a city of Queensland, Australia, situated on the Fitzroy river, 397 miles N. W. of Brisbane. It is centrally situated and is the commercial center of the province, forming the port to the Mount Morgan gold workings. It has several notable buildings and open places, with botanical gardens and a bridge 1,160 feet long spanning the river. The industries are varied, the chief having relation to the frozen meat trade. Pop. (1919) 20,915.
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Rockhill
WILLIAM WOOD- VILLE, an American diplomatist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1854; entered the diplomatic service in 1884 as second secretary of legation at Peking, China; was chargé d'affaires at Seoul, Korea, in 1886- 1887; was appointed chief clerk of the State Department in 1893; was made third assistant secretary of State a year later; and first assistant in 1896. He was appointed director of the Bureau of American Republics in May, 1899. After the rescue of the foreign diplomats in Peking in 1900, and United States Minister Conger was granted leave of absence, Mr. Rockhill was appointed a special ambassador to conclude peace negotiations. He was minister to China until 1905. Minister to Russia 1909, and to Turkey 1911-1913. He wrote "A'Journey to the Eastern Parts of the World" (1903); "Treaties and Conquest; China and Korea" (1904); "Chau Ju-Kua" (1911). He died in 1914.
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Rocking Bar
The steel bar which carries the intermediate wheels in stem wind movements. Sometimes called the yoke.
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Rocking Stones
or LOGANS, large masses of rock so finely poised as to move backward and forward with the slightest impulse. They occur in nearly every country. Some of them appear to be natural, others artificial; the latter seem to have been formed by cutting away a mass of rock round the centerpoint of its base.
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Rocking-Stone
a rock resting on a rounded base so nicely that it may be rocked to and fro. Such stones are most apt to be found in a granite country. They are formed usually by the weathering away of the lower edges of a block in such a manner that the base becomes small and rounded. Sometimes they are stranded boulders brought down by a glacier and left on a table of rock when the ice receded. Rocking stones occur in all countries. The best known are in Great Britain and Ireland. One near Land's End , Cornwall, is computed to weigh seventy tons; yet it is easily set rocking by a single person. One on the island of Magee, Ireland, was believed by the peasantry to begin rocking gently on the approach of a person guilty of grievous crime. One in Argentina weighs, it is said, over 700 tons; yet it is poised so lightly that it rocks in a heavy wind. Yankee boys crack nuts under the edges of rocking stones.
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Rockland
a town of Massachusetts, in Plymouth co. It is on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad. Its industries include the manufacture of shoes, nails, etc. There is a public library and other buildings. Pop. (1910) 6,928; (1920) 7,544.
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Rockland
a city and county-seat of Knox co., Me.; on the W. shore of Penobscot Bay, 10 miles from the Atlantic ocean, and on the Maine Central railroad; 40 miles S. E. of Augusta. The harbor here is large and has been greatly improved by the construction of a granite breakwater. There is regular steamboat connection with Boston and other ports. The city contains a United States government building, public library, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks on the gravity system. National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The manufacture of lime is the principal industry. Near by are extensive quarries of fine granite of which the post-offices of New York and Cincinnati and the custom-house in St. Louis are built. Besides an immense lime industry Rockland has machine shops, foundries, iron and brass works, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,174; (1920) 8,109.
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Rockville
a city of Connecticut, in Tolland co. It is on the Hockanum river, and on the New York, New Haven 1 and Hartford railroad. Excellent water power is furnished by the river and the industrial establishments include woolen mills, silk mills, an envelope factory, etc. The city has an excellent school system and a public library. Pop. (1910) 7,977; (1920) 7,726.
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Rockville Centre
a village of New York in Nassau co. It is on the Long Island railroad. It is chiefly a residential place but has important oyster fishing interests, and a lace and handkerchief factory. Its public institutions include a public library and a Catholic parochial school. Pop. (1910) 3,667; (1920) 6,262.
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Rocky Ford
. See Cantaloupe
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Rocky Mount
a city of North Carolina, in Edgecomb and Nash counties, on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. It is the center of an important cotton and tobacco growing region. Its industries include railroad repair shops, and manufactures of tobacco, wood products, and hosiery. Pop. (1910) 8,051; (1920) 12,742.
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Rococo
or ROCAILLE, a name given to the very debased style of architecture and decoration which succeeded the first revival of Italian architecture. It is ornamental design run mad, without principle or taste. The ornament consists of panels with their moldings broken or curved at the angles, and filled with leafage, shellwork, musical instruments, marks, etc. This style prevailed in Germany and Belgium during the 18th century, and in France from the time of Henry IV. to the Revolution.
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Rocroi
or ROCROY, a small fortified town of France, department of Ardennes, near the Belgian gian fron frontier; celebrated for the victory gained (1643) by the Duke d'Enghien (afterward the great Condé) over the Spaniards.
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Rod
called also a pole, or perch, a measure of length, equivalent to 5½ yards, or 16½ feet. The square rod, called generally a rood, is employed in estimating masonry work, and contains 162×162, or 2724 square feet.
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Rod
EDOUARD (rod), French a novelist and critic; born in Nyon, in 1857. He published many works of criticism and erudition, among them being: "À propos de 'L'Assommoir"" (1879); "The Germans at Paris" (1880); and "Wagner and the German Esthetic" (1886). But he is better known as a novelist, and has published: "The Fall of Miss Topsy" (1882); "The Deathward Career" (1885); "The Meaning of Life" (1889); "Stendhal" (1891); "The Sacrificed One" (1892); "In the Middle of the Road" (1900); etc. He lectured in New York before the French Society. He died Jan. 29, 1910.
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