Nov 13, 2025 · Rock Hudson, American actor noted for his good looks and movie roles during the 1950s and ’60s, including Magnificent Obsession, Giant, and Pillow Talk, and for the TV series …

Rock is a form of popular music that emerged in the 1950s and that by the end of the 20th century was the world’s dominant form of popular music. It originated in the United States and spread …

Oct 2, 2025 · Rock, in geology, naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals. Such aggregates constitute the basic unit of which the solid Earth is composed and …

Nov 21, 2025 · Rock and roll, style of popular music that originated in the United States in the mid-1950s and that evolved by the mid-1960s into the more encompassing international style …

Rock history can thus be organized around both the sound of cities (Philadelphia and Detroit, New York City and San Francisco, Liverpool and Manchester) and the spread of youth cults (rock …

The Beatles’ success suggested that it was possible to enjoy the commercial, mass-cultural power of rock and roll while remaining an artist. The immediate consequence was folk rock. Folk …

Nov 6, 2025 · Sedimentary rock, rock formed at or near Earth’s surface by the accumulation and lithification of sediment or by the precipitation from solution at normal surface temperatures.

Sep 18, 1970 · It turns out that this is exactly what the Forever 27 Club is. Age 27 is no worse for rock musicians than for the general populace. Indeed, the authors of a 2011 British study …

Slate was formed under low-grade metamorphic conditions— i.e., under relatively low temperature and pressure. The original material was a fine clay, sometimes with sand or …

Rock remains the most democratic of mass media—the only one in which voices from the margins of society can still be heard out loud. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, rock and the …