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ROC can be: * Roc is the name of a mythical bird * Roc, Croatia is a historic town in Croatia * The Blackburn Roc was a Fleet Air Arm fighter-bomber aircraft of World War II * ''Roc (television)'' is an American television sitcom starring Charles S. Dutton which aired 1991 – 1994 ==Acronyms== * Redwall Online Community * Republic of China * Radius of curvature * Receiver operating characteristic * English Canada (slang) * Region of convergence (relates to the Laplace transform) * Return On Capital * Romanian Orthodox Church * Russian Orthodox Church * New Zealand Conservative Party, a shortlived New Zealand political party. * Race of Champions * ROC (publisher), a primarily fantasy-oriented imprint of the publishing company Penguin Books ==Abbreviations== * Roc-a-Fella Records, a hip hop record label founded by Damon Dash and Jay-Z * Rochester, New York * The IATA airport code for Greater Rochester International Airport

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:''This article is about the Roc, a mythical bird. For other meanings, see ROC.'' Sindbad_the_Sailor's_ship">Image:roc8954.jpg|thumb|right|340px|A roc destroys Sindbad the Sailor's ship A roc or rukh (from Persian language 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. There are also the Thunderbird (mythology)s of Native American legends, which may be related to rocs, and some sightings are still reported to this day. Another source could be the enormous Aepyornis or elephant bird from Madagascar, an extinct flightless bird like a three-meter ostrich. The rook (chess) 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 West in the 1001 Nights' tales of Sindbad the Sailor, was widely spread in the 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'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 (see phoenix (mythology)); 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, ''Panchatantra'', 98). In the Pahlavi translation of the Indian story as represented by the Syrian Kalilag and Damnag (ed. Bickell, 1876), the simurgh takes the place of the garuda, while Ibn al-Molaffa (''Calila et Dimna'', ed. Silvestre de Sacy, p. 126) speaks instead of the `anl~a. The later Syriac, curiously enough, has behemoth -- apparently the behemoth of Job (person) 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. ==External links== [http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/rukh.html Rukh] Mythical birds Dungeons & Dragons creatures

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Wasn't there some enormous flightless bird in Madagascar (Dinornis? Elephant-bird?)? -- User:Error Is there some relation between the Roc and the Chinese 鹏 (Peng, which [http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9e4f Unicode defines] as a "fabulous bird of enormous size")? --User:Gro-Tsen 12:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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