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Star of India. Sri Lanka. 563.4 carats (112.68 g) Star. Blue-gray. American Museum of Natural History, New York. [5] Queen Marie of Romania. Sri Lanka.
Sapphire's work is included in the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Personal life. Sapphire lives in New York City. She is bisexual. Like her character Precious, Sapphire was sexually abused at the age of eight by her father. Works. Novels. Push (1996) The Kid (2011) Poetry
An uncut, rough yellow sapphire found at the Spokane Sapphire Mine near Helena, Montana. Sapphire is one of the two gem-varieties of corundum, the other being ruby (defined as corundum in a shade of red). Although blue is the best-known sapphire color, they occur in other colors, including gray and black, and also can be colorless.
Plot In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with her unemployed mother, Mary, who has long subjected her to physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. Precious has also been raped by her now-absent father, Carl, resulting in two pregnancies. The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and survives on welfare. Precious's first child, a daughter named ...
Website. ycs .k12 .pa .us. The York City School District is a large, urban, public school district serving the City of York, Pennsylvania in York County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 5 square miles (13 km 2 ). According to 2010 census data, the district's population was 43,718 people, estimated to be 44,118 as of 2018.
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ISBN. 978-0-679-76675-9. Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire. Thirteen years after its release in 1996, the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious, which won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards .
The Las Vegas club is located in Winchester, Nevada, United States, a part of the Las Vegas Valley. The 71,000 sq ft (6,600 m 2) enterprise includes 10 VIP sky boxes and three lounges, and is billed as the world's largest nightclub. It was sold in 2006 for US$80 million in an auction to one of the two former part-owners.