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Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve. Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility. Most of the tests involve ...
Serendipity Sapphire is the world's largest star sapphire cluster. It weighs 510 kilograms (2,600,000 carats). [1] It was found in Kahawatte in the Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, in July 2021. Its worth is estimated to be up to US$100 million. [1]
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From 1920 to 1930, the Waynesboro Red Birds, "Cardinals" and "Villagers" teams played exclusively as members of the Class D level Blue Ridge League. The Waynesboro "Cardinals" and Red Birds were a minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1925 and again from 1928 to 1930. Waynesville hosted home minor league games at E-B Park.
The News Virginian is a newspaper owned by Lee Enterprises. The paper serves residents in the cities of Waynesboro and Staunton, Virginia, as well as Augusta and Nelson counties.
Wayne County is a county located in south central Tennessee, along the Alabama border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,232. [2] Its county seat is Waynesboro. [3] The county is named after General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a prominent military leader in the American Revolutionary War .
Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. [3] A progressive film for its time, [4] it focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies, and explores the "underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people" about those of ...
The Queen Marie of Romania Sapphire is a 478.68 carat (95.736 g) Cornflower blue cushion cut Ceylon sapphire. When it was sold at Christie's in 2003, it was the largest sapphire ever offered at auction. [1] It is named for its association with its first owner, Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania.