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  2. Precious (film) - Wikipedia

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    Precious. (film) Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, [2] or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, alongside Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri ...

  3. Sapphire - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Western Carolina University - Wikipedia

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    Western Carolina University (WCU) is a public university in Cullowhee, North Carolina.It is part of the University of North Carolina system.. The fifth oldest institution of the sixteen four-year universities in the UNC system, WCU was founded to educate the people of the western North Carolina mountains.

  5. King Philip Middle School - Wikipedia

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    The school was named after King Philip, a war chief of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War . The building was completed in 1955, and cost $3,446,540.44. It is on 42 acres (170,000 m 2 ), and the building is 186,000 sq ft (17,300 m 2 ). It has a capacity of 700 for elementary students and 830 for middle school, but is ...

  6. Sapphire (film) - Wikipedia

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    Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. 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 ...

  7. Kappa Kappa Gamma - Wikipedia

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    Dream Boldly. Live Fully. Kappa Kappa Gamma ( ΚΚΓ ), also known simply as Kappa or KKG, is a collegiate sorority founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States . It has a membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada and 307 alumni associations worldwide.

  8. SAPPHIRE (health care) - Wikipedia

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    SAPPHIRE (health care) The Situational Awareness and Preparedness for Public Health Incidences and Reasoning Engines (SAPPHIRE) is a semantics -based health information system capable of tracking and evaluating situations and occurrences that may affect public health. It was developed in 2004 by Dr. Parsa Mirhaji at the University of Texas ...

  9. Crean Lutheran High School - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .creanlutheran .org. Crean Lutheran High School is a private Lutheran high school in Irvine, California. The school was founded in 2007 as Lutheran South High School and had its initial campus at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church in the Woodbridge neighborhood of Irvine. In 2010, Crean Lutheran opened its own campus in southeastern ...