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Pokémon Omega Ruby [a] and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire [b] are 2014 remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance role-playing video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, also including features from Pokémon Emerald. The games are part of the sixth generation of the Pokémon video game series, [1] developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company ...
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.
Service years. 1875-1910. Rank. Deputy. Other work. MPD Police Officer. Bass Reeves (July 1838 – January 12, 1910) was a runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, railroad Agent and deputy U.S. Marshal. He spoke and understood the Five Civilized Tribal languages including Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek.
Faggot. Faggot, often shortened to fag in American usage, is a term, usually considered a slur, used to refer to gay men. [1] [2] In American youth culture around the turn of the 21st century, its meaning extended as a broader reaching insult more related to masculinity and group power structure. [3]
The Baháʼí Faith [a] is a religion [b] founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. [c] Established by Baháʼu'lláh, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its inception. [15] The religion is estimated to have 5 ...
In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants ( WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern European descent, who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often the Mainline Protestant elite. [2] [3] Historically or most consistently, WASPs ...
The Shard, [a] also referred to as the Shard London Bridge [12] and formerly London Bridge Tower, [13] is a pyramid-shaped 72-storey mixed-use development supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 feet) high, The Shard ...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [4] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007, it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world, and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.