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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 (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, 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 another race.

  4. 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.

  5. List of sapphires by size - Wikipedia

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    Ruspoli Sapphire: 136.9 carats (27.38 g) Stuart Sapphire: Sri Lanka 104 carats (20.8 g) Blue Tower of London: Bismarck Sapphire: Myanmar: 98.56 carats (19.712 g) Table Blue National Museum of Natural History, Washington James J. Hill Sapphire: 22.66 carats (4.532 g) Cornflower National Museum of Natural History, Washington

  6. 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.

  7. SAPHIRE - Wikipedia

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    SAPHIRE is a probabilistic risk and reliability assessment software tool. SAPHIRE stands for Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations. The system was developed for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the Idaho National Laboratory . Development began in the mid-1980s when the NRC began exploring two ...

  8. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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    January 24: The SQL Slammer worm, aka Sapphire worm, Helkern and other names, attacks vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server and MSDE becomes the fastest spreading worm of all time (measured by doubling time at the peak rate of growth), causing massive Internet access disruptions worldwide just fifteen minutes after infecting its first victim.

  9. Sapphire Retail - Wikipedia

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    Clothing, accessories. Parent. Sapphire Textile. Website. sapphireonline .pk. Sapphire Retail is a clothing retailer. [2] It is a whole-owned subsidiary of public limited company Sapphire Textile. [1] The retailer is based in Lahore, Pakistan.