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Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California.It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant.
v. t. e. Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, [1] Washington, [2] and the greater Pacific Northwest, [3] and has expanded to at least 26 other countries. [4] A subcultural movement that combines feminism, punk music, and politics, [5] it is often associated ...
—anonymous Stonewall riots participant The police were to transport the bar's alcohol in patrol wagons. Twenty-eight cases of beer and nineteen bottles of hard liquor were seized, but the patrol wagons had not yet arrived, so patrons were required to wait in line for about 15 minutes. Those who were not arrested were released from the front door, but they did not leave quickly as usual ...
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni. The original lineup featured Rhoads and Garni with lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow and drummer Drew Forsyth, though that version of the band was mired in turmoil that would eventually see Garni fired for making death threats ...
The Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site was a functional prison from 1872 to 1973 in the western United States, east of Boise, Idaho. The first building, also known as the Territorial Prison, was constructed in the Territory of Idaho in 1870; the territory was seven years old when the prison was built, a full two decades before statehood ...
4,600–5,000. Killings of Sulawesi civilians during the Indonesian National Revolution; 3,100–3,500 people killed by troops of the KNIL and the Korps Speciale Troepen (KST) under Captain Raymond Westerling, and approximately 1,500 people killed by Indonesian revolutionaries. 1947 Yogyakarta Dakota incident.
Riot shield. A riot shield is a lightweight protection device, typically deployed by police and some military organizations, though also utilized by protestors. Riot shields are typically long enough to cover an average-sized person from the top of the head to the knees, though smaller one-handed models may also be used.
The May 1998 Indonesia riots ( Indonesian: Kerusuhan Mei 1998 ), [1] also known in Indonesia as the 1998 tragedy ( Tragedi 1998) or simply the 1998 event ( Peristiwa 1998 ), were incidents of mass violence, anti-government demonstrations, and civil unrest in Indonesia in May 1998. The events were mainly in the cities of Medan, Jakarta and ...