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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.
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 with third ...
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.
Valorant is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games, for Windows. [3] Teased under the codename Project A in October 2019, the game began a closed beta period with limited access on April 7, 2020, followed by a release on June 2, 2020. The development of the game started in 2014.
Riot. Teamsters, armed with pipes, riot in a clash with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 during the Great Depression. A riot or mob violence is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people . Riots typically involve destruction of ...
19 soldiers executed. The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, [1] [2] was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas. The incident occurred within a climate of overt hostility from members of the all-white ...
Riot (XXXTentacion song) "Riot" is a song by American rapper and singer XXXTentacion. It was originally released on SoundCloud in May 2015, before being re-released posthumously for streaming services on June 1, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests. [1] The re-released version is slightly shorter than the original, cutting a large portion of a ...
—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 ...