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  2. Riot Games - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Riot control - Wikipedia

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    Riot control measures are used by law enforcement, military, paramilitary or security forces to control, disperse, and arrest people who are involved in a riot, unlawful demonstration or unlawful protest . If a riot is spontaneous and irrational, actions which cause people to stop and think for a moment (e.g. loud noises or issuing instructions ...

  4. Valorant - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. New York City draft riots - Wikipedia

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    Injuries. 2,000. A recruiting poster in New York City in June 1863 for the Enrollment Act, also known as the Civil War Military Draft Act, which authorized the federal government to conscript troops for the Union Army. The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as ...

  6. League of Legends - Wikipedia

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    March 1, 2013. Genre (s) MOBA. Mode (s) Multiplayer. League of Legends ( LoL ), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III, Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre.

  7. Element (software) - Wikipedia

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    Element (software) Element (formerly Riot and Vector [11]) is a free and open-source software instant messaging client implementing the Matrix protocol. [12] Element supports end-to-end encryption, [13] private and public groups, sharing of files between users, voice and video calls, and other collaborative features with help of bots and widgets.

  8. Riot - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Hard Hat Riot - Wikipedia

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    The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 ...