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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 grrrl - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  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. Stonewall riots - Wikipedia

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    —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 ...

  6. May 1998 riots of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. League of Legends - Wikipedia

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    OS X. 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.

  9. 2023 Dublin riot - Wikipedia

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    The 2023 Dublin riot took place on the evening of 23 November 2023 in Dublin, Ireland and involved multiple incidents of vandalism, arson, and looting in the city centre as well as assaults on Gardaí (the Irish police) and members of the public. [5] Gardaí described the riot as the most violent in modern Dublin history, far surpassing the ...