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Riot Games. 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.
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 ...
Muslims objected to passage of Hindu procession which resulted in riots Hindus Muslims 22 100 N/A 1928–1929 riots April 1928–March 1929 22 significant riots in this period. Most serious were the Bombay riots. Other riots in Punjab, Kharagpur, and other places. Many riots occurred during Bakr-i-Id, other causes Hindus Muslims 204+ (149 in ...
Persons performing riot control typically wear protective equipment such as riot helmets, face visors, body armor (vests, neck protectors, knee pads, etc.), gas masks and riot shields. Even though riot tactics are effective in controlling crowds, they can also lead to significant psychological effects on both the rioters and the police.
1959 – Tibetan riots against Chinese government, in Lhasa, Tibet Area, China, between March 10 to 21, this is the deadliest riot to take place in a single month and also the second deadliest riot to take place in a single year (after the 1947 Indian partition riots), a confirmed death toll of around 87,000 people.
Students in 108 German universities protested to get recognition of East Germany, the removal of government officials with Nazi pasts and for the rights of students. [19] In February, protests by professors at the German University of Bonn demanded the resignation of the university's president because of his involvement in the building of ...
The riot occurred in the midst of the Great Depression and six months after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany.The Toronto papers, including the Toronto Telegram and the Toronto Daily Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed from professions in Germany, including lawyers, professors, and teachers, as well as incidents of violence ...
Brophy, A.L. Reconstructing the dreamland: The Tulsa race riot of 1921 (2002) Brubaker, Rogers, and David D. Laitin. "Ethnic and nationalist violence." Annual Review of sociology 24.1 (1998): 423-452. online; Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A study of race relations and a race riot (1922) online; Dray, Philip.