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18 unusual facts about Ruby


Assorted Gems

All were named after precious jewels: eldest daughter Bi-chwi ("Jade"), eldest son San-ho ("Coral"), second daughter Ryu-bi ("Ruby"), and the youngest son, Ho-bak ("Amber").

August Blue

It was followed by many other works by Tuke on similar themes, including Ruby, Gold and Malachite, exhibited at the RA in 1902.

Brian Marick

Brian Marick, a graduate of the University of Illinois, was a software testing specialist in the 1990s, an Agile software development specialist in the 2000s, and concentrates on programming in Ruby and Clojure in the 2010s.

Bunnicula

A 1982 animated TV special (from Ruby-Spears) by the same name was created based on the first book and aired on the ABC Weekend Special.

Gabriola Island

Shorebirds such as the Black Turnstone and Ruddy Turnstone frequent the island as do garden birds such as the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Thrushes, Warblers, Pileated Woodpeckers, and Flickers.

Ipomoea hederacea

Flowers are used by some of the larger butterflies such as swallowtails and fritillaries and the ruby-throated hummingbird.

Look to the Lady

Next day a representative of royalty arrives to inspect the chalice, and Campion and the Professor are permitted to join the party; taken to the secret room, they see the chalice guarded by the skeleton of a giant, clad in armour, and the chalice, a beautiful bowl of red gold and rubies.

Ruby, Alaska

Many of the men had left to fight in World War I and several of the towns business people and their families were lost in the sinking of the ship Sophia.

Barry Clay - Discovered Alaska's largest gold nugget, 294 oz (9.15 kg), in 1998 in the Ruby mining district.

Ruby, Arizona

It was founded as a mining town in Bear Valley, originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak.

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

The acclaimed actor Leonard Nimoy (who played Mr Spock in Star Trek TOS) made a cover of the song which was featured on the album "Spaced Out- The very best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner", released in 1997.

Chet Huntley set up the video by linking it to the controversial Vietnam War and the sacrifices by U.S. servicemen and their families.

Ruby's Diner

Ruby’s Diner is a restaurant chain that reproduces the look and feel of the classic American Diner.

Scott Firth

Firth has previously played with The Spice Girls on their Return of the Spice Girls Tour, as well as Melanie C, Joan Armatrading, Morcheeba, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Little Axe, Ruby, Toni Braxton, Elvis Costello, Mari Wilson, Julia Fordham and Sarah Jane Morris

Single-precision floating-point format

However, float in Python, Ruby, PHP, and OCaml and single in versions of Octave prior to 3.2 refer to double-precision numbers.

SPOJ

The solution to problems can be submitted in over 40 languages including C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, and F#, Ruby, Icon, Intercal, Pike.

Wik and the Fable of Souls

On both the PC and the Xbox 360, each level includes three gems; (A Ruby, an Emerald, and a Diamond) capturing all of these throughout the course of the game is required in order to achieve the best ending.

Yakuts

The name Yakut is a Turkic word, a corruption of zhaqut - yakut "precious stone", referring to the Ruby.


Alive from Off Center

Other installments included "Dances in Exile" directed by Howard Silver, a recorded dance piece with text by David Henry Hwang and choreography by Ruby Shang and another directed by Jonathan Demme.

Anna Shaffer

In December 2010, the Liverpool Echo reported that eighteen-year-old Shaffer would be joining the cast of Hollyoaks as Ruby, the sister of Duncan Button (Dean Aspen).

Babushka Lady

In the 1992 film Ruby, the character of Candy Cane, portrayed by Sherilyn Fenn, is shown in Dealey Plaza with a camera and not wearing a babushka scarf.

Clifford Husbands

As of July 2009 he survives the late Lady Ruby Husbands (née Parris).

D. L. Dykes, Jr.

Dykes was born in Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish in northwestern Louisiana to David L. Dykes, Sr. (1883–1964) and the former Ruby Perley (1896–1944).

DeLong Star Ruby

The ransom was paid by wealthy Florida businessman John D. MacArthur and he was present when the ruby was recovered at the designated drop off site: a phone booth in Florida.

On October 29, 1964, the DeLong star ruby was one of a number of precious gems stolen in a notorious jewelry heist by Jack Roland Murphy and two accomplices.

Diane O'Connor

New headteacher Patrick Blake promotes Diane to head of the Anti-Bullying scheme, but she is left shocked when Ruby reveals to Diane that Sinead was also involved in the bullying.

Frankie Osborne

Frankie and Esther's relationship continues to becomes distant when Sinead O'Connor (Stephanie Davis) and Ruby bully Esther and turn Frankie against her.

Gibson Les Paul Studio

The Gem Series of 1996 had P-90 pickups and special finishes in "gemstone" colors: Amethyst, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald, and Ruby.

Gold mining in Alaska

The KGB includes all or parts of the historic Aniak/Tuluksak, Anvik, Bethel, Goodnews Bay, Iditarod-Flat, Innoko, Marshall, McGrath, Ruby, and Tolstoi mining districts, as well as newly realized gold-rich areas.

Hell-Rider

The latter starred a rough but basically goodhearted biker gang that Reese had encountered, consisting of leader Animal; Afro-haired Deke; weaselly Slinker; tall, blond Curly; and blond biker-babe Ruby.

I Want to Be Loved

I Wanna Be Loved by You, a song written by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, for the 1928 musical Good Boy

Jet of Blood

There are several published translations, including English translations by Ruby Cohn, Victor Corti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Helen Weaver, and George Wellwarth.

Kalmar and Ruby

One of them, Ruby, who had also had a number of collaborators, saw a strong compatibility between the two, and by 1920, Kalmar and Ruby recognized that they should form a permanent songwriting team.

Karate Kommandos

The series follows the framing device of Mr. T's animated series (also a Ruby-Spears production): At the beginning of each episode, a live action segment with Norris, usually at a gym or martial arts studio, is shown to explain what is going on.

King Hedley II

Directed by Marion McClinton, the cast featured Brian Stokes Mitchell (King), Leslie Uggams (Ruby), Charles Brown (Elmore), Viola Davis (Tonya), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Stool Pigeon), and Monté Russell (Mister).

Latias and Latios

Known as the Eon Pokémon, Latios and Latias are two legendary Pokémon originating from the Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald series of games.

Less-than sign

In Bash, Perl, and Ruby, operator <<EOF (where "EOF" is an arbitrary string, but commonly "EOF" denoting "end of file") is used to denote the beginning of a here document.

Lusterware

In the 16th century lustred maiolica was a specialty of Gubbio, noted for a rich ruby red, and at Deruta.

Mary Maurice

She, Russell Bassett, Sarah Bernhardt, W. Chrystie Miller, Ruby Lafayette, Kate Meek(b. 1838), the veteran character actor Matt B. Snyder and Harold Lloyd regular Anna Townsend were the eight oldest people working in film during the 1910s.

Ruby Allmond

In the 1940s Ruby was playing in these shows with two very renowned fiddle players, Georgia “Slim” Rutland and Howard “Howdy” Forrester.

Ruby Buckton

Ruby blames Darryl Braxton (Steve Peacocke) for her mother's death and she pushes Casey away.

Ruby Button

Diane, now fully aware of Sinead's involvement of the bullying, tries to blame the whole thing on Ruby, but Ruby reveals the whole truth by showing Dylan Shaw's (Mikey Riddington-Smith) video of Esther's message, in front of everyone, including new college headmaster Patrick Blake.

Ruby character

because the author is using a nonstandard pronunciation for a character or a term—for example, comic books often employ ruby to emphasize dajare puns, as in Hana Yori Dango (rather than standard "Danshi" reading), and show both of the pronunciation and meaning, as in "One Piece" in One Piece (displayed by ruby character "Wan Piisu" ("One Piece") as the pronunciation and main character "Hitotsunagi no Daihihou" ("The Great Treasure of One Piece") as meaning).

Ruby Murders

A few months later, after the manhunt had ended unsuccessfully, the authorities received news that two men in a Sonora cantina had bragged about being responsible for robbing the Ruby Mercantile.

Ruby Records

Chris D. also produced The Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses and some tracks on The Gun Club's Fire of Love, as well as the two Flesh Eaters albums released by Ruby.

When Warner Bros. Records bought Slash, they took over distribution of Ruby's three most popular albums (The Gun Club's Fire of Love, The Misfits' Walk Among Us, The Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses) and deleted the others (which included releases by The Flesh Eaters, Blurt and Lydia Lunch).

Ruby Ross Wood

After moving to New York City and later Boston in the early 1900s and using the byline Ruby Ross Goodnow (her first married name), she wrote fiction, poetry, and articles about interior design for The Delineator, a popular women's magazine, where her editor was Theodore Dreiser.

Ruby Sales

Ruby Sales (born July 8, 1948 in Jemison, Alabama) is an African-American social activist.

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third book in a series of collections of re-told fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Ruby Valley Pony Express Station

The Ruby Valley Pony Express Station, located at 1515 Idaho St. in Elko, Nevada, was built in 1860 in Ruby Valley, Nevada.

Shenzhen Fengpeng F.C.

The squad was assembled with former players from Shenzhen Ruby first and youth teams, notably the three veterans Yuan Lin, Chen Yongqiang and Xiao Jianjia, Fan Yuhong's Nanshan Academy (the 2nd graduates, born in 1993 to 1994 and have been representing Shenzhen in various teenage competitions), and former players of Hubei Province clubs where manager Zhang Jun is from and has many connections with.

SourceLair

It supports several programming languages (Python, Ruby, Lua, C/C++ etc) for single file programs.Through sourceLair, developers are able to develop professionally their HTML5 and Django projects on the cloud.

Sylvia Heal

Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes, she was educated at the Elfed Secondary Modern School (now Elfed High School) on Mill Lane in Buckley, the Coleg Harlech, and at Swansea University, where she was awarded a BSc in Economics in 1968.

TestDox

Created by Chris Stevenson in 2003, to date versions exist for .net, PHP and Ruby.

TextMate

Most bundles are supported by primary users - for instance the Ruby and Ruby on Rails bundles are supported by core developers for these languages libraries such as David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails’ creator.

The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby

"The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator.

The Wicked Lady

Henrietta wins Barbara's jewels, including her most-prized possession, her late mother's ruby brooch, in a game of Ombre.

Travis CI

It supports building software in numerous languages, including C, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala.

Vert.x

Similar environments written in other programming languages include Node.js for JavaScript, Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment for Perl, libevent for C and EventMachine for Ruby.

Yukihiro

Yukihiro Matsumoto (born 1965), chief designer of the Ruby programming language