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In 2013 Sapphire Las Vegas opened the Sapphire Pool & Dayclub located at the south end of the club. The Sapphire Pool and Dayclub has 10 cabanas and 5 bungalows. The 10 cabanas are located on the main deck and has 2 pools. 1 of the 2 pools is available as a "private pool" package on the website.
The type species was designated by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840 as the rufous-throated sapphire. [2] [3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hulē meaning "woodland" or "forest" with kharis meaning "beauty". [4] This genus formerly included additional species.
The concept, which originated and became popular in Chinese Buddhism, features a pair of Asiatic lions—often one male with a ball which represents the material elements and one female with a cub which represents the element of spirit— that were thought to protect the building from harmful spiritual influences and harmful people that might ...
The CubCrafters CC18-180 Top Cub is an American light aircraft designed and produced by CubCrafters of Yakima, Washington, introduced in 2004. The aircraft is type certified and supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
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The sapphire-spangled emerald is 8 to 11 cm (3.1 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 3.6 to 5 g (0.13 to 0.18 oz). Both sexes of all subspecies have a medium length straight bill with a blackish maxilla and a pinkish to horn colored mandible with a darkish to blackish tip.
These two species were formerly placed in the genus Amazilia.A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Amazilia was polyphyletic. [2] In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, these species were moved to the resurrected genus Chionomesa that had been introduced in 1921 by the French naturalist Eugène Simon.
Sapphire cuvettes are the most expensive, though provide the most durable, scratch-resistant, and transmissible material. The transmission extends from UV light to mid-infrared, ranging from 250 to 5,000 nm. Sapphire can withstand the extreme natural condition of some sample solutions and variances in temperature. [10]