Sable fur is unique because it retains its smoothness in every direction it is stroked.

Sable fur was a favourite of Henry VIII, who once received five sets of sable fur worth £ 400 from Emperor Charles V. Henry later decreed that sable fur was to be worn only by nobles exceeding the rank of viscount.

Sable fur would continue to be the most favoured fur in Russia, until the discovery of sea otters in the Kamchatka peninsula, whose fur was considered even more valuable.

Sable fur is produced in China and is one of the most expensive.

In the 1770s, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, the area's first resident and Haitian-born fur trader, established a fur trading post in the area which later became known as Fort Dearborn, along the bank of the Chicago River, where he traded until relocating again in 1800.

This footnote has led many scholars to assume that Point du Sable had settled in Chicago by 1779, however letters written by traders in the late 1770s suggest that Point du Sable was at this time settled at the mouth of Trail Creek ( Rivière du Chemin ) at what is now Michigan City, Indiana.

Historian and Point du Sable biographer John F. Swenson has called these claims " elaborate, undocumented assertions ... in a fanciful biography ".

The Au Sable has a drainage basin of and an average flow of 1, 100 ft³ / s ( 31 m³ / s ) at its mouth.

The Au Sable has about of tributary streams including the Pine River.

Au Sable is a census-designated place ( CDP ) for statistical purposes and has no legal status as an incorporated municipality.

It has had a more upscale Mercury branded version entitled the Sable ( 1986 – 2005 ; 2008 – 2009 ), as well as a performance variant, the Ford Taurus SHO ( 1989 – 1999 and 2010 –); in addition, it served as the basis for the first-ever front-wheel drive Lincoln Continental ( 1988 – 1994 ).

( The Taurus's twin, the Mercury Sable, has never offered a manual transmission in either of its incarnations.

He has sketched Jacqueline Pascal ( 1844 ), Madame de Longueville ( 1853 ), the marquise de Sable ( 1854 ), the duchesse de Chevreuse ( 1856 ), Madame de Hautefort ( 1856 ).

" Later in the series Alexis battles Blake's half-sister Dominique Deveraux ( Diahann Carroll ) and her own cousin Sable Colby ( Stephanie Beacham ); Heather Locklear's Sammy Jo has catfights with both Amanda ( Catherine Oxenberg ) in a swimming pool and Fallon ( Emma Samms ) in a horse trough and the mud around it, as well as a slapping match with Claudia ( Pamela Bellwood ).

Miles ' father, billionaire Jason Colby, has a rocky marriage to the icy Sable, in part due to his longtime attraction to Sable's sister Francesca – Jeff's estranged mother, and the former wife of Jason's brother Philip, who is presumed deceased.

At the end of the season, Fallon learns that Miles could be the father of her unborn child, Monica's plane crashes, and Sable has Jason arrested for assault and battery, claiming that he had inflicted the injuries she actually sustained by falling down a flight of stairs.

It has sometimes been said that in some reference works flory-counter-flory ( and flory ) is treated like a line of partition, even though strictly speaking it is not-though it has been used for centuries that way in the royal arms of Scotland blazoning the double tressure ( Public Register of Arms, Lyon Court, Edinburgh ) and used by the College of arms in blazoning coats like that of Sutherland of Dunstanburgh Castle ( Gules, a chevron flory-counterflory between in chief three mullets and in base a lymphad all or ) and is used by the South African Bureau of Heraldry blazoning the coat of Huis Tankotie of the University of Pretoria ( Per fess, flory counter-flory, Argent and Azure, in base within the flower an annulet Sable ; a bordure counterchanged ) and Emmanuel-Opleidingsentrum in the South African Bureau of Heraldry's online database.

The arms of the Special Troops Battalion of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army has the unique field Per pale Sable and Gules with stylized folds Sanguine, the sinister half of the field symbolizing a warrior's cape.

The first such appearance has him coming to the rescue of Spider-Man and Silver Sable, who are outnumbered and surrounded by the Sinister Syndicate.

It has the third largest City in Zimbabwe and that is Gweru, followed by Kwekwe, which is considerably the town with the richest industries in both mining and manufacturing with gold mines all-over and the Sable Chemicals Trust also maintaining a presence.

The Ausable River (), also known as AuSable River and originally written as " Au Sable ", runs in the U. S. state of New York, from the Adirondack Mountains and past the town of Lake Placid and Au Sable Forks to empty into Lake Champlain ( at ) It has a East and West branch that join at Ausable Forks NY.

Annabel and Murray celebrate but Sable gets the part since Oliver has not shown up.

As of the end of 2009, the agreement has produced print versions of the Grimjack series The Manx Cat ; the Jon Sable series Ashes of Eden ; Mark Wheatley and Robert Tinnell's pulp hero series Lone Justice ; the graphic novel Demons of Sherwood by Tinnell and Bo Hampton ; and a graphic novel collecting Trevor von Eeden's The Original Johnson.

The phenomenon has also been observed from Sable Island, 180 km southeast of Nova Scotia.

Due to this traumatic event and her Father's subsequent harsh training and treatment of her, Silver Sable has dedicated herself to being both as emotionless and as effective as possible in her professional life.

Silver Sable generally has the latest technology and equipment at her disposal, provided by Silver Sable International.

During the final season of Dynasty, it is revealed that Monica and her twin Miles may not have been Jason's children, as Sable had been raped around the time they were conceived.

At the time of Jacques ' death, twenty-one novels had been released, with The Sable Quean having been released in February 2010.

In November 1759, 151 Acadians from Cape Sable who had been prisoners on George's Island since June were deported to England.

's Torrie Wilson and Sable, who had recently been featured in a pictorial in Playboy, against Raw's Stacy Keibler and Miss Jackie, who had protested the decision made by Hugh Hefner to not feature them.

Because Sable removed Debra's dress, she therefore should have been the winner.

This gang's activities are ended in their third appearance when Ace is destroyed and King is revealed to have been having an affair with Paxton Powers ' secretary Sable Thorpe ( he claimed he was fed up with living in his predecessor's shadow ).

With the revived WWF Women's Championship on the line ( the Women's Championship had been abandoned in December 1995 ), Moore defeated Sable.

It has been developed by the Sable Research Group at McGill University known for its SableVM, a Java virtual machine and the AspectBench Compiler, an open research compiler for AspectJ.

Silver Sable, his daughter in this continuity, has been running the remnants of his empire in his absence.

She was awarded the Grand prix littéraire d ' Afrique noire for her novel Riwan ou le Chemin de Sable in 2000, but is better known among American readers for her novel The Abandoned Baobab, which is her only book to date to have been translated into English.

This version features only three boss characters aside from the two leads: Shocker, Silver Sable, and Carnage ( technically, there are only two bosses since Shocker only briefly appears and you never fight him ).

Drawing of the home of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable in Chicago as it appeared in the early 1800s

An adjacent state campground in the Au Sable State Forest was closed in the early 1990s.

The Fox-based Marquis was replaced by the 1986 Mercury Sable ; however, it continued production into early 1986, albeit without the 5. 0L option.

Both models were introduced in late 1983 for the 1984 model year ; the compact Topaz and Ford Tempo were early examples of the design philosophy that would bring about the revolutionary aerodynamic 1986 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable.

The extratropical cyclone curved north-northeastward and then north-northwestward while passing near Sable Island early on June 20.

Tori ( Terri Poch ) was sitting front row as a plant as early as September 14's Raw is War but it was not until late December that she began to act with stalker tendencies, sending flowers and notes to Sable ( Rena Mero ), the WWF Women's Champion and even helping her to defend her title against Luna Vachon at the Royal Rumble.

In the early years of the Cold War, the RCN sought to establish a radar site on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia ; a number of sites were considered, including remote Sable Island which was ultimately rejected by 1953 due to logistical problems.