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  2. Grant County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Grant County is the most southwestern county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,938. [2] Its county seat is Lancaster and its largest city is Platteville. [3] The county is named after the Grant River, in turn named after a fur trader who lived in the area when Wisconsin was a territory. [4]

  3. Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia's life expectancy of 83 years (81 years for males and 85 years for females), is the fifth-highest in the world. It has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, [389] while cigarette smoking is the largest preventable cause of death and disease, responsible for 7.8% of the total mortality and disease.

  4. Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia

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    Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ‿vɑŋ‿ˈɣɔx] ⓘ; [note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings ...

  5. The Last of Us (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO.Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and collapses society.

  6. Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Mary. Joseph [c] Jesus [d] ( c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, [e] Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. [10] He is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.

  7. Great Wall of China - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wall of China ( traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from ...

  8. Mona Lisa - Wikipedia

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    Louvre, Paris. The Mona Lisa ( / ˌmoʊnə ˈliːsə / MOH-nə LEE-sə; Italian: Gioconda [dʒoˈkonda] or Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: Joconde [ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the ...

  9. Tiger - Wikipedia

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    Ten solitary females in the same reserve had home ranges of 335.9–491.1 km 2 (129.7–189.6 sq mi); when they had cubs of up to four months of age, their home ranges declined to 123.8–230.8 km 2 (47.8–89.1 sq mi) and steadily grew to 298.2–508.4 km 2 (115.1–196.3 sq mi) until the cubs were 13–18 months old.