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  2. List of highest-grossing media franchises - Wikipedia

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    Franchise Year of inception Total revenue (est. US$) Revenue breakdown (est. US$) Original medium Creator(s) Owner(s) $50 billion+; Pokémon: 1996 $88 billion: Licensed merchandise – $80.8 billion

  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wikipedia

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray at Wikisource. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella -length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. [1] [2] The novel-length version was published in April 1891.

  4. A Beautiful Mind (film) - Wikipedia

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    A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe.The film is directed by Ron Howard based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar.

  5. List of states with nuclear weapons - Wikipedia

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    Belarus. Kazakhstan. Ukraine. v. t. e. Eight sovereign states have publicly announced successful detonation of nuclear weapons. [1] Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states ( NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States ...

  6. Chupacabra - Wikipedia

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    The chupacabra or chupacabras ( Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], literally 'goat-sucker'; from Spanish: chupa, 'sucks', and cabras, 'goats') is a legendary creature, or cryptid, in the folklore of parts of the Americas. The name comes from the animal's reported vampirism—the chupacabra is said to attack and drink the blood of ...

  7. Gustav Klimt - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, [1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. [2]

  8. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.

  9. Chris Hemsworth - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Hemsworth [3] was born on 11 August 1983 [4] in Melbourne, [5] to Leonie (née van Os), [6] an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counsellor. [7] [8] He is the second of three sons, following Luke (b. 1980) and preceding Liam (b. 1990); both of them are also actors. His maternal grandfather is a Dutch immigrant ...