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  2. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...

  3. List of professional sports leagues by revenue - Wikipedia

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    Bundesliga) 3. Fußball-Liga (3. Liga) Croatian First Football League (1. HNL) ^ Number of teams in the season referenced in this table. Due to league expansion and contraction, does not necessarily match the number of current teams. ^ Cited revenue was $18.6 billion, exchange rate of 1 USD = 0.9696 EUR used here for 2022 season.

  4. List of religious populations - Wikipedia

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    The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.

  5. List of highest-grossing media franchises - Wikipedia

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    Pokémon: Giratina & the Sky Warrior – $42 million. Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life – $40 million. Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and White—Victini and Zekrom – $50 million. Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages – $21 million.

  6. Rose of the World (1991 book) - Wikipedia

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    The key category of the book is myth, since by its nature Andreev's book is the author's mythology of the new time, in which all previous myth–making is rethought. The myth of Rose of the World, both cosmogonic and eschatological, is a coherent, systematized metamythology with an extensive chain of characters and concepts. [2]

  7. The Veldt (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man .

  8. Books published per country per year - Wikipedia

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    Book Titles per Capita. (Excel dataset for the period from 1500 until 2010 CE, worldwide) IPA. "IPA Annual Report 2014", International Publishers Association, retrieved October 25, 2014; Alison Flood. "UK publishes more books per capita than any other country, report shows" The Guardian, retrieved October 25, 2014

  9. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.