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2. A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera and other media. A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the early Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of ...

3. Chris McCandless - Wikipedia

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   Emory University ( BA) Christopher Johnson McCandless ( / məˈkændlɪs /; February 12, 1968 [1] – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym " Alexander Supertramp ", [2] was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that ...

4. Poor Things (film) - Wikipedia

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   Poor Things is a 2023 film [a] directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. [6]

5. Nancy Spungen - Wikipedia

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   Nancy Laura Spungen ( / ˈspʌŋɡən /; February 27, 1958 – October 12, 1978) was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Spungen was an emotionally disturbed child who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15. After being expelled from college, she ...

6. J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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   1892 Christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family in Bloemfontein, sent to relatives in Birmingham, England John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (later annexed by the British Empire ; now Free State Province in the Republic of South Africa), to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857 ...

7. Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia

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   Life Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the son of a Polish father and a mother who was of mixed German-Polish descent.