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  2. List of James Bond films - Wikipedia

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    With a combined gross of $7.8 billion to date, it is the fifth-highest-grossing film series in nominal terms. [6] Adjusting for inflation, the series has earned over $19.2 billion in 2022 dollars from box-office receipts alone, [ a ] with non-Eon entries pushing this inflation-adjusted figure to a grand total in excess of $20 billion.

  3. Cat - Wikipedia

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    Cats have excellent night vision and can see at one sixth the light level required for human vision. [ 53 ] : 43 This is partly the result of cat eyes having a tapetum lucidum , which reflects any light that passes through the retina back into the eye, thereby increasing the eye's sensitivity to dim light. [ 69 ]

  4. Beaver - Wikipedia

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    The English word beaver comes from the Old English word beofor or befor and is connected to the German word biber and the Dutch word bever.The ultimate origin of the word is an Indo-European root for ' brown '. [2]

  5. Flower - Wikipedia

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    A floral formula is a way to represent the structure of a flower using specific letters, numbers, and symbols, presenting substantial information about the flower in a compact form. It can represent a taxon , usually giving ranges of the numbers of different organs, or particular species.

  6. Mont-Saint-Michel - Wikipedia

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    Mont-Saint-Michel [3] (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France.

  7. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" /noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪz/, showing five diphthongs: / oʊ, aɪ, eɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ / A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is ...

  8. Polyvinyl chloride - Wikipedia

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    The monomers are mainly arranged head-to-tail, meaning that chloride is located on alternating carbon centres. PVC has mainly an atactic stereochemistry , which means that the relative stereochemistry of the chloride centres are random.

  9. Snowpiercer (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Snowpiercer is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television series that premiered on May 17, 2020, on TNT.It is based on both the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, from which the film was adapted.