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  2. Sanmao (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Sanmao (Chinese: 三毛; pinyin: Sānmáo) is a manhua character created by Zhang Leping in 1935. He is one of the world's longest running cartoon characters and remains a landmark as one of the most famous and beloved fictional characters in China today. The name Sanmao means "three hairs" in Chinese or "three mao" (a reference to his poverty ...

  3. List of newspaper comic strips - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of comic strips.Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.

  4. List of cults of personality - Wikipedia

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    The most famous are those of President Ferdinand Marcos, who was dictator from 1972 to 1986 and the Aquino family. They are often branded as "epalitiko" by the media, which is a contraction of the words epal (slang for "attention-grabber"), and pulítiko ("politician"). They put their images and their names on billboards of government projects.

  5. List of ventriloquists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable ventriloquists and their best known characters. It is ordered by nationality or country in which they were notable in an alphabetical order, and then by alphabetical order of surname. It does not include voice-over artists who did not perform with a figure, or "dummy" as it is usually called.

  6. List of best-selling comic series - Wikipedia

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    Single-issue floppy comics are the most common publication format for American comics, and account for the vast majority of American superhero comic sales. [34] This list also contains periodical publications from other countries that are similarly dedicated to a single character or group of characters.

  7. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - Wikipedia

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    As a result, Messerschmidt claimed that his character heads had aroused the anger of "the Spirit of Proportion", an ancient being who safeguarded this knowledge. The spirit visited him at night, and forced him to endure humiliating tortures. One of Messerschmidt's most famous heads (The Beaked) was apparently inspired by one of these encounters.

  8. List of cartoonists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',

  9. Cannabis culture - Wikipedia

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    Songs featuring lyrics about plant, pot leaf imagery and nods to smoking accessories like Zig-Zag rolling papers, shifted the perspective of pot. [11] “I think marijuana/weed was always part of the culture, it was just underground,” Sen Dog told Cuepoint. [10]