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It developed further during the Eastern Jin (317–420) in the hands of Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Xianzhi (344–386). [83] However, most Jin-era writers continued to use neo-clerical and semi-cursive styles in their daily writing. It was not until the Northern and Southern period (420–589) that regular script became the predominant form. [84]
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
A Tang-era copy of the preface to the Lantingji Xu poems composed at the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, originally attributed to Wang Xizhi (303–361) of the Jin dynasty A poem by Li Bai (701–762), the only surviving example of Li Bai's calligraphy, housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The Tang dynasty was a golden age of Chinese literature ...
Tom Cruise has earned in excess of $100 million per film on three occasions. Sandra Bullock is the highest-paid actress, earning over $70 million for Gravity . Forbes publishes yearly lists of the highest-paid actors and actresses based on total earnings from 1 June the previous year to 1 June the current year.
US $48.4 million The Blue Moon of Josephine is a 12.03 carats (2.406 g) blue diamond , described as flawless by experts, that was discovered in South Africa in January 2014 and was sold at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva in November 2015 at a record-setting price of $48.4 million (43.2 million Swiss francs plus fees). [ 1 ]
$257.8 million Mandarin: 2017 [278] 3 The Help: $216.6 million: English 2011 [279] 4 Gandhi: $91.72 million English 1982 [n 25] 5 Bride and Prejudice: $24.71 million: English 2005 [283] [284] 6 My Name Is Khan: $23.5 million Hindi English 2010 [55] [285] 7 Monsoon Wedding: $22.45 million Hindi 2001 [n 21] 8 Adventures of Ali-Baba and the Forty ...
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity.This article includes a list of countries by their forecast estimated GDP (PPP). [2] Countries are sorted by GDP (PPP) forecast estimates from financial and statistical institutions that calculate using market or government official exchange rates.