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  2. Character generator - Wikipedia

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    Character generators are primarily used in the broadcast areas of live television sports or television news presentations, given that the modern character generator can rapidly (i.e., "on the fly") generate high-resolution, animated graphics for use when an unforeseen situation in a broadcast dictates an opportunity for breaking news coverage ...

  3. List of imaginary characters in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Name Description Angus imaginary companion of the anchorite St Ungulant in the novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett: The Bear: from a book of the same name by Raymond Briggs [3] Booby unicorn in the short story The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber: Budo novel Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks [4] Dorothy Spinner's imaginary ...

  4. List of Cthulhu Mythos characters - Wikipedia

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    The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos. Overview: Name. The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death. The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark. Description. A brief description ...

  5. List of characters in Earthsea - Wikipedia

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    True names are shown in red, use names in blue. Child names, names of unknown status and nicknames are in green. Kargish names are in orange. Titles in parentheses are the novels or stories in which the character appears. A. Aihal – Aihal is a wizard on Gont, student of Heleth and master of Ged; called Ogion / ˈ oʊ ɡ iː ɒ n /. [1] ("The ...

  6. List of Middle-earth characters - Wikipedia

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    Relative of numerous notable characters in Tolkien's legendarium through bloodline and kinship. Gandalf: A wizard. A member of the Fellowship of the Ring. Killed in battle in Moria, but returns to play a leading role in the defeat of Sauron. Gil-galad: Last High King of the Noldor, who ruled during the Second Age. Formed the Last Alliance of ...

  7. List of Shakespearean characters (A–K) - Wikipedia

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    See also Master Page, whose first name is George. Gerald is a pedantic schoolmaster, who leads the Maying entertainments in The Two Noble Kinsmen. Queen Gertrude is the protagonist's mother in Hamlet. She has married Claudius. Ghost. The following characters appear as Ghosts. See the entries under their character name: Banquo; Julius Caesar ...

  8. List of Oz characters (created by Baum) - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, March Laumer made him, with the proper name Frederick Fraukx, the title character of The Frogman of Oz: The Oz Book for 1947, along with a U.S. Navy frogman. The Frogman is a crucial character in Jeff Freedman's 1994 novel The Magic Dishpan of Oz. The Frogman appears in the 1985 film Return to Oz. He is seen in the background at the ...

  9. List of Dickensian characters - Wikipedia

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    Scrooge, Ebenezer Miserly main character in A Christmas Carol, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley and three ghosts of Christmas. Sikes, Bill is a villain and a thief in Oliver Twist. Skimpole, Harold is the indebted and foolish friend of John Jarndyce in Bleak House. His character is based on the critic and essayist Leigh Hunt.