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LONDON&#160;is the&#160;capital and&#160;largest city&#160;of&#160;England&#160;and the United Kingdom. The city stands on the&#160;River Thames&#160;in the south-east of England, at the head of its 50-mile (80&#160;km)&#160;estuary&#160;leading to the&#160;North Sea.

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The London Eye is a large Ferris wheel located on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, United Kingdom. The tallest Ferris wheel in Europe and the UK's most popular tourist attraction with over 3.75 million visitors a year, it is 135m high and the circle of the Ferris wheel is 120m in diameter.

Big Ben&#160;is the nickname for the&#160;Great Bell&#160;of the&#160;striking clock&#160;at the north end of the&#160;Palace of Westminster; the name is frequently&#160;extended to refer&#160;to both the clock and the&#160;clock tower.

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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from the film&#160;Dorian Gray&#160;(2009). The music composed by Charlie Mole (Mr. Selfridge).

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The soundtrack was composed by Charlie Mole and was conducted by Albert Lewin. It was performed at Metro Goldwyn Mayer and released on 9th september 2009.

Aarhus Aarhus is one of the oldest cities in Denmark. The city center is situated in a valley of the &#197;rhus . The city acts as a hub for railway lines across the country, including several lakes, through which flows the Guden&#229;, Denmark's largest river.

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William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Starfrord Upon Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April (see&#160;when was Shakespeare born ), which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare's<a href="https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/"> </a>plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeare's&#160;poems&#160;also remain popular to this day.&#160;

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &#8211; 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness.

Dublin&#160;is the capital and largest city of&#160;Ireland.&#160;Situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the&#160;River<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Liffey"> </a>I Liffey, it lies within the&#160;province&#160;of Leinster. It is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the&#160;Wicklow Mountains&#160;range. It has an&#160;urban&#160;area population of 1,173,179,while the population of the&#160;Dublin Region&#160;(formerly&#160;County Dublin) as of 2016&#160;was 1,347,359.&#160;The population of the&#160;Greater Dublin Area&#160;was 1,904,806 per the 2016 census.

London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. The city stands on the river Thames In the south-east of England, at the head of its 50-mile (80Km) estuary leading to the North Sea.

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"Dear Mr Potter, Please note that the new school year will begin on September the first. The Hogwarts Express will leave King&#8217;s Cross Station, platform nine and three- quarters, at eleven o&#8217;clock. Third- years are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade at certain weekends. Please give the enclosed permission form to your parent or guardian to sign."&#160;

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture&#160;is the&#160;soundtrack&#160;to the&#160;1996&#160;film of the same name. The soundtrack contained two separate releases: the first containing popular music from the film and the second containing the&#160;score&#160;to the film composed by Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries.

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Dorian Gray&#160;is a 2009 British&#160;fantasy-horror drama&#160;film based on&#160;Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel&#160;The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation is directed by&#160;Oliver Parker, written by Toby Finlay (his first screenplay), and stars&#160;Ben Barnes&#160;as Dorian Gray and&#160;Colin Firth&#160;as Lord Henry Wotton.

Dorian Gray (2009) Official Trailer # 1 - Ben Barnes HD

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Dorian Gray&#160;is a 2009 British fantasy-horrordrama&#160;film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel&#160;The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation is directed by&#160;Oliver Parker, written by Toby Finlay (his first screenplay), and stars&#160;Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray and&#160;Colin Firth&#160;as Lord Henry Wotton. It tells the story of the title character, an attractive Englishman whose image is captured in an enchanted painting that keeps him from aging.

&#8220;From Ailesbury road, Clyde road, artisans&#8217; dwellings, north Dublin union, lord mayor in his gingerbread coach, old queen in a bathchair. My plate&#8217;s empty. After you with our incorporated drinkingcup. Like sir Philip Crampton&#8217;s fountain. All for number one. Children fighting for the scrapings of the pot. Want a souppot as big as the Phoenix park.&#8221;

Justin Caine Burnett&#160;(born May 2, 1973) is an&#160;American film and video game music composer who composed the soundtrack for the film After in 2019.

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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet&#160;(often shortened to&#160;Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 American romantic crime tragedy&#160;film directed, co-produced, and co-written by&#160;Baz Luhrmann, co-produced by&#160;Gabriela Martinelli, and co-written by&#160;Craig Pearce. It is an adaptation and modernization of&#160;William Shakespeare's tragedy&#160;Romeo and Juliet. The film stars&#160;Leonardo DiCaprio&#160;and&#160;Calire Danes&#160;in the title roles of two teenagers who fall in love, despite their being members of feuding families.&#160;

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J.&#160;K. Rowling is a British author and screenwriter. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series. The series has won multiple awards and sold more than 500&#160;million copies, becoming the best selling book series in history. The books are the basis of a popular film series.

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City: DUBLIN

Dublin:&#160;Baile &#193;tha Cliath is the capital and largest city of&#160;Ireland.&#160;Situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey, it lies within the&#160;province&#160;of&#160;Leinster. It is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the&#160;Wicklow Mountains&#160;range. It has an&#160;urban&#160;area population of 1,173,179,&#160;while the population of the&#160;Dublin Region&#160;(formerly&#160;County Dublin&#160;) as of 2016&#160;was 1,347,359.&#160;The population of the&#160;Greater Dublin Area&#160;was 1,904,806 per the 2016 census.

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OSCAR WILDE

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde&#160;(16 October 1854&#160;&#8211; 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his&#160;epigrams&#160;and plays, his novel&#160;The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for&#160;gross indecency&#160;for consensual&#160;homosexual&#160;acts in "one of the first celebrity trials",&#160;imprisonment, and early death from&#160;meningitis&#160;at age 46.

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Verona&#160;is a&#160;city&#160;on the&#160;Adige&#160;River in Veneto&#160;Italy, with 259,610 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city&#160;municipality in the region and the second largest in northeast Italy.&#160;

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde&#160;(16 October 1854&#160;&#8211; 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his&#160;epigrams&#160;and plays, his novel&#160;The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for&#160;gross indecency&#160;for consensual&#160;homosexual&#160;acts in "one of the first celebrity trials",&#160;imprisonment, and early death from&#160;meningitis&#160;at age 46.

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The Little Mermaid (in Danish Den lille havfrue) is a bronze sculpture of a mermaid, found in the city of Copenhagen. Made by the Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen, it is located on the Langelinie coast promenade, in the bay of the Port of Copenhagen, which flows into the Baltic Sea and also close to the royal palace of Amalienborg, on rocks that jut out into the sea. Today it is the most prominent symbol of the city.

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&#8220;Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.&#8221;

"this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners, and its splendid sins&#8221;.

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Ulysses is a 1967 drama film loosely based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It concerns the meeting of two Irishmen, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, in 1904 Dublin

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a British - American fantasy film based on the third novel by J. K. Rowling, released on 31 May 2004 in the UK, and 4 June, 2004 in North America. Alfonso Cuar&#243;n made his directorial debut for the series which was distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.

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Ulysses is a 1967 drama film loosely based on James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It concerns the meeting of two Irishmen, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, in 1904 Dublin.

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The full&#160;conflated text of&#160;Hamlet&#160;can run to four hours in performance, so most film adaptations are heavily cut, sometimes by removing entire characters. Fortinbras can be excised with minimal textual difficulty, and so a major decision for the director of&#160;Hamlet, on stage or on screen, is whether or not to include him. Excluding Fortinbras removes much of the play's political&#160;dimension, resulting in a more personal performance than those in which he is retained. Fortinbras makes no appearance in Olivier's and Zeffirelli's versions, while in Kozintsev's and Branagh's films he is a major presence.

Tower Bridge is a swing and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, which spans the River Thames near the Tower of London and has become one of the symbols of the city.

The London Eye is a large Ferris wheel located on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, United Kingdom. The tallest Ferris wheel in Europe and the UK's most popular tourist attraction with over 3.75 million visitors a year, it is 135m high and the circle of the Ferris wheel is 120m in diameter.

He was an Irish writer, recognized worldwide as one of the most important and influential of the 20th century, acclaimed for his masterpiece, Ulysses, and for his controversial later novel, Finnegans Wake.

The soundtrack was composed and conducted by John Williams. It was performed at Abbey Road Studios in London and released on 25 May 2004.

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"This grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners, and its splendid sins".

Tower Bridge&#160;is a combined&#160;bascule&#160;and&#160;suspension bridge&#160;in&#160;London, built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the&#160;River Thames&#160;close to the&#160;Tower of London&#160;and has become a world-famous symbol of London.

The BIG BEN was designed by&#160;Augustus Pugin&#160;in a&#160;neo-Gothic style. When completed in 1859, its clock was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world.&#160;The tower stands 316 feet (96&#160;m) tall, and the climb from ground level to the belfry is 334 steps. Its base is square, measuring 40 feet (12&#160;m) on each side.

Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of&#160;Denmark. Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of&#160;Zeland; another portion of the city is located on&#160;Amager, and it is separated from&#160;Malmo,&#160;Sweden, by the strait of&#160;Orseund. The&#160;Orseund<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge"> </a>Bridge&#160;connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a&#160;Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now&#160;Gammel<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammel_Strand"> </a>Strand

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&#8220;What art thou that usurp&#8217;st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!&#8221;

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It is a teen romantic drama film starring Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin. The film was directed by Jenny Gage, the script was written by Anna Todd and was released on April 12, 2019, by Aviron Pictures. It is inspired by the four books of Anna Todd's literary saga. 

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London is the largest urban area and capital city of the United Kingdom. It is located in the southeast of Great Britain. The London region covers an area of 1,579 square kilometres, and had a population of 7,172,036 in 2001 and a population density of 4,542 people per square kilometre.

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Romeo and Juliet&#160;is a&#160;tragedy&#160;written by&#160;William Shakespeare&#160;early in his career about two young Italian&#160;star-crossed&#160;lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with&#160;Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as&#160;archetypal&#160;young lovers.

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An American writer, known for her written work After, a best-selling series of young adult novels.

The author began writing her work "After" in 2013 on Wattpad, where it quickly became popular. It was initially written as a fanfiction inspired by the English band One Direction, particularly one of its members, Harry Styles, who was renamed Hardin Scott in the published novel.

Dorian Gray&#160;is a 2009 British&#160;fantasy-horror drama&#160;film based on&#160;Oscar Wilde&#180;s 1890 novel&#160;The Picture of Dorian Gray. The adaptation is directed by&#160;Oliver Parker, written by Toby Finlay (his first screenplay), and stars&#160;Ben Barnes&#160;as Dorian Gray and&#160;Colin Firth&#160;as Lord Henry Wotton.

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde&#160;(16 October 1854&#160;&#8211; 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams&#160;and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for&#160;gross indecency&#160;for consensual&#160;homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials",imprisonment, and early death from&#160;meningitis&#160;at age 46.

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