Top Ten Most Famous Paintings in World History - Jan. 16, 2025

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Top Ten Most Famous Paintings in World History

As “famous” is a subjective term, CNN Style turned to Google to see which paintings topped search results worldwide over the past five years.

We compared dozens of popular masterpieces – from classics such as “Mona Lisa,” “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” and the “Salavator Mundi,” to more modern works like “Nighthawks” and even the “Dogs Playing Poker” series.

Based on those results, these are the world’s 10 most searched-for paintings:

10) Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

9) Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

8) The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

7) Girl With a Pearl Earing by Johannes Vermeer

6) The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

5) ___________________

4) …

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Top Ten States With Highest Marijuana Consumption

The United States is the country that smokes the most weed in the world. The American legal cannabis industry fared well in 2023 as legal sales across the 38 states that allow some form of regulated marijuana reached $28.8 billion, a 10.3% increase from the previous year.

The following states have been ranked by their total percentage of residents aged 12 or older who reported consuming cannabis within the past 30 days before the survey.

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Top Ten TV Networks With the Best Shows

Is modern television better than film? Movie stars are stepping down from the silver screen to star in award-winning TV shows. Which channels have the best of the bunch? As competition increases, cable companies, and premium networks are producing some of the best series the world has ever seen, working to compete with streaming services and video on demand channels.

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Top Ten Mind-Bending Ideas About Black Holes

Black holes are bizarre yet fascinating objects. Regions of space and time are so dense and have such strong gravitational attraction that they consume anything and everything that might wander too close. Not even light can escape their pull, making it impossible to see directly. Instead, scientists scour the cosmos for a lack of photons—a sudden drop in light particles—or for the radiation they emit.

Here are ten of the most breathtaking recent black hole moments for you to try and get your head around.

Animals

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FidoAlert has released a brand new, interactive dog naming tool. Using their proprietary database of over 1.3 million pets, they have analyzed the data to report the most popular dog names in the country by gender, breed, and coat color.

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