The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs) is a Belgian comic and television franchise centred on a group of Smurfs: small blue fictional creatures that live in mushrooms. The Smurfs were first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958. The word â€œSmurfâ€ is the original Dutch translation of the French "Schtroumpf", which, according to Peyo, is a word invented during a meal with fellow cartoonist AndrÃ© Franquin, when he could not remember the word salt.[3] There are more than one hundred Smurfs, whose names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics, e.g. "Jokey Smurf", who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow smurfs, "Clumsy Smurf", who has a habit of creating havoc unintentionally, and "Smurfette"â€”the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series. The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps, which represented freedom in Roman times.[citation needed] The Smurf franchise began as a comic and expanded into advertising, movies, TV series, ice capades, video games, theme parks, and dolls.[22][23]

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is a 2013 American fantasy-adventure film based on the Rick Riordan novel of the same name.[4] It is a sequel to the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and continues the adventures of Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) and his friends, as they search for the Golden Fleece at the titular Sea of Monsters to save an ailing magical tree that protects their home from foes. Originally planned for a release in March 2013 the film was pushed to August of the same year. The film was released on August 7, 2013,[5] and was converted to 3D in post-production. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed almost $140 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of $90 million and has not yet released in certain major commercial markets.

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.[1] A 'documentary film' was originally shot on film stockâ€”the only medium availableâ€”but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.[2]

This article is about the website and its owner Facebook, Inc. For the photographic directory, see face book. Page semi-protected Facebook, Inc. Facebook.svg Facebookhomedecember2012.png Screenshot of Facebook main page on August 1 2013 Type Public Traded as NASDAQ: FB Foundation date Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. (February 4, 2004) Headquarters Menlo Park, California, U.S. Area served United States (2004â€“05) Worldwide (2005â€“present) Founder(s) Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes Key people Mark Zuckerberg (Chairman and CEO) Sheryl Sandberg (COO) Industry Internet Revenue Increase $5.1 billion (2012)[1] Operating income Decrease US$ 538 million (2012)[2] Net income Increase US$ 53 million (2012)[2] Total assets Increase US$ 15.10 billion (2012)[2] Total equity Increase US$ 11.75 billion (2012)[2] Employees 5,299 (June,2013)[3] Subsidiaries Instagram Website facebook.com Written in C++ and PHP[4] Alexa rank positive decrease 1 (August 2013)[5] Type of site Social networking service Registration Required Users 1.15 billion (active March 2013)[6] Available in Multilingual (70) Launched February 4, 2004 Current status Active Facebook History Timeline Statistics Acquisitions Criticism Features Facebook is an online social networking service, whose name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other.[7] It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.[9] Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users,[10] of which 8.7% are fake.[11] According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.[12] Facebook (as of 2012) has about 180 petabytes of data a year and grows by over half a petabyte every 24 hours. [13] In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer[14] added $1 million of his own money to the pot. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.[15] Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[16] Facebook eventually filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California.[2] Facebook Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012.[17] Based on its 2012 income of USD 5.1 Billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time, being placed at position of 462 on the list published in May 2013.[18]

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