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  2. Over the Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    Lyricist (s) E.Y. Harburg. " Over the Rainbow ", also known as " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. [1] It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland [2] in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. [1] It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song ...

  3. List of historical video games - Wikipedia

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    The historical video game belongs to a video game genre in which stories are based upon historical events, environments, or people. Some historical video games are simulators, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event, civilization or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow.

  4. Harold Arlen - Wikipedia

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    Children. Adopted his brother's son in 1985 [1] Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, [2] who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including ...

  5. The Story of Little Black Sambo - Wikipedia

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    Print. The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards in October 1899. As one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children, the story was popular for more than half a century. Contemporary critics observed that Bannerman ...

  6. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  7. Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

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    file. help. " Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World " (also known as " Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World ") is a medley of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World", recorded by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. First released on the 1990 album Ka ʻAnoʻi, an acoustic rendition of the medley became notable after ...

  8. Thirty-two-bar form - Wikipedia

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    Thirty-two-bar form. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg) exemplifies the 20th-century popular 32-bar song. [1] The 32- bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th ...

  9. Life (video games) - Wikipedia

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    The character has currently lost 3.5 out of 11 health points – losing all would cost a life. In video games, a life is a play-turn that a player character has, defined as the period between start and end of play. [1] Lives refer to a finite number of tries before the game ends with a game over. [2] Sometimes the euphemisms chance, try, rest ...