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  2. The Fun They Had - Wikipedia

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    "The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).

  3. Dick and Jane - Wikipedia

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    Fun With Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in ...

  4. Earth Is Room Enough - Wikipedia

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    Earth Is Room Enough is a collection of fifteen short science fiction and fantasy stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1957.In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov wrote, "I was still thinking of the remarks of reviewers such as George O. Smith... concerning my penchant for wandering over the Galaxy.

  5. List of Toy Story characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of characters from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story franchise which consists of the animated feature films Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4, and Lightyear. This list also includes characters from the Toy Story Toons series and the television specials Toy Story of Terror! and Toy Story That Time Forgot.

  6. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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    As stated in the book's introduction, the weather in the book is often appropriate to the mood swings of the characters in the book, and the region of Saro City receives rains that last several days. The first major weather fluctuation mentioned in the book is the sandstorm that Siferra 89 avoided by hiding under a tarpaulin with her crew.

  7. Jumping the shark - Wikipedia

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    Fonzie (Henry Winkler) on water skis, in a scene from the 1977 Happy Days episode "Hollywood: Part 3", after jumping over a sharkThe idiom "jumping the shark" or to "jump the shark" means that a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with or an extreme exaggeration (caricature) of its ...

  8. Talk:The Fun They Had - Wikipedia

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    There's no citation for "It has been modified in a Finnish English book called KEY English 8-9." which appears on various webpages with the exact unidiomatic English.

  9. List of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival character costumes

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    The Indian character is one of the most common costume depictions in Carnival because of its versatility in terms of design, price, and band size. [26] [14] [27] [28] American Indian characters in carnivals pay tribute to the Maroon communities that formed during slavery and to the African Indigenous marriages in North America under Spanish ...