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  2. A Sound of Thunder - Wikipedia

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    English. Genre (s) Science fiction. Publication. Published in. Collier's. Publication date. June 28, 1952. " A Sound of Thunder " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine on June 28, 1952, and later in Bradbury's 1953 collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. [ 1 ]

  3. Sweet Child o' Mine - Wikipedia

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    "Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, released on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). In the United States, the song was released in June 1988 as the album's first single, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the band's only US number-one single.

  4. Mystic chord - Wikipedia

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    In jazz music, on the other hand, such chords are extremely common, and in this setting the mystic chord can be viewed simply as a C13#11 chord with the fifth omitted. In the score to the right is an example of a Duke Ellington composition that uses a different voicing of this chord at the end of the second bar, played on E (E13#11).

  5. Black Sabbath (album) - Wikipedia

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    [10] Aside from the bells, thunder and rain sound effects added to the beginning of the opening track and the double-tracked guitar solos on "N.I.B." and "Sleeping Village", there were virtually no overdubs added to the album. [7] Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought, 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played ...

  6. Amazing Grace - Wikipedia

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    John Newton, 1778 According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, "Amazing Grace" is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse. In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames. His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent, unaffiliated with the Anglican Church. She ...

  7. Thunder - Wikipedia

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    Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightning produces rapid expansion of the air in the path of a lightning bolt . [ 4 ]

  8. Tonic (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, the tonic is the first scale degree () of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone [1] that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key -based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music. In the movable do solfège system, the tonic note is sung as do.

  9. Do-Re-Mi - Wikipedia

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    Lyricist (s) Oscar Hammerstein II. " Do-Re-Mi " is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time arranger Trude Rittmann who devised the extended vocal sequence in ...