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Around the World in 80 Days is a side-scrolling action-adventure game. Set in the 19th century, it features pre-rendered sprites, and follows almost the film's storyline and most of its locations. In the game, the player controls Passepartout, a Chinese valet hired by an inventor Phileas Fogg in attempts to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They were part of the Nederbeat movement in the Netherlands.The band had a string of hit songs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard" and "Venus", which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970.
The first list includes estimates compiled by the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook, the second list shows the World Bank's data, and the third list includes data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division. The IMF's definitive data for the past year and estimates for the current year are published twice a year in ...
The classic Seven Wonders were: Great Pyramid of Giza, in Giza, Egypt, the earliest of the wonders to be completed, as well as the only one that still exists in the present day. Colossus of Rhodes, in the harbor of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name. Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babylon ...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the 1873 book Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. She carried out the journey for Joseph Pulitzer 's tabloid newspaper, the ...
Master of the World ( French: Maître du monde ), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. At the time Verne wrote the novel, his health was failing. Master of the World is a "black novel," filled with foreboding and fear of the rise of tyrants such as the novel's villain, Robur, and ...
Running time. 70 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. My Song Goes Round the World is a 1934 British musical film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Joseph Schmidt, John Loder and Charlotte Ander. [1] It was an English-language version of the 1933 German film A Song Goes Round the World, also directed by Oswald.
April 16. ( 1989-04-16) –. April 18, 1989. ( 1989-04-18) Around the World in 80 Days is a three-part television miniseries originally broadcast on NBC from April 16 to 18, 1989. [1] The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. [2] The teleplay by John Gay is based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel of the same title.