is a Japanese

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television series created by

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. The show originally aired from 1983 to 1985 and was primarily educational. Episodes usually dealt with scientific discoveries and inventions, though there were also a few futuristic and

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stories and situations. The series has been translated into many languages, including Spanish (as ''Los mil viajes en los sueños de Mimi''), French (as ''Ordy ou les Grandes Découvertes''), Portuguese (as ''Descobertas sem limite''), Hebrew (as דימי בעקבות התגליות הגדולות, Dimi Following the great discoveries, Dimi Be'Iqvot HaTagliot HaGdolot), Arabic (as ''اسألوا لبيبة'' ; Ask Labeebah; "Is'aloo Labeebah"), Serbo-Croatian (as ''Otkrića bez granica''), Macedonian (as ''Откритија без граници''), Persian (as "ماجراهای دانی‌"; Adventure of Dani ), Dutch (as ''Eindeloze Ontdekkingen'') and Cantonese (as 小豆丁).

Notable persons presented in the show

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* Alexander Fleming * Alexander Graham Bell *

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Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He wa ...

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Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a " natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the grea ...

* James Watt *

Jean-Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Biography Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint-L ...

* Jean-François Champollion * Johannes Kepler * Louis Pasteur *

Nicéphore Niépce Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833), commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor, usually credited with the invention of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he us ...

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* Wright brothers

References

External links

* 1983 anime television series debuts Adventure anime and manga Drama anime and manga Nippon Animation Science fiction anime and manga {{Anime-television-series-stub