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As a storm recedes and the sun begins to shine, a rainbow appears in the sky. Rainbows are created when countless drops of water in the air, each acting as a tiny prism, split sunlight into the wavelengths of the visible spectrum.

Luminous arch in the sky displaying the colours of the spectrum formed by the refraction and reflection of the Sun's rays through rain or mist. Its cause was discovered by Theodoric of Freiburg in the 14th century.



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The beautiful Rainbow informed Fairer-than-a-Fairy that he was young, the son of a powerful king, and that the Fairy, Lagree, who owed his parents a grudge, had revenged herself by depriving him of his natural shape for some years; that she had imprisoned him in the palace, where he had found his confinement hard to bear for some time, but now, he owned, he no longer sighed for freedom since he had seen and learned to love Fairer-than-a-Fairy.
Pendleton, it's a baby rainbow--a real rainbow come in to pay you a visit
It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin.
 
 
 
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