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Artist Elena Sheidlina Reimagines Horace Slughorn's Attempt to Hide from the Death Eaters
The artist Elena Sheidlina has reimagined Horace Slughorn's attempt to hide from the Death Eaters. On this occasion, no dragon's blood was needed to discover the hiding place.
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Napoleon's felt hat, allegedly worn by him in 1815, sold for €1,932,000
Napoleon's felt hat, allegedly worn by him in 1815, sold for €1,932,000. It is the highest price ever fetched at auction by any of Napoleon's hats
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Yesenin's marriage to a wife 18 years his senior lasted just over a year
Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan. Yesenin was eighteen years her junior; their marriage was brief, lasting little more than a year, but brilliant
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Éomer of Rohan Rests in the Shade of His Shield
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Hannibal Barca from a Phoenician aristocratic family and the question of his appearance
Denzel Washington to play the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who invaded Italy on an elephant from North Africa, in a new Netflix project. The director is Antoine Fuqua, who has filmed Washington before: think of the action film The Equalizer. As for the historical figure, it is hard to speak of
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I have learned of a wonderfully intriguing theory that the Harry Potter books are set in the Sixth Age of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings, when magic had ceased to be commonplace, the elves had left the stage, and those who remained turned into ho
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Did you, too, imagine Ron Weasley's return to Hogwarts rather differently?
Rupert Grint on the set of "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" two years ago
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry furious over new scene from Family Guy in which they sit by a swimming pool complaining that they must do yet another sponsored social media post for $250,000
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Is Everyone Ready for the Third Season of The White Lotus Without Tanya McQuoid?
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Have you ever heard the sound of cicadas?
Have you ever heard the sound of cicadas? I am sure that, if you have, the rustle of a flock of birds is ringing in your ears even now, suddenly turning into a full, rolling cry that falls as though from above with a crackle, striking every surface with a
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