In interviews [2] [3], JK Rowling has suggested that the name 'Hogwarts' derives from a type of lily which she had seen at Kew Gardens some time before writing the Harry Potter books. By coincidence, the name Hogwarts also features in the Molesworth books. The Hogwarts is the title of one of Molesworth's imitation Latin plays, and Hoggwart is also the name of the headmaster of Porridge Court, a rival of St. Custard's, Molesworth's terrible prep school. It has also been suggested that JK Rowling may have found some inspiration from Atlantic College, a real co-educational boarding school in Brit ...

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There are 4 main points of entry for prospective pupils: For the Under School, at ages 7 and 11, judged by a combination of internal exam and interview. For the Lower School, at age 13, judged by either Common Entrance, a standardised, national set of exams for entrance to independent schools, for standard entry, or the Challenge, an internal set of exams, for scholarship entry, as well as interview. For the Upper School, at age 16, judged by subject-specific exams and interviews and conditional upon GCSE results. This is the only point of en ...

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Hogwarts - Hagrid's Hut. Hagrid lives in a small hut on the grounds, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, with his very large dog, Fang, who is actually a coward. Hogwarts - The Forbidden Forest. The Forbidden Forest is the forest on the ground of Hogwarts school. Though never referred to as the forbidden forest directly by any character in the books, it is referred to by this name in a chapter title in the first book in the series. When it is discussed in the books it is usually called "the forest on the school grounds" which is "forbidden to students" owing to a variety of ...

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The main campus is centered around Harvard Yard in central Cambridge, and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. The Harvard Business School and many of the university's athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located in Allston, on the other side of the Charles River from Harvard Square. Harvard Medical School is located in the Longwood district of Boston. Harvard Yard itself contains the central administrative offices and main libraries of the University, several academic buildings, Memorial Church, a ...

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Only one Dymaxion house was ever constructed and lived-in. The prototype was purchased as salvage by an enthusiast after the venture failed. This prototype was constructed of aluminum, and remains in existence. It was inhabited for about thirty years, although as an extension to an existing ranch house, rather than standing alone as intended by Fuller. It was extensively restored and installed indoors in the Henry Ford Museum in 2001. Regrettably, during erection, a crucial internal rain-gutter was omitted because the factory-trained ...

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On Shrove Tuesdays since 1753 the 'Greaze' takes place "up School", in which the head cook is required to throw a horsehair pancake over the bar that used to separate the parts of the schoolroom, for which elected members of the school fight for one minute whilst being watched over by the Dean of Westminster Abbey and the Head Master; the pupil with the largest piece after the minute is up being the winner, and awarded a sovereign. Were the cook to fail to get the 'pancake' over the bar within 3 tries, he or she would have been booked, or pe ...

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Harvard University - Media and campus publications. Radio station WHRB (95.3FM Cambridge), is run exclusively by Harvard students, and is given space on the Harvard campus in the basement of Pennypacker Hall, a freshman dorm. Known throughout the Boston metropolitan area for its classical, jazz, underground rock and blues programming, WHRB uses the radio "Orgy" format, where the entire catalog of a certain band, record, or artist is played in sequence. The Harvard Crimson is United States' oldest c ...

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The 14th century Abbot's state dining hall, now named 'College Hall', may be one of the oldest and finest examples of medieval refectory in existence. The School uses it for its original purpose every day in term-time, whilst during the holidays it reverts to the Dean, as the Abbot's successor. Elizabeth Woodville took sanctuary here in 1483 with 5 daughters and her son Richard, but failed to save him from his fate as one of the Princes in the Tower. In the 1560s Queen Elizabeth I several times came to see her scholars act their Latin Plays on a stage in front of the attractive Elizabethan gallery, which ...

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Numerous parallels have been seen between the events and characters in A Song of Ice and Fire and events and people involved in the Wars of the Roses. Two of the principal families in A Song of Ice and Fire, the Starks and the Lannisters, are seen as representing the historical House of York and House of Lancaster, respectively. Martin is an avid student of medieval Europe, and has said that the Wars of the Roses, along with many other events in Europe during that time, have influenced the series. However, he insists tha ...

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A Song of Ice and Fire is set in a fictitious world reminiscent of Europe in the Middle Ages, except for the fact that in this world, seasons can last as long as a decade. Driven by members of the Houses, great and small, the plot is recounted from the perspectives of more than ten main characters and takes place on the continents of Westeros and the eastern continent, the former being the locale of fierce power struggles between several aristocratic families after the death of king Robert Baratheon, who by lineage, marriage and perso ...

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There are 4 main points of entry for prospective pupils: For the Under School, at ages 7 and 11, judged by a combination of internal exam and interview. For the Lower School, at age 13, judged by either Common Entrance, a standardised, national set of exams for entrance to independent schools, for standard entry, or the Challenge, an internal set of exams, for scholarship entry, as well as interview. For the Upper School, at age 16, judged by subject-specific exams and interviews and conditional upon GCSE results. This is the only point of en ...

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Hogwarts Castle is an ancient, rambling castle with seven floors in a mountainous and secluded location somewhere in the UK. Its precise location has not been revealed in the books, but the author has suggested that she envisions it to be in Scotland[1]. The castle has extensive grounds, including a mountain lake, a large and dense forest, a number of greenhouses, a graveyard, seve ...

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So far, the series consists of 4 published novels: A Game of Thrones (1996) A Clash of Kings (1999) A Storm of Swords (2000) A Feast for Crows (2005) Martin has also published two short stories in the same setting, often called Dunk and Egg stories after their two protagonists. These stories are set about 90 years before the events in A Game of Thrones. The Hedge Knight (appeared in Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg, 1998), also adapted as a graphic novel The Sworn Sword (appeared in See also:

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The federal government in the U.S. provides subsidies to make housing more affordable. Financial assistance is provided for homeowners through the mortgage interest tax deduction and for lower income households through housing subsidy programs. In the 1970s the federal government spent somewhat equal amounts on tax expenditures for homeowners and low income housing subsidies, however by 2005 tax expenditures had risen to $120 billion per year, representing nearly 80 percent of all federal housing assistance. (See Chart.) [1] The Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform for President Bush proposed reducing the mortgage interest tax ...

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Harvard's foundation in 1636 came in the form of an act of the colony's Great and General Court. By all accounts the chief impetus was to allow the training of home-grown clergy so the Puritan colony would not need to rely on immigrating graduates of England's Oxford and Cambridge universities for well-educated pastors, "dreading," as a 1643 brochure put it, "to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches." In its first year, seven of the original nine st ...

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Hogwarts - Early History. Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by two wizards and two witches: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Helga Hufflepuff. Shortly after founding Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin fell out with the other founders. Slytherin wanted to admit only pure-blood students, but the other three founders disagreed. Slytherin left the school, but not before secretly building the Chamber of Secrets. When an eventual successor, the Heir of Slytherin, returned to the school, he or she would be able to open the Chamber, unleash a horrible Basilisk, and purge the s ...

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Hogwarts - Hagrid's Hut. Hagrid lives in a small hut on the grounds, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, with his very large dog, Fang, who is actually a coward. Hogwarts - The Forbidden Forest. The Forbidden Forest is the forest on the ground of Hogwarts school. Though never referred to as the forbidden forest directly by any character in the books, it is referred to by this name in a chapter title in the first book in the series. When it is discussed in the books it is usually called "the forest on the school grounds" which is "forbidden to students" owing to a variety of ...

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In interviews [2] [3], Rowling has suggested that the name 'Hogwarts' derives from a type of lily which she had seen at Kew Gardens some time before writing the Harry Potter books. By coincidence, the name Hogwarts also features in the Molesworth books. The Hogwarts is the title of one of Molesworth's imitation Latin plays, and Hoggwart is also the name of the headmaster of Porridge Court, a rival of St. Custard's, Molesworth's terrible prep school. It has also been suggested that Rowling may have found some inspiration from Atlantic College, a real co-educational boarding school in Brit ...

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The School is located primarily in the former grounds of the long-defunct monastery at Westminster Abbey, its main buildings surrounding its private square Little Dean's Yard (known as 'Yard'), off Dean's Yard, where Church House, the headquarters of the Anglican Church, is sited, along with some of the Houses, the Common Room, the new humanities building Weston's, and College Hall. The humanities are also taught in Sutcliff's (named after the sweet shop that used to occupy the ground floor of the building in the 19th century) on the ...

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The motto of Hogwarts is "Draco dormiens numquam titillandus", which in Latin means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon". Creator J. K. Rowling said she wanted a practical motto for Hogwarts, since so many schools have less pragmatic ones such as "Reach for the stars". Students at Hogwarts are divided into four houses, each bearing the name of one of the school's original founders. Students are assigned to a house based on their particular academic and personal strengths and weaknesses. The houses are: Gryffindor, c ...

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Hogwarts Castle is an ancient, rambling and historic castle with seven floors in a mountainous and secluded location in Scotland. [1]. The castle has extensive grounds, including a loch (mountain lake), a large and dense forest called the Forbidden Forest due to the dangerous creatures there, a number of greenhouses, a graveyard (this is the white marble tomb of one Hogwarts' most famous headmasters, Albus Dumbledore), several outbuildings and a full-size Quiddi ...

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Hogwarts has a number of teachers, all granted the title of professor on appointment, each specializing in a single subject. Other staff positions at the s