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I'm currently reading the penultimate chapter of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and I can only assume that my reading comprehension has completely failed me.
As I understand it, Buckbeak is tied to a fence by a rope and Harry has grabbed this rope and used it to drag Buckbeak in to th...
I am looking for a good novel that belongs to the above genre .
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A librarian friend received the following query about a novel a customer read long ago. I hope somebody can help:
The situation is that it can be foreseen that the Earth will collapse / break down - for whatever reason I do not remember - perhaps pollution. To prevent this from causing the annih...
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Janet and Hope's surnames in the MCU are van Dyne yet Hank's is Pym. Janet is married to Hank and Hope is their daughter. It is usually the case that a wife will take their husband's surname upon marriage and the daughter will then take that name as well.
I've seen the theory that Janet didn't t...
Can you tell me what are the daughters of Marvel superheroes?
Dumbledore himself said this:
“If you planned your death with Snape, you meant him to end up with
the Elder Wand, didn’t you?”
“I admit that was my intention,” said Dumbledore, “but it did not work
as I had intended, did it?”
Meaning Dumbledore definitely should understand that Vol...
Star Trek has been making up fictitious materials since season 1 -- dilithium, for instance, which (in an Animated Series episode, was said to have a helical structure similar to DNA).
Some of these, however, have similar names and are used in similar contexts to real world materials. For insta...
When Rios talked to Rafi about what happened on the ibn Majid in Picard season 1, he said they had traveled way out to the Vayt system. Did he not realize what that meant when they agreed to take Soji home? What would they have done without the Borg portals?
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In a sixth grade literature textbook (c. 2001), I red a short story or fable (I'm thinking Chinese in origin) about a poor man who goes on a journey to a place that'll give him three wishes so that he can be wealthy.
On the way there, he is stopped by three guardians of some kind, who attempt to...
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Topic Challenges run on some various sites across the network, for example on Literature, and are a good way to bring in traffic, certainly to low traffic tags. They are featured in the side bar in an "Upcoming Events" section and help promote certain things.
Something I've seen arou...
If I recall correctly, it was:
set in the future
based on the roman model of civilization and empire
about a guy who was training to become a legionnaire
telling the story of his training, deployment, first battles, survival about his
becoming friends with another warrior (possibly not original...
I am searching for a short story that my 7th grade social studies teacher told me many years ago, and that I have never forgotten.
Below is what I remember from the text.
I recall it being written by a fairly esteemed professor or PhD. (likely of psychology or philosophy)
The story explains s...
captain america is seen using his shield and being able to break a wall halfway. With kinetic energy calculations would this be feasible in real life?
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Q: Story: planet bound people experience time normally, and they meet space people once in a generation
This is a short story that I read as part of a story collection.
There are people living on a planet, and other people living either on a spaceship or a space station. The main thing is that people in space are either hibernating or experiencing time very slowly relative to ground people, due to...
In a quiet place everyone has to stay silent or risk being hunted by the alien monsters. Has it ever been defined what the range and sensitivity is, or are there just lots of monsters distributed across the planet?
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