On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga retired 26 consecutive Cleveland Indians batters. He needed one more out. Jason Donald hit a routine ground ball to first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who flipped... Read More →
Only 13 horses have done it. Out of the thousands of Thoroughbreds foaled each year, out of the hundreds that enter the Kentucky Derby, out of the handful good enough to win the first... Read More →
“I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.” With those words in... Read More →
Between 1975 and 2005, exactly 42 basketball players did something that sounds, in hindsight, completely insane: they skipped college entirely and entered the NBA Draft straight from high school. No March Madness. No college... Read More →
The Harry Potter series is the best-selling book series in history, with over 600 million copies sold worldwide and translations into more than 85 languages. What started as a modest 77,000-word children’s novel published... Read More →
“The wand chooses the wizard. That much has always been clear to those of us who have studied wandlore.” With those words, spoken to an eleven-year-old Harry Potter inside his cramped shop on Diagon... Read More →
The wizarding world of Harry Potter teems with magical creatures – from the terrifying to the adorable, from ancient beasts lurking in forbidden forests to tiny pests hiding in household attics. J.K. Rowling built... Read More →
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has always been defined as much by its teachers as by its students. Over a thousand years of magical education, the castle has employed brilliant scholars, dangerous frauds,... Read More →
Lord Voldemort’s Death Eaters are among the most feared figures in the wizarding world – a cadre of dark wizards and witches bound by the Dark Mark and a fanatical devotion to pure-blood supremacy.... Read More →
Of all the Dark Magic in the wizarding world, none is more terrifying than the Horcrux – an object infused with a fragment of a wizard’s soul, granting its creator a twisted form of... Read More →
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