During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

During the second era ( 7th – 9th editions, 1827 – 1901 ), the Britannica was managed by the Edinburgh publishing firm, A & C Black.

During the next three years, she continued her battle to qualify by studying privately with various professors, including some at the University of St Andrews, the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and the London Hospital Medical School.

During the course of 1802, the Society created four plaster casts of the inscriptions, which were given to the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh and to Trinity College Dublin.

During a similar operation in 1943, Operation Cockade, a fictional field army ( British Fourth Army ) had been created, head-quartered in Edinburgh Castle.

During the war, he worked as a RAMC captain at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh, where he applied techniques of psychoanalysis to British officers suffering from various forms of neurosis brought on by their war experiences.

During the reigns of Malcolm III and his sons, Edinburgh Castle became one of the most significant royal centres in Scotland.

During the negotiations, Edward stayed briefly at Edinburgh Castle, and may have received homage from Scottish nobles at the castle.

During this period, she toured the United States and Canada, and appeared in Yugoslavia and at the Edinburgh Festival.

During the Second World War, Irving's father was an officer aboard the light cruiser HMS Edinburgh.

During one voyage in 1830 he was wrecked on the Scottish coast near Leith, as a result of which he came into contact with Edinburgh architect James Gillespie Graham, who advised him to abandon seafaring for architecture.

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s the castle was the setting for a military tattoo to rival that of Edinburgh, the floodlit keep providing a spectacular backdrop.

During 18th century many European kings followed and founded their own academy of sciences: in 1714 in Bologna, in 1724 the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1731 the Royal Dublin Society, in 1735 in Tuscany, in 1739 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 1742 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in 1751 the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, in 1754 in Erfurt, in 1759 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in 1763 the Academia Theodoro-Palatina in Heidelberg, in 1779 the Sciences Academy of Lisbon, in 1783 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1782 the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, in 1784 in Turin.

During Pritchard's time, the society commissioned Walton to write his second symphony, which received its première at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960.

During the annual Edinburgh Festival, the High Street becomes the city's central focus, and is crowded with tourists, entertainers and buskers.

During the academic year 1956 – 1957, he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow.

During the confusion which followed Cromwell's death on 3 September 1658, Monck remained silent and watchful at Edinburgh, careful only to secure his hold on his troops.

During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon ; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh, in 1617, he published the first chiliad of his logarithms.

During the 1960s Prince Charles attended the school on the recommendation of his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, who had been one of the first pupils to attend Gordonstoun, having previously been educated at Salem in Germany.

During late 2000 and early 2001, Lee " gradually, incrementally and without any fanfare – or even much thought – gave up being a stand-up comedian ", and 2001 became the first year since 1987 that he did not perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.

During Mrs Grote's convalescence at Hampstead, he wrote his first published work, the " Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform " ( 1821 ), in reply to Sir James Mackintosh's article in the Edinburgh Review, advocating popular representation, vote by ballot and short parliaments.

During the 19th century tenements became the predominant type of new housing in Scotland's industrial cities, although they were very common in the Old Town in Edinburgh from the 15th century where they reached ten or eleven storeys high and in one case fourteen storeys.

During Alexander's tenure, Government House's first post-war Canadian royal visitors were the heiress presumptive to the throne, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ( later Queen Elizabeth II ), and her husband, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who came in late 1951 and, amongst other activities, took part in a square dance in the ballroom ( replete with checked shirts ).

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

During September the town holds the Abergavenny Food Festival.

Culture and the arts flourished, with grandiose artworks such as Along the River During the Qingming Festival and Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, along with great Buddhist painters like the prolific Lin Tinggui.

Horloge Fleurie at the Quai du Général-Guisan ( Jardin Anglais ) During the 2012 Geneva Festival

During this period he was also awarded prizes at the Cannes Film Festival on three occasions.

During his time as a student at the school he made the films Nocturne and The Last Detail, both of which won Best Film awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.

Court painters made new versions of the Song Dynasty masterpiece, Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival whose depiction of a prosperous and happy realm demonstrated the beneficence of the emperor.

Canned Heat's Alan Wilson also helped bring slide guitar to the rock music industry in the late 1960s which he used frequently during concerts to create a buzzing delta blues boogie which can be heard on tracks such as London Blues, I Love My Baby, Sandy Blues, and countless others and can also be seen during their performances at the Monterey Pop Festival on Rollin and Tumblin ' and at Woodstock During Woodstock Boogie and On The Road Again.

Early in the century, Zhang Zeduan paints Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

* April 5 – During the Cold Food Festival, Chinese Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of tug of war within a palace of Chang ' an City.

During the 12 months it was open there were approximately 6. 5 million visitors — significantly fewer than the approximately 10 million paying visitors that attended the Festival of Britain, which only ran from May to September.

During his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.

During an interview at the Cannes Film Festival with Ali Naderzad, Deneuve was asked which was her own favorite film.

During June, Memphis is home to the Memphis Italian Festival at Marquette Park.

During the Portland Rose Festival every summer, the Tigard Festival of Balloons is held at Cook Park near Tigard High School.

During the 1990s, Haifa hosted the Haifa Rock & Blues Festival featuring Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Blur and PJ Harvey.

A prime example of a highly venerated court painter was Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 ) who painted an enormous panoramic painting, Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

Junk ( ship ) | Chinese boats from Zhang Zeduan's ( 1085 – 1145 ) painting Along the River During Qingming Festival ; Chinese ships of the Song period featured Hull ( watercraft ) | hulls with Bulkhead ( partition ) | watertight compartments.

During the first quarter of September, the great Wine Festival of Cyprus takes place in the Limassol Municipal Garden, every evening between 8. 00 hrs-23. 00 hrs.

During 2006, the band has played only once in Sweden on the Hultsfred Festival and on two festivals in Norway.

Zhang Zeduan was a notable painter for his horizontal Along the River During Qingming Festival landscape and cityscape painting.

During his appearance at the Jules Verne Festival in France ( 2008 ), Curtis revealed on the set of Laurent Ruquier's TV show that he and Monroe were lovers in the late 1940s when they were first struggling for recognition in films.