Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Potter ’ s books continue to sell throughout the world, in multiple languages.

Potter ’ s paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned the largest calico printing works in England at the time, and later served as a Member of Parliament.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

She and Beatrix remained friends throughout their lives and Annie's eight children were the recipients of many of Potter ’ s delightful picture letters.

It describes Potter ’ s maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it.

Beatrix Potter ’ s parents did not discourage higher education.

Findlay included many of Potter ’ s beautifully accurate fungi drawings in his Wayside & Woodland Fungi, thereby fulfilling her desire to one day have her fungi drawings published in a book.

Potter ’ s artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

" It became one of the most famous children ’ s letters ever written and the basis of Potter ’ s future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.

The immense popularity of Potter ’ s books was based on the lively quality of her illustrations, the non-didactic nature of her stories, the depiction of the rural countryside, and the imaginative qualities she lent to her animal characters.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter ’ s private studio and work shop.

It was published only in the US during Potter ’ s lifetime, and not until 1952 in the UK.

Sister Anne, Potter ’ s version of the story of Bluebeard was written especially for her American readers but illustrated by Katharine Sturges.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

There are many interpretations of Potter ’ s literary work, the sources of her art, and interpretations of her life and times.

Potter ’ s country life and her farming has also been widely discussed in the work of Susan Denyer and by other authors in the publications of The National Trust.

Potter ’ s work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology is highlighted in several chapters in Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, 2007 ; Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.

He sold shoreline belonging to Fairbank, the William Ogden estate, the Farwell family, Potter Palmer, the Pine Street Land Association and the Chicago Title and Trust Company.

The writers of the show have stated that the dog's name is an allusion to the Harry Potter series as, like Harry, Claire Bennet has been adopted by a family who does not have any special abilities.

In 1628 his family moved to Leiden, and in 1631 to Amsterdam, where young Paulus studied painting with his father, Pieter Symonsz Potter.

Director of the first and second Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus also kept a home in River Forest due to his wife's family ties, and Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano once lived in River Forest.

Potterville is named after Linus Potter, who settled his family in the area in November, 1844.

Gazebo in Town Square behind Potter County Courthouse in Coudersport, PAThe median income for a household in the borough was $ 35, 813, and the median income for a family was $ 44, 053.

Harris was a lifelong friend of actor Peter O ' Toole, and his family reportedly hoped that O ' Toole would replace Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

* Harry Potter author JK Rowling, born in nearby Yate, named the Dursley family in the Potter books after the town.

Peter Rabbit with his family, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902

Incidentally, this ABC revival included some non-Disney family films under the banner, such as 20th Century Fox's The Sound of Music and Warner Bros .' Harry Potter films, as well as television films such as Princess of Thieves from Granada Productions, and the 2001 remake of Brian's Song from Sony Pictures Television.

Alnwick Castle, the traditional home of the Percy family, was featured in the Harry Potter movies as the location of Hogwarts.

Uncle Fred's tasks before him are to snatch the bust for Sally Painter ; get Sir Aylmer to drop his suit against Otis, so Sally will not lose the money she invested in his firm ; convince Pongo to turn down Hermione Bostock and marry Sally instead ; restore Bill Oakshott to his place as head of his family home ; and convince Constable Potter not only to not arrest him, but indeed to quit the force so he and Elsie Bean may live happily ever after.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Wright reprised the role of Ginny Weasley where her character outshines again as she plays the central role as she attends her oldest brother Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's ( played by Domhnall Gleeson and Clémence Poésy ) wedding, sees concern for her family and fights the Death Eaters and also revived The Dumbledore's Army in the same film becoming the leader of the group alongside Neville and Luna and in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 her central role continues to be Harry Potter's love interest and she also takes part in the Battle of Hogwarts despite Harry Potter and Molly Weasley's disinterest, she later becomes the cause of the death of Bellatrix Lestrange ( played by Helena Bonham Carter ) and nineteen years later, her outshining character of Ginny finally becomes Harry Potter's wife and mother to their three children James ( played by William Dunn ), Albus ( played by Arthur Bowen ) and Lily ( played by Daphne de Beistegui ) and sees the children off to Hogwarts.

A family of Cuckoo wasps also exist, many of which lay their eggs in the nests of Potter and Mud dauber wasps, and many other lineages of wasps in various families have evolved similar habits.

The Potter family, being new to the Land of the Lost, named the T-Rex for his facial feature, rather than his grumpy attitude.

* Daniel Radcliffe – The Harry Potter star's family owns a house in Toorak.

He is joined by producer David Heyman, who Cuarón worked with on Harry Potter.

Whenever Potter went on holiday to the Lake District or Scotland, she sent letters to young friends illustrating them with quick sketches.

In September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

Potter and Heelis were married on 15 October 1913 in London at St. Mary Abbots in Kensington.

Potter was a generous patron of the Girl Guides whose troops she allowed to make their summer encampments on her lands and whose company she enjoyed as an older woman.

Potter died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at Castle Cottage.

In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter ’ s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

* Harry Potter Lexicon article on centaurs in the Harry Potter universe

Potter has stated on several occasions that he never top-roped the Arch and no photos exist of Potter using a top rope setup on the Arch.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.

The 22 November 1970 edition of The Sunday Times reported that on 5 August 1967, four days before the murder, Orton went to the Chelsea Potter pub in the King's Road.

In the Harry Potter novel series, the character Albus Dumbledore has a scar on his left knee that resembles a perfect map of the London Underground.

Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.