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Elisha R. Potter was the Democratic candidate.
Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.
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.
Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour.
Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation.
Potter ’ s family on both sides was from the Manchester area.
Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.
Beatrix Potter was interested in every branch of natural science save astronomy.
Potter was eclectic in her tastes ; collecting fossils, studying archeological artifacts from London excavations, and interested in entomology.
It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper.
In her teenage years Potter was a regular visitor to the art galleries of London, particularly enjoying the summer and winter exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London.
Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.
Potter was pleased by this success and determined to publish her own illustrated stories.
In September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.
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.
Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter ’ s private studio and work shop.
Potter was interested in preserving not only the Herdwick sheep, but the way of life of fell farming.
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.
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.
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.

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Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".
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 is also featured in a series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert.
Storylines throughout the decade included: a warehouse fire in 1975, the birth of Tracy Langton in 1977, the murder of Ernest Bishop in 1978, a lorry crashing into the Rovers Return in 1979, and the marriage of Brian Tilsley and Gail Potter ( also in 1979 ).
The 1980s also saw the cementing of relationships between established characters: Alf Roberts ( Bryan Mosley ) married Audrey Potter ( Sue Nicholls ) in 1985, Kevin Webster ( Michael Le Vell ) married Sally Seddon ( Sally Dynevor ) in 1986.
Extended or special editions can also apply to films that have been extended for television and video against the wishes of the director, such as the TV versions of Dune ( 1984 ) and the Harry Potter films, and the DVD editions of Ridley Scott films Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and American Gangster.
Melville also wrote Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man and many short stories, including " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " and " Benito Cereno ," and works of various genres.
Hydro-metallurgical, and magnetic separation methods were also tried, but the main breakthrough came in 1902 when Delprat and Potter independently devised processes that would eventually be patented as the Delprat-Potter method.
The Harry Potter series was filmed at the studios, whilst the 1996 James Bond film GoldenEye was also filmed there.
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.
It is also responsible for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 as Warner Bros .' highest grossing movie ever ( the former was The Dark Knight ).
Rowling also disclosed that after the publication of Prisoner of Azkaban, there was one female fan who guessed Snape loved Lily Potter, making Rowling wonder how she had given herself away.
Other words also spelled " muggle " have been in use over the years, but often they are unrelated to the term used in the Harry Potter series.
Framestore was also nominated for Oscars in 2007 ( Superman Returns ), in 2009 ( The Dark Knight ) and again in 2010 ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 ).
" Julia Turner from Slate Magazine also noted similarities between the events of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the current War on Terror.
Voldemort also appears in the Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega.
It is also explained in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that the Snitch has a " flesh memory ", able to recall the first person who has touched it, and will respond only to the first person who caught it.
Shannara is an epic fantasy The Elfstones of Shannara, the first planned movie, was to be filmed and directed by Mike Newell, who was also responsible for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and more recently Prince of Persia.
Fry is also known for his voice-overs, reading all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings, and as the narrator in the Little Big Planet series of video games.
** Ted Hoff and Stan Mazor and Larry Potter ( IBM Chief Scientist of IBM ) proposed a single-chip implementation of the CTC architecture, using RAM register memory rather than shift register memory, and also added a few instructions and interrupt facility.

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