Rowling has stated on her website that there are no true pure-blood families left, but that those who call themselves such simply strike Muggles, Squibs, and Half-bloods from their family records.

Exceptions exist: those unable to do magic who are born to magical parents are known as Squibs, whereas a witch or wizard born to Muggle parents is known as a Muggle-born, or by the pejorative " Mudblood ".

While Muggle-borns are quite common, Squibs are extremely rare.

Squibs consists of two electrical leads which are separated by a plug of insulating material, a small bridge wire or electrical resistance heater, and a bead of heat-sensitive chemical composition in which the bridge wire is embedded.

Squibs are generally ( but not always ) the main explosive element in an effect, and as such are regularly used as “ bullet hits ”.

Squibs are used in emergency mechanisms where gas pressure needs to be generated quickly in confined spaces, while not harming any surrounding persons or mechanical parts.

Squibs are also used in automatic fire extinguishers, to pierce seals that retain liquids such as halon, fluorocarbon, or liquid nitrogen.

They are currently the only official builder of Squibs.

Older Squibs are still prized.

Squibs are one of the largest fleets at Cowes Week.

However, Rowling has stated that Muggle-borns inherit their magic from a distant ancestor ; they are descended from Squibs who married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy.

Squibs share some things with wizards and they are aware of and comprehend the wizarding world.

His other films from the 1930s included Squibs ( 1935 ) and The Vicar of Bray ( 1937 ).

Squibs range in size, anywhere from 2 to 15 millimeters in diameter.

Squibs were once used in coal mining to break coal away from rock.

Squibs were originally made from parchment tubes, or the shaft of a feather, and filled with fine black powder.

Squibs can be used for generating mechanical force, or to provide pyrotechnic effects for both film and live theatrics.

Squibs can be used for shattering or propelling a variety of materials.

Squibs were first used to simulate bullet impacts in the 1955 Polish film Pokolenie by Andrzej Wajda, where for the first time audiences were presented with a realistic representation of a bullet impacting on an on-camera human being, complete with blood spatter.

During 1968, a further five Squibs were built, and the first fleet began racing at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch.

From 158 to 724, Squibs were built under licence by Hunter Boats.

In 1997 the licence was acquired by Bruce Parker Sailboats who, by Spring 2009, had built 100 Squibs, their first being 783.

) In 1999 and 2008, Parker built Squibs won.

By 2010 over 810 Squibs have been built and the National Squib Owners Association has over 640 members.

The Squib is a favourite boat for people with disabilities and, for example, the East Anglia Sailing Trust, an organisation aimed at providing sailing opportunities for disabled people, uses a fleet of Squibs.

In the early days a couple of Squibs went to Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands as day charter boats and a fleet grew there but none of the boats now remain in use.

Other early Squibs went to South Africa, Greece, Germany and Australia.

Six brand new Squibs recently went to Germany and there is talk of the class featuring in Kiel Woche and of racing on the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands.

In 2009, in Weymouth, 108 Squibs competed in the National Championship.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

In that ownership of all vehicles rests with the state motor pool, cars are paid for with funds appropriated to the agencies but transferred to the rotary fund mentioned earlier.

These data are not of the precision obtainable by the methods previously mentioned, but the vast number of approximate values available will be useful in many areas.

Foliage is the outstanding photo subject in many of the Southern locales mentioned above and some specific tips on how and where to shoot it are in order.

Certain other properties of small particles, in addition to those already mentioned in connection with penetration of the respiratory tract, are noteworthy in defense considerations.

As mentioned above, where families are concentrated in larger numbers, group controls seem strongest and most effective.

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I mention these features of the book because they are inherent in the book's character and therefore must be mentioned.

Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.

But, you see, those who are not mentioned will not resent it.

Note that the scripts mentioned above are not considered proper alphabets, as they all lack characters representing vowels.

Besides those mentioned, other large bodies of water adjacent to the Atlantic are the Caribbean Sea ; the Gulf of Mexico ; Hudson Bay ; the Arctic Ocean ; the Mediterranean Sea ; the North Sea ; the Baltic Sea and the Celtic Sea.

On the other hand, other foundational descriptions of category theory are considerably stronger, and an identical category-theoretic statement of choice may be stronger than the standard formulation, à la class theory, mentioned above.

Other fibers not mentioned in table are e. g. fibers of the autonomic nervous system

Some parts at least of the figure above mentioned are solar symbols, and the Basilidian Abrasax is manifestly connected with the sun.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

His Cynaedi, or Ionic poems (), are mentioned by Strabo and Athenaeus.

empire the records have not yet been unearthed ; but in a letter dating from the third millennium BC, six men of Hanat ( Ha-na-atK1 ) are mentioned in a statement as to certain disturbances which had occurred in the sphere of the Babylonian

Several new features, including better scalability, enhanced clustering and management capabilities are mentioned.

Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus ' Germania, chapter 40, in which the " Anglii " are mentioned in passing in a list of Germanic tribes.

The sons ' names were Agathyrnus, Astyochus, Androcles, Iocastus, Pheraemon, Xuthus, whereas the daughters are not mentioned at all.

The surname of the Archbishop of Canterbury is not always used in formal documents ; often only the first name and see are mentioned.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid.

Rav had many sons, several of whom are mentioned in the Talmud, the most distinguished being the eldest, Chiyya.