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...festivities opened when the Harvard Museum of Natural History did, as young visitors were handed “Maurader’s Maps” and encouraged to find Harry’s wand (American holly), the Sorcerer’s Stone (rhodochrosite) and other fictional creatures and artifacts from the books...
...It’s designed for kids to go around and explore,” said Mary Blue Magruder, the director of communications and marketing at the museum...
...Some kids would never think of coming into a natural history museum,” she said, but yesterday the museum was filled with excited children racing through its extensive holdings. Magruder lauded the event, which will run through July 29, for getting children to look at science in the same way that Rowling’s series got them to pick up a book...
...confirming the historical accuracy of a tiny detail, a two-inch clay tablet long in the possession of the British Museum has given ammunition to those who believe that the Bible - specifically, in this case, the book of the prophet Jeremiah - is history. That, at least, is what the believers are claiming...
...evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying art in the 1960s, and doing so intelligently, I must say." Three years before her death in 1979, she had the prescience to bequeath her palazzo and its collection to her uncle's foundation, which eventually opened it to the public as a museum. "There's nothing like it anywhere else in the world," says Rylands, "just for sheer concentration of masterpieces...