From Mugglenet: The United States Postal Service (USPS) is releasing a new Harry Potter 46c Forever stamp for the upcoming holiday season. While there have still been no images of the stamps made available yet, the USPS has announced in a recent bulletin that they will be releasing the ‘Potter‘ themed stamps beginning on […]
From Mugglenet: A group of students at the New England School of Communication in Maine are creating a short live-action film adapting J.K. Rowling’s ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ from The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Filming on the short has already begun, and by the looks of the production […]
From Mugglenet: What a week for Harry Potter fans! After MuggleNet posted about J.K. Rowling’s handwritten spreadsheet, we now have yet more handwritten material from J.K. Rowling, this time in the form of annotations in a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, as featured in The Guardian. Occurring […]
From Mugglenet: Will the expansion of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter be open next year? According to Orlando Business Journal, the answer is…possibly. Buddy Dyer, the Orlando Mayor said this statement during his State of the City address: This summer [Universal Orlando Resort] will open the new Transformers 3-D […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.