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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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256 |
Hermione's cat is named Crookshanks. |
Literature > Harry Potter |
04/24/14 |
|
257 |
Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth and home. |
Literature > Mythology |
05/21/08 |
|
258 |
Hogwart's motto is Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus, which means Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon. |
Literature > Harry Potter |
06/21/12 |
|
259 |
Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. |
Literature > Authors |
07/12/09 |
|
260 |
In "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", Ginny Weasley was taken into the Chamber of Secrets. |
Literature > Harry Potter |
07/02/08 |
|
261 |
In "The Taming of the Shrew", Petruchio comes to Padua in search of a wife, and decides to marry Katharina Minola for her sizable dowry. |
Literature > Shakespeare |
05/20/08 |
|
262 |
In "The Thorn Birds", one of Meggie's children is fathered by Father Ralph. |
Literature |
07/03/08 |
|
263 |
In Egyptian mythology, Set (or Seth) was the god of chaos. |
Literature > Mythology |
01/23/11 |
|
264 |
In Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera", the phantom's name is Erik. |
Literature |
06/23/08 |
|
265 |
In George Orwell's novel "1984", Winston Smith is subjected to various tortures by O'Brien in the Ministry of Love. |
Literature |
05/24/08 |
|
266 |
In Greek mythology the monster Typhon is buried beneath Mount Etna in Sicily. |
Literature > Mythology |
11/28/10 |
|
267 |
In Greek mythology, a sculptor named Pygmalion fell in love with a statue he had named Galatea. |
Literature > Mythology |
10/22/15 |
|
268 |
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love. |
Literature > Mythology |
02/14/09 |
|
269 |
In Greek mythology, Astraeus is the father of the Anemoi, or the four winds. |
Literature > Mythology |
02/25/09 |
|
270 |
In Greek mythology, Bellerophon killed the Chimera on the back of the winged horse Pegasus. |
Literature > Mythology |
09/06/10 |
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