AfewReads

Still upset, Hermione timidly brings Harry tea and shows him Rita Skeeter's book, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore that she took from Bathilda Bagshot's house. A note sticking out reads: Dear Batty, Thanks for your help. Here's a copy of the book, hope you like it. You said everything, even if you don't remember it. Rita
Harry assures Hermione that he is not angry about his wand, it was only an accident, and he is grateful to her for saving his life. As he rifles through the book, Harry feels perverse pleasure-now he will know Dumbledore's secrets. Harry sees photos of a young Dumbledore and the handsome companion he recognizes as the thief in Gregorovitch's memory. ... [leer más]
(J.K. Rowling)

... Local leaders were admitted into the Roman aristocaratic class. Hispania served as a granary ofr the Roman market, and its harbors exported gold, wool, olive oil, ans wine. Agricultural production increased with the introduction of irrigation projects, some of which remain in use. Emperors Trajan, TheodosiusI, and the philosopher Seneca were born in Hispania. Christianity was introduced into Hispania in the 1 st century CE and it became popular in the cities in the 2nd century CE. Most of Spain's present languages and religion, and the basis of its laws, originate from this period. The weakening of the Western Roman Empire's jurisdiction in Hispania began in 409, when the Germanic ... ... [leer más]
(WIKIPEDIA)

... The two main historical peoples of the peninsula were the Iberians and the Celts. The Iberians inhabited the Mediterranean side from the norheast to the southeast. The Celts inhabited the Atlantic side, in the north, center (Celtiberian), northwest and suthwest part of the peninsula. Basque occupied the western area of the Pyrenees mountain range and adjaacent areas. In the south of the peninsula appeared the semi-mythical city of Tartessos (c.1100 BC), whose flourishing trade in items made of gold and silver with the Phoenicians and Greeks is documented by Straboa and the Book of Solomon. Between about 500 BC and 300 BC, the seafaring Phoenicians and Greeks foundedtrading colonies ... ... [leer más]
(WIKIPEDIA)

... strongest kingdom in Europe and the leading world power for a century and a half. Continued wars and other problems eventually led to a diminished status. The Napoleonic invasions of Spain led to chaos, triggering independence movements that tore apart most of the empiere and left the country politically unstable. Prior to the Second World War, Spain suffered a devastating civil war and came under the rule of an authoritarian government, whose rule oversaw a period of stagnation but that finished with a powerful economic surge. Eventually democracy was peacefully restored in the form of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. In 1986, Spain joined the European Union, experiencing a ... ... [leer más]
(WIKIPEDIA)

... It may also be a derivation of the Punic "Ispanihad", meaning "land of rabbits" or "edge", a reference to Spain's location at the end of the Mediterranean; Roman coins struck in the region from the reign of Hadrian show a female figure with a coney at her feet. There are also claims that "España" derives from the Basque word Ezpanna meaning "edge" or "border", another reference to the fact that the Iberian peninsula constitutes the suthwest of the European continent. The humanist Antonio de Nebrija proposed that the word "Hispania" evolved from the Iberian word Hispalis, meaning "city of the western world". Jesús Luis Cunchillos argues that the roo ... [leer más]
(WIKIPEDIA)

... Spanish territory also includes the Baleary Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the Africancoast, and two autonomous cities in NorthAfrica, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llivia is a Sapanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometrres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukrainea and France. ... [leer más]
(WIKIPEDIA)

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat
It’s all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I’ve got to take it on the otherside.
(Rhcp)

You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of tea. Underneath the floor boards is the famous river Thames. I hope for your sakes you can hold your breath for as long as it takes to boil that kettle. After that, I am going to ask you a question.
(Guy Ritchie)

The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas.
(David Sedaris)

To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Francisco is to feel like you're landing on another planet. Over our two-hour drive, the temperature went from nearly a hundred to the middle sixties.
(Ethan Watters)

The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough. But one day this soil will be poor and domesticated, and no tall tree will be able to grow in it.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)

The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not the quickest of cats at the best of times. So just do as I say and keep the cage locked!
(Guy Ritchie)

After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organisms that exist naturally in the vineyard and, therefore, on the grapes) come into contact with the sugar in the grapes' juice and gradually convert that sugar into alcohol.
(Ed McCarthy)

San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words of music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world.
(Terry Gilliam)

It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey was a gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion. Which makes him harder than a coffin nail. Right now, that's the last thing on Tommy's mind. If Gorgeous doesn't wake up in the next few minutes, Tommy know he'll be buried with him.
(Guy Ritchie)

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
(Dan Millman)

Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.
(Targ Brill)

You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause for love that I can't hide. For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. Because you're mine, I walk the line.
(Johnny Cash)

And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poets speak their hearts then bleed for it. Jara sang, his song a weapon, in the hands of love. You know his blood still cries from the ground. It runs like a river to the sea. We run like a river runs to the sea.
(U2)

Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
(Lewis Carroll)