Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone hit shelves in 1997.
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Dean Thomas was called Gary in the first draft of Philosopher's Stone.
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Richard Harris at the premiere of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.'
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone is not a YA novel.
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"You don't wanna Philosopher's Stone and chill?" fuckin hell Niall if she won't then I will mate, alohamora me right up #LoveIsland — charlie (@rebelremus) June 4, 2018 'Philosopher's Stone and Chill' is going to appear on every tinder bio #LoveIsland — Rebecca Bartle 🙋🏼♀️💁🏼♀️ (@beccaabartle) June 4, 2018 Hang up your hat and resign from the day job: Philosopher's stone and Chill is my new way of life #loveisland — Pippa Beckwith (@PippaBeckwith) June 4, 2018 'Do you want to Philosopher's Stone and chill?' is a line that would 100% work on me.
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And here's the thing: The Philosopher's Stone is pretty much a kids' book.
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The House Editions of HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE are out on Thursday!
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It's been over 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published.
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Above: 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' movie still courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Here's what to look out for:'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (UK title)
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"The internet is based on alchemy and your blood is the philosopher's stone," declared Braun.
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There's no book more vital to a politician's repertoire than Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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From: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter Seventeen, "The Man With Two Faces", p.317.
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Working during the afternoons and evenings, she spent her mornings writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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Voltaire offered a different suggestion: perhaps they had "found the philosopher's stone in the mills of paper".
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And one of them is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first edition signed by J.K. Rowling.
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First there's the introduction of Nicholas Flamel, Dumbledore's friend and colleague and creator of the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone.
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Titles stolen include: A hardback first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone worth around £2555,2111 ($55,522).
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On 26 June 1997, The Philosopher's Stone was published and the Harry Potter universe was magicked into existence.
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The opening marks the 15th anniversary of the release of the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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But the first game I loved, truly loved, was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on Game Boy Color.
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It was used as the Dursleys' home in the first Harry Potter movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
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Movies and more kidsIn 2001, the highly anticipated film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released.
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Before publishing "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the author was a struggling single mother, surviving on state benefits.
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The book that started it all, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was first published in the U.K. in 1997.
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Prior to publishing "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the author was a struggling single mother, surviving on state benefits.
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This is Mr Buffett's shorthand for a company with a lasting competitive edge—the philosopher's stone of business strategists and stockpickers.
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You can listen to snippets of the Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone in various languages from the University of Calgary's collection.
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In a video posted to Twitter (with J.K. Rowling tagged), she's reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on a tablet.
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Specifically, the company had their Machine Comprehension System read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and answer some basic questions about it.
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Rowling's site Pottermore reports that next year, Bloomsbury will publish four new special editions of The Philosopher's Stone, one for each house.
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In reality Flamel was a Parisian landlord, and rumours about him discovering the philosopher's stone sprang up after his death in 1418.
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On this day 216 years ago, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — the first of seven spell-binding novels — was finally published.
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A small British publisher, Bloomsbury, eventually took a chance on Rowling and "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" appeared in print in 1997.
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Since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997, there have been many different covers published for J.K. Rowling's beloved books.
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A new exhibition from the British Library celebrates the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by combining fantasy and reality.
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The movie adaptation of the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was released in the United States 15 years ago this week.
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It was made for the cover of the illustrated edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" ("Sorcerer's Stone" in the United States).
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LONDON - To pay homage to the first book and film of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Warner Bros.
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This year marks the 26th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and the 203th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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And so, I wanted to write this piece, telling you why Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was how I learned to adore games.
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One particular sketch of a scene in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — and in particular, one character in the sketch — captured people's attention.
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Just like the illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Chamber of Secrets is peppered with eye-catching imagery by artist Jim Kay.
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Paperback first editions of the 'Philosopher's Stone' are also quite scarce and attract four-figure price-tags – sometimes five figures if in excellent condition.
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A certain boy wizard was introduced to the world 20 years ago today, when "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published in Britain.
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The first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (later retitled "the Sorcerer's Stone" in America), was released 20 years ago, on June 26th, 1997.
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She chose the most comfortable one while writing "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" on her typewriter.
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It's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since we were first introduced to the wizarding world in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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It was exactly 20 years ago today that the Philosopher's Stone was first published, and one of the world's most magical book series was born.
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Alchemists believed adding a molten base material, such as lead, to a small bit of philosopher's stone would turn the material into an entirely different element.
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According to the scroll to create the philosopher's stone you have to create three stones first: the black stone, the white stone, and the red stone.
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The desire for immortality has been around for millennia — the Philosopher's Stone, Faust, endless searches for mythical fountains of youth and snake oil of all varieties.
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The 20th anniversary of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the first novel in J. K. Rowling's blockbuster series, is another reason to head to London.
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As we learned in The Philosopher's Stone, when Rowling chooses to repeatedly mention a character in a seemingly offhand way, she's doing it for a reason.
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"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" -- or the Sorcerer's Stone, as it's known in the United States -- was the first of seven novels in the series.
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The United Arab Emirates blacklisted "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in 2002, and Malaysia did the same to the "50 Shades of Grey" trilogy last year.
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To celebrate the 20-year anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (!!!), Bloomsbury is rereleasing the book in Hogwarts house colors, customizable for every Harry Potter fan.
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Highlights include a first handwritten draft of chapter 20183 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Harry realises that Quirrel, not Snape, has been terrorising the school.
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"Rebis" refers to the alchemist's magnum opus, the philosopher's stone, and "Alobar" is the name of the main character in his favorite book, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.
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Yes, 20 years ago today the very first book in J.K. Rowling's series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (known as Philosopher's Stone in the U.K.), was published.
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As it turns out, he was a medieval landlord and bookseller who may or may not have stumbled across a rare manuscript with clues to the Philosopher's Stone.
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Rowling's editors pushed her to let them alter the original title, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by taking out "philosopher" to make the book more appealing to children.
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A rare first-edition hard copy of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold for £28,500 ($34,865) to a private collector at a U.K. auction in Staffordshire.
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Almost exactly 20053 years ago, on September 1, 1998, Scholastic published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first US edition of the UK's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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If you bought Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.) when it was first released, get ready to feel tragically aware of the passage of time.
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The most popular book in the series is the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, although Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the fastest-selling fiction title ever.
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Not a typical choice, maybe, but it makes sense — for most people, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was the moment they first fell in love with J.K. Rowling's world.
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Several were used in the first 'Potter' film, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," and suffered the same fate ... getting ripped up or thrown in the fireplace by Harry's uncle.
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Hardcover first editions of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contain the print line "10 26 24 22 28 29 29 03 20 201" are worth up to $202,000.
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Across from the piece of jewelry hangs a lock with the initials N.F. – no one we know, perhaps, except the famous alchemist Nicholas Flamel, creator of the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone.
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The exhibition, announced on the heels of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's sold-out theatrical debut, will coincide with the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first released in 1998, in an initial run of around 500 copies, and would later go on to sell over 120 million copies worldwide.
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It also features a few interactive touches — you can examine the length of the Ripley Scroll, a 6-metre-long 16th century document that contains the recipe for the philosopher's stone.
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If we were talking about The Philosopher's Stone in isolation (and maybe, to some extent, The Chamber of Secrets as well) I'd agree that it could be classed as a children's book.
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Bloomsbury released new editions of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" with covers dedicated to wizarding school Hogwarts' houses Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw to mark the anniversary in June.
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Twenty years ago, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry entered our collective consciousness when "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," J.K. Rowling's first novel, was published in Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing.
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The sage recognized the text as a key to alchemy, and so Flamel and his wife dedicated their lives to decrypting it, eventually developing a success Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life.
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Unless you're one of those terrible people who likes to read books out of sequence or skip to the last page first, you'll be starting the Harry Potter series with The Philosopher's Stone.
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" Taryn, a self-proclaimed Hufflepuff, is excited about the celebration surrounding #HarryPotter20, the 20-year anniversary of the UK release of the first book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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The manuscript being offered for sale was presented to editor Barry Cunningham who signed Rowling and published her magical debut "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and contains a personal dedication from Rowling.
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"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published in 1997, six years before Section 28, a law banning councils and schools in England and Wales from intentionally promoting homosexuality, was repealed in 2003.
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That exhibition will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first book in the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (published as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the United States).
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The mania was the work of John Law, a Scottish economist, who had indeed bragged that he had found the philosopher's stone—though in his view the trick was to "make gold out of paper".
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Above: Gameplay from 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' on Game Boy Color (via a GameCube Game Boy Player) I'm not saying that's how games should be enjoyed, and nowadays, that's not what I want.
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The British actor recently told Entertainment Weekly that his favourite film is Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — and his favourite books is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone, if you're in the U.S.).
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Instead, they break free from their bindings, reconfiguring themselves into cityscapes like Johanna Drucker's "Bookscapes" (2914–219), or folding into a puzzle box, like "The Philosopher's Stone" (603) by Barbara Fahrner and Daniel E. Kelm.
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Still, there are fanfic tropes and traditions that withstood the test of time, and today, on the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, we salute them with a wink.
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Alchemists from around the world tried for millennia to create the philosopher's stone in order to turn base metals into lead, and, while they never succeeded, their work paved the way for modern chemistry and science.
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On June 20033, 2017, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" — or "Sorcerer's Stone" if you read the American version — turns 20, and people all over the world are celebrating what the books have meant to them.
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I have bits that I love about that game, bits that I can't wait to do again every time I play—the potions class, the card collecting, the final test before you get to the Philosopher's Stone.
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We expect the titles of children's classics to be deliberately intriguing, marked by an unexpected metaphysical juxtaposition — a witch meets a wardrobe — or at least to suggest an intriguing concept, time wrinkling or a philosopher's stone sought.
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" Granger points to links present in the very first book: "A unicorn, a phoenix, a red lion, a Philosopher's Stone, and a hero rising from the dead after a sacrificial death are all in the first book.
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The latter being one of the more comfortable chairs amongst the bunch, she favored it to sit in whilst writing the first drafts of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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I love Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone not necessarily because I think it's a fantastic, genre-defining classic, but because it was me, at that time in my life: the Potter-loving, game-playing tiny nerd girl.
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The copy sold on Tuesday, bound in brown Morocco leather and adorned with silver, was presented to editor Barry Cunningham, who published Rowling's spellbinding debut, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and carries a personal dedication from her.
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The new footage shows more of the clash between Dumbledore and Grindelwald that's to come, as well as one familiar faces from the Harry Potter universe: immortal alchemist Nicolas Flamel (Brontis Jodorowsky), who famously created the Philosopher's Stone.
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One of the gems of the collection is the Ripley scroll, a 6-metre-long scroll from the 1500s that tells you how to make the philosopher's stone, and hidden within it is a Harry Potter easter egg.
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Isaac Newton's recently discovered manuscript is his handwritten copy of mid-17th-century Harvard alchemist George Starkey's procedure for producing "sophick mercury," a substance seen as a main ingredient for the philosopher's stone, a fabled stone used in alchemy.
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The History of Magic exhibition, set up in celebration of the 20th anniversary of publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, will feature magical objects and manuscripts from history that fit into the world and lore of Harry Potter.
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Author J.K. Rowling has told the story of how she received "loads" of rejections before "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (known in the U.S. as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") was finally published on June 26, 1997.
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published in the U.K in June 1997 and renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when it arrived in the U.S. the following year.
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Since the 1997 debut of the novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in Britain (retitled "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" for American readers), the audience for the wizarding world has grown and, in many cases, grown up.
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The abundance of red in "The Paston Treasure" — some of which has faded — may be linked to 17th-century alchemical searches for the "red elixir," a type of Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance for transmuting base metals into gold.
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of J.K. Rowling's first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — and the 10th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the series' final book — the b-and-b is pulling out all the stops.
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Since "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" came out in 1997, with a first print run of just 500 copies, the series of seven novels has sold 450 million copies worldwide in 79 languages and spawned a blockbuster movie franchise.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition will be published by Bloomsbury this October — and from the looks of it, the images will be every bit as epic as they were in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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In the end, Edward loses an arm and a leg and Alphonse loses his whole body, his soul being relegated to a suit of armor, and the two set off to find the Philosopher's Stone but wander into so much more.
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"500 first editions [of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone] were published, 300 of them disappeared into the British library system, and the other 200 were used to spread the word about the boy wizard," reports the online book retailer in this video.
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Isaac Newton may be more famous today for his path-breaking contributions to physics and mathematics, but he devoted a considerable part of his life to alchemy, including the quest for the Philosopher's Stone that would convert base metals into gold or silver.
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Recent examples of successful finds include the forthcoming auction of a "pristine" first-edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," which is one of just 500 hardback copies printed in 1997 — 300 of which were sent to schools and children's libraries.
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" This year's program, to be conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, adopts the theme of "Myths and Fairy Tales," with works by Dvorak and Humperdinck and also including an excerpt from the John Williams score for the film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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Wordplay MONDAY PUZZLE — Twenty years ago, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry entered our collective consciousness when "HARRY POTTER and THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE," the author J. K. ROWLING's first novel, was published in Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing on June 21, 1997.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first hit bookshelves in the UK 20 years ago today, launching an empire that has spawned blockbuster films, body art, an exhibition, an amusement park, a play, and a fanbase so devoted that religious scholars are studying their spirituality.
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Now the original synopsis that Rowling sent to all those publishers back in 1995 is on display at the British Library as part of its "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" exhibition, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the release of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the book that launched the worldwide phenomenon, the self-made author and possible billionaire J.K. Rowling took to Twitter to share a message with Harry Potter fans all over the world.
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There's a mysterious magical object (the Philosopher's Stone), and — more importantly — a mysterious antagonist Harry and Co. need to work against to protect said object (and as is the case in pretty much all of the books, they get the identity of this antagonist woefully wrong).
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History shows us our limits History teaches us that the past is indeed a foreign country, so foreign that even a great scientist like Sir Isaac Newton believed in alchemy and thought that he might have discovered the Philosopher's Stone, a substance that could purportedly turn iron into gold.
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I was given four mismatched dining room chairs in 1995 and this was the comfiest one, which is why it ended up stationed permanently in front of my typewriter, supporting me while I typed out 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' and 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'.
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On the twentieth anniversary of the original publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the U.K., it's easy to see how that powerful relationship between creator and fans has grown and changed in new, pioneering ways as technology and the web has grown right alongside the beloved series.
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As the internet celebrated 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone hit shelves, and Twitter users negotiated the weathered path between the "Harry Potter is Actually Bad" tweets and the "Actually, It Is The Tweets About Harry Potter Being Bad That Are Bad" tweets, a small gem emerged.
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Twenty years ago today, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (or, Philosopher's Stone, as it was known in the U.K.) was published — the first in a series that kickstarted eight movies, several spinoffs (including the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, currently on the Palace Theater in London), and countless memories.
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I'm interested in alchemy, not as the original alchemists were, as a means of turning base materials into gold, into the philosopher's stone, but in its focus on transformational processes as an analogical tool by which ideas can be reframed or reimagined, or damage might be transfigured or transformed by metaphor and allusion.
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" The description provided by the library says the book will take "readers on a journey through the Hogwarts curriculum, including Herbology, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Divination and more" and allow them to "discover the truth behind making the Philosopher's Stone, create your very own potion and uncover the secret of invisible ink.
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The British Library, a short walk from the King's Cross train station — a vital location in J. K Rowling's Harry Potter series — announced Monday that it would hold an exhibition next year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (published as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the United States).
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone kicked off the adventures of a boy wizard and his best friends as they fight the forces of darkness; it and the six Harry Potter books that followed would go on to become an international phenomenon, and they would help make children's literature one of the biggest money-makers in publishing.
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From Coinage: See Where 6 Stars Were Before They Were Famous The trio were joined at the event by Warwick Davis, who played three characters at different points in the franchise, including, Professor Filius Flitwick, the Gringotts bank teller in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and he provided the voice of Griphook (played by Verne Troyer) in the same film.
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To my immense frustration, I didn't have a pen that worked, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one … I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me I began to write Philosopher's Stone that very evening.
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As for selection, Amazon says its Prime customers in Canada can expect "hundreds" of options — some books include Audible narration — including: Hundreds of popular Kindle books: Enjoy a diverse selection of titles, including bestsellers Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and over 90 Lonely Planet guides, as well as favourites from Canadian authors like Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen and Room by Emma Donoghue, and titles from Thomas King.
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