Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, shortened Hogwarts, is a fictional British school of magic for students aged eleven to eighteen, and is the primary setting for the first six books in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.[3][4]
Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the hogwort plant (Croton capitatus), which she had seen at Kew Gardens some time before writing the series,[5][6] although the names "The Hogwarts" and "Hoggwart" appear in the 1954 Nigel Molesworth book How To Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans.[7][8]
Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in a 2008 online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's Loretto School. According to a director of the Independent Schools Network Rankings, it was added to the schools listing "for fun" and was then voted on.[9]
Herbert Geoffrey Willans, RNVR, (4 February 1911 – 6 August 1958), an English author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with the illustrator Ronald Searle, of Nigel Molesworth, the "goriller of 3b and curse of St. Custard's".
He was educated at Blundells School in Tiverton, and became a schoolmaster there. He enjoyed sailing in small boats, and during the war took part in the Greek Campaign and the Battle of Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, serving on the corvette HMS Peony. He later joined the carrier HMS Formidable.[1]
He was a keen amateur botanist and spent so much time in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew that the staff gave him a key.
Blundell's School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school located in the town of Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. The school was founded in 1604 by the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and relocated to its present location on the outskirts of the town in May 1882.
Whilst the annual full boarding fees are £28,200 per year, the school offers a range of scholarships and bursaries, and provides flexi-boarding. The school has 350 boys and 225 girls, including 107 boys and 65 girls in the Sixth Form, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The Good Schools Guide calls Blundell's a "distinguished rural school of ancient lineage."[1
Peter Blundell, one of the wealthiest merchants of Elizabethan England, died in 1601 having made his fortune principally in the cloth industry. His will set aside considerable money and land to establish a school in his home town "to maintain sound learning and true religion". Blundell asked his friend Sir John Popham, the Lord Chief Justice of England, to carry out his wishes,
Popham presided over the trial of the Jesuit, Robert Southwell, in 1595 and passed sentence of death by hanging, drawing and quartering. He also presided over the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh (1603) and the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, including Guy Fawkes (1606). He was also involved in the trial at Fotheringay of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) which resulted in her execution.
While working as the messenger to the Queen, Popham was imprisoned by the Earl of Essex with his henchman. Ever stoic, Popham replied that at his age, death would be “but cutting off a few years.” However, he was rescued and rowed to safety by Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1565–1647).
He was noted for his severity towards thieves and strict enforcement of the Penal Laws.
で、Kew GardensことQ Gardens には・・・
→三本爪の龍
確定ですな。（爆ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ
追記
タイトルがミスリーディングでしたので変更しました。
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http://www.cnn.co.jp/showbiz/35031496.html
【フランクフルト時事】サッカー・ワールドカップ（Ｗ杯）南アフリカ大会で話題を集めた民族楽器「ブブゼラ」の販売で大きな利益を得たドイツ企業が、後継となる楽器を開発し、６月からのＷ杯ブラジル大会での大量販売を狙っている。独紙フランクフルター・アルゲマイネが報じた。
新たな楽器の名前は「コンビンホ」。ドラムやホイッスルなどが１セットになっており、サンバを手軽に演奏できるようになっている。中国企業に委託し、既にサンプルを作ったという。
勅使門が
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew
から
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew_Gardens#Ornamental_buildings
に移動されちゃってました。
kwoutの画像の時の方が分かりやすかったような。
陛下がキャノピーでミシェルさんをお出迎えされましたとき、「おきなわ」といふ音声が拾われていましたが、USJ沖縄案件の謝意なのでせうか？
2:53 pm JST
Mar 19, 2015 EDUCATION
Michelle Obama Unveils U.S.-Japan Push for Girls’ Education
WSJ
このときの会合で飾られていた桜が沖縄から空輸されたものだったのかなどいろいろと想像できますが、拾われていた音声で聞き取れるのは、陛下の、だけでした、外電で。
美智子様が主に会話をされていたようでした。
Mrs Obama complimented the Emperor on the beauty of the cherry blossoms that have just begun to bloom, and he replied that the trees were from the southern islands of Okinawa.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/michelle-obama/11482570/Michelle-Obama-hosted-by-Emperor-and-Empress-of-Japan.html
Alnwick Castle
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