Something like that yes.

Actually the Abbasids probably would have packed it all off to Baghdad in the 8th century, translated it into Arabic, before it filtered back into Latin Europe by way of Spain or Sicily.

Actually we already have an answer to the construction of the pyramids. The method by which the Egyptians moved massive blocks was the surprisingly simple application of water to the sand under the sledges. Combine that with the massive (and also well fed and well paid) workforce whose tombs were recently excavated…

Shhh, don’t correct them, just get them out of town as rapidly as possible. They’re Dixie’s problem now.

That would be an amazing follow up story or fan fiction. Fast forward centuries to the point where muggles essentially live in a Star Trek universe of interstellar space travel, instantaneous medical technology, alien contact, and artificial intelligence. Voldemort and Harry Potter are figures of the distant past and…

Meanwhile the White Sox so desperate for seat fillers they are practically giving away tickets for a ballpark with fully functional, modern commodes and more concession stands than the Taste of Chicago.

Can you provide an example of gaming the system?

The first week would be amazing. Fantastic creatures, wonderful spells, flying broomsticks, teleportation, and all manner of sights to dazzle the imagination. But after the shine wore off a little bit and you actually to had to cope with the problems of the magical world you'd want out.

Even the divisions within the magical world are just awful. Compare the Weasleys to the Malfoys to the Gaunts. Yikes!

Potterverse:

She was an amazing Catwoman. She has my loyalty forever.

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Don Draper and Mark Rothko.

Can Marvel please give Sam Wilson a proper head covering. He doesn't have the super soldier serum, you could at least give him a helmet.

He certainly is a legend and his tale is as much myth as anything but we aren't seeing him do mighty deeds or slay serpents or warriors but as scheming politician.

While later I became obsessed with George Orwell, when I was a kid it was Jurassic Park all the way. I was really into dinosaurs and the descriptions of all the various species interacting in the present fixed my imagination.

I read it before I'd had a chance to watch the movie (which I saw three times), which totally…

This is something that absolutely kills me as a history major. If you really take the time to go into the details of what the subject is and about in its own terms, you can find an amazingly compelling story.

Perhaps the invention of dynamite has an interesting epilogue. Its inventor Alfred Nobel was so distressed by being dubbed the "Merchant of Death" when his obituary was falsely reported in a French newspaper that he created the Nobel Prize foundation.

Anyone else angry that Tony Stark apparently has repulsor jet-enhanced planes and the rest of us are still schlepping it around on 737's wedged into a seat after a 3 hour wait?

I think we should call it your grave!