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We do hear about the elder Weasley brothers who work in Romania and Egypt--obvious enough magical places--but I'd love it if Rowling could inject a bit of Tintin-style globe-trotting into the Potter saga.
A species of tick, the animal that Pliny the Elder called one of the foulest and nastiest creatures that be should be known to most residents of the northeast coast of the US, because Ixodes dammini , the deer tick, is the vector for another dreadful animal--the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi , which causes borreliosis Lyme (disease)--the fastest-growing infectious disease in the US after AIDS.
Browse the museum shops for a unique holiday gift or explore the museum's Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse for holiday decorating ideas.
That scandal, you may remember, featured the elder Bush secretly flying not to Houston but to Paris in October 1980 to cut a deal with the Iranian mullahs so that the American hostages would not be released before Election Day--thus, according to the theory, ensuring Ronald Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter.
Bunt is named for an elder brother who died in infancy, and both Betty and Bunt seem to feel that he is only a stand-in for his predecessor.