At the beginning of the novel, Harry Potter is living in a cupboard under the stairs, suffering appalling maltreatment at the hands of the Dursley family, to whose care he was confided as an infant following the death of his parents; his mother was Mrs. Dursley's sister. On his eleventh birthday, ho...
The search for knowledge has been the lifelong pursuit of countless people. From ancient antiquity to the modern era, scientific breakthroughs have been the measures to human progress. The original chemists, alchemists, believed that they could take invaluable metals such as lead and turn them into ...