Natalie McDonald, who appears on page 159 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real person. She was a nine-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, who was dying of leukaemia. She wrote to JK Rowling asking what was going to happen in the next Harry Potter book as she would not live long enough to read it. The kindly author emailed back, but Natalie had died a day earlier. In tribute, she became a first-year student at Hogwarts named by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor - the house for the brave at heart - in the fourth book.

(Source: fawkesashes)

allthingseurope:

La Roque-Gageac, France (by Jaume CP BCN)

allthingseurope:

Jardin des Tuileries / Paris (by Barry O Carroll Photography)

littleaphheadcanons:

Since Germany likes to make sweets and bake, Prussia got him an apron that says “Kiss the Cook” on it, but he scribbled out “cook” and wrote in “West” with a red marker. Germany wears it whenever he cooks.

allthingseurope:

Painswick, England (by jogorman)

allthingseurope:

Barcelona, Spain (by Beardy Vulcan)

littleaphheadcanons:

If you get Sweden drunk enough he will sing ABBA songs on request.

(Source: typewrittenword)

tinyfacts:

The wedding ring goes on the left ring finger because it is the only finger with a vein that connects to the heart

It seems that long before they knew a lot about anatomy it was theorized that there was a vein running directly from that finger to the heart. That is how the tradition of wearing it on the left hand ring finger started. Now that theory has been proven untrue, but because of tradition it has become custom to wear the wedding ring on that finger

source: http://mosaicfrog.com/Rings_and_Things