The United MileagePlus Explorer Business Card is another good option, as it earns 2 miles per dollar at restaurants, gas stations, and office supply stores, and currently comes with a sign-up bonus of 50,000 miles after you spend $2,000 on purchases within the first three months.
1997: First book published. Meet Harry Potter-he is the boy who lived. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone for the US market) was published on 30 June 1997 in the UK. The life of wizardry, muggles and Parseltongue was exposed to the world.
Book burning has a long history, too. The first recorded state-sponsored book burning was in China in 213 BC, according to Matthew Fishburn, the author of Burning Books. The burnings were ordered by Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who also started the Great Wall and the Terracotta army.nited States, 2001. Harry Potter books were a flashpoint for book burners in the U.S. in 2001. One of those burnings was in the Harvest Assembly of God Church in Pennsylvania. We got some people mad at us, but it's good to have publicity, said Rev. George Bender.