Harry Potter 's Aunt Marge bred bulldogs and in 1993 when she visited the Dursley house, she brought one of her favourites who was old and rather ill-tempered, named Ripper. Often in the Muggle world, larger dogs are given fierce names to make them seem more ferocious.
Albert Speer, one of Hitlerâs confidants, wrote that Eva Braun would prove âa great disappointment to historiansâ. She may disappoint historians, but the woman who was Frau Hitler for just 24 hours, before engaging in a joint suicide pact in 1945, has proved an enduring fascination for other writers.
It charted at #32. (thanks, Alan-S Brunswick, NJ). The boss of ABC Records hated this and did not promote it until it became a hit in England. This was the last song publicly performed by Eva Cassidy, who died of cancer about 6 weeks later in 1996. Cassidy became known after her death when a BBC radio DJ started playing songs from her album Songbird.