It was the first appearance of Michael Gambon as Professor Albus Dumbledore, because of Richard Harris' death in 2002.
The movie was released on 31 May 2004 in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2004 in North America, as the first "Harry Potter" movie using IMAX Technology and released into IMAX theatres.
It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Music Score and Best Visual Effects at the 77th Academy Awards in 2004.
Knut Agnred
"Knut" Axel Lennart Agnred (born 29 February 1956 in Johannebergs församling in Gothenburg) is a Swedish singer and comedian. He is known for being a member of Galenskaparna och After Shave.
Knut Agnred is the son of the athlete Lennart Andersson, who adopted the surname Agnred. He was learning electrical engineering after studying at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He has also worked caring for elderly people at Kålltorps sjukhem in Gothenburg. He has been a member of the comedy group After Shave since it started in 1979. Agnred has written lyrics and music for several songs performed by Galenskaparna och After Shave.
Agnred has worked with Ken Wennerholm and Göran Rudbo in Triple & Touch and released a solo album called "Text & music" in 2004. In March 2009, the death metal band Despite released their first album "In Your Despite". Knut Agnred contributed to the album's first track "Mindplague".
Dieter Birr
Dieter "Maschine" Birr (born 22 March 1944 in Köslin, Pommern, Nazi Germany) is a German singer, guitarist and composer. He was a longtime member of the rock band Puhdys, which dissolved in 2016.
Dieter Birr was trained as a grinder and at the same time taught himself how to play the guitar. From 1966 to 1972 he studied dance music, music theory and guitar at Musikschule Friedrichshain in East Berlin. Until 1969 he was a member of the bands Telestars, Luniks (including Fritz Puppel), Jupiters and Evgeni-Kantschew-Quintett. In 1969, he became frontman of the Puhdys, which became the most commercially successful rock band in GDR history. Birr composed around 250 songs for the band. He got his nickname "Maschine" after band member Peter Meyer described him as an "eating machine".
In 1974, Birr appeared in a supporting role in the DEFA film "Elective Affinities".
In 1986, Amiga released his first solo album, "Intim", which was not commercially successful. In the meantime, he worked on lyrics for Dunja Rajter and the Wildecker Herzbuben, and others.
In his second solo album, "Maschine", released in 2014, Julia Neigel, Wolfgang Niedecken and Toni Krahl also appeared as duet partners. The album contains some new additions to well-known Puhdys hits from the 1970s, including "Geh zu ihr" and "Wenn ein Mensch lebt". Also in 2014, on his 70th birthday, Birr's autobiography "Maschine – Die Biografie." was released.
In 2016, the third solo album "Neubeginner" was released after the end of the Puhdys. In 2017, he sang together with Romano on the song "Karl May", which appeared on his album "Copyshop". In 2019, he appeared at Lieder auf Banz with Julia Neigel.
Birr lives in Neuenhagen bei Berlin and has been married since 1979 in his second marriage. He has two children. His son Andy Birr is a vocalist, guitarist and drummer of the pop band Bell, Book & Candle.
Odonatoptera
The Odonatoptera are a superorder (sometimes treated as an order) of ancient flying insects.
It includes all kinds of dragonflies, and is placed in the Palaeoptera.
The dragonflies and damselflies are the only living members of this group. It was was far more diverse in the late Paleozoic and contained gigantic species, including the griffinflies (or "giant dragonflies") of the order Protodonata. This lineage dates back at least to the Pennsylvanian, not quite 320 million years ago.
Del Boy
Derek Edward Trotter, more commonly known as Del Boy (born 12 July 1948), is the fictional lead character in the popular BBC sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" and one of the main characters of its prequel, "Rock & Chips". He was played by David Jason in the original series and was portrayed as a teenager by James Buckley in the prequel. Del Boy is often considered one of the greatest comedy characters in British television history and also an iconic character of British culture. In 2001, in a survey conducted by Channel 4, Del Boy was ranked fourth on the 100 Greatest TV Characters list.
Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English astronomer, researcher and television presenter. He is known for his books and his television series “The Sky at Night”. He became known as a specialist in Moon observation and for creating the Caldwell catalogue.
He died on 9 December 2012.
Skil Brum
Skil Brum is a mountain in the Karakoram range, in Pakistan. Skil Brum is part of the Baltoro Muztagh subrange. It is the 65th highest mountain in the world.
The first people to reach the top were Fritz Wintersteller and Marcus Schmuck, in 1957.
Eddie Duran
Edward Lozano Duran (September 6, 1925 – November 22, 2019) was an American jazz guitarist. He was born in San Francisco. He recorded often with Vince Guaraldi. He was a member of the Benny Goodman orchestra during the 1970s.
Duran died on November 22, 2019 in Sonoma, California at the age of 94.
Uljana Semjonova
Uļjana Larionovna Semjonova (, born 9 March 1952) is a retired Soviet-Latvian basketball player.
Her height is . Semjonova was the leading women's basketball player in the world in the 1970s and 1980s. She was known for having the largest feet ever in women's basketball.
She mainly played for TTT Riga, which was part of Daugava Voluntary Sports Society.
Quitman County, Mississippi
Quitman County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 8,223 people lived there. Its county seat is Marks. The county is named after John A. Quitman, Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 and from 1850 to 1851.
Quitman County is in the Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi.
Romanel-sur-Morges
Romanel-sur-Morges is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Longford, Kansas
Longford is a city in Clay County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 79.
La Chaux (Cossonay)
La Chaux is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Ferreyres
Ferreyres is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Seadrift, Texas
Seadrift is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative political commentator, writer and podcaster. He was the Senior Editor for National Review. He still writes for them.
He started a new conservative media company called The Dispatch He writes "the Goldberg File" also known as "the G-file", about politics and his dogs, there.
He hosts "the Remnant with Jonah Goldberg" podcast.
Ginger beer
Ginger beer is a non-alcoholic soft drink that is flavored with ginger root. Ginger beer is much spicier than ginger ale. Ginger beer is popular in some Caribbean countries such as Trinidad.
Traditional ginger beer is naturally sweetened and carbonated, and usually non-alcoholic. It is produced by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice, yeast and sugar.
Buru
Buru is an island in Indonesia. About a third of the people are indigenous, mostly Buru, but also Lisela, Ambelau and Kayeli people. Between 1658 and 1942, Buru was colonised by the Dutch East India Company and then by the Crown of the Netherlands. The Japanese army had the island between 1942 and 1945. In 1950, it became part of independent Indonesia. During president Suharto's New Order administration in the 1960s–1970s, Buru was a prison for thousands of political prisoners. The famous Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer wrote most of his novels, including "Buru Quartet" in that prison.