philosophers' stone

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But now JK Rowling's tales of the boy wizard may be about to reach a new set of fans as the first fully illustrated, colour edition of Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone goes on sale.

From BBC

His tomb below Mount Qásiyún was thought to be "a piece of the gardens of Paradise," and was called the Philosophers' Stone.748 It is now enclosed in a mosque which bears the name of Muḥyi ’l-Dín, and a cupola rises over it.749 We know little concerning the events of his life, which seems to have been passed chiefly in travel and conversation with Ṣúfís and in the composition of his MYSTICISM400 voluminous writings, about three hundred in number according to his own computation.

From Project Gutenberg

Harry Potter had been a huge part of my life, since, at the age of 7, I had opened the first page of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and begun my adventures with Harry, Ron and Hermione.

From The Guardian

I desire him also to conceale himself as deeply as he can, if he cannot get a speciall pardon, to weare a Latitat about his neck, or let him lie close under the Philosophers stone, and I'le warrant him for ever being found.

From Project Gutenberg

Has Kasich discovered a budgetary philosophers' stone?

From Time Magazine Archive