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1. Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak Who wouldn't want an invisibility cloak?! You get unlimited spying! Snooping! Sneaking cookies from the pantry! Perfect for you if you are an FBI agent on a top-secret mission.  2. Merlin's Wizard Hat  It’s a big, pointy purple hat stitched with silver stars. It belongs to the wizard Merlin from the book, The School for Good and Evil  by Soman Chainani. But before you declare it as nothing special, ask it for a meal. Yes, seriously, because then it will magically whip up absolutely anything  you desire...Croissants, raspberry pie, carrot-ginger soup, walnut fudge, or even pizza. It makes absolutely perfect hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles. Just as long as you pay the hat decent salaries. It also demands a vacation. Also, Merlin's hat has been known to spit chocolate when it gets annoyed, so be careful not to sit on it by accident.  3. Mackenzie the Wicked Witch of the West's Designer Platform Sneake...

Silk, Spice, and Everything Nice: The Story of the Silk Road By Yoanna Introduction Imagine that you are a merchant in ancient times. You want to get wealthy by trading and make a fortune. You are a newbie and you are just getting started. Where would you go to trade? The Silk Road, of course. (Assuming that you are a merchant in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. Not the Americas and certainly not Australia.) You may think the Silk Road is a smooth, shiny, and comfortable road made of silk. Then you are hopelessly wrong. The Silk Road was not made of silk! It is called the “Silk Road” because silk was traded along it. It is not a single road, either. The Silk Road was actually a network of little trading routes all over the Middle East, Asia, and the edge of Europe. (Some scholars prefer to call it the Silk Routes.) Think of it as a vast spider web of trade routes all twisted and tangled up, through which is transported exotic goods across a whole continent. It was more t...