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Top 10 Wizarding Fails
Top 10 Wizarding Fails
In the hope of educating future wizards, we give you this sorcerer's hall of shame, populated by those who fell from grace, grasped for the stars or failed to leave the tarmac in the first place. How did your favorite wizard fare? Read more »

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  • 10: The Gutenberg Bible
  • 9: Shakespeare's First Folio
  • 8: Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tamerlane and Other Poems'
  • 7: Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester
  • 6: John James Audubon's 'Birds of America'
  • 5: Ptolemy's 'Geographia'
  • 4: John Calvin's 'Institutes of the Christian Religion'
  • 3: Arthur Rimbaud's 'A Season in Hell'
  • 2: The Sarajevo Haggadah
  • 1: Fyodor Solntsev's 'Antiquities of the Russian State'
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