Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

Raymond West, the writer-nephew of Miss Marple is showing Horace Bindler, a literary critic, round the grounds of a local hall popularly known as ' Greenshaw's Folly '.

Alfred inherits ' Greenshaw's Folly '.

Less rigorous than her best, however, and the last story, Greenshaw's Folly, has a notable example of Miss Marple's habit of drawing solutions from a hat, with hardly a trace of why or wherefore.

Louise Oxley is employed to work on the diaries and begins work at Miss Greenshaw's house.

The day after, on arriving at the house, she is struck by the resemblance between Alfred and a portrait of Miss Greenshaw's grandfather.

The recipient of Miss Greenshaw's money is Alfred who is probably the grandson of one of Miss Greenshaw's grandfather's illegitimate children, hence the resemblance in looks.

Outside, the garden, the tame wilderness, yielded a patchwork bouquet of daisies, sweet william, scented stock and lady's bedstraw, which she tied with long grasses and took back to show Rosa, who was now stirring about the kitchen and haranguing Folly.

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

Erasmus's best-known work was The Praise of Folly ( published under the double title Moriae encomium ( Greek, Latinised ) and Laus stultitiae ( Latin )).

Maurice Tourneur was also highly ranked for the pictorial beauties of his films, together with the subtlety of his handling of fantasy, while at the same time he was capable of getting greater naturalism from his actors at appropriate moments, as in A Girl's Folly ( 1917 ).

Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of Gutenberg is therefore that Mainz has in its possession today a first-edition of Erasmus ' Lof der Zotheid ( English translation: The Praise of Folly ), which was written in Gouda, but printed in Mainz in 1511.

In particular Francis I of France was presented with Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time.

The tune of the song was played in Broadway Folly, 1930 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film.

) He would later write a poem about this traumatic experience titled " The Wanton Folly of Me Mum ," which was mentioned but not recited in the Angel finale " Not Fade Away ".

As Johnson's Secretary of State, he engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as " Seward's Folly ".

The purchase was variously mocked by the public as Seward's Folly, " Seward's Icebox ," and Andrew Johnson's " polar bear garden.

In 1942, he realized his longtime dream when this first novel For My Great Folly was published, and it became a bestseller with over 132, 000 copies sold.

It was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, in which the principal villain Bill Sikes meets a nasty end in the mud of ' Folly Ditch ' an area which was known as Hickmans Folly — the scene of an attack by Spring Heeled Jack in 1845 — surrounding Jacob's Island.

This event, dubbed " Fulford's Folly ," was a forerunner to the auto races at Sebring and Daytona.

Despite the nickname of " Peavey's Folly " and dire predictions that the elevator would burst like a balloon when the grain was drawn off, the experiment worked and concrete elevators have been used ever since.

A new Hertford Graduate Centre fronting the Isis was built near Folly Bridge and was opened in 2000.

Payne's Folly was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

He was also offered the same work two nights a week at the Folly Theater.

The river as far as Stamford was used by the Romans for navigation, as it formed part of a system including the Car Dyke, which ran along the western edge of the Fens and crossed the river near the modern Folly River.

Körner ’ s Folly was built 1878 – 1880 by Jule Körner, a grandson of Joseph Kerner, the town's namesake.

Bataan Field was originally graded in early 1941 as a dirt strip running uphill from a coastal road, and was dubbed " Richards ' Folly " after the Department Air Officer, who had ordered its construction.

Henrietta looked down at her bouquet, still lively with its color and scent, and set her feet on their journey's way again, leaving the village street and crossing the first field, Folly dancing ahead of her.

Marginal drawing of Folly by Hans Holbein in the first edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, 1515

This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since " Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation ; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that " ( as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ).

Three of these first were Judy, Meta, and Folly, who were handed over to their new owners, veterans blinded in World War I, on 6 October 1931.

As the college was having difficult financial times, it was first called " Cowling's Folly " but later became his legacy.

In Praise of Folly ( Greek title: Morias Enkomion ( Μωρίας Εγκώμιον ), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid ) is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.

Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly ( 1515 ), in the first edition, a copy owned by Erasmus himself ( Kupferstichkabinett, Basel )

When his plans were first announced, the project was dubbed ' Nichols ' Folly ' because of the then seemingly undesirable location ; at the time, the only developed land in the valley belonged to the Country Day School ( now the Pembroke Hill School ), and the rest was known for pig farming.

The first match took place on 30 November when members played against each other, in a practice match, at Folly Field.

The house was known as " Rowand's Folly " for its extravagance ; it is reputed to have been the first house to have glass windows in the west.

Seward, who is best remembered for purchasing Alaska (" Seward's Folly ") from Russia, was the first New Yorker to have a monument erected in his honor.

Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1956 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 5 of the same year.

In these stories, especially the first two, references to other cultural noteworthies such as The Little Prince and Almayer's Folly are noticeable.

DeVos assailed the Single Business Tax and the economic doldrums & job outsourcing which occurred during Granholm's first term ; Campbell assailed the $ 12 billion taken from Michigan's taxpayers and appropriated to the military siege of Iraq ( which he calls " Duhbbya's Folly ") and advocated for a local currency, independent of the U. S. dollar which he and running mate David Skrbina say is in imminent jeopardy of collapse.

When first built, the house was named " Knoll "; but critics immediately dubbed it " Paulding's Folly " because of its extremely unusual design, including fanciful turrets and asymmetrical outline.