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Diogenes and Club
In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.
Mycroft is described as even more gifted than Sherlock in matters of observation and deduction, but he lacks Sherlock's drive and energy, preferring to spend his time at ease in the Diogenes Club, described as " a club for the most un-clubbable men in London ".
* Daniel Dravot appears in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series as a functionary of the secret Diogenes Club.
* The Diogenes Club, named after Diogenes of Sinope, co-founded by Sherlock Holmes ' brother Mycroft
The village of Bricket Wood has been host to at least six naturist clubs: Fiveacres Country Club, Spielplatz, The Sun-Folk Society, Gardenia ( originally named Silverbirch ), Diogenes Sunlight Society ( also known as The Phoenix Recreational Society ), and The Suncampers.
Of these, Gardenia has now closed and been built on, Diogenes became the Diogenes Sun Club when it moved to near Maple Cross.
While many of the characters from Newman's Diogenes Club stories appear in the Anno Dracula novels, they are not the same versions as appear in those stories, nor is the Diogenes Club itself exactly the same.
Charles Beauregard, a ( non-vampire ) agent of the Diogenes Club, is sent to track the murderer down, and finds himself enmeshed in a plot to free England from Dracula's rule.
" Who Dares Wins " includes an appearance by Richard Jeperson, the central character in one of Newman's other main sets of stories, the Diogenes Club series.
Set in 1923, Geneviève Dieudonné is recruited by Winthrop and the Diogenes Club to attend a meeting of elders in Mildew Manor.
** Murder at the Diogenes Club ( 1987 )
Mycroft spends most of his time at the Diogenes Club, which he co-founded.
He is also depicted as either the head or at least a senior operative of the British secret service, for which the Diogenes Club is a front.
* Mycroft and the Diogenes Club play an important part in Kim Newman's novel Anno Dracula.
* In Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga series Embalming-The Another Tale of Frankenstein -, Asuhit Richter goes to the Diogenes Club in London to meet one of the club's founders and his client " Mike Roft ", a play on Mycroft, who is also a high-standing government official.
As a consequence of this, Watson becomes acquainted with the Diogenes Club and his friend's brother, Mycroft.
He has now presented his story at the Diogenes Club to Mycroft, who asks his brother Sherlock to look into it.

Diogenes and was
At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.
Led by a pretender claiming to be Constantine Diogenes, a long-dead son of the Emperor Romanos IV, the Cumans crossed the mountains and raided into eastern Thrace until their leader was eliminated at Adrianople.
Between 1424 and 1433 he worked on the translation of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, which came to be widely circulated in manuscript form and was published at Rome in 1472 ( the first printed edition of the Lives ; the Greek text was printed only in 1533 ).
Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.
The Emperor Romanus Diogenes was captured.
A similar belief was attributed by some ancient sources to Diogenes Apolloniates ( late 5th century BCE ), who also linked air with intelligence and soul ( psyche ), but other sources claim that his arche was a substance between air and fire.
Organized by his publisher Diogenes Verlag in 1982, the first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.
Diogenes says that he abdicated the kingship ( basileia ) in favor of his brother and Strabo confirms that there was a ruling family in Ephesus descended from the Ionian founder, Androclus, which still kept the title and could sit in the chief seat at the games, as well as a few other privileges.
Diogenes says that Heraclitus used to play knucklebones with the youths in the temple of Artemis and when asked to start making laws he refused saying that the constitution ( politeia ) was ponêra, which can mean either that it was fundamentally wrong or that he considered it toilsome.
With regard to education, Diogenes says that Heraclitus was " wondrous " ( thaumasios, which, as Plato explains in the Theaetetus and elsewhere, is the beginning of philosophy ) from childhood.
Diogenes relates that Sotion said he was a " hearer " of Xenophanes, which contradicts Heraclitus ' statement ( so says Diogenes ) that he had taught himself by questioning himself.
Diogenes states that Heraclitus ' work was " a continuous treatise On Nature, but was divided into three discourses, one on the universe, another on politics, and a third on theology.
Alexander the Great realized that the cynic Diogenes was happier than himself while living in his pottery home, since Alexander ’ s anxieties and dangers matched his ambitions, while Diogenes was content with what he had and could easily replace.
One of the first nominalist critiques of Plato's realism was that of Diogenes of Sinope, who said " I've seen Plato's cups and table, but not his cupness and tableness.
The last of the Presocratic natural philosophers was Diogenes of Apollonia from Thrace ( born c. 460 BCE ).
Diogenes Laertius states that Xenophon was sometimes known as the " Attic Muse " for the sweetness of his diction ; very few poets wrote in the Attic dialect.
Diogenes Laertius, a fourth source for information about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument.

Diogenes and featured
The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentleman's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, most notably " The Greek Interpreter ".
* British horror writer Kim Newman has featured versions of the Diogenes Club in both his Anno Dracula and Diogenes Club series.
* In 2011, The Diogenes Club was featured in the Facebook / MySpace game Nightfall: Bloodlines as a secret section of the British Secret Service, formally titled " Her Majesty's Secret Service, Occult Branch ".

Diogenes and Doctor
* Democritus, or Doctor Merry-man his Medicines against Melancholy humors, reprinted, with alterations, as Doctor Merrie-man, and Diogenes Lent home ( 1607 ), in which Athens is London

Diogenes and Who
* " The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train ", Kim Newman ( The Man from the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain )
In the stories " The Man Who Got Off The Ghost Train " and " Swellhead ", it is mentioned that Carnacki was a member of the Diogenes Club as a special occult investigator ; when he retired, his position was taken by Newman's character Richard Jeperson.

Diogenes and New
Mithradates Eupator was born and buried at Sinope, and it was the birthplace of Diogenes, of Diphilus, poet and actor of the New Attic comedy, of the historian Baton, and of the Christian heretic of the 2nd century AD, Marcion.
At Geneva he had produced some notes on Diogenes Laertius, Theocritus and the New Testament.
In 1664 he published at London an edition of the Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius that contains an unedited anonymous life of Aristotle ; this life was known as ' Vita Menagiana ' before the critical edition by Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1957 ; reprinted New York, Garland, 1987, pp. 80 – 93 ) with the title ' Vita Hesychii ' ( the attribution to Hesychius of Miletus is controversial ).
Shorn of its main frame, PCdoB began to regroup with staff from the PA leadership and staff of John Amazonas, who with Arruda Diogenes were the last remnants of the group that rebuilt the party in 1943 at the Conference Mantiqueira in full New State and in 1962.
* New Mutants # 1-4 ( inks, with writer Zeb Wells, and pencils by Diogenes Neves, Marvel Comics, July – October 2009 )
Diogenes Laërtius divided the history of the Academy into three: the Old, the Middle, and the New.

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