Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

As is the case with many other major poets of ancient Greece, Ibycus became famous not just for his poetry but also for events in his life, largely the stuff of legend: the testimonia are difficult to interpret and very few biographical facts are actually known.

The biography in this article is an amalgam of old and new approachesit is naive in its reliance on the odes as biographical sources and it even includes a few clearly fanciful elements from ancient accounts.

The few biographical details concerning Philo are found in his own works, especially in Legatio ad Gaium (" embassy to Gaius "), and in Josephus.

In Spanish, Don Pascual de Gayangos wrote a useful biographical introduction to a publication of a few of his letters -- Cinco Cartas politico-literarias de Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, issued at Madrid in 1869 by the Sociedad de Bibliófilos of the Spanish Academy ; and there is a life in English by F. H.

The biographical excerpts attached to works attributed to Buddhaghosa reveal relatively few details of his life, but were presumably added at the time of his actual composition.

Very few biographical accounts on the life of Roberto Assagioli are available, and most are not written in English.

The Choate Story Book ( 1903 ) contains a few of his addresses and after-dinner speeches, and is prefaced by a brief biographical sketch.

Ford has a Royal Society biographical memoir, but there are few other sources on his life.

A few anecdotes survive about this man, in the brief biographical sketch of him given in the Book on Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta: it is stated for example that he was raised to the throne because of his name ( Regalianus, " of a king " or " kingly "); when his soldiers heard this jest they greeted Regalianus as their emperor.

In an interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘ The Party ’ s Over ’, Taaffe gave a few biographical details:

There are few extant biographical documents of Zeami, the lack of solid information about his life has led to a significant amount of speculation.

A few biographical notes identifying this author have been preserved in the introductory portion of his pseudo-historical work, The Kingdom of Slavs.

Even the few biographical dates, which have been published in secondary literature are not always correct as clarified by P. < span style =" font-variant: small-caps "> Sacher </ span > in his " attempt at a Biography ":

Although biographical sources generally held that Murrieta was born in Chile or Mexico, a few reported that his mother's family were of mixed-Cherokee and Anglo-Protestant ancestry.

The novel expands on the few known biographical facts ( including the marriage of his daughter ).

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There are few biographical details.

While the book is known to have taken some liberties with the facts, it is one of the few biographical sources available.

The text of this site, which appears in a few other locations on the web, includes a brief biographical overview of the author and a list of selected works.

* Charles Willeford Bio Page biographical chronology ( note that a few of the dates and descriptions given conflict with those in published sources ); part of the Disc-Us Books website

Rudolph de Cordova, in a 1909 biographical sketch notes, " During this period, few theatres played regular afternoon performances, so that the actors were, for the most part, engaged only

Sterne gives few biographical details relating to Slawkenbergius, but states that he was German, and that he had died over 90 years prior to the writing and publication ( in 1761 ) of the books of Tristram Shandy in which he appears — i. e., circa 1670, although Slawkenbergius ' tale includes a reference to the French annexation of Strasbourg in 1681.

There are also some biographical materials made available by his organization Know Thyself As Soul, International, although they have few details or specifics and again focus in the main on the inner life.

For a few details of the system the lines are 1-1/4'' '' X-Tru-Coat, a product of Republic Steel Corp., and all lines are welded.

Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.

* Israel and Judah: The two " chronicles " of Israel and Judah provided the chronological framework, but few details apart from the succession of monarchs and the account of how the Temple of Solomon was progressively stripped as true religion declined.

There are very few historical details in the book of Malachi.

The standard provides for many closely related formats, differing in only a few details.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

Negotiations between the parties officially began on July 25 and are currently proceeding with very few details released from the negotiation teams in Pretoria, as coverage by the media is barred from the premises where the negotiations are taking place.

Pei spent two and a half years with the NDRC, but has revealed few details.

The term Impressionism has also been used to describe works of literature in which a few select details suffice to convey the sensory impressions of an incident or scene.

The Quran contains only three verses that give specific details of inheritance and shares, in addition to few other verses dealing with testamentary.

However, a few scholars still question the authenticity of the reference, based on various arguments, but primarily based on the observation that various details in The Jewish War differ from it.

Beyond his being considered a member of Alexandria's Greek society, few details of Ptolemy's life are known for certain.

For example, if an estimate of how long it takes to break an encryption scheme is one thousand years, and it were used to encrypt details which are obsolete a few weeks after being sent, then this could be deemed a reasonable risk and trade-off.

Hofmeister was followed a few hours later by Emil Fischer, who had amassed a wealth of chemical details supporting the peptide-bond model.

Until 2000, it was thought that rock sequences spanning the Permian-Triassic boundary were too few and contained too many gaps for scientists to determine reliably its details.

At that time, physics seemed to be a discipline filling in the last few details of a largely worked-out system.

Also, few are interested in working through the required procedural details to get RFCs classified as historic and update all RFCs normatively depending on it.

The historical record contains few details of Romulus ' life.

She noted that although most people " hold their belief in reincarnation quite lightly " and were unclear on the details of their ideas, personal experiences such as past-life memories and near-death experiences had influenced most believers, although only a few had direct experience of these phenomena.

They were also among the few non-U. S. citizens and nearly the only passengers with Arabic names on their flights, enabling the FBI to identify them and in many cases such details as dates of birth, known or possible residences, visa status, and specific identification of the suspected pilots.

" He goes on to express concern about CPDH's alleged tendency to provide relatively few names and other details in connection with alleged violations.

" While the details of the attack are disputed — Michigan claimed it fired no shots and had only discharged a few musket rounds in the air as the Ohio group retreated — the battle further infuriated both Ohioans and Michiganders and brought the two sides to the brink of all-out war.

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