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Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

There is certainly a case for saying that Crooked House ( 1949 ) and Ordeal by Innocence ( 1957 ), which are not Poirot novels at all but so easily could have been, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of Poirot himself within the Poirot sequence.

* Soft Target ( 2006 ) ( a. k. a. Crooked )

After it was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story, " The Crooked Man ", about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm.

The Queen's Rangers saw extensive action during the Philadelphia campaign, including a successful surprise attack ( planned and executed by Simcoe ) at the Battle of Crooked Billet.

Akwid, Jae-P, Crooked Stilo, Mexiclan and David Rolas are among the most popular urban regional artists.

The St. Francis / Sokoki Abenaki Band, who make their home along the Masipskiwibi ( Missisquoi, " Crooked River ") River in northwestern Vermont call the lake Bitawbagok, the same meaning as Petonbowk.

* 1778 – American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

She has appeared in a number of television movies, including Like Mother, Like Son, Run a Crooked Mile, Heartsounds, The Gin Game ( based on the Broadway play ; reuniting her with Dick Van Dyke ), Mary and Rhoda, Finnegan Begin Again.

In 1412, Owain led one of the final successful raiding parties with his most faithful soldiers and cut through the King ’ s men, and consequently captured, and later ransomed, a leading Welsh supporter of King Henry's, Dafydd Gam (" Crooked David "), in an ambush in Brecon.

The former, short Crooked Lake Canal linked Seneca Lake to Keuka Lake.

The other two films were Too Late the Hero, in which Fonda played a secondary role, and There Was a Crooked Man, about Paris Pitman Jr. ( played by Kirk Douglas ) trying to escape from an Arizona prison.

After re-entering Pennsylvania, the river is joined from the east by Kinzua Creek upstream of Warren ; from the north by Conewango Creek at Warren ; from the west by Brokenstraw Creek ; from the east by East Hickory Creek at East Hickory ; from the east by Tionesta Creek at Tionesta ; from the north by Oil Creek at Oil City ; from the west by French Creek at Franklin ; from the east by the Clarion River, a principal tributary, at Parker ; from the east by Crooked Creek southeast of Kittanning ; and from the east by the Kiskiminetas River, another principal tributary, at Schenley.

His short story " The Crooked Man " ( also published by Playboy, in 1955 ) presented a dystopian future scenario wherein heterosexuality is stigmatized in the same way that homosexuality then was, and depicts heterosexuals living as furtively as pre-Stonewall gays and lesbians.

Jones is currently part of the band Them Crooked Vultures with Josh Homme and Dave Grohl where he plays the bass, piano and other instruments.

That same year, he made a western called Ride a Crooked Trail with Audie Murphy and Onionhead starring Andy Griffith and Erin O ' Brien, which was a flop.

* " Mechanical Mole Bores Crooked Wells.

Other notable islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, and Mayaguana.

Though the FTC has some overlapping responsibilities with the Department of Justice, and although the Robinson Patman Act is an amendment to the Clayton Act, the Robinson Patman act is not widely considered to be in the core area of the antitrust laws.

Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping.

The particular amount and ratio of the polyphenol compounds found in tea varies widely from one type of white tea to another, frequently overlapping with chemical compositions found in green tea.

The Chicago Manual of Style suggests that to avoid problems such as overlapping and unequally spaced characters, parentheses and brackets surrounding text that begins and ends in italic or oblique type should also be italicized ( as in this example ).

According to the FCI Standard Rottweilers should have strong and complete dentition ( 42 teeth ) with scissor bite, the upper incisors closely overlapping the lower incisors.

The upper jaw teeth of the sleeper shark are spike-like, while the lower jaw teeth are oblique cusps and overlapping bases.

Jaws strong, with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i. e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set square to the jaws.

Hannah said that her attacker had fair / red hair, wore a blue suit and had teeth overlapping one another ; the same description as that given by Jeannie Williams.

** Class II Division 2: The molar relationships are class II but the central are retroclined and the lateral teeth are seen overlapping the centrals.

The snout was broad and rounded and there were 15 or 16 pairs of overlapping teeth in each jaw.

There were 19 or 20 pairs of strongly overlapping teeth on each jaw.

; Mouth: Strong and sound, with well-developed teeth, with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i. e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set square to the jaws.

bevel overlapping ends for splice joint, score beveled edges.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

The bones are fully ossified and the vertebrae interlock with each by means of overlapping processes.

Each course is laid the whole length of the wall, overlapping at the corners on a layer of adobe mortar.

Congress then created three overlapping committees to draft the Declaration, a Model Treaty, and the Articles of Confederation.

The three types of ataxia have overlapping causes, and therefore can either coexist or occur in isolation.

Vitamin B < sub > 12 </ sub > deficiency may cause, among several neurological abnormalities, overlapping cerebellar and sensory ataxia.

Ataxia may depend on hereditary disorders consisting of degeneration of the cerebellum and / or of the spine ; most cases feature both to some extent, and therefore present with overlapping cerebellar and sensory ataxia, even though one is often more evident than the other.

Demeritt ( 1995 ) argues that in British Columbia ( and Canada generally ), there were three overlapping agrarian viewpoints.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

This may be a formal hierarchy, or they may be vague, overlapping terms, or a combination of both.

The term acropolis is also used to describe the central complex of overlapping structures, such as plazas and pyramids, in many Maya cities, including Tikal and Copán.

The overlapping concepts of immunogenicity and antigenicity are, therefore, subtly different.

Every telephone company, whether large or small, determines its own ANAC for each individual central office, which tends to perpetuate the current situation of a mess of overlapping and / or spotty areas of coverage.

All these overlapping jurisdictions caused numerous conflicts, but gradually the Confederation was able to acquire these rights in the County.

The leaves grow from the trunk of the plant, the bases of the leaves form a sheath ( covering ) around the trunk ; there are approximately 25 of these, with 5 cm in diameter and from 12 to 25 leaves with overlapping petioles, covering the stalk to form a shrub, " false trunk " or pseudostem about 30 to 40 cm in diameter.

Like single covalent bonds, double bonds can be described in terms of overlapping atomic orbitals, except that, unlike a single bond ( which consists of a single sigma bond ), a carbon-carbon double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond.

Beads may be divided into several types of overlapping categories, based on different criteria such as component materials, manufacturing process, place or period of origin, surface patterning, or general shape.

A shuttlecock ( often abbreviated to shuttle ; also called a birdie ) is a high-drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.

Graphic designs and industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

For example, money center banks, deposit-taking institutions, and other types of financial institutions may be subject to different ( and occasionally overlapping ) regulation.

However, in the Vioxx litigation, two provincial courts recently certified overlapping class actions whereby Canadian residents are class members in two class actions in two provinces.