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.

In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

In some stories the question of whether formal justice will be done is left unresolved, such as Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* The third of composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 1929 – 30 composition Wachsfigurenkabinett: Fünf kleine Opern ( Waxworks: Five Little Operas ) is entitled ' Chaplin-Ford-Trot ', and features the character of Charlie Chaplin ( in a speaking rather than operatic role ).

* Five Little Peppers, a family with five children in a children's literature series.

Five miles ( 8 km ) from Brentford, the Paddington Arm leads to Paddington Basin and, just north-west of the Basin at ' Little Venice ', it connects to the Regent's Canal.

An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order.

Dolphy and Little also co-led a quintet at the Five Spot during 1961.

The album Far Cry contains his famous performance of the Gross-Lawrence standard " Tenderly " on alto saxophone, and his subsequent tour of Europe quickly set high standards for solo performance with his exhilarating bass clarinet renditions of Billie Holiday's " God Bless the Child " ( the earliest known version was recorded at the Five Spot during his residency with Booker Little ).

*** Euclid Avenue near the Little Five Points intersection in the Inman Park Neighborhood

Five of her classic Little House books were based on her experiences in and around the community.

Five miles ( 8 km ) downstream to the west, the Little Pigeon absorbs its West Fork before turning north and flowing for another five miles ( 8 km ) to its mouth along the French Broad River.

In 1931 he directed two key films which launched Edward G. Robinson into major stardom, the Oscar-nominated critique of tabloid journalism Five Star Final, and the classic gangster epic Little Caesar.

" Gaye's main musical influences were Rudy West of The Five Keys, Clyde McPhatter, Ray Charles and Little Willie John.

He appeared on VH1's The Surreal Life in 2004 and also in the Five reality show Trust Me-I'm A Holiday Rep, along with British comedian Syd Little, Scott Wright ( actor ) and glamour model Jodie Marsh.

Significantly, it was noted for Five Little Pigs ( adapted by Kevin Elyot ) bringing out the homosexual subtext of the novel.

An acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico " Rico " Bandello in Little Caesar ( 1931 ) led to him being typecast as a " tough guy " for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final ( 1931 ), Smart Money ( 1931 ; his only movie with James Cagney ), Tiger Shark ( 1932 ), Kid Galahad ( 1937 ) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and A Slight Case of Murder.

Five river systems traverse the Cape floral kingdom: the Oliphants River of the Western Cape ; the Berg River which drains the West Coast Forelands plain stretching from the Cape Flats to the Olifants ; the Breede, which is the largest river on the Cape ; the Olifants River ( Southern Cape ); Gourits and the Groot Rivers which drain the Little Karoo basin and the South Coast Forelands ; and the Baviaanskloof and Gamtoos Rivers to the east.

He spent most of the remainder of his life in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta, During this time he maintained a free series of fliers titled " Out of Order.

" This single page, double sided Xeroxed periodical was distributed in the Little Five Points area.

** Five Little Pigs

* MIDI sequences of Eastwood Lane's " In Sleepy Hollow " ( 1913 piano suite ), " The Little Fisherman " ( 1918 song ), " Five American Dances " ( 1919 piano suite ), " Adirondack Sketches " ( 1922 piano suite )

This was before Christie ’ s American publishers appropriated the title for Five Little Pigs in 1942 ( a year ahead of the release of the UK edition that retained the nursery-rhyme title ).

The book was mentioned in Agatha Christie's mystery ( Hercule Poirot series ) novel Five Little Pigs, when Poirot asks one of the suspects ( Angela Warren ) if she read the book at the time the crime was committed.

* Five Little Pigs ( 1942 )

Five Little Pigs is unusual in the way that the same events are retold from several standpoints.

The “ Five Little Pigs ”:

Beresford in The Guardians 20 January 1943 review, wrote: " Miss Agatha Christie never fails us, and her Five Little Pigs presents a very pretty problem for the ingenious reader.

Charles Osborne: " The solution of the mystery in Five Little Pigs is not only immediately convincing but satisfying as well, and even moving in its inevitability and its bleakness.

The last two of these cases are discussed in Chapter 5 of the novel, along with the case retold in Five Little Pigs.

The Five Little Pigs pattern of murder-in-the-past, the convicted murderer having died in prison, innocent.

– Five Little Pigs ( 2003 ) … Mrs. Spriggs

* Kevin Elyot's 2003 television adaptation of Five Little Pigs, the Agatha Christie novel

She was featured in an advertisement for ' Master Storyteller, Magic Grandad ', 1 episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot ( Five Little Pigs ) and in two episodes of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

* Naturalism, the School of Naturalists or the Yin-yang school, which synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

She has only the ability to create a soulless body, and thus she is “ persuaded to undertake the journey to heaven to ask for a soul ,” and “ the Seven Liberal Arts produce a chariot for her ... the Five Senses are the horses ”.

* 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.

The full title in Hebrew is named after a young woman of Moab, the great-grandmother of David and, according to the Christian tradition, an ancestress of Jesus :, Megillat Ruth, or " the scroll of Ruth ", which places the book as one of the Five Megillot.

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Other programming produced solely by the BBC News channel includes the BBC News at Five with Huw Edwards ( including Film 24 with Mark Kermode at 17: 45 on Fridays, Sportsday ( at 18: 45, except on Fridays and Saturdays when it is from 18: 30, plus 22: 30 every weekday ) and Newswatch ( Friday 20: 45, Saturday 07: 45 ).

Confucian ethics is characterized by the promotion of virtues, encompassed by the Five Constants, or the Wuchang ( 五常 ), extrapolated by Confucian scholars during the Han Dynasty.

The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang ( 陰陽家 / 阴阳家 ; Yīnyángjiā ; Yin-yang-chia ; " School of Yin-Yang ") was a Warring States era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself.

The first of the Five Precepts ( Panca-sila ) is to abstain from destruction of life.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) is based on Yinyangism ( i. e., the combination of Five Phases theory with Yin-yang theory ), which was later absorbed by Daoism.

The system is often summarized in the Five Points of Calvinism and is best known for its doctrines of predestination and total depravity, stressing the total contingency of man's salvation upon the absolute sovereignty of God.

Five is often called " no field five " in casino craps because 5 is not on the field and thus not paid in the field bets.

Both Mahayana and Theravada thinking is that eating meat in and of itself does not constitute a violation of the Five Precepts which prohibit one from directly harming life.

It is part of the Five Precepts which dictate that one is not to consume " addictive materials ".