It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

* In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic

* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Argon became the first member of the noble gases to be discovered.

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

Star Wars became one of the most successful movies of all time worldwide, and established Ford as a superstar.

The title became tantamount to superstar, to signify a supermodel's fame having risen simply from " personality.

Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date ( it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar ), grossing more than US $ 1. 843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as " Leo-Mania.

In moving to Chelsea, Gullit played an important part in the " foreign revolution " as numerous high profile international stars, such as the prolific German World Cup winner Jürgen Klinsmann, Italian superstar Gianfranco Zola who became a Chelsea legend, and Dutch magician Dennis Bergkamp, joined Premiership clubs and helped to increase its worldwide profile.

The Knicks ultimately came back to win the next two games and the series, but Reggie became an NBA superstar overnight.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics ' Spider-Man franchise.

She traveled to Mexico next, after the invitation by the producers to try out there, and became a superstar in that country as well, working in many top soap operas, including Camila and the national super hit Amigas y Rivales.

After she won the title, she became an instant superstar in the Philippines.

Kayōkyoku became a major industry, especially after the arrival of superstar Misora Hibari.

But it was in 1985 that he became an international superstar, when his song " Amante bandido " rose to the top of the charts all over Latin America and in Spain, while he started to decline in Italy ( where he had a parallel career, singing in both Italian and English-he would go back to the top there in 1994, by winning Festivalbar ( the second musical event after the Sanremo Music Festival ) for the third time ).

Charytín became an international superstar with her song Mosquita Muerta, named after a character she played on a comedy section of her show, becoming a chart topper in places like Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina.

Although only together for a little over two years, from 1966-9, they were highly influential and it was in this period that Clapton became an international superstar.

Adolphe NourritWith his next opera Meyerbeer became virtually a superstar.

The series became an instant hit with the high production values of superstar airbrush artist Ken Steacy.

One of Harari's members, Sipho ' Hotstix ' Mabuse became a superstar in the 1980s.

Harlow became a superstar at MGM and was given superior movie roles to show off not only her beauty but also what turned out to be a genuine comedic talent.

He left the football club and became a world famous professional wrestler, currently a superstar in the WWE, with the in ring name Mason Ryan.

In addition, when superstar center Shaquille O ' Neal became a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, Sports Illustrated graced its November 1996 issue with Mikan, O ' Neal and fellow Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, calling Abdul-Jabbar and Mikan " Lakers legends " to which O ' Neal was compared, establishing Mikan as one of the greatest Lakers players of all time.

In November 2003, Sylvester Stallone became the second American superstar to participate in the show that year.

They created a music hall boom in wrestling, and Hackenschmidt became a major superstar and drawing card.

Throughout the 1990s, as more and more gay men became attracted to these mega dance-events, the circuit party scene continued to grow and expand into ever-larger productions, featuring superstar DJs and performers.

He became the starting first baseman in their first ever MLB game, and his actions that day turned Ault into the Blue Jays first superstar.

He became " a superstar " among his audience and their parents, but unknown to everyone else, and enjoyed what he called being a " micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

By the turn of the decade Farmer was a full-blown superstar in France, but it wasn't until the release of her third album, L ' Autre ..., and single " Désenchantée " that she became iconic.

In The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock ' n ' roll ( 1996 ) author Simon Reynolds wrote that " Janet Jackson became a superstar with the immaculately designed soft-core feminism of Control.