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Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.
Their dedication to the status quo has been affirmed at the expense of the fascinating but dangerous individualism of a Sherlock Holmes.
Producer John Holmes has chosen a delightful comedy for his season's opener at Matunuck in Jean Kerr's `` King Of Hearts ''.
The main difference between Ja ' far in " The Three Apples " and later fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.
Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.
It has become quite common today to identify Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., as the main precursor of American Legal Realism ( other influences include
His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).
Thomas and the White House Peace Vigil has inspired Eleanor Holmes Norton to introduce the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act, that would require the United States to disable and dismantle its nuclear weapons when all other nations possessing nuclear weapons do likewise.
This cocktail has been famous in Puerto Rico since 1978, and it became more widely known after Rupert Holmes released his song " Escape ", commonly known as " The Piña Colada Song ".
Howard created Conan the Barbarian, in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, a character whose pop-culture impact has been compared to such icons as Tarzan, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
In " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.
Even so, it is obvious that Watson has stricter limits than Holmes, and occasionally berated Holmes for creating a " poisonous atmosphere " of tobacco smoke.
Holmes has an ego that at times borders on arrogant, albeit with justification ; he draws pleasure from baffling police inspectors with his superior deductions.
Holmes is a loner and does not strive to make friends, although he values those that he has, and none higher than Watson.
Holmes has his wealthy banker client in " The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet " pay him for the costs of recovering the stolen gems and also claims the reward the banker had put for their recovery.
Watson states that Holmes has an " aversion to women " but " a peculiarly ingratiating way with ".
Toledo has produced a number of famous artists, including actors Jamie Farr, Alyson Stoner, Katie Holmes, Adrianne Palicki and Danny Thomas, musicians Tom Scholz, Lyfe Jennings, and Scott Shriner, painters Israel Abramofsky and James E. Brewton, jazz pianist Art Tatum.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing for the Court, explained that " the question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Karen relates that Holmes has been unfaithful to her most of their marriage.
It has also been announced that DiCaprio will star in the film, playing the role of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
Holmes County has had three county seats in its history, the first being Cerro Gordo, then Westville, and finally Bonifay.
The album has proven influential with artists such as Air, David Holmes, Jarvis Cocker, Beck and Dan the Automator.
Although Moriarty appeared in only two of the 60 Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes ' attitude to him has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes ' arch-nemesis – as " The Final Problem " clearly states: " Holmes spent months in a private war against Moriarty's criminal operations "and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media.

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As early as Murder on the Links, where he still largely depends on clues, Poirot mocks a rival " bloodhound " detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues that had been established in detective fiction by the example of Sherlock Holmes: footprints, fingerprints and cigar ash.
The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty had in reality been a set of prototype programs written for the Analytical Engine.
His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.
Owned by Vickers, Ltd., the submersible had been rented out to produce The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, a film featuring a dummy Loch Ness Monster.
" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.
Although he initially needed Watson to share the rent of his comfortable residence at 221B Baker Street, Watson reveals in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective ", when Holmes was living alone, that " I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms ," suggesting he had developed a good income from his practice, although it is seldom revealed exactly how much he charges for his services.
Certainly, in the course of his career Holmes had worked for both the most powerful monarchs and governments of Europe ( including his own ) and various wealthy aristocrats and industrialists and had also been consulted by impoverished pawnbrokers and humble governesses on the lower rungs of society.
English translations by Sidney Thelwall and Philip Holmes can be found in volumes III and IV of the Ante-Nicene Fathers which are freely available online ; more modern translations of some of the works have been made.
By the early 20th century, the Equal Protection Clause had been eclipsed to the point that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. dismissed it as " the usual last resort of constitutional arguments.
The vast majority of legal scholars have concluded that in writing the Schenck opinion Justice Holmes never meant to replace the " bad tendency " test which had been established in the 1868 English case R. v. Hicklin and incorporated into American jurisprudence in the 1904 Supreme Court case U. S. ex rel.
Many contemporary inventors attempted to develop a design that would process short staple cotton, and Hodgen Holmes, Robert Watkins, William Longstreet, and John Murray had all been issued patents for improvements to the cotton gin by 1796.
For example, many stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, originally created by Arthur Conan Doyle, have been written as pastiches since the author's time.
The progeny of these travellers were purported to have been the real-life originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few hundred years, such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Lord Peter Wimsey.
In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as hanging on the wall ; Holmes remarks on another work by the same painter to show it could not have been purchased on a professor's salary.

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* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".
While his early compositional work was not widely known outside of Egypt at the time, El-Dabh would eventually gain recognition for his influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the late 1950s ( Holmes 2008, 156 – 57 ).
Because of newspaper articles and Watson's stories, however, Holmes is well known as a detective, and many clients ask for his help instead of or alongside the police.
While some people consider the inclusion of jelly to be a recent variation, the earliest known recipe to include jelly dates from 1747, and the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of trifles containing jelly in 1861.
Lenox products also became well known in the US thanks to Frank Graham Holmes, chief designer from 1905 to 1954, who won several artistic awards such as the 1927 Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the 1943 silver medal of the American Designers Institute.
Well known persons affiliated with Unity include Betty White, Eleanor Powell, Wally Amos, Licensed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and Esther Williams.
Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former school, Stonyhurst College, as inspiration for details of the Holmes series ; among his contemporaries at the school were two boys named Moriarty.
* John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, fictional sidekick and biographer of detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories
John Curtis Holmes ( August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988 ) better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd ( after the lead character in a series of related films ), was one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2250 adult loops and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as being the longest, thickest, and hardest in the porn industry, although no definitive measurement of Holmes ' actual penis length exists.
The true number of women ( and men ) with whom Holmes had sex during his career will never be completely known.
The town was burnt to the ground by the English on this occasion which would become known as " Holmes's Bonfire " after the English admiral Holmes, the Great Fire of London in the very same year was considered by some to have been God's retribution.
Finally, the Holmes Block ( also known as the Opera House Block ), including downtown commercial buildings occupying addresses 710 – 718 Washington Avenue, are significant of various historical periods ranging from 1875 to 1974.
The Goodman Campus of Holmes Community College ( formerly known as Holmes Junior College ) is located here.
The Wilmington City Schools system includes Roy E. Holmes Elementary, Denver Place Elementary, East End Elementary, as well as Rodger O. Borror Middle School ( formerly known as Wilmington Middle School ) and Wilmington High School.
AECOM, known earlier as Holmes and Narver, held the Nevada Test Site contract for many years before Bechtel Nevada Corp. had it.
Edward Hardwicke ( 7 August 1932 – 16 May 2011 ), sometimes credited as Edward Hardwick, was an English actor, possibly best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes.
William Stuart Baring-Gould ( 1913 – 1967 ) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of the world's first consulting detective.
He is perhaps best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes.

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