Although Holmes appears to show initial interest in some female clients ( in particular, Violet Hunter in " The Adventure of the Copper Beeches "), Watson says he inevitably " manifested no further interest in the client when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems ".

The book commences with Holmes ’ s famous aphorism: “ The life of the law has not been logic ; it has been experience .” The Common Law is susceptible of many interpretations, and some Realists saw in it a denunciation of all efforts to represent law as a “ science .” Others read it as an assault on the Classical legal conception of law as a coherent system of fixed axioms from which particular rules and decisions could be deduced.

While Holmes sat in prison in Philadelphia, the Chicago police started to investigate his operations in that city, as the Philadelphia police sought to unravel the Pitezel situation — in particular, the fate of the three missing children.

Anticipation over a Holmes-Cooney confrontation began to take shape in early 1981, but the fight took over a year to happen, partly because 1981 in particular was a very busy year for boxing with many other big fights, partly because Holmes was obliged to defend against Berbick, Spinks and Renaldo Snipes in that order.

Holmes and Cooney attended press conferences at several United States cities, Cooney was shown on the cover of Time magazine, Hollywood stars took an interest in the fight ( Sylvester Stallone in particular hung out with Gerry Cooney, others, such as Woody Allen, attended the fight live ) and Cooney was cast as " The Great White Hope ".

" Biddle also said that Holmes " refused to let his preferences ( other men were apt to call them convictions ) interfere with his judicial decisions ... The steadily held determination to keep his own views isolated from his professional work is aptly shown by his famous remark in the Lochner case-the Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics ... A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory.

Holmes enjoyed measuring the circumference of trees on his property and kept track of the data, writing that he had " a most intense, passionate fondness for trees in general, and have had several romantic attachments to certain trees in particular ".

Later biographers would use Holmes's book as an outline for their own studies, but particularly useful was the section dedicated to Emerson's poetry, into which Holmes had particular insight.

The original title " Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes " was to be for occasional tales to " reflect particular concerns of Conan Doyle beyond exciting whodunit plots ... exploring changes in the modern world ".

In particular, " it's the sort of Englishness which is stuffy but fundamentally benevolent, and fundamentally very responsible about the rest of the world ", which connects Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Clarke's Jonathan Strange.

There are many windmills in this particular area including West Somerton Mill, Heigham Holmes Mill, Brograve Mill, and Lambrigg Mill

Holmes examines the blob of clay, and pays particular attention to the cut in the desk.

Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes ( 2011 ) is a feature-length documentary detailing the history, decline and modern revival of Bartitsu, with particular reference to its association with Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes is still believed by the public to be deceased following the events of The Final Problem, although it is revealed in the second volume that Mina later meets with him.

* " Elementary My Dear Winston ", the third episode for the 1989 season of The Real Ghostbusters, features Holmes, Watson and Moriarty by way of " belief made manifest ": so many people believed in them that they became real.

Holmes ( real name: Herman Mudgett, 1861 – 1896 ) Famous serial killer who is believed to have killed over 200 young women during the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery.

Although there was believed to have been anywhere from 20, 000 to 60, 000 years of post-glacial time in which such immigration could have occurred over the Bering land bridge, the antiquity of human presence in the western hemisphere was popularly fixed at about 5, 000 BP (" before present ", or 3000 BC ). Obsidian projectile point from Puerta Parada, Guatemala William H. Holmes and Ales Hrdlicka led this school of thought.

* In June 2010 it was announced that Franklin Watts books, a part of Hachette Children's Books planned to release a series of four children's graphic novels in spring 2011 called Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars set during the three years that Sherlock Holmes was believed dead, between The Adventure of the Final Problem and The Adventure of the Empty House by writer Tony Lee and artist Dan Boultwood.

Richard Holmes believed the loan was never repaid, but Haig ’ s biographer Walter Reid believes the loan was probably repaid in 1909.

Contrary to what Watson believed, Holmes won against Professor Moriarty, flinging him down the waterfall with the help of baritsu, and then he climbed up the cliff beside the path to make it appear as though he, too, had fallen to his death.

" The Adventure of the Empty House " revealed that Holmes did not die after all, and recounted a secret history of three years in which Holmes had been wandering the world while everybody – including even his close friend Dr. Watson – believed him to be dead.

In his dissent, Holmes, the author of Schencks clear and present danger test, wrote that he believed it was still the appropriate test to employ in judging the limits of freedom of expression.

Although Holmes evidently believed that he was adhering to his own precedent, many later commentators accused Holmes of inconsistency, even of seeking to curry favor with his young admirers.

" Nonetheless, Holmes believed that slavery could be ended peacefully and legally.

However, the film was believed to be in the public domain at the time, and as a result Markle and Holmes responded by returning Capra's initial investment, eliminating his financial participation, and refusing outright to allow the director to exercise artistic control over the colorization of his films, leading Capra to join in the campaign against the process.

Ross believed the only two people everyone in the English-speaking world was familiar with were Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes believed that Butler's religion influenced his thinking in Buck, remarking that " Butler knows this is good law, I wonder whether he will have the courage to vote with us in spite of his religion .".

Since no scandal involving the Gloria Scott ever followed the odd message from Beddoes ( Evans ), and since neither Hudson nor Evans was ever heard from again, the Police believed Hudson had done away with Beddoes while Holmes believed that Evans had likely killed Hudson, believing that he had told all, when in fact he had not, and then fled with as much money as he could lay his hands on.

Conan Doyle was not very pleased with the story and believed that the first three stories of The Return of Sherlock Holmes (" The Adventure of the Empty House ", " The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ", and " The Adventure of the Dancing Men ") were better than this story.

Holmes believed that he became addicted in Prague, and is now supplied by this Dorak in London.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Holmes's loss of half his pension pay due to New Deal legislation after his 1932 retirement is believed to have dissuaded Justices Van Devanter and Sutherland from departing the bench.

The suspected gunman, later identified as James Eagan Holmes and believed to be acting alone, entered the theater dressed in protective clothing, set off tactical grenades, then opened fire with multiple firearms on the theatergoers.

The second series ' final episode of the updated BBC series Sherlock, " The Reichenbach Fall ", had Holmes believed to have fallen to his death from the roof of St Bartholomew's as a surrogate for the waterfall of the original story " The Final Problem ".

Lowell had high hopes for his performance but was overshadowed by the other notables presenting works that day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. " I did not make the hit I expected ," he wrote, " and am ashamed at having been tempted again to think I could write poetry, a delusion from which I have been tolerably free these dozen years.

Holmes retired from Harvard in 1882 and continued writing poetry, novels and essays until his death in 1894.

1830 proved to be an important year for Holmes as a poet ; while disappointed by his law studies, he began writing poetry for his own amusement.

His first collection of poetry was published later that year, but Holmes, ready to begin his medical career, wrote it off as a one-time event.

Later that year, Holmes contributed $ 10 to Walt Whitman, though he did not approve of his poetry, and convinced friend John Greenleaf Whittier to do the same.

Due to his immense popularity during his lifetime, Holmes was often called upon to produce commemorative poetry for specific occasions, including memorials, anniversaries and birthdays.

Holmes, an outspoken critic of over-sentimental Transcendentalist and Romantic poetry, often slipped into sentimentality when writing his occasional poetry, but would often balance such emotional excess with humor.

In his poetry, Holmes often connected the theme of nature to human relations and social teachings ; poems such as " The Ploughman " and " The New Eden ", which were delivered in commemoration of Pittsfield's scenic countryside, were even quoted in the 1863 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac.

Author and critic William Dean Howells argued that Holmes created a genre called dramatized ( or discursive ) essay, in which major themes are informed by the story's plot, but his works often use a combination of genres ; excerpts of poetry, essays and conversations are often included throughout his prose.

Emerson noted that, though Holmes did not renew his focus on poetry until later in his life, he quickly perfected his role " like old pear trees which have done nothing for ten years, and at last begin to grow great.

Holmes had recently abandoned his studies of law and began writing poetry for fun.

In 1957, she studied poetry with John Holmes at the Boston Center for Adult Education.