Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

A number of Zapf's students from this time at RIT went on to become influential type designers, including Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, who together created the Lucida type family.

Having survived the encounter with Sherlock Holmes, he went on to become the head of British Intelligence under the code-name " M " ( a nod to the James Bond novels and films ), but still maintained his criminal interests.

When the family moved to Easton in 1954, Holmes ' father went to Connecticut, where he worked as a gardener until his death in 1970.

To help support his family, Holmes dropped out of school when he was in the seventh grade and went to work at a car wash for $ 1 an hour.

In the twelfth, Holmes immediately went on the attack, backing Weaver into the ropes and pounding him with powerful rights until the referee stepped in and stopped it.

Holmes got up, survived the round, and went on to stop Shavers in the eleventh.

On January 24, 1997, Holmes went to Denmark to fight Brian Nielsen, who was 31-0.

Holmes ' appearances became more frequent as time went by, especially by the beginning of the 2003-04 season.

But in a direct rematch in early 1979 Ocasio again showing talent clinched the win and went on to fight world champion Larry Holmes.

Doyle later went on to write a series of popular stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, whom Doyle stated was loosely based on Bell and his observant ways.

He stopped former WBC lightweight champ Esteban De Jesús in the 13th round in July 1980 on the Holmes-LeDoux undercard ; decisioned Termite Watkins over 15 on the Holmes-Ali undercard ; won a 15-round nod over Jo Kimpuani on yet another undercard for a Larry Holmes fight ( this time it was vs. Leon Spinks ); went to Indonesia to decision Thomas Americo ; and, in his last bout leaving the ring as champion, decisioned Obisio Nwankpa in Nigeria.

Verena Holmes was born in Ashford and went on to become the first woman member elected to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Justice Sanford wrote for the seven-justice majority opinion, and invoked the Holmes test of " clear and present danger " but went further.

Then, he went to Persia, with Holmes entering Mecca and then to a brief stopover with the Khalifa in Khartoum.

Another early agency, started by James ' Jem ' White in Fleet Street, London, in 1800, eventually evolved into White Bull Holmes, a recruitment advertising agency, that went out of business in the late 1980s.

Goldsworthy left the group and went on to work with Belfast DJ and producer David Holmes and also co-founded The DFA with James Murphy.

Simon Holmes went on to record other albums with a new band, Fragile.

When the " Sherlock Holmes " stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street only went up to 100, which was presumably why Conan Doyle chose a higher street number for the location of his hero, to prevent any person's actual residence from being affected by the stories ' popularity.

Among the more recent generation of film-makers to emerge from World in Action were Alex Holmes, who became editor of the BBC2 documentary strand Modern Times and went on to write and direct the Bafta-winning dramatised documentary series Dunkirk for the BBC ; and Katy Jones, a former WIA producer, who became a key collaborator with the screen writer Jimmy McGovern as a producer on his award-winning drama-documentaries Hillsborough and Sunday.

Holmes went on to become a well-known radio and television comedian.

* In the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, when dabbling with occult sciences and sorcery during his investigation, Sherlock Holmes makes an allusion to both the White Rabbit and the rabbit-hole, comparing the sorcery to the rabbit-hole and himself to the white rabbit saying " Although I went deeper into the rabbit-hole than I intended, I brushed the dirt from my fluffy white tail and emerged enlightened ".

Holmes rebels against the social conventions of his day not on moral but rather on aesthetic grounds.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

But Holmes was rejected again `` on the basis of his record and interview ''.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

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.

This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

On July 23, 1963, Webb announced Mueller's appointment as Deputy Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, to replace then Associate Administrator D. Brainard Holmes on his retirement effective September 1.

* 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 he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

Although much of the attention focused on the power-hitting lineup, much of the club's success was due to a strong bullpen, as relievers Darren Holmes, Curt Leskanic, Steve Reed, and Bruce Ruffin all posted earned-run averages below 3. 40.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

With less time to spend songwriting as she focused on a burgeoning film career, during the early 1980s Parton recorded a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy and Carole Bayer Sager.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Linked to Holmes even in death, Moriarty represents the alter-ego of the great detective, the image of what our hero might have become were he not a public servant.

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

In his majority opinion, Justice Holmes introduced the clear and present danger test, which would become an important concept in First Amendment law ; but the Schenck decision did not formally adopt the test.

Mannie names it " Mike " after Mycroft Holmes, brother of Sherlock Holmes, and they become friends.

During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise ( a skill which he coincidentally shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes ), when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy.

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.

On October 2, 1980, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Holmes defended his title against Ali, who was coming out of retirement in an attempt to become the first four-time World Heavyweight Champion.

After the fight, Holmes and Cooney would become close friends.

Attempting to become the first Hispanic to win the world Heavyweight championship, Ocasio was badly outclassed and lost to Holmes by a knockout in seven rounds.

Artie decides to become a writer, his stories revolving around his deductive reasoning technique, and asks Roy if he can use the " Sherlock Holmes " name.

Muir's biographer, Steven J. Holmes, states that Muir has become " one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity ," both political and recreational.

Holmes took the oath of office in October 1817, though Mississippi did not officially become a state until December of that year.

* September 21-Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes by a decision in 15 rounds to become the first world Light Heavyweight champion to win a world Heavyweight title.

Tales of Fatima was an old-time radio show from 1949 starring Basil Rathbone, who had by that time become famous for his long run portraying the world's most famous sleuth in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

On January 28, 1887, while he was still married to Clara, Holmes married Myrta Belknap in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; their daughter, Lucy Theodate Holmes, was born on July 4, 1889 in Englewood, Illinois ( in adult life, Lucy was to become a public schoolteacher ).

Wrote Holmes, “ Life insurance has become in our days one of the best recognized forms of investment and self-compelled saving .” This opinion placed the ownership rights in a life insurance policy on the same legal footing as more traditional investment property, such as stocks and bonds.

El-Dabh would later become more famous for his work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where in 1959 he composed the influential piece Leiyla and the Poet ( Holmes 2008, 153 – 54 & 157 ).

Holmes gathered a large collection of evidence for this theory, including stories of doctors who had become ill and died after performing autopsies on patients who had likewise been infected.