* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

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.

Norton then defended the WBC title against another Don King fighter, Larry Holmes, who won the belt.

Holmes won by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision, winning every round on two scorecards and all but one on the third.

Holmes pulled off the upset and won by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

Holmes won seven consecutive fights and then got another title shot.

After losing to Holmes, Norton won his next fight by knockout before taking on Earnie Shavers in a WBC title eliminator fight in Las Vegas.

He won the Silver Goblets & Nickalls ' Challenge Cup for coxless pairs seven times ( twice with Andy Holmes, once with Simon Berrisford and four times with Matthew Pinsent ), the Stewards ' Challenge Cup for coxless fours five times, the Diamond Challenge Sculls twice, the Double Sculls Challenge Cup once ( with Eric Sims ) and the Queen Mother Challenge Cup for quadruple sculls once.

In 1817, Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state and Holmes won the election to be the first governor of the State of Mississippi.

Critics remarked he rarely won a bout lasting exceeding 8 rounds. In subsequent fights he fought Ali well for 15 rounds and Holmes for 11.

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.

In the American Hockey League he won the 1994 Jack A. Butterfield Trophy ( MVP of the American Hockey League playoffs ) and the 1994 Hap Holmes Memorial Award.

There were enough holes in eyewitness accounts to allow Conan Doyle to plausibly resurrect Holmes ; only the few free surviving members of Moriarty's organisation and Holmes ' brother Mycroft ( who appears briefly in this story ) know that Sherlock Holmes is still alive, having won the struggle at Reichenbach Falls and sent Moriarty to his death – though nearly meeting his own at the hands of Moriarty's henchmen.

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.

Gabriel Holmes, the congressman from Dudley's district, died, and in 1829 Dudley won a special election to replace him.

From there, the pair had a string of hits with Some Like It Hot ; The Apartment ( which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay ); One, Two, Three ; Irma la Douce ; the Oscar-nominated The Fortune Cookie ; the sex comedy Kiss Me, Stupid ; and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

The Tories won the 1878 election and Holmes became Premier of the province to find the treasury depleted and the Legislative Council in the hands of the Liberals.

Van Der Beek won the title role of " Dawson Leery ," and the show's 1998 debut was a success that helped to establish the network and its cast, which included Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, and Joshua Jackson.

The Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV with Holmes as the game's second string halfback.

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

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

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Fans of the literary detective Sherlock Holmes are widely considered to have comprised the first modern fandom creating some of the first fan fiction as early as 1887 and holding public demonstrations of mourning after Holmes was " killed " off in 1893.

In 1994 Peter Holmes Maluleka was elected as transitional mayor of Pretoria, until the first democratic election held later that year, making him the first black mayor of this capital of South Africa.

The first move came in 1922 at a boundary conference in Uqair when the prospector Major Frank Holmes tried to include Qatar in an oil concession he was discussing with Ibn Saud.

Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories.

The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.

The first appearance of Holmes, 1887

Holmes states that he first developed his methods of deduction while an undergraduate.

In The Sign of the Four, Watson quotes Holmes as being " an automaton, a calculating machine ", and Holmes is quoted as saying, " It is of the first importance not to allow your judgement to be biased by personal qualities.

The Sontarans made their first appearance in 1973 in the serial The Time Warrior by Robert Holmes, where a Sontaran named Linx is stranded in the Middle Ages.

* John H. Watson ( Sherlock Holmes ' famed companion ) nearly died of typhoid contracted in India, and returned to England for convalescence – where he first met the detective.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the first Sherlock Holmes in Strand Magazine in 1891.

* Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes tale.

** Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

As for parody, the first Sherlock Holmes spoofs appeared shortly after Conan Doyle published his first stories.

Holmes shares the majority of his professional years with his good friend and chronicler Dr. Watson, who lives with Holmes for some time before his marriage in 1887, and again after his wife's death.

However, his cocaine use and freebasing continued on and off, although it has been almost unanimously attested by Holmes ' co-stars ( post Wonderland ) that Holmes was consistently professional on set.

B. Holmes, professional golfer

Larry Holmes ( born November 3, 1949 ) is a former professional boxer.

After compiling an amateur record of 19-3, Holmes turned professional on March 21, 1973, winning a four-round decision against Rodell Dupree.

Witherspoon, a six to one underdog and with only 15 professional bouts to his name, surprised many by giving Holmes a difficult fight.

He retained the Heavyweight crown three times, which included victories over former champions George Foreman and Larry Holmes, before suffering his first professional loss to Riddick Bowe on November 13, 1992.

Liar is a personal work that deals with the end of her seven-year relationship with the professional wrestling fan Michael Holmes, author of the critically acclaimed Parts Unknown.

Along with Larry Holmes, Berbick is one of only two men in professional boxing history to have fought both Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.

" 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.

To fans of Sherlock Holmes who enjoy treating the stories as altered accounts of real events, the true identity of this snake has been a puzzle since the publication of the story, even to professional herpetologists.

* Hap Holmes ( 1889 – 1940 ), Canadian professional ice hockey goalie

* Jimmy Holmes ( b. 1953 ), Irish former professional footballer

* Ken Holmes a. k. a. Mr. Kennedy ( b. 1976 ), American professional wrestler and actor

* Mike Holmes ( b. 1963 ), Canadian professional contractor and host of Holmes on Homes

His brother Neil, son Gregor and nephew Matty Holmes were also professional footballers.

Created and written by Rupert Holmes ( with music also by Holmes ) and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events ( both dramatic and comic ) in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in the era before and during World War II.

It was edited by Blair R. Holmes, a professional historian, and Alan F. Keele, a German-language specialist.

Harry George " Hap " Holmes ( February 21, 1892 – June 27, 1941 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.

As a professional, Holmes won the Stanley Cup four times, with four different teams.