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In Strong Poison Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vane, a cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover.
At the conclusion of Strong Poison, Inspector Parker asks " What would one naturally do if one found one's water-bottle empty?
Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.
* Strong Poison ( 1931 )
Strong Poison book cover.
This theme is picked up in Strong Poison, taking place seven years later, when Freddy at last manages to convince Rachel's family to consent to the match despite his being a gentile-after Freddy compared his long wait with that of the Biblical Jacob for his Rachel.
Strong Poison is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
It is in Strong Poison that Lord Peter first meets Harriet Vane, an author of police fiction.
Strong Poison was adapted for television in 1987 as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.
Both Sayers and Cournos eventually fictionalized their experience: Sayers in Strong Poison, published in 1930, and Cournos in The Devil is an English Gentleman, published in 1932.
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During a hiking holiday after her acquittal on murder charges in Strong Poison, Harriet Vane discovers the body of a man, with his throat cut and the blood still liquid, on an isolated rock on the shore.
Busman's Honeymoon was preceded by adaptations of Whose Body ?, Strong Poison, and Gaudy Night ( all adapted by Frances Limoncelli and produced at Lifeline Theatre ).
Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey when she is on trial for poisoning her lover ( Strong Poison ) — he falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal.
* Strong Poison ( 1930 )
Harriet Vane was portrayed by Harriet Walter in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night.
** Strong Poison
She also played, on radio, the Dowager Duchess ( Lord Peter Wimsey's mother ) in the radio adaption of Strong Poison that starred Ian Carmichael as Peter Wimsey.
* " A Shropshire Lad " is mentioned in Dorothy L. Sayers ' mystery " Strong Poison ".
* Poem LXII, in Dorothy L. Sayers, Detective Novel, from 1929, " Strong Poison ", the title and King Mithridates VI of Pontus, from the poem, are referred to by the protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey.
The English fiction writer Dorothy L. Sayers used a phrase from some variants for the title Strong Poison, a murder mystery about a man apparently murdered by his lover.
However, he is probably best known for his unhappy affair with Dorothy L. Sayers, fictionalized by Sayers in the detective book Strong Poison ( 1930 ) and by Cournos himself in The Devil Is an English Gentleman ( 1932 ).
Mithridatism has been used as a plot device in novels, films, video games, and TV shows including, among others, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Rappaccini's Daughter ", Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll, Dorothy Sayers's Strong Poison, Agatha Christie's Curtain, William Goldman's The Princess Bride ( and the movie of the same name ).
He played Robespierre in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1982 ), and he later played Bunter, the valet of Lord Peter Wimsey, in the BBC's productions of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night ( all based on Dorothy Sayers's original novels ).

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In a lively exchange over what has come to be referred to as " The Chinese room Argument ", John Searle sought to refute the claim of proponents of what he calls ' Strong Artificial Intelligence ( AI )' that a computer program can be conscious, though he does agree with advocates of " Weak AI " that computer programs can be formatted to " simulate " conscious states.
The follow-up to " Don't Dream it's Over ", " Something So Strong ", was not as successful as its predecessor but reached the top ten in New Zealand, America and Canada.
In 1982, Marrow met producer William Strong from Saturn Records, who recorded his first single, " Cold Wind Madness ", also known as " The Coldest Rap ", which became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics.
called י ִ ש ְׂ ר ָ א ֵ ל, Israel ( Yisra ` el, meaning " one that struggled with the divine angel " ( Josephus ), " one who has prevailed with God " ( Rashi ), " a man seeing God " ( Whiston ), " he will rule as God " ( Strong ), or " a prince with God " ( Morris ), from, " prevail ", " have power as a prince ").
Linguistic determinism is also sometimes described as " the Strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ", while other forms of correlation are referred to as " the weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ".
* Benjamin Zephaniah wrote a poem titled " Biko The Greatness ", included in Zephaniah's 2001 collection, Too Black, Too Strong.
In the Story of Grettir the Strong, chapter 27, " The Suit for the Slaying of Thorgils Makson ", Thorgeir conveys to court Thorgils Arison's offer of weregild as atonement for killing Thorgils Makson.
George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.
Singer Bobby Bare, who covered Jennings ' songs " Four Strong Winds " and " Just To Satisfy You ", recommended him to producer Chet Atkins, who signed Jennings to RCA Victor in 1965.
The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.
Tom Strong # 31 and # 32, " The Black Blade of the Barbary Coast " parts 1 & 2, feature albino pirate Captain Zodiac seeking the " Black Blade ", a black cutlass marked with red runes.
The album was a greatest hits compilation that included two re-recorded tracks, " I'm Gonna be Strong ", first recorded with her band Blue Angel, and a reworking of her first big hit, newly christened " Hey Now ( Girls Just Want To Have Fun )".
The only track to achieve high chart status was " I'm Gonna Be Strong ", which reached No. 37 in the Netherlands.
" It is also mentioned in the 2004 hit by Australian band Butterfingers, " I Love Work ", as well as " Strong " by Robbie Williams, " Hole in the Head " by Sugababes and " Little White Lie " by Tanya Stephens.
* A portion of the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou ?, known as the " Siren Scene ", was filmed on the banks of the Strong River at the D ' Lo Water Park.
* Orgel, Stephen and Strong, Roy C., " Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court ", 1973
Titled " The Long Cool EP ," the collection features Black ’ s single, " Long Cool Woman ", " The Strong One " and a duet with his wife titled " You Still Get to Me ".
In an earlier episode, " The Imposter ", of Radio Free Roscoe, a 2005 series on The N, a character Travis Strong DJed to the song, acting as if it were his own.
The beers produced include: " Black Dog Mild ", " Golden Newt ", " Cambridge Bitter, " Greyhound Strong Bitter ", " Old Smoothie Mild ", " Old Smoothie Bitter ", " Brookes Ale ", " Reinbeer " and " Jingle Ale ".

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