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Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.
Newer hip hop artists from the Bronx include Lord Toriq and Peter Gunz, Camp Lo, Swizz Beatz, Drag-On, Fat Joe, Terror Squad and Corey Gunz.
* " Cross Bronx Expressway " by Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz
* " Deja Vu ( Uptown Baby )" by Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz
Also popular were the stories featuring Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance.
An example is Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Enya has performed several songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's " Lothlórien " ( instrumental ), and 2001's " May It Be " ( sung in English and Quenya ), and " Aníron " ( in Sindarin )— the latter two, which she composed, appearing in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and its soundtrack album.
Their daughters Cristina and María both married into the high nobility ; Cristina to Ramiro, Lord of Monzón, grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre via an illegitimate son ; María, first ( it is said ) to a prince of Aragon ( presumably the son of Peter I ) and second to Ramón Berenguer III, count of Barcelona.
This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary Lord Hunt, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that " there is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5 ... a lot of them like Peter Wright who were rightwing, malicious and had serious personal grudges – gave vent to these and spread damaging malicious stories about that Labour government.
Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven ( he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera ), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million ( the latter two with Peter O ' Toole ), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco ( the ' Ugly ') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The Epistle may include marriage as an apostolic practice in 1 Corinthians 9: 5, " Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas ( Peter )?
Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.
* Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, an aristocratic amateur detective
Harriet Vane and Saint-George, the undergraduate nephew of Lord Peter, help give variety, and the college setting justifies good intellectual debate.
It was adapted for television in 1987 as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.
Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.
Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.
* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.
* Peter Campbell Scarlett, A Memoir Of The Right Honorable James, First Lord Abinger, Chief Baron Of Her Majesty's Court Of Exchequer, 1877
Lord Peter Wimsey's ( fictional ) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard The Lion Heart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre.
Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.
According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class degree in history.

Lord and Death
Inside the Death Zone stands the Tomb of Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society ( The Five Doctors ).
Wiccans believe that The Horned God, as Lord of Death, is their " comforter and consoler " after death and before reincarnation ; and that he rules the Underworld or Summerland where the souls of the dead reside as they await rebirth.
To distinguish Death Bredon from Lord Peter Wimsey, Parker smuggles Wimsey out of the police station and urges him to get into the papers.
Delacroix followed up with Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1827 ), commemorating a siege of the previous year, and the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by Lord Byron, which although set in antiquity has been credited with beginning the mixture of sex, violence, lassitude and exoticism which runs through much French Orientalist painting.
The series ' creators feel that " Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest should be treated as ' classic ' characters like Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman, Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings or even Hamlet, Othello or Romeo.
The fan-series ' creators feel " Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest should be treated as ' classic ' characters like Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman, Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or even Hamlet, Othello, or Romeo.
It later appears prominently in the title of Joshua Barnes's The History of that Most Victorious Monarch, Edward IIId, King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland, and First Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: Being a Full and Exact Account Of the Life and Death of the said King: Together with That of his Most Renowned Son, Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquitain, Sirnamed the Black-Prince ( 1688 ).
* Dorothy L. Sayers's Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), one of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novels
The Doctor states that transdimensional engineering was a key Time Lord discovery in " The Robots of Death ".
Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
In the fictional world of the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters constitute a group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, the chief antagonist of the series, who seek to purify the Wizarding community by eliminating the Muggle-borns ( wizards or witches born to non-magical parents ).
Moore was for many years a strong advocate for Catholic Emancipation which he regarded as the source of all problems in Ireland and the sole reason behind the 1798 Rebellion-a point he made in his 1831 biography Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
The Prince also appears as the murder victim in the first of the Lord Francis Powerscourt crime novels Goodnight Sweet Prince, and as a murder suspect in the novel Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige.
# REDIRECT Death ( Discworld )# Lord Mortimer, Duke of Sto Helit
In 1607, he wrote and published a masque for the occasion of the marriage of Lord Hayes, and, in 1613, issued a volume of Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry, set to music by John Cooper ( also known as Coperario ).
Other noteworthy antagonists, and sometimes protagonists, are the Death Knight Lord Soth and Kitiara Uth Matar, the half-sister of Raistlin and Caramon, and leader of one of the Dragonarmies of Ansalon.
* Thomas Moore, Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald ( 2 vols., London, 1832 ), also a revised edition entitled The Memoirs of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, edited with supplementary particulars by Martin MacDermott ( London, 1897 )
McDowell has lent his voice to Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After, the Superman villain Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, Mad Mod in Teen Titans, Merlyn in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Arkady Duvall ( son of Ra's Al Ghul ) in Batman: The Animated Series and as the voice of a Death Star commander in a Robot Chicken episode parodying Star Wars.
* The Death of Lord Chatham ; after Copley.
* Lord Azriel: The Lord of the Dimension of Death.
At intervals came from his studio such pieces as The Red Cross Knight, Abraham Offering up Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, The Death of Major Peirson, The Arrest of Five Members of the Commons by Charles the First, The Siege of Gibraltar, The Surrender of Admiral DeWindt to Lord Camperdown, The Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey by the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk, The Resurrection, and others.
In the detective novel A Presumption of Death, taking place in the early days of World War II, the plot centers on Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey trying to solve the murder of a land girl who had come to work at a village in Hertfordshire.

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