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In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.
Daniel Baker deluged his `` Unckle Quyne '' with requests to pay money for him to drapers in Watling Street and at the Two Cats in Canning Street.
He then joined a 30-student Holmwood academy, in Baker Street, Enfield, Middlesex under the Reverend Stephen Freeman.
A brilliant London-based " consulting detective " residing at 221B Baker Street, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.
* Leslie Caron, Une Française à Hollywood ( Mémoires ), ( translation: Anne-Marie Hussein ) published by Baker Street ( US ), 2011, ISBN 978-2-917559-16-1
Tiling at Baker Street incorporates repetitions of Sherlock Holmes's silhouette.
In the film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain Ratigan attempts to kill the film's heroes, Basil of Baker Street and David Q. Dawson, with a Rube Goldberg style device.
From 1881, Holmes was described as having lodgings at 221B, Baker Street, London, from where he runs his consulting detective service.
Until the arrival of Dr. Watson, Holmes worked alone, only occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass, including a host of informants and a group of street children he calls " the Baker Street Irregulars ".
As shooting practice, the detective adorned the wall of his Baker Street lodgings with " VR " ( Victoria Regina ) in bullet pocks made by his pistol.
Although he initially needed Watson to share the rent of his comfortable residence at 221B Baker Street, Watson reveals in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective ", when Holmes was living alone, that " I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms ," suggesting he had developed a good income from his practice, although it is seldom revealed exactly how much he charges for his services.
As seen in the surviving episode " The Frighteners ", Steed also had helpers among the population who provided information, similar to the " Baker Street Irregulars " of Sherlock Holmes.
He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.
For Field, a statement like " 2 + 2 = 4 " is just as fictitious as " Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street " — but both are true according to the relevant fictions.
The Magician's Nephew refers to these books in the opening of the novel as though their events were true, mentioning the setting of the piece as being when " Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road ".
At the time they lived in Gloucester Place Mews near Baker Street.
He died of typhoid at his home in Baker Street, London, on 27 March 1931, after returning from a visit to France.
Additionally a novel, Jon Lellenberg's Baker Street Irregular, has been announced for publication in Nov 2011.
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* The Great Mouse Detective: Basil of Baker Street, Dr. Dawson, Professor Ratigan, 17 Henchmens, and Fidget.
In his works, a character named Yoshio Kobayashi of " Shōnentanteidan " ( Junior Detective Group, similar to the Baker Street Irregulars of Sherlock Holmes ) forms a deep dependency with adult protagonist Kogoro Akechi.
Baker Street is the central London terminus for many trains, while others continue into the City to terminate at Aldgate.
The Metropolitan Railway branched out to the suburbs from Baker Street, reaching Harrow in 1880, and eventually as far as, over from the centre of London.

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During early 2007 Pryce played Sherlock Holmes in a TV miniseries, the BBC production Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars.
According to Aaron Marc Stein in his introduction to the 1977 edition, published by University Extension of UCSD: " At the risk of bringing down on his memory the wrath of the Baker Street Irregulars it must be recorded that Bentley had reservations about even the Conan Doyle originals.
A month later, the Baker Street Irregulars wrote a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, insisting that the story be published.
Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes.
* Morley helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars, dedicated to the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
* The Baker Street Irregulars Weekend
They also appear in the next novel, The Sign of the Four ; one of the chapters from this book is called The Baker Street Irregulars.
The Special Operations Executive ( SOE ), tasked by Winston Churchill to " set Europe ablaze " during World War II, had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called " the Baker Street Irregulars " after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of boys employed " to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone ," as they spied about London.
The Baker Street Irregulars is also the name of an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Doubleday Editor Christopher Morley.
* The Irregulars appear as the main characters in Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, a 2006 novel by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin.
* Hazel Meade's troop of children serve as couriers and lookouts in the " Baker Street Irregulars " during the lunar revolution of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).
* Two BBC television series have been made starring the Irregulars: The Baker Street Boys ( 1983 ) and Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars ( 2007 ).
* Comics involving the Irregulars include The Irregulars from Dark Horse Comics ( ISBN 978-1-59307-303-9 ), and Les Quatre de Baker Street ( ISBN 9782749304373 )
* 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.
* The Baker Street Journal is " an Irregular quarterly " of Sherlockiana, published by the Baker Street Irregulars.

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Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.
Both Primary and Normal classes are based on the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.
* Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company in which orphans from various eras ( who fit certain physical requirements ) are recruited by a time-traveling corporation, augmented and turned into immortal cyborgs, and trained to rescue valuable artifacts from history.
The most recent representatives for the organisation along with 45 vice presidents are President John J. Sweeny, Secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka, and executive vice president Arlene Holt Baker
" In the 1995 book America's Alternative Religions, published by the State University of New York Press, Baker wrote: " Although they prefer to be called Unificationists, they are referred to in the media and popularly known as ' Moonies '.
Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.
Five colleges, McMurtry, Duncan, Martel, Jones, and Brown are located on the north side of campus, across from the " South Colleges ", Baker, Will Rice, Lovett, Hanszen, Sid Richardson, and Wiess, on the other side of the Academic Quadrangle.
Of the eleven colleges, Baker is the oldest, originally built in 1912, and the twin Duncan and McMurtry colleges are the newest, and opened for the first time for the 2009-10 school year.
Will Rice, Baker, and Lovett colleges are undergoing renovation to expand their dining facilities as well as the number of rooms available for students.
Another technique devised by Henry Baker involves deferred increments, in which references which are stored in local variables do not immediately increment the corresponding reference count, but instead defer this until it is necessary.
Its headquarters are depicted as being in Fort Baker, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
However, Christian Scientists believe that the many instances of spiritual healing ( as recounted e. g. in the Christian Science periodicals and in the textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ) are evidence of the correctness of the teaching of the unreality of evil.
* May 28 – Two monkeys, Able and Miss Baker are the first living beings to successfully return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.
* October 21 – American Civil War – Battle of Ball's Bluff: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.
In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner described in his " Mathematical Games " column a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors.
The pair are admiring the TARDIS, thinking it to be a piece of art, when the Doctor ( Tom Baker ), Romana ( Lalla Ward ) and Duggan ( Tom Chadbon ) rush into it and it dematerialises.
Baker writes that the new offences are inchoate and therefore: " The new fraud offences are almost unlimited as to the dishonest conduct they criminalize.
C-3PO ( played by Anthony Daniels ) and R2-D2 ( played by Kenny Baker ) are the only characters portrayed by the same actor in all six films.
plain, are all that are left " ( Henry Baker Tristram's Land of Moab ).
Those claiming " American " ancestry are of predominantly English ancestry but most people in Baker County who are of English stock have a tendency to identify simply as Americans.
Baker County has been described as " The World's Smallest, Crappiest Place to Live " by its residents, most of which are idiot rednecks.

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