For example, in " The Final Problem ", Holmes states that his services to the government of France and the royal house of Scandinavia had left him with enough money to retire comfortably, while in " The Adventure of Black Peter ", Watson notes that Holmes would refuse to help the wealthy and powerful if their cases did not interest him, while he could devote weeks at a time to the cases of the most humble clients.

** Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in this month's Strand Magazine, that his character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.

* May 4 – Professor James Moriarty, fictional criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Final Problem ( b. unknown )

Holmes is still believed by the public to be deceased following the events of The Final Problem, although it is revealed in the second volume that Mina later meets with him.

Professor Moriarty's first appearance and his end occurred in Doyle's story " The Adventure of the Final Problem ," in which Holmes, on the verge of delivering a fatal blow to Moriarty's criminal ring, is forced to flee to continental Europe to escape Moriarty's retribution.

Moriarty plays a direct role in only one other of Doyle's Holmes stories, The Valley of Fear, which was set before " The Final Problem " but published afterwards.

Holmes mentions Moriarty reminiscently in five other stories: " The Adventure of the Empty House " ( the immediate sequel to " The Final Problem "), " The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ", " The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ", " The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ", and " His Last Bow ".

Although Moriarty appeared in only two of the 60 Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes ' attitude to him has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes ' arch-nemesis – as " The Final Problem " clearly states: " Holmes spent months in a private war against Moriarty's criminal operations " – and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media.

In the Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes ' assistant Doctor Watson, Watson never meets Moriarty ( only getting distant glimpses of him in " The Final Problem "), and relies upon Holmes to relate accounts of the detective's battle with the criminal.

In " The Final Problem ", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty, while in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as " the famous scientific criminal ".

" The Final Problem " was intended to be exactly what its title says ; Doyle sought to sweeten the pill by letting Holmes go in a blaze of glory, having rid the world of a criminal so powerful and dangerous any further task would be trivial in comparison ( as Holmes says in the story itself ).

In his first appearance in " The Final Problem ", Moriarty is only referred to as Professor Moriarty – no first name is mentioned.

* Orson Welles played Professor Moriarty opposite John Gielgud's Holmes in the 1950s series broadcast of " The Final Problem.

* In the BBC Radio November 4, 1992 broadcast of " The Final Problem " and the February 24th 1993 broadcast of " The Empty House ", Moriarty was played by Michael Pennington.

Basil also describes Ratigan as " The Napoleon of Crime ", the same designation Holmes gave Moriarty in " The Final Problem.

All deaths occurred in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Holmes films, and all three involved him falling from a great height ( possibly a nod to his demise at the Reichenbach Falls in " The Final Problem ").

* Eric Porter portrayed Professor Moriarty in two episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes: " The Red-Headed League " and " The Final Problem ", and briefly in the Return of Sherlock Holmes episode: " The Empty House ".

Holmes and Moriarty are both sucked into the Ghostbusters ' storage facility while wrestling, in the same manner as the conclusion of " The Final Problem.

It might be noted that in The Adventure of the Final Problem Watson and Moriarty never actually come face-to-face.

The last story, " The Problem of the Final Adventure ", retells " The Adventure of the Final Problem " from the other side, and reveals that there was more going on than Holmes ( or, at least, than Watson ) realised.

* In the computer adventure Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Holmes encounters Moriarty locked in a Switzerland mental hospital in 1895 ( four years after The Final Problem ), where the Professor has suffered severe brain injuries from the Falls.

* The Final Problem

Rosicrucians, in the same way of those who have had near-death experiences, speak of a life review period occurring immediately after death and before entering the afterlife's planes of existence ( before the silver cord is broken ), followed by a judgment, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's life.

After three days, the soul crosses Chinvat bridge which is the Final Judgment of the soul.

* A common two-headed wyvern enemy in Final Fantasy XIII is named Amphisbaena.

* Cyan Garamonde is a named character in Final Fantasy VI.

NLCC Final Destination: Nation's Leading Cheer Companies is a multi brand company, partnered with other companies such as: Americheer / Ameridance, American Cheer & Dance Academy, Eastern Cheer & Dance Association, and Spirit Unlimited.

Daedalus is the name of a boss that protects Giruvegan in the game Final Fantasy XII.

Clover further argues that the " Final Girl " in the psychosexual sub-genre of Exploitation Horror invariably triumphs through her own resourcefulness, and is not by any means a passive, or inevitable, victim.

This ceremony is followed by Sahaj Paath Bhog, Kirtan Sohila, night time prayer is recited 1 week and finally Ardas called the " Antim Ardas " (" Final Prayer ") is offered the last week.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

The 1937 Grand Final is widely regarded as a game of the highest quality, remembered for its long and accurate kicking and high marking.

The Judiciary consists of a series of courts, of which the court of final adjudication is the Court of Final Appeal.

( In the later novels, To Play the King and The Final Cut, however, she is called ' Elizabeth ' and plays a larger role, as in the television series.

It is safe to say that the terms " Final Four " and " March Madness " have grown out of the tradition of Hoosier Hysteria.

Indianapolis is scheduled to host the men's 2015 Final Four.

Pursuant to Article 158 of the Basic Law ( the constitutional instrument of the Region ), the power of final interpretation of the Law is vested not in the Court of Final Appeal but in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, which, unlike the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, is a political body rather than an independent and impartial tribunal of last resort.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

In Final Crisis # 5, Lex Luthor is seen when Libra blames Calculator for cracking the computer codes that will help the resistance.

Losing 1 – 0 going into injury time in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored late goals to claim a dramatic victory over Bayern Munich, in what is considered one of the greatest comebacks of all time.

* Final Judgment in U. S. v. Microsoft ( injunction including final settlement terms approved by the court ) ( note that the copy posted on the district court's web site is actually an earlier version that the court declined to approve ).

Suggesting a moral equivalence between a number of acts carried out by the Allies during the Second World War and the deeds of the Nazis, especially the Final Solution is a common strategy employed by apologists for the Nazis in Germany, such as politicians of the National Democratic Party of Germany.

Its official news publication is The Final Call Newspaper.