) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

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 ".

Dr Jacqueline Furby says that the plot " occupies ... no time all time ", citing Lester's claim that life did not flash before his eyes, but that it " stretches on forever like an ocean of time ".

Expected to come to air in 2013, the characters of Phineas & Ferb and Marvel Universe characters, including Spider-Man and The Avengers, would be paired in a crossover special called Phineas & Ferb: Mission Marvel, which would use the plot device of a " inator " device of Dr. Doofenshmitz removing the powers of the superheroes, and the characters of Phineas & Ferb helping them get their powers back while fighting against Marvel villains.

Among those involved in the assassination plot were four Kabul University students and one of its professors, Dr. Aimal Habib, as well as Mohibullah Ahmadi who was one of the guards outside the Presidential Palace in Kabul.

This plot point becomes important near the end of the film when Robby refuses to kill the " Id monster " because the robot recognizes that the creature is an alter ego / extension of Dr. Morbius.

In June 1966, they murdered Natchez resident Ben Chester White, reportedly as part of a plot to draw Dr. Martin Luther King to Natchez in order to assassinate him.

The Kings Park Psychiatric Center was built by Kings County ( before becoming part of New York City ) in 1885 after Dr. Oliver Dewing's successful campaign to develop a hospital for the mentally ill on an plot of land.

* A 7090 / 1401 installation is featured in the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, with the 1403 printer playing a pivotal role in the plot ( it is the hiding place for a transistor radio ; which, when found and turned on by one of the three characters played by Peter Sellers in the film, reveals that the nuclear attack ordered by the deranged Air Force base commander is phony, and must be stopped at all costs ).

Sonic the Hedgehog, the protagonist of the game, must fight these robots, rescue the trapped animals and put an end to Dr. Robotnik's plot.

The player, as either Sonic or Knuckles, must collect Rings, avoid Badniks and escape traps as the antagonist, Dr. Robotnik, initiates another plot to take over the world.

Sonic must rescue the Flickies and foil Dr. Robotnik's plot.

What I experienced in that courtroom ranged from inspiration at the courage of the Kings, their lawyer-investigator William F. Pepper, and the witnesses, to amazement at the government's carefully interwoven plot to kill Dr. King.

Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote Superman's Metropolis, a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the second of which was entitled Batman: Nosferatu, most of the plot derived from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

The Batman comics and movies such as Batman Begins have also explored the theme of the true self ( Wayne ) becoming lost in or giving himself over to the alter ego, much like the plot of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

According to Dr. Donald N. Wilber, who was involved in the plot to remove Mossadegh from power, in early August, Iranian CIA operatives pretending to be socialists and nationalists threatened Muslim leaders with " savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh ," thereby giving the impression that Mossadegh was cracking down on dissent, and stirring anti-Mossadegh sentiments within the religious community.

A disguised Chief Quimby interrupts a normal family activity between Gadget, Penny and Brain to give him a mission to stop the latest plot by Dr. Claw and M. A. D, via an exploding message, which then, through Gadgets actions, blows Quimby up.

It is a major plot element in the classic silent German Expressionist film Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( English title: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ).

Dr Oates discovers the plot

Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dr. Karl Sack, Dr. Theodor Strünck and General Friedrich von Rabenau, who were involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler, along with the French Resistance worker Simone Michel-Lévy, who had managed to organize an uprising in the camp.

The more prominent plot line follows the protagonist, Dr. Paul Proteus ( hither to referred to as Paul ), an intelligent, thirty-five-year-old factory manager of Ilium Works.

In the same vein, a certain short-story plot has been overworked.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

Any tragedy, he maintains, has six elements: plot, character, and thought ( the objects of imitation ), diction and melody ( the means of imitation ), and spectacle ( the manner of imitation ).

Morgan hotly denied this and informed the Board of War that the men in camp linked the name of Peters with the plot against Washington.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

If Nikita buys a small plot in some modest rural cemetery, everyone will understand.

After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.

`` String them onto some sort of little plot, and you'll have a delightful operetta ''.

They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot.

As you have doubtless guessed already, the plot is plastered with Freudian, Jungian, and Meinckian theory.

They plot the open interest curves, rainfall curves, and they even divide Democratic congressmen by Republican congressmen.

They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.

In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

A straight line relationship is usually observed in a plot of Af against load L, having slope k, and Af.

You could not, of course, raise feed for the livestock on a plot this small.

You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.

`` He claims Mahzeer's in a plot to kill the P.M. ''.

So the driver started to curse at both of them as if they had been in a plot together to ruin his safe-driving record.

On Friday, a day as cloudless and lovely as Thursday had been gray and ugly, the plot of the tournament came clearly into focus.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

The article proceeded to give an inaccurate account of a Catholic plot to kill King James 1.

And in the new `` King Of Kings '' the plot involves intrigues and twists and turns that cannot be traced to the Gospels.