When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

One quote often heard from Holmes is " When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth ".

When Watson, in amazement, asks how Holmes knows this, Holmes answers:

When Captain Dana " Dynamite " Holmes ( Philip Ober ) learns of his reputation as a talented boxer, he recommends that Prewitt join the regimental boxing club that he heads, and promises that Prewitt will be promoted to corporal or even sergeant, if he helps win the boxing trophy on December 15, but Prewitt refuses, though he keeps silent about his reasons.

When Galovitch falsely accuses Prewitt of insubordination, Holmes is about to punish Prewitt again until the man in charge of the detail says that it was Galovitch, not Prewitt, who was spoiling for the fight.

When Holmes ' true intentions are revealed to the commander, he orders a court-martial.

When Holmes begs for an alternative, the commander's aide suggests that Holmes resign his commission " for the good of the service " and leave the Army, which the general accepts with dispatch.

When his men fail to kill Holmes, he pursues him personally and without aid of an assistant whereas Holmes takes Watson with him wherever he goes.

When he attempted to sell the formula to the Central Powers, he was discovered by Sherlock Holmes.

When the Pequot War loomed in 1637, Standish was appointed to a committee to raise a company of 30 men, but it was Holmes who led the company in the field.

When the family moved to Easton in 1954, Holmes ' father went to Connecticut, where he worked as a gardener until his death in 1970.

When Holmes was nineteen, he started boxing.

When he retired from boxing, Holmes employed more than 200 people through his various business holdings.

When the secession proposal failed, Gadsden, working with his cousin Isaac Edward Holmes, a lawyer in San Francisco since 1851, and the California state senator Thomas Jefferson Green, attempted to divide California in two.

When he came back to snatch the photo, he found Adler gone, along with her new husband and the goods, which had been replaced with a letter to Holmes, explaining how she had outwitted him, but also that she was happy with her new husband, who had more honourable feeling than her former lover.

While some of the blue yodels heard on late 1920s Race recordings-those by the Mississippi Sheiks, for example-probably do owe something to Jimmie Rodgers ' phenomenal success, others-like Billie Young's When They Get Lovin ' They's Gone ( accompanied by Jelly Roll Morton on Victor 23339, 1930 ), Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes ' Lost Lover Blues ( Gennett 6607, 1928 ), and Clint Jones ' Mississippi Woman Blues and Blue Valley Blues ( Okeh 8587, 1928 )-seem more deeply connected to these precedent recordings by Charles Anderson, and to the venerable line of African-American yodelers they represent.

When Clarice was replaced with Sherlock Holmes, Chaplin continued as Billy.

When the secession proposal failed, Gadsden, working with his cousin Isaac Edward Holmes, a lawyer in San Francisco since 1851, and the California state senator Thomas Jefferson Green, attempted to divide California in two.

* When Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Final Problem he fully intended to kill off Sherlock Holmes and write no further books and stories about him.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

When she reached port, she was found to have on board only eight men, all near starvation.

When brought to the screen in 1964, the movie version would win eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rex Harrison.

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When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

When Macbeth returns to the witches later in the play, they show him an apparation of the murdered Banquo, along with eight of his descendants.

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

When Elizabeth was two years and eight months old her mother was executed on 19 May 1536.

When Alton moved on to choreograph One for the Money he hired Kelly to act, sing and dance in a total of eight routines.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

When Edward died eight years later, Henry supported his brother Peter for the regency during Afonso V's minority, and in return received a confirmation of this levy.

When but eight years of age he would collect a number of boys, and standing on a cart in the market-place address them on the subject of his latest reading.

When her mother returned to Ferrara, Isabella accompanied her, while the other children stayed behind with their grandfather for eight years.

When it was finally printed, thousands of Poles in Warsaw lined up for as long as eight hours to purchase copies of the work autographed by Kosiński.

When Jeffrey was eight years old, he moved with his family to Bath, Ohio.

When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms — his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.

When she was eight, her conservative Lutheran family relocated to Southern California.

When the Mauritanian miners went on a two-month strike in the late 1960s the army intervened and eight miners were killed.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

When spring training concluded, Smith had amassed a. 288 batting average and zero errors in the field, and Clayton batted. 190 with eight errors.

When they lost their first child, a boy, only eight days after birth, the couple decided to live a secluded religious life.

When the U. K. announced a policy in 1968 ( reaffirmed in March 1971 ) of ending the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection ( the seven trucial sheikdoms — the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain ) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.