The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

The first report in this continuing series appeared in the September 1960 issue of the Journal.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

In the first courtyard there are some fine bas-reliefs and friezes, and in the second a series of delightful terraced roof gardens above an ivy-covered wall.

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

-- The first in a series of five productions will be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 26.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

The first 2 seasons of The Batman animated series as well as its spin-off film The Batman vs Dracula take various inspiration from Batman: Year One, including:

Stoker's posthumously published short story " Dracula's Guest ", known as the deleted first chapter to Dracula, shows a more obvious and intact debt to " Carmilla ": Both stories are told in the first person.

Dracula expands on the idea of a first person account by creating a series of journal entries and logs of different persons and creating a plausible background story for them having been compiled.

The first vampire-themed movie was made during this time: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu ( 1922 ), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

When Chick and Wilbur get to McDougal's " House Of Horrors ", they open the first crate and find a coffin with " Dracula " inscribed on the front.

Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication.

The Wallachian prince Vlad Dracul ( father of Vlad the Impaler ( Dracula ), who lived in exile in the town, let coins to be minted in the city ( otherwise coinage was the monopoly of the Hungarian kings in the Kingdom of Hungary ) and issued the first document listing the city's Romanian name, Sighişoara.

The Will o ' the wisp makes an appearance in the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes Jonathan Harker to his castle in the night.

They are also usually associated with witches, wizards and vampires ; the best-known stage version of Dracula, which first made actor Bela Lugosi prominent, featured him wearing it so that his exit through a trap door concealed on the stage could seem sudden.

Dawn is first introduced as Buffy's ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) younger sister at the end of Buffy season five premiere " Buffy vs. Dracula ", though Buffy had been previously established as an only child.

The idea of the ' reincarnated love ', first seen in universal's 1932 film, " The Mummy ", and utilized to great effect in Dark Shadows, was also seen in Curtis ' " Bram Stoker's Count Dracula " with Jack Palance, and was lifted wholesale from that for Coppola's version of " Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman — named after Anno Dracula ( 1992 ), the series ' first novel — is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society.

A character named Marie Laveau, based loosely on the real Marie Laveau, figures into the Marvel Universe, first appearing in Dracula Lives # 2 from 1973.

" They liked what they heard and invited Dickinson down to the studio to make " Dracula ", the first song he would ever record, with a band called " Shots ", formed by two brothers, Phil and Doug Siviter.

After that, he moved to the court of his first cousin Vlad III Dracula and, in 1457, managed to receive 6, 000 horsemen as military assistance, putting them to use in a victorious battle against Petru Aron at Doljești, near Roman.

The play used in the first season episode " Spykecam ", Dracula: The Musical, is a real play.

Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the part from Karloff in The Ghost of Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi portrayed the role in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and Glenn Strange played the monster in the last three Universal Studios films to feature the character ( House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ); but their makeup replicated the iconic look first worn by Karloff.

Upon signing with 4AD, eight tracks from the Purple Tape were selected for the Come On Pilgrim EP, the band's first release.

After profiting from Scotch Tape in the 1930s, 3M produced military materiel during WWII, and by 1946 had developed the first practical vinyl electrical tape.

NASA had taken all the original tapes and erased them for use on subsequent missions ; however, the Apollo 11 Tape Search and Restoration Team formed in 2003 tracked down the highest quality footage among the converted recordings of the first broadcast, pieced together the best footage, then contracted a specialist film restoration company to enhance the degraded black-and-white film and convert it into digital format for archival records.

* On the October 28 of that year, Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

The first tape cartridge designed for general consumer use, including music reproduction, was the Sound Tape or Magazine Loading Cartridge ( RCA tape cartridge ), introduced in 1958 by RCA.

* John Herbert Orr-Founder of Orradio, Ampex Tape which produced the first commercially available audio tape, video tape, and computer tape in the world

Hawke regarded Tape as his " first adult performance ", a performance noted by Roger Ebert for its " physical and verbal acting mastery ".

Much of the project would be retooled and later featured on the first Phish album, The White Tape, in 1986.

The Yellow Tape did very well, becoming the first indie tape to achieve platinum status in Canada.

Kellett left to join Simply Red, but guested on The Guitar and Other Machines ( 1987 ), the first new UK album to be released on the unsuccessful Digital Audio Tape format ( as well as the usual media of LP, audio cassette and CD ).

Quadraphonic 8-Track was a discrete 4-Channel Tape Cartridge system announced by RCA Records in April 1970 and introduced in Sept. 1970, and first called Quad-8 ( later shortened to just Q8 ).

Tape and player quality developments such as chrome tape and noise reduction allowed the cartridges and tape speeds to shrink, first to the size of an 8-track with eight monaural programs on a tape running at 1-7 / 8 IPS, to the size of a modern laptop hard drive and a speed of 15 / 16 IPS used by the Library of Congress for Talking Books.

His first CD release was " You Are My Everlovin '/ Celestial Power " on Recorded ( curated by John Berndt, and initiating the " New American Ethnic Music " or NAEM series on that label ), quickly followed by " Spindizzy " and " Hillbilly Tape Music " also on Recorded.

In 1990, the J. D. s editors released the first queercore compilation, J. D. s Top Ten Homocore Hit Parade Tape, a cassette which included bands from Canada, such as Fifth Column ; Nikki Parasite, Big Man, and Bomb from the U. S .; from England, The Apostles, Academy 23 and No Brain Cells ; and, from New Zealand, Gorse.

This situates a first version, written in French Fragment de théâtre II and different from that eventually published in 1976 as between the English plays Krapp's Last Tape and Embers .”

Three nights later, the Tape Bandits hit a Waukegan Road tavern, and Nelson ended up committing his first murder of note, when he killed stockbroker Edwin R. Thompson.

After its purchase by the Ambassador Theatre Group under producer Sonia Friedman, productions included Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill, Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall, Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett and starring John Hurt, and was the West End's first home of Marie Jones ' Stones In His Pockets and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler.

The song was also featured on the show's first soundtrack, Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD ( Or Tape ).

Remnants goes on to become Black Tape for a Blue Girl's best selling release, and also is the basis for the band's first live performance, Tuesday June 25, 1996 at Projektfest ' 96 in Chicago, IL.

* Samuel Beckett's monologue Krapp's Last Tape first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre, London ( 28 October ).

Due to a printing mistake, the early first issue Tape configurations ( 8-Track & cassette ) were issued with the Title: Bring ' Em Back Alive.

The Purple Tape was a demo that the band recorded in three days during their first studio session in 1987.

They became one of the first bands to release material on Candle Records with their debut album, First Tape.

Released on the Master Tape label, it was the first album in her second series of recordings, and her 26th original album. this album sold 3, 201, 870 copies