“For 20 years, there’s been this fight between keeping the project running and getting the results out to the scientific community,” says Eric Korpela, the director of SETI@home. “At this point, we can’t even be sure that we haven’t found anything because we’ve been doing most of our data analysis…
In the final scene Dr. Watson is there with his “Amazing Holmes,” and Holmes comes forth with his “Elementary, my dear, Watson, elementary.” Holmes chuckled to himself. “I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson,” said he. “When your round is a short one you walk, and…
William Shakespeare can be considered a humanist in terms of the content of his work, although his lack of a humanistic education might have distanced him from application of the term as understood… is that humanism is the study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship…
Holmes was quick to realize the value of fingerprint evidence. The first case in which fingerprints are mentioned is The Sign of the Four (1890); Scotland Yard did not begin to use fingerprints until 1901. Thirty-six years later in the 55th story, “The Adventure of the Three Gables” (1926), fingerprints…
It would have taken quite some time for Shakespeare to go from England to Denmark. It’s possible that he or a member of his acting company visited Denmark in order to weave some of the details into the plot. There is a town in Denmark called Helsingør, which translates to…
So it was decided that Hiroshi would move to Mexico with his family together. At Futaba Kindergarten, Miss Yoshinaga announced that ShinnosukeShinnosukeShin-chan Nohara. He is the main character, son of Hiroshi and Misae. His nickname is “Shin-chan” Nohara and he is Himawari’s brother, a kindergarten-aged boy whose antics are the…
Both were thought to have caught the prolific and deadly bubonic plague. Happily William, John and Mary’s first born son was born in 1564. William Shakespeare did have two sisters named Joan, but not at the same time. The first sister named Joan died as an infant. Did Shakespeare have…
’Hazel’ Wears Wig from The Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 29, 1962 | Shirley booth, The maids, Maid. Why was Hazel Cancelled? At the end of the 1963–1964 season, the ratings had slipped from #15 the previous year to #22. By the time NBC canceled the series in the spring of 1965,…
Machiavelli’s The Prince was a much-discussed text in Renaissance England. Michael Donkor considers how, in Richard III, Shakespeare engages with Machiavelli’s ideas about what constitutes appropriate behaviour in a ruler. The first English translation to appear in print was Edward Dacres’s 1640 edition, shown here. Shakespeare’s Richard, Duke of Gloucester…
Bloodline (Sheldon novel) Jump to navigation Jump to search. Bloodline is a 1977 novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon. Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. Bloodline is a thriller film picture released in 1979. Based upon the novel Bloodline by…