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What Was The Maiden Name Of Dr. Watson

Did Sherlock Holmes really say "Elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary" in the novels and stories?

No, the phrase doesn't appear in the stories in exactly that way.

From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_mis... (quotation from the site sandwiched between [ ]):

["Elementary, my dear Watson" - Sherlock Holmes
o This phrase was never uttered by the character in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's written works. Though "Elementary," and "...my dear Watson." both do appear near the beginning of The Crooked Man (1893), it is the "...my dear Watson" that appears first, and "Elementary" is the succinct reply to Watson's exclamation a few lines of dialogue later. This is the closest these four immortal words ever appear together in the canon.
o The association of this quote with the Sherlock Holmes character likely comes from the closing lines of the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes:

Watson: Amazing, Holmes.
Holmes: Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.]

Why did Conan Doyle marry Watson off?

I agree with Miguel Valdespino's answer, and I'd like to add some additional commentary. Many scholars have read Doyle's story of Sherlock Holmes and found traces or 'hints' or whatever you may call it, of homoerotic subtext. There has been speculation that Holmes and Watson were indeed in love with each other. Doyle lived in times where it was clearly dangerous to be gay or to have a same-sex relationship. He saw how his friend Oscar Wilde was put into trial and his own book of Dorian Gray was a proof of "indecency" (1895) and was held against him to sentence him to death (by the way, at this time Watson wrote they were keeping a "low profile" before current events, but obviously not in such words).  So by creating tension between Holmes and Watson that could clearly be read as romantic (basically they were pinning one for the other but Holmes was written not as the writers' soft spot as BBC Sherlock, especially), but marrying off Watson to Mary Morstan, the relationship would mainly be placed in subtext. Holmes and Watson had enough suspicion over them due to the fact that they were both single men living together in an époque where this was clearly uncommon.

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They were all after his money and you can believe there are those that got some of it for their doings.https://www.mormonmatters.org/re...

Do you know anyone whose name fits perfectly with their job? E.g, Mr. Lilly, the florist.

Mr U Sagayam, IASMr U Sagayam's name perfectly fits with his job profile. An IAS officer from TAMILNADU cadre , who is undoubtedly one of the most honest IAS officers in India.In Sanskrit language, ‘Sagayam’ implies ‘help’ or ‘aid’. For the befinit of those who don't know about an IAS, it's the most prestigious government post in India . Put together, an IAS officer's job is to serve people.Reminiscent of government officer Ashok Khemka case in Haryana who was transferred a number of times in his career, U Sagayam has been transferred between government departments twice in two days, bringing his total transfers to about 24 in 23 years.Being a social worker himself who knows the law in and out , he never budged no matter how strong his opponent is .The sign on his office door reads “Reject bribes, hold your head high.”Neither he accepts bribe nor would let anyone else .He started Uzhavan Unavagam (farmers’ foodcourt) where poor farmers could sell traditional dishes. He helped in the rehabilitation of three great grandchildren of freedom fighter V. O. Chidambaram, who were in abject poverty. As Namakkal Collector, he uploaded details of his assets on the district administration’s website, first collector from that district to do so.He once confiscated 5000 subsidized domestic cylinders in 3 days .He also took on “ sand-mafia ”, responsible for unauthorized mining from Palar river.While on election duty , He registered a case against the son of the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, M.K. Alagiri, a Union Minister at that time .As an additional district magistrate in Kanchipuram in 2000, Sagayam sealed the Pepsi’s bottling plant near Chennai, after spotting dirt floating in several bottles.The below picture is when he spent the whole night in a graveyard to protect an evidence from getting tampered.Our country needs more officers like him .Jai hind !!!!

What are some of the best examples of "beauty with brains"?

Raghuram RajanI thought of writing an introduction myself ,but Shobha De has done an awesome job already, so I am just quoting her ."The guy's put 'sex' back into the limp Sensex. That makes him seriously hot. So hot, in fact, he has made it to the Amul hoarding (a first for a chap in his lofty position). But nobody is calling the man a Billboard Bimbo. You know why? Because this man knows his onions.And right now, onions are playing a major role in our lives. Forget our obsession with gold. We are hoarding onions now.All hail the freshly minted 23rd RBI Guv — the very dishy Raghuram Govinda Rajan — the Messiah of Markets. At 50, Rajan is young (come on, SRK at 48 is still playing lover boy), brilliant (IIT-IIM-MIT vaghera, vaghera) and on the ball (ex-IMF chief economist). That his chiselled features are as sharp as his brain, add to his current status as the Poster Boy of Banking.Funny how quickly Rajan has been slotted as a much-panted-after sex symbol (he took over from Duvvuri Subbarao on September 4). He's the guy who's got the groove. I plead guilty, too.Recklessly and happily, I went ahead and tweeted (will this woman never learn?) about his appointment, calling him the Ranbir Kapoor of Banking (note the spelling — banking, there's an 'a' in this word, not an 'o'). Why not? Rajan's sex appeal has propelled him straight into the league of movie stars. He can easily top 'India's Most Desirable' lists.Had he not been in this tricky, ultra conservative (let's be upfront here, and call it tight ass) assignment, he'd have been instantly snapped up by smart celeb managers and signed juicy endorsement deals. Sorry, Raghu. But you are stuck. Deal with it.The media has declared Raghu the latest sex symbol in the land. He should lie back and enjoy the attention. It's not often that one gets an RBI Guv who makes hearts (not just female ones) go dhak dhak each time he strides into a room. I entirely endorse the positioning. Why should only comely ladies in the rarefied world of finance get branded and walk away with all the compliments?Source -http://articles.economictimes.in...

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