There his leg was splinted and eight Tibetan yak herdsmen carried Conan for 17 hours to base camp. |
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Harry Houdini was such a great escapologist that even his friends, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, believed he must have had supernatural help. |
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Hither came Conan to tread the jeweled thrones of earth under his sandaled feet. |
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Realism got the better of histrionic melodrama in Waterloo, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's rather stiff one-act character sketch. |
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Conan followed them up the stony steps, back up to the light, the heat, and the noise. |
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Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes. |
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There was an attempt to reboot the series in 2011 with a new Conan film that had the same title as the 1982 original. |
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Conan eventually grows up and goes on a killing spree to avenge his parents' death. |
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A team of Royal Navy marines joined the rescue effort before Conan endured a 17-hour journey back to base camp on the back of a yak. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was quite the Renaissance man himself, created the character and his many stories. |
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The addition of two characters to Conan Doyle's original story works well and enhances this diversity. |
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According to legend, Conan Doyle was intrigued by the tale of a mythical black hound that stalked the moors at night. |
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Eventually Conan wrestled Clarence to the ground and boxed him round the ears, making Clarence's head swim. |
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Conan Doyle had no scruples about bringing him back from the dead after he drowned with Moriarty in the Reichenbach Falls at the end of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. |
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But, I repeat, no one doubted that he who controlled the Conan Doyle copyright could also say yea or nay to the further use of the character Sherlock Holmes. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was not present, pleaded guilty, through his solicitor, to driving a motorcar at a speed of 26 miles an hour on the Cheriton Road. |
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The TV critics largely sided with Conan, now with TBS, because they deem Leno to be a bland and stodgy comic. |
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Conan Doyle eventually left medicine and created Sherlock Holmes, a character who brought science to the masses. |
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I wrote my first book listening to the soundtrack to the movie Conan the barbarian on a loop. |
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Conan was always the safe, mild-mannered choice to replace Jay Leno, who is blandness incarnate. |
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Conan O'Brien presented a supercut of out-of-context misspeaks. |
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At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon. |
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I was fascinated and horrified by the hospital scenes in the book, when Conan Doyle is visiting people treated with tuberculin. |
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Carter reveals that Jay made weird, borderline mentorly calls to Kimmel long before the Conan contretemps began. |
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It will be just like how all of Team Coco tuned in for the first batch of episodes of Conan. |
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Conan the Barbarian wants to talk about Baudelaire, Kurosawa, his hopes and dreams. |
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Jokes courtesy of Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Wanda Sykes, Jay Leno, and Conan O'Brien. |
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But in all the ways that matter, Bell effectively was Holmes, or became Holmes, through the deathless art of Conan Doyle, Bell's most famous pupil. |
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The folks over at Conan have found a way to remedy that, with this ad featuring an assortment of phallic disguises. |
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The folks over at Conan responded with this ad featuring an assortment of phallic disguises. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was trapped in a world of his own making. |
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Asked if he preferred Leno or Conan, the youngish former senator apparently hadn't a clue who either of them was. |
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Conan Doyle stayed at the former Duchy Hotel whilst writing and researching the story with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson. |
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The episode is a contemporary adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous works. |
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This is said to have been the inspiration for the fictional Grimpen Mire in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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When Geoffrey died in 1158, Conan attempted to reclaim Nantes but was opposed by Henry who annexed it for himself. |
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This arrangement was quite unusual in terms of medieval law, as Conan might have had sons who could have legitimately inherited the duchy. |
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Bertha was the widow of Alan de Bretagne with whom she already had a son, Conan. |
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In 1156, Brittany was hit by civil unrest when Bertha died, ending in Conan IV's accession. |
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Conan IV then briefly ruled as Count, but Henry took the title that same year by mustering an army in Avranches to threaten Conan. |
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Arthur Conan Doyle worked in the Aston area of Birmingham whilst poet Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham for six years. |
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The Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle often visit riverside parts as in The Sign of Four. |
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Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot featuring Sherlock Holmes is set in Cornwall. |
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By all appearances, Conan Edogawa should be the greatest detective in all of mangadom. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even gave a spirit medium one of Christie's gloves to find the missing woman. |
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Christie became increasingly tired of Poirot, just as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did with his character Sherlock Holmes. |
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However, unlike Conan Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her detective off while he was still popular. |
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Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction. |
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Shortly after he graduated from high school he began using Conan as a sort of surname. |
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Ernst, in which Houdini performed an impressive trick at his home in the presence of Conan Doyle. |
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Details about Sherlock Holmes's life, except for the adventures in the books, are scarce in Conan Doyle's original stories. |
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A private Conan Doyle collection is a permanent exhibit at the Portsmouth City Museum, where the author lived and worked as a physician. |
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The detective is based on Jeremy Brett's portrayal, with the series's plot independent of the Conan Doyle stories. |
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His great grandson was Joseph Bell who Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observant manner. |
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To promote Rockferry, Duffy made many visits to American television, including Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Saturday Night Live. |
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One of the possible bases for Indiana Jones is Professor Challenger, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1912 for his novel, The Lost World. |
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Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger. |
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Such comedians include Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Daniel Tosh, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, and Chelsea Handler. |
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The battle turned in favour of the ducal forces and Henry took Conan prisoner. |
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Harold then apparently accompanied William to battle against William's enemy, Conan II, Duke of Brittany. |
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Modern popular culture contains such fantasy barbarians as Conan the Barbarian. |
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He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land. |
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Its effect, though, was to destabilise Brittany, forcing the duke, Conan II, to focus on internal problems rather than on expansion. |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. |
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Moreover, Devon's folklore includes tales of a fearsome supernatural dog known as the Yeth hound that Conan Doyle may have heard. |
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Still other tales claim that Conan Doyle was inspired by his time on holiday in North Norfolk, where the tale of Black Shuck is well known. |
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Conan Doyle, Allingham, Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Michael Innes led me to contemporary writers such as Ruth Rendell and PD James. |
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It was where Brett starred as Conan Doyle's famous detective in the 1992 TV classic The Last Vampyre, for Granada. |
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More than 70 years after Scots creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died, the fictional pipe-smoking detective has 1000 fan clubs dedicated to him. |
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Contemporaries considered Henry to have acted appropriately in making an example of Conan, and Henry became famous for his exploits in the battle. |
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The Angevins often involved themselves in Breton affairs, such as when Henry II arranged Conan of Brittany's marriage and installed the archbishop of Dol. |
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Henry was angry that Conan had turned against his feudal lord. |
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Harold Godwinson is pictured on the tapestry rescuing two Norman knights from the quicksand in the tidal flats during a battle with Conan II, Duke of Brittany. |
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Later important depictions of London from the 19th and early 20th centuries are Dickens' novels, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. |
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Given that Conan was well established in genealogies as the founder of Brittany, this account is certainly connected to an older tradition than Geoffrey. |
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If Arthur Conan Doyle was alive now he wouldn't be writing about hansom cabs and pea-souper fogs, he'd be writing about Twitter, global terrorism and raunchy dominatrixes. |
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This account was supported by the Counts of Anjou, who claimed descent from a Roman soldier expelled from Lower Brittany by Conan on Magnus's orders. |
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The history behind such an establishment is unclear, but medieval Breton, Angevin and Welsh sources connect it to a figure known as Conan Meriadoc. |
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Former residents of George Square include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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He begged his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to revise and finish it for him. |
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According to Ernst, Conan Doyle refused to believe it was a trick. |
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During 1916, at the height of World War I, a change came over Conan Doyle's beliefs prompted by the apparent psychic abilities of his children's nanny, Lily Loder Symonds. |
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Fox Tor Mires was supposedly the inspiration for Great Grimpen Mire in Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, although there is a waymarked footpath across it. |
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Nevertheless, the actual use of a compound surname is demonstrated by the fact that Doyle's second wife was known as Jean Conan Doyle rather than Jean Doyle. |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his 1924 Sherlock Holmes tale The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, mentions that Dr Watson played rugby for Blackheath. |
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On one side were government propagandists like the novelist John Buchan and jingoists like Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, most politicians and military strategists. |
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The infamous Fox Tor mire in the vicinity of the cross became an inspiration for the Grimpen Mire, which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described in his The Hound of the Baskervilles. |
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Arthur Conan Doyle was apparently a family friend who often stayed there and may have been aware of a local legend of the hound of the Baskervilles. |
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