Holmes

[hohmz, hohlmz]

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John Haynes 1879–1964, U.S. clergyman.
Oliver Wendell 1809–94, U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, and physician.
his son Oliver Wendell, 1841–1935, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1902–32.
Sherlock, a detective in many mystery stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Holmes

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Oliver Wendell. 1809–94, US author, esp of humorous essays, such as The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) and its sequels
his son, Oliver Wendell. 1841–1935, US jurist, noted for his liberal judgments
Sir Paul .1950–2013, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster; presenter of The Paul Holmes Breakfast , (1987–2008)

Holmes

British geologist who pioneered a method of determining the age of rocks by measuring their radioactive components. He was also an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.

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James Bond is too cold and calculating; Jason Bourne too complicated; Sherlock Holmes too British.

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It was the sitcom analogue to Conan Doyle’s “the trick,” the term for when Sherlock Holmes would dazzle Dr. Watson by telling him everything about someone just by looking at their walking stick.

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As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote in 1897, “certainty generally is illusion.”

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"Insurance companies technically have the data to be able to do this but have not build out the models to quantify it," says Mr Holmes.

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Cumberbatch trends drier, but even as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Strange, he glimmered with comedic depths.

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Holman Hunt Holmes light

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