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Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 24 February 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London. [1] The story had previously appeared in the US in the Saturday Evening Post between 16 September and 11 November 1916.
They can be physical clues discovered on the crime scene, or discovered later during investigation by re-examining recorded evidence, [5] or by interviewing witnesses, victims, or suspects. In fiction, the fictional character Sherlock Holmes remains a great inspiration for forensic science, especially for the way his acute study of a crime ...
The Questing Beast in Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917). The account from Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin, which was taken up by Thomas Malory for his seminal Le Morte d'Arthur, has the Questing Beast appear to the young King Arthur after he has had an affair with his half-sister Morgause and begotten Mordred (they did not know that they were ...
Crossword puzzles became a regular weekly feature in the New York World, and spread to other newspapers; the Pittsburgh Press, for example, was publishing them at least as early as 1916 [36] and The Boston Globe by 1917. [37] A 1925 Punch cartoon about "The Cross-Word Mania". A person phones a doctor in the middle of the night, asking for "the ...
Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917. January Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona.; Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian), "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight ...
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These absolute units grew 1,000 times bigger in a wildly short period of time.
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