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    "The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand...
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  • "The Final Problem" is the third episode of the fourth series, and the series finale, of the British television series Sherlock, and the thirteenth episode...
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    in the short story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1893. He also plays a role in the final Sherlock...
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    as The Adventures number 13 to 24. For instance, "The Final Problem" was published under the subheading "XXIV.—The Adventure of the Final Problem." In...
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    this type of retcon is the return of Sherlock Holmes, whom writer Arthur Conan Doyle apparently killed off in "The Final Problem" in 1893,[page needed]...
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  • in PKS 1302-102. The question of how this happens is the "final parsec problem". A number of solutions to the final parsec problem have been proposed...
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    bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his survival after his deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem". This is the first Holmes...
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    in "The Final Problem". The falls are located in the lower part of the Reichenbachtal, on the Rychenbach, a tributary (from the south bank) of the Aare...
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    and presumed death in "The Final Problem" and his reappearance in "The Adventure of the Empty House"—as the Great Hiatus. The earliest known use of this...
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    (September 1893) "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" (October–November 1893) "The Final Problem" (December 1893) Contains 13 stories published in The Strand between...
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  • December 2016). "Sherlock series 4 episode 3: what happens in finale The Final Problem? Will Mary die? Will Sherlock end?". RadioTimes. Retrieved 13 December...
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    their first meeting in "A Volume in Vermilion" to their final parting in "The Problem of the Final Adventure". Moran, nicknamed 'Basher', is portrayed as...
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    Doyle, "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans". He also appears briefly in "The Final Problem", and is...
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  • which focused on Sherlock's death. Inspired by "The Final Problem" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the episode follows Moriarty's plot to discredit and kill...
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    adaptation of "The Final Problem". In the BBC Radio 4 November 1992 broadcast of The Final Problem and 24 February 1993 broadcast of The Empty House, Moriarty...
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    killed off the character in the 1893 story "The Final Problem". Although The Hound of the Baskervilles is set before the latter events, two years later...
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  • The story also draws on elements of original Conan Doyle stories of Holmes such as "The Five Orange Pips" (1891) and "The Final Problem" (1893). The episode...
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  • followed the story chronologically with the fifth opus covering the complete "The Final Problem" arc. The stage play adaptation, Stage "Moriarty the Patriot"...
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  • caught" as at the moment of the crime he is probably "working out problems on a blackboard ten miles away" (The Adventure of the Final Problem). Macavity...
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  • Holmes, "The Final Problem" Moriarty was a versatile mathematician as well as a criminal mastermind. In addition to the Treatise, he wrote the book The Dynamics...
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  • Eric Porter (category Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    stories The Red-Headed League and The Final Problem (both 1984). He also played Polonius in a 1980 television production of Hamlet, made as part of the BBC...
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  • liberty in adapting the source material, refashioning it into a prelude to the series' adaptation of "The Final Problem" and introducing the character Professor...
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  • understood; the last sub-field (and the last problem of the last sub-field) have been referred to as The Final Problem in explicit reference to the Sherlock...
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  • imprisonment, expulsion, or killing Ideal Final Result, a basic term in TRIZ, a problem solving methodology The Final Problem, a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
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    Problem gambling, ludopathy, or ludomania is repetitive gambling behavior despite harm and negative consequences. Problem gambling may be diagnosed as...
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    (London) It was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles, set...
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  • as the woman of the title and Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty. The film follows an original premise with material taken from "The Final Problem" (1893)...
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  • zadach, lit. 'theory of inventive problem solving') is a methodology that combines an organized, systematic method of problem-solving with analysis and forecasting...
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  • to be an adaptation of "The Final Problem". It is not known why the change was made, but it may be because "The Final Problem" had already been used on...
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    The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable...
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