Cottingley Fairies

•  Adrian Conan Doyle

  Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, a sister, Jean, and a brother, Denis. Adrian Conan Doyle has been depicted as a race-car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer. Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a "spendthrift playboy" who (with his brother Denis) "used the Conan Doyle estate as a milch-cow".

  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Joseph Bell

  Joseph Bell, JP, DL, FRCS (2 December 1837 – 4 October 1911) was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He was a great-grandson of Benjamin Bell, a forensic surgeon. In his instruction, Bell emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger and, by observing him, deduce his occupation and recent activities.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Strand Magazine

  The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine composed of fictional stories and factual articles founded by George Newnes. It was first published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950 running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  South Norwood

  South Norwood is an urban town and ward in South London, England, in the London Borough of Croydon. It is a suburban development 7.8 miles south-east of Charing Cross. South Norwood is a town comprising a resident population of just over 14,000. A tributary of the River Wandle, which rises in Merton, ends in South Norwood. The south-eastern side of the town is dominated by the 125 acre country park which opened in 1989.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Jean Conan Doyle

  Air Commandant Dame Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle, Lady Bromet (21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997), DBE, AE, WRAF, ADC was best-known as Jean Conan Doyle. The second daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she served for thirty years in the WRAF, where she worked in intelligence during World War II and by the time of her retirement she had attained the rank of Air Commandant, the highest rank in the Women's Royal Air Force. Until 1966 she served as an honorary Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II.

  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Alleyne Edricson

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Adolph Beck case

  The Adolph Beck case was a notorious incidence of wrongful conviction by mistaken identity, brought about by unreliable methods of identification, erroneous (though probably sincere) eyewitness testimony, and a rush to convict the accused. As one of the most famous causes célèbres of its time, the case led to the creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  George H. Doran Company

  George H. Doran Company was an American book publishing company established in New York City in 1908 by George Henry Doran with James William "Billy" Corrigan as its General Manager. The firm prospered, becoming one of the major publishing houses in the United States. The firm published in many genres, from major literary works to "working-class" novels, how to play golf books, religious books, romances, children and juvenile adventure fiction, and poetry.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Hordle John

  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

• Arthur Conan Doyle by likeorhate
• Bradford by likeorhate
• Fairies by likeorhate
• Forteana by likeorhate
• Hoaxes by likeorhate
• Paranormal hoaxes by likeorhate
• Photographs by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  Coptic calendar

  The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and still used in Egypt. This calendar is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar. To avoid the calendar creep of the latter, a reform of the ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced at the time of Ptolemy III (Decree of Canopus, in 238 BC) which consisted of the intercalation of a sixth epagomenal day every fourth year.

  

  66.7%
  

  0.0%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Short-footed Frog

  The Short-footed Frog (Cyclorana brevipes) is a small, burrowing frog native to eastern Queensland, Australia.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Tiszavalk

  Tiszavalk is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Chilete District

  Chilete District is one of eight districts of the province Contumazá in Peru.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Miles M.39

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%