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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Author Biography

Name: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Birth Date: May 22, 1859
Death Date: July 6, 1930
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Place of Death: Crowborough, Sussex, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, surgeon, ophthalmologist

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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
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The British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, into an Irish Roman Catholic family of noted artistic ac...
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
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It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had become popular through the works of his predecessors, Ed...
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle
11405 words, approx. 38 pages
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes, whom Jon L. Lellenberg describes in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a Life (1987) as "the most universally recognized fiction...
 


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The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Guyana) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor...


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New DVD releases include `Away From Her,' `The Graduate' and `Face/Off'
9/10/2007: 925 words, approx. 3 pages
Selected home-video releases:"Away From Her"A remarkably assured directing debut from actress Sarah Polley, this beautifully understated drama presents Julie Christie in an Academy Award-worthy performance 40 years after her best-actress Oscar win for "Darling" and casts Canadian star Gordon Pinsent in a heartbreaking role alongside...
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6/27/2007: 746 words, approx. 3 pages
Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 1-7:July 1: Actress Olivia de Havilland is 91. Movie director Sydney Pollack is 73. Actor Jamie Farr is 73. Actress Jean Marsh ("Upstairs, Downstairs") is 73. Bluesman James Cotton is 72. Dancer Twyla Tharp is 66. Gospel singer-choir...
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Explorer blazes new trails in Venezuela
5/11/2007: 881 words, approx. 3 pages
CHIMANTA TEPUI, Venezuela _ Charles Brewer Carias has discovered giant sinkholes, collected new species of plants and scorpions, and rappelled into unexplored caves on his nearly 200 expeditions into the flat-topped mountains and jungles of Venezuela.The mustachioed 68-year-old says his passion for discovery makes him...
 


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