Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of The Cold-Served Revenge - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Petr Macek (ч. notes)

Примечания

1

This is the second or third Mrs Watson. The wedding took place on October 4, 1902. The first (or second) Mrs Watson, née Mary Morstan, died sometime between 1891 and 1894, perhaps on December 27, 1892.

2

Edward VII (1841-1910). He was the son of Queen Victoria and ruled from 1901 until his death. His successor was George V, who ruled during the time when the events in this book take place.

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An alliance between France, Russia and Great Britain, entered into in 1907 in response to the expansionist tendencies of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

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Great Britain’s foreign policy at the end of the 19th century under conservative prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the Marquess of Salisbury. The term referred to Britain’s involvement in European affairs.

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A militant feminist movement that fought for women’s rights. It was established in about 1900 and used extremist methods to achieve its ends.

6

According to Holmes researcher Christopher Morley, Cuckmere Haven is not the name of Holmes’s farmstead, but the real name of the village of Fulworth, which lies between Seaforth and Eastbourne on the south slopes of the Sussex lowlands.

7

This disease is caused by the most dangerous bee mite Varroa jacobsoni. It’s a creature 1.5 to 1.9 mm long, which preys on bee broods and lives on the bees after they hatch. Young bees that hatch from infected larvae suffer from various defects, such as lacking wings and legs, and soon die.

8

Holmes was an expert on tobacco and in the study of cigar ash. In 1879 he published a monograph entitled Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos.

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Sherlock Holmes was the son of Siger Holmes and Violet Sherrinford, the youngest of the three daughters of Sir Edward Sherrinford. We can assume that Cedric Edward Parker was the son of one of the elder of the two Sherrinford daughters.

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Waverley (1814), by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).

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Westminster Palace, now the seat of the Parliament of Great Britain, dates from the year 1097 and is the oldest preserved part of Westminster Hall. The palace served until the 16th century as the residence of the monarch. Most of the present building dates from the 19th century, when the palace was reconstructed after a devastating fire.

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George V (1865-1936), who ruled from 1910-1936. He continued the anti-German stance of his father Edward VII. Although under his reign Great Britain won the First World War, the Empire emerged greatly weakened.

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Wilhelm II of the Hohenzollern dynasty (1859 - 1941), who from 1888 - 1918 was German Emperor and King of Prussia. He ascended the throne at the age of 29 after the 99-day reign of his father Frederick III. He stirred international controversy by his uncompromising attitude to the building of the German fleet, which the UK perceived as an attack on its naval hegemony. English efforts to improve relations with Germany foundered. Wilhelm generously supported the army, which under his rule became the largest and best equipped in the world. From the moment he came to the throne he did not hide his warlike ambitions and was undoubtedly one of the architects of the First World War. After his overthrow during the November Revolution of 1918 he fled to the Netherlands.

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One can read about Holmes’s family in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of the world’s first consulting detective by William S. Baring-Gould.

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We know that Watson’s military career was less than brilliant. Upon gaining his medical degree he studied to be a military doctor and in 1879 he enlisted in this capacity with the Fifth Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in India. After transferring to the Berkshire regiment during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, however, he was wounded in action at the Battle of Maiwand on 28 July 1880. Recovering from severe intestinal disease he returned to England and in early January 1881 met Sherlock Holmes.

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George V, the first monarch of the House of Windsor, who reigned from 1910 to 1926.

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The acquaintance probably dates back to the early 1870s when Watson started studying medicine at the University of London.

18

According to W. S. Baring-Gould, Irene Adler, who almost succeeded in outwitting Holmes in the case known as A Scandal in Bohemia, was born Clara Stephenson on September 7, 1858 in Trenton, New Jersey, and after a turbulent life died there on October 3, 1903.

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Richard Marsden Pankhurst (1834-1898) was a lawyer. He was born in Stoke but spent most of his life in Manchester and London. Known as the Red Doctor, he sought election to parliament, first in 1883 as a candidate for Manchester, then in 1885 in Kent, each time unsuccessfully. He died suddenly at the age of 64 due to a stomach ulcer.

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Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was one of the founders of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Her name is connected with the fight for women’s rights in the period leading up to the First World War.

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Italian: “Thus do they all.” Also the name of an opera by Mozart. Holmes is no doubt referring to the fact that the incomparable Irene Adler also ran away from him in A Scandal in Bohemia.

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Tankosić was a member of the Central Committee of the Black Hand (Црна Рука), a secret organisation officially called Unity or Death. It was founded in 1911 by Serbian nationalists and participated in the assassination of the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by activist Gavrilo Princip. Princip had wanted to join the Mladá Bosna movement, but was rejected due to his small stature. He therefore went to Prokuplje to request a personal interview with Tankosić, who rejected him because he was too weak. It is possible that this refusal was one of the reasons why Princip later tried to compensate for his lack of physical strength by committing an exceptional act. The assassination compelled Austria-Hungary to take action against Serbia, which led to the First World War, just as Holmes feared back in 1911.

23

Sherlock Holmes fought his greatest enemy, the criminal genius Professor Moriarty, to the death on May 4, 1891 at the Reichenbach Falls in Bern, Switzerland. Moriarty did not survive the fall into the depths below, but Sherlock Holmes did. Nevertheless, the detective remained in hiding for several years and only returned to London in the spring of 1894.

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French: “Look for the woman.”

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From “His Last Bow” (1917).

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Father Ronald A. Knox invented a popular game called Holmesology, which is based on the belief that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were real people and that their stories form a canon of literature from which it is possible to reconstruct their lives.