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  • CDC Director Dr. Walensky says it's 'possible' COVID could have leaked 'from a lab' and House Intel GOP publishes report stating there is 'significant circumstantial evidence' virus escaped from Wuhan

    05/19/2021 11:15:25 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 17 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | May 20 2021 | HARRIET ALEXANDER
    The COVID-19 virus could potentially have escaped from a laboratory, one of the most senior health officials in the U.S. conceded on Wednesday, as House Republicans published their own report claiming there is 'circumstantial evidence' that the virus originated in a Wuhan facility. The U.S. government has been at pains to downplay speculation that the virus was the result of an accident in China - although they are calling on Beijing to be more transparent about their role. They insist that it is far more likely that COVID-19 originated with animals, and spread naturally to humans. Critics of the Biden...
  • BONES RIDDLE Human remains found in septic tank at marital home of farmer whose wife vanished 1982

    07/19/2019 6:38:07 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    The SUN UK ^ | 19 Jul 2019, 9:47Updated: 19 Jul 2019, 12:35 | Alahna Kindred
    HUMAN remains have been found in a septic tank on the former property of a farmer more than 30 years after his wife disappeared. Brenda Venables disappeared in 1982 aged 48 from her home in Kempsey, Worcestershire, and her husband David still lives in the area. Maintenance workers raised the alarm on July 12 and police later made the grim discovery. Locals have said they believe the remains belong to Mrs Venables. Her husband David, now 86, sold the farmhouse in 2014 for £467,000 and lives in a £300,000 bungalow nearby. The remains were originally thought to be connected to...
  • Attorney for Baltimore Mayor Pugh says she's not 'lucid' enough to make a decision about resigning

    04/26/2019 12:29:42 PM PDT · by detective · 39 replies
    MSN News ^ | 4/26/2019 | Colin Campbell
    Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh remains in poor health and is not “lucid” enough to make a decision about whether to resign, but could do so next week, her attorney said Thursday evening. “She is leaning toward making the best decision in the best interest in the citizens of Baltimore City,” Steve Silverman, Pugh’s attorney, said. Silverman addressed reporters after emerging from an hour-long meeting with the mayor at her home on Ellamont Road in Ashburton, which was raided by the FBI and the IRS on Thursday. He said she met with her doctor at home Thursday and plans to do...
  • Elementary Cancelled After 7 Seasons

    12/17/2018 5:51:21 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 22 replies
    TV Line ^ | December 17, 2018 | Michael Ausiello
    Elementary‘s forthcoming seventh season will be its last, CBS announced Monday. “A lot of parties came together and talked about their positions on the show — both in terms of business and in terms of creative — and we all decided that this was an opportune time to say goodbye to a show that has been very, very good to us,” CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl said in a statement to our sister site Deadline. Added EP Carl Beverly: “[Series creator] Rob [Doherty] set out to tell a story, and it feels like he has accomplished what he had set...
  • A 'monster' is found lurking in the depths of Loch Ness...but bizarre shape spotted by [tr]

    04/13/2016 5:55:15 AM PDT · by C19fan · 10 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | April 13, 2016 | Sarah Griffiths
    Nessie has finally been found in the mysteriously dark waters of Loch Ness – but all is not what it seems. A robotic submarine searching the lake for signs of the phantom Scottish beast has come across a long-lost model of the monster - but has not found any signs of the mythical monster's fabled lair. The 30ft-long (9 metre) model sank during the filming of from the 1970 film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and has been lost for 50 years before sonar images revealed its resting place.
  • Review of "Sherlock" The Abominable Bride TV 2016

    01/14/2016 4:42:36 PM PST · by marktwain · 49 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 8 January, 2015 | Dean Weingarten
    The Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is enjoyable fiction that has millions of fans across the world over a hundred years.  It glorifies reason, logic, and observation of facts.  I do not consider myself a fan, but have enjoyed reading several of the novels and short stories.  The BBC has created a successful television series featuring the Holmes and Watson characters in a modern setting.  I have seen one of those episodes, and it did not seem too bad, though the focus on Holmes as a drug addict was a bit grotesque.  The new movie is...
  • Make Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson gay lovers, fans urge BBC

    07/28/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT · by C19fan · 80 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | July 28, 2014 | Gemma Mullin
    The creator of BBC TV series Sherlock has been inundated with fan mail urging him to make the detective and Dr Watson gay lovers. Mark Gatiss admitted he had been overwhelmed with explicit drawings and plotline ideas ahead of the new series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, due late next year. It follows a running joke in the show which hints the pair might be closer than friends, especially by landlady Mrs Hudson, played by Una Stubbs, 77, who often makes references to their sexuality.
  • Advice on Brit detective series....

    04/26/2013 8:49:59 PM PDT · by Mountain Mary · 156 replies
    Okay, I'm normally a political and news poster..but am searching for some new BBC shows to addict myself to post Downton Abbey. Hoping Freepers can help. There was a thread about this a while back. After realizing that the Brits are light years better than us for turning out watchable, absorbing and well acted, directed and produced "who dunnits", and as I am on a political sabbatical for obvious reasons.. Here's my completed viewing list over the last three months: 1. Prime Suspect: Helen Mirren 2. Foley's War: all except the new ones that aren't out yet. 3. George Gently...Seasons...
  • Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch confirms Series 4 on the way

    03/14/2013 9:41:53 PM PDT · by Altariel · 10 replies
    Metro.co.uk ^ | March 13, 2013 | Christopher Hooton
    Benedict Cumberbatch has confirmed that Sherlock has been re-commissioned for a fourth series, with the actor set to film ‘three more episodes’ after the current trio being produced for series 3. The news comes as little surprise given the intense popularity of the BBC One drama but will no doubt send fans into paroxysms, who have most recently been waiting patiently for the show’s third series following an almighty cliffhanger. ‘We’ve agreed to two more series but I could get into trouble for saying that,’ Cumberbatch revealed at the South Bank Show Awards yesterday. ‘All I know at the moment...
  • Sherlock, Series II:" The Reichenbach Fall" - Sunday 8pm ET

    05/20/2012 10:38:44 AM PDT · by djone · 22 replies
    TV BLEND ^ | May 17 2012 | Jessie Carp
    "Sir Conan Doyle's most famous work and ... Sunday's finale is called "The Reichenbach Fall" and once again finds one of Doyle's key works for its title , But, as you can probably guess from that title, the Sherlock tale was supposed to be Doyle’s last with his most famous protagonist but after fan outcry, he returned to the sleuth and the short stories grew into novels. ....is also famous for being the story that introduced the character of James Moriarty the brilliant and evil professorial nemesis and one of literature's most famous villains. "
  • Sherlock, Series II: The Reichenbach Fall - Sunday 8pm ET

    05/19/2012 9:04:22 PM PDT · by djone · 12 replies
    TELEVISION BLEND ^ | 5/12/12 | Jessie Carp
    "The Reichenbach Fall" --- once again finds creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss referencing one of Doyle's key works for its title, this time his short story “The Final Problem.” ends with a trip to - wait for it - Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland where, well, you’ll have to seek it out for yourself to find out.
  • Filming underway for Sherlock series 2

    05/16/2011 7:35:45 PM PDT · by stylecouncilor · 21 replies
    seenit.co.uk ^ | May 16, 2011 | Staff
    Filming is underway on the long-awaited second series of BBC One’s Sherlock. The series, which brings Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes into the present-day, will return for a further run of three stories: A Scandal In Belgravia, The Hounds Of Baskerville and The Reichenbach Fall. The titles were revealed by co-creator Steven Moffat in a BBC statement. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return as Sherlock and Watson respectively alongside Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade and Una Stubbs as landlady Mrs Hudson. The episodes will be filmed on location in London and Cardiff. “The hotly anticipated return of BBC One’s hit...
  • Anyone else watch the new 'Sherlock' on 'Masterpiece' tonight?

    10/24/2010 7:49:08 PM PDT · by DGHoodini · 91 replies · 3+ views
    Masterpiece Theatre via PBS | 10/24/10 | DGHoodini
    Just watched the new 'Sherlock' series, Episode 1, lady in Pink. Thought I was tuning into the traditional rendition by Jeremy Hines(?) But founf myself watching an updated series, with Holmes & Watson, in contemporary times. Watson just back from Afghanistan with war wounds. Wasn't campy or or overacted IMO. The upating weas a nice twist, while still remaining mostly true to the core of the stories. Don't want to give any spoilers, but Holmes "cocaine addiction" has been given a "PC update", and the explanation of his personal life, has as well. BNut it was fun seeing Holmes using...
  • "Sherlock Holmes" - Doyle WOULD be Proud (An In-Depth Review & Comparison of the Recent Film)

    12/31/2009 10:29:32 AM PST · by TexCon · 37 replies · 1,150+ views
    Thoughts From A Texan ^ | December 31st, 2009 | Joseph "Tex" Dozier
    Sherlock Holmes hails as the most portrayed movie character of all time with 75 actors providing their unique spin to Doyle’s legendary character in over 200 films. Having grown up reading some of the Holmesian “canon”, I always found Basil Rathbone’s, who always portrayed a great antagonist too, portrayal very “true” to the literary characterization of the great detective – as much as I longed for some sardonic wit. I have a friend across the pond who swears Jeremy Brett’s rendition of this classic figure in the 80s and 90s for British television was the most true- to-form. Yet, due...
  • Man Bolts Lamborghini on Wall in Mansion

    05/17/2006 6:19:12 AM PDT · by decimon · 29 replies · 383+ views
    Associated Press ^ | May 16, 2006 | Unknown
    NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Auto art has been taken to a new level after an Orange County man bolted a 1974 black Lamborghini Countach to a wall inside his home. Millionaire Richard Moriarty hired a 70-ton crane to lower the Italian sports car into his mansion through a skylight in the living room. On Friday, a five-man crew hung the 1,000-pound engineless vehicle from a steel-reinforced wall with loops of half-inch-thick steel cable. Explaining the unusual placement for the car, Moriarty said, "I have a Lamborghini and I've got a big wall." The car's engine was removed and transformed into...
  • Back to the Future Part IV, Time After Time 2

    08/30/2005 8:57:04 AM PDT · by J. Neil Schulman · 6 replies · 1,389+ views
    IMDb ^ | August 29, 2005 | J. Neil Schulman
    Back to the Future Part IV / Time After Time 2By J. Neil SchulmanA movie I would love to see but am never going to be allowed to write.--JNS While traveling through the American southwest, Sherlock Holmes1 is hired by the railroad to investigate the hijacking and destruction of a locomotive that was deliberately crashed, apparently senselessly, off an unfinished railroad bridge into Shonash Ravine 2, Hill County, Texas. During his investigation Holmes sees a flying locomotive engineered by a white-haired man and a dark-haired woman2, which Holmes initially attributes to a cocaine-induced hallucination3. However, further investigation of forensic...
  • Wasting your money

    05/22/2005 10:36:14 AM PDT · by worldclass · 40 replies · 778+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 5/22/2005 | Brian M. Riedl
    This year, Washington will spend an eye-popping $22,039 per household. That is the inflation-adjusted highest since World War II, and $5,000 per household more than spent just four years ago. With difficult decisions ahead, government waste should be the easiest place to start controlling spending. So it isn't surprising the federal government costs 33 percent more than in 2001.