It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-Headed League

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Topic

Solving problems Confoundment

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Red-Headed League

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Red-Headed League." The Strand Magazine. London: August 1891.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Red-Headed League." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic
Women's equality Men and women Relationships
Speaker
Susan B. Anthony
Source
New York World
Medium
Interview
Language
English
Time
1896 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” Interviewed by Nellie Bly. New York World, 2 Feb. 1896.

Current Citation

Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush 1895 to 1906, edited by Ann D. Gordon. Vol. 6, Rutgers University Press, 2013.