Лучшие расследования Шерлока Холмса / The Best of Sherlock Holmes. Артур Конан Дойл
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СКАЧАТЬ army, and afterwards under Hood – Henry Rootes Jackson and John Bell Hood were Confederate generals during the American Civil War.

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      Lee – Robert Edward Lee commanded the Confederate Army. His surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 ended the American Civil War.

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      Portsdown Hill is a chalk hill about 430 ft. high to the north of Portsmouth. In the 1860s along the crest of the Hill 6 forts were constructed to prevent an enemy from capturing the heights of the Hill and bombarding Portsmouth and the British fleet in Portsmouth harbour.

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      Waterloo Station located in South Bank was opened in 1848. It had been intended that Waterloo Bridge Station would serve only as a through station on the way to the City. As the Station became a terminus, it was rebuilt in 1853 and after that suffered a lot of rather hazard reconstructions.

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      Baron Cuvier, Georges-Léopold-Chrétien-Frédéric-Dagobert (1769–1832) was a French naturalist, the establisher of paleontology.

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      D.D. stands for Doctor of Divinity (Divinitatis Doctor in Latin).

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      De Quincey’s description of his dreams and sensations – Thomas Penson De Quincey (1785–1859) was an English essayist, the author of the book “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.”

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      Dog-cart (aka trap) is a type of open horse-drawn vehicles popular in Victorian Britain. Dog-carts were used to carry passengers or to drive out with dogs to hunt. Dog-carts had many modifications, two-wheeled one-horse carriage with high seats was the most typical one.

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      Cannon Street station (aka London Cannon Street) is now a railway terminus and underground station in the City of London. It was opened in 1866 to serve as a central London terminus for the South Eastern Railway that chained London and Dover. Branch lines connected towns of Surrey and Kent with the main line.

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      10s — “S” stands for “stone”.

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      Vesta (the name taken from the Roman goddess of hearth and home) is the trade name for strike-anywhere wax matches patented by William Newton in 1832. Wax vesta had a cotton wax-covered wick tipped with phosphorus. Users carried special small boxes (vesta cases, match safes) to house vestas as they were prone to auto-ignition.

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      mousseline de soie is a fine lightweight semi-opaque crisp fabric made of silk

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      Gladstone bag was a suitcase built over a rigid frame which could separate into two equal sections. The manufacturer of the first Gladstone bag was a great admirer of William E. Gladstone, the four-times British Prime Minister who travelled a lot.

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      Bow Street Covent Garden, Westminster – a place where London Magistrates’ Court and the oldest police station of the Metropolitan Police were located

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      26s 4d. – “S” stands for “shilling” (from the Latin “solidus”), “d” – for pence (from the Latin “dinarius”).

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      disjecta membra – scattered fragments (Latin)

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      the Museum = the British Museum, one of the most famous and comprehensive museums dedicated to human history and culture. It was established by the Act of British Parliament in 1753 and opened to public in 1759.

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      Pentonville – Her/His Majesty Prison Pentonville is a men’s prison in London. Opened in 1842, it is still in operation today.

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      jail-bird – an old-fashioned informal term for “prisoner”

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      The Regency (1811–1820) is a period when the Prince of Wales ruled the country as Prince Regent because King George III had been deemed incapable to rule due to mental illness. In 1820 King George III died and the Prince of Wales became King George IV.

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      baboons – actually baboons aren’t Indian animals, they are found only in Africa

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      “Jack-in-office” – an annoying self-important minor official

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      Doctors’ Commons – initially it was an association of lawyers who specialized in civil law, similar to the Inns of Court (though the Inn’s members specialized in common law). From 1565 to 1858 Doctors’ Commons resided in Paternoster Row, near St. Paul’s where civil records were stored. In 1858 the society was dissolved.

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      Eley is a British firm still manufacturing rimfire ammunition. It was started in 1820s by brothers William and Charles Eley. They specialized in patent cartridges, so Eley’s № 2 must refer to a cartridge, probably for Webley revolver.

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      Wilton carpet is a woven wool carpet noted for its original looped or cut-velvet text

Примечания

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Cocaine was a legal drug at that time.

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Trincomalee – a port in Sri Lanka

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a spirit case and a gasogene – a spirit case (aka tantalus) was a Victorian locked cabinet to store spirits. A gasogene was a special decanter for making carbonated water.

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Bohemia – СКАЧАТЬ