Baker’s Dozen III

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City names that are also English nouns or verbs

  1. Hell, Pennsylvania
  2. Canton, Ohio
  3. Boring, Oregon
  4. Needles, California
  5. Hope, Arkansas
  6. Bath, England
  7. Liberal, Kansas
  8. Fate, Texas
  9. Butte, Montana
  10. Phoenix, Arizona
  11. Reading, Pennsylvania
  12. Flint, Michigan
  13. Weed, California

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard

Conan Doyle never told us his full first name - I suspect it was George.

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler

AKA, “The Woman”

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson

Holmes once referred to him as “the smartest of the Scotland Yarders”

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
  8. James Larrabee
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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
  8. James Larrabee
  9. Langdale Pike
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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
  8. James Larrabee
  9. Langdale Pike
  10. Jabez Wilson

The pawnbroker from “The Red-Headed League”.

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
  8. James Larrabee
  9. Langdale Pike
  10. Jabez Wilson
  11. Inspector Bradstreet

Although he appears in three short stories, his first name is never revealed.

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
  8. James Larrabee
  9. Langdale Pike
  10. Jabez Wilson
  11. Inspector Bradstreet
  12. Professor James Moriarty

Despite his great significance to the canon, he appears only in “The Final Problem”.

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Secondary characters from the Sherlock Holmes tales

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade, Scotland Yard
  2. Irene Adler
  3. Mycroft Holmes
  4. Mrs. Hudson
  5. Inspector Tobias Gregson
  6. Mary Morstan Watson
  7. Baker Street Irregulars
  8. James Larrabee
  9. Langdale Pike
  10. Jabez Wilson
  11. Inspector Bradstreet
  12. Professor James Moriarty
  13. The Grice Patersons

Perhaps a married couple, mentioned in “The Five Orange Pips” in one of Conan Doyle’s many tantalizingly-cryptic references to Holmes’s other cases:

The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my headings under this one twelve months, I find an account of… the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa…

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Famous groups of people

  1. The Chicago 7
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Famous groups of people

  1. The Chicago 7
  2. The Little Rock 9
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Famous groups of people

  1. The Chicago 7
  2. The Little Rock 9
  3. The Central Park 5

The five men who were falsely accused and convicted of assaulting a jogger in Central Park in 1989.. They were later exonerated. Trump took out full-page ads after the assault calling for the return of the death penalty.

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Famous groups of people

  1. The Chicago 7
  2. The Little Rock 9
  3. The Central Park 5
  4. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

God bless 'em - martyrs to freedom: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia

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Famous groups of people

  1. The Chicago 7
  2. The Little Rock 9
  3. The Central Park 5
  4. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
  5. Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Donald (Deke) Slayton – collectively known as the Mercury Seven, America’s first astronauts.

-“BB”-

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Famous groups of people

  1. The Chicago 7
  2. The Little Rock 9
  3. The Central Park 5
  4. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
  5. Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Donald (Deke) Slayton – collectively known as the Mercury Seven, America’s first astronauts.
  6. The Beatles