A blog dedicated to some of my favorite things.
Sherlock Holmes
Hercule Poirot
The Phantom of the Opera
The Cat and the Canary
and so on...

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26th May 2012

Photo reblogged from Taking a stroll around the battlefield. with 28 notes

You miss it.
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Martin Freeman is now one of my favorite Watsons.
Of course, I still remember the others, especially the Grenada Watsons, but I really like his performance.

You miss it.

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Martin Freeman is now one of my favorite Watsons.

Of course, I still remember the others, especially the Grenada Watsons, but I really like his performance.

Source: sorahomes

24th May 2012

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Happy Birthday to Creighton Hale !
Here he is in THE CAT AND THE CANARY, one of my fave silents

Happy Birthday to Creighton Hale !

Here he is in THE CAT AND THE CANARY, one of my fave silents

In THE CAT AND THE CANARYBe careful ! He may be hiding under your bed :)

Tagged: Creighton HaleBirthdayThe Cat and the CanaryWho is hiding under the bed ?

23rd May 2012

Photo reblogged from Le Fantôme de l'Opéra with 26 notes

Keep your hand at the level of your eyes !

Where would Raoul be without the Persian ? 

Keep your hand at the level of your eyes !

Where would Raoul be without the Persian ? 

Tagged: Phantom of the OperaRaoul de Chagnythe PersianDaroga

Source: lefantomedelopera

23rd May 2012

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Two Phantoms — Anthony Crivello  and Lon Chaney sr. 

Two Phantoms — Anthony Crivello  and Lon Chaney sr. 

Tagged: Lon ChaneyAnthony CrivelloPhantom of the Opera

23rd May 2012

Photo reblogged from and if you love me, won't you let me know? with 16 notes

Watching the modern incarnation of Sherlock Holmes….

Watching the modern incarnation of Sherlock Holmes….

Source: seetheshore

23rd May 2012

Photo reblogged from Le Fantôme de l'Opéra with 4 notes

From the original silent movie…

From the original silent movie…

Source: lefantomedelopera

23rd May 2012

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[ cloud overview ][ get your own cloud ]This is a Tumblr Cloud I generated from my blog posts between Feb 2012 and May 2012 containing my top 5 used words.

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This is a Tumblr Cloud I generated from my blog posts between Feb 2012 and May 2012 containing my top 5 used words.

Tagged: tumblrcloud

14th May 2012

Post reblogged from Muirin007 with 17 notes

Even more Nadir!

muirin007:

From the original silent film, here is indisputable proof that Nadir is actually James Bond in an Astrakhan cap. 

See, even the film’s producers knew this guy was too cool for school in 1927. He’s got eyeliner. He’s got a pipe. He’s got his hands at the level of his eyes.

He gon’ shank sum Phannum, ya’ll.

Source: muirin007

11th May 2012

Quote reblogged from nonplussedbyreligion with 38 notes

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong… . As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from… .

— Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)

On this date in 1918, Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City. Feynman, with two other scientists, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He received his undergrad degree from MIT in 1939, and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. He worked at Los Alamos, then became a professor at Cornell from 1945-1950. Feynman became professor of theoretical physics at California Institute of Technology in 1950. When Physics World polled scientists asking them to rank the greatest physicists, Feynman was rated seventh, behind Galileo. Feynman was a writer and personality, as well. His first popular book was Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman. His academic classic was the 3-volume Lectures on Physics. His sister Joan once said: “If you wanted to have a good party, you had Richard there” (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 2001). InWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), Feynman described himself as “an avowed atheist” by his early youth. “I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn’t want it distorted (by miracle stories). And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.” Feynman was first treated for stomach cancer in 1978. He made headlines after being appointed to a commission investigating the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster, when he figured out and demonstrated what went wrong with the O-rings. D. 1988.

(via nonplussedbyreligion)

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10th May 2012

Photo reblogged from Insight Recollection with 62 notes

stephybs20:

Richard Feynman 

stephybs20:

Richard Feynman 

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