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Question! Who was the celebrated author of "The Dynamics of An Asteroid", a book so advanced that "no man in the scientific press is able to criticize it"?
Why, it's everyone's favorite arch-nemesis, the world's very first supervillain, Professor James Moriarty!
Fun Facts about Moriarty:
What was he a professor of? Why, Mathematics!; he was known to compose treatises on the binomial theorem
He must have been quite the astronomer too, because he lectured about eclipses and wrote books about aforementioned asteroids
After leaving his University Chair but prior to becoming an evil mastermind, he was employed oddly enough as an army coach
Later Holmes would call him the Napoleon of Crime
As the ruler of the London underworld, he was exceedingly generous to his employees; his henchman Moran was paid 60,000 pounds a year (a huge amount in those days, still pretty good even now).
His full name was James Moriarty. Strangely enough, he had a brother named that too - wonder how that worked
The Professor was involved in only two of the Sherlock Holmes' sixty published cases; but what an impression he made
By golly, Sir Lawrence Olivier portrayed him in a movie
His weapon of choice was the "air-rifle", a unique weapon constructed for him by a blind German mechanic
However, it was of no use to him when he sparred with Holmes by the Falls in Switzerland; his enemy employed Baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, causing the poor Professor to plunge to his death on May 4, 1891
Two bits of incidental trivia:
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the original stories. The phrase's origins have been traced to one of P.G. Wodehouse's comic novels.
Sherlock Holmes had a fat and lazy older brother named Mycroft.
Why, it's everyone's favorite arch-nemesis, the world's very first supervillain, Professor James Moriarty!
Fun Facts about Moriarty:
Two bits of incidental trivia:
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the original stories. The phrase's origins have been traced to one of P.G. Wodehouse's comic novels.
Sherlock Holmes had a fat and lazy older brother named Mycroft.
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