“This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.”
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H. H. Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes and also known by the aliases Alexander Bond, Harry Gordon, J.A. Judson and Robert E. Phelps, was an American con artist and murderer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud, forgery, swindling, three or four bigam…
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science · American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896) · serial killer · con artist · pharmacist · physician · hotel manager · also H. H. Holmes, Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, Henry Howard Holmes, Herman Mudgett, Henry Holmes, H.H. Holmes
Born 16 May 1861 · Died 7 May 1896 · Q360680
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2026· 9 entries
“Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
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“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.”
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“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
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“You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.”
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“We're not jealous of you down at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand.”
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“For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.”
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“rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world”
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“a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?”
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Was H. H. Holmes Jack the Ripper?
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: H.H. Holmes Kill Count: How Many People Did the Serial Killer Murder?
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding” in The Lancet — cited 8,822 times.
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Published “A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China” in Nature — cited 9,946 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,058 times.
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Scorsese and DiCaprio were to be executive producers in a television version to have been released by Paramount TV and Hulu, but Hulu has since dropped the project, leaving the show's future undecided
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2017· 2 entries
During allegations Holmes had escaped execution, his body was exhumed for testing led by Janet Monge of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Career landmark: exhumation.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data” in Nature Methods — cited 33,133 times.
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Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,891 times.
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2015· 1 entry
A film adaptation of The Devil in the White City, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese, was to begin filming
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2013· 1 entry
Published “phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data” in PLoS ONE — cited 20,124 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “The WEKA data mining software” in ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter — cited 13,093 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Published “Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach” in Human Brain Mapping — cited 7,769 times.
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1990· 1 entry
Published “Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers” in Nature — cited 10,498 times.
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1983· 1 entry
Published “Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields” in Applied Mathematical Sciences — cited 7,412 times.
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1967· 1 entry
Published “The social readjustment rating scale” in Journal of Psychosomatic Research — cited 7,733 times.
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1927· 1 entry
“The Adventure of the Retired Colourman”
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1919· 1 entry
Twenty-three years after his execution, when the remains of an unknown man and woman were found on a farm
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1915· 1 entry
“When water is near and a weight is missing, it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.”
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1914· 1 entry
The Chicago Tribune reported that, with the death of Patrick Quinlan, the former janitor of the "Castle", "the mysteries of Holmes's castle" would remain unexplained
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1897· 1 entry
Tassel's name was cited in a list of suspected victims and her mother believed she was a possible victim
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1896· 3 entries
Died 1896-05-07.
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Holmes was hanged at Moyamensing Prison
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Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud, forgery, swindling, three or four bigamous marriages, horse theft and murder
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1895· 1 entry
It was determined that DeBrueil's life had been insured, and that Holmes had profited from his death
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1894· 5 entries
After being tracked there from Philadelphia by the private Pinkerton National Detective Agency
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By forcing them into a large trunk and locking them inside
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And a repair shop to sharpen the knives he used to chop up the child's body before he burned it
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Knocking him unconscious with chloroform and setting his body on fire with benzene
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In Denver, Colorado, while still married to both Clara and Myrta
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1893· 1 entry
Wrote to her aunt that she planned to accompany "Brother Harry" to Europe
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1892· 1 entry
Holmes added a third floor, telling investors and suppliers he intended to use it as a hotel during the upcoming World's Columbian Exposition
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1891· 1 entry
Emily Van Tassel disappeared after working at Holmes' drugstore; Holmes spoke of her in his confession
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1887· 1 entry
For a two-story mixed-use building, with apartments on the second floor and retail spaces, including a new drugstore, on the first
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1886· 2 entries
For insurance money, as detailed earlier in this article
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For insurance money; however, Leacock died on October 5, 1889, in Watford, Ontario, Canada
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1884· 2 entries
Before his graduation, she moved back to New Hampshire and had little contact with him afterward
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Shortly after his separation from his first wife, Holmes moved to Mooers, New York
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1882· 1 entry
Transferred to the University of Michigan's Department of Medicine and Surgery
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1880· 1 entry
They had one son, Robert Lovering Mudgett (February 3, 1880 – November 3, 1956), who was born in Loudon.
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1879· 1 entry
Holmes enrolled at the University of Vermont for one year
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1878· 1 entry
Holmes married Clara Lovering in Alton, New Hampshire
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1861· 2 entries
In Gilmanton, New Hampshire, the third child of Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price, both of whom were descended from the first English settlers in the area
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Born 1861-05-16.
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