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	Detective Fiction on Stamps: Dominica, Sherlock Holmes, Cog Trains of Switzerland
		Reichenbach Falls, famous series of falls of the River Reichenbach, a tributary of the Aar, in central Switzerland.
		The lower fall is a ten minute walk from Meiringen, and the impressive central or Kessel Fall is 15 minutes higher.
		A walk of thirty minutes reaches the upper falls; a narrow footpath leads to a footbridge which gives a view of the falls from above.
	www.trussel.com /detfic/dominic2.htm (319 words)

	Reichenbach Falls - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Reichenbach Falls in Meiringen, Switzerland, have a total drop 250 m (656 ft).
		At 90 m (300 ft) the Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts in the Alps.
		Out of the many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, the Reichenbach Falls seem to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Reichenbach_Falls (364 words)

	Reichenbach Falls - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Reichenbach Falls in Meiringen, Switzerland, have a total drop 250 m (656 ft).
		At 90 m (300 ft) the Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts in the Alps.
		Out of the many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, the Reichenbach Falls seem to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
	www.music.us /education/R/Reichenbach-Falls.htm (599 words)

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	Reichenbach Falls
		The Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfall) near Meiringen, Switzerland, have a total drop of 250 m (656 ft).
		The town and the falls are known world-wide as the setting for an event which never actually happened: Reichenbach falls are the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes apparently dies at the end of "The Adventure of the Final Problem" locked in mortal combat with his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
		The actual ledge from which Moriarty and Holmes apparently fall is on the other side of the falls; it is accessible by climbing the path to the top of the falls, crossing the bridge and following the trail down the hill.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Reichenbach_Falls (456 words)

	Waterfalls of the World, Russell Falls, Dilston Falls, Topsail Falls, Iguassu Falls, Angel Falls, Niagara Falls, ...
		In Canada we have the Topsail Falls and a progressive die proof is shown followed by some of the proofs for the Brazilian 1938 Tourist Propaganda issue printed by Waterlow and Sons, but only for the Iguassu Falls design.
		This is a caricature on the patriotic envelope of Jefferson Davis as Blondin crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
		The fall shown here is the Cascade de Sallenches where Lord Kelvin met Joule and tried to measure the change in temperature of the water as it fell from the top of the fall to the bottom.
	www.rpsl.org.uk /waterfalls/index.html (2738 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Reichenbach Falls press pack
		Reichenbach Falls, the lives of these estranged men are thrown together again, then blown apart.
		Wry and obsessive DI Buchan (Alec Newman, Angel) is a cop on the edge; suave and self-assured Jack Harvey (Alastair Mackenzie, Monarch Of The Glen) is a best-selling crime novelist with the world at his feet.
		Reichenbach Falls also stars Nina Sosanya (Sorted, Casanova) as Buchan's detective sidekick, Sinead Burns, Richard Wilson (One Foot In The Grave) as a ghostly Arthur Conan Doyle, John Sessions (Low Winter Sun) as Professor Bell, a sinister academic who assists the investigation, and Laura Fraser (A Knight's Tale) as Clara, Buchan's long-suffering ex-wife.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/02_february/14/reichenbach.shtml (0 words)

	Reichenbach Falls — FactMonster.com
		Reichenbach Falls, waterfalls, total drop 656 ft (200 m), S central Switzerland, where the Reichenbach River joins the Aare River.
		Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts (c.300 ft/90 m high) in the Alps.
		It is familiar to readers of A. Conan Doyle as the place where Sherlock Holmes was said to have disappeared and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, died.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0841462.html (107 words)

	Sherlock Holmes Reichenbach falls Meiringen history story Switzerland Conan Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chose the Reichenbach falls as the setting for the death of his character Sherlock Holmes.
		The outcry against the death of such a popular character as Holmes was so great that in 1903 Conan Doyle was forced to give in to the pressure of his fan mail.
		He resurrected his nemesis by claiming that Holmes had managed to grab a tuft of grass during the fall into the “dreadful cauldron” and so had lived to solve another mystery.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/guide/berner_oberland/sherlockholmes.html (0 words)

	Reichenbach Falls . Sherlock Holmes . Harry Paget Flashman
		Falls in Meiringen, Switzerland, have a total drop 250 m 656 ft.
		So impressed was Conan Doyle that he decided to let his hero die there.
		Although raised a Mennonite, he lacked the assurance of the...
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Reichenbach_Falls_UK_206022_yg (354 words)

	hiking to reichenbach falls \| Walking And Hiking Across The World. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Giessbach Falls, some of the most dramatic falls in the Bernese Oberland, the road to Grimsel and turn right toward Reichenbach Falls and Mervenklinik.
		The Jungfrau region's ski capital is also a handy base for summer hiking and Aare Gorge and Upper Reichenbach Falls, or hike to the Rosenlaui Glacier.
		Meiringen is a hiking and mountaineering resort in the Bernese Oberland; the nearby Reichenbach Falls were featured in a Sherlock Holmes novel.
	www.battlefieldwalks.co.uk /hiking_to_reichenbach_falls.html (365 words)

	One Voice Recordings - Darlington Substitution Scandal & Reichenbach Secret
		Sherlock Holmes and the Reichenbach Secret - It is the summer of 1916 and for two years Holmes and Watson have been retired from their criminal investigations.
		That evening, after sharing their fond recollections of the many cases they have solved together, Sherlock Holmes unexpectedly tells Watson he is about to tell the truth of what really transpired at Reichenbach Falls.
		Holmes' escape to Florence, an encounter with an English woman who is not what she seems, a bizarre plot to lure Holmes to his death, a surprise visit from the real Moriarty and an unspoken agreement, fill the two friends' final, emotional hours together.
	www.onevoicerecordings.com /Darlington_Substitution_Scandal_&_Reichenbach_Secret.html (0 words)

	switzerland.com - Reichenbach Falls Meiringen
		The beauty of the mighty waterfall - height of drop 100 m - and the scenic charms of the surroundings have been described since tourism began.
		A Sherlock Holmes commemorative plaque by the cable railway reminds the visitor that Conan Doyle was so deeply impressed by the wild beauty of this waterfall that he decided to let his world-famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, fall to his death in the Reichenbach Falls after a fight with his archenemy Prof.Moriarty.
		A cable railway brings visitors up to the platform where the final duel of the novel took place and, at the same time, to a starting point of unique walking tours through the Reichenbachtal Valley - Grosse Scheidegg - Grindelwald.
	www.switzerland.com /handler.cfm/reisen/sehenswuerdigkeiten/offer-Top_Attractions-Nature-8709.html (0 words)

	swissinfo - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chose the Bernese Oberland resort of Meiringen to kill off Sherlock Holmes
		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was so impressed by the Reichenbach Falls that he thought it an ideal place to kill off Sherlock Holmes.
		In a final and fateful encounter, the two men clash at the falls and both fall to their death.
		The Reichenbach Falls is a key site along the route over the Grosse Scheidegg, which is more popular today than it was during Conan Doyle's visit during the golden age of tourism.
	www.swissinfo.org /eng/extraordinary_exiles/detail/Sherlock_Holmes_success_no_mystery.html?siteSect=2351&sid=6716226&cKey=1148021331000 (931 words)

	RASalvatore.com Bookstore
		In 1891, Sherlock Holmes in a struggle with his arch-enemy, the Napoleon of Crime, Professor James Moriarty, plunged with him over the Reichenbach Falls to his inevitable death.
		Kurland's take on what really happened at Reichenbach is interesting, and explains several vague references in his novels.
		This collection of stories ostensibly covers the years between Sherlock Holmes' presumed death at Reichenbach Falls in his death struggle with his arch enemy Professor Moriarity to his reappearance a few years later.
	www.rasalvatore.com /bookstore/itemDetails.aspx?asin=0312315139 (844 words)

	In Sherlock Holmes' Swiss footsteps
		The Reichenbach Falls, where Sherlock Holmes grappled with his arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.
		In the story, the nearby Reichenbach waterfall is the setting for Holmes' wrestling match with the "Napoleon of crime", Professor Moriarty.
		It is also possible to follow the same steeply wooded path to the Falls taken by Holmes, Watson and Moriarty.
	www.uk-ch.org /articles/meiringen.html (674 words)

	Sherlockian Atlas: Reference: Reichenbach Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Famous series of falls of the River Reichenbach, a tributary of the Aar, in central Switzerland.
		The fall roared beneath me. I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss."
		Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls; Sydney Paget illustration.
	www.sherlock-holmes.org /atlas/europe/reichenbach_falls.html (0 words)

	Professor Moriarty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		History: The arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, who ruled the London underworld in the late 19th century, before (apparently) meeting his death at the Reichenbach Falls at the hands of the great detective.
		An extremely intelligent man of good birth, Moriarty was a Professor of Mathematics, writing a treatise on the binomial theorem (The Final Problem), lecturing about eclipses, and becoming 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".
		In spite of seemingly dying at the Reichenbach Falls, many subsequent writers have used the Napoleon of Crime, both with and without the presence of his arch nemesis.
	www.internationalhero.co.uk /m/moriarty.htm (682 words)

	Upper Reichenbach Falls, Meiringen
		From the left bank of Meiringen's Aare gorge (parking) a funicular takes five minutes to reach the Upper Reichenbach Falls.
		From the upper station there is a good view of the falls, which plunge down in two stages.
		This is the spot where Arthur Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes killed in a fight with his arch enemy Professor Moriarty.
	www.planetware.com /meiringen/upper-reichenbach-falls-ch-be-reif.htm (91 words)

	The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Death of Sherlock Holmes
		In 1893 Conan Doyle visited Reichenbach Falls in the northern Swiss Alps.
		After seeing the magnificent falls he decided the place would make a worthy tomb for Sherlock Holmes.
		This story took place before the incident at Reichenbach Falls.
	www.siracd.com /work_h_death.shtml (314 words)

	Sherlock Holmes Shoppe: Classic Specialties' paper products
		This central photograph is flanked with the familiar silhouettes of Holmes and Moriarty symbolically striving for the summit of The Falls.
		The legend names the falls and the canonical case in which it was most important.
		The picture is of the famous Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland where Mr.
	www.sherlock-holmes.com /paper.htm (0 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Drama - Reichenbach Falls
		DI Buchan is a cop on the edge; Jack Harvey is a successful crime writer with the world at his feet.
		In Reichenbach Falls the lives of these two former friends are thrown together when a 100-year-old body is discovered beneath the streets of Edinburgh.
		"Written by [James] Mavor and based on an idea by Rankin, Reichenbach Falls is a multi-layered detective tale that plays with the conventions of the genre before morphing into a mind-bending mystery that weaves fact with fiction and links Edinburgh's past with the city's present."
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/reichenbach-falls.shtml (0 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Did Sherlock Holmes really exist?
		In "The Final Problem," published in December 1893 but set in 1891, Holmes encountered Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime, in a mutually fatal showdown at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
		For example, Watson said that "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" occurred in 1892--but in 1892 Holmes was believed to be dead at the bottom of Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
		And yet, after Holmes's encounter with Moriarty and supposed death at Reichenbach Falls, he never again uses cocaine.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/msherlock.html (3460 words)

	LRB \| Theo Tait : Fancy Patter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As everyone knows, Sherlock Holmes only appeared to plunge into the Reichenbach Falls, locked in a deadly embrace with Professor Moriarty.
		In fact, using his knowledge of ‘baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling’, Holmes slipped Moriarty’s grip at the vital moment, watched his nemesis totter then fall, and was planning his next move before the Napoleon of crime had even hit the water.
		Holmes returned to London – via Florence, Tibet, Persia, Mecca, Khartoum and Montpellier (where he undertook a little research into coal-tar derivatives) – to surprise Dr Watson at his Paddington consulting rooms some years later, in the guise of an elderly bibliophile.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n07/print/tait01_.html (258 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		The falls have a total drop of 200 metres (656 feet), and are situated at the join of the Reichenbach and the Aare rivers.
		At 90 metres (300 feet), Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts in the Alps.
		It is familiar to readers of the Sherlock Holmes books by Arthur Conan Doyle, as the place where Holmes’ arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, died, and where Holmes himself was said to have disappeared.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?image=10423098 (155 words)

	Hiking To Reichenbach Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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