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Reichenbach Falls |
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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He confronts "the Napoleon of crime," and Holmes and Professor Moriarty go over Reichenbach Falls. The appetite for Holmes stories has always been insatiable, as Arthur Conan Doyle discovered when an outraged public forced him to revive the character after pitching him over the Reichenbach Falls in the 1893 story "The Final Problem. He's become uneasy about his virtual child - the concept of cyberspace - so much that he recently proposed sending any word with the ``cyber'' prefix over the virtual Reichenbach Falls. |
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