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= Arthur Conan Doyle  = []
 * 1)  Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
 * 2)  Irish-catholic family.
 * 3)  Father was a chronic alcoholic.
 * 4)  At 22 Arthur married Mary Foley(17)
 * 5)  Mary Doyle had a passion for books and was a master storyteller.
 * 6)  There was little money in the family and even less harmony on account of his father's excesses and erratic behavior.
 * 7)  After Arthur reached his ninth birthday, the wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies.
 * 8)  He was in tears all the way to England, where for seven years he had to go to a Jesuit boarding school.
 * 9)  During those grueling years, Arthur's only moments of happiness were when he wrote to his mother.
 * 10)  It was during these difficult years at boarding school, that Arthur realized he also had a talent for storytelling.
 * 11)  He was often found, surrounded by a bevy of totally enraptured younger students, listening to the amazing stories he would make up to amuse them.
 * 12)  By 1876, graduating at the age of seventeen, Arthur Doyle was a surprisingly normal young man.
 * 13)  Arthur Conan Doyle's was twenty years old and in his third year of medical studies, when for the first time, Adventure knocked on his door.
 * 14)  He was offered the post of ship's surgeon on the // Hope //, a whaling boat, about to leave for the Arctic Circle.
 * 15)  He rented a house but was only able to furnish the two rooms his patients would see.
 * 16)  In March 1886, Conan Doyle started writing the novel which catapulted him to fame.
 * 17) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> He decided the time had come to leave Portsmouth, and go to Vienna, where he wanted to specialize in Ophthalmology.
 * 18) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> During a trip to Switzerland, he found the spot where his hero was to come to his end.
 * 19) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> This frenzied life may explain why the former physician didn't notice the serious deterioration of his wife's health.
 * 20) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Arthur Conan Doyle died on Monday, July 7, 1930.

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 * 1) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle is sent to Jesuit boarding school in England.
 * 2) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Charles Doyle enters a nursing facility to receive treatment for his alcoholism. Conan Doyle attends the University of Edinburgh Medical School where he meets Dr. Joseph Bell, the person who inspired the character of Sherlock Holmes.
 * 3) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> On August 5th, Conan Doyle marries Louise "Toulie" Hawkins.
 * 4) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> He is torn between loyalty to his dying wife and the passion he feels for another woman.
 * 5) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Louise dies at the age of forty-nine.
 * 6) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle goes on a lecture tour of the United States.
 * 7) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> visits Egypt
 * 8) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle and family move back to England.
 * 9) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Served in the Boer war.
 * 10) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle is knighted for this publication.
 * 11) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle marries Jean Leckie.
 * 12) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle is born to Jean and Arthur.
 * 13) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle begins investigation of the George Edalji case.
 * 14) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Conan Doyle becomes involved in the Oscar Slater case. Adrian Malcolm is born to Jean and Arthur.
 * 15) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> In 1889 Arthurs first child Mary was born.
 * 16) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Louise gives birth to Arthur Allyne Kingsley in 1892.
 * 17) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Louise is diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1893.
 * 18) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Father dies in1893.
 * 19) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies on July 8 1930.
 * 20) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> He is buried at the rose garden in Windlesham.

"Arthur Conan Doyle." // The Lost World Read 2009 //. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. [].
 * 1) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Wrote detective books.
 * 2) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> After Poe got bored with mysteries Arthur became interested.
 * 3) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Died in Crow borough, Sussex, England.
 * 4) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">  Wrote over 20 books.
 * 5) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">  Was a crack addict and put that trait in Sherlock Holmes.
 * 6) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">  Father was a clerk.
 * 7) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">  Mother was an Irish immigrant.
 * 8) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">  In 1867 went to school at Newington Academy.
 * 9) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> 1870 was transferred to the upper school Stony Hurst College.
 * 10) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Enjoys sports especially crocket.
 * 11) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Sent to Feldkirch, Austria, another Jesuit school.
 * 12) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> In 1876 He started studying at the University of Edinburgh.
 * 13) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;">  A Study in Scarlet  published in book form in 1888.
 * 14) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Had a daughter in1889.
 * 15) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Had a son in 1892.
 * 16) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Father dies in 1893.
 * 17) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> He was knighted.
 * 18) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Wife died of TB.
 * 19) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Had 3 wives.
 * 20) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Had another son in 1910.
 * 1) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> He believed in fairies
 * 2) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> father was institutionalized
 * 3) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> learned French
 * 4) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level2 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"> Father died in asylum