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The '''Orient Express''' was a long-distance passenger [[train]] originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on [[Earth]]. One [[Orient Express (spacecraft)|Orient Express]] was built that travelled in [[space]]. | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
The two city names most intimately associated with the Orient Express were [[Paris]] and [[Istanbul]], the original endpoints of the service. In [[1887]], [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[John Watson|Dr. Watson]] were riding on the Express through [[Austria]] when they were stopped by the train of [[Pope]] [[Leo XIII]], who commissioned Holmes to investigate the disappearance of books from the [[Library of St John the Beheaded]] in [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') | The two city names most intimately associated with the Orient Express were [[Paris]] and [[Istanbul]], the original endpoints of the service. In [[1887]], [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[John Watson|Dr. Watson]] were riding on the Express through [[Austria]] when they were stopped by the train of [[Pope]] [[Leo XIII]], who commissioned Holmes to investigate the disappearance of books from the [[Library of St John the Beheaded]] in [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') | ||
The train was perhaps most famous for being the setting of a detective novel, ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'', written in [[1934]] by [[Agatha Christie]] and featuring her Belgian detective character [[Hercule Poirot]]. This was inadvertently inspired by [[Donna Noble]], when she met the writer in [[1926]]. It is unlikely, however, that, per Donna's suggestion, the book was copyrighted "Donna Noble." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | The train was perhaps most famous for being the setting of a detective novel, ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'', written in [[1934]] by [[Agatha Christie]] and featuring her Belgian detective character [[Hercule Poirot]]. This was inadvertently inspired by [[Donna Noble]], when she met the writer in [[1926]]. It is unlikely, however, that, per Donna's suggestion, the book was copyrighted "Donna Noble." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | ||
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The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on Earth. One Orient Express was built that travelled in space.
History
The two city names most intimately associated with the Orient Express were Paris and Istanbul, the original endpoints of the service. In 1887, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were riding on the Express through Austria when they were stopped by the train of Pope Leo XIII, who commissioned Holmes to investigate the disappearance of books from the Library of St John the Beheaded in London. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
The train was perhaps most famous for being the setting of a detective novel, Murder on the Orient Express, written in 1934 by Agatha Christie and featuring her Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot. This was inadvertently inspired by Donna Noble, when she met the writer in 1926. It is unlikely, however, that, per Donna's suggestion, the book was copyrighted "Donna Noble." (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
