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== History == | == History == | ||
===Original Orient Express=== | |||
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]]'') | ||
A reproduction of the Orient Express ferried passengers in [[space]]. On one occasion it was having trouble with an "[[Egyptian]] [[God]]dess" who had escaped from the [[Seventh Obelisk]]. A [[king]] or [[queen]] called the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to come and help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') This spacefaring Orient Express would later be visited by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') | ===Orient Express in space==== | ||
A reproduction of the Orient Express ferried passengers in [[space]]. On one occasion it was having trouble with an "[[Egyptian]] [[God]]dess" who had escaped from the [[Seventh Obelisk]]. A [[king]] or [[queen]] called the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to come and help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') | |||
This spacefaring Orient Express would later be visited by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') | |||