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== 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]]. ([[ | 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 the character of [[Hercule Poirot]]. This was inadvertently inspired by [[Donna Noble]], when she met the writer in [[1926]]. ([[ | 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 the character of [[Hercule Poirot]]. This was inadvertently inspired by [[Donna Noble]], when she met the writer in [[1926]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | ||
At an unknown time, an Orient Express was in space, having trouble with an "[[Egyptian]] Goddess" who had escaped from the Seventh Obelisk. A [[king]] or [[queen]] called the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to come and help. ([[ | At an unknown time, an Orient Express was in space, having trouble with an "[[Egyptian]] Goddess" who had escaped from the Seventh Obelisk. A [[king]] or [[queen]] called the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to come and help. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') | ||
