A Wisdom Archive on Detective - Becoming a detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. Private detectives usually operate commercially and are licensed. They may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or private eyes). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records. Detective - Detective as a designator of rank or status. In some police departments, primarily in North America, Detective can be the lowest ran ... Including:

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The upcoming Venus Transit on June 8, 2004 may again come to have a very special role in science for expanding our communications and the framework of human life. Carl Johan Calleman, the author of The Mayan Calendar and The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness, discusses the Venus Transit and its relationship to the search for extraterrestrial life.

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Mystery. In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). Mystery! is a PBS program showing British detective fiction series. Also in modern colloquial English, a mystery is something which is unknown or unexplained. Originally mystery was a religious term. Thus the Sacred Mysteries were rites into which only the initiated were admitted, lest they become the object

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A visual binary star is a binary star for which the angular separation between the two components is great enough to permit them to be observed as a double star in a telescope. The resolving power of the telescope is an important factor in the detection of visual binaries, and as telescopes become larger and more powerful an increasing number of visual binaries will be detected. The brightness of the two stars is also an important factor, as brighter stars are harder ...

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Auguste Dupin is a fictional detective created by Edgar Allan Poe. While not the first detective in fiction, Auguste Dupin was the prototype for many that came later (most notably Sherlock Holmes). He lives in Paris alone in an old house. Many tropes that would later become commonplace in mystery fiction first appeared in Poe's stories: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling constabulary, the first-person narration by a close personal friend. Like Sherlock Holmes, Dupin uses his considerabl ...

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A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that is constructed to match the letters of an actual word appropriate in some fashion to the topic at hand. The word "backronym" is a portmanteau (fusion) of back and acronym and was coined in 1983. An acronym is a word created from the initial letters of a phrase: RAdio Detection And Ranging becomes radar. Note that an acronym is an actual word -- anything that has not actua ... Including:

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