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All of the roles in Shakespeare’s plays were originally acted by men and boys. In       All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie’s book “Peter Pan” were bequeathed to the       Cinderella’s slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.       Frank Baum named “Oz” after a file cabinet in his office. One cabinet was labeled “A to N,” and the second was labeled “O to Z.”       Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in “A Study in Scarlet” (1887).       Sherlock Holmes never said ‘Elementary, my dear Watson.’       |
