The Adventure of the Speckled Band the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ("Heloderma suspectum") and "Naja naja". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was "It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India"; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was "It is a "samp-aderm", the deadliest skink in India." "Samp-aderm" can be translated "snake-Gila-monster": "Samp" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix "aderm" is derived from "heloderm", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by
The Machine That Won the War (short story) The Machine That Won the War (short story) "The Machine That Won the War" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the collections "Nightfall and Other Stories" (1969) and "Robot Dreams" (1986). It was also printed in a contemporary edition of Reader's Digest, illustrated. It is one of a loosely connected series of such stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. Three influential leaders of the human race meet in the aftermath of a successful war against