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We tell tales of a man,
But he is not our man.
Our man is a different man,
One man of many.
The brilliant man opposed our man,
As he opposed the other.
His name was shared by many,
But he surpassed his fellow men.
Our man did what was needed,
Or what he thought was.
He used an air-gun,
But his was no toy.
Few were sad to see him go;
He died soon after men met him.
But he came back,
Though more in the past,
And our man was now famous,
Though not for good reason.

Answer - Professor James Moriarty
Guesses from 16251 - 16358

[This is the second part of Gorn's riddle. I have made a new entry for it to save confusion. The first part has been solved and is archived here: Gorn's Riddle: Part the First

The text for this riddle was originally found here: tinyurl.com/ridingfons. Further details can be found in the archived riddle post linked above.]

Clues: Your clue was in the path.

Are the men in the riddle historical or fictional? Fictional

Are you looking for the name (of a person)? Yes

The answer is a professor.
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0 - 9 - 4th dimension, 47 (Hitman)

A - Aang, Amazon (river), Amplifier

B - Barton (Buzz), Batman, Beeman (Dr. Robert), Bell (Rex), Bernoulli (Daniel), Billy the Kid, Braun (Karl Ferdinand), Buffalo National River

C - Calculator (graphical), Computer, Cooper (Dr Martin)

D - Davis (James T. "Joker" wink , Devil (the), Diaz (Profirio), Duddell (William)

E - Electricity, Enigma

F - Fallout, Fontus

G - Ghosts, Girandoni (Bartholomäus), God, Greece (Ancient)

H - Hampden-Turner (Charles), Henry IV (King of France), Hex (Jonah)

I - Infrared

J - John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

K - Keyboard, Kittens, Kunitomo (Ikkansai)

L - Lewis (Captain Meriwether), Love

M - Maybe, Microscope, Mixer, Moriarty (Professor James), Music

N - Niagara Falls, No, Nothing

O - Oscilloscope, Othello

P - Pascal (Blaise), Phone (cell, mobile), Pyle (Gomer)

Q -

R - Radar, Ralphie (A Christmas Story), Rasputin,Red Ryder, Riding the Waves of Culture (book), Rogers (Roy), Rome (Ancient)

S - Saxton (Josepy), Spectrum, Spirits, Stroboscope

T - T9, Telephone, Telescope, Texting, Triton, Trompenaars (Fons)

U - Uncle Sam

V -

W - Water

X -

Y -

Z -

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Discuss, RRers: the first riddle required solving a code using the alphabet, and the second was based on a number pad of a touch-tone phone. Somehow, this is a clue. And, so far, oscilloscope is the closest guess.
Oscilloscope hasn't been guessed yet.