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Holmesian.net Lets use the Dancing men to communicate!!!  
10:38 8-Jul-09   [Replies: 15, Views: 210]    By: Unnamed
The picture of the entire dancing men alphabet is attached. Lets use it to talk to each other and have nobody else understand us. Ohhhh great idea, if moderators are up to this. Make us dancin...
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Holmesian.net Commonalities in stories  
18:10 29-Jun-09   [Replies: 61, Views: 700]    By: Unnamed
I was watching some of the Granada episodes, and I noticed that the three I watched all had a common thread: the villain hides the object he has stolen in something, and then must retrieve it som...
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Holmesian.net How much did Lestrade knew in CHAS?  
14:26 20-Jun-09   [Replies: 18, Views: 364]    By: Unnamed
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Holmesian.net Discussions on GLOR  
10:49 15-Jun-09   [Replies: 15, Views: 299]    By: Unnamed
The Gloria Scott was first published in the Strand Magazine in April 1893, with 7 illustrations by Sidney Paget. I have a few question: 1. When did the case take place? Holmes is in college at th...
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Holmesian.net The Adventure of the Devil's Foot  
12:18 9-Jun-09   [Replies: 21, Views: 599]    By: Unnamed
The story, 'The Adventure of the Devil's Foot' has its own seductive charms and is one of my favourites. I looked for it in the pinned list of story discussions and couldn't find ...
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Holmesian.net Shakespeare In The Canon.  
18:13 5-Jun-09   [Replies: 0, Views: 90]    By: Unnamed
I was wondering how many Shakespeare references there are in the canon? I recently read "The Adventure of the Empty House", in which Holmes quotes a line from "Twelfth Night"....
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Holmesian.net Copyright question - Can I write and publish a book featuring Holmes a..  
08:50 26-May-09   [Replies: 10, Views: 326]    By: Unnamed
I want to publish a book called "The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." It features Holmes (of course), Watson, Wiggins, Lestrade, Mrs Hudson, etc. involved in all kinds of shenanig...
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Holmesian.net Another Question For You Victorian Historians  
05:34 21-May-09   [Replies: 25, Views: 608]    By: Unnamed
Long time no see, dear HNers. Sorry for my long-time abscence. My mom has been seriously ill and we've been busy taking care of her. For some time, with all these family crisises coming at th...
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Holmesian.net Memoirs of a Newbie Holmesian  
14:09 9-May-09   [Replies: 104, Views: 1410]    By: Unnamed
Seeing how well my thingamajig on The Dying Detective went, I thought I'd try making a whozawhatzit out of The Cardboard Box, The Red Circle, and all of the other stories in His Last Bow and ...
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Holmesian.net My First Encounter With The Dying Detective  
11:36 6-May-09   [Replies: 20, Views: 406]    By: Unnamed
Last night Polasek suggested that, since I'm still reading through the Canonical stories of Holmes, that I should write down my thoughts during it. So, after turning off my beloved computer f...
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Holmesian.net If you could be with Holmes for one case....  
15:08 28-Apr-09   [Replies: 58, Views: 1224]    By: Unnamed
I know I know.....we ALL would want to be with Holmes for more than one day... but if you could pick 1 case to accompany him on...which would it be? I'll wait to see what ya'll think....s...
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Holmesian.net What does watson look like?  
23:48 27-Apr-09   [Replies: 29, Views: 521]    By: Unnamed
I've seen so many different versions of watson's hair and eye color. From blond to red and from blue to brown. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what his eye and hair colors were in ...
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Holmesian.net Pronunciation  
18:01 27-Apr-09   [Replies: 14, Views: 503]    By: Unnamed
What is the correct pronunciation of Irene Adler? I always use the Granada pronunciation "ee-RAY-na." Is that the British way? In America, we say "eye-REEN," which sounds less...
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Holmesian.net The Illustrious Client  
02:19 27-Apr-09   [Replies: 19, Views: 512]    By: Unnamed
Obviously, Edward VII ... (obviously?) ...
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Holmesian.net Tracing the Footprints  
02:10 27-Apr-09   [Replies: 1, Views: 161]    By: Unnamed
Originally, 'the Hound' was not going to be a Sherlock Holmes story... ...
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Holmesian.net An Attraction of Opposites  
12:48 26-Apr-09   [Replies: 2, Views: 145]    By: Unnamed
(I know, my scansion is awful. I hope you can read this.) This is an interesting and very well-written article about the friendship between SH and JHW... We had a similar discussion on HN. An ...
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Holmesian.net Casting the Hound in The HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES  
00:13 21-Apr-09   [Replies: 13, Views: 392]    By: Unnamed
Here is the link at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fila_Brasileiro [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fila_Brasileiro]> History "The Fila Brasileiro is believed to have been developed from a ...
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Holmesian.net The Adventure of Sidney Paget and the Deerstalker Cap  
00:07 10-Apr-09   [Replies: 9, Views: 324]    By: Unnamed
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on Sidney Paget, featuring a photograph of Paget wearing his very own deerstalker cap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Paget [http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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Holmesian.net Red Headed League Question  
20:49 8-Apr-09   [Replies: 2, Views: 182]    By: Unnamed
Does anyone know the translation of the quote at the very end of the Red Headed League? I think its in French but I'm not positive....
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Holmesian.net The Online Texts  
14:13 5-Apr-09   [Replies: 5, Views: 175]    By: Unnamed
Before I was able to buy myself copies of Holmes' cases (a position, I am sad to say, in which I again find myself), I relied on one of two sources for my stories. One was the public library (main...
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Holmesian.net What story is that from?  
14:13 2-Apr-09   [Replies: 13, Views: 174]    By: Unnamed
I don't recall coming across a thread with this purpose before, but if there is one, please combine them. Have you ever had a time when you remember something from the Canon but then can't rem...
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Holmesian.net Table of major events  
06:42 28-Mar-09   [Replies: 15, Views: 257]    By: Unnamed
Is this table already on the forum http://webpages.charter.net/lklinger/Chrotabl.htm [http://webpages.charter.net/lklinger/Chrotabl.htm]> ...
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Holmesian.net Was Mycroft "his brother of the country"  
09:48 24-Mar-09   [Replies: 4, Views: 132]    By: Unnamed
I don't know whether this has been discussed before, but I got confused and decided to put forward my question. In The Resident Patient Watson said Holmes sometimes "turned his mind from the ...
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Holmesian.net Pre & Post Hiatus Holmes....  
09:31 24-Mar-09   [Replies: 30, Views: 977]    By: Unnamed
This subject has always interested me; some Holmesians say that the Holmes that emerged after Reichanbach was a dramatically different man than the Holmes of earlier tales. What do you guys think? If...
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Holmesian.net Edith Meiser  
09:56 23-Mar-09   [Replies: 0, Views: 94]    By: Unnamed
Although imminent male Sherlockians do come under discussion on Sherlockian message boards, it is high time that the contributions of women were recognized - especially Edith Meiser. Here is a link f...
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