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Holmesian.net Canonical Names  
21:42 24-Jan-08   [Replies: 48, Views: 1144]    By: Unnamed
Forgive me if this has all been covered before, but did Doyle acknowledge where he got the names for his characters? Different books I've looked at seem to have differing opinions on the origins o...
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Holmesian.net what happened to the Camden House website?  
05:43 23-Jan-08   [Replies: 6, Views: 255]    By: Unnamed
does anybody know what's wrong with the Camden House website? http://camdenhouse.ignisart.com/canon/index.html [http://camdenhouse.ignisart.com/canon/index.html]>...
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Holmesian.net Porlock  
09:14 22-Jan-08   [Replies: 13, Views: 340]    By: Unnamed
Hello All-- Glad to see HN is back! Anyway, I'm just rereading The Valley of Fear and wondering (and I don't know if this has been discussed before): 1. If Porlock is so knowledgeable abou...
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Holmesian.net I'll See You in Hell First!!!!  
13:07 9-Jan-08   [Replies: 7, Views: 434]    By: Unnamed
LOL! I love that line! However, on the flip side I guess I would've been frightened to death that the entire world and it's contents are so fragile that they will soon face utter, ine...
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Holmesian.net Sherlock's birthday!  
14:18 6-Jan-08   [Replies: 38, Views: 1169]    By: Unnamed
Totally forgot that today is supposed to be Sherlock's birthday! Forgot until I read it in the Baker Street blog. Happy birthday Sherlock!...
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KeepTouch WTB-Low Kay Hwa's I believe you...pls  
18:09 2-Jan-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 557]    By: seanw106
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Holmesian.net Italian Stereotyping?  
16:24 2-Jan-08   [Replies: 7, Views: 316]    By: Unnamed
Well, I was watching the 'Nada's "Six Napoleans" and "The Red Circle" this week and it seems like Italians are always portrayed as hard criminals in Holmes' world but t...
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Holmesian.net "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere"  
08:46 1-Jan-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 134]    By: Unnamed
BSI members Scott Monty and Bert Wolder have put together an excellent podcast program about all things related to Sherlock Holmes. You can download the programs to your MP3 player or listen online. G...
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Holmesian.net Other Holmes Stories or Essential Reading? / Baker Street Journal?  
00:34 29-Dec-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 262]    By: Unnamed
Greetings, this is my first post. This seems to be an amazing website; thanks for taking me in. I'm a very big Sherlock Holmes fan and have read everything in the canon. My question: With so muc...
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Holmesian.net So Like, Just Imagine  
16:26 28-Dec-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 181]    By: Unnamed
....you were in the shoes of those who are awaiting their "hanging job" but may have done nothing wrong yet the inspectors of "Craftsman Yard"(because they're full of "too...
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Holmesian.net The Engineer's Thumb  
07:54 26-Dec-07   [Replies: 13, Views: 357]    By: Unnamed
"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" was first published in the Strand Magazine on March 1892, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget. now my questions: 1. QUOTE...
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Holmesian.net Illustrations From Late 1970s Chinese Edition SH Books  
21:47 25-Dec-07   [Replies: 6, Views: 271]    By: Unnamed
There were many of them. But I only got to collect 17 of them. But anyway, hope you guys like them:) Slideshow [http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/clapham_jb/Chinese%20SH%20Illustrations/?album...
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Holmesian.net Inverness Cape??  
21:18 19-Dec-07   [Replies: 15, Views: 479]    By: Unnamed
Is it in the Canon? I can't remember reading about it in the few "Adventures/Returns" stories I read as a kid or maybe I can't recall it's been over 10 years since I've picke...
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Holmesian.net The giant rat of Sumatra...  
10:23 19-Dec-07   [Replies: 5, Views: 158]    By: Unnamed
Found this *hilarious* blog entry in Scott Monty's Baker Street Blog this morning... http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2007/12/gia...matra-suss.html [http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2007/12/giant-rat-...
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The Infinity Program Quote the book you are reading  
06:19 17-Dec-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 35]    By: Unnamed
Share passages you like from the book you're currently reading, and give your thoughts on them. I have been reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. I find it a little hard to foll...
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The Infinity Program Books that seem to have much changed as you've aged  
06:19 17-Dec-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 45]    By: Unnamed
So we've had a topic asking what books changed your life, but what about books that you read over after aging several years, and have come to see in a very different light? Perhaps you loved a certain...
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The Infinity Program "Scary" stories to recommend—maybe about vampires?  
06:19 17-Dec-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 37]    By: Unnamed
Anyone read a "scary" or "horror" story (whether a novel, short story, comic, or even poem) he was so impressed by that he would recommend it to me? Along those lines, anyone know ...
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The Infinity Program Literature Classes—why so serious?  
06:19 17-Dec-07   [Replies: 6, Views: 67]    By: Unnamed
As a high school student, I had literature class for all four years. Elementary knowledge of the mandatory school subjects should be quite important, sure: HS-level math for the sciences, and to study...
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Holmesian.net A Virtual Tour of 221B Baker Street  
08:02 9-Dec-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 206]    By: Unnamed
A Virtual Tour of 221B Baker Street http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fmw3/ [http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fmw3/]>...
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The Infinity Program The Birth of Tragedy  
15:27 5-Dec-07   [Replies: 0, Views: 51]    By: Unnamed
The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche's first significant work. It was so overwhelmingly unpopular that it destroyed his reputation as a scholar and discouraged many students from enrolling in his classe...
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Holmesian.net Vintage Holmes editions...  
16:39 3-Dec-07   [Replies: 4, Views: 103]    By: Unnamed
I know we have a thread on which editions of the Canon we own, but I recently acquired a lovely vintage Sign of Four and I'm curious about it...so I decided to start a new topic. Hope I'm not...
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KeepTouch book swap  
16:28 3-Dec-07   [Replies: 3, Views: 501]    By: Unnamed
stumbled upon this cool website that allows you to earn credits by giving/sending books to redeem for books you wan internationally. http://bookmooch.com/ [http://bookmooch.com/]> those wh...
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The Infinity Program Novels' or comics' sci-fi or fantasy worlds you'd live in  
01:50 3-Dec-07   [Replies: 27, Views: 294]    By: Unnamed
There are a plethora of sci-fi or fantasy worlds depicted in novels and comics. Which ones would you have a lukewarm or passionate interest in living in, or would live in if you had to choose one? ...
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The Infinity Program Future historians—and the biography  
13:34 2-Dec-07   [Replies: 1, Views: 64]    By: Unnamed
Reading Everitt's Augustus and Goodwin's Team of Rivals, it has frequently occurred to me that biographies owe greatly, in intimacy and depth, to the wealth of letters by and to, and about the book's ...
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The Infinity Program Book characters that differ greatly from film version  
13:34 2-Dec-07   [Replies: 2, Views: 89]    By: Unnamed
In other words, a character that is very different from the "major commercial version." If you're going to name a character, please make your post meaningful by explaining how this character...
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