I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 205: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span>"What sort of a game is that—eh?" [DYIN]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj635J0V9gFL2U2YJEHjoj7UDyfLVT22_IzD5uJx2Ny-rmEKnm7MFqhyphenhyphenP7m0L00sS-yMAUKk0Ztp7QUTjkcRUZ4BRMfumTiVaYP6jCW08MV1iUSLsqI7hS8nIa2QMUrwBFhQM1tUQh5n_Oc/s1500/ihearofsherlock205-header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1500" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj635J0V9gFL2U2YJEHjoj7UDyfLVT22_IzD5uJx2Ny-rmEKnm7MFqhyphenhyphenP7m0L00sS-yMAUKk0Ztp7QUTjkcRUZ4BRMfumTiVaYP6jCW08MV1iUSLsqI7hS8nIa2QMUrwBFhQM1tUQh5n_Oc/w640-h426/ihearofsherlock205-header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>While it's customary for us to utter "the game's afoot!" at the end of each episode, in this case it's more appropriate to say it as we commence.</p><p>We're joined by Dave Neale, researcher in play and psychology, writer and game designer. Dave is responsible for the the game <b><i>Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars</i></b>.</p><p>In our wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the series of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective games, how one goes about creating a game, the difference between playing games as a child and as an adult, the common psychology behind storytelling and game design, and much more.</p><p>We have a special announcement about our Patreon/Paypal supporter community and we discuss what's ahead.</p><p>You'll want to see if you can test your knowledge with the <b>Canonical Couplet</b>: we give you two lines of poetry that describe one of stories, and you name it. The winner will receive a copy of the game <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3mtBoP6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Baker Street Irregulars</a></i>. Entries are due by 11:59 pm EDT on December 14, 2020.</p><p><br /></p><p><script type="text/javascript">
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Episode 205: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

"What sort of a game is that—eh?" [DYIN] While it's customary for us to utter "the game's afoot!" at the end...

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Baker Street Elementary – Oh, You'd Better Watch Out...

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span>"</span>If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest" [VEIL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqJarhfMyLtpaqe16YM8XTc3gFiKNyr29YXNO4icYiBqZB9TQT9e87s3kmAAAxd_KvnGWrGoR38AxKdINLT28ZpWjCpN9Q5xZzFvvXYXr9suhkpTnrp9gpa5EU3Pi30fw3scN9cYdSxO-/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+94.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqJarhfMyLtpaqe16YM8XTc3gFiKNyr29YXNO4icYiBqZB9TQT9e87s3kmAAAxd_KvnGWrGoR38AxKdINLT28ZpWjCpN9Q5xZzFvvXYXr9suhkpTnrp9gpa5EU3Pi30fw3scN9cYdSxO-/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+94.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br />In "The Sussex Vampire," we get a clear glimpse of Sherlock Holmes's attitude toward the supernatural:</div><div><blockquote><div>"This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply."</div></blockquote></div><div>In <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>, after hearing Dr. Mortimer recount the legend of the hound, Holmes clearly doubted the :<br /><div></div></div><blockquote><div><div>“Do you not find it interesting?”</div><div>“To a collector of fairy tales.”</div></div><div></div></blockquote><div>So it's fascinating that we see him showing so much interest in the well-being of Mrs. Ronder in "The Veiled Lodger," who showed some signs of taking her own life. Holmes warned her “Your life is not your own,” and to “Keep [her] hands off of it.”</div><div><br /></div><div>For all of his non-belief in the supernatural, Sherlock Holmes seemed more than willing to put his belief in the spiritual, as he remarked:</div><div><blockquote><div>“If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Holmes seemingly could put his trust in God, but had no patience for the fanciful. Perhaps this is part of his highly tuned sense of justice that he himself administered many times.</div><div><br /></div>It's not at all unlikely that he attained some degree of faith after having spent a hard childhood at Baker Street Elementary...<div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IDaAs8oe87NXUTGQMNAL37JUDGLAfh9cLUJ8hkp-8MnvcywcXl3ETL1DLc8xO3eGWmkTTqMK0MaD6ufxjMKTnYAteLKqISElLHhhTIbbvdUdcF0wrr4zOME_Z0LTt2UTmCNHoisaMQCk/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+94.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IDaAs8oe87NXUTGQMNAL37JUDGLAfh9cLUJ8hkp-8MnvcywcXl3ETL1DLc8xO3eGWmkTTqMK0MaD6ufxjMKTnYAteLKqISElLHhhTIbbvdUdcF0wrr4zOME_Z0LTt2UTmCNHoisaMQCk/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+94.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div><div><br /></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Oh, You'd Better Watch Out...

" If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest" [VEIL] In "The Sussex Vampire," we get a...

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Episode 204: Frederic Dorr Steele

<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="text-align: center;">"</b><b>striking illustration of those powers </b><b>for which my friend was famous</b><b>" [SOLI] </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrZuxnFFSdFNk_w9t6vOTFYNYmIvCsazrgtS_vIrPY4H6XL6SrTr-RhOQSLIW-2EaJ3ppzM8dV3DQyjeSQsvE_5SMi4GbruMgEM8DR9doK-cAbBlk6E-78z41d1QZuIltIV8MXt389roU/s1848/ihose204+header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1848" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrZuxnFFSdFNk_w9t6vOTFYNYmIvCsazrgtS_vIrPY4H6XL6SrTr-RhOQSLIW-2EaJ3ppzM8dV3DQyjeSQsvE_5SMi4GbruMgEM8DR9doK-cAbBlk6E-78z41d1QZuIltIV8MXt389roU/w640-h376/ihose204+header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The name Frederic Dorr Steele is legendary among Sherlockians. Even for those who don't know his name, his iconic rendering of Sherlock Holmes (as partly inspired by William Gillette) has left us with distinctive imagery.</p><p>Sadly, Steele was buried in an unmarked grave in his family plot at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, NY. But the Frederic Dorr Steele Memorial Committee was assembled to solve that. Our own Burt Wolder administers the group, and he asked fellow committee members Andrew Malec, BSI ("The Strange Old Book Collector"), Harrison "Terry" Hunt, BSI ("Something Hunt") and Linda Hunt to join us to talk about those efforts as well as the life of artist Frederic Dorr Steele.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">TRIOLET</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">On Frederic Dorr Steele</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>by Bliss Austin</i></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">With joyful skill he breathèd life</div><div style="text-align: center;">Into a name, a street, an age.</div><div style="text-align: center;">With kindness and with humor rife,</div><div style="text-align: center;">With joyful skill he breathèd life</div><div style="text-align: center;">His pen outdid Pygmalion’s knife</div><div style="text-align: center;">In quickening the inkèd page</div><div style="text-align: center;">With joyful skill he breathèd life</div><div style="text-align: center;">Into a name, a street, an age.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">(From <i>The Baker Street Journal</i>, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1946)</p><p style="text-align: left;">You'll want to see if you can test your knowledge with the <b>Canonical Couplet</b>: we give you two lines of poetry that describe one of stories, and you name it. 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Episode 204: Frederic Dorr Steele

" striking illustration of those powers for which my friend was famous " [SOLI] The name Frederic Dorr Steele is legendary amo...

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Baker Street Elementary – The Whole Tooth

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">"Holmes smiled and rubbed his hands" [WIST] </span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD5RYBcSW7DQnQ9iy8cPQMsJ_-OvLTRn6LEgS1Qn8UmxJaoxs2_vs0yxxEW2cbJqwh3x7YlFV9TxxPpc7ECSGs72INTtkbZK4RGD8dKu6g403i8oPG05MT5n3z5EU1a40wvyEXJtZu7y8r/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD5RYBcSW7DQnQ9iy8cPQMsJ_-OvLTRn6LEgS1Qn8UmxJaoxs2_vs0yxxEW2cbJqwh3x7YlFV9TxxPpc7ECSGs72INTtkbZK4RGD8dKu6g403i8oPG05MT5n3z5EU1a40wvyEXJtZu7y8r/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Sherlock Holmes was no stranger to the dentist's chair.</div><div><br /></div><div>He was able to draw inferences by observing teeth. He lamented that the great unobservant public "could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth," indicating that he of course could. In "The Stockbroker's Clerk," he observed the tooth stuffed badly with gold in both of the Pinner "brothers" that gave away the ruse.</div><div><br /></div><div>Holmes was careful about dental hygiene: as he and Watson prepared for an overnight visit at Stoke Moran in "The Speckled Band," he suggested Watson bring his revolver. "That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need."</div><div><br /></div><div>And of course, he must have visited a dentist after his altercation with Matthews, "who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross." That would have been some years before Holmes's 1891 confrontation with Professor Moriarty, as the reference was in Holmes's index in "The Empty House," after his return to London.</div><div><br /></div><div>The visit to the dentist that Matthews caused likely resulted in the dentist taking an impression of Holmes's mouth in order to reset the tooth or replace it with an apparatus. While Holmes was in the chair, he must have remarked on the quickness of the setting of the preparation and immediately determined that he could apply it to his own work.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Recall in <i>The Sign of Four</i> (dated by chronologists as taking place in 1888), he demonstrated his familiarity with casts of footprints:</div><blockquote><div>"Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses."</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>It's quite likely that Holmes got the dentist's formulation and adapted it for his own purposes. However, there's no indication that Holmes considered teeth as unique as footprints or fingerprints in his practice though. Had he done so, his work on "The Norwood Builder" would have been more conclusive, as there would have been distinctive human teeth left behind in the ashes.</div><div><br /></div>Meanwhile, at Baker Street Elementary, there's another impression that's been left regarding teeth...<div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRjq3_wya95Cb-tPfsvZfn-kpV-fzcMp6e3QBzsOMYNQoEfKHMhyphenhyphenFZVNkWXXu6HseNgL5wg-VhRWZ4rnVi2zria8WLP8mjqo2gQXi-mXIsYw2fItqHz1el3SOqi-mwdP5ucAczH33MZp3/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRjq3_wya95Cb-tPfsvZfn-kpV-fzcMp6e3QBzsOMYNQoEfKHMhyphenhyphenFZVNkWXXu6HseNgL5wg-VhRWZ4rnVi2zria8WLP8mjqo2gQXi-mXIsYw2fItqHz1el3SOqi-mwdP5ucAczH33MZp3/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aYh57xSHJhoirwjspRGMROujIuovm0TONxun9VV9pmamVnshY55x8mn3CXPTVeH3UAMkMxEuwwgVvzrZ-uF8fb3KlsIfi1Ojb-obERvK5_RWR7D9Xf0ypVt0Q0-PkCdEV4Mk9VEokgxh/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aYh57xSHJhoirwjspRGMROujIuovm0TONxun9VV9pmamVnshY55x8mn3CXPTVeH3UAMkMxEuwwgVvzrZ-uF8fb3KlsIfi1Ojb-obERvK5_RWR7D9Xf0ypVt0Q0-PkCdEV4Mk9VEokgxh/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYAjwfruvN3IzAobnBrqaO6ryUdj4bJ9pfRPJh0ycvY_wnacjtmjMUXHw2RwRx9W6FmJ0TbYYEgfy2DTc5zfnD1M7xycyjw2kjQkDFbvuLsdWGQBKnE4eIoXmFcR92tw5yO8Il-yinzY7/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlYAjwfruvN3IzAobnBrqaO6ryUdj4bJ9pfRPJh0ycvY_wnacjtmjMUXHw2RwRx9W6FmJ0TbYYEgfy2DTc5zfnD1M7xycyjw2kjQkDFbvuLsdWGQBKnE4eIoXmFcR92tw5yO8Il-yinzY7/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMqF5eSlnL7Z1Lf8eXaNYnl7yWKnMLKUZEPKWwg0ZV6FQOunzffI_UGW3uT10wWr1cGO-tdO9ysaSkdWtT40TQ6yStA0F5RWk_wubbByJ7smjEY_HY46cYa2zzsdYdP9BS5jRkXDG6tQe/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMqF5eSlnL7Z1Lf8eXaNYnl7yWKnMLKUZEPKWwg0ZV6FQOunzffI_UGW3uT10wWr1cGO-tdO9ysaSkdWtT40TQ6yStA0F5RWk_wubbByJ7smjEY_HY46cYa2zzsdYdP9BS5jRkXDG6tQe/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHYXSQB0Tgub4pbHu2LemBEj1ma_J38hIbI_FW5YWjBzY3vBvaYDDroimbcgXQIXmRVGYTgs3F7NStI0quaoGa_ZWQYILRItF-9iCvUVXpwHAAD0Rau1EFKNtWHgt9BaD9X3rACcaE6c7z/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHYXSQB0Tgub4pbHu2LemBEj1ma_J38hIbI_FW5YWjBzY3vBvaYDDroimbcgXQIXmRVGYTgs3F7NStI0quaoGa_ZWQYILRItF-9iCvUVXpwHAAD0Rau1EFKNtWHgt9BaD9X3rACcaE6c7z/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+93.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div>

Baker Street Elementary – The Whole Tooth

"Holmes smiled and rubbed his hands" [WIST] Sherlock Holmes was no stranger to the dentist's chair. He was able to draw inf...

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by Scott Monty

Sahara King’s Sad Reign

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“You used to shoot lions in Algeria.” [MAZA]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAORFXC2_WchD_SqdnG9YpNgcewW0z9pvdyWrrpuEgTreprKgLrY_tdt9aBzkQRLdJ6oz4SbK1K2RPiTAzFrYHYwqDMJqI7_AINzm5kNW5iPepEk15fDjYNolEmXlOltBI4XvtNN4bDwRM/s1000/VEIL+-+FDS+Liberty-magazine-1927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="1000" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAORFXC2_WchD_SqdnG9YpNgcewW0z9pvdyWrrpuEgTreprKgLrY_tdt9aBzkQRLdJ6oz4SbK1K2RPiTAzFrYHYwqDMJqI7_AINzm5kNW5iPepEk15fDjYNolEmXlOltBI4XvtNN4bDwRM/w640-h444/VEIL+-+FDS+Liberty-magazine-1927.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">

</p><p class="MsoNormal">An <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/2-rare-barbary-lions-born-at-zoo-in-czech-republic/2019/07/08/23a21fdc-a1a2-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html">Associated Press report</a> from September 10, 2020, noted the
rare birth of three Barbary lion cubs, which are extinct in the wild, in Safari
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Park Dvůr Králové, Czech Republic, which
is the second largest zoo there. It specializes in, and has, Europe’s largest
group of African wildlife and one of its missions is to protect endangered
species. (The park <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/3-rare-barbary-lion-cubs-born-in-czech-zoo-park/2020/09/10/99e7c922-f34e-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html">also reported</a> the birth of one male and one female cub in
2019.) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Barbary lion (<i>Panthera leo leo</i>) is also known as the “Berber
lion”, “Egyptian lion,” “Atlas lion” and, most familiar to Sherlockians, the
“North African lion.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Sahara
King, that “very fine North African lion,” that was used as a red herring in
the Canon’s penultimate tale “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger.”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Leonardo the
strongman conceived the plot to use a club shaped like a lion’s paw to strike
down famed circus owner Ronder to control his much-abused wife Eugenia and her
inherited fortune, leaving the unfortunate caged animal holding the bag. Not
for the first was this specie of feline the tool of base human wants and deeds.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/when-did-the-barbary-lion-really-go-extinct/">Barbary lion’s range</a> was the north and northwestern area of </span>Africa known as the Maghreb through
to Egypt. They had long been regarded one of the largest lion subspecies (with
males weighing between 400-650 lbs [181 to 295 kg] and females 270-400 lbs [120
to 181 kg]), with long dark-haired manes that grew over the shoulders and down
to the belly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">These morphological
features, once thought to be distinct, are being called into question. The
weights estimated by nineteenth century hunters are considered inaccurate and
the signature mane a product of the Atlas Mountains colder climate as other
lion subspecies grow such manes in cooler North American and European zoos. Mitochondrial
DNA research does support a separate genetic identity for Barbary lions,
however.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The lions were
kept, for their supposed unique majesty, by royal African and Egyptian families.
The Romans exported them to the Colosseum where thousands died in gladiatorial
games. They were trafficked all over Europe. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In 1937, <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/barbary-lion-skull-from-the-tower-of-london.html" target="_blank">workmen uncovered twogenetically confirmed North African lion skulls</a>, carbon dated to having lived,
one between</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">1280 and 1385, the
other 1420 and 1480.  </span>High-class Victorian London hotels sometimes had them on
display as well as circuses like Ronder’s. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The year 1896, when "The Veiled Lodger" is stated to have taken place, found one famous Barbary lion, Sultan, living at the London Zoo.* The expansion of the Arab world
shrunk the lion’s habitat greatly and European hunters, such as Count Negretto
Sylvius (of "The Mazarin Stone" fame) finished them off. </p><p class="MsoNormal">At the time of the publication of "The Veiled Lodger," (the
January 22, 1927 edition of <i>Liberty</i> in the US, February 1927 <i>The
Strand</i> in the UK), the last Barbary lion was thought to have been killed by
a hunter in Morocco in 1922. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Yet another death of a hunted lion was reported in
the 1940s and sighting of single or small family groups were reported in
Algeria and Morocco in the 1950s and early 60s. The Barbary lions are reasoned to be extinct
in the wild and of the 100 or so in captivity there is a question of many of the cats'
genetic purity. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/interviews/wildlife-and-biodiversity/-barbary-lion-reintroduction-in-north-africa-is-possible-but-needs-long-term-plans--72961">Down to Earth</a> </i>conducted an interview with Simon Black, a
conservation science lecturer at the University of Kent, UK, about the lion’s
future. “Some existing large tracts of land in north Africa would be suitable
for reintroduction,” he said, “but considerable effort would be needed to
restore sustainable levels of wild prey species (deer, boar, barbary sheep and
gazelle), most of which are endangered species themselves.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Also protective
measures to avoid human-lion conflict, including livestock predation would need
to be implemented.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“Reintroduction is
theoretically possible but would need a sensitive long-term plan and
considerable prior political and community support. Reintroduction of a
predator like lions would have to be part of purposeful, wider landscape
restoration in the region.” </span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">As for Sahara King
himself, not much information is given in the story. Life in captivity has
little positive to speak for it even in more enlightened times. </span>The remains of the
Barbary lions housed in the <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/barbary-lion-skull-from-the-tower-of-london.html">Tower of London</a> show they were not well kept, being malnourished, which lead to skeletal deformities, possible paralysis, blindness and eventual
death. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ronder, Holmes informed Watson, was an alcoholic, “huge bully of a man,
he cursed and slashed at everyone who came in his way.” It is doubtful he
treated his animals any better than he treated his wife or other humans. Sahara King’s
eventual outcome is never stated, but having been framed for Ronder’s death and
for mauling Eugenia, he was no doubt destroyed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To paraphrase Holmes, “Is not
his story a microcosm of the whole” of those large cats that once roamed free the
north of Africa whose lives in the wild came to the end by the hands of humans?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">*<i>Coincidentally, a four year old Barbary lion, also named Sultan, was donated to the newly opened lion house at the Bronx Zoo in 1903. Photos of the Bronx Sultan will often show up in a Google search for the London Sultan.</i><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p>

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Baker Street Elementary – When You Have Eliminated the Plausible

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"he is plausible and cunning" [THOR] </h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLNgkAoigTN8wtn-NVwWyl-J909EWwt_V37fE647grP6YBz6FKwEikVvuEPHHJdOzZ5U0o1XKoBG51OgfsYBkulSzm9EPMmUQVCC11j_z1fOXagCdpZPud0IVwffevT_u78_KoGO5tm3C/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLNgkAoigTN8wtn-NVwWyl-J909EWwt_V37fE647grP6YBz6FKwEikVvuEPHHJdOzZ5U0o1XKoBG51OgfsYBkulSzm9EPMmUQVCC11j_z1fOXagCdpZPud0IVwffevT_u78_KoGO5tm3C/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sherlock Holmes is renowned for his ability to slip in and out of costume, donning disguises that are so effective, they fool even Dr. Watson (but not Irene Adler!).</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the course of his recorded tales, he is an aged seafaring man (SIGN), a groom and a nonconformist clergyman (SCAN), a common loafer (BERY), a registration agent (CROO), an opium addict (TWIS), an Italian priest, an old bookseller (EMPT), a plumber (CHAS), wrought with disease (DYIN), and his ultimate disguise that he donned for a year: Altamont, the Irish-American spy (LAST).</div><div><br /></div><div>You can listen in to a discussion of Holmes's disguises on <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles96" target="_blank">Episode 96</a> of Trifles:</div><div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!3d4d4bc31c9901c283aab2b7e34b9c914177d6d2" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>But Holmes wasn't the only one who was a master of disguise. In the very first story, <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, he was fooled by a young man disguised as an old woman. Beards were used by Stapleton (HOUN) and Bob Carruthers (SOLI) as they made their way around familiar targets.</div><div><br /></div><div>After a night of contemplation and smoking as he sat on his hastily-assembled Eastern divan, he finally deduced the location of Neville St. Claire and the identity of Hugh Boone (TWIS). And Holmes encouraged others to disguise themselves as well: Watson, in a mask (CHAS), Mycroft as a cab driver (FINA), and his housekeeper Martha (LAST). </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://ihose.co/trifles148" target="_blank">Episode 148</a> of Trifles has a discussion of the disguises of other people in the Canon:</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!80ef9ffb09111178cf71b6053347703dc637ba0a" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div>But we're always the most amused when Holmes himself puts his makeup and wardrobe skills to work, as he does this time at Baker Street Elementary, much to the chagrin of those around him...<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwY5_RLl-L_M-DMmfR1fYrl-NldCryIat-QnTF91Z68iSo8OrCr9WVtxVt4yXzm5WJvWlDNhr5IB0MbYysKq95vv7mVRTB1vYX6povI3J8n-G9PPsoJn612HlwvaUasUZmDywvqlI1Y7mm/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwY5_RLl-L_M-DMmfR1fYrl-NldCryIat-QnTF91Z68iSo8OrCr9WVtxVt4yXzm5WJvWlDNhr5IB0MbYysKq95vv7mVRTB1vYX6povI3J8n-G9PPsoJn612HlwvaUasUZmDywvqlI1Y7mm/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLz1IXcUnGHvwtGBKh5qQSKPQjktHXdTsN2RjGJ9J66tj5fm3m4l2v9PSh6gesCrf6AbVLSDEMmPTpz0NpZizOgdGQV98B6EZWzTc1HP30DBJY0GK-n2bnty6_0nFL50YlcD-XBKIxDxcT/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLz1IXcUnGHvwtGBKh5qQSKPQjktHXdTsN2RjGJ9J66tj5fm3m4l2v9PSh6gesCrf6AbVLSDEMmPTpz0NpZizOgdGQV98B6EZWzTc1HP30DBJY0GK-n2bnty6_0nFL50YlcD-XBKIxDxcT/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhij2XONYe70iYM_RrkYcfDm4xk8Gti1PaEZB4sHTRNs2P4DTg2OtFwhLIYaJhIwQjzW0kLzQYPUsT1zQsVTrxofPp4UCyB8dH9EkVrXwWKhjGGRnM9eVgJkPv1SjUtPmfGKOg8MrhMwTzd/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhij2XONYe70iYM_RrkYcfDm4xk8Gti1PaEZB4sHTRNs2P4DTg2OtFwhLIYaJhIwQjzW0kLzQYPUsT1zQsVTrxofPp4UCyB8dH9EkVrXwWKhjGGRnM9eVgJkPv1SjUtPmfGKOg8MrhMwTzd/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyWKYgB9k5PEaW2FMNJFr6aRbILcwy6HwzFRbRbFifrNkBe6nAAL4awbp8L6fu5t00IwG7NwMTQZJAsGK8R2m1Z6aj3cpstnA4PxibU75IKMaaCkWXxlIWEbuehFyXEW7cdkAg9w6ZO4y/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyWKYgB9k5PEaW2FMNJFr6aRbILcwy6HwzFRbRbFifrNkBe6nAAL4awbp8L6fu5t00IwG7NwMTQZJAsGK8R2m1Z6aj3cpstnA4PxibU75IKMaaCkWXxlIWEbuehFyXEW7cdkAg9w6ZO4y/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+92.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div>