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A Map of the Meringen Area

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Michael Meer, BSI ("The Englisher Hof") posted an interesting link to Facebook. It was titled <a href="http://maps.google.ch/maps/ms?hl=de&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=46.728389,8.185973&spn=0.019209,0.055404&t=h&z=15&msid=207422993767587739800.00049d2f97f6f0ec80ae6">Sherlock Holmes in Meiringen</a> and it passed through to a Google Map.<br />
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Meer is part of a group based in Switzerland called <b><a href="http://www.221b.ch/index.html">The Reichenbach Irregulars</a> </b>(a group which now has a place on our "Gathered from Many Nations" section of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/p/resources.html">Resources</a> page above). Michael says the group is resurrecting itself - how appropriate - just as Holmes managed to reappear in "The Empty House" after his encounter with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.<br />
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As one would expect from an Irregular investitured as "The Englisher Hof" and being part of the aforementioned Swiss group, it's not at all unlikely that Meer would have created and shared this excellent Google map. We've embedded it here below for you to see - you can scroll around, zoom in and out, and click on the pins to get more information on some of the sites. These include: the place of the fatal encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty; two commemorative plaques; the statue by John Doubleday; Conan Doyle Place; the Sherlock Holmes Museum; the Englisher Hof; and more.<br />
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Have you made it over to Meiringen, Interlaken or Rosenlaui? We'd love to hear of your travels along these hallowed grounds for Sherlockians.<br />
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Amazon Offers Sherlock Holmes in Streaming Video

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The big news from Amazon is that they have <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/amazon-launches-prime-instant-videos-unlimited-streaming-for-pr/">enabled streaming video for Prime members</a> (available only in the U.S. currently). This means that Netflix now has a competitor in the streaming video-on-demand segment.<br />
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With this service, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fprime%2Fsignup%2Fvideos%3Fie%3DUTF8%26redirectURL%3DL2Iv%25250A%26redirectQueryParams%3Dbm9kZT0yNjE1MjYwMDEx%25250A&tag=thebakerstree-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957"><b>Amazon Prime</b></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> members have the ability to watch unlimited, commercial-free instant streaming of some 5,000 movies and TV shows on your PC, Mac, Internet-enabled television, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/LG-BD570-Network-Blu-ray-Player/dp/B0036WT1RW?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><b>Blu-Ray players</b></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0036WT1RW" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> or set-top boxes.<br />
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Some of the titles that Amazon highlighted with their announcement that might also appeal to our readership include: <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rose/dp/B003LZ5B7S?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=UnboxVideoDownloads&field-keywords=Doctor%20Who%20Season%201" target="_blank"><i>Doctor Who</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003LZ5B7S" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=UnboxVideoDownloads&field-keywords=Fawlty%20Towers" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"><i>Fawlty Towers</i></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial !important; border-width: initial !important;"><b><i><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i> </b></span>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=UnboxVideoDownloads&field-keywords=The%20BBC%20Office" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The BBC <i>Office</i></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial !important; border-width: initial !important;"><b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b></span>. We also spotted <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&search-alias=UnboxVideoDownloads&field-keywords=jeeves%20wooster" target="_blank">Jeeves and Wooster</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></b>. But you're probably interested in another subject.<br />
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To wit, here is a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Damb_link_355368542_2%26rh%3Dn%253A16386761%252Cp_85%253A1%26page%3D1&tag=thebakerstree-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957"><b>list of Sherlock Holmes movies and TV shows available for streaming</b></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=ur2&o=1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />from Amazon. From Wonter to Rathbone, Brett, Downey, Cumberbatch and more (including a few surprises!) you'll have a wide variety to choose from.<br />
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Are you planning on trying this service? What title(s) in the lineup interest you?<br />
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"Answers Which I Gave Him" [SIGN]

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Last week, for Valentine's Day, we<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/02/bruc_14.html#.WVrDkmgrLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> posed a short quiz to test your knowledge</a> on love interests in the Canon. We received a couple of dozen responses, seven of which answered every question correctly. We had hoped that we created a quiz that was at once familiar and easy, but not without a few challenges.<br />
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A couple of the challenges that we threw in included: all three Cushing sisters from "The Cardboard Box," in addition to the surname Tregennis in "The Devil's Foot" we added Tregallis, which was the surname of the gamekeeper in "The Musgrave Ritual." These two questions seemed to throw most of you off.<br />
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In case you're interested in the answers, the key is below.<br />
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<li>Jefferson Hope</li>
<li>Mary Cushing</li>
<li>Jack Crocker</li>
<li>Grace Dunbar</li>
<li>Brenda Tregennis</li>
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We'll be reaching out to our randomly-selected winner so they may select their prize. Thank you for following along with the fun; if you feel the need to bone up on your skills, there's always <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Quiz-Book/dp/0847316785?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Sherlock Holmes Quiz Book</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0847316785" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></b>.<br />
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Happy 221B Day

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As you no doubt have noticed today is 2/21 (as in 221B - get it?). As such, we thought it was an apt time to take a look back at a January 2010 entry in  <i>Smithsonian</i>: "<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Sherlock-Holmes-London.html">Sherlock Holmes' London</a>."<br />
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The piece opens with a description of a 30 year-old Arthur Conan Doyle heading into London from his Southsea home to attend a dinner with the publisher of <i>Lippincott's</i> with none other than Oscar Wilde in attendance. The dinner was auspicious in that it resulted in two commissions: Wilde's <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Picture-Dorian-Gray-Three-Stories/dp/1936594625?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Picture of Dorian Gray</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1936594625" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></b> and Conan Doyle's <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sign-Four-Sherlock-Holmes-Mystery/dp/1451562462?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Sign of Four</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1451562462" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></b>. But for the purpose of the article, it was even more significant that it took place at the Langham Hotel, which itself turned up in no fewer than three Sherlock Holmes stories (Quick! Which three? Comments below, please.).<br />
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The article covers a bit about Conan Doyle's life and the ongoing life that has sprung from his most famous creation, but then also covers another character in his stories - one that plays a constant supporting, if transparent, role: the city itself. Conan Doyle's mastery of the language in order to effectively set the scene is readily observed in this passage from The Sign of Four - that novel born from the very dinner at the Langham:<br />
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It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light, which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light - sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.</blockquote>
And while those ghostly gas-lamps no longer fail at 20 feet, the piece takes us through London past and present, through the Holmes stories and Conan Doyle's life. Naturally, there's a stop at 221B. And even helpful commentary from longtime reader and <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/">Sherlock Holmes Society of London</a> member Roger Johnson. We highly recommend you <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Sherlock-Holmes-London.html">check out the article</a> - especially if you're planning a pilgrimage to London and wish to visit some of the highlights.<br />
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Accompanying <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sherlock-holmes-london-10998186/">the article</a> is a quick video called "The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes," with a look at Holmes of the stage and screen over the years, from Gillette to Norwood, Wontner to Owen, Rathbone to Neville, and Moore, Neville, Plummer, Rowe and Caine and even including Wilder.<br />
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Whew! We're glad they didn't stoop quite so low as <a href="http://www.shadowlocked.com/201102141482/lists/a-study-in-error-the-ten-worst-sherlock-holmes.html">the comprehensiveness of this list</a><a href="http://www.shadowlocked.com/201102141482/lists/a-study-in-error-the-ten-worst-sherlock-holmes.html">, titled "A Study in Errors</a>."<br />
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Do you have a favorite site or a favorite Holmes? Please feel free to share it with us as a comment. And while we have you here, what better way to celebrate this important date than to get yourself your very own 221B oval sticker? For your car, your laptop, your refrigerator - or anywhere you like.<br />
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