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The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes Opens in Denver

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On October 23, the <a href="http://sherlockholmesexhibition.com/" target="_blank">International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes</a> opened at the <a href="http://www.dmns.org/the-international-exhibition-of-sherlock-holmes/" target="_blank">Denver Museum of Nature and Science</a>.  The exhibit is an exceptional recreation of life in Victorian England which includes a recreation of 221B Baker Street, a mystery which you have to solve, a recreation of a crime scene, plus an interesting study of the forensics of the late 19th century. <br />
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We had an opportunity to ask Jodi Schoemer, director of exhibits and digital media, about the display. She said:<br />
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"The techniques the Sherlock Holmes character uses are exactly what scientists use:  observation, knowledge of different science disciplines (chemistry, forensics, medicine, etc.), deductive and inductive reasoning, rigorous experimentation, and drawing conclusions based on observation, objects, and data. This exhibition not only celebrates those techniques, but gives our guests the chance to practice all those skills themselves while in the exhibition.  Sherlock Holmes is one of the greatest popularizer of science techniques of all times, and as a science and nature museum, we think that is a great fit."</blockquote>
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One begins the exhibit in The World of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  When you enter this first room, you are greeted by a video message from Richard Doyle, the grand nephew of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, welcoming you to the exhibit and explaining  the exhibit features.  In this room, you learn about the influences on Doyle's life that led to the creation of Sherlock Holmes.  Artifacts in this room include an original Beecher's Christmas Annual which contains the first publication of a Sherlock Holmes story in <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="1599866749" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="67b5fb1af2818bb9f51830a592eb4e81" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="A Study in Scarlet" href="http://www.amazon.com/Study-Scarlet-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/1599866749/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=67b5fb1af2818bb9f51830a592eb4e81&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_1140397" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Study in Scarlet</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_1140397" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=67b5fb1af2818bb9f51830a592eb4e81&_cb=1446912232524" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>.  It is interesting to note that only 11 copies of this magazine exist in the world.  There are also original pages from Doyle's <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="0486282147" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="7fed9885d3c59fc06c35dbb8f19a1122" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="The Hound of the Baskervilles" href="http://www.amazon.com/Hound-Baskervilles-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486282147/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=7fed9885d3c59fc06c35dbb8f19a1122&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_236223" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_236223" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=7fed9885d3c59fc06c35dbb8f19a1122&_cb=1446912260900" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i> manuscript including handwritten notes from the author in the margins.  You also get to know Dr. Joseph Bell, the model for Holmes's deductive reasoning skills, Edgar Allan Poe and his detective Dupin, and some of the crime literature of the time period such as <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="1484095960" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="3e0c402fc82c4296e8571d32b3692dc9" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="The Mystery of the Hansom Cab" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mystery-Hansom-Fergus-Hume/dp/1484095960/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=3e0c402fc82c4296e8571d32b3692dc9&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_9109033" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mystery of a Hansom Cab</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_9109033" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=3e0c402fc82c4296e8571d32b3692dc9&_cb=1446912287349" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i> which Doyle derisively called, "a swindle."<br />
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The second room of the exhibition is where the science of Sherlock Holmes becomes front and center. This room is a recreation of a Victorian train station and contains various "shops" where you can learn about the ballistics, entomology, photography, optics, and cosmetics of the time period.  Here is where each museum guest receives their detective's notebook, and one uses that notebook for the remainder of the exhibit to help solve a mystery. In this room, one gets to track the trajectory of a bullet, discover that perfume in the time period often contained highly toxic substances, and discover the strict requirements to become a constable at Scotland Yard.<br />
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Once you leave the train station you enter the gem of the show, a recreation of 221B Baker Street. This is a wonderful recreation of Holmes's sitting room, and I probably would have spent hours just going through every piece of the display if I wasn't moving along with the flow of the crowd to the remainder of the exhibit.  In my brief time in the room, I noticed the wax bust of Holmes with the bullet hole in the forehead, the bearskin rug upon the floor, the whaling harpoon, the riding crop, the photograph of "<i>the</i> woman," and even an open container of syringes.  Any Holmes fan <b>must</b> see this room! <br />
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At the very end of the 221B room is the beginning of the mystery.  Holmes requires your assistance, you learn via a Victrola recording. There has been a disturbance at the home of  American newspaperman Izzy Persano. When the police arrived at Persano's home, they found a scene of chaos. A bullet hole was in the wall, a destroyed bust of Napoleon on the floor, drag marks in the sand outside the home as if a body (or bodies) were dragged away. Persano's wife and daughter were nowhere to be found, and Persano himself was found with a head wound, raving incoherently about a worm. There was a seedpod discovered that was in the shape of a worm, but Persano could not indicate if he was referring to the seedpod or something else. It is up to you to go through the crime scene and solve this baffling case. Of course, readers of Sherlock Holmes will note that this is one of the untold tales from the canon, the case of Isadora Persano "<i>the well-known journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a matchbox in front of him which contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science</i>," as mentioned in the "The Problem of Thor Bridge." <br />
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Next up is the actual crime scene.  Here, one gets to study the the Persano home, check the bullet's trajectory, check the worm-shaped seed pod, and note the pattern of the blood splatter upon the painting on the wall. This then leads to one of the most enjoyable parts of the exhibit, the solving of the mystery by going to another set of shops and stations. In the butcher shop, for example, you study various types of blood splatters to discover what led to the pattern of blood discovered on the wall.  In "The Bank of the Thames" evidence checking station, you use a wheel device with different types of shoes to discover how the tracks were made in the sand.  There is also a penny arcade and a conservatory where one tests evidence. Visitors collect data in their notebooks, draw conclusions, then test their theories at the room's exit. <br />
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After exiting, one comes to the shed where an actor in Victorian costume tells you his theory of what happened at Persano's home. This actor was playing a medicine salesman and his answer had to do with poison. I won't give away the actual reveal, but I will say that it is tough to figure out — near impossible actually — and I found the answer one of the few letdowns of the exhibit. I suppose if Watson's voice were explaining the revelation, it probably would have been much more satisfying. On an interesting note, the mystery was created with the collaboration of Sherlockian scholar <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daniel Stahower, BSI ("Thurston")</a>.<br />
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The very last part of the exhibit makes up for the reveal.  This is the Sherlock Pop Culture room, with artifacts from advertisements, films, games, shows, and other types of pop culture all featuring Sherlock Holmes.  There are some wonderful artifacts from Sherlock, the two recent Sherlock Holmes films, and the show <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B00CL151G4" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="7132eff55a8a32b0d072047741644383" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Elementary" href="http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Season-Jonny-Lee-Miller/dp/B00CL151G4/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=7132eff55a8a32b0d072047741644383&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_3292454" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elementary</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_3292454" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=7132eff55a8a32b0d072047741644383&_cb=1446912815121" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>.  I enjoyed seeing the Woodstock (from Peanuts) Sherlock Holmes stuffed animal as well as some of the funny advertisements from the 1960s and 70s. <br />
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Overall, this exhibit is a dream come true for any fan of Sherlock Holmes, science, and Victorian culture. Don't miss it!<br />
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The exhibit runs in Denver from October, 23rd, 2015 - January, 31, 2016.  For more information visit the <a href="http://www.dmns.org/the-international-exhibition-of-sherlock-holmes/" target="_blank">Denver Museum of Nature and Science</a> website. <br />
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The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes Opens in Denver

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His Last Bow — The Power of Women

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Name two things mentioned in the story "His Last Bow" that wouldn't be there without the achievements of a couple of women most people have never heard of.<br />
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Both back-stories emerge from some research I've been doing (for which, as they say, the world is not yet prepared) about interesting figures of Holmes's era. And let no one think that all the women of that period were either quiet wives, bland royalty, or greedy courtesans. Here, based on that one short story, are two remarkable examples. Both, interestingly, date from the year 1886.<br />
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First, then, the "huge 100-horse-power Benz car" belonging to Baron Von Herling, the secretary of the German legation in London. This vehicle, in 1914, might have been one of the new six-cylinder models, or one of almost two dozen four-cylinder cars the Benz company had produced by that time. Karl Benz (1844-1929) is generally recognized as the inventor of the petroleum-powered automobile, receiving a patent in 1886 for a workable three-wheeled design. <br />
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But the prototype might never have become a marketable car if it were not for the woman. In this case the woman is Bertha Ringer (1849-1944), who had saved Benz's machine shop from bankruptcy with the help of money from her family while she was still his fiancée. They married in 1872, and she continued to be a loyal supporter of his work over the years.<br />
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When Karl Benz completed and patented his car in 1886, he had given no thought to publicity and sales. It was Bertha who realized that buyers would not come unless they had a chance to hear about the car and see that it worked. So one morning, without telling her husband, she bundled her teenage sons into the one-and-only Benz car and took off to visit her mother. She sent a telegram to Karl to let him know of her safe arrival at Pforzheim, 65 miles from home in Mannheim. On the way she had to buy fuel from a pharmacy, get a chain mended by a blacksmith, and have leather pads fastened in place to smooth the action of the brakes — in other words, she invented brake linings. And 28 years later, Baron Von Herling was a satisfied customer of Benz thanks to her pioneering effort at marketing.<br />
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The other item in "His Last Bow" that could hardly exist without a woman's work is Sherlock Holmes's own alleged book, the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days: <i>Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen</i>. Perhaps Holmes really did write a volume on beekeeping — perhaps. Or perhaps what he jestingly showed off to Watson was the definitive book on that topic, published in 1886 under the catchy title <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-About-Bees-Principles-Bee-Keeping/dp/1330730836/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=32433db049441b050a7e19ca157b5578&linkCode=ktl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>A Book about Bees:</i> </a><i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="1330730836" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="32433db049441b050a7e19ca157b5578" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Their History, Habits, and Instincts; Together with the First Principles of Modern Bee-Keeping" href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-About-Bees-Principles-Bee-Keeping/dp/1330730836/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=32433db049441b050a7e19ca157b5578&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_404992" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Their History, Habits, and Instincts; Together with the First Principles of Modern Bee-Keeping</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_404992" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=32433db049441b050a7e19ca157b5578&_cb=1446786029409" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>.<br />
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If Holmes did keep bees, he surely had this volume near at hand. Written by the Rev. F. G. Jenyns, it was "published at the request, and under the sanction, of the British Bee-Keepers' Association", and came with an introduction written by the long-time president of that association, Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906).<br />
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She was a granddaughter of Thomas Coutts, the millionaire banker, and spent her life giving much of her inherited wealth to charity, including a home for women escaping "a life of immorality", church schools, projects to relieve suffering in Africa and Borneo, and social housing. The Bee-Keepers' Association was only one of her enthusiasms; she also served as president of the British Goat Society and was a founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She also paid for Edinburgh's landmark fountain and statue of the dog Greyfriars Bobby. <br />
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In 1871 she was made a baroness, becoming the first woman in modern times to receive a peerage in her own right, becoming  Baroness Burdett-Coutts. And at age 67 she married William Bartlett, her American-born secretary, who was 29.<br />
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Two women with remarkable achievements, both of them reflected in a single tale of Sherlock Holmes. Who knew?<br />
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His Last Bow — The Power of Women

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Remembering Our Very First Time

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Early November marks an exciting time in our own Sherlockian calendar. This is historically the time of year that we find out about the specifics of the Baker Street Irregulars Weekend.</div>
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The annual gathering in New York City happens every January (as it has for over 70 years), with Sherlock Holmes devotees assembling from all over the world. The Weekend — and really, it's more than a weekend, with events starting as early as Wednesday — is open to all interested Sherlockians and is something of a movable feast as attendees east and drink their way through New York. We'll be updating <a href="http://bsiweekend.com/" target="_blank">the BSI Weekend website</a> soon with all of the official information and reservation forms, so stay tuned for that.</div>
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While the BSI Dinner is still an invitation-only affair, the rest of the weekend is as inclusive an event as anyone can imagine. Whether you're attending for the first time or the 51st time, you're greeted with open arms and plentiful introductions to other like-minded individuals. </div>
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We've heard many fellow Sherlockians say that to them, the BSI Weekend is something of a second Christmas. The prospect of connecting and reconnecting with so many friends from cities and years past, as well as from online interactions, is really what our little hobby is all about.</div>
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So we hope you'll indulge us this personal memory of the very first BSI Dinner invitation we received from Tom Stix, "Wiggins" of the BSI at the time. It arrived exactly 20 years ago today and our excitement is still just as strong today as it was then.</div>
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Remembering Our Very First Time

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Rather than relying on the limited knowledge and taste of Burt and Scott, we thought we'd throw the doors open to you, dear reader, and get your suggestions for Sherlockian gifts this year. Embedded below you'll find a form to submit your ideas for books, videos, ephemera, etc. of what you'd like to see appear in your Persian slipper.<br />
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