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We're preparing to record Episode 96 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, which will air on May 15. Spring is definitely in the air, and Scott and Burt have recently returned from some travel that included Sherlockian destinations and activities.<br />
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Our Mental Exaltation quiz on Episode 96 will be vernal in nature, so hop to it!<br />
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If you'd like to enter, you <b>must</b> subscribe to I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere by email.<br />
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We'll either have a guest play on your behalf or we'll patch you into the show to have you play over the phone or Skype.<br />
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If you or your player succeed in passing the test, you'll win a random item from our I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Grab-Bag of Goodies (that's the IHOSE GBG).<br />
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Qualify for the Quiz on IHOSE #96

"His springy step never slowed" [SOLI] We're preparing to record Episode 96 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, which wi...

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Special Discount for IHOSE Readers

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As you know, <a href="http://bsiweekend.com/">the Baker Street Irregulars weekend</a> is the major annual Sherlockian event about which we get fairly excited. But there's another annual gathering that, while it may not be as extensive, is worthy of your attention.<br />
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<a href="http://www.scintillation.org/">A Scintillation of Scions</a> is an annual symposium held in Maryland that is a wonderful combination of scholarship, fun, silliness and friendship. There's always plenty of merchandise to shop, a banquet, and even a charitable element. It is everything that we believe being a Sherlockian is all about.<br />
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If you'd like to read about what it was like to attend the latest Scintillation, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/07/heres-how-scintillation-of-scions-viii.html#.VyyHePkrLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">we have a write-up from one of our own contributors</a> who was there.<br />
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The event is now in its ninth year, and will be held from <b>June 10-11, 2016</b> at the <b>Sheraton/BWI Airport Hotel</b>. And we here at I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere are pleased to offer a discount to our readership.<br />
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Head over to the <a href="http://www.scintillation.org/" target="_blank">Scintillation of Scions website</a> at <a href="http://www.scintillation.org/">www.scintillation.org</a> or to their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/222656314762248/" target="_blank">Facebook event</a> for full information, including speakers, agenda, amenities, lodging and more. When you <a href="http://www.scintillation.org/registration.html" target="_blank">register</a> there, just give them this code to receive 10% off of the registration and banquet pricing:<br />
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While this offer is good for readers of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, you may pass this article along to others if you'd like to encourage them to go as well. Remember: just mention <b>IHOSE10</b> and you'll have the benefit of a discount to one of the best Sherlockian events of the year.<br />
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We guarantee you won't regret your decision to go do this fun and exhilarating annual event. Plus, you'll be in a better position to prepare for their 10th anniversary in 2017.<br />
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Episode 95: A Curious Collection of Dates

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You've probably heard us extolling the virtues of <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/curiouscollection.html">A Curious Collection of Dates: Sherlock Holmes Through the Year</a></i> on previous shows. We're big fans of this book. But after this episode, you'll understand why we're also fans of the authors.<br />
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Leah Guinn and Jaime N. Mahoney join us to give us the backstory on what it was like to develop the concept and bring this reference tome to life, including their decision to go with a premier publisher like Wessex Press, where their book wouldn't languish and become a remainder.<br />
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In our interview with Leah and Jaime, we uncovered their major source for dates — none other than William Baring-Gould's chronology from <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="0517502917" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="9930f0880f58e89d3879500be3718f89" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="The Annotated Sherlock Holmes" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Fifty-Six/dp/0517502917/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=9930f0880f58e89d3879500be3718f89&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_581327" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_581327" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=9930f0880f58e89d3879500be3718f89&_cb=1461999361048" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>, backed by <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B000M0B8JU" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="60e67ab26764cbcd0ef026544ffc736b" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="Ernest Zeisler's" href="http://www.amazon.com/Street-Chronology-Comments-Sacred-Writings/dp/B000M0B8JU/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=60e67ab26764cbcd0ef026544ffc736b&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_9038181" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ernest Zeisler's</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_9038181" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=60e67ab26764cbcd0ef026544ffc736b&_cb=1461999370738" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" />impressive chronology, <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B00VMT2J3E" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="3d1e9aa2f37f6f086de3643de91c9cfd" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="martin dakin" href="http://www.amazon.com/SHERLOCK-HOLMES-COMMENTARY-Martin-Dakin-ebook/dp/B00VMT2J3E/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=3d1e9aa2f37f6f086de3643de91c9cfd&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_531412" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Martin Dakin's</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_531412" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=3d1e9aa2f37f6f086de3643de91c9cfd&_cb=1461999410314" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /> and others as needed, not to mention online sources such as the <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a>, Wikipedia and Ancestry.com.<br />
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We also enticed Leah and Jaime to share their favorite entries with us. And rather than giving us the typical "I love all my children the same" response of creators, they actually spilled the beans. But you'll have to listen to find out exactly what they responded with.<br />
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You can find Leah at <a href="http://commonplacecrime.com/">Commonplace Crime</a>, <a href="https://wellreadsherlockian.com/">The Well-Read Sherlockian</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Well-Read-Sherlockian-294187613961282/?fref=ts">The Well-Read Sherlockian Facebook page</a>; find Jaime at <a href="http://betterholmesandgardens.blogspot.com/">Better Holmes and Gardens</a> and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BetterHolmesandGardens/?fref=ts">Better Holmes and Gardens Facebook page</a>.<br />
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1:50 Welcome<br />
3:35 Sponsor #1 - the Baker Street Journal<br />
5:18 Burt's first Sherlockian newsletter<br />
7:43 Welcome Leah and Jaime<br />
13:47 Competing Sherlockian blogs<br />
16:07 How the book came to be<br />
18:18 Pulling the entries together<br />
20:21 Sponsor #2 - Amanda Lester, Detective<br />
23:33 How they balanced length and frequency of entries<br />
26:14 Source material<br />
30:32 Leah and Jaime disclose their favorite entries in the book<br />
37:07 The April 30 entry from <i>A Curious Collection of Dates</i><br />
38:57 Is this the first book for either author?<br />
44:16 Sponsor #3 - Wessex Press<br />
47:26 Sherlock Holmes Brand spot<br />
48:25 Jump on the Patreon bandwagon!<br />
49:57 Make suggestions for our 100th episode<br />
52:10 Downton Abbey spoof<br />
55:26 Leave us a review/rating and closing comments<br />
58:40 Easter egg<br />
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Episode 95: A Curious Collection of Dates

"It is a curious collection." [MUSG] You've probably heard us extolling the virtues of A Curious Collection of D...

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Arthur Conan Doyle 100 Years Ago

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We have no Sherlockian centenaries in 2016 — well, that's not true, since we've just been celebrating the film starring William Gillette as Holmes, which was <a href="http://ihose.co/1916film" target="_blank">produced by Essanay in 1916</a>, but no centenaries of actual Sherlock Holmes stories, anyway. After <i>The Valley of Fear</i>, serialized in 1914-15, there would be no more Canonical tales until 1917. <br /><br />Arthur Conan Doyle was busy with other matters, chiefly in writing about the First World War. The only fiction he published during 1916 was "The Prisoner's Defence," a brief love story with a war background. His writings in magazines and newspapers that year were about air raids, the killing of civilians in battle zones, and body armor — and, towards the end of the year, the doctrine of Spiritualism, as he at last declared himself a believer.<br /><br />April 2016 does mark the centenary of a very important work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Battle of Mons," appearing in the <i>Strand</i> magazine, the first installment of what would eventually be a six-volume history, <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="1783946253" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="bc516fb39cd4b5b673ca5d6fbf09002d" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="The British Campaign in France and Flanders" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-British-Campaign-France-Flanders/dp/1783946253/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=bc516fb39cd4b5b673ca5d6fbf09002d&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_7745384" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The British Campaign in France and Flanders</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_7745384" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=bc516fb39cd4b5b673ca5d6fbf09002d&_cb=1461526761553" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>. The Battle of Mons had been fought in August 1914, barely two weeks after the first British troops landed in Europe at the war's beginning. It ended in a massive British retreat, a traumatic experience that helped create the enduring legend of "the angels of Mons," who guided lost soldiers to safety. Ironically, the angels were themselves fiction, created in a short story by Arthur Machen, and thus are not mentioned in Conan Doyle's historical work.<br /><br />In May 1916, Conan Doyle headed for Europe himself, invited to see the action at close range in order to write war propaganda and history more convincingly. His tour of the action in France and Italy lasted about a month and led to the short book <i><a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B00847U3CG" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="2596cd8b6d663328354b6afa2b5ff673" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="A Visit to Three Fronts" href="http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Three-Fronts-June-1916-ebook/dp/B00847U3CG/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=2596cd8b6d663328354b6afa2b5ff673&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_1866739" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Visit to Three Fronts</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_1866739" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=2596cd8b6d663328354b6afa2b5ff673&_cb=1461526746362" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /></i>, published in August.<br /><br />In that reminiscence, he speaks of visiting the French army's headquarters at Montreuil and meeting General Georges Louis Humbert. "He fires his remarks like pistol shots at this man or that," Doyle wrote. <div>
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"Once to my horror he fixed me with his hard little eyes and demanded 'Sherlock Holmes, <i>est ce qu'il est un soldat dans l'armée Anglaise</i>?' ['Is he a soldier in the English army?'] The whole table waited in an awful hush. '<i>Mais, mon general</i>,' I stammered, '<i>Il est trop vieux pour service</i>.' ['General, he is too old for service.'] There was general laughter, and I felt that I had scrambled out of an awkward place."</blockquote>
<br />But when he returned to England, he decided he had better write "The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" after all. That story eventually appeared under the title we now recognize, "His Last Bow" — but in 1917, not 1916. We can celebrate its centenary next year.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Visit to Three Fronts (<i>image source: <a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=A_Visit_to_Three_Fronts" target="_blank">The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia</a></i>)</td></tr>
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