Sherlock's Fun Facts and Trivia

[Van Buren Supernova]

Love Sherlock?
Want to experience how it’s like to see Moriarty being tossed down the fall? Who say Sherlock’s fans can’t be nuts and have fun at the same time?
Join the Final Problem re-enactment by The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. The pilgrims, as they call themselves, consist of Sherlock Holmes fans from around the world who gather at Meiringen, Switzerland.

They are dressed in characters, any characters, major to minor from Holmes stories. From Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Moriarty to Mrs. Hudson to Cardinal that only mentioned once in the stories or Baritsu  Assistants (or Bartitsu). They would attempt to speak in Victorian English, stay in character, sing, and the highlight of it all is at Reichenbach Falls where Moriarty and Sherlock fall to their death (or not). No worries, no one actually fall, they use dummies. Everything ends with funeral for Holmes.

 

 
Full story The Curious Case of The Sherlock Pilgrim
To see the video of the fall :P Sherlock Holmes and his fight to the death

[Van Buren Supernova]

Beside being an awkward ringtone during funeral, here is another fun fact for Stayin' Alive.

 

 

 

 

 

The song actually saves lives, had been used as actual emergency reminder by First Responder.

 

With rhythm of 103 beats per minutes, it is close to recommended rate of 100 chest compressions during CPR.

Many times, it takes a while for medic to arrive, and first responder could get exhausted performing CPR and would slow down their compression rate.

The main thing about CPR is maintaining high quality, it could double or triple a person's chance of surviving cardiac arrest.

 

Stayin's Alive has been used for awhile for medical training, AHA (American Heart Association) officially recommends that CPR is done to the beat of that song. Well, the tittle is appropriate too.

 

Other recommended songs:

Beatles' Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Hanson's Mmmbop etc

 

And uh.. maybe a little bit pessimistic titles:

Mariah Carey's Heartbreaker

Queen's Another One Bites the Dust.

[J.P.]

Shamelessly showing off:
 

[Arcadia]

You shameless hussy, you.

[Van Buren Supernova]

That is gorgeous building, and it's meat market??

[J.P.]

Yes it is a real, functioning meat market,

http://www.smithfieldmarket.com/the-market/gallery/

https://www.google.de/maps/uv?hl=de&pb=!1s0x48761b52489fe73f:0x44e703649203ad1d!2m19!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m13!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!3m1!7e115!4shttps://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/131627808!5sSmithfield+Market+-+Google-Suche&imagekey=!1e4!2s131627808&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin3Zz8ytPUAhXGLlAKHedAB_4QoioImAEwDg

 

 

 

you can take a walk around it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

All meat, no veggies?

[J.P.]

It' called a Meat Market for a reason. :P

[Van Buren Supernova]

Margaret Ann Bulkey ( 1789-1799 – 25 July 1865), obtained medical degree from University of Edinburgh Medical School, became a successful British Army surgeon and rose to Inspector General in charge of military hospital. All those were achieved with a disguise as a male, Dr James Miranda Stuart Barry.

 

 

 

Since a child, Margaret had expressed wish to become doctor, but at that time women were banned from medical school. It is thought that General Miranda and David Stuart (friends of Margaret’s uncle, James Barry), supporter of the education for women, were part of a group that hatched up the plan for Margaret to enter medical school disguised as man. (and inspired the name)

Barry was a brilliant student, the plan after qualifying was to go to Venezuela, where General Miranda came from, where female doctors were allowed to practice, but faltered when General Miranda was imprisoned by Spanish and died in prison, Dr.James Barry then decided to join the army.

 

Barry improved standard and quality of food, sanitation and medical care for soldiers, prisoners and lepers, performed one the first successful C-section in 1826 in Cape Town. The grateful family named the child James Barry Munnik in Barry’s honour, the name was passed down through the family, leading to the name being borne by a later Prime Minister of South Africa, J.B.M. Hertzog.

Barry actively protested against bad medical practices, ineffective and toxic medicines, poor hygiene standards, survived making enemies and fought two duels. Beside the achievements, the years of service were also decorated with arrests, demotion, insubordinations, unannounced leave due to those efforts and personal life. Barry was forced to retire due to old age and ill health.

 

When Barry died of dysentery, a char woman names Sophia Bishop who laid out the body revealed the secret despite the final wish that the doctor should not be changed out of the clothes which he died. Bishop said Barry was a “perfect female” and even had stretch marks on her stomach, evidence of pregnancy.

 

Despite controversy about the gender, Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry was an extraordinary doctor and determined individual to achieve the dream.

 

Inspiring? Hell yes!

[Van Buren Supernova]

There was a 67 pages instruction of how to make a bomb in online Inspire Magazine, al-Qaeda's first English-language magazine.

 

Around June 2011, MI6 replaced it with.. cupcake recipe.

 

 

The code was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.

 

Operation Cupcake

 

 

 

The article itself is amusing to me, and then....it hit me.....

 

 

 

MYCROFT!!

 

:rofl:

 

 

Good god, Mikey. :D

 

 

Attaboy. XD

[Arcadia]

I wonder if he personally tested each recipe himself first......

[T.o.b.y]

Totally sure it was Mycroft. :-D

[Van Buren Supernova]

:D :D :D

I'm fully with him, imagine world with less bombs and more cakes.

[Arcadia]

"How I Did It" by Jack the Ripper may actually be a real thing (well, sort of).... http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/08/07/jack-ripper-reveal-experts-believe-disputed-victorian-diary-said-to-belong-to-killer-is-genuine.html

[Van Buren Supernova]

Interesting, I wonder if we will find out in our lifetime for the confirmation.

 

That reminds me, have you guys heard about murderer being caught because he wrote a book about it (as so called fiction) in details only known to the murderer that are so similar with unsolved case and eventually convicted because of it?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Wow, no. Was that for real, or was it a story?

[Arcadia]

I was going to say yes, I heard about it, but then realized that's basically the content of the article I linked to. So either i heard about it, and this Jack the Ripper thing is a different (but similar) case; or VBS and I are referring to the same thing.

 

(Don't you love it when I give a definitive answer? :p)

[Van Buren Supernova]

Wow, no. Was that for real, or was it a story?

For real.

 

2000, a murder victim was found in gruesome conditions but the investigation was closed after six month because the lack of leads.

Three years later, around the same time a police detective went through cold case, the novel was published with eerie similarities about the characters and details that are not revealed in publications and only known to the murderer.

 

His name is Krystian Bala, a Polish intellectual, and the novel is titled Amok. (The case actually pushed the novel into best seller).

 

I read about it quite long ago, this is one of the articles with quite and pretty recent dates Murder He Wrote

and

Sick murderer caught by police after he wrote a book based on his crimes

 

The details I read from other articles:

- Polish's television show (equivalent to Crimewatch) received anonymous emails from South Korea and Indonesia

about that perfect murder.

Eventually it was found that Bala went for scuba diving trips to those countries during the time of the emails.

- evidence about him planning second murder to tie with his second novel was found on his computer.

 

Upon further reading, apparently there is connection to Sherlock Holmes after all.

 

The case was published by David Grann as part of the contents in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession (2010) titled True Crime (previously also published in The New Yorker and subsequently made into movie.

 

 

 

P.S. Similar case, The lying Dutchman: how a crime writer confessed to his wife's murder, about Richard Klinkhamer, who killed his wife and wrote Woensdag Gehaktdag, a Dutch saying translated as 'Wednesday, Mince Day' about seven ways to kill his wife. Being too gruesome, the manuscript was rejected by his publisher. Authority had strong suspicion, but couldn't find the body and he was free for couple of years until the detail of the manuscript surfaced in the Dutch underground press.

But still, only when the new homeowner of his previous house made alteration to the garden and broke the concrete on the floor shed, the remains of the wife was found, and he was arrested.

[Arcadia]

Geez louise.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Sometime around 2013, stories about burglar secret codes were circulated around in UK.
Various police departments issued warning to residents through social medias, thinking that they had cracked a series of criminal codes aiming at their potential targets.
The codes are known as Da Pinchi code, normally appeared as marking with chalk on properties or pavements.


 
However, the updated stories around 2016 indicated that Da Phinci code was just misunderstood utility code, has no relation to criminal communication and just innocent markings to indicate pipeline, manholes, cables etc. Eventhough, residents were still encouraged to report any suspicious markings on their properties.

[J.P.]

The code is real and it's actually older than cable equipment and maybe even lamp posts :D. I would be alarmed if I found any of strange signs around my house. 

[HerlockSholmes]

Everyone on here knows far more than I do about ‘Sherlock’ so I’m pretty certain that you will all know this. I was just messing around on GoogleMaps (a sure sign of boredom for me) and typed in 187 North Gower Street. It’s possibly the only dress that you can type in and it takes you inside the building. I was expected an external of Speedy’s Cafe but no, it goes inside the flat. Well, to the set at least. A couple of years ago I was sitting outside Speedy’s having a coffee when i saw a guy standing patiently behind some tourists taking photos of the door. I asked him ‘do you live there?’ He smiled and replied ‘yes but I’m not HIM!’

[HerlockSholmes]

For ‘dress’ subsitute ‘address.’ And for ‘expected,’ subsitute ‘expecting.’ The first error was poor typing but I’ll blame predictive text for the second

[J.P.]

GoogleMaps has some inside views of buildings, mostly public ones.

 

ExCeL London: 

https://www.google.de/maps/@51.5079712,0.0304893,2a,82.5y,36.09h,97.96t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sN_-zTXuqBzElujdyjdCoGg!2e0!3e2!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DN_-zTXuqBzElujdyjdCoGg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D25.832615%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

 

Victoria Station:

https://www.google.de/maps/@51.4954063,-0.1445681,2a,90y,66.33h,90.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1spANK7ob6V3tsfhvscDRR_g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DpANK7ob6V3tsfhvscDRR_g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D177.12418%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

 

As for the address on Gover Street, it doesn't get you inside the building but on the set that was built in Cardiff. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I was just messing around on GoogleMaps (a sure sign of boredom for me) and typed in 187 North Gower Street. It’s possibly the only dress that you can type in and it takes you inside the building. I was expected an external of Speedy’s Cafe but no, it goes inside the flat. Well, to the set at least.

 

I didn't know that -- cool!  Sounds like somebody at Google is a Sherlock fan with a sense of humor.