http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/ 2026-04-17T05:19:23+00:00 http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/ http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2022-09-18T18:30:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=activities&rev=1663525831&do=diff Photos of Some Activities of the Society text/html 2022-02-26T03:10:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=becoming_a_member&rev=1645845011&do=diff Becoming A Registered User If you are currently a member of the society then a username and initial password will be e-mailed to you when it has been created. You don't need to do anything. If you are not currently a member, then you will need to communicate your desire to be a member to the society. The current contact mechanism is to send an e-mail to one (or more) of the persons who can authorize you as a member. The primary criteria for membership are expressing an interest in the Sherlock… text/html 2022-03-05T23:46:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=blac&rev=1646523969&do=diff THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ‘95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street. Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art’s sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I … text/html 2022-02-13T16:56:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=bsi&rev=1644771409&do=diff The Baker Street Irregulars The BSI - What is It? [BSI Scion Society Certificate]This page will give a brief introduction to the BSI, and will also discuss the concept of scion societies. ---------- <col4> Home </col> text/html 2022-03-05T23:54:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-3gab&rev=1646524492&do=diff The Adventure of the Three Gables Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I don't think that any of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables. I had not seen Holmes for some days and had no idea of the new channel into which his activities had been directed. He was in a chatty mood that morning, however, and had just settled me into the well-worn low armchair on one side of the fire, while he had curled down with his pip… text/html 2022-03-06T00:27:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-3gar&rev=1646526476&do=diff The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves. text/html 2022-03-06T16:21:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-3stu&rev=1646583698&do=diff The Adventure of the Three Students Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was in the year ’95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great university towns, and it was during this time that the small but instructive adventure which I am about to relate befell us. It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive. So pai… text/html 2022-03-06T17:55:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-abbe&rev=1646589343&do=diff The Adventure of the Abbey Grange Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of ’97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss. text/html 2022-03-06T23:48:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-bery&rev=1646610507&do=diff The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Holmes,” said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, “here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone.” text/html 2022-03-05T23:48:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-blac&rev=1646524115&do=diff THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ‘95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street. Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art’s sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I … text/html 2022-03-07T18:59:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-blan&rev=1646679575&do=diff The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own. Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures. text/html 2022-03-07T19:24:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-blue&rev=1646681055&do=diff The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-fel… text/html 2022-03-08T14:12:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-bosc&rev=1646748737&do=diff The Boscombe Valley Mystery Sir Arthur Conan Doyle We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: “Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15.” text/html 2022-03-08T15:05:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-bruc&rev=1646751939&do=diff The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses. The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references. The second and third had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had recently made his hobby text/html 2023-11-09T20:49:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-card&rev=1699562957&do=diff The Adventure of the Cardboard Box Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents. It is, however, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensational from the criminal, and a chronicler is left in the dilemma that he must either sacrifice details whic… text/html 2022-03-08T16:44:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-chas&rev=1646757889&do=diff The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is years since the incidents of which I speak took place, and yet it is with diffidence that I allude to them. For a long time, even with the utmost discretion and reticence, it would have been impossible to make the facts public, but now the principal person concerned is beyond the reach of human law, and with due suppression the story may be told in such fashion as to injure no one. It records an absolutely unique experien… text/html 2022-03-08T17:06:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-copp&rev=1646759202&do=diff The Adventure of the Copper Beeches Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of The Daily Telegraph/, “it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, o… text/html 2022-03-08T18:56:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-cree&rev=1646765793&do=diff The Adventure of the Creeping Man Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years ago agitated the university and were echoed in the learned societies of London. There were, however, certain obstacles in the way, and the true history of this curious case remained entombed in the tin box which contains so many records of my friend's… text/html 2022-03-08T20:39:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-croo&rev=1646771950&do=diff The Crooked Man Sir Arthur Conan Doyle One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, for my day’s work had been an exhausting one. My wife had already gone upstairs, and the sound of the locking of the hall door some time before told me that the servants had also retired. I had risen from my seat and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell. text/html 2022-03-08T23:08:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-danc&rev=1646780895&do=diff The Adventure of the Dancing Men Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product. His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull grey plumage and a black top-knot. text/html 2022-03-09T14:10:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-devi&rev=1646835034&do=diff The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity. To his sombre and cynical spirit all popular applause was always abhorrent, and nothing amused him more at the end of a successful case than to hand over the actual exposure to som… text/html 2022-03-09T14:24:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-dyin&rev=1646835854&do=diff The Adventure of the Dying Detective Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience. His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and oft… text/html 2022-03-09T14:31:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-empt&rev=1646836313&do=diff The Adventure of the Empty House Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not nec… text/html 2022-03-09T14:38:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-engr&rev=1646836685&do=diff The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice text/html 2022-03-09T14:43:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-fina&rev=1646837034&do=diff The Final Problem Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavoured to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first brought us together at the period of the “Study in Scarlet,” up to the time of his interferen… text/html 2022-03-09T16:46:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-five&rev=1646844395&do=diff The Five Orange Pips Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these pa… text/html 2022-03-09T20:28:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-glor&rev=1646857680&do=diff Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “I have some papers here,” said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter’s night on either side of the fire, “which I really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to glance over. These are the documents in the extraordinary case of the text/html 2022-03-09T21:01:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-gold&rev=1646859711&do=diff The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894, I confess that it is very difficult for me, out of such a wealth of material, to select the cases which are most interesting in themselves, and at the same time most conducive to a display of those peculiar powers for which my friend was famous. As I turn over the pages, I see my notes upon the repulsive story of the red leech and the terrib… text/html 2022-03-09T22:08:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-gree&rev=1646863726&do=diff The Greek Interpreter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence. His aversion to women and his disincl… text/html 2022-03-10T18:38:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-houn&rev=1646937491&do=diff The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle My dear Robinson: It was your account of a west country legend which first suggested the idea of this little tale to my mind. For this, and for the help which you gave me in its evolution, all thanks text/html 2022-03-10T19:00:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-iden&rev=1646938818&do=diff A Case of Identity Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences… text/html 2022-03-10T19:48:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-illu&rev=1646941686&do=diff The Adventure of the Illustrious Client Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “It can't hurt now,” was Mr. Sherlock Holmes's comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's career. text/html 2022-03-10T23:29:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-lady&rev=1646954980&do=diff The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “But why Turkish?” asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a cane-backed chair at the moment, and my protruded feet had attracted his ever-active attention. text/html 2022-03-11T16:31:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-last&rev=1647016264&do=diff His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was nine o’clock at night upon the second of August---the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God’s curse hung heavy over a degenerate world, for there was an awesome hush and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and stagnant air. The sun had long set, but one blood-red gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west. Above, the stars were shining brightly, and be… text/html 2022-03-12T19:52:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-lion&rev=1647114750&do=diff The Adventure of the Lion's Mane Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional career should have come to me after my retirement, and be brought, as it were, to my very door. It occurred after my withdrawal to my little Sussex home, when I had given myself up entirely to that soothing life of Nature for which I had so often yearned during the long years spent amid the gloom of Lond… text/html 2022-03-12T22:09:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-maza&rev=1647122973&do=diff The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case leaning in the corner, the coal-scuttle, which contained of old the pipes and tobacco. Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of … text/html 2022-03-12T22:53:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-miss&rev=1647125602&do=diff The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street, but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a gloomy February morning, some seven or eight years ago, and gave Mr. Sherlock Holmes a puzzled quarter of an hour. It was addressed to him, and ran thus: text/html 2022-03-13T15:50:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-musg&rev=1647186651&do=diff The Musgrave Ritual Sir Arthur Conan Doyle An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. The rough-and-tumble work in Afg… text/html 2022-03-13T20:57:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-nava&rev=1647205065&do=diff The Naval Treaty Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods. I find them recorded in my notes under the headings of “The Adventure of the Second Stain,” “The Adventure of the Naval Treaty,” and “The Adventure of the Tired Captain.” The first of these, however, deals with interest of such importance and implicates so many o… text/html 2022-03-14T17:52:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-nobl&rev=1647280323&do=diff The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a … text/html 2022-03-14T19:01:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-norw&rev=1647284497&do=diff The Adventure of the Norwood Builder Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “From the point of view of the criminal expert,” said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, “London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.” text/html 2022-03-14T19:12:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-pref&rev=1647285140&do=diff Preface to His Last Bow Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the Downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture. During this period of rest he has refused the most princely offers to take up various cases, having determined that his retirement was a permanent o… text/html 2022-03-14T19:45:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-prio&rev=1647287123&do=diff The Adventure of the Priory School Sir Arthur Conan Doyle We have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at Baker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startling than the first appearance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc. His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself text/html 2022-03-14T20:26:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-redc&rev=1647289590&do=diff The Adventure of the Red Circle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle PART I “Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter. I really have other things to engage me.” So spoke Sherlock Holmes and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material. text/html 2022-03-14T21:52:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-redh&rev=1647294742&do=diff The Red-Headed League Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door behind me. text/html 2022-03-15T20:58:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-reig&rev=1647377890&do=diff The Reigate Squires Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was some time before the health of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes recovered from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of ’87. The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis are too recent in the minds of the public, and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches. They led, however, in an indirect fashion to a singu… text/html 2022-03-15T21:26:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-resi&rev=1647379566&do=diff The Resident Patient Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In glancing over the somewhat incoherent series of memoirs with which I have endeavoured to illustrate a few of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have been struck by the difficulty which I have experienced in picking out examples which shall in every way answer my purpose. For in those cases in which Holmes has performed some text/html 2022-04-08T21:51:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-reti&rev=1649454690&do=diff The Adventure of the Retired Colourman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions. “Did you see him?” he asked. “You mean the old fellow who has just gone out? text/html 2022-03-16T00:27:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-scan&rev=1647390467&do=diff A Scandal in Bohemia Sir Arthur Conan Doyle To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he wou… text/html 2022-03-16T16:04:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-seco&rev=1647446675&do=diff The Adventure of the Second Stain Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I had intended “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” to be the last of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should ever communicate to the public. This resolution of mine was not due to any lack of material, since I have notes of many hundreds of cases to which I have never alluded, nor was it caused by any waning interest on the part of my readers in the singular personality and unique methods of this remarkable man. … text/html 2023-01-08T17:04:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-shos&rev=1673197486&do=diff The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph. “It is glue, Watson,” said he. “Unquestionably it is glue. Have a look at these scattered objects in the field! text/html 2022-03-16T20:54:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-sign&rev=1647464074&do=diff The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle I. The Science of Deduction II. The Statement of the Case III. In Quest of a Solution IV. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man V. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge text/html 2022-03-16T22:14:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-silv&rev=1647468898&do=diff Silver Blaze Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. “Go! Where to?” “To Dartmoor---to King’s Pyland.” I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows… text/html 2022-03-16T22:28:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-sixn&rev=1647469699&do=diff The Adventure of the Six Napoleons Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters. In return for the news which Lestrade would bring, Holmes was always ready to listen with attention to the details of any case upon which the detective was engaged, and was able occasionally, without … text/html 2022-03-17T15:33:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-soli&rev=1647531191&do=diff The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle From the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive, Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a very busy man. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any difficulty in which he was not consulted during those eight years, and there were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most intricate and extraordinary character, in which he played a prominent part. Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period… text/html 2022-03-17T16:00:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-spec&rev=1647532844&do=diff The Adventure of the Speckled Band Sir Arthur Canon Doyle On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. O… text/html 2022-03-17T16:43:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-stoc&rev=1647535398&do=diff The Stockbroker’s Clerk Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus’s dance from which he suffered, had very much thinned it. The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own … text/html 2022-03-05T04:01:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-stud&rev=1646452915&do=diff A STUDY IN SCARLET Sir Arthur Conan Doyle PART I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of JOHN H. WATSON, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department.) CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed… text/html 2022-03-17T18:25:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-suss&rev=1647541536&do=diff The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me. “For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit, text/html 2022-03-17T19:05:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-thor&rev=1647543952&do=diff The Problem of Thor Bridge Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatchbox with my name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine. Some, and not the least interesting, were complete failures, and as such will hardly be… text/html 2022-03-17T23:05:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-twis&rev=1647558347&do=diff The Man with The Twisted Lip Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Quincey’s description of his dreams and sensations, he had drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the practice is easier… text/html 2022-03-18T23:54:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-vall&rev=1647647673&do=diff THE VALLEY OF FEAR Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “I am inclined to think---” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. “Really, Holmes,” said I severely, “you are a little trying at times.” text/html 2022-03-19T16:34:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-veil&rev=1647707672&do=diff The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings, it will be clear that I have a mass of material at my command. The problem has always been not to find but to choose. There is the long row of year-books which fill a shelf and there are the dispatch-cases filled with documents, a perfect quarry… text/html 2022-03-19T15:13:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-wist&rev=1647702791&do=diff The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply. He made no remark, but the matter remained in his thoughts, for he stood in front of the fire afterwards with a thoughtful face, smoking his pipe, and casting an occasional glance at the message. Suddenly he turned upon me with a mischievous… text/html 2022-03-19T15:31:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon-yell&rev=1647703874&do=diff The Yellow Face Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion’s singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures. And this not so much for the sake of his reputation text/html 2023-01-08T17:13:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=canon&rev=1673198031&do=diff The Canon (in the Order Written) What is the Canon? Wikipedia says that traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this context, the term “canon” is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. text/html 2022-04-30T21:01:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=contact_us&rev=1651352473&do=diff ---------- <col4> Home <sep4> Meetings </col> text/html 2023-09-02T16:07:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=dp.txt&rev=1693670823&do=diff The Canon (in Order by First Publication Date) What is the Canon? Wikipedia says that traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this context, the term “canon” is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. text/html 2023-01-08T17:03:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=dw-alpha.txt&rev=1673197418&do=diff The Canon (in Alphabetical Order by Abbreviation) What is the Canon? Wikipedia says that traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this context, the term “canon” is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. text/html 2023-01-08T17:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=dw-coll.txt&rev=1673197856&do=diff The Canon (Grouped by Collection Name) What is the Canon? Wikipedia says that traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this context, the term “canon” is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. text/html 2022-02-13T18:35:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=expired&rev=1644777318&do=diff This is an expired link. <col4> Home </col> text/html 2022-07-14T17:19:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=foci&rev=1657819183&do=diff Some Possible Areas of Focus for Discussions of the Canon Each possibility assumes that we are examining the four novels and 56 short stories in published order. We would also go through each story, looking at the elements of the plot, as we always do. In addition, we would focus on one or more of the following things. text/html 2023-02-10T01:28:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meeting&rev=1675992482&do=diff MEETINGS The Omaha Sherlockian Society normally meets on the second Saturday of each month. Meetings are from 10:00 AM until noon, although members and visitors typically arrive a bit early to chat. Depending on the topics being discussed, a meeting may end a bit before noon. text/html 2022-03-02T17:46:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meeting_invitation&rev=1646243203&do=diff Stanley Wileman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Omaha Sherlockian Society Meeting Time: Mar 12, 2022 09:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting <https://unomaha.zoom.us/j/97859467446> Meeting ID: 978 5946 7446 Join by SIP 97859467446@zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.1… text/html 2022-02-09T20:37:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2017&rev=1644439070&do=diff Meetings in 2017 November 11, 2017 The society held its annual dinner at Jerico's Restaurant at 7:00 PM. ---------- December 9, 2017 The society held a regular meeting at the Swanson library starting at 10:00 AM. We discussed “The Boscombe Valley Mystery. text/html 2022-02-09T21:04:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2018&rev=1644440662&do=diff Meetings in 2018 January 12, 2018 Regular meeting of the society at the Swanson library, 10:00 AM. We discussed the new book by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. ---------- February 10,2018 Regular meeting of the society at the Swanson library, 10:00 AM. We discussed the new book by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. text/html 2022-02-10T18:21:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2019&rev=1644517269&do=diff Meetings in 2019 January, 2019 The display case in the Omaha Swanson Library was filled with numerous Sherlockian items. They remained on display during the entire month. ---------- January 12, 2019 The society had a regular meeting at which “ text/html 2022-02-10T16:15:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2020&rev=1644509704&do=diff Meetings in 2020 January 11, 2020 The society held its regular meeting at the Swanson library, and celebrated Sherlock's birthday. “Part One: England” of Nicholas Meyer's book “The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols” was discussed. ---------- text/html 2022-02-10T15:41:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2021&rev=1644507692&do=diff Meetings in 2021 January 11, 2021 The society held its regular meeting by Zoom, and celebrated Sherlock's birthday. “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” was discussed. ---------- February 13, 2021 The society held its regular meeting by Zoom, and discussed text/html 2022-10-20T15:46:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2022&rev=1666280795&do=diff Meetings in 2022 January 15, 2022 The society usually has a dinner meeting at a local restaurant with a private meeting room. For several years the society met at Jerico's, a nice restaurant reasonably central to the members. Their meeting room has been updated and is now quite suitable for the meeting, which usually takes place in October to celebrate the origin of the society. text/html 2023-11-12T21:49:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=meetings_in_2023&rev=1699825782&do=diff Meetings in 2023 January 14, 2023 The Boscombe Valley Mystery ---------- February 11, 2023 The Five Orange Pips ---------- March 11, 2023 The Man with the Twisted Lip ---------- April 8, 2023 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ---------- text/html 2023-11-12T21:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=newsandevents&rev=1699824655&do=diff News and Events Visit from Monica Schmidt, BSI, ASH On Monday and Tuesday, November 6-7, Monica Schmidt, a well traveled and popular guest at Sherlockian events, visited Omaha. On Monday evening she had dinner with a few members of the Omaha Sherlocian Society at Lola's Cafe. On Tuesday she presented a talk at UNMC where she discussed the diagnosis of PTSD in Dr. Watson. text/html 2022-03-14T17:17:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=not-available&rev=1647278240&do=diff Not Available The text for this page is not currently available. text/html 2023-11-12T21:52:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=oss_wiki&rev=1699825978&do=diff The Omaha Sherlockian Society [OSS lapel pin ] Welcome This page is the start of your path to information about the Omaha Sherlockian Society, a group of individuals with significant interest in the collection of novels and short stories about Sherlock Holmes and his activities. Although fictional, Mr. Holmes lives on in the minds text/html 2022-06-14T17:13:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=pastiches&rev=1655226786&do=diff Some Sherlockian Pastiches In the future, this page will have more information on many pastiches related to Sherlock Holmes. This will certainly include those the society has read and discussed, and may include others of which we are aware. Beware that there may be positive or negative opinions on these by the society or individual members! text/html 2023-04-06T21:28:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=pictures&rev=1680816487&do=diff Pictures ---------- Save the Date - Terry Kroeten's Invitation to Sherlockians for his Wedding ---------- * [Terry Kroeten's invitation to members for his wedding] ---------- Some Annual Dinner Presentations ---------- * [Carl Wirth in front of Bob Bernier's Sherlock] * [Carl Wirth giving a presentation] ---------- The Society's Display at an Omaha Library Branch ---------- text/html 2022-02-26T02:54:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=registered_users&rev=1645844052&do=diff Registered Users, or Members The sole attribute of a registered user is that they have a username and password, and can log on to the site. This gives them the capability to read all pages, and to create new pages that only they can edit. They can also add comments to the blog, which is a free, wide-open discussion. area. text/html 2023-04-22T19:35:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1682192115&do=diff The Omaha Sherlockian Society * Welcome * About Us * Meeting Structure * The Next Meeting * Notes to Members and Visitors * Contacting the Society * Becoming a Member ++ News and Events The Next Meeting Details The Canon, by first publication date The Canon, by date written The Canon, by collection The Canon, by abbreviation Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Baker Street Irregulars Some Sherlockian Pastiches Previous Meetings * Meetings in 2023 * Meetings in 2022 … text/html 2022-02-08T22:54:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=sir_arthur_conan_doyle&rev=1644360886&do=diff Sir Arthur Conan Doyle To be added in the future. text/html 2023-11-12T21:52:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1699825978&do=diff The Omaha Sherlockian Society [OSS lapel pin ] Welcome This page is the start of your path to information about the Omaha Sherlockian Society, a group of individuals with significant interest in the collection of novels and short stories about Sherlock Holmes and his activities. Although fictional, Mr. Holmes lives on in the minds text/html 2022-03-04T22:05:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=theadventureofblackpeter&rev=1646431535&do=diff THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ‘95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street. Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art’s sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I … text/html 2023-11-12T21:34:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=thenextmeeting&rev=1699824865&do=diff The Next Meeting When The next meeting will be held on Saturday, December 9th, 2023. It will start at 10:00 AM, and is scheduled for two hours. Where The meeting will be held in the large meeting room on the lower floor of the W. Clarke Swanson Branch of the Omaha Public Library, at 9101 W. Dodge Road in Omaha. text/html 2022-03-07T19:09:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=using_zoom&rev=1646680183&do=diff Using Zoom Video Conferencing This page is a brief introduction to using Zoom, a very popular tool for video conferencing. You can use it to create your own meetings (for free, with some limitations), or to participate in meetings when you have an invitation, which includes a text/html 2022-02-26T03:20:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=visitors_are_welcome&rev=1645845646&do=diff Visitors Are Welcome! Although the society provides a few things to members only, visitors are always welcome! You can participate by attending a meeting, following the reading of the Canon and the various pastiches we select, and reading the various pages on the website, including the comments that will eventually be provided by the members in the blog (as the site develops). text/html 2022-03-14T14:53:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://omahasherlockiansociety.org/doku.php?id=websites&rev=1647269601&do=diff Web Sites of Interest Although the following websites were operational at the time they were added to this collection, no significant effort is made to verify they are still in existence. Please report any of these you find no longer operational. And naturally, send along any other web sites of interest that aren't included here.