Who IS Sherlock Holmes - Neil McCaw
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-is-sherlock-holmes-neil-mccaw More than a century after first emerging into the fogbound, gaslit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes...
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More than a century after first emerging into the fog-bound, gas-lit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. Even his wardrobe and accessories are iconic: the Inverness cape, deerstalker hat, and calabash pipe, and figures such as his best friend and housemate Doctor Watson, arch-nemesis Moriarty, and housekeeper Mrs. Hudson have become part of the popular consciousness, as have his extraordinary, infallible powers of deduction utilized in the name of the law, his notorious drug use, and his popular catchphrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson." And yet many of these most recognizable features of Holmes don't appear in Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. Doyle's great detective solves crimes in ...
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More than a century after first emerging into the fog-bound, gas-lit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. Even his wardrobe and accessories are iconic: the Inverness cape, deerstalker hat, and calabash pipe, and figures such as his best friend and housemate Doctor Watson, arch-nemesis Moriarty, and housekeeper Mrs. Hudson have become part of the popular consciousness, as have his extraordinary, infallible powers of deduction utilized in the name of the law, his notorious drug use, and his popular catchphrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson." And yet many of these most recognizable features of Holmes don't appear in Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. Doyle's great detective solves crimes in ...
