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On another board years ago, a person claimed Jesus was left of center.

It was an interesting thought to discuss.


Jesus knew that plants were alive also.

When some plants were fermented, the concoctions were even called spirits.

But if you take the fermented venison of a deer, it's not called a spirit, even though it contained the force of life.


So vegetarianism is interesting.

Saw a play going around about Sherlock Holmes, 'Baskerville'. It basically tells the story while making fun of it.

It is my opinion that there is a silly element to these stories. I think Conan Doyle, being introduced to this Bell person, was quite amazed at the developing methods of the day used in gathering evidence. He started writing these stories with an emphasis on the brilliance of certain detectives, rather than emphasizing evidence methods. The stories can be about solving crimes by brainpower alone, making them sometimes absurd. I was unbothered by the play making fun of this.

I was curious whether Doyle ever included fingerprints, or if he even would have known about them.

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When were the original Sherlock Holmes books written?

On October 14, 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is published. The book was the first collection of Holmes stories, which Conan Doyle had been publishing in magazines since 1887. Conan Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. Joseph Bell

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Was Sherlock Holmes based on a real person?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective with the knack for solving crimes through observation and reason was modeled after Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Conan Doyle’s medical school professors... Conan Doyle eventually published a total of four novels and 56 short stories starring the London-based sleuth, whose keen observation skills were based in part on those of Joseph Bell.

A fellow Scotsman born in 1837, the charismatic Bell dazzled his students with demonstrations in which he was able to determine a patient’s occupation and other personal details just by studying his appearance and mannerisms... Years later, Conan Doyle wrote to Bell: “It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes ….”

https://www.history.com/news/was-sherlock-holmes-based-on-a-real-person

Bell was involved in several police investigations, mostly in Scotland, such as the Ardlamont mystery of 1893 [wikipedia page]

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when did fingerprinting start uk?

July 1901

The Fingerprint Branch at New Scotland Yard (Metropolitan Police) was created in July 1901. It used the Henry System of Fingerprint Classification

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When did the police start using fingerprints?

History of Fingerprinting - CPI OpenFox

1892

It was not until 1892 that fingerprints were used to solve a crime. In Argentina, police discovered a bloody fingerprint on a door frame and analyzed it to identify the murderer. In that same year, many police departments began to keep fingerprints on file. Using fingerprints to identify individuals has become commonplace, and that identification role is an invaluable tool worldwide. used as proof of a person's identity in China perhaps as early as 300 B.C., in Japan as early as A.D. 702, and in the United States since 1902.

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Did Sherlock Holmes use fingerprints?

In an era when eyewitness testimony and “smoking gun” evidence were needed to convict and police incompetence meant that Jack the Ripper stalked the streets freely, Sherlock Holmes used chemistry, bloodstains and fingerprints to catch offenders. [I never much got this impression at all reading the stories. I suppose I didn’t read them all]

https://www.pbs.org/show/how-sherlock-changed-world/

I remember reading a Houdini bio. He was disappointed on meeting Doyle, because he expected like the Sherlock character, Doyle was reasoned and sharp. Instead, Doyle believed in all the popular spiritualists of the day. Houdini spent some years debunking table tipping, flying objects, the dead speaking, which was common seance fare at the time.

Even worse he was also fooled by the girls who stuck images of fairies in their garden and took pictures. Ironically, I think this gullibility got him overawed at the advanced-for-his-day new methods of gathering forensic evidence. The resulting books paid off nicely for him though. You can download the stories free at Gutenberg.com, it's all public domain now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

'18 Mar 1910 - Hungarian-born American Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) completes the first extended circling flight in a Voisin biplane at Diggers Rest, Victoria. This flight was recognized by the Aerial League of Australia as the first official flight in Australia'

I've suspected as much for a long time

not bringing it up with the wife

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Why is it not good to feed birds?

Drawing birds into close contact on shared surfaces makes it easy for them to spread bacteria like salmonella and E. coli. Luring them to the same place on a predictable schedule makes them more vulnerable to predators, like cats and hawks.

https://www.fws.gov/story/feed-or-not-feed-wild-birds [US fish and wildlife service]

from same link, other view of the matter

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For birds, feeders can aid survival during migration and harsh winters, some studies show. And some bird lovers reason that feeding birds may help offset the harm we’ve done them by turning woods and meadows into lawns and shopping malls.

As to the benefits for us humans, consider the view of Paul Baicich ... “There’s nothing wrong with bird-feeding,” Baicich writes. “It’s wonderful. It introduces people to nature — in their backyard. It’s the intermediate step between sitting around the house and actually going out to a national wildlife refuge .” He adds: “The birds don’t need the feeders. We do.”

OK, sold. Case closed. Who could argue with that?

People who worry there’s too little data on how the pros stack up against the cons.

Reading James Lee Burke novels, he uses this word

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What is the true meaning of copacetic?

satisfactory

Marko Ticak. Copacetic is an adjective that means “fine,” “OK,” or “satisfactory.” It is pronounced [koh-puh-seh-tik]. Copasetic is the most commonly used alternative spelling for copacetic, but copesetic is also cited by some sources as an alternative. You can never know too many words that mean everything is fine.
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Origin

early 20th century: of unknown origin.
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Where did the term copacetic come from?

The first written occurrence of the word thus far detected (as copasetic) is in A Man for the Ages (New York, 1919), a novel about the young Abraham Lincoln in rural Illinois by the journalist and fiction writer Irving Bacheller (1859-1950), born in northern New York state.
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Does Copacetic come from Kol beseder?

One theory is that the term is descended from Hebrew kol be sedher (or kol b'seder or chol b'seder), meaning “everything is in order.” [But] That theory is problematic for a number of reasons, among them that in order for a Hebrew expression to have been adopted into English at that time it would have passed through Yiddish

Maybe it's like "shazam"


sha·zam
/SHəˈzam/
Origin
1940s: an invented word, used by conjurors.

Sometimes I get enough not-grass-ground-cover going by just not mowing it, to wonder if it's possible to have a grass free lawn ... so I wondered what others are doing.

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What are the pros and cons of a clover lawn?
What Is A Clover Lawn? Here's What To Know About Growing One
Clover is good for bees and pollinators too.

They Can Take The Heat And Frost. "Warm season plants predominate lawns in the Southeast," said McCurdy. ...
They're Pet-Friendly (To An Extent) ...
They're Pretty. ...
They're Susceptible To Trampling. ...
They Have A Bad Rep. ...
They Sometimes Have Bad Timing.

https://www.southernliving.com/what-is-a-clover-lawn-6536512 [article suggest you can just spread seed. I doubt it]
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What is no grass landscaping called?

In California, where lawns use an estimated 40 to 60 percent of the total water use of an individual household, a decades-long drought has pushed local governments to limit outdoor watering. In the face of these limitations, many homeowners have adopted an alternative landscaping method called xeriscaping

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-xeriscaping-offers-a-water-efficient-environmentally-friendly-alternative-to-lawns

[check it out, the pictures help tell the story. Of note: “Grass lawns are basically a marketing gimmick … after World War II where homebuilders were trying to sell the American dream,” Lurie said... grass lawns became an expected part of a house]