Well, I think that the immediate issue would be that there would be no blood to carry around oxygen anymore. People can survive without oxygen...
What a nest of confusing and overlapping responsibilities . . . :p I think an entity called "the Missile Warning Center," which used to be part...
Well, I poked around the DHS website, and I found some equivocal information. There doesn't seem to be a DHS app for bulletins & alerts (two...
Consider reading Philippe Aries' "Centuries of Childhood," which I actually managed to find free on the internet in pdf form! (I downloaded...
Wow, that is a lot of galloping around! I'm not a medieval war expert, but the following is what occurred to me. The king would be anxious to...
Maybe Multiple Sclerosis? Here too. People live a long time with it, and its progress is unpredictable, so you could choose from a variety of...
According to this page, there was a test in the early 1970's that took only 2 hours in the lab. Of course, most doctor's offices didn't have...
It would help if you gave us an approximate decade, too . . . for example, compulsory education was the exception at the beginning of the 19th...
I like Martin515's idea above, but if that doesn't work, I'd suggest using a made-up name but including details from the real place. Using the...
Looks pretty good to me. I liked all of the names except "The Dying Bowels . . ." it's evocative, but sort of made my inner 8-year-old giggle....
If the fire is down to hot coal, could the character light a candle from the embers, or if not, could they light a kindling stick that could be...
I used to work in a school where most of the kids seemed to be aspiring rappers . . . attaching the words "Baby" or "Dog" to someone's initials...
You're probably right. The more I write of this thing, the more obvious it is that it fails to "fit in" with the romance novels I've read. Now...
Just figured I'd reiterate that things in the naval world changed a lot between 1600 and 1799. Exactly what was possible and what was common...
This is an old topic, and I'm not sure the original poster is reading this anymore, but I can't sleep and I'm bored . . . so very bored . . . :p...
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