Thanks for the edit. And for the quite new experience of being someone who is hated simply for something I am. That unleashed some feelings that I...
Signs of attraction by Laura Brown is the best book I've read from a HoH or Deaf/deaf perspective. For Deaf people, just as for the mute, most of...
Geographical setting is also very important. One example: In the north of Europe, the bride and groom would walk together up the isle. This thing...
Cercidiphyllum is a type of tree that 60 million years ago used to be all over the world, but today you can only find growing in the wild in Japan...
The number of children is too much. Never mind caring for them, you can always write in an army of wetnurses, nannies and governesses. But a...
To the stone part of the topic: You need to either invent your own names of the minerals, or do some reading on the topic. Diamonds, for instance,...
Yes, those things are best made up. Generally speaking, in the northern hemisphere, the climate zones will move towards the north: Florida will...
You mean a map like this: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/ Or more detailed analysis of...
Protection against being hypnotized?
The line between being inspired and stealing is blurry, and I suspect we all draw it at different points. It sounds like some of you draw it...
For me the difference is if the author uses it knowing that where the term comes from (as a homage), or if he or she just copies blankly. Terry...
Not one of ours as far as I know, but Wikipedia says there are som Scottish roots for words describing teenagers. Tolkien was a good scholar,...
Only in the anglosaxon world. Icelandic elves (alf) have always been at least as tall and strong as humans. At least the light elves. Snorri...
Thank you for the welcome and useful link. Compared to the rest of the world, we both live relatively close to the Arctic Circle. I'm a climate...
When the Norwegian fairy tales (bit of a misnomer there, few pretty fairies in the Norwegian folk tales) were collected, Theodor Kittelsen...
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