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Food, Drink & Cost Of Living

Beer The making of beer and its history http://www.alabev.com/ingredie.htm Cost Of Living In 1888s http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages4 of living 1700s mid 1700s http://footguards.tripod.c... Continue

Started by Anne Whitfield Mar 13

Websites for Maps, Weather, etc

Many map websites http://www.yourmapsonline.org.uk/mapslink Maps from Britannia Maps from Celtic times to 18th century. http://britannia.com/history/histmaps.htm 1582 - 3000 http://www.hf.rim.or.jp... Continue

Started by Anne Whitfield Mar 13

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I stumbled across this website last year and found it very interesting. If you join up you can see more of each lesson and have access to so much more. I spent too much time there. :o) http://educ... Continue

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Comment by Joanna Waugh 12 hours ago: Check out my blog at www.myspace.com/joannawaugh to learn more about the British customs of "beating the bounds" and "well dressing." And for Regency resources, go to my website at www.joannawaugh.com

Comment by Kathy Otten on March 25, 2008 at 6:05am: Hi! I have 3 gun questions. The hero in my WIP carries a Smith and Wesson .44 caliber Top Break revolver. In my research I found the reload time to be 27 seconds. How long do you think it would take if the character only had one arm?

And if my character that same gun set aside for repairs, what are the possibilities as to what could keep it from firing, loaded that wouldn't kill the person pulling the trigger.

Also, How much time is there between hearing the shot and being hit for an 1873 Winchester repeating rifle from a character who is a marksman making a distance shot?

All the info I come up with tells the history of these guns, how to clean them etc. What I want to know isn't in anything I've found so far.

Thanks

Kathy