It's for a Story, I Swear!

I don't know why you're here. I don't know why I'm here. But, I keep looking up stupid things regarding the story I'm working on, and I want to keep track of them. So, here we are.

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Old English Money:

1 Guinea = 21 shillings

1 pound = 20 shillings = 1 sovereign = 240d (pennies)

1 half guinea = 10/6d

1 crown = 5 shillings = 60d

1 shilling = 12d 

half crown = 2.5 shillings = 2s6d (2/6d)

Sixpence = 1/2 shilling

Fourpence = 1/3 shilling

Threepence = 1/4 shilling

Twopence = 1/6 shilling

Penny

Half penny

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[riminii]

Library Guides: Prices and Wages by Decade: 1870-1879

Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations.

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So soo sooo glad I'm not doing Nanawrimo again. Ever.

I hated it. It just couldn't. By the middle of every month, I just wanted to strangle people. I can put out fairly consistent word counts, but I just can't do 50k in a month.

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You ever have a character just suddenly commit murder, and wonder if the reader is going to be as surprised as you are?

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Just finished first draft part 2 (provisional)

Word count:

Part 1 213,297

Part 2 213,778

How?

Ed: Oh Good Lord, I finished part 1 EXACTLY 1 year ago O.o

How?!

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Dress, 1805-10 France, Les Arts Décoratifs

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Dress

c.1810

Oldenburg, Germany

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Oldenburg

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1080.  That could easily be worse.

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Intelligence

As in secret information from spies, 1580s

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Map of downtown Riga, circa??

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Friedrich von Lowis of Menar

Aka Feodor Feodorovich Leviz

Aka General Lewis

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Riga c. 1660

Showing walls and canals in center of city, the remains of which are still visible on modern maps. 

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2.5-3 miles visibility before disappears below the horizon. 

(not including atmospheric conditions)

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Imperial Russian Symbol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Russia#/media/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Russian_Federation_2.svg

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Suncalc!  

Doesn’t looks like its been updated in years but OMG this is great!!  Get the direction of the sun!  

http://suncalc.net/#/57.0535,24.049,8/2023.06.14/14:33

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