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Hello little_details! Got a fantasy novel taking place in Venice in the 1730-40s ( Read more... )

Gacked from sbisson: Detailed rail maps for a lot of places in Europe, including London's underground, showing the real layout rather than a stylised map ( Read more... )

I am currently working on a book where the story primarily takes place in South Florida, however on occasion one of my main characters has flashbacks to somewhere in Italy where the population is very dense and the town is nestled somewhere by the ocean a body of water. I would like there to be some sort of history behind this little (currently) no ( Read more... )

Time: Modern 
What: Travel hours from London, UK to Calabria, Italy

I have this character who is staying at the Ritz (yeah, he's kind of loaded) when he receives a call from a girl (he loves). Upon receiving the call, he immediately set of to find her. She's in Calabria, Italy at that time. Let's just say that he has his own private jet (he is also ( Read more... )

I'm writing about teenagers in the mid-90s, which is just enough before I was a teenager that I'm not sure whether or not what I remember applies; I'm also from the midwest, wondering if my high-school sports experience is applicable. I've also got a foreign exchange student, and what he'd wear I haven't the slightest clue. Anybody from those areas ( Read more... )

My character is a gay Englishman traveling in Italy around 2000. How likely would he be to be approached by other men in the street? I've been to Italy before, and remember well the frequent romantic overtures I received from Italian men, especially when I was in Florence. But I am an American woman and was 21 at the time, so my experience would ( Read more... )

So say you went to the Basilica at the Vatican on an ordinary weekday; there's no event, nothing special is happening, it's just some Tuesday or something. What level of clergyman would be attending the church, being there for pilgrims to go talk to, kinda being the priest-on-duty?

Setting and time: Present-day Sicily.

Other searches: Google ("Sicilian Cosa Nostra"; "Cosa Nostra in Sicily"; "workings of the Mafia"; "Sicilian Mafia hierarchy"). I did find some helpful articles, but the vast majority either dealt with the history of the Cosa Nostra, which isn't quite what I'm looking for, or weren't what I would consider ' ( Read more... )

When: Modern time (21st Century)
Where: Italy
Google-fu: combinations of narcolepsy, narcoleptic flier, airline protocol, airport protocol, unconscious flier, flying unconscious

Situation: I have a character who needs to be completely unconscious before, during, and after a flight. He is young, has no medical problems, and will be voluntarily ( Read more... )