Hello peeps.

I turn toward you because I have quite a specific question about mourning rules in Victorian London, and Google hasn't been of much help (too specific of a question, I guess.)

Character A mother dies quite suddenly. "Mother" is survived by her husband and two daughters, let's call them A & B. Upper class family, not aristocratic.
How long ( Read more... )

Is it possible for a normal person with some knowledge of chemistry to test the chemical composition of a small sample of liquid with a home chemistry set? If so, what kind of things would you normally see him doing to look all sciency/like he knows what he's doing ( Read more... )

Setting: Fantasy world; no gunpowder. Continental climate.
Edit: make that humid continental climate, like American Midwest/ Central Canada, or southern Siberia. Also, the soil is supposed to be quite fertile, probably chernozemic.

Situation: Characters exhume a body.

Facts:

1. It’s a body of a formerly athletic white man aged 25-30. He died from ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a request; a little broad, but all focused on death and it's related aspects of ancient Greek culture, life and mythology.  I have a fair bit of information already gathered, but I'm having trouble with some of it, so I figured I'd cast out a net to see what I could catch ( Read more... )

I have a Delta Force operative, K, who was KIA in either Iraq or Afghanistan in the early 2010s. Enlisted, career Army, and practising but not super devout Muslim. Everything I've ever read about military funerals has been Christian in nature; is there any protocol for a Muslim servicemember ( Read more... )

I'm trying to determine the logistics (if it is even possible) for an ancient culture to burn a body within a hole in the ground. As I understand it, ancient pyres/cremation left more of the body afterwards then modern cremation techniques provide. Given my fictional culture's issues with death (and the taboos around it) I'm already have them ( Read more... )

Setting: contemporary (2009), northern Maine, fictional town of ~20k people. The town is semi-rural: it has a fairly tiny center that mostly behave middle-class-ish, and then a wide rural sprawl of farms and drifters ( Read more... )

Setting: 1860-1870 ( Read more... )

Setting: Manchester (or surrounding area), England, 1892

Characters: Two siblings, an unmarried man (23) and an unmarried woman (25) (yes I realize she is practically a spinster, that is on purpose), and their wealthy baronet father (65ish). The daughter lives with the father. The son may or may not, I'm still fussing with that. Both children are ( Read more... )

Little Details, I have a set of questions I've put off asking because they are long and complicated and because I'd had to do massive amounts of research for them, and that, at this point, I can't progress without asking/knowing. AND SO I am moved to come to your world and of ye these questions three many, because please help.

SO.

My Questions ( Read more... )