Hey, so, does anyone happen to know of a scholarly source that discusses the origins of Gurkha kukri knives? Unfortunately, Wikipedia and eBay listings don't qualify.
(Casting my net into all of my corners of the interwebs here, so I'm sorry if you see this multiple times.)
ETA: Apparently Giles is currently in Texas disguised as a petite brunette; Ashely totally saved my paragraph about Jonathan Harker coming back to England with the dreaded Easterner virus.
(By the way,
the article she found is actually really interesting, as far as histories of weapons go, and it really does lend fascinating insight into the character, if you're enough of a Dracula nerd to know or care why.)