Hello folks,

I have a few questions related to a story I am writing which involves an escaped convict being shot in the leg.

Setting: 1860's Australia.
Previous Research: Some medical sites, medical journals, medic wiki & searched terms 'gunshot wound to the leg recovery time' & 'shotgun wounds leg'.
Scenario: Man, early 30's, escapes from penal ( Read more... )

Searches: adultery/infidelity/extramarital affair/affair + Australia + 1920s/1900/20th C/1928 The same for UK/Great Britain/England/Commonwealth ( Read more... )

Hi!

I desperately need figures on female POWs in Japanese captivity in World War II. I've been scouring the net but not even on Wikipedia I seem to be able to find a site the lists figures for how many female POWs there were and which nationalities they were of, maybe even broken down to the individual camps (but just numbers and nationalities would ( Read more... )

Where: real life Australia

When: mid 1950s

Terms searched: none.  No idea where to start

Question:
       I'm at a fairly modern facility in Brisbane, calling a similar facility in Melbourne.
       Is there any chance I can dial the call directly, or will I have to go through an operator? (Possibly several.)

Thank you all for indulging my fairly creepy little question last time. Now, for something completely different, and fairly sane and normal. I've had a plot bunny nibbling away at me, and I'm having a difficult time dealing with the research for it, as I can't get to the school databases over this semester ( Read more... )

For my English assignment I'm to do something revolving around the Bombing of Darwin. I'm writing a story and the story is set in 1942 in Japan (unsure as of yet which city, though most likely a larger city.) The story is a set of letters written between two teenage boys (both sixteen), one in Japan and one in Darwin, NT Australia in the year 1942  ( Read more... )

It's not complete, but the history of Australian Television has just put a whole heap of listings on the net. For instance, if my bank-robbing long-haired hippie type wanted to claim an alibi on the night of Monday 28th June 1971, he could have stated that he had been watching the last episode of the game show "Pick a Box".

Setting: Australia, 1910-1919 ( Read more... )

After looking through many books, and trying numerous terms in search engines such as Yahoo and Google, and coming up with just about nothing (nothing precise, anyway) I discovered this comm, and had a mini party in front of my computer.

( Clicky to assist me, please? )

The Powerhouse Museum has a great collection of photos that are mainly from glass plates (with a few snuck in from later - I don't think they had WWII aeroplanes in the early 1900s). They show tourist-type views such as Coogee Beach (warning - naked ankles showing) and occasional shots like the miner's camp. It's not a bad way to get a feeling for ( Read more... )