My story is set in the modern day and involves an attempted theft of Harrison's longitude "sea watch" H4 from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The story is intended as a Christmas gift, so I've not time to get to Greenwich and look at the museum and I've not been able to find much useful online wrt. the museum's layout ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern Day UK--all over, but my questions specifically have to do with Bath
Searches: "Abandoned buildings in Bath", "Derelict buildings in Bath", "Hampton Row Bath, UK", "Temples and Shrines in Bath", "Temples and Shrines in Aquae Sulis", "Aquae Sulis places closed to public ( Read more... )

I've spent the last two days googling various sites with information about Old London Bridge but haven't been able to find what I need for my story, which is set in 1800 when London Bridge is almost 600 years old and due to be replaced (they were already discussing possible alternatives in 1798 ( Read more... )

I'm writing a steampunk Victorian era novel, and someone is murdered in a palace much like Buckingham. Is there a way that I can get a detailed floorplan of the palace? I have searched google for maps but have not been able to find much that is very detailed, I assume for security reasons. If you know of a good map, I would very much like to know ( Read more... )

Greetings.  Long-time lurker, first time poster, always interesting stuff I see here.

Basically, I am helping run an rpg set in early 13th century Castile (Ars Magica).  We have decided to base our covenant (where the magi live and work) in Casa Palacio de Cijara.  However, we've found conflicting sites about the age of the manor (some say 17th ( Read more... )

Two teenagers are visiting a tree house they built/ played in when they were young. One of them gets upset and pushes the other off the top step ( Read more... )

There's a specific name for the type of ceiling where it's like a four-way intersection between arches (( picture )

Setting: Imperial Rome

Google Search: many combinations of roman gods/deities, myths, building, stone-workers, construction, craftsmanship etc, etc...

Google has pointed me to a couple of refereces that name Ceres as the Roman Goddess of Architecture, although most references seem to link her with agriculture instead. Hephaestus/Vulcan also came ( Read more... )

Setting: Venice, Italy in the 1500's
Research: "historical buildings in Venice" "administrative/ noble buildings in Venice" "important buildings in Venice"

Question and context: I'm writing an Assassin's Creed 2 fic that involves breaking into a heavily guarded building in order to do an assassination.

I'm looking for any important building that has ( Read more... )

Does anyone know when the pin holding the clapper in Great Paul broke and the clapper went through the clock? And how long was the bell silent while awaiting repair ( Read more... )