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Research Resources
Law and Crime
- Law Dictionary
- The Annual FBI Uniform Crime Reports
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (197,745 criminal trials)
- 18th-c. pirate hunting by British Navy captain (FFA thread)
- Forms of government
- The Fanfic Writers' Guide to the US Foster Care System
- Crime and punishment, 18th c. UK/France (FFA thread)
- Crime McGuffins (FFA thread)
Police
- 10 Rules for Writing about Cops
- A Brief Guide to Handcuffs (and how to escape them)
- Guide to Crime Scene Investigation
Transportation
- ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
- Omnes Viae — A Roman Empire routeplanner
- Rates of Travel, U.S., 19th Century
- Age of Sail resources
- Women in the Age of Sail
- Stagecoach from London to Plymouth in bad weather
- Internet Movie Plane Database
- Internet Movie Car Database
- A Guide to Helicopters in Cinema and Television
Traveling by Horseback
- How far can a horse travel in a day? Are there some guidelines to use when writing fiction?
- Long-haul average speed of horseback travel?
- How fast could they travel?
- How fast can a man travel on horseback, miles per day on flat land and also rough terrain?
- How fast could a person in the 1800s travel BY HORSE per day going through pretty level, easy terrain?
- A modern guide to whether to buy a stallion, gelding, or mare
- Riding horses at night (FFA thread)
Nature/Science/Technology
- How 5th-6th century climate change affected history
- Twenty Tips on How to Science
- Natural resources (and their consequences) in a small lake country
- What If the Moon Didn't Exist? and What If the Earth had Two Moons?, both by Neil F. Comins
- Deserts are Weird: A Writer's Guide
- Historical Atlantic hurricane data resource, 1852-present
- Hurricane and cyclonic storms: Worldwide historical data
- National Hurricane Center data archive
- How geography affects climate (FFA thread)
- Xenology - An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization. From the 1970s, so somewhat out of date, but still interesting. Author is a nanotechnologist who was involved with SETI and who advocated for space exploration.
- Whether the pupils of theropod dinosaurs would have been slit or round (FFA thread)
- U.S. phones, early 1970s (FFA thread)
- Prepaid burner phones and call tracing (FFA thread)
- Biological pest control (FFA thread)
The Arts
- Cedarseed's Tutorials
- What Architects Do
- Irish step dancing (FFA thread)
- Dubstep subcultures (FFA thread)
Theatre
Miscellaneous