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| Details in Fiction; a place to find those little details | |
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| Halfling | Mar 13 2011, 08:35 PM Post #1 |
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Details in Fiction is a site about back-info, researching for fiction and non-fiction, details. There is a folder of bookmarks to help me find other bits of real-world information, like: * How Much Is It, which tells you how much a dollar (or a pound, or a yen, or a yuan) was worth at any given point in history. So if my character wants to spend $50.00 on a pair of books in 1977, I know that’s over $175.00 in today’s dollars, and that was an extravagant purchase. * How Far Is It, which tells you the distance between any two points in the world * The Baby Name Voyager, which shows you the popularity of a particular name over time, as well as where it’s most popular geographically—so you can avoid having a character named Jennifer before the 1930s, for example, when the name was practically non-existent * The Social Security Administration's Name Index, which gives you the most popular names in any given year * The U.S. Naval Observatory Website, which gives the phase of the moon and the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset on any day in history. Just for all those little details that you sometimes need... Thank you Stillwalker for the mail! |
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