My name is Mike J Nagle. I have been creating political maps of the world related to the 1632/Ring of Fire series since December, 2016. Some of the maps show the political situation at the Time of the Ring of Fire; that is, on May 25, 1631. These maps are historically accurate for the Original […]
Why Airships Make Sense for France/Spain/England And why they make NO sense for the USE or The Airship FAQ v1.2 By Charles Prael Quite a few people (myself included) have brought up the question of “why doesn’t Grantville/the USE/etc. build airships?” This essay is an attempt to answer that question – as well as the […]
Recommended reading order for the 1632 series (aka the Ring of Fire series) By Eric Flint Updated from January 21, 2016 Skip to the Flowchart Whenever someone asks me “what’s the right order?” for reading the 1632 series, I’m always tempted to respond: “I have no idea. What’s the right order for studying the Thirty […]
Grantville has a public library, and each of the schools (high, middle, and elementary) has its own library. These libraries are modeled on those of Mannington, West Virginia, and if you can prove that one of the Mannington’s libraries had a particular book before May 2000, then Ed Board will assume that the comparable library […]
These photos show the shelves in the science and technology section of the Mannington Middle School Library (Dewey 500s and 600s). Each thumbnail links to a page showing a larger picture of the bookcase and a tabular listing of the books in the picture. Photos by Iver Cooper. Iver Cooper, the photographer and editor for […]
From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:33:05 PM US/Pacific Subject: Imperial Free Cities Germany’s political structure 1600-1630 (very approximate); 50 ecclesiastical princes 30 secular princes over 100 counts about 70 prelates 66 imperial cities, about 2,000 Imperial Knights (who together controlled less than 250 square miles of land, which any researcher should […]
More Than You Wanted To Know About Vacuum Tubes “Leonard Hollar” <lhollar@battlefieldpress.com> wrote: What did Edison use to create the vacuum for his carbon filament light bulbs? Answer: It doesn’t matter. We’re not talking about light bulbs, we’re talking about vacuum tubes The function of a vacuum tube (Or a transistor for that matter, but […]
From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:26:33 -0600 Subject: Laity and literacy For pulling early modern Germans out of stereotypes, one of the more interesting things to read is Miriam Usher Chrisman, Lay Culture; Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982)[Find in a Library]. […]
or How to Successfully Defend Your Pet Project in 1632 Tech Manual Reading through some of the recent threads I’m concerned that there is a drift away from reality when it comes to available resources. What every project needs to know is all the resources it needs and what is available. So how can you […]
For those of you who are ACW re-enactor types, some of the best, most detailed, and most accessible descriptions of pre-modern laundry techniques are to be found in the Civil War Ladies books. Essentially, things had scarcely changed at all between the 1630’s and the 1830’s. It wasn’t so much that washing caused wear and […]