Title: It's a Fine Fine Line...
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At the moment I am revising an old story and I have some action that takes place in a hospital in Prague in 2002. The protagonist finds her critically injured companion in the area of the Strahov monastery and rushes him to the nearest hospital. What I'm trying (and failing) to work out is which would be the best hospital for her to take him to. I've been using google maps to try and pinpoint where all the hospitals are but, obviously, the information for most of them is in Czech and I can't understand a lot of it.

Some of the places that are flagged up when using google maps appear to be either private health clinics or university departments related to medicine. I'm really just looking for a typical hospital building which has sufficient grounds to accommodate a car chase out of the parking lot and which is on the west bank of the Vltava river, as near to the Strahov monastery as possible. If anyone who understands Czech or is simply knowledgeable about Prague could give me some help choosing a hospital I would really appreciate it. I don't mind using a bit of creative license to describe the interior of the building, but I'd really like to have a real world facility to refer to.

Many thanks!

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me what the popular terms were for marijuana, heroin, and cocaine in Britain and/or the rest of English-speaking Europe circa 1996/1997? My character is a rock star from a wealthy family, so he would have been using what was considered the 'good stuff' of the era (i.e., powdered cocaine versus crack, high-quality heroin versus low).

Wiki, Google, and my f-list yielded several websites with international terms for different drugs, but nothing that was year-specific or class-specific. Thanks in advance for any help!

SO, I've looked in the  tags and my google fu is failing me. Even the Wikipedia page on Rocerfeller is very scarce on how the great depression affected the wealthy, especially Manhattan high society. The Rockerfellers, the Firestones.. What did they have to sacrifice? Were there less people invited to Fiorello LaGuardia's dinner parties?

There is quite alot about the hoovervilles and the soup lines, but where can I find out what happened to the creme de la creme?


Thanks in advance!!

This has come up twice now in fantasy settings I've been working on. O.o

So if you have very little in the way of natural resources, but one of the resources you DO have in relative abundance is feathers (pigeon and occasionally chicken feathers in the one setting, a much wider variety of birds in the other), what might you do with them? Any way to spin them and turn them into cloth? Or maybe use them whole in some way for warmth? These people don't have room to grow flax or hemp or cotton and certainly don't have room to graze sheep or goats. One setting does have domesticated rabbits and the other has occasional skins from animals hunted in the Extremely Dangerous Place, so I've got backup clothing sources, but if they CAN do anything with the feathers they have, they WILL.

If it matters, both settings have rather ubiquitous but very limited magic.



googling "feather spinning" and "feather cloth" did not find me any useful results, and I haven't seen anything about feathers as a fibre source on handspinning-related websites. If nobody has a clue I may just go buy or collect some feathers and dig out my drop spindle and see if I can make it work somehow. Heck, I might do that anyway.

So -

I wasn't getting any love in a more spesific comm and I'm on a short turn around so I turn to you, LJ, for your collective wisdom.

I've searched for 'poor man's booze/drink Wales' but not gotten anything modern or 'regular' (as opposed to ceremonial etc).

The question is: if you were a Welsh man from a lower class family, Estate living type family, and you were in a pub drinking hard alcohol - what would you drink that would give away your lower class/estate origins? This is set in the modern day so of zuma or some artifical drink would be the tell, that's okay too, but I'd prefer, if possible, a classic or old-fashioned type of hard liquor.

My first thought was gin, as that's the poor man's drink in the US but ... Wales is not the US.

I need it not to be beer/wine (soft alcohol).

ETA: Thanks everyone! It sounds like the best bet is to go with the 'house' brand of either whisky or vodka. I'll probably use vodka since another character is drinking whisky.

ETA 2: Wow! A lot of variety in the response. Clearly not a simple answer to this question. Because of the details of the scene, I'm still going with house vodka - the character is trying not to reveal his background and it seems like cheap beer would, but buying spirits could pass as an attempt to look more posh than he is. Money is not an issue.

Thanks!

I'm not sure -where- this story will be set -- probably the U.K. -- but it's in our current time period.

If someone is blind in one eye, is it possible that the eye would look completely normal, and exactly like the other eye? Is there a cause of blindness that would not affect the appearance of the eye? (Or at least, affect it only very slightly)

Would it be possible for the fake/blind eye to move in coordination with the other eye?

How would the blindness in one eye affect the vision in the other eye?
Would the person be able to, say, shoot a gun with accuracy? Would he be able to drive?

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