Timaresh:Research notes

Look into this, use this in re: new Mercykiller reforms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania Economic bubbles can exist in pre-Renaissance times, possibly incorporate into planar stuff?

Moigno "calculate last digit of pi" stuff dumb, calculating pi to arbitrary precision isn't even an interesting problem, figure out alternate big math project they are trying to calculate; characterization of finite groups? No, still too easy. Something that could occupy living math for years but still potentially solvable

From edison predictions of 100 years in the future in 1911: superthin nickel-sheeted books w/ tens of thousands of pages in a single volume

Possible stuff to reference or mine

• http://www.damninteresting.com/the-heavenly-sounds-of-the-glass-armonica
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
• The Court Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

Specific setting notes

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_soul
• http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm