Timaresh:Research notes

Look into these, use this in re: new Mercykiller reforms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_%28lawgiver%29

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
• Jack Sheppard, amazing 18th century 4-time prison escapee
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Guaman_Poma_de_Ayala
• http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=390413852&forumid=1
• http://www.tacitus.nu/historical-atlas/francia2.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Five_Pecks_of_Rice

Specific setting notes

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