Post by Briar Crawford on Aug 14, 2024 22:04:04 GMT
Books
When a book gets over a certain age, it becomes public domain. When that happens, many websites will create free downloads of those books. Of course, some of the information may be outdated (such as historical knowledge) but it is at least budget friendly
- Internet Archive: archive.org/
- Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/
- Google Books: books.google.ca/
- Open Library: openlibrary.org/
- Sacred Texts: www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
- Forgotten Books: www.forgottenbooks.com/en
- Many Books: manybooks.net/
- Hathitrust: www.hathitrust.org/
- Global Grey: www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html
- Electric Scotland (Scottish books): www.electricscotland.com/history/books.htm#etext
- National Library of Scotland: Ossain Collection (Scottish Books): digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/76750236
Search Engines
- "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed" search.marginalia.nu/
Travel:
🐴 Horses and Horse Care
Driving a Horse And Cart
Other Transportation:
🐴 Horses and Horse Care
- How to Keep A Horse Healthy: dankoboldt.com/how-to-keep-horse-healthy/
- Everything A Fantasy Author Needs To Know About Horses And Mounts: www.standoutbooks.com/fantasy-authors-guide-mounts-horses/
- How quickly can you get a horse ready to ride? (Youtube) youtu.be/2PMhIdopbrY
Driving a Horse And Cart
- About the Horse. Horse pulls the cart from the chest plate and the leather straps and tugs to keep the cart balanced. Blinkers/blinders to keep his attention on the road ahead
- Holding Reigns. Hold the reigns in one hand with the reigns twisted to be up and down. The left is on top, right on the bottom. Use the other hand to steer or signal to other carriages.
- Walk. To get the horse to walk, "Walk on!"
- Turn. To turn left, you pull up on the left reign. Pull down to turn right.
- Stop. Pull back evenly on both reigns. "Woah."
- *bells were used on carts to warn pedestrians
Other Transportation:
- Helps estimate different travel times based on distance and transportation type orbis.stanford.edu/
Misc
- "This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago." www.etymonline.com/
World-Building Inspiration
👤 Communities:
Water:
Food:
🌳 Nature
Underwater:
- The underground cities of the Byzantine Empire youtu.be/zs-zATBh_Ho
- Extreme Coming of Age Rituals From Around The World youtu.be/im7kvWWcLcU
- How This Desert Stays Cool With Ancient Air Conditioning youtu.be/ZX_j7shf3y8?feature=shared
- Deck Prisms youtu.be/-jbGrZMlViA?feature=shared
- Insulae: Roman Slums youtu.be/WuvmcXa4qLk
- Living Root Bridges youtu.be/1H0qTm7wNjk?feature=shared
- Roman Oil Lamp youtu.be/0OETwH9P4Gs?feature=shared
- Roman Oil Lamp 2 youtu.be/77zCU23pq3c?feature=shared
Water:
- Valylo: Water-Powered Washing Machine youtu.be/pMinqwDy40c
- Roman Water Supply youtu.be/pAUqodcXyWQ?feature=shared
- Water Fountains in Rome Explained youtu.be/toarrlreJSw?feature=shared
Food:
- Cooking Eggs with Hotsprings youtu.be/PBDNjOLPnkg
- Volcano Bread youtu.be/PBDNjOLPnkg
- Pompeii Fast Food youtu.be/Zq2cPQ_fHDY
🌳 Nature
- How Trees Sectetly Talk To Each Other youtu.be/yWOqeyPIVRo?feature=shared
- Glow-in-the-dark Mushrooms youtu.be/tOM6QJCK8Lg?feature=shared
- How Glow Worms Use Light to Lure Their Prey youtu.be/ZX_j7shf3y8?feature=shared
- Cave of the Crystals youtu.be/O7yfx0ejELg?feature=shared
- Lava Cactus youtu.be/0OcqXCZzlUk?feature=shared
Underwater:
- Fish Sounds: Do Fish Talk to Each Other? youtu.be/POITH02VVrw?feature=shared
- How Do Fish Make Electricity? youtu.be/z0M7_HPSi14?feature=shared
- Bioluminescence On Camera youtu.be/9HXXQBz6Vv0?feature=shared
- Amazing Pistol Shrimp Stun Gun youtu.be/KkY_mSwboMQ?feature=shared
- Firefly Squid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MClLB9_0hOg
