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On multiple sites selling this book, including Amazon, Google Books, Barnes and Noble and even Target.com, there is the phrase, "The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), the Republic of Ireland, or South Africa." I presume it can't be for shipping reasons if it's on multiple sites, so what is it about the Wisconsin edition that is so forbidden in these places?

An epic breakthrough in scientific discovery is made. Suddenly, time travel becomes a reality where people of all walks of life throughout all ages are able to intermingle at will, (somehow without creating time paradoxes or making the universe explode). In a whirlwind spark of genius, the hit network ABC runs a spin off series of the Bachelor/Bachelorette involving You and 25 random individuals from all across human history. What kind of person you choose? What era are they from? What do they do for a living? And how will the two of you decide to live now that you're together?

Other bonuses would be friendly locals, a fair-ish government, and not too many people. A low cost of living might be nice, too.

It wasn't until sometime in college that I realized that my entire life had been a series of other people telling me what I had to do next, and then once I was out of college, all of a sudden there wasn't anybody to tell me what to do anymore. Out of all of the crap that people had been trying to teach me for the last twenty-odd years, the most important thing of all, the one thing they utterly neglected, was to teach me how to govern my own existence. It wasn't like I didn't have dreams or ambitions, it was just that I had never been told that those were anything more than delightful figments of my imagination, and it all sort of came crashing down around my head, I guess, when I suddenly realized my life was mine and that I had no idea what to do with it. Literally no idea. I was frozen. Maybe with panic and dread. Maybe with simply lack of knowledge. I don't know.

I just turned 31 and for the first time, I think I genuinely have an option to choose what I (ME, MYSELF!) want to do next. Which is fine and it's sort of rolling over me in a gentle daze as I make my decision, but I'm wondering how many other people there are who have gone through these frustrations. I'd really like to hear your story.

The internet is confusing me again. Basically, in various websites, I keep reading the word 'huntsman' in a generic sense and then 'Huntsman', as in the highly-skilled tracker/hunter employed in a noble's house during the middle ages, and I'm having trouble sorting out what is meant in each instance.

I'm getting that young boys had to train to become an occupational 'Huntsman' for quite a few years, apprenticing almost like you would train to become a knight. I'm also getting that it was the privilege of the nobility to hunt large animals, like deer, and that the Huntsman rode horses and carried a sword, which strikes me as only things nobility would have had access to. But then I read that a servant could legally hunt deer so long as his master allowed it, and that it was the 'Huntsman' who would go with these nobles when they went hunting to track down and flush out the game. Almost as though he were only a servant.

So, my question is: Did these young boys come from noble families the same way that pages and knights did, or did they come from the working class like a servant? Was the Master Huntsman actually part of the upper class? Would he have lived in his employer's house, or would he have had his own? Or would he have lived in a shack in the woods? Also, I got a little confused by numbers, would there have been more than one 'Huntsman' in employ at a time?

When you see suits of medieval armor standing in a row in a hallway in a movie, was this something that was ever actually done? Were they supposed to be real armor or were they contemporary 'replicas' they were welded together for this purpose? If people actually did this somewhere and the armor was in fact real armor, how did they get the armor to stand up by itself? Did they just buckle it together and try not to breath while they set it upright, or did they have some kind of stand? I've seen pictures of armor stands, but those don't look like they're meant to display the armor quite as if a person were wearing the armor, the ones I've seen look like more like they're intended to store the armor between uses.

This was recently part of an answer to another question someone posted concerning what the Judeo/Christian god doesn't allow. I'm assuming that most of these are directed towards men, since it's specifically saying not to have sexual relation with various women. Is there a list like this that's directed toward women to not have sexual relations with various men, or did god not place any bans on them regarding sexual relations except just to not sleep with animals? I also don't see anywhere where it says a woman can't sleep with a another woman who isn't related to her. Did god allow lesbianism?

Not to have sexual relations with your mother — Lev. 18:7

Not to have sexual relations with your father's wife — Lev. 18:8

Not to have sexual relations with your sister — Lev. 18:9

Not to have sexual relations with your father's wife's daughter — Lev. 18:11

Not to have sexual relations with your son's daughter — Lev. 18:10

Not to have sexual relations with your daughter — Lev. 18:10

Not to have sexual relations with your daughter's daughter — Lev. 18:10

Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter — Lev. 18:17

Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her son's daughter — Lev. 18:17

Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter — Lev. 18:17

Not to have sexual relations with your father's sister — Lev. 18:12

Not to have sexual relations with your mother's sister — Lev. 18:13

Not to have sexual relations with your father's brother's wife — Lev. 18:14

Not to have sexual relations with your son's wife — Lev. 18:15

Not to have sexual relations with your brother's wife — Lev. 18:16

Not to have sexual relations with your wife's sister — Lev. 18:18

A man must not have sexual relations with an animal — Lev. 18:23

A woman must not have sexual relations with an animal — Lev. 18:23

A man must not have sexual relations with a man — Lev. 18:22

Not to have sexual relations with your father — Lev. 18:7

Not to have sexual relations with your father's brother — Lev. 18:14

Not to have sexual relations with someone else's wife — Lev. 18:20

I remember hearing something when I was younger that I didn't think to question at the time, but I recalled it recently and can't seem to make any sense of it. And I don't know how to pose it to google to get a satisfactory answer. Has anyone heard that in the middle ages, monks used to believe that rabbits came from fish? I have no idea where I heard it or under what context or if it's correct. If it's true, why did they think that? And how do we know what they thought? Is there some source literature this is referring to?

For a while now, I've had this story in my head and I've been seriously working towards getting it written down for the past year with hopes of possibly getting it published someday. It's a cute little story and I feel like I have a grasp of the writing style I'm trying to put forth and I feel it's just something I need to try, since it's been in my head for so long.

My problem is, I apparently have some kind of hang ups with sexuality in my writing. I'm not trying to say that there will be sex in the story, I'm saying I've been having some kind of internal conflict and I think I need an outside perspective to help me figure a few things out. It's a little hard to explain. Basically, the story is more or less a fairy tale and my original thinking was to gear it towards a younger crowd with a pg rating. Maybe YA, maybe something an adult would enjoy too if they like that sort of thing. I guess I was concerned that there might not be a whole lot of adults who would be interested in reading a fairy tale.

What this meant to me was that I needed to ignore the fact that sex or anything like it existed in the universe at all, prude-level grade A. But to be honest, that was cramping my style a little, and I've struggled a bit trying to figure out if it's okay to at least acknowledge that we are sexual beings in something that I had figured on being a fairly light-hearted and campy read. Like, maybe a couple of witty innuendos or people teasing one another in a flirtatious manner. Or, you know, talking a little about the horrors of rape, since it's kind of come up in the story. There isn't actually rape in the story, but it's about a damsel getting kidnapped by outlaws and there's a worry.

Through trying to work through these dilemmas (mostly in myself), I've gone ahead in a few places and written it, basically, how I feel it ought to be written, with a lot more sexuality than I had originally intended. It's been a very freeing experience, not being stymied by some kind of law I have, maybe arbitrarily, placed over myself, and I'm seeing the writing flow a little better. To be honest, it's still not anything I wouldn't have read myself at a pretty young age, but I read a lot of horrible stuff I probably wasn't supposed to by 'normal' standards for kids and maybe my perception is skewed. I sat down and thought about it one night and realized at this point, the story is coming off to me as more in the stylings of a Ralph Bakshi cartoon than Disney, if Bakshi was trying to be a comedian. If that makes any sense. It's sexy without any actual sex. No trashy nonsense.

I guess I'm trying to resolve if something like that is okay for a YA audience or if I should just go ahead and assume a whole bunch of adults will pick up a book about a fairy tale. I mean, there must be people out there who like Bakshi. I do. Adult cartoons in general are on the rise, if I'm using animation as my standard. I tried thinking about it in terms of authors but I couldn't strictly think of any comedic fantasy/fairy tale books that also delve into more serious topics once in a while like rape, or let's face it, bondage, since my damsel is being abducted. I guess I need a little friendly advise or opinions more than anything. Just to set me down on some kind of baseline. I've been really going around with this one. How much is too much in a YA novel and/or will adults enjoy a campy fairy tale that has a little more pathos than, say, Terry Pratchett?

I posted this in the Health section, but it's really for a story I'm writing and so I thought it might be okay to post it here as well. I know some really intelligent people swing by here (on occasion) who might be able to help and the Health section seems to be primarily concerned about missed periods.

I understand basically what happens in the stages of hypothermia itself, but what happens when someone is coming out of hypothermia? Provided they are finally receiving proper care, how long does it take for them to warm back up and come out of it? I've read that some of the symptoms are slurred speech, all out confusion, even unconsciousness, but how long does it take for the person to become coherent again once they regain consciousness? Would they be able to think clearly again right away? Also, would they require bed-rest for the rest of the day or will they be able to get up and move around again as soon as they are warm? Do the durations and recovery depend on how bad the hypothermia was to begin with?

Thank you in advance.

This isn't an urgent medical problem, I'm just curious. I understand basically what happens in the stages of hypothermia itself, but what happens when someone is coming out of hypothermia? Provided they are finally receiving proper care, how long does it take for them to warm back up and come out of it? I've read that some of the symptoms are slurred speech, all out confusion, even unconsciousness, but how long does it take for the person to become coherent again once they regain consciousness? Would they be able to think clearly again right away? Also, would they require bed-rest for the rest of the day or will they be able to get up and move around again as soon as they are warm? Do the durations and recovery depend on how bad the hypothermia was to begin with?

Thank you in advance.

We live in an older house and in the middle of the living room downstairs in the hardwood floor, there is a small brass plate with five holes in the center, arranged like the five dots are on a die (like a flower). Two of the holes opposite to one another are slightly smaller than the others. The brass disc is about an inch and a half wide with two screws in addition to the open holes. There's nothing under it and you can see the basement when you look down into it. What purpose did this thing serve? I've never seen one before and everybody always asks what it is when they come over. We've spent evenings discussing the possible functions of this mystical device.

I remember watching a movie in the late 80's or early 90's about toys who secretly came to life in someone's house around Christmas time. It was live action and all I can really remember about it was that one of the toys rode around on a little motorcycle with a helmet and goggles, and I think that if the toys were seen moving around by a human, it would permanently immobilize them. I think one of the toys got seen and everyone was sad about it for a while until they were able to fix it. Does anyone remember this movie?

I'll be in Baltimore, MD for a couple of days while my husband is attending a conference. I'll have a car, but it'll just be me for most of the day. Personally, I could stay in the hotel relaxing and probably be pretty happy, but I figure I probably ought to go out and see or do things while I'm there. I've never been before. I like nature-things and thought I might try the harbor, but maybe that's out of the question this time of year. Shopping might be fun, but I can't think of anything I need, right now. I'm good on clothes and what-not. The kind of shopping where you just poke around some interesting store without anything in particular in mind might work. I even thought about just going to Michael's for a while or finding a bookstore. Does anyone who knows Baltimore know of any good shops or interesting things to see, or maybe a museum? What about a fun thrift store? Is Broening Park worth visiting?

It seems like I can hardly pick one up without finding some dark part in it about pedophilia or rape or something really terrible that I would never in a million years openly admit to having thought of, had I actually thought of it and I were the author. I don't come across it in books from other decades. Was it just because it was a time when you had more free expression before you had the internet to work your kinks out? Did the authors really think about these things, or was it mostly just for the book and for the shock factor?

This is a two part question if you can answer it. Why do you suppose so many 70's sci fi novels were this way and what is the most depraved 70's sci fi novel you have read? Three part question, actually. Can you think of a fiction book from a different era that is even more depraved?

Whenever I buy my dogs a new brand, I like to sample it first. They're like my pack and I guess I ritualistically feel like I shouldn't feed them something I wouldn't eat myself. I know it's safe for them, that's just why I like to do it. They're like my kids. But is this actually safe? Do they fully cook the meat in dry dog food? Is there anything else I should be worried about? I only ever eat one or two kibbles, but out of curiosity, what would happen if I ate a handful?

Specifically, I'm trying to do some research about what medieval life would have been like in Turkiye between the 12th and 13th centuries, but I'm scrounging here. I'd like some good historical references to either the Seljuk era or the Crusades. I'm slightly less interested in the actual wars as I am simply what the common folk were doing, if that's even possible, but I'll take anything, at this point. It seems to have been a very warring time. I have access to a fairly substantial library if I know what to look for. Can anyone help me out?

I'm a complicated person but I have a very simple life. At the end of the day when I have nothing better to do, I come to Yahoo answers and answer questions to relax without entirely relaxing my brain. Lately, I've been frequenting the Arts and Humanities section because it seems like the people who are asking are the most literate. Sometimes I get drunk. I'm just curious why other people bother. Why do you do it? If you want to get more specific, I certainly won't mind.

I stopped eating gluten about two weeks ago because of a long standing assumption that I am a celiac and it finally became something that was possible to try. So, in other words, I haven't been to the doctor to verify it or anything, I just have always had problems eating wheat. Even before I stopped officially, I didn't eat it very often because I simply don't like very many things that contain it. I've heard some times there are short term side effects for after stopping, but I felt better immediately, so I'm not sure how celiac I really am or if I just have an intolerance. I'm very new to this whole thing.

But last night I went out to a nice Korean restaurant and ordered a spicy fish stew that had noodles in it. I had assumed they were rice noodles but I got very nauseous after that. All night long I ended up hugging a bowl to my chest waiting to throw up. I'd really like to figure out what it was I reacted to. The stew was well cooked and so I don't believe it was food poisoning. After two weeks going off of gluten, do you become extra sensitive to eating gluten again to the point that you can become nauseous?