An Abbreviated Almanac: The Hounds of Winter

Prologue: Hounds to Scent

• The Colonel Fleming
• The Digoenes Club
• Josephine Gabrielle Arceneaux
• Quentin Michael Humbestone

Chapter One: Hounds Cast

• A detailed wiki article of St. Pancras Railway station.
• An article on the modern Midland Grand, renamed St. Pancras Renaissance.
  • There are more pictures here with great captions.
  • Yet more pictures. Of special note in the photo gallery is the Midland Grand Hotel's Ladies' Smoking Room, reputed the first in Europe where a woman could smoke and not be considered vulgar. There is also mention of a Moroccan Tea Room to the left of the Grand Staircase stairwell, too.
• University of Bucharest
• Gheorghe Panculescu
  • And here, though translation is needed.
• Nitrocellulose commonly called Gun Cotton.
  • Paul Vieille, Developer of Smokeless Gunpowder, produced with Nitrocellulose.

Chapter Two: Initial Engagements

• Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazillian playboy, inventor and aviator.

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