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Heh... I have a friend who writes historical fantasy novels, and she does loads of research to make sure every detail is right. She has gone so far as to travel to England just to spend hours in various library archives, thumbing (wearing the special gloves, of course) through the actual written minutes of various society meetings of the 1800s, just for some tiny detail.
She has on more than one occasion fought tooth and nail with her editor--or rather, the historian(s) her editor sent the manuscript to for verification--to prove that she is, in fact, correct about when a certain word first entered the vernacular, etc.
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