Isaac Newton, Alan Hart, Rachel Carson, and John Keynes, are all LBTQA scientists. Isaac Newton is known for inventing calculus (even though he likely did not) he lived with a man and had relationships with men throughout his life. Alan Hart was a radiologist who pioneered x-ray technology, he was transgender. Rachel Carson was a naturalist and biologist, she had relationships with other women. John Keynes was an influential economist who was bisexual.
Alan Turing was an influential scholar whose work in mathematics on the enigma machine helped win the Second World War. He was outed as being gay and punished for his sexuality, and died tragically after being abused by the very country he helped to save. Frank Kameny was an astronomer who was fired from the US Civli service due to his sexuality. He was influential in the civil rights movement.
Link says that Sebastian had a picture of a green carnation. Green carnations were for a long time a symbol of gay rights movements, popularized by Oscar Wilde. The are still sometimes used today.
The information given about cloning is mostly correct. In theory a clone is, as Link explains, an identical twin and nothing more.
In one scene Link threatens to sing Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd was composed by Steven Sondheim, who was gay. Sweeney Todd's full title, and in fact the lyrics of the opening song 'Sweeney Todd the demon barber of fleet Street'.
Information about demons and hauntings is mostly in line with established ghost hunting and urban legends.
Lia uses Celtic marriage vows to 'marry' and save Harper.
Lia says her mother made Mandoo, this is a traditional Korean dish.
Link's homework on Ancient Greece is basically correct. The Greeks did have the concept of pedantry, and this would be between and older and younger soldier.
When Link is rambling and explaining that he's clone, he tells Lia that his father cloning him isn't that dramatic and references the Iliad. In the Iliad, Achilles keeps his dead lover's body as well, and in revenge takes the body of the man who killed him and drags it behind his chariot for a week.
When Link is explaining how he found the magazines in Sebastian's room, he uses a Serbian phrase instead of saying 'gaydar'. The Serbian phrase literally translates to 'homosexual eyes'.
Ley lines are real, in that they are a real concept and people do believe them to be centers of magical power.
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Call Me Twice
HorreurThe puzzling murder of Harper Miller sets of a string of deaths in sleepy Pine Hollow. The truth is well hidden and former home schooler Link Brenner has no interest in being embroiled in the drama of his new school. But Harper's troubling death is...
