I can't believe I didn't think of looking it up on wikipedia. I won't ask anything anymore here. Sorry...
I never implied you shouldn't have asked the question. I don't know why you felt compelled to apologize, but you definitely don't have anything to be sorry for.
Often Wikipedia will have step by step breakdowns of things that are often beneficial to compliment what we all might know. Like Julie said, it's great to get the personal experience but if you're trying to make it really accurate, which it seems like you are, then Wikipedia is a valuable resource.
I do a good chunk of my fic research on Google in addition to personal experiences.