A question particularly apposite to today. Which organisation first coined the phrase " May the 4th be with you " on 4th May 1979 and as a complement to who?  If you want to submit an answer please put it in the comments. The correct answer will be confirmed  tomorrow morning. 

" We are not meat " by Steve Higgs and Hunter Hemsworth Higgs is the first in the " Lost in Time " trilogy of novels about time travel to the age of the dinosaurs. Bestselling author Steve Higgs started writing in when he was still a captain in the British army: his first novel, "Paranormal Nonsense" was about an agency exposing fake ghosts and imaginary monsters. It's basically "Scooby Doo" set in Kent and without any talking dogs, and went on to spawn more than 20 novels in that series along plus several spin-off series. The "Lost in time" trilogy came from an idea from Steve's son Hunter which followed an event at the Natural History Museum in London. The premise for the story is that a private company run by a self-made billionaire, Leonard Willis, has discovered the secret of Time Travel. For those who are familiar with both the book and film versions of "Jurassic Park," Leonard Willis, is so evil that he makes Mi...

Forty-four years ago today, the Royal Nayy submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentinian cruiser ARA General Belgrano. In almost no other country in the world, as she herself observed, could a government face lasting criticism for an operation during a military conflict which removed a major enemy unit with no casualties on our own side and made it significantly easier to win that conflict. However, the then Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mrs Thatcher, faced years of criticism about the attack, her motives for allowing the sinking, and whether she had told the truth about it.  It has now been proven beyond reasonable doubt that her motive was indeed to protect the men and women of our armed forces. I suspect that her accusers genuinely thought the charges they were making against her were justified. However, given what we now know following the declassification under the 30-year rule of documents about the decision, I don't see that the case stands up either that Mrs Thatcher...

 

THE Q-SHIP BOOK! The Q-ship - a merchant ship with a navy crew and hidden weapons, designed to ambush submarines which surfaced to sink the "helpless" ship with gunfire - was one of the more heroic and less successful ideas attempted by the Royal Navy during the course of two world wars in the attempt to stop German submarines preying on allied merchant ships. For some reason many of the he creators of science fiction space warfare games and authors of Space Opera novels seem obsessed with using this concept in their games and books. In real history, although the Q-ships did succeed in sinking a few German U-boats they also got plenty of our own brave men killed. Perhaps the most realistic thing about this Q-ship novel is that the heroine is offered command of a squadron of Q-ships not by her friends but through the political machinations of her worst enemies, who have spotted a need for a force commanded by an officer who is both highly skilled in battle, and expendable. The...