Hat tip to Dr M.F. Khan for posting this story of wartime heroism on X.  here . The picture is from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. "In 1943, Paris - a woman sits in a Gestapo interrogation room, her feet bleeding, her body broken. The officers across from her know she's holding secrets. Names of British agents. Locations of resistance safe houses. Intelligence that could dismantle entire networks across France. They've already started the torture. Her toenails are being removed, one at a time. Soon they'll use heated irons on her back. They'll lock her in darkness for weeks. They'll promise her life in exchange for just one name. She's a 30-year-old mother of three. Not a soldier. Not a spy by training. Just a French-born housewife who was living quietly in England until Hitler's armies swallowed her homeland. That's when Odette Sansom made a choice that most of us will never have to make. She left her three daughters behind and volunteere...

The Grand Admiral's staff once showed him a this reconstruction of a group of eight dancers performing an 18th century dance to music composed by Handel, one of the greatest composers of that era, with both the chamber orchestra and dancers dressed in period costume. They asked him how he would defeat a navy from such a society. After watching the clip Thrawn replied that this was a society which structured life like a piece of clockwork or a game played by elaborate but fairly rigid rules. " If you are stronger, " he said, " Play the game largely by their rules: you will win, and they will surrender and as long as you honour the terms of the surrender, so will they. " " But if you are weaker, do what they will not expect. Break the rules, perhaps by breaking their line of battle. They will not be able to quickly devise a response. " They showed him an account of Rodney's tactics at the Saints and one of Nelson's at Trafalgar. " Like thi...

"A Knight of the Dragon Academy 3" by Michael Dalton and Eliza Hawk was published last week. As the title suggests, the third part in a series: the authors have finished pretty much all the initial storylines so they could leave it as a trilogy but have also left open the possibility of developing the series further. Lnks to the amazon pages to order these stories A Knight of the Dragon Academy eBook : Dalton, Michael, Hawk, Eliza: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store A Knight of the Dragon Academy 2 eBook : Dalton, Michael, Hawk, Eliza: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store A Knight of the Dragon Academy 3 eBook : Dalton, Michael, Hawk, Eliza: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Author Michael Dalton described this series as "Pern by means of the Medicis" It does indeed have distinct echoes of Anne McCaffrey's "Pern" series except set in a society more like Renaissance-era Venice and Italy in an age of religion and a world of fantasy rather than being set in the future on an alien...

 Well, here is the answer. " Paraskevidekatriaphobia " is an irrational fear of a date. Such as an irrational fear of Friday the 13th.