Ransack

The weekly ezine for a scrambling of eggheads


Volume 1, Issue 2 .........................................October 1, 2003, Wednesday ......................................... Page 1
The history of RANSACK:

RANSACK was an organization originally formed for individuals of high IQ (145 or above) to get together and, through discussion and interaction between disciplines, expand their minds. In its original form RANSACK was infiltrated by two individuals who, through mass hypnosis, used its members to devise unique ways of performing illegal activities. These diabolical masterminds were defeated by a pair of British intelligence agents.

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The RANSACK Triskelion:

Ransack holds four Triskelions a year. A Triskelion is a contest that consists of 13 weeks of challenges - quizzes, crosswords, word seeks, riddles, logic puzzles, etc. These challenges come not only from The Avengers television program but also from history, arts and sciences.

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Defense Galore

Run For Your Life



ARTICLE:

All the stars your stage:
A history of the telescope

by Emma Peel

When I visited Madame Tussaud’s as a
child (you all know Madama Tussaud’s - the great wax museum in the heart of London) the statue that made the most impression on me was one of Copernicus. He wore a golden sun helmet over his head and held the Earth outstretched in one hand. It was not so much the figure as Copernicus that struck me; rather the figure as mankind....or myself... with all the universe before me.

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Book Review

“I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.”

The summer of my sixteenth year, life couldn’t have been sweeter. On my birthday in March I passed the tests for my pilot’s license.

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The Avengers Role Playing Game -
Timetrap One: The Disappearance of Steed and Emma

Timetrap One is the first in a series of email role-playing games featuring The Avengers milieu. You may begin to play at any time - for this game you are playing solo against the Ransack Puppetmaster. The game lasts until you solve the case or meet the horror...the final horror which awaits you.

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FREE TO PLAY!