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Welcome to the fourth issue of Ransack. We’ve redesigned our format.

Hard to read blue on the background? Highlight the text with your mouse and you should be able to read it with ease.

We also are now ‘wublishing’ on a fortnightly (every two weeks) basis, to allow more time to produce quality issues. If you would like to write for Ransack, whether it be articles or only ‘news notes’, email us at Ransack. And join our DISCUSSION LIST!

In this issue:

Columnist Cathy Gale writes on women and weight training. Emma Peel profiles astronomer Caroline Herschel, sister of William Herschel, in a multi-part article. (Her article on the history of astronomy will continue in a future issue). John Steed begins his history of model soldiers and war gaming.

In Data Day we present news of The Avengers, and of what's going on in the world around us of a scientific nature.

We present a new feature in this issue, Ransack Research Projects. If you’d like to help keep track of the exciting events happening today with mankind’s journeys into inner and outer space, check this out.

In our Fiction Department, we present Caroline Miniscule’s ‘Sole Remedy.’ With this story, she completes her first Avengers book, called, 1965: The Year of Living Dangerously. In Sole Remedy Steed and Emma enter the devious world of an art collector, who intends to make a name for himself by discovering lost paintings from the Entartete Kunst .

Our Reviews section starts small this issue - we review The Truth, a fantasy comedy by Terry Pratchett, and Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth And Space.

Want to play a game? Go to Challenges for the latest entry in the Triskelion contest.

A new feature starting in this issue is our Classifieds department. Looking for Avengers episodes, or information on the actors, writers, directors etc. who created the show? Email Ransack and we’ll place your ad in this section.

Each issue our LINKS section will provide a 'featured link.' This issue, we link you to Little Lead Soldiers.

Our STORE is a series of secure links to Amazon.com, Target, and Toys R Us. It's time to go Christmas shopping. Support this site by using our links to get to Amazon.com (once there it doesn't matter which department you go to, as long as you buy something during your trip, we'll earn a miniscule amount!)

Do you like this new format? Is it too difficult to read? Please send us comments or complaints if you have any. Email Ransack.