Recent content by G.Fieendish

There is the possibility of George VI contracting asbestosis while training as a naval cadet during his teens... The reason being that the accommodation block walls, of said training academy, were composed of a cheap construction material called Luralite, which was a mixture of cement & blue...

The only problem with this, is why was the U.S effectively blamed for this, when there were internal groups in France, such as the OAS, who effectively were the most probable group who wanted De Gaulle dead..? (Basically, the assassination was OAS's revenge for President DeGaulle's support for...

Wrong, they had B-25 Mitchell's, not B-26 Marauders, as post World War 2, a lot of the B-25 fleet that was not scrapped, were sold by various means to Central American air forces, such as Venezuela, Brazil & Cuba, during the late 1940's/early 1950's... As for Shimbo's comment, the B-25's used by...

Effectively, it depends on how violent the eruption is... However, the climatic effects of the eruption will influence the events of World War II, in that depending on what time of the year Yellowstone erupts, will effect the harvesting season of 1941... Almost certainly, there will be mass...

Re: PS3's won't play PS2 Games... The original Japanese/U.S versions of the Playstation 3 console could play Playstation 2 software in hardware (in short, they effectively had Playstation 2 hardware fitted to the motherboard, notably the Emotion Engine processor from the PS2), while the original...

So British Aircraft Corporation's MUSTARD concept gets the Green Light, then...? Or does the EAG.4396/4413 combination go ahead in this timeline...? I suspect that Mustard would be a more probable concept than the latter, due to it's modular nature reducing the overall cost.... As for the...

Firstly, if Israel is stupid enough to actually use Nuclear Weapons, on their enemies capital cities (The Samson Option), Tel Aviv ceases to exist, shortly followed by the rest of Israel, as the Soviet Union issues the arming keys to Nuclear armed Scud, and Luna -7 missiles already in theatre...

Arrow was intended to use the Sparrow II air to air missile system, as it's primary BVR missile armament... The main difference to the Sparrow III family used by the U.S, was that Sparrow II was intend to be fully active, as opposed to Sparrow III's semi-active mode of operation... However...

Careful Thande, as I suspect that our esteemed Imperator Norton is thinking of a completely different Dennis The Menace, compared to what us two British posters are thinking of, when we hear that name...;) (Could you imagine Gnasher, or Walter The Softy, in deep space, though...?).

Alan Dean Foster did the Animated Series adaptations not the Classic Series, though, as David Gerrold pointed in his introduction to the 25th anniversary edition, James Blish never saw the episodes in question, as the BBC's Northern Ireland region "opted out" of showing them until 1975... As a...

It was very expensive, during the Victorian Era, due to the inability to produce the metal from Bauxite ore... (Napoleon the Third had a set of aluminium cutlery made for his family's use, as it was rarer & therefore more expensive than either Gold, or Platinum, while the U.S Congress narrowly...

In the U.S, Assignment Earth did run on the above date, however in the U.K, we did not get to see Star Trek until the Summer of 1970, hence Thande's comment... Ironically, Star Trek was thought by the BBC as the "Summer replacement", for Dr.Who in the BBC's Programming schedules at the time...

It would have been worse, had Terry Nation's Dalek "Spin-off" show, provisionally titled The Destroyers, had been accepted by U.S Networks in the Mid 1960's, as he was touting this concept, to U.S Networks at the time... "The Destroyers" reportedly, would have had Jean Marsh reprising her Dr.Who...

The first does explain most of the cost of the Chevaline programme, (which proved to be a major political embarrassment for several British administrations during the 1970's, due to the escalating cost of said programme) for the British Polaris fleet, in the 1960's/1970's, as the the Polaris A3...

The Christmas Nights disc was given away in the U.K, as a front cover mounted "freebee", by Sega Saturn magazine in their December 1996 issue...