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Chanukah celebrates the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem, following the battle between the Maccabees and the Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes ca. 165 BCE. According to the Talmud, after removing the idols and materiel dedicated to Zeus, the Maccabees only found enough purified olive...

Zappo, that is awesomeness personified!

That was the German response to Britain's joke warfare, broadcast over British airwaves. "Zwei peanuts vere valking down der strasse, ven von vas a-salted... peanut. Oh, ho, ho, ho." Anyway, the Python killer joke is part of my NetBook (gotta plug it again!), so get a copy and see if you like it.

This piece of "news" has been common knowledge among Star Wars fans since 1980 or earlier.

Dragon #289 has a kaiju template; slap that onto a creature and have it stomp the sea-based metropolis of your choice.

I was not five feet from Todd Lockwood when he was at V-Con this October. I wanted desperately to talk to him, but I couldn't muster it. I wanted to show him my own art, but I didn't bring my portfolio.

According to the 3E Ravenloft CS, regular firearms use wheel-locks, and masterwork firearms use snap-locks.

Profession (cook) always helps when the ranger, druid, or barbarian has caught or foraged for food.

You have to be careful when using dye, because most dyes will stain. Heaven forbid you get it on your whites.

The first issue of Spectacular Spider-Man was published in December 1976 and went at least 263 issues (November 1998) with 15 annuals. Volume 2 started in September 2003.

But he would have to be plugged into it, which he wasn't. Unfortunately, the Empire had a well-used X-Wing starfighter at their disposal while they controlled Cloud City.

Does anyone know who I can ask at WotC if they accept dual-authored proposals?

A Jedi can deflect any blaster bolt from a man-portable weapon from blaster pistol to heavy weapon categories. Vehicle- and starship-mounted weapons are considered too large; it would be like trying to deflect a tank shell with a broadsword.

Deflect (defence) gives you a dodge bonus to Defence if you sacrifice a move action in your next turn. Deflect (attack) lets you send a ranged attack back at the attacker if he misses you by 5 or less; you have a penalty to your counterattack. Read the class descriptions in the Revised Core...

Deflecting ranged attacks is a class ability for Jedi classes.

My theory: when you alter history though time-travel, you do not experience the effects of the alteration because you are outside your proper time-frame. The crew of Enterprise was outside their proper time-frame when the TCW's effects were changed/erased, and thus were not affected by said...

The Z-95 was commercially available around 2,000 BSW4, according to TimeTales.

If it wasn't, it was some sort of grasping pseudopod that allows the Hunter Metroid to drain life energy at a distance. Cool tidbit: Apparently, if you have enough energy, you can allow a Metroid to latch onto you, and if you wait long enough, it'll explode.

I can't recommend enough the d20 Modern NetBook of Famous Characters. Where can you get this most excellent supplement to any d20 Modern game? Why, just down yonder screen to the sig below the line.

The only Metroid variant possessing tentacles is the Hunter Metroid from Prime, and it only has one tentacle. The variants in Return of Samus didn't have tentacles.