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First of all, whenever you mention Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent, shouldn’t the work “historian” always be used in quotes?

Two historians are suing the publishers of Dan Brown’s best-selling religious thriller The Da Vinci Code in a case that lawyers said was due to start early next year, the Reuters news service reported.

Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing Random House for lifting “the whole architecture” of the research that went into their 1982 non-fiction book The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail, the wire service reported.

Lawyers on both sides of the case met on Oct. 27 to thrash out technical details and said a trial date had been set for Feb. 27, 2006.

The hugely successful novel is the basis of a major Hollywood movie, which Sony Pictures plans to release in May next year.

Random House said in a statement that a “substantial” part of the claim by Baigent and Leigh had been dropped as a result of this week’s discussions, and added in a statement: “Random House is delighted with this result, which reinforces its long-held contention that this is a claim without merit.”

Boy talk about “to win is to loose and to loose is to win”…. But like our Lord said, “A house divided against itself can not stand”. First you get these “historians” coming up with some off the wildest stories about Jesus by using poor research methods a lot of assumptions. Then you have a guy take all that and make a movie (well, a novel first) about it. Now there’s lawsuits. I just don’t get it. You never saw any of the great historians suing Shakespeare, but then not only were they great historians, they were real historians.

[Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel]