![]() ![]() Some of the prisoners onboard during the journey were Aur Myss, Von Longo, his sons Trig and Kale, and the smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca. After the barge's engines became non-functional while in transit to a detainment moon, the crew was forced to send a salvage team aboard a nearby derelict Star Destroyer, Vector, in an attempt to scavenge repair parts. Warden Bissley Kloth was commander of the ship at this time. The Imperial prison barge Purge was in service to the Imperial Corrections Service around the time of 1 BBY. The Purge was an Imperial prison barge used during the Galactic Civil War. Once we sent a boarding party it quickly wiped out most of the prison ship." ― Zahara Cody Apparently the virus had wiped out the crew of Destroyer. " When I was assigned to work on a prison barge for the Empire, we encountered this virus, or a close cousin, on what was believed to be an abandoned Star Destroyer. ![]()
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The name comes from the Latin for 'to speak from the stomach: venter (belly) and loqui (speak). Originally, ventriloquism was a religious practice. Newspaper article on Gef, the talking mongoose, claiming it involved ventriloquism by Voirrey Irving ![]() ![]() ![]() “Flash Facts” will hit shelves on February 2, 2021. 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Yeah, this review is of a book I kind of read, just not in the published format. I could also a find a few, but not all, of Arnold Lobel’s wonderful illustrations. Thanks to several Google searches and websites, I found the contents of his long out of print 1976 horror poetry for children collection, Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep. My earliest poetic influence from a very young age is Jack Prelutsky. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, Maryrose admits that life wasn’t a picnic.Īcting was her first career but it didn’t pay too well. She even took home a couple of accolades for her thespian efforts. She wore the hats of a lyricist, playwright, and even a screenwriter. It was while she pursued her acting dreams on stage and film that she began to write. She even attended New York University where she studied acting, at least for a time before finally dropping out to participate in a Broadway Musical that completely flopped.Įven with the negative consequences, the decision was a stepping stone for Maryrose. ![]() It might have taken her decades to think about writing fiction but she read all the time as a child and the habit followed her into adulthood, even when she moved to New York City at the age of 17.Īt the time, Maryrose Wood was dead set on becoming an actor. She even had the Untermeyer poetry collection. Maryrose would like to believe that she dipped her toes in as wide a variety of children’s literature as possible in order to properly inform and shape her reading and writing interests. She had a pretty healthy reading habit as a child that saw her experiment with the likes of A.A. ![]() Maryrose Wood was born in the Suburbs of Long Island. ![]() She lives it up to her readers to separate fact from fiction. Maryrose claims that her books are a blend of fiction and nonfiction. Maryrose Wood is an author that writes novels about children and their governesses, aimed at both kids and teens. ![]() |