The 9. 4 Most Badass Soldiers Who Ever Lived. This place was so badass, it got its own TV show, TV movies, regular movies, board game, and computer game. Oh, and some books too. The Escape: Hermann Goering, the second biggest douche in Germany in the 1. Colditz . Two others built an entire glider out of scavenged wood. Tunnels were also popular, but like each of these attempts, ultimately big fat failures (to be fair, the glider just didn't get finished in time). Neave, perhaps wisely, settled on a subtler concept of escape. Finagling a Polish army tunic and cap, he painted them to look more like the Germans' uniforms. Then he proceeded to walk out the front door. Unfortunately, search lights reacted with the paint he'd used, making it shine a bright green. Failure did not deter him. He tried the exact same plan five months later, this time using cardboard, cloth, and some more paint to make a more authentic- looking uniform. He and another prisoner, Anthony Luteyn, who had his own costume, just needed an opportunity. That opportunity came in the form of an all- inmate stage show that was being put on at the prison (no, really). The two slipped under the stage, into a room that connected to a corridor which lead, not to freedom, but to the one place no prisoner wants to wind up: the guardhouse. Wearing British uniforms over fake German uniforms over civilian clothing, the two lowered themselves into the room, ditched the British uniforms, entered the guardhouse, and pretended like they owned the place. Home; Site News; FAQ; Resources; Link to Us; Privacy; Author Listing; Title Listing "OFF THERE to the right--somewhere--is a large island," said Whitney." It's rather. Frozen is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy comedy film, created and produced at Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney. Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories. Stories and analogies illustrations and analogies for motivation, inspiration, learning and training. Here are stories, analogies, research findings. This webpage is for Dr. Wheeler's literature students, and it offers introductory survey information concerning the literature of classical China, classical Rome. ![]() Nobody noticed. Having rehearsed their exit, they paused at the door leading out of the prison, exchanged a few remarks in German, and even put on their gloves before calmly leaving. The guards were completely fooled into thinking Neave and Luteyn were visiting officers. After passing through the courtyard and through the moat, they ditched their . Even when the Hitler Youth stopped them, Neaves and Luteyn remained composed and told another lie: They were Germans, from the north, of course. After this, Neaves and Luteyn kept to the country and travelled on foot. Hungry and a little frostbitten, they made it into Switzerland. The Bigfoot Blog. The Bigfoot Blog. Beliefs are not an excuse for critical thinking.. The Bigfoot Blog is the voice of North America Bigfoot Search. Lloyd died December 9 from cancer. His views of the evolution of man are historic, revolutionary and enlightening. His lectures take a common sense approach to a theme that has been debated for centuries. If you haven’t his read, “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” read it. You don’t need to be a high flying professor at an Ivy league institution to understand Lloyd’s presentations. One of his strength’s was his ability to speak to the masses, to have everyone understand the linkage he made in his theories. He earned a football scholarship to Tulane University where he was a punter and running back from 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() As most of you know, I am a huge advocate of athletics in life. This keep us healthy, it gives us personal time to think through issues and team sports build the skill of getting along with others and learning to compromise. Working together under the theme of one team, one direction is huge in the transition to life skills. Lloyd was one of the few researchers in our arena that had made the transition and applied his athletic teachings. It was probably his ability to investigate, analyze and apply that allowed Lloyd to thrive in the Army and then to move into private practice of researching and lecturing. I promise that it will stimulate your thoughts and may change your views on something HUGE. Challenge yourself, open your mind and apply logic. Lloyd's You Tube Page: http: //www. Official. Lloyd. Pye. Lloyd's Official Site: http: //www. The prayers of our entire team go out to Lloyd’s family and friends. I found her website (www. I continued absorbing everything I was reading and then reached out to a very few researchers to ask questions. One of the first people I emailed and asked for a phone meeting was Bobbie. She was open, highly intelligent and willing to help the novice. She was filled with information that proved to be reality, she was also advising me to be cautious as there were certain people in the field that could be dangerous, mean and conniving, again, also proved to be accurate. Bobbie Short was probably one of the smartest women in the bigfoot research arena that I ever had the pleasure to work with. Bobbie had a side of her that many would say was unusual, that’s because they didn’t understand her. Bobbie was highly, highly private. She once explained to me that she had worked with another bigfoot group early in her bigfoot research and the leader of that group had threatened her, physically and with litigation. He had made innuendos that he knew where she lived and she was afraid of physical harm. This event caused Bobbie to retreat into a safety shell, something I understood. What many people do not know, Bobbie Short was not her name, she refused to use her real name because of the safety aspect for her and her family, this is how aggressive and dangerous our bigfoot community can be. Bobbie loved her family, which included her horses. She lived on the outskirts of San Diego and was a registered nurse by profession. During the later stages of her career she was a hospice nurse, something that explains the “giving” nature that Bobbie had in her heart. It takes a very special person to work hospice, Bobbie had that ability. Many people have asked me how Bobbie first got her interest in bigfoot. She was camping with friends near the Marble Mountains Wilderness Area in Northern California, got up early one morning to use the restroom and had a female bigfoot cross closely by her. I remember Bobbie telling me that the woman had a deformed arm/shoulder and really paid Bobbie little attention as she passed by. At the point of the sighting, Bobbie was hooked. As she moved forward with her research she had the innate ability to see through peoples lies and rubbish and think for herself. She wasn’t afraid to stand up for her beliefs, yet did this with me utilizing a polite but stern way that I highly appreciated. Some people have interpreted Bobbie’s style as possibly curt or direct, I saw it as accurate, intellectual and helpful, nothing less. Where some researchers try to bully others, there was no bullying Bobbie. Bobbie had eaten cherry tomatoes that were imported from Mexico. She washed the tomato yet still got sick, very sick. She thought that she had fought her way back but eventually the bacteria got to her heart and took her life. In my years on this Earth I’ve met many interesting and intellectual people, there is no woman on this Earth in the bigfoot research world that matched Bobbie. I will personally miss her very, very much. My condolences go to her family.! Bruce Harrington was the organizer and did a masterful job producing a top quality event. The list of speakers was some of the best where I’ve participated. Ron Morehead was first on the speaker list and is famous for recording the Sierra Sounds CD (http: //www. Sierra Nevada Mountains, California). He described seeing a series of orbs and hearing sounds that have been described as “Samurai Chatter.” Ron eventually got his tapes to R. Scott Nelson, a crypto linguist specialist that worked with the tapes to determine that IT WAS language, a huge accomplishment for the bigfoot world. Scott stated in his presentation that humans are the only mammals that have specific language that matches what he heard on the tapes, further validating that bigfoot is human. Ron and Scott’s presentation was riveting and encouraging as we continue to move in a positive direction in this arena. Pat has a great sense of humor and joked he was far from a beast hunter and was not that macho. He did play a series of videos showing his worldwide escapades and search for cyptid creatures. He and his girlfriend (Anna) were two of the nicest recent additions to the speaker’s forum that we’ve had in several years. I spoke for 9. 0 minutes, 1/3 about the bigfoot DNA project and discussed specifics and how people that criticize the study are mostly commenting on the result, not the study protocol. It would appear that very few people have actually READ the study and thus can’t and won’t make cogent arguments why it should not be fully recognized by science. After 3. 0 minutes of explaining the study, I opened it up for dialogue. There were two questions about DNA, nothing about study specifics. Ketchum’s study will someday be recognized as stellar work, be patient as more scientists read what she accomplished and endorse the work, it is still evolving. The last hour I spent presenting many of the findings in the “Missing 4. Bigfootstore. html). It was the first time my son had attended a conference like this and he was shocked at the number of positive comments people contributed. Since writing in an area outside of bigfoot, I am constantly amazed at the good- natured people that contact me on a regular basis stating something positive. Several months ago a programmer from Microsoft in Washington State had read the Missing books and emailed me. Sue stated that she was disturbed by what the books stated and wanted to make a contribution to the cause. She offered to write a database program to track the people I had documented and include the various variables I explained in the books. I told her that this would be fantastic, but also explained that an effort like this would take hundreds of hours to program and an equal number of hours to input the data, she insisted. Yesterday I received a PC in the mail from Sue containing the database. I spent the majority of the day going through the data and being totally, totally blown away by the great work she did. She told me today that if the National park Service won’t develop their own database to track missing people, the Can Am Missing Project (http: //www. The database cannot go onto our website for a number of reasons, but it will be a HUGE source of information for our research. Sue, we cannot thank you enough!!! As if Sue’s contribution was not enough, 6 months ago we received a very thick legal envelope from Finland. EK is an expert at planetary position, solar flares and a few other elements that I won’t discuss now. Suffice it to say that he presented us with another database with equally unusual data that turned our heads for many weeks; we are still deciphering the information. You will hear more about this in the months ahead, it is disturbing, complex and intellectually stimulating. I have never been more positive about the direction of any research I’ve participated as I’ve been with the Can Am Missing Project. We are making progress in understanding this complex area, and with the contributions of people like Sue and EK, we won’t be stopped. We would like to talk to victims who are identified in the books and eventually have a conference where these people can meet others with similar backgrounds. Have a GREAT Day!! David Paulides. Director. NABS researchers know we don’t have all the answers and spend a great deal of time browsing the work of others and absorbing their ideas and hypothesis. Everyone needs to spend time reading and watching the work in peripheral disciplines to truly understand the entire picture. If you continually read only bigfoot research, you may miss a major aspect to the biped that is being discussed in another corner of the research world. Scott directed us to the work of Lloyd Pye. Now, if you are deeply religious and unwilling to look at research with an open mind, stop reading now. I do not want to anger anyone. On his website is the following information about how he evolved into writing about hominoids. Lloyd's website: http: //www. Finally, at 4. 5, I read Zecharia Sitchin’s classic book about Sumerian prehistory, The Twelfth Planet, which he published in 1. I didn’t find out about until 1. His translation of Sumerian history written in cuneiform on stone tablets provided an explanation for human origins that made rational sense based on what I had learned about the reality of hominoids. Every New (and Returning!) Development Thrawn Brings to the Star Wars Universe. Thrawn is a great Star Wars book that stands on its own. But the little nods and winks Timothy Zahn makes to Thrawn’s old life in the Expanded Universe novels—and to the events in Rebels, where Thrawn is currently the main antagonist—add another layer of delight. You should definitely read Thrawn (and watch Rebels), but if you don’t have time to go read a hundred EU books and watch three seasons of a cartoon, we’ve collected the major additions to the new Star Wars canon, as well as the threads planted in Thrawn for later stories. But seriously, just go buy the book already. So events like Rebels making his flagship the Chimaera again don’t make this list, but Lothal, Governor Pryce, Wulf Yularen, and other aspects of Rebels all play important roles in the book. I’ll hit some of that stuff here, but if you like Rebels, again, you really should just pick this book up. Still, if you haven’t watched Rebels, Thrawn is easily read without knowing anything from the show. It’s a prequel that is truly its own story, and not just an excuse to throw out references to later material for fans. Thrawn and the Chiss. The Chiss. Pretty much everything that was true about the Thrawn’s race, the Chiss, is true again, including the fact that the blue- skinned, red- eyed aliens are a fairly strong power in the Unknown Regions. Now, just as when we first met them in the EU, the Chiss Ascendancy rules a portion of the Unknown Regions and have a strong military with the inviolate rule that no preemptive strikes be taken. One of their languages, used fairly commonly in the Unknown Regions and their borders, is once again named as Sy Bisti. Chiss eyesight is also better than human eyesight, even getting close to seeing the infrared spectrum. All of that has moved from old Expanded Universe to the new Star Wars canon pretty much intact. Slightly new is the idea that the Chiss have reached the level of urban legend/myth among the people who live near their area of the galaxy. One of the main characters of Thrawn is Eli Vanto, a young Imperial officer who was born in Wild Space, which borders the Unknown Regions. As a result, he speaks Sy Bisti and knows of the prowess of the Chiss from the local myths. However, just as before, the Chiss know far more about their neighbors than they do about the Chiss. Additionally, the reason given for Thrawn leaving the Chiss is the same as his EU counterpart—he was exiled because he broke the “no preemptive strikes” rule. The opening chapter of Thrawn is almost identical to Zahn’s 1. Mist Encounter.” That means that Major Wyan, Colonel Mosh Barris, Captain Voss Parck, and the ship Strikefast are all brought back in their original roles of introducing Thrawn to the Empire and the Emperor. As before, Thrawn wants security and safety and sees the Empire as a better way to fight dangers than the Republic was. He basically thinks the Republic was useless in a fight and, while the politics and corruption of the Empire frustrates him, their military might and control is useful to him. But now Thrawn’s exile was a ruse. Thrawn was sent by the Chiss to gather information about the government next door. When the Emperor refused to have Thrawn as a counselor, he took a job in the Imperial Navy in order to further his goal. The position helps him keep the Empire strong, but also always allows him to do what he thinks is best for the Chiss. As he did in the old EU, Thrawn recruits humans to his cause and sends them back out to Chiss space. In this case, Eli Vanto is eventually sent by Thrawn to the Chiss. It’s both a way of exchanging information and Thrawn’s way of making sure everyone is strong enough to fight whatever dangers lurk out in the Unknown Regions. Vanto is met by Chiss admiral Ar’alani, who was Thrawn’s superior and ally in the EU. We still don’t know anything specific about the threat, merely that there is evil somewhere out there and it is bad enough that Thrawn will do anything to stop it. It’s worth remembering that the Aftermath novels have said that Palpatine is obsessed with finding out what’s lurking in the Unknown Regions and was putting a significant amount of Imperial power was sent out there. We also know that Thrawn shares his knowledge of the region with the Emperor—everything except the information about the Chiss. What everyone finds out there had fucking better not be the Yuuzhan Vong (as it was in the EU) or I will lose it. Most fans are assuming it’s where the Imperial remnant—who fled to the Unknown Regions after the Rebel Alliance kicks their asses and became the First Order—picked up Snoke. Thrawn Connections. Demanding its own book, novella, short story, whatever is the news that Thrawn met General Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars. They worked together in some sort of engagement in the Thrugii System (a locale from the EU that is now presumably closer to Chiss space in the new canon than it was in the old) and Thrawn was able to deduce even then that Anakin was under thrall to Palpatine. Whether or not Thrawn knows that Vader is Anakin is left unclear, but it’s Thrawn, so I assume he totally knows. Thrawn’s time training in the Imperial military puts him under Commandant Deenlark from the new canon novel Lost Stars. And he gets some troublemakers sent to Skystrike Academy, which is where Wedge and Hobbie defect from in Rebels. Rebels established that Thrawn attained the rank of Grand Admiral after the Battle of Batton, where he led forces against a group of rebels. The rebels died, but so did a lot of civilians. Thrawn makes Batton the last move in a long chess match between Thrawn and a criminal- mastermind- turned- Rebel named the Nightswan. It struck many as odd that Thrawn’s career- making battle would have so many unnecessary casualties, so Thrawn makes clear that he tried to avoid them; it was a selfish action by future Governor Arihnda Pryce—often seen in Rebels—that caused the many, many deaths. Thrawn knows it, and Pryce knows he knows it, but Thrawn doesn’t have any proof. But he’s not happy about it. Thrawn’s ally from early on is Colonel Wulf Yularen, whose Imperial Security Bureau position helps the unconnected alien out. Thrawn is fairly awful at politics—well, specifically the full- contact sport and nepotism party that is Coruscanti politics. He always wins, but he makes connected people look bad, and his promotions usually follow court martial proceedings. The Empire. Since the old EU got junked, Palpatine’s non- human attendants and other smaller things gave the impression that the new canon Empire might hate non- humans a little bit less. Thrawn throws that out the airlock. Instead, everyone give a big warm welcome to the old EU’s love of characterizing the Empire as anti- alien, classist, and very, very corrupt. Thrawn reveals that even if Palpatine himself doesn’t care about aliens (Palpatine cares about himself and his power only), the rest of the Empire has a very clear bias. Thrawn’s rise to power is faced at every turn by people not happy to see a non- human advance. Thrawn gives what I would call a justification for the racism rather than a reason: the Clone Wars were bloody and awful and the Separatists (the faction that lost) were mostly non- humans. So everyone’s content to generally blame all non- humans for the war and the resulting devastation. That’s obviously illogical and is clearly a justification for bias, but it’s unfortunately plausible. Thrawn pairs this with a bias in the Empire’s government for the connected and those from Core Worlds (like Coruscant) rather than people from more “primitive” Outer Rim (Tatooine) or Wild Space (where Eli Vanto is from). Turns out the Empire—gasp!—is very corrupt. Who you know is most important and most people are lining their pockets. Pryce’s rise to Governor of Lothal is detailed heavily in this book and she faces obstructions for the same lack of connections, and suffers from bias for being from an outlying world. Also mentioned as a little shout- out for Rebels watchers is a reference to Governor Azadi retiring “against his will” and an explanation of how Minister Tua got picked to act in Pryce’s stead (and why). Admiral Konstantine also gets a brief appearance prior to Pryce asking for Thrawn’s forces to replace his in Rebels. We also are reminded that the Empire uses slave labor, Wookiee slaves especially. A ship full of Wookiee slaves is intercepted en route to where else, the Death Star. Thrawn, rightfully, thinks the Death Star is a hideous waste of time and resources. Unfortunately, it is not his Empire. It belongs to the melted man with the lust for power. Minor Shout- Outs. Ch’hala Trees. This is a very minor bit, but early on in the book Emperor Palpatine takes Thrawn into a garden where “small trees with shimmering bark stand at the periphery like sentinels of privacy.” Longtime fans will remember that trees with color- changing bark were a favorite of Palpatine’s in the old EU. The Ch’hala trees were both pretty and also a giant spy network, recording and transmitting everything that happened in front of them. Zahn used them in his original books as an important source of information, and if this wasn’t a reference to them, I’ll eat my hat (Thrawn describing them as “sentinels of privacy” is what sealed it for me). Sturm Dowels. In the very first pages of the book, there is an improvised explosive made with blaster packs with the “sturm dowels” pulled out. The first instance is Zahn naming one of Talon Karrde’s pet vornskrs “Sturm” in his first Star Wars novel, Heir to the Empire. But an overloaded sturm dowel was used by Zahn in Specter of the Past and the short story “Mist Encounter.” (As mentioned above, the first chapter of Thrawn is basically just “Mist Encounter,” slightly retooled.) It involves Thrawn, alone on the world he has been exiled to, utterly destroying an Imperial landing party.
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