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I saw a photo of this bridge posted on John4KC's Flickr stream and thought it might be a good time to post these.
This is a two-span through truss bridge that crosses the Big Piney River at Devil's Elbow on U.S. Route 66 (currently Teardrop Road) in Pulaski County, Missouri. The bridge is still open to traffic, but a little TLC wouldn't hurt. It was built in 1923 by Riley & Bailey, Contractors, however, it was made obsolete by a new U.S. Route 66 bridge in 1942.
Traveling east to west, the direction we were headed, the traveler crosses four concrete deck girder spans with a curved alignment, then two riveted 8-panel Parker through trusses, and finally one riveted Warren pony truss.
The total length of the bridge is 588.8 feet, with the largest span being 161.0 feet. The deck is 19.4 feet wide and the vertical clearance is 14.0 feet (although it's marked 13 feet 8 inches).
The bridge appears on the Devil's Elbow USGS topographic map. The bridge's approximate location is 37°50'51"N, 92°3'44"W (37.8475, -92.0621)—that's actually where I was standing when I took this photo.
The bridge's inventory number is MONBI 18976 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory).
During the inspection of September 2007, the deck condition rating was Poor (4 out of 9). The superstructure condition rating was Poor (4 out of 9). The substructure condition rating was Fair (5 out of 9). It's Sufficiency Rating was 30.9 out of 100. The overall condition of the bridge was appraised as Structurally Deficient.
In 2007, an average of 100 vehicles crossed daily.
South side of the bridge looking north (looking eastbound)
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Manitoba Archives, Foote Collection
August 5, 1930. A CPR hotel lodge, Devils Gap camp and lodge, near Kenora Ontario
South Puyallup camp ground, Mt. Rainier. The stone columns are huge, even though this picture's perspective doesn't show it.
Devil's Slide, a closed part of Highway 1 south of San Francisco || Photo info: Taken 2024-02-03 with Canon EOS R5, RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM, 1/2000 sec at f/8.0, focal length 500 mm, ISO ISO 400. Copyright 2024 Stephen Shankland.
Photographed at Devils Garden in Arches National Park in Utah, USA. This park has a large number of weathered rock formations and many stone arches. In a spectacular and beautiful desert setting.
St. Croix landmark tumbles
Chuck Haga, Star Tribune
April 12, 2005
It stood by the river for thousands of years, shaped by wind, water, heat and cold, and was admired by countless visitors easing past in canoes, boats and inner tubes. It became part of a town's identity and a bond across generations.
But the Devil's Chair, an ancient natural rock formation on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River near Taylors Falls, is largely gone -- a heap of broken stone scattered about what was the chair's base.
Officials at Minnesota Interstate State Park, which included the famous landmark among its attractions, said Monday that they believe vandals caused much of the chair's high backrest to fall.
"There were scuff marks and pry marks that look like people tried to push more of it over," said Larry Buchholz, park manager. "It was helped to fall."
A rock climber reported the landmark's destruction on Saturday, he said. The
climber had been in the area the previous weekend and saw the Devil's Chair intact, so the damage had to have been done since then.
It is "difficult and challenging but not impossible" to climb to the chair site, Buchholz said.
The Chisago County Sheriff's Office and state conservation officers are
investigating, and notices asking for information have been posted in the area.
Park officials plan to inspect the remaining rock to assess its stability.
"It was our primary scenic, geological and cultural formation, and now it's gone," Buchholz said. "You can't replace it. Once it's gone, it's gone forever."
Both the park and the town of Taylors Falls used the unusual rock formation as a logo.
"It's been a point of local pride since before the park was established in 1895," Buchholz said.
The park also features unusual formations collectively known as the Devil's Parlor -- three or four "potholes" caused by swirling water and sand from melting glaciers boring through solid rock. Two of those holes side by side are known as the Devil's Footprint. They were so named long ago, Buchholz said, "because if you couldn't explain something in the natural world you blamed it on the devil."
Mayor Mike Buchite, a Taylors Falls resident since 1989, said that he has admired the formation since he first saw it in 1971 on a post-prom field trip with other members of the Elk River High School graduating class. He said he hopes an investigation finds that the collapse occurred naturally.
"Mother Nature put it there, and you stand there and look at it in awe," he said. "If Mother Nature were to take it away, you'd still look at it in awe and wonder. But if vandalism was involved, that makes you feel violated."
The city may consider offering a reward for information if vandalism was involved, he said.
Buchite said he visited the site Monday and saw that part of the formation
remains. "It's the back rest area that's gone," he said. "It looks more like a stool now. Maybe we'll rename it the Devil's Stool."
Amy Frischmon, 35, operates Taylors Falls Scenic Boat Tours, which carries
thousands of area people and tourists past the Devil's Chair and other stone
formations each year. "The Devil's Chair is best seen from the river, in the Dalles area of the St. Croix," she said. "It was a pinnacle of rock that looked like a high-backed chair. Millions of visitors must have seen it over the years." Losing it "is quite a tragedy for our little community," she said.
Her great-grandfather started the boat tours company in 1906, "and I grew up climbing in those rocks," she said. "My older kids all got to know the Devil's Chair. Now all I can think about is my 3-year-old will never know it. That makes me sick to my stomach."
That vandalism may have brought the formation down "makes it that much more
horrible," Frischmon said.
The Devil's Arrows are three standing stones or menhirs in an alignment erected near where the A1 road now crosses the River Ure at Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, England.
Erected in prehistoric times and distinctively grooved by millennia of rainfall, the tallest stone is 22 feet 6 inches in height making this the tallest menhir in the United Kingdom after the Rudston Monolith which is 25 feet tall.[1] The stones stand 150 feet from the A1 and it is thought that the alignment originally included up to five stones. One was apparently displaced during a failed 'treasure hunt' during the 18th century and later used as the base for a nearby bridge over a river. The stones are composed of millstone grit, the most likely source of which is Plumpton Rocks two miles south of Knaresborough and about nine miles from where the stones stand today.[2]
The outer stones are 200 and 370 feet away from the central stone and form an alignment that is almost straight, running NNW-SSE. It is thought that they may have been arranged to align with the southernmost summer moonrise. The stones are part of a wider Neolithic complex on the Ure-Swale plateau which incorporates the Thornborough Henges.
Can a Door Devil Anti-Kick Upgrade Prevent Multiple Attackers? We Put Its Strength to the Test: itstac.tc/1hTpyqU
Pee Wee the Chihuahua is definitely a devil. If you stand still long enough, he will molest your leg.
To draw attention to the plight of the Tasmanian devil I am going to be making a work a day throughout October inspired by Tasmanian Devils.
Tasmanian Devils population has declined by 90% in large areas of Tasmania due to Devil facial tumor disease. In November I will be taking part in the Garmin Point to Pinnacle; a 21.4km long and just over 1,270 meters in elevation run up Tasmania's Mount Wellington to raise money for The Devil Island Project (www.savethetasmaniandevil.org.au/) If you would like to sponsor me you can at this link> garmin-point-pinnacle.everydayhero.com/au/Liz
Inked by June at Tattoo City (Kuala Lumpur, MY) on 03MAR'12.
First tattoo and love it so much.
If you notice, both of my shoulder blade size/width is different, I think it's due to my numerous racket sports...or her skill's sucks?
This cross has an old legend around it. From www.guiarepsol.com/en/tourism/destinations/themed/popular...:
According to local residents, a brash young man, known for his party animal spirit, met a beautiful girl. His plight to win her affections in order to prove his heartthrob status finally won her over. Their date took place on a cold, stormy night. Lightning struck nearby, lighting up what should have been the girl's beautiful legs; however, what the man actually saw were claws. He fled in terror and reached the Convent of the Barefoot Carmelites, where he hung on tightly to the cross, asking for divine help to prevent him from being taken by the devil. To this day, his handprint can be seen on the cross.
...on a California Pottery platter purchased at the St. Vincent de Paul.
I mashed the yolks with ajvar -- a Balkan red pepper sauce I purchased at a specialty store -- a little mayo, minced sweet pickle, and minced fresh jalapeno.
Bogart Handsome Devil, Airedale Terrier, posing in his friend Mareike's backyard
See more of Bogart's adventures at his daily dog blog: www.toaireisdivine.com
Die Notrufzentrale erhält einen verstörenden Anruf: Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) gesteht, drei Menschen brutal ermordet zu haben. 20 Jahre nach diesem Ereignis versucht Marias Tochter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) herauszufinden, was in jener Nacht 1989 wirklich geschah. So reist sie nach Italien, in die Centrino-Klinik, um herauszufinden, ob ihre Mutter tatsächlich geisteskrank ist, oder ob etwas anderes dahinter steckt. In der Hochsicherheitsklinik für psychisch kranke Straftäter trifft sie eine verwirrte Frau, die ihrer Mutter in keiner Weise mehr ähnelt. Sie ist am ganzen Körper mit seltsamen, grauenvollen Schnitten übersät und stößt furchteinflößende Schreie aus. In ihrer Not wendet sich Isabella an die zwei jungen Exorzisten Ben (Simon Quarterman) und David (Evan Helmuth) und bittet die beiden, ihre Mutter mit ihren unkonventionellen, auf Religion und Wissenschaft gleichermaßen beruhenden Methoden zu heilen. Doch der Exorzismus geht schief…und keine Seele ist mehr sicher...
Bereits mit "Stay Alive" schockte Regisseur William Brent Bell 2006 die Horrorfilmfans mit seinem perfiden Film über ein Killervideospiel, das in der Realität Opfer fordert. Als Spezialist für „shocking moments“, lockt Bell seine Fans diesmal mit der Frage, was passiert, wenn ein Mensch von mehreren Dämonen besessen ist. In bestem Reality-Doku-Stil zieht er seine Zuschauer immer tiefer in das teuflische Spiel von Gut gegen Böse, das sein Kinopublikum nach einer besinnlichen Weihnachtszeit ab 01. März 2012 in Schockstarre versetzen wird...
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Devils Wall.
This is the „Teufelsmauer“, a geologic oddity that can be found near the Harz mountains and near to my stay last weekend. I visited the place before, it's a strange landmark. Weather was great, bot so much the time I got there, but at least some landscape pictures.
This amazing exhibition tells the story of arguably the Greatest Munitions Factory on Earth, which was constructed on the Anglo-Scottish Border between scenic Dornock in Scotland and bustling Longtown in England. During 1915, Britain was at a massive disadvantage in the early part of the Great War through lack of a decent and consistent supply of quality ammunition.
That is until 30,000 women and men travelled from all over the world to come and work in this one massive factory, purpose built by the government on the northern shore of the Solway Firth specifically to mass manufacture cordite: a smokeless explosive usually made from nitro-glycerine and nitro-cotton that would go on to turn the battle around! Within 2 years this one uber factory was producing 1,100 tons of cordite a week, which was more than all the other munitions plants in Britain put together!
Nach über 30 Jahren ist im Duisburger Zoo wieder der Teufel los. Seit dem 23. März 2017 haben 2 tasmanische Beutelteufel in ihr neues Gehege bezogen. Die Halbbrüder Cam und Currle sind aus dem Kopenhagener Zoo gekommen.
In freier Wildbahn sin die Beutelteufel von einer hochansteckenden Krankheit bedroht, der Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD).
Der Duisburger Zoo ist einer der wenigen Zoos außerhalb Australiens der Beutelteufel beherbergt und der einzige in Deutschland.
After more than 30 years, the devil is back in the Duisburg Zoo. Since March 23, 2017, 2 Tasmanian devils have moved into their new enclosure. Cam and Currle are brothers and came from the zoo in Copenhagen.
In the wild, the devil are threatened by a high-risk disease, the Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD).
The Duisburg Zoo is one of the few zoos outside Australia who show tasmanian devil and the only one in Germany.
Tasmanian devils could be extinct in 10 years :
my.nowpublic.com/environment/tasmanian-devils-could-be-ex...