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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.
Standing on an earlier mortar site Devils Gap Battery was upgraded in 1902 by mounting two 6inch BL Mk. VII guns with a range of 6,000 yards. The guns saw action in the First World War and the Second World War. In 1954 the battery ceased its defence role but the 6-inch guns were retained.
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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
The "Academic Devil" is one of a series of silhouettes from the 1960 edition of The Chanticleer, Duke University's yearbook. This image begins the yearbook's section on, fittingly enough, "Academics."
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
Pee Wee the Chihuahua is definitely a devil. If you stand still long enough, he will molest your leg.
...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.
The waterfalls at Devil's Punchbowl are a treat for people navigating over Schofield Pass between Crested Butte and Marble, Colorado. As this area is known for its challenging 4-Wheeling, getting here can be half the fun. The toughest parts of Schofield Pass are both above and below this point and people have been killed just above. So aside from all the death and danger parts, this was definitely one beautiful waterfall! Or should I say two?
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
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!
Tasmanian devils could be extinct in 10 years :
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Devils Wall.
This is the โTeufelsmauerโ, 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.
The downs at the moment look truely amazing wish I could have captured it as it really looks. This is the Devils Dyke on the way to work yesterday
Blue Devils:
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Though in the 1930s Paramin Blue Devils are reported to have used instruments carved from bamboo, known as tamboo bamboo, for their percussive accompaniment, they now ordinarily move to rhythms established by beating biscuit tins, which have sometimes been given a higher pitch by tempering them with fire. According to Ashton Fournillier, a Paramin King Devil, you identify the Blue Devil by the colored paint, generally blue; the pitchfork; and the blood and guts on the tongue. There is a dance that involves hooking the foot to walk together with movements of the head and shoulders simultaneously while thrusting the pitchfork forward and screaming to the beat of the biscuit tin. Blue devils also sometimes carry painted replicas of cutlasses (machetes). Whereas once they dressed only in cutoff shorts without masks, they now often sport wings, sometimes decorated with swastikas, wear other kinds of clothes, increasingly use animal masks, and until they were recently outlawed at times carried snakes. They sometimes uproot small trees, have been seen to eat small raw sharks snatched from fish vendors, or dismember live chickens. Like some other aggressive traditional characters, they scamper up hills, climb poles and occasionally buildings. In addition to the popular blue, they sometimes paint themselves red, green, black, or white. The staccato beat of their biscuit tins, their glistening body colors, combined with their traditional dance step and skillful maneuvers identify them at once. You distinctly hear them comin' down de road. One of their most popular antics is to blow large gusts of fire, either on the ground or in the air, by spitting kerosene into the flames of their flambeaux (torches made out of bottles of kerosene).
Among the devils there is a King Devil, who leads the sometimes aggressively threatening demands for "titi"; (Trinidad dollars). The King Devil is usually on a leash controlled by another jab, sometimes called an imp, who restrains the King, whether as an emblem of enslavement or a figure of authoritative restraint in the festive context. Though the role of King Devil is an honorific that is usually held for some time by one band member, and then sometimes passed to his son, other devils can exchange roles. The usual move is from percussion to performance, so that a person that this year provides the all-important percussive rhythm, next year might become a bulging eyed, drooling monster who moves and writhes with dexterity as he pleads for and plays with the dollars thrown or dangled in front of him. Despite the fact that for the most part they keep within their own boundaries, the ferocity of their demeanor and their elemental, transgressive threats are often frightening.
Geniune, period, postally used postcard from 1958 showing a Devil motorcycle.
I collect....
"Any philatelic material that depicts a motorcycle, or part thereof, or name of manufacturer, where the make of motorcycle is recognizable as being of ITALIAN ORIGIN."
In this topic I collect.... "Stamps, mint and used, blocks, sheets, FDC, postally used covers, maximum cards, miniature-souvenir sheets, booklets, postal
stationery, cancellations, metermarks, proofs, stamp art work, artist signed items, poster stamps, errors, some postcards and other philatelic items"
If you have any items you think I might like please contact me at gavinnz@xtra.co.nz
If you are a motorcycle stamp collector then contact me as I have many items spare.
Gavin
Here are the 69 makes I have postal items for at November 2013....
AERMACCHI AGRATI ALIPRANDI APRILIA AQUILA ASTRA BENELLI BETA BIANCHI BIMOTA CAGIVA CAPRIONI CECCATO CIMATTI CM COMET CONTI DEVIL DONISELLI DUCATI FANTIC FERRARI (SF PROTOTYPE) FREJUS FRERA GALLONI GANNA GARELLI GHEZZI-BRIAN GILERA GLORIA G.R. IDROFLEX ISO ITALJET LAMBORGHINI (PROTOTYPE) LAMBRETTA LAVERDA LEGNANO MAGNI MAINO MALAGUTI MALANCA MAS MASERATI MILLER MINARELLI MI-VAL MONDIAL MORBIDELLI MORINI MOTOBI MOTO GUZZI MOTOM MV AGUSTA NCR OXYGEN PARILLA PIAGGIO PRINETTI & STUCCHI RUMI SERTUM SIMPLEX SWM TESTI TORPADO TURKHEIMER VESPA VILLA WOLSIT
Words to help like minded people find me.....
Motorcycle stamps Motorcycle stamp Motorbike stamp Motor Cycle stamp Vespa Stamp
Moto Francobollo poster stamps Motor bike stamps moto busta
collezionista di francobolli del motociclo
"Qualsiasi materiale filatelico che raffigura un motociclo, o parte di esso, o nome del produttore, dove la marca di moto รจ riconoscibile come di origine italiana".
In questo argomento raccogliere... "Francobolli, menta e usati, blocchi, lastre, FDC, postally usati coperture, carte massime, miniatura-foglietti, libretti, postale
Cancelleria, cancellazioni, metermarks, prove, opera d'arte di timbro, artista firmato articoli, poster francobolli, errori, alcune cartoline e altri articoli filatelici "
A well known beauty spot to the north of Brighton. Local folklore explains the valley as the work of the devil. The legend holds that the devil was digging a trench to allow the sea to flood the many churches in the Weald of Sussex. The digging disturbed an old woman who lit a candle, or angered a rooster causing it to crow, making the devil believe that the morning was fast approaching. The devil then fled, leaving his trench unfinished. The last shovel of earth he threw over his shoulder fell into the sea, forming the Isle of Wight.