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Devil -- a sicilian marionette -- in my office. Linden wood. Never used in a show, now guards books in my office. (I bet he has read them all).
nrhp # 00000853- Entrance Station--Devils Tower National Monument- Devils Tower (Lakota: Matȟó Thípila (“Bear Lodge”) or Ptehé Ǧí (“Brown Buffalo Horn”) (Arapaho: Wox Niiinon ) is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument’s boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the Monument’s 400,000 annual visitors climb Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.Tribes including the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Lakota, and Shoshone had cultural and geographical ties to the monolith before caucasians reached Wyoming. Their names for the monolith include: Aloft on a Rock (Kiowa), Bear’s House (Cheyenne, Crow), Bear’s Lair (Cheyenne, Crow), Daxpitcheeaasáao, “Home of bears” (Crow[6]), Bear’s Lodge (Cheyenne, Lakota), Bear’s Lodge Butte (Lakota), Bear’s Tipi (Arapaho, Cheyenne), Tree Rock (Kiowa), and Grizzly Bear Lodge (Lakota).
The name Devil’s Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Col. Richard Irving Dodge when his interpreter misinterpreted the name to mean Bad God’s Tower, which then became Devil’s Tower. All information signs in that area use the name “Devils Tower”, following a geographic naming standard whereby the apostrophe is eliminated.
In 2005, a proposal to recognize several American Indian ties through the additional designation of the monolith as Bear Lodge National Historic Landmark met with opposition from the United States Representative Barbara Cubin, arguing that a “name change will harm the tourist trade and bring economic hardship to area communities”.
from visitnature.com
NORFOLK, Va. - Paul Thompson’s hat trick was the dagger Saturday night as the Albany Devils completed a weekend sweep over the Norfolk Admirals, 3-1, at Scope Arena.
Albany capitalized first on the power play at 9:41 of the first period after John Kurtz got called for interference. Raman Hrabarenka started the play below his own blue line by threading a pass to Mike Sislo at center ice. Sislo skated into the Norfolk zone up the left wall and dropped the puck back to the center point for an incoming Hrabarenka. The defenseman wristed the puck towards net, which Thompson deflected behind goaltender Ryan Faragher. The Admirals went into the first intermission down, 1-0.
The Devils doubled their lead early in the second period on another power play goal, this time with Matt Bailey in the box for tripping. Joe Whitney manned the point and sent the puck over to the left wall and Mike Sislo, who turned and swung a pass to Thompson on the goal line. Thompson took a stride to the bottom of the circle and threw the puck on goal, which beat Faragher at 3:12.
Albany’s two-goal lead only lasted about two minutes before Norfolk broke the shutout. Mark Fistric broke up an attempted Devils break-out play to corral the puck at the blue line. Antoine Laganiere picked it up and rimmed it all the way down the boards. Dave Steckel stopped the puck behind the cage and shoveled a pass up to Louis Leblanc, who backhanded it into the twine and cut the Devils’ advantage to 2-1 at 5:13 of the middle frame.
Thompson put the game away with 2:30 remaining. Brandon Montour blasted the puck on Scott Clemmensen, which took a big rebound back to the blue line. The Admirals’ defense was unable to keep it in, and Matt Lorito poked it out to a waiting Thompson. The right winger took off into the Admirals’ end all alone and wristed a shot through the legs of Faragher, giving Thompson a hat trick and Albany the 3-1 win.
Faragher made 16 saves on the 19 shots he faced, and Clemmensen saved 37 of Norfolk’s 38 opportunities. Norfolk was blanked on both of their power play attempts, while Albany went 2-for-5 on the man-advantage.
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Datura fastuosa (or metel) = Devil's trumpet, Purple Hindu Datura, Jimson weed, burladora, downy thorn-apple
This native to India plant is toxic, most parts of the plant contain Alkaloids...
Title Slide for youth series on the devil. Addressing challenges teens face to day, how the devil tries to destroy their lives and how they can overcome through the power of Jesus.
design and illustration by Ian Moss
Johnny and the Deathrays deliver the sort of ‘stake-through-the-heart’ bass thump that you’d normally experience during a Motorhead moment. This is seriously hardcore psychobilly and eminently worthy of any Meteors references that might be invoked when describing their sound.
Opening an eclectic free-Friday showcase night at Scream Lounge, the band might be opening proceedings, but they’re easily worthy of headlining and if you like your music raw and edgy this is one for you.
Gypsies are next up, and by rights a frame as skinny as this front-man sports shouldn’t be capable of the deep and guttural howls and yelps that pepper a set of authentic Balkan beats that blend seamlessly with some seriously funny songs. This is music that is clearly born out of conviction and passion…and if there’s a better cover of ‘hit me baby one more time’ in circulation I’ve yet to hear it.
Headliners Devil Cocks are – unsurprisingly – not a group of shy and retiring shoegazers. Their tongue-in-cheek punk posturing is in your face without being threatening, and whilst there’s an element of pantomime you can’t help but get swept along with the mood. What they do with that weasel might bring tears to your eyes though…
Sebastian Walther (1576–1645)
Sünde, Tod und Teufel. Um 1635
Alabaster
Stadtmuseum Dresden –
Museen der Stadt Dresden, Städtische Galerie
Inv. Nr. 2.3/3
Tod und Teufel wälzen sich eng verflochten am Boden. Aus ihnen heraus erwächst eine nackte Frauengestalt als Verkörperung der sündenbeladenen Unzucht und Unkeuschheit. Es wird vermutet, dass die Gruppe zu einem Epitaph gehörte, von dem sich ein Kreuzigungsrelief in der Löbtauer Friedenskirche erhalten hat. Unter den Füßen von Christus als dem Überwinder des Todes und aller menschlichen Laster würden Sünde, Tod und Teufel ihren ursprünglichen Sinn zurückgewinnen. (Museumstext)
The devils arrows or bolts are 3 standing stones which sit next to the A1 at Boroughbridge by the river Ure. It is thought that there were originally 5 stones. (Alternative Names: Three Grey Hounds, Three Sisters)
The stones are composed of millstone grit and it is suggested that they date from around 2,700 BC and was carried here from Knaresborough. The lightest one weighs over 25 tons and stands 5.5m high. The 2 tallest stones measure almost 7m high.
The name Devil's Arrows is thought to date from the end of the 17th century when people believed that walking 12 times around the stones anti-clockwise would raise the Devil!
There are several legends about the stones associated with the Devil. The most popular legend is that these stones are the Devil’s crossbow bolts. He was aiming for the Christian settlement of Aldborough from Howe Hill but fell short by a mile.
Another is of how the grooves were made in the stone, which were actually made by centuries of erosion. The story is that the Devil tried to hang his grandmother but she struggled so hard that the ropes cut into the stone. When she broke free he tied her to the next stone. This continued until he ran out of stones to hang her from.
Yet another legend tells of how a local Chief of the Brigantes tribe held a meeting to discuss the merits of the new Christian religion over the existing, but dying out, Druid system.
The Devil arrived in disguise to try to sway the people back to the old Pagan religion, but someone spotted his cloven hooves which were melting the ground beneath him. After being found out, the Devil flew off in a rage, leaving pillars of molten rock behind.
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Livingstone Island, Zambia
Devil's Pool is adjacent to the famous Livingstone Island situated on the edge of the Victoria Falls.
During the drier months of the year, May to October, it is possible to walk along the lip of the falls. This can only be done from the Zambian side. After thousands of years of erosion, many rock pools have formed and one of them has formed right on the very edge of the sheer drop.
Over 500 million litres of water a minute cascade over the almost 2km wide falls, causing a deafening and spectacular explosion of spray which can be seen 30 miles away. This is why it is known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya, or The Smoke that Thunders.
You can find guides who will take you on the Zambian side, at the entrance to the Falls.
This is sunrise behind the Devils Kitchen from Llyn Idwal. On a morning like this there are not many places more bleak and desolate.
The Tower is an astounding geologic feature that protrudes out of the prairie surrounding the Black Hills. It is considered sacred by Northern Plains Indians and indigenous people. Hundreds of parallel cracks make it one of the finest crack climbing areas in North America. Devils Tower entices us to learn more, explore more and define our place in the natural and cultural world.
Datura metel L.
This plant may be toxic if ingested in large quantities, symptomatically expressed as flushed skin, headaches, hallucinations, and possibly convulsions or even a coma.
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD on Thursday, July 24, 2014.
Setlist:
Too Deep
Xanadu
Animals
Midnight Sun
Poor Paul Getty
Golden Earrings (Gandalf cover)
Devil You Know
Long Gone (Syd Barrett cover)
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the Tower's base, more of Devils Tower will be exposed. Nonetheless, the exposed portions of the Tower still experience certain amounts of erosion. Cracks along the columns are subject to water and ice erosion. Portions, or even entire columns, of rock at Devils Tower are continually breaking off and falling. Piles of broken columns, boulders, small rocks, and stones, called scree, lie at the base of the tower, indicating that it was once wider than it is today.
Fur trappers may have visited Devils Tower, but they left no written evidence of having done so. The first documented Caucasian visitors were several members of Captain William F. Raynolds's 1859 expedition to Yellowstone. Sixteen years later, Colonel Richard I. Dodge escorted an Office of Indian Affairs scientific survey party to the massive rock formation and coined the name Devils Tower. Recognizing its unique characteristics, the United States Congress designated the area a U.S. forest reserve in 1892 and in 1906 Devils Tower became the nation's first National monument.
The 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind used the formation as a plot element and as the location of its climactic scenes.Its release was the cause of a large increase in visitors and climbers to the monument.
Similarly, the 2011 movie Paul used the formation at the film's climax as an homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The Native American story of the formation of the stars of the Pleiades at Devils Tower is featured in the 2014 science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
It is featured in a 2019 episode of The UnXplained titled "Unnatural Nature", documenting and speculating about the formation.
Devil's Tower featured in 2019 film Godzilla: King of The Monsters as Abaddon resting.
Devil's Tower, by the name Mato Tipila, is featured as one of 34 discoverable natural wonders in the 2016 Firaxis video game Civilization VI.
Photo by Eric Friedebach