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Karlu Karlu is the aboriginal name for this area of large, rounded, weathered, granite rocks 100 km south of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
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).
Devil's pins (Hovea pungens) a shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to Western Australia with the Noongar name buyenak
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Blackhead Mountain Range on Saturday May 8, 2010.
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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”.
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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
A frisky tasmanian devil seen at a wildlife reserve iin Tasmania.
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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…
In the gardens at the Kula Lodge there blooming was th Kalanchoe Delagoensis , commonly known as Mother of Millions or Devils Backbone, is native to Madagascar.
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.
Devils Tower rises above the surrounding grassland and Ponderosa pine forests like a rocky sentinel. Northern Plains tribes have worshipped near this remarkable geologic formation for thousands of years. Fur trappers, explorers, and settlers alike were awed by the tower's majesty. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Devils Tower as our nation's first national monument. Many have gazed at the Tower and wondered, "How did this amazing formation form?"
day 78 : 03.22.09
yet another appearance of the gusbuster on 365, snuggling on the bed with us for a bit before we go to sleep... he can't ever get up on the bed without bringing a toy, and this time the lucky comfort object of choice was his bad cuz, which we refer to simply as the "devil ball". it's definitely one of his favorites.
explore #424. :)