Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

The largest was called Royal Island, another St. Joseph ( after the patron saint of the expedition ), and the smallest of the islands, surrounded by strong currents, Île du Diable ( the infamous " Devil's Island ").

The islands became notorious for the brutality of life there, centering around the notorious Devil's Island.

The infamous penal colonies, including Devil's Island, were gradually phased out and then formally closed in 1951.

* The Devil's Island ( 1978 )

* January 5 – Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

He is courtmartialed and imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guyana.

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Dreyfus was court-martialled, convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island in French Guiana.

Émile Zola's " J ' Accuse " accused the highest levels of the French Army of obstruction of justice and antisemitism by having wrongfully convicted Alfred Dreyfus to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

From 1851 to 1951 it was the site of a notorious penal colony, Devil's Island ( Île du Diable ).

Prisoners included Alfred Dreyfus, en route to the penal colony of Devil's Island after his conviction for treason.

That same year, Napoleon III began shipping political prisoners and criminals to penal colonies such as Devil's Island or ( in milder cases ) New Caledonia.

Clemenceau left France for the United States when the Imperial agents began cracking down on dissidents ( sending most of them to the bagne de Cayennes ( Devil's Island Penal System ) in French Guiana.

Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony at Devil's Island in French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement, where he was to spend almost 5 years.

On 5 January 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony on Devil's Island in French Guiana.

However, his health had deteriorated during his imprisonment on Devil's Island and, at his request, he was granted an honorable discharge in 1907.

* Dreyfus: Prisoner of Devil's Island – Music Theatre piece – Music and Lyrics by Bryan Kesselman, St Giles Cripplegate, London, November 1998 ; Part of the 9th London international Jewish Music Festival.

* The Time Tunnel, episode Devil's Island.

Newman & Phillips encounter Captain Dreyfus, newly arrived on Devil's Island.

* In the first season episode " Rock-a-Bye Munster ", of the TV show " The Munsters ", Herman and Lilly mention meeting ' that charming Captain Dreyfus ' on their honeymoon at Devil's Island.

On 5 January 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana.

Dreyfus's time in prison, notably at Devil's Island, had been hard on his health, and he was granted early retirement in October 1907.

The horrors of the penal settlement were publicized during the Dreyfus Case, as the French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was unjustly convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island on 5 January 1895.

The Guiana Space Centre ( as per CNES ) also holds the Îles du Salut, a former penal colony including the infamous Devil's Island.

Convicted, he was formally stripped of his military rank in a public ceremony of degradation, and then shipped to the penal colony of Devil's Island ( l ' Île du Diable ) off the coast of French Guiana.

* Devil's Island, a former penal colony in French Guiana

In 1920, Belbenoît was sentenced to eight years of hard labor in the penal colony of French Guiana, referred to as Devil's Island.

Devil's island was first used to house the prison system's leper colony.

Folk tradition has long claimed that a site called " Devil's Backbone " at Rose Island, about fourteen miles upstream from Louisville, Kentucky, was once home to a colony of Welsh-speaking Indians.

* 1992 Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area near Rocksprings, home to the largest single-chambered cavern and third-deepest in the state, opens to the public.

The Devil's Brood opens with the conflict between Henry II, his wife, and their four sons, which escalates into a decade of warfare and rebellion pitting the sons against the father and the brothers against each other while Eleanor spends the period imprisoned by Henry.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.

There the admiral wrote letters describing the events of the previous months: " It is an old saying, ' the Devil's children have the Devil's luck.

In the late afternoon of July 2, Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank, and fierce fighting raged at Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Devil's Den, and the Peach Orchard.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

1973 ); Charles Berlitz ( The Bermuda Triangle, 1974 ); Richard Winer ( The Devil's Triangle, 1974 ), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

* The Devil's Triangle, ( 1974 ), Richard Winer ( ISBN 0553106880 ); this particular book sold well over a million copies by the end of its first year ; to date there have been at least 17 printings.

In particular, the reforms eliminated the office of the Promoter of the Faith ( Latin: promotor fidei ), popularly known as the Devil's advocate, who was required to present a case against canonization.

* The Devil's World: Heresy and Society 1100 – 1320, Andrew P. Roach ( Harlow ; Pearson Longman, 2005 )

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

The Devil's Dyke, for example, the Danubian earthworks traditionally attributed to Diocletian, cannot even be securely dated to a particular century.

According to Mara Leveritt, investigative journalist and author of Devil's Knot, " Police records were a mess.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.

* 1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.

In 1926, the skull of a Neanderthal child was found in Devil's Tower.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following the French Revolution of 1789, a hugely influential grimoire was published under the title of the Grand Grimoire, which was considered particularly powerful because it involved conjuring and making a pact with the Devil's chief minister, Lucifugé Rofocale, in order to gain wealth from him.

His novel The Devil's Elixirs ( 1815 ) was influenced by Lewis's novel The Monk, and is even mentioned during the book.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

During his stint in the Church of Satan, Bonewits appeared in some scenes of the 1970 documentary Satanis: The Devil's Mass.

* Little Nemo digital comic books from Devil's Due Digital.