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* Devil's Slide, an ongoing landslide in San Mateo County, California
This highway was replaced in 1937 by State Route 1, which followed the old railroad route through the Devil's Slide ; a tunnel is being built to replace this dangerous route, which has been closed periodically due to landslides.
Devil's Slide, Santa Barbara and Malibu are regularly affected.
A new wagon route bypassing the deteriorating Devil's Slide was opened in 1895.
The precipitous portion of the route down from the summit on the San Fernando Valley side was called the Devil's Slide ; horses were usually blindfolded and chains were used to augment brakes on the steep descent.
A new wagon route bypassing the deteriorating Devil's Slide was opened in 1895 to the north.
The area became infamous in the late 1960s with the Manson Family headquartered at the Spahn Ranch, near the top of the stage road's Devil's Slide.
The sheer cliffs of the Devil's Slide promontory.
Devil's Slide is a coastal promontory in California.
Immediately north of Devil's Slide is a stretch of California's State Route 1, famous for closures and landslides, which also is called " Devil's Slide ".
The Devil's Slide was used in a key scene of the 1960 thriller Portrait in Black with Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn.
Devil's Slide was the location of a military triangulation station and observation site used during World War II as part of the harbor defense of San Francisco.
There were six military structures at the Devil's Slide: three concrete and steel observation pill-boxes, two concrete and earth bunkers, and a reinforced steel observation tower.
Beginning in 1958, California began the process to replace Devil's Slide with an inland route over Montara Mountain, known as the Martini Creek Bypass.
Aerial view of tunnel under construction as a bypass at Devil's Slide
In July, the Federal Highway Administration ordered Caltrans to re-evaluate a tunnel to bypass Devil's Slide.
On November 9, Caltrans changed its position, supporting a bridge and tunnel as the best environmental, economic, and popular alternative to Devil's Slide.
After the Devil's Slide tunnel is completed in the fall of 2012, the old Devil's Slide highway will be converted into a trail for hikers and bicyclists.

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( 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At one point she is arguing that witches went to their meetings on foot or on horseback in a quite non-magical way, and quotes from the well-known confession of Isobel Gowdie: " I had a little horse, and would say ' Horse and Hattock, in the Devil's name!
It is also interesting to note that Quake was the game primarily responsible for the emergence of the machinima artform of films made in game engines, thanks to edited Quake demos such as Ranger Gone Bad and Blahbalicious, the in-game film The Devil's Covenant and the in-game-rendered, four-hour epic film The Seal of Nehahra.
Kelly-Bootle is well known in the computer community for his books The Devil's DP Dictionary and its second edition, The Computer Contradictionary.
It is an example of " cynical lexicography " in the tradition of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
The Computer Contradictionary is a follow-on to Kelly-Bootle's The Devil's DP Dictionary, published in New York by McGraw-Hill in 1981, ISBN 0-07-034022-6 ; the later publication shares only a little material with the original.
* January 5 – Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
A three-mile section of the dyke, which overlooks Tintern Abbey and includes the Devil's Pulpit near Chepstow, is now in the care of English Heritage.
" In Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary Yankee is defined in this manner:
He is courtmartialed and imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guyana.
* Captain Spaulding is one of many Marx Brother character related pseudonyms for Sid Haig's murderous clown character John Cutter in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses and it's sequel The Devil's Rejects.
Constantine I enlarged in 324 AD the borders of Roman Pannonia to the east, annexing the plains of what is now eastern Hungary, northern Serbia and western Romania up to the limes that he created: the Devil's Dykes.
The Devil's Throat is U-shaped, 82 meters high, 150 m wide, and 700 m long ().
On the Brazilian side, there is a walkway along the canyon with an extension to the lower base of the Devil's Throat.
The Paseo Garganta del Diablo is a trail that brings the visitor directly over the falls of the Devil's Throat, the highest and deepest of the falls.
Aconitum ( A-co-ní-tum ), known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's bane, leopard's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
Martorell () is a town that belongs to Baix Llobregat shire, in Catalonia, Spain, primarily known for its medieval Devil's bridge.
Present-day Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø referenced Thorvaldsen's " Jason " in the novel " The Devil's Star ", where the novel's detective protagonist is reminded of the statue when investigating a murder which happened in an Oslo apartment with neo-Classical furnishings.

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