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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.
Devil's Slide is a name given to a steep, rocky coastal promontory located about midway between Montara and the Linda Mar District of Pacifica.
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.
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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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 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 ").
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.
Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.
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.
The Devil's Experiment was supposedly based on a film sent to the Tokyo police showing a group dismember a young woman.
The eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).
Whitehead purchased rights to the gyroscope of Ludwig Obry in 1888 but it was not sufficiently accurate, so in 1890 he purchased a better design ( ironically from Howell ) to improve control of his designs, which came to be called the " Devil's Device ".
The script was loosely based on the short story The Devil's Drool ( otherwise known as Blow Up ) by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar.
Gattaca was released in theaters on October 24, 1997, and opened at number 5 at the box office ; trailing I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Devil's Advocate, Kiss the Girls, and Seven Years in Tibet.
Eldredge notes that in Dawkins ' book A Devil's Chaplain, which was published just before Eldredge's book, " Richard Dawkins comments on what he sees as the main difference between his position and that of the late Stephen Jay Gould.
Dreyfus was court-martialled, convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island in French Guiana.
He was also portrayed by Charles Kay in the 1978 BBC TV drama series The Devil's Crown.
She was also portrayed by Brenda Bruce in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns of her son and grandsons.
This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.
The album's first single, " Deadly Handsome Man " was a song featured on the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back movie soundtrack a few years earlier under its original title, " The Devil's Song ".
From 1851 to 1951 it was the site of a notorious penal colony, Devil's Island ( Île du Diable ).
* Une Larme du diable ( 1839 ) (" The Devil's Tear ") was written shortly after Gautier's trip to Belgium in 1836.
Of those, one of the most well known was the Texas Brigade, made up of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Texas, and the 3rd Arkansas, which distinguished themselves in numerous battles, perhaps most notably during their fight for the Devil's Den at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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.

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Another particularly dangerous location was in the vicinity of the Devil's Punch Bowl, Hindhead, about south-west of Guildford.
S. T. Joshi has also seen Dunwich as being influenced by East Haddam, Connecticut, location of the " Devil's Hopyard ," the " Moodus Noises ," and a witch tradition.
" Spuyten Duyvil " literally means " Devil's Spout " or Spuitende Duivel in Dutch ; a reference to the strong and wild tidal currents found at that location.
The Schöllenen Gorge in the Reuss Valley between Andermatt and Göschenen is the location of the infamous Devil's Bridge.
In 1971 BBC Television used Aldbourne extensively as a location for the village of Devil's End in its science fiction drama Doctor Who in a series called The Daemons.
The area is named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where " Spuyten Duyvil " literally means " Devil's Spout " or Spuitende Duivel in Dutch ; a reference to the strong and wild tidal currents found at that location.
The Schöllenen Gorge in the Reuss Valley between Andermatt and Göschenen is the location of the infamous Devil's Bridge.

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