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The book was a hit across Europe, becoming a best seller in at least Spain, Germany, [8] the Netherlands, [9] and Italy. [10] The Number Devil also had considerable success in Japan. [11] After the success of The Number Devil, Enzensberger wrote a follow-up, called Where Were You, Robert?, a children's
Species name xiai is named after researcher Fangyuan Xia. [21] Poa fax J.H.Willis & Court – family Poaceae. This Australian grass has the shortest name of any plant. Poa is Greek for "fodder", and fax is Latin for "torch" or "flame", referring to "its dense, spike-like inflorescence which resembles a torch with ascending tongues of flame". [22]
"The Devil" (Russian: Дьявол) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1889, given an alternative ending in 1909, [ 1 ] but published only posthumously in 1911. [ 2 ] Like Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata , written around the same time, "The Devil" deals with the consequences of sexual emotion.
The tree is called the devil's, monkey's or Mexican hand tree or the hand-flower in English, the árbol de las manitas (tree of little hands) in Spanish, and mācpalxōchitl [2] (palm flower) in Nahuatl, all on account of its distinctive red flowers, which resemble open human hands. The scientific name means "five-fingered hand-flower tree".
Shortcut to Happiness is a modernized version set in the publishing world, starring Anthony Hopkins as a publisher named Daniel Webster, Alec Baldwin as a best-selling (via the devil) but terrible author named Jabez Stone, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as a female version of the devil. This version was made in 2001, but was halted before completion ...
Cartrema americana, commonly called American olive, [3] wild olive, [3] or devilwood, [3] is an evergreen shrub or small tree [3] native to southeastern North America, in the United States from Virginia to Texas, and in Mexico from Nuevo León south to Oaxaca and Veracruz. [4] [5] Cartrema americana was formerly classified as Osmanthus americanus.
9 Life-Changing Fruit Hacks Experts agree that a diet rich in fruits and veggies is the way to go. Fruits can provide essential nutrients, fiber and a host of other health benefits.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurant "The Friendly Toast" included a drink called Strange Fruit on a menu of cocktails named after banned books. In 2015 this generated controversy, as a patron took the name as a reference to the song of the same name and found it inappropriate. The drink was later removed from the menu.