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Description. In order to house the large numbers of formerly-enslaved African Americans, the Union Army created a refugee camp for them at a location known as the Devil's Punchbowl, a natural pit surrounded by bluffs. Many of the formerly enslaved there died of starvation, smallpox, and other diseases. [ 1]
Location map. Magic Map. The Devil's Punch Bowl is a 282.2-hectare (697-acre) visitor attraction and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated just to the east of the village of Hindhead in the English county of Surrey. It is part of the Wealden Heaths Phase II Special Protection Area. [ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4]
Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura. " Iblees Ki Majlis-e-Shura " (English: The Parliament of Satan) is an Urdu poem written by Muhammad Iqbal in 1936. It describes the meeting of the Devil and his advisers, and they discuss the current situation of the world. It was described as "a scathing criticism of the major socio-political and economic systems ...
Bano Qudsia ( Urdu: بانو قدسیہ ; 28 November 1928 – 4 February 2017), also known as Bano Aapa, [ 4] was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh.[ 5] Qudsia also wrote for television and stage ...
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [ 1] It is a Romanesque Latin Bible, with other texts ...
1929. Operated by. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area is a state day use park on the central Oregon Coast in the United States. It is centered on a large bowl naturally carved in a rock headland which is partially open to the Pacific Ocean. Waves enter the bowl and often violently churn, swirl, and foam ...
The Unknown Sailor is first recorded as visiting the Red Lion Innat Thursleyas he was walking back from Londonto join his ship at Portsmouthon 24 September 1786. There he met three other seafarers, James Marshall, Michael Casey and Edward Lonegon. He generously paid for their drinks and food and was last seen leaving for Hindhead Hill with them.
The Devils Punchbowl Natural Area is a Los Angeles County park, also within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest. It is located south of the Pearblossom Highway (CA Route 138), near the towns of Littlerock and Pearblossom . The Devil's Punchbowl Nature Center is operated by the Los Angeles County Department of ...