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Diablo wind is a name that has been occasionally used for the hot, dry wind from the northeast that typically occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California during the spring and fall. The same wind pattern also affects other parts of California's coastal ranges and the western slopes of Sierra Nevada, with many media and ...
California Governor Jerry Brown issued a state of emergency for Napa, Sonoma, and Yuba counties, a declaration that mobilizes the California National Guard.
Catalan scholars Carme Oriol [] and Josep Pujol [] classified the tale in the index of Catalan rondallas ('fairy tales'), with the typing 425A, Amor i Psique.In the Catalan typing, the heroine pulls a thyme bush ('farigola') and meets the enchanted prince; she breaks a prohibition and loses him; she is then forced to search for him and finds him just as he is about to marry another woman; she ...
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" is a short story by J. D. Salinger that appears in his collection Nine Stories. [1] It was originally published in the March 20, 1948 issue of The New Yorker.
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Author of The Devil in Love, Jacques Cazotte. The Devil in Love (French: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with a young Spanish nobleman [1] named Don Alvaro, an amateur human dabbler, and attempts, in the guise of a young woman, to win his affections.
Robert commits one of his crimes (left) and is knighted (right); 15th-century illustration from the Chronique de Normandie. Robert the Devil (Latin: Robertus Diabolus) is a legend of medieval origin about a Norman knight who discovers he is the son of Satan.
The Bodleian Library has a first draft of Epipsychidion, "consisting of three versions, more or less complete, of the 'Preface [Advertisement]'; a version in ink and pencil, much cancelled, of the last eighty lines of the poem; and some additional lines which did not appear in print". [3]