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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. [1]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). [2]
"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 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.
Frontispiece and title page of the first English edition of The Devil upon Two Sticks, 1708. Le Diable boiteux (English: The Devil upon Two Sticks; lit. ' The Lame Devil ') is a novel by the French writer Alain-René Lesage.
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.
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".
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.
Wolffia angusta is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. [2] It has been listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest flowering plant on record, measuring 0.6 millimetres (0.0236 in) in length and 0.33 mm (0.013 in) in width. [3]