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A dust devil seen in Amboseli National Park, Kenya in 1993. A dust devil (also known regionally as a dirt devil) is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind. Its size ranges from small (18 in/half a metre wide and a few yards/metres tall) to large (more than 30 ft/10 m wide and more than half a mile/1 km tall).
Dust Devil is a 1992 British horror film written and directed by Richard Stanley.The film stars Robert Burke as Hitch, a mysterious man who wanders the deserts in Namibia and is wanted by the police in connection with the death of a woman whose blood was used in a supernatural ceremony.
A dust devil captured by the Curiosity rover in 2020. Martian dust devils are convective atmospheric vortices that occur on the surface of Mars.They were discovered from data reported by NASA's Viking probes, and have been photographed by orbiting satellites and surface rovers in subsequent missions.
Martian dust devils, which took place on Mars rather than Earth; Tri-City Dust Devils, an American minor-league baseball team in Pasco, Washington; Dust Devil, a member of the Blasters in the DC Comics universe; Dust Devil, Australian musician and composer of the original theme music for the Cartoon Network programming block Adult Swim
A whirlwind A dust devil at school ground Whirlwind, 61 km northeast of Broome, Western Australia. A whirlwind is a phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow gradients. Whirlwinds can vary in size and last from a couple minutes to a ...
Portrait of the Saci-pererê (2007) by J. Marconi.. Saci (pronounced or) is a character in Brazilian folklore.He is a one-legged black man, who smokes a pipe and wears a magical red cap that enables him to disappear and reappear wherever he wishes (usually in the middle of a dirt devil).
Devil's Dust is a two-part Australian television docu-drama mini-series on the ABC which first screened in 2012. Based on journalist Matt Peacock's 2009 book Killer Company, [1] Devil's Dust was researched and developed by producer Stephen Corvini for over two years prior to the series' production.
If whirlwind = dust devil - dust, it doen't need its own page. 70.113.4.133 02:19, 11 July 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] Whirlwind is a generic term for the spectrum of whirls or vortices in the atmosphere, or in some usage specifically refers to a small whirl induced by strong winds interacting with a rough surface. [2]