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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.
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 ...
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.
Richard Stanley is a South African filmmaker, known for his work in the horror genre.He began his career making short films and music videos, and subsequently directed the feature films Hardware (1990) and Dust Devil (1992).
A fire whirl, fire devil or fire tornado is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often (at least partially) composed of flame or ash. These start with a whirl of wind , often made visible by smoke , and may occur when intense rising heat and turbulent wind conditions combine to form whirling eddies of air.
though aware all the time that its elements have no true bond; so that the slightest disturbance dissipates the delusion just as a horseman, meeting a dust devil, brings it in showers of sand to the earth. [13] C. F. Russell, one of Crowley's disciples, went on to found the Choronzon Club, later renamed the GBG. [14] [15]