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Recent Examples of nixieThis full function clock created by electronico is crafted from vintage nixie tubes.—Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.
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Sen. Dan Hall,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
Lung, 52, previously told Hong Kong local newspaper Ming Pao that the character was inspired by his childhood, which was filled with Nordic folk tales of elves, trolls and fairies.
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Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
25 Apr. 2025
Last August, Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen asked Blanchett, who played the elf Galadriel in all three films, if Lord of the Rings constituted her biggest payday.
What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
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Huntley Woods,
EW.com,
19 Dec. 2024
Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
But also the trolls who run amok without guardrails or moderation.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
23 Apr. 2025
One of the best aspects of the NFL's traveling draft show, however, might be when ex-players make their respective former teams' selections and troll rivals (David Akers, anyone?).
The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.
The secretive culture of The Masters even extends to gnomes.
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Larry Holder,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
As for future plans, Stinchcombe’s so far unrealized ambition is to sell the debit card as a white label product to banks–a solution the banks could offer to families distraught about grandma’s out of control charitable charges or garden gnome purchases.
California Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife of hantavirus days earlier, officials say
March 7, 2025
One of the couple’s three dogs, an Australian kelpie mix named Zinna, was found dead in a crate in their home when the couple were discovered on Feb. 26.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
Gene and Betsy were discovered at their home along with one of their dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, in Santa Fe Summit on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
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