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2 unusual facts about DIABLO


Diablo III

In the game, players choose one of five character classes—Witch Doctor, Barbarian, Wizard, Monk, or Demon Hunter—and are tasked with defeating the Lord of Terror, Diablo.

The protagonist arrives in the town of New Tristram to investigate the falling star which struck the cathedral, which is now emanating risen dead; the same cathedral that was the setting of Diablo.


Autocrine signalling

For example, a small-molecule mimetic of Smac/Diablo that counteracts the inhibition of apoptosis has been shown to enhance apoptosis caused by chemotherapeutic drugs through autocrine-secreted tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα).

Battle of the Diablo Mountains

Setting out from Fort Inge in South Texas on October 1, 1854, Captain John G. Walker, in command of around forty men of the Mounted Rifles, headed for the Diablo Mountains region along the Rio Grande border with Mexico.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Chloe is picked to fight in the pit against El Diablo, a fierce Argentinean-Bolivian Doberman Pinscher.

The plot centers on a Chihuahua, Chloe, who gets dognapped in Mexico and has to escape from an evil Doberman, El Diablo, with a help from a lonely German Shepherd, Delgado, and a hyperactive male Chihuahua, Papi, who has a desperate crush on her.

Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve

The Preserve usually has an impressive variety of wildflowers in spring including the rare Mount Diablo fairy lantern (Calochortus pulchellus), Mount Diablo sunflower (Helianthella castanea), and Brewer's dwarf flax (Hesperolinon breweri).

Blizzard North

A few employees from the Diablo team, including Eric Sexton, Michio Okamura and Steven Woo, organized to launch a new company, Hyboreal Games.

Bobby Bones

His acting debut was a role in the 2008, American independently produced film The Legend of God's Gun in which he played a gun-slinging preacher returning to the debaucherous town of Playa Diablo seeking revenge from the notorious scorpion-venom drinking bandito El Sobero.

Characters of Diablo

Leoric (voiced by Chris Metzen in Diablo I and Joe J. Thomas in Diablo III) was originally a lord from the eastern lands and a follower of the religion of Zakarum.

Baal, the Lord of Destruction (voiced by Milton James) is the main antagonist of Lord of Destruction, the expansion to Diablo II.

Circus Diablo

Circus Diablo formed in 2006 with Camp Freddy guitarist Billy Morrison, The Cult's Billy Duffy, and Ricky Warwick - former member of The Almighty - meeting at Morrison's home and writing songs in his home studio.

Daisy wheel printing

In 1972 a team at Diablo Systems led by engineer David S. Lee developed the first commercially successful daisy wheel printer, a device that was faster and more flexible than IBM's golf-ball devices, being capable of 30 cps (characters per second), whereas IBM's Selectric operated at 13.4 cps.

Daniel Quirk

Among the wrestlers who headlined the event included April Hunter, Ariel, Cindy Rogers, Scotty Charisma, Rob Eckos, Jay Lethal, Slyck Wagner Brown, The Logan Brothers (Bryan and Matt), The Outkast Killaz (Diablo Santiago and Oman Tortuga) and All Money Is Legal (K-Pusha and K-Murda).

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Megadeth, BUCK-TICK, Cul-de-sac, Shin Joong Hyun, Yoon Do Hyun, Do Won Kyoung, Kim Kyung Ho, Lee Eun Mi, Crash, Crying Nut, Sinawe, Blackhole, Gigs, Black Syndrome, 3rd Line Butterfly, Rainysun, Bulldog Mansion, Diablo, No Brain, Pia, Jeremy, Frida Kahlo and Lazybone

The line-up included Anthrax (American band), Baekdusan, Crash, Moon Hee Jun, Wiretrap In My Ear, Kim Jong Seo, In Sooni, N.EX.T, Survive, Diablo, Crow, Vassline, Oathean, Galaxy Express, Mad Fret, Kim Jong Seo, Cherry Filter, Schizo, Transfixion, Dr.Core 911, Crying Nut, 404 Not Found, Vanila Unity, Boohwal, Do Won Kyoung, Kang San Ae, Maya (Korean singer), No.1

The line-up included Wiretrap In My Ear, Pia, Kim Kyung Ho, N.EX.T, Love And Peace, Mir, Dr.Core 911, Oathen, Crow, Diablo, Schizo, Bloody Cookie, Do Won Kyoung, Emoticon, Mad Fret, No.1

El Camino Del Diablo

Today, the Camino Del Diablo crosses the southern edges of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, and the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, terminating at Yuma, Arizona.

Eriogonum truncatum

The first recorded sighting of Mt. Diablo buckwheat was by William H. Brewer, the first Chair of Agriculture at the Yale University Sheffield Scientific School.

Inhibitor of apoptosis

Activity of XIAP is blocked by binding to DIABLO (Smac) and HTRA2 (Omi) proteins released from mitochondria after pro-apoptic stimuli.

Lobelia tupa

Lobelia tupa (Tupa, Tabaco del diablo) is a species of Lobelia native to central Chile from Valparaíso south to Los Lagos regions.

Los Andes no creen en Dios

The film is loosely based on the 1974 novel Los Andes no creen en Dios by Adolfo Costa du Rels and two short stories by the same author, La Misk'isimi (Sweet Lips in Quechua) and Plata del diablo (The Devil's Silver).

Samwise Didier

He is responsible for creating much of the artwork for computer games in the Warcraft, StarCraft, and the Diablo series.

Sergio Larraín

Photographs he took in Paris by Notre Dame Cathedral, which revealed scenes of a couple only upon processing, became the basis for Julio Cortázar's story, "Las Babas del Diablo", "The Devil's Drool", which in turn inspired Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup.

Sunol Regional Wilderness

Common amphibians and reptiles include the California red-legged frog, Pacific tree frog, California newt Diablo Range garter snake, Western rattlesnake and San Francisco Alligator lizard.

The Jesters

Under a different line-up, The Jesters reached #110 on the Billboard chart in 1960 with a version of The Diablo's "The Wind" backed with "Sally Green".

View from Mount Diablo

View from Mount Diablo is a verse novel by Ralph Thompson (b. 1928), which won the Jamaican National Literary Award in manuscript in 2001, and was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003.

Yamaha TRX850

Popular replacement tyres include Michelin Pilots or Pirelli Diablo Stradas.


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