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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.
Sure, that Christmas elf mistook them as Christopher’s two dads back in Season 2, but no main characters have ever genuinely vocalized the possibility of a Buck-Eddie pairing.
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Andy Swift,
TVLine,
21 Mar. 2025
Michelle Obama couldn’t make it, but part-time-painter George W. Bush had space in his diary (like all mischievous elves straight after Christmas), and the poor woman behind BFG Barron missed the whole event.
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?).
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.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
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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