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Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil " or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?").
the Utpala hell (the hell of the blue lotus), the Padma hell (the hell of the crimson lotus), the Kumuda hell (the hell of the scarlet lotus), the Pundarika (the hell of the white lotus). The first four names reflect the cries uttered by sufferers in these hells because of the intolerable cold.
Second circle of hell. The second circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of the Christian hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin; the second circle represents the sin of lust ...
The Narakas of Buddhism are closely related to Diyu, the hell in Chinese mythology. A Naraka differs from one concept of hell in Christianity in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment or punishment; and secondly, the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, [2] though it is usually ...
Demon core. A re-creation of the experiment involved in the 1945 incident. The sphere of plutonium is surrounded by tungsten carbide blocks acting as neutron reflectors. The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb.
The Garden of Earthly Delights ( Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [a] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [1] It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain since 1939.
The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it was the United States Navy 's dominant fighter in the second half of the Pacific War. In gaining that role, it prevailed over its faster competitor, the Vought F4U Corsair, which initially had problems with ...
Aamon (also known as Amon and Nahum ), in demonology, is a Grand Marquis of Hell who governs 40 infernal legions, and the 7th spirit of the Goetia. He is the demon of life and reproduction.
Hel (1889) by Johannes Gehrts, pictured here with her hound Garmr. Hel (from Old Norse: hel, lit. 'underworld') is a female being in Norse mythology who is said to preside over an underworld realm of the same name, where she receives a portion of the dead. Hel is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional ...
John Constantine ( / ˈkɒnstənˌtaɪn /) [1] is a fictional character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Constantine first appeared in Swamp Thing #37 (June 1985), and was created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and John Totleben .