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5 unusual facts about Inferno!


Basilica Cistern

The cistern with its inverted Medusa pillar was used prominently in the climax of the new Dan Brown novel Inferno featuring Robert Langdon, where the antagonist planned to make his attack.

Downtown Hades

Downtown Hades is the second album of the Norwegian thrash metal band Infernö.

Inferno!

Many writers who went on to publish novels for Black Library, such as C.L. Werner and Ben Counter, began their professional writing careers with short stories in Inferno! The magazine also published stories by established science fiction authors such as Barrington J. Bayley and Brian Stableford.

Inferno! (originally Carnage) was a bi-monthly magazine published from 1997 to 2004 by Games Workshop's publishing division, Black Library, which was initially just the name of the team brought together to work on Inferno!.

Utter Hell

Utter Hell is the first album of the Norwegian retro thrash metal band Infernö.


A Humument

Phillips has used the same technique (always with the Mallock source material) in many of his other works, including the illustration of his own translation of Dante's Inferno, (published in 1985).

Addicted to Bad Ideas

In 2009 World Inferno performed this work at festivals such as Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, Philadelphia's Live Arts Festival, Montclair State University's Peak Performances series, and South Carolina's Spoleto Festival USA.

Alecto

Alecto appeared in Virgil's Aeneid, in Dante's Inferno, in Miklós Zrínyi's Siege of Sziget and appeared in Dostoyevsky books, in his subliminar psyche, as one of the three Erinyes, and also in Handel's Rinaldo HWV 7 in the Aria "Sibillar gli angui d'Aletto".

Arthur Hertzberg

Hertzberg recalled that as a teenager in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, he would not accept the notion that the literary world of talmudic learning, the kabbalistic books and the writing of the chasidim were less worthy as compared to the Iliad, the Odyssey or Dante's Inferno.

Aura Noir

At their 2011 gigs at Inferno and at the Party.San festival in Germany, Aggressor, still on crutches, joined them as the vocalist for several songs.

Barlowe's Inferno

Fox Animation had originally planned to create a CGI adaptation of Barlowe's Inferno, but all plans were scrapped with Titan A.E. 's failed release & the subsequent closing of the studio.

Coastal cliffs between Porto Mosquito and Baia do Inferno Important Bird Area

The 160 ha site comprises an 8 km stretch of cliffs along the south-western coast of the island, from the bay of Baia do Inferno eastwards to the village of Porto Mosquito.

Crime in the Philippines

In Dan Brown's Inferno (2013), Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is described as a poverty-stricken area with a "horrifying sex trade".

Dan Simmons

"Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living In Hell", a 1988 short story lampooning televangelists included in Prayers to Broken Stones, is about a brief return to earth by the title character, an inhabitant of Dante's Inferno

Digital intermediate

This project based studio was the first feature film to use Discreet Logic's (now Autodesk) Flame and Inferno systems, which enjoyed early dominance as high resolution / high performance digital compositing systems.

Epicureanism

In Dante's Divine Comedy, the flaming tombs of the Epicureans are located within the sixth circle of hell (Inferno, Canto X).

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil is the title of three paintings by Ary Scheffer, all oils on canvas showing a scene from Dante's Inferno of Dante and Virgil viewing Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta in Hell.

Gaunt's Ghosts

The first two books are collections of short stories originally printed in the short fiction magazine Inferno!, published by the Black Library.

The series began as a continuing set of loosely connected short stories in the Black Library magazine Inferno! (issues 4, 8, and 30).

Gilbert Ralston

Ralston helped create the television series The Wild Wild West and scripted the pilot episode, "The Night of the Inferno".

Giovanni Malatesta

He is chiefly famous for the domestic tragedy of 1285, recorded in Dante's Inferno, when, having detected his wife, Francesca da Polenta (Francesca da Rimini), in adultery with his brother Paolo, he killed them both with his own hands.

Gorilla at Large

The only other 3-D productions released or produced by Fox until Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009 were the previous year's Inferno, with Robert Ryan and Rhonda Fleming, and 1960's September Storm, with Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens.

Hana Tsu-Vachel

She was supposed to return in the canceled sequel Fear Effect Inferno for the PlayStation 2.

House of Malatesta

His hunchback son Giovanni Malatesta is chiefly famous because he murdered his wife Francesca da Polenta and younger brother Paolo in 1285, having discovered them in adultery, and the murder is recorded in Dante's Inferno.

Jemma Palmer

She is also known by the name Inferno, which she used in the 2008 British television series Gladiators.

Jesse Chambers

The 1992 limited series Armageddon: Inferno re-introduced the Justice Society of America after their disappearance into and re-emergence from the limbo dimension of Ragnarok (where they had been trapped since 1986's The Last Days of the Justice Society).

Jimbo's Inferno

Jimbo's Inferno is a 2006 graphic novel written by Gary Panter, though it is actually Jimbo #7 from 1997 reformatted to the format of its sequel story, Jimbo in Purgatory.

Jonas Reingold

Reingold played bass as special guest on the Musea/Colossus release: Dante's Inferno with a Hungarian progressive rock band called Yesterdays.

Malbolge

Malbolge is a public domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge.

Minigore

Update 3.9 included new furries called fur-bombs, a new hidden difficulty called "Inferno", and auto-aim.

Pandemonic Incantations

A remastered digipak version was released by Metal Mind Records with 6 bonus tracks, including 5 live tracks recorded during the European tour in Toulouse, France on February 27, 1999 and a studio version of With Spell of Inferno (Mefisto).

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe

Modern commentators on the Inferno view it as some kind of demonic invocation to Satan.

Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe is the opening line of Canto VII of Dante Alighieri's Inferno.

Phlegethon

In the novel Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Phlegethon is guarded not by centaurs, but by military officers taken from all eras of history (with instructions to shoot anyone who tries to escape).

Red Inferno: 1945

Red Inferno: 1945 is a 2010 novel written by Robert Conroy, the author of other alternate history novels.

Ritratti

There are several literary references throughout the album,especially in "Odysseus", which references the Odyssey, the Canto 27 of Dante's Inferno, and "L'isola Petrosa", a poem by Foscolo.

Romano Albani

His film credits include Marco Ferreri's La Dernière femme (U.S. title: The Last Woman) (1976), Dario Argento's Inferno (1980) and Phenomena (1985), Troll (1986), a remake of Roman Holiday (1987) (produced for American television) and four of the movies in the Fantaghirò series.

Sandy Hawkins

Published in 1992, the Armageddon Inferno miniseries written by John Ostrander takes the JSA members out of Ragnarok and brings them back to earth, allowing writers to use them in future stories.

Sharat Sardana

Sardana was the writer of the BAFTA-nominated short film, Inferno (2001), starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.

She's the Sun

"Sunrise (Ratty's Inferno)" was used as the basis for "Sunrise (Here I Am)", the 2001 début single from Scooter's side project Ratty.

Tree of virtues and tree of vices

In the Italian Renaissance, Pietro Bembo developed a similar flow-chart-like "moral schema" of sins punished in Dante's Inferno and Purgatory.

Tuckerman Ravine

Just two years after the headwall was first run on April 11, 1931 by Dartmouth men John Carleton and Charles N. Proctor, the Ski Club Hochgebirge proposed a 4.2-mile summit-to-base race on Mt. Washington, to be called the American Inferno, named for a similar race held in Mürren, Switzerland.

Veronica Lazăr

Lazăr is probably best known for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980).

VidFIRE

The 1970s Doctor Who stories to have undergone the VidFIRE process are: Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death (episodes 2-7: 1 remains on original 2" tape), Inferno, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws Of Axos (only Episodes 2-3), The Daemons (only Episodes 1-3 & 5), Planet of the Daleks (only Episode 3) and Invasion of the Dinosaurs (only Episode 1).

Vita Nuova Holdings

Inferno is a derivative of Plan 9, which was originally developed at Bell Labs by the creators of Unix and C, among others.

The name of the company continues the association with Dante Alighieri, begun with the choice of Inferno, at Bell Labs, as a name for the operating system: La Vita Nuova, meaning "The New Life" in Italian, is the title of an early work by Dante.

Web desktop

The terms "web desktop" and "webtop" are distinct from web operating system, a network operating system such as TinyOS or distributed operating system such as Inferno.


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