Originally, the expression "Hell's Kitchen" referred to a rough neighborhood in South London. The term in reference to New York first appeared in print on September 22, 1881, when a New York Times reporter went to a police guide to get details of a multiple murder there. He referred to a particular tenement at 39th Street and 10th Avenue as "Hell's Kitchen", and said that the entire section was "pr ...

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Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen - Derivation, Hell's Kitchen - Clinton, Hell's Kitchen - Hell's Kitchen in popular entertainment, Hell's Kitchen - A vibrant neighborhood

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Hell grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, but went to a boarding school in Maryland for high school. There he befriended Tom Miller. They ran off together and after stopping off in Lexington they were arrested in Alabama while hitch-hiking to Florida. Hell dropped out and traveled to New York to become a poet. Miller returned to the boarding school and graduated. Hell eventually wound up in the tight social vortex that became the New ...

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Richard Hell, Richard Hell - Biography, Richard Hell - Discography

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DLL hell as described above was a very common phenomenon on early releases of Microsoft Windows systems, as they had limited facilities for managing system files and libraries (and existing programs often disregarded the facilities that did exist). Other systems, while not immune to the problem, are not known for the widespread occurrence of DLL hell seen with the pre-.NET framework versions of Windows. Pre-Mac OS X versions of Apple's Mac OS suffered from analogous (but technologically different) problems known as extension conflicts. Sever ...

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There are a number of problems commonly encountered with DLLs — especially after numerous applications have been installed and uninstalled on a system: The lack of a standard versioning, naming, and file system location schema for DLLs allows incompatible DLLs to be easily overwritten by each other and orphaned; The lack of a standard method for software installation allows incompatible DLLs to overwrite each other and unnecessary DLLs to be forgotten; The lack of linker tool support for DLL Application Binar ...

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In recent years, the neighborhood has undergone gentrification along with many other neighborhoods in New York City. Partly as a result, the alternative name "Clinton" (the neighborhood is legally known as the Clinton Special Use District) has gained in popularity. The name has long had some currency, however; the Chelsea Clinton News, covering this area and the adjoining Chelsea, has been published for decades. The term Clinton refers to the former New York City Mayor and New York State Governor in the 18th century, DeWitt Clinton. The neighborhood stands on what was once his farm land. One of the neighborhood' ...

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Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen - Derivation, Hell's Kitchen - Clinton, Hell's Kitchen - Hell's Kitchen in popular entertainment, Hell's Kitchen - A vibrant neighborhood

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The word "Hell" used away from its religious context was long considered to be profanity, particularly in North America. Although its use was commonplace in everyday speech and on television by the 1970s, many people in the US still consider it somewhat rude or inappropriate language, particularly involving children.[3] Many, particularly among religious circles and in certain sensitive environments, still avoid casual usage of the word. In British English and some parts of North America, the word has fallen into common use and is not considered profane; often considered to be a saf ...

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Hell, Hell - Origins, Hell - Religious accounts, Hell - Rabbinic Judaism, Hell - Ancient Greek religion, Hell - Christianity, Hell - Islam, Hell - Chinese and Japanese religions, Hell - Hinduism, Hell - Buddhism, Hell - Bahá'í Faith, Hell - Taoism, Hell - Hell in Literature, Hell - Hell in entertainment and other popular culture, Hell - Non-religious context, Hell - Euphemistic ways of saying hell, Hell - Language edits, Hell - Places named Hell

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The word "Hell" used away from its religious context was long considered to be profanity, particularly in North America. Although its use was commonplace in everyday speech and on television by the 1970s, many people in the US still consider it somewhat rude or inappropriate language, particularly involving children.[2] Many, particularly among religious circles and in certain sensitive environments, still avoid casual usage of the word. In British English and some parts of North America, the word has fallen into common use and is not considered profane; often considered to be a saf ...

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Hell, Hell - Origins, Hell - Religious accounts, Hell - Rabbinic Judaism, Hell - Ancient Greek religion, Hell - Christianity, Hell - Islam, Hell - Chinese and Japanese religions, Hell - Hinduism, Hell - Buddhism, Hell - Bahá'í Faith, Hell - Taoism, Hell - Hell in Literature, Hell - Hell in entertainment and other popular culture, Hell - Non-religious context, Hell - Euphemistic ways of saying hell, Hell - Language edits, Hell - Places named Hell

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While Hell has traditionally been regarded as a punishment for wrong-doing or sin in life, the problem arises primarily from the severity of the punishment, if Hell is indeed seen as eternal torture. However, the view of hell as "punishment" is not universal. For example, the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics see it as a condition brought about by, and the natural consequence of, free rejection of God's love. The debate mostly focuses on whether God would want to allow a situation where some people are consigned to Hell forever. Th ...

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Problem of Hell, Problem of Hell - The debate, Problem of Hell - Issues of Justice, Problem of Hell - Hell as a choice, Problem of Hell - The argument from ignorance, Problem of Hell - Denying the assumptions, Problem of Hell - Bibliography

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Commissioned by the Directorate of Fine Arts in 1880. It was meant to be delivered in 1885. Rodin would continue to work on and off this project for 37 years, until his death in 1917. The Directorate asked for an inviting entrance to a planned Decorative Arts Museum. The theme was left to Rodin's selection. Rodin admired Dante and was subjugated by the reading of the Inferno. He had sketches of some ...

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The Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - History, The Gates of Hell - Inspiration for the Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - Outstanding figures, The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur, The Gates of Hell - The Kiss Le Baiser, The Gates of Hell - Ugolino and his Children Ugolin et ses enfants, The Gates of Hell - The Three Shades Les trois Ombres, The Gates of Hell - Fugitive Love Fugit Amor, The Gates of Hell - Paolo and Francesca, The Gates of Hell - Meditation, The Gates of Hell - The Old Courtesan, The Gates of Hell - I am beautiful Je Suis Belle, The Gates of Hell - Eternal Springtime, The Gates of Hell - Adam and Eve, The Gates of Hell - Locations, The Gates of Hell - Popular references

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Although, as mentioned above, Moore does not subscribe to the whole "Royal/Masonic Conspiracy" theory of Jack the Ripper's identity and motives, this fictional approach did allow him to pursue his own societal critique of London at the time of the murders. It is undeniable that Moore and Campbell use From Hell to severely criticize the Victorian Era and its inequalities. In one chapter, the lifestyles of the wealthy Dr. Gull and the poverty-stricken victim, Polly Nichols, are brutally contrasted and compared. During another mur ...

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From Hell, From Hell - Plot overview, From Hell - Interpretations, From Hell - The film, From Hell - Awards

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Commissioned by the Directorate of Fine Arts in 1880. It was meant to be delivered in 1885. Rodin would continue to work on and off this project for 37 years, until his death in 1917. The Directorate asked for an inviting entrance to a planned Decorative Arts Museum. The theme was left to Rodin's selection. Rodin admired Dante and was subjugated by the reading of the Inferno. He had sketches of some ...

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The Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - History, The Gates of Hell - Inspiration for the Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - Outstanding figures, The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur, The Gates of Hell - The Kiss Le Baiser, The Gates of Hell - Ugolino and his Children Ugolin et ses enfants, The Gates of Hell - The Three Shades Les trois Ombres, The Gates of Hell - Fugitive Love Fugit Amor, The Gates of Hell - Paolo and Francesca, The Gates of Hell - Meditation, The Gates of Hell - The Old Courtesan, The Gates of Hell - I am beautiful Je Suis Belle, The Gates of Hell - Eternal Springtime, The Gates of Hell - Adam and Eve, The Gates of Hell - Locations

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Moore's and Campbell's book was filmed in 2001 by the Hughes Brothers. It was first released on September 8, 2001 at the Venice Film Festival. This film has been criticised for altering many details of the source (such as changing Abberline from a hardworking, conflicted police officer into a psychic who induces visions via opium) and remaking the complex story into a whodunit. It received mixed reviews and performed rather poorly at the box office, earning only $31.6 million in domestic receipts for a budget of $35 million. As usual with film adaptations of his works, Alan Moore r ...

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From Hell, From Hell - Plot overview, From Hell - Interpretations, From Hell - The film, From Hell - Awards

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Note: There are many variations to this game; a common set of regulations for four players is given here. See below for the variants. The game is played using a standard 52-card deck, with ace being the highest rank, two the lowest. The first hand is played with one card dealt to each player. On each succeeding deal one more card is dealt out, until all the cards are dealt on the thirteenth hand. After this, the number of cards per player decreases by one every round. The game is complete when the 25th round (with one ...

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Oh Hell, Oh Hell - Variant names, Oh Hell - Rules, Oh Hell - Scoring, Oh Hell - Variations, Oh Hell - Order of Hands, Oh Hell - Making bids, Oh Hell - Trump suit, Oh Hell - Double deck, Oh Hell - Miscellaneous

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The plaster original was restored in 1917 and is displayed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A series of plaster casts illustrating the development of the work is on view at the Musée Rodin in Meudon. Also in 1917, a model was used to make the original three bronze casts: The Musée Rodin, Paris: The Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo. Subsequent bronzes have been distributed by the Musée Rodin to a number of locations, including: The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin ...

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The Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - History, The Gates of Hell - Inspiration for the Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - Outstanding figures, The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur, The Gates of Hell - The Kiss Le Baiser, The Gates of Hell - Ugolino and his Children Ugolin et ses enfants, The Gates of Hell - The Three Shades Les trois Ombres, The Gates of Hell - Fugitive Love Fugit Amor, The Gates of Hell - Paolo and Francesca, The Gates of Hell - Meditation, The Gates of Hell - The Old Courtesan, The Gates of Hell - I am beautiful Je Suis Belle, The Gates of Hell - Eternal Springtime, The Gates of Hell - Adam and Eve, The Gates of Hell - Locations, The Gates of Hell - Popular references

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Despite the continued growth of Hells Angels clubs in Canada, both in Quebec and in Ontario, various law enforcement agencies continue to crack down on the organization. While some consider Canada to be the unofficial home to a new modern Hells Angels movement - one based on the original tenets of the club (i.e. protection for those who cannot protect themselves) - the organization continues to face opposition from more con ...

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Hells Angels, Hells Angels - Activities, Hells Angels - Altamont, Hells Angels - Canada

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The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club are viewed by many as the epitomization the outlaw biker counterculture of the 1960s, and Eldon Cowgill has been accused of gang rape, murder, and racketeering. The FBI has estimated that the Hells Angels take in $1 billion a year worldwide from drug trafficking, prostitution, and money laundering, though the club disputes this figure and attributes involvement in illegal activities to individual members, not the group as a whole. In rural areas of the United States (especially the U.S. South and Southwest), it has been claimed that the Hells Angels have been heavily involved with the prod ...

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Hells Angels, Hells Angels - Activities, Hells Angels - Altamont, Hells Angels - Canada

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HELL-HOUND

There have been many. Cerberus and Orthos, the guardians of the Gates of Hell are notorious enough, but there was also Garn, the Moon dog; the hellhound of Arwan; Falinis, the hound of Lush; the Hound of the Baskervilles; the whelp of King Ioruaidhe (who turned water into wine) -- and numerous others, from Egypt's most exalted Psychopomp of the Dead, the Dog-God, Anubis, to Walt Disney's gentle pup, Pluto, who was indeed named (tongue well in cheek) after the self-same God of the Underworld.

Dogs are quite naturally associated with death and the lower reaches. It is fitting that it should be they, after death, who conduct us who led them in life. Not only do our canine friends watch over us by night, guarding against every intruder and nocturnal peril that menaces the sleeping household, but they are quite at home in underground caves and even expert at digging. They are unperturbed by corpses or corruption. And, although their vocabularies of human words are exasperatingly limited, they are, as every dog owner knows, fluent in the silent, non-linguistic communication of ESP.

For the above and many other reasons, demons were once believed to take the form of dogs, especially black dogs. The Devil himself, in fact, has a black dog as his companion. White dogs are more likely the companions of white magic.

(See also: HELL-HOUND, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Hell's main export is, appropriately, kitsch. Among other things, it has a "fully non-accredited" college that sells singed diplomas, a small post office in the back of the general store, a motorcycle dealership, and an ice cream parlor. Hell Creek runs through town, and a bar next to the small dam across the creek is known as "The Dam Site Inn". Hell also sponsors a running event called "[1]Run Thru Hell 10 mile and 4.8 mile race." Each participant is ...

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Hell Michigan, Hell Michigan - History, Hell Michigan - Miscellanea

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Heavenly Adam. See 'ADAM QADMON

(See also: Heaven and Hell, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Heaven and Hell In Christian theology, the abodes of Deity and the celestial hierarchy on the one hand, and of Satan and his fallen angels on the other hand; the final goal of those who are saved and of those who are damned. The origin of the doctrine is founded in the ancient Mystery teachings concerning the human afterdeath experiences and the corresponding experiences passed through by the candidate for initiation.

Hell may be likened to kama-loka and also avichi, though neither is eternal. Kama-loka is better represented, however, by purgatory. Heaven is a reflection of devachan, blended also with ideas of nirvanic states. Thus heaven and hell should both be used in the plural, as is commonly the case in their non-Christian equivalents: Elysium, nirvana, Paradise, Valhalla, Olympus, and many other names for heaven; and Tartarus, Gehenna, She'ol, Niflheim, etc., for hell.

Heaven and hell may denote states of consciousness experienced in daily life on earth. A rough division of cosmic spheres makes heaven the highest, hell or Tartarus the lowest, with the earth beneath heaven, and the underworld beneath it and preceding Tartarus. The crystalline spheres of medieval astronomy are called heavens surrounding the earth concentrically. Far from being adjudicated by a deity to happiness or torment, after death a person goes to that region to which he is attracted by the affinities which he has set up during his life.

Thus theosophy teaches the existence of almost endless and widely varying spheres or regions, all inhabited by peregrinating entities; and of these regions the higher can be dubbed the heavens and the lowest the hells, and the intermediate can be called the regions of experiences and purgation. All spheres possessing sufficient materialized substance to be called imbodied spheres are hells by contrast with the ethereal and spiritual globes of the heavens. Therefore in a sense and on a smaller scale, the lower globes of a planetary chain may be called hells, and the higher globes of the chain, by contrast, heavens.

All evolving entities go to both the heavens and the hells of our solar system in accordance with their evolutionary necessities, and for the purpose of purgation through the suffering of material experience; but in all cases such peregrinating egos are attracted at the different times of their long evolutionary schooling to those spheres by sympathy or psychomagnetic pull. The immense justice of this idea, from which the heavens and hells of the different religions have come, is readily apparent.

See also LOKAS

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Perhaps the most notorious event in Hells Angels history involved the 1969 Altamont Concert—partially documented in the 1970 film Gimme Shelter[1]—featuring Jefferson Airplane and the Rolling Stones. The Angels had been hired as crowd security for a fee which was said to include $500 worth of beer. A shoving match erupted near the stage during a rendition of the song "Under My Thumb" (not, as is commonly thought, "Sympathy for the Devil"), resulting in the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter, by an Angel, Alan Passaro. Passaro was la ...

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Hells Angels, Hells Angels - Activities, Hells Angels - Altamont, Hells Angels - Canada

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