Deluge
Encyclopedia
Deluge can refer to:
Mythical and prehistoric floods
Polish and Lithuanian history and culture
Other
- A large downpour of rainRainRain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface...
- A floodFloodA flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...
Mythical and prehistoric floods
- Deluge myth, mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, and others
- Deluge (prehistoric)Deluge (prehistoric)In geomorphology, an outburst flood, which is a type of megaflood, is a high magnitude, low frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of water. During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods were caused by the collapse of either ice sheets or glaciers that...
, prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths
Polish and Lithuanian history and culture
- Deluge (history), combined Swedish and Russians invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654-1667)
- The Deluge (novel), Potop, a novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about it
- The Deluge (film)The Deluge (film)The Deluge is the English title of the Polish film Potop, a historical drama directed by Jerzy Hoffman, released in 1974. The film is based on the novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz...
, based on the novel
- The Deluge (film)
- The Deluge (novel), Potop, a novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about it
Other
- Before The Deluge (song), a Jackson Browne song from Late for the Sky
- Deluge, a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffreyAnne McCaffreyAnne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough - The Deluge (album)The Deluge (album)The Deluge is the fifth album released by Manilla Road. It was first issued in 1986, then re-released in 2001.-Track listing:# "Dementia" - 3:09# "Shadow in the Black" - 5:22# "Divine Victim" - 3:09# "Hammer of the Witches" - 2:41...
, a 1986 album by Manilla Road - Deluge (fine art photography), a museum exhibit by David LaChapelleDavid LaChapelleDavid LaChapelle is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style.-Early life:...
- Deluge (fireboat)Deluge (fireboat)Deluge , also known as Deluge , is a fireboat in New Orleans, Louisiana.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989....
, a boat used in firefighting - Deluge (novel)Deluge (novel)Deluge is a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright.In the novel, a global flood destroys all civilization other than areas of the English Midlands that remain above water. It follows Martin Webster, a lawyer who loses his wife and children. His companion, Claire Arlington, is an athlete and one of the few...
, a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright- Deluge (film)Deluge (film)Deluge is an apocalyptic science fiction film, released by RKO Radio Pictures, about a group of worldwide natural disasters which lead to the destruction of the earth....
, a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the novel
- Deluge (film)
- The Deluge (novella), a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert PaynePierre Stephen Robert PaynePierre Stephen Robert Payne , was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer.Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. He worked as a shipbuilder and then for a time with the Inland Revenue. In 1941 he became an armament officer and chief camouflage...
- The Deluge (novel), a 2007 novel by Mark Morris
- Deluge (software)Deluge (software)- See also :* Comparison of BitTorrent clients* Usage share of BitTorrent clients-External links:* * * *...
, a cross-platform BitTorrent client written using Python and GTK+ - Deluge (Transformers), several Transformers characters
- Deluge fire suppression systems, systems that have all sprinklers connected to the water piping system open
- Flame Deluge, a devastating nuclear war from Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Le DélugeLe Déluge (Saint-Saëns)Le Déluge , Op. 45, is a French oratorio written by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1875 and scored for orchestra, chorus, and soloists. The libretto, a "poème biblique" by Louis Gallet, is based on the biblical story of Noah and the flood...
, a 1875 oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns