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Deluge (history), Swedish Deluge
A deluge is a large downpour of rain, often a flood. The Deluge refers to the flood narrative in the biblical book of Genesis. Deluge may also refer to: History * Deluge (history), the Swedish and Russian invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654–1667) *Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths * Après moi, le déluge (lit. 'After me, the flood'), a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France in 1757 Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Deluge'' (film), a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the S. Fowler Wright novel * ''The Deluge'' (film), a 1974 Polish film based on the Sienkiewicz novel Literature * ''Deluge'' (novel), a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright *''Deluge'', a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough * ''Le Déluge'' (Le Clézio), a fictional work by J. M. G. Le Clézio. * ''The Deluge'' (Tooze book), a 2014 book by Adam Tooze * ''The Deluge'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flood
A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding, for example land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls such as with levees, and larger environmental issues such as climate change and sea level rise. In particular climate change's increased rainfall and extreme weather events increases the severity of other causes for flooding, resulting in more intense floods and increased flood risk. Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook (, rhyming with "book"; born 14 February 1960) is an English composer and viola player. She is known for her scores for many films, including ''Eyes Wide Shut'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' and '' The Wife''. Education Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied the viola with David Takeno and piano with Carola Grindea. Career Pook took part in the band ABC's Lexicon Of Love World Tour and appeared in the Julian Temple/ABC movie ''Mantrap'', continuing with a period of recording and performing with artists including Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Peter Gabriel and as a member of The Communards for their three-year life. She also performed in this period as musician/actor with experimental theatre companies Impact Theatre Co-operative and Lumiere & Son, as well as in several productions with The National Theatre. As a composer her early works were mainly for dance and she wrote scores for DV8 Physical Theatre, O Vertigo D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge Mountain
Deluge Mountain is a mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada. Description Deluge Mountain is a 2,789-meter-elevation (9,150-foot) peak situated 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) northwest of The Bugaboos, in the Purcell Mountains which are a subrange of the Columbia Mountains. Precipitation runoff from Deluge Mountain's southwest slope drains to the Duncan River, and from all other slopes into Crystalline Creek and eventually the Spillimacheen River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,200 meters (3,940 feet) above the Crystalline valley in two kilometers (1.24 mile). Etymology The mountain's name was submitted for official consideration in 1955 by mountaineer Peter Robinson (1932–2019). The landform was presumably named in 1954 by Robinson, who climbed in the area that year when his climbing party became drenched and cold while camped across the valley from this mountain. Sometimes the peak can be seen from Crystalline valley during a rain storm, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge Fountain
The Deluge Fountain is a monumental sculpture fountain which has stood with all its elements between 1904 and 1943 and since 2014 in Bydgoszcz. Throughout the first time of its existence (39 years) and since its rebuilding, the fountain has always been one of the tourist attractions of the city. History The fountain is outcome result of a competition issued in 1897 by the National Commission for the Promotion of Fine Arts (german: Landes für Kunst Kommission Förderung der Künste Bildende) in Poznań, which theme was water sculptures in Bydgoszcz. The competition, received 44 works, and rewarded a Berlin artist, Ferdinand Lepcke (1866-1909). The construction lasted 6 years. It has been built downtown Bydgoszcz in the Regency Garden (now Casimir the Great Park, Park Casimir the Great), separated from the main street by St Peter's and St Paul's Church in Bydgoszcz, St Peter and St Paul church. The unveiling ceremony took place at 1100 on 23 July 1904, the water system to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge (software)
Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python. Deluge uses a front and back end architecture where libtorrent, a software library written in C++ which provides the application's networking logic, is connected to one of various front ends including a text console, the web interface and a graphical desktop interface using GTK through the project's own Python bindings. Deluge is released under the terms of the GPL-3.0-or-later license. Features Deluge aims to be a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich client. To help achieve this, most of its features are part of plugin modules which were written by various developers. Starting with version 1.0, Deluge separated its core from its interface, running it instead in a daemon (server/service), allowing users to remotely manage the application over the web. Deluge has supported magnet links since version 1.1.0 released in January 2009. History Deluge was started by two m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge Gun
A deluge gun, fire monitor, master stream or deck gun is an aimable controllable high-capacity water jet used for manual firefighting or automatic fire protection systems. Deluge guns are often designed to accommodate foam which has been injected in the upstream piping. Installation Deluge guns are often fitted to fire boats, tug boats, and atop large fire trucks for use in manual firefighting, where they can be aimed and operated by one firefighter and are used to deliver water or foam from outside the immediate area of the fire. Deluge guns are sometimes installed in fixed fire protection systems to protect high hazards, such as aviation hangars and helicopter landing pads. Similarly, facilities with highly flammable material such as oil refineries may have permanently-installed deluge guns. Most apparatus-mounted deluge guns can be directed by a single firefighter, compared to a standard fire hose which normally requires several. Deluge guns can be automatically positioned f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Sprinkler System
A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method, consisting of a water supply system, providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, onto which fire sprinklers are connected. Although historically only used in factories and large commercial buildings, systems for homes and small buildings are now available at a cost-effective price. Fire sprinkler systems are extensively used worldwide, with over 40 million sprinkler heads fitted each year. Even though Fire Sprinkler Systems are a Life Saving System and are not designed to protect the building, 96% of buildings that had fires and were completely protected by fire sprinkler systems were controlled by the fire sprinklers alone. History Leonardo da Vinci designed a sprinkler system in the 15th century. Leonardo automated his patron's kitchen with a super-oven and a system of conveyor belts. In a comedy of errors, everything went wrong during a huge banquet, and a fire broke out. "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge (fireboat)
:''Deluge'' (fireboat) may refer to: * , a Baltimore fireboat that fought a fire aboard the ''Kerry Range'' in 1917 * , a former fireboat, now a registered National Historic Landmark, in New Orleans * , a fireboat that served for forty years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at th ... {{shipindex Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Knights
Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899–7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and her winning Rome Scholarship entry ''The Deluge'' which is now held by Tate Britain. Knights’ style was much influenced by the Italian Quattrocento and she was one of several British artists who participated in a revival of religious imagery in the 1920s, while retaining some elements of a modernist style. Biography Winifred Knights was born in the South London suburb of Streatham and, from 1912, attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich where she showed an early artistic talent. She pursued formal art training at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1918 to 1920, under the tutelage of Henry Tonks and Fred Brown. During World War One, Knights was traumatised after witnessing the Silvertown explosion at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge (Transformers)
The Autobots are the main protagonists in the fictional continuities of the Transformers multimedia franchise, and are depicted in a collection of various toys, cartoons, films, graphic novels, and paperback books first introduced in 1984. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, are opposed by the Decepticons, the main antagonists in the universe of the Transformers, headed by Megatron. Both Autobots and Decepticons have "sparks", which function as souls and contain their minds and personality. They can transform into machines, vehicles and other familiar mechanical objects, as well as mimic organic lifeforms (Dinobots). Autobots typically transform into cars, trucks and other road vehicles; some exceptions transform into aircraft, military vehicles, communication devices, weapons, or robotic animals. These Autobots are often grouped into special "teams" that have the suffix "-bot" at the end, such as in Dino''bot'' (Decepticon groups' names end in "-con"). In Japan, the Autobo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluge (fine Art Photography)
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American photographer, music video director and film director. He is best known for his work in fashion, photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as " kitsch pop surrealism". Once called the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for international publications and has had his work exhibited in commercial galleries and institutions around the world. Early life David LaChapelle was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Philip and Helga LaChapelle; he has a sister Sonja and a brother Philip. His mother was a refugee from Lithuania who arrived at Ellis Island in the early 1960s. His family lived in Hartford until he was 9. He has said to have loved the public schools in Connecticut and thrived in their art program as a child and teenager, although he struggled with bullying growing up. Then he moved to Rale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deluge (album)
''The Deluge'' is the fifth album released by the American heavy metal band Manilla Road. It was originally issued in 1986 and re-released in 2001. Track listing All songs written by Mark 'the Shark' Shelton, except "Morbid Tabernacle" written and performed by Mike Metz.. # "Dementia" - 3:09 # "Shadow in the Black" - 5:22 # "Divine Victim" - 3:09 # "Hammer of the Witches" - 2:41 # "Morbid Tabernacle" - 1:53 # "Isle of the Dead" - 2:53 # "Taken by Storm" - 3:19 # "The Deluge" - 8:13 # "Friction in Mass" - 6:27 # "Rest in Pieces" - 1:51 * Re-release has a live version of "Dementia" as the eleventh track. Credits ;Band * Mark Shelton - lead vocals, 6- and 12-string guitars * Scott Park - bass * Randy Foxe - drums and percussion, backing vocals, synthesizer ;Production *Max Merhoff - producer, engineer *Manilla Road Manilla Road was an American heavy metal band from Wichita, Kansas, founded by Mark "The Shark" Shelton (vocals and guitar) and Scott "Scooter" Park (bass gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
