inferno
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Like the asteroid associated with the K-Pg extinction, the impact described in Inferno is portrayed as powerful enough to penetrate deep into the Earth and reshape the planet itself.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
The roughly 15,000-square-foot home was used as a filming location in the Oscar-winning movie ‘The Towering Inferno.’
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Supposedly the inspiration for Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the land here is a web of natural cracks in the rock that let a mix of steam and gasses reach the surface.
From National Geographic • Feb. 2, 2024
The album, which is partly inspired by Italian poet Dante's Inferno, and his experience of the pandemic, is released on 18 August.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2023
He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Dore illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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