Dantes Inferno

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Israeli Scientists Search For 'Gateway To Hell'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 04.20.2012

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It's an ancient legend: Located in scattered areas of Earth are openings, doorways, gates, if you will, to some unseen underworld, also variously refe...

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Ask Pastor Paul: Answering Questions About The Afterlife

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 04.08.2012

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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Dear Pastor Paul, When I was eight I was taught two things in the same week. The first was that accepting Jesus was the only path to heaven; and the second was that there were a billion people in China who had never heard the name Jesus.

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Regarding Rodin, A Grotesque Love Affair

Posted 01.31.2012

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Auguste Rodin was considered a master of modern sculpture, although he had no personal goal to rebel against the past. Perhaps that is why Rachel Knee...

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Your Turn To Invent A Literary Board Game

guardian.co.uk | Posted 07.24.2011

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I'm excited about playing 'The Road to Canterbury', but surely there are other books that would translate well into dice-rolling entertainment?...

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'Do You Have Any Shakespeare Translated Into English?' And 12 Other Ridiculous Things Overheard In Bookstores (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.19.2011

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Is it really possible that some people don't know who Dante is, or, more shockingly, Shakespeare? According to bookstore employees, there are such peo...

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WATCH: Dante's 'Inferno,' The Stick Figure Edition

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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When you're too lazy to read an entire book ... and even lazier still not to read the CliffNotes ... then you can turn to this hilarious, shabbily ani...

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AUCTION HOUSE EXHIBIT: Art Inspired By 'Divine Comedy' On View At Sotheby's

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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The line between auction houses and art galleries keeps blurring. It is no longer unusual for Sotheby's and Christie's to take over entire galleries. ...

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UNDERGROUND ART: Dante's Inferno Underneath Waterloo Station

Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans are in trouble unless the UK increases exports. There they are, smugly denying us their resources like David Beckham on the bench. We need t...

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Dante's 'Divine Comedy' Reimagined As Graphic Novel

Seymour Chwast | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seymour Chwast

I took on this project with great trepidation because so many great artists have already interpreted this important work. Never mind, I took advantag...

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High Art for the Low Brow

Jessica Rovello | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jessica Rovello

It's more than a little surprising to see a new crop of console games trading in the old standards (football, hookers, zombies, guns) for a far older standard: renaissance art and literary classics.

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Dante's `Inferno' Video Game

AP | LOU KESTEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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While literary classics rarely get turned into video games, they share some DNA. Where would role-playing games be without "The Lord of the Rings"? Wh...

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Five Sequels to the Dante's Inferno Video Game

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laurence Hughes

Five video games based on classic literature that are guaranteed to put the gory back in allegory.

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Classic Literature That Should Be Video Games

ew.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Abandon all hope ye who enter the secret code to Level 9. The first part of Dante Alighieri's pre-Renaissance masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, has been...

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