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  2. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    One of the sinners, Pope Nicholas III, must serve in the hellish baptism by fire from his death in 1280 until 1303 – the arrival in Hell of Pope Boniface VIII, who will take his predecessor's place in the stone tube until 1314, when he will in turn be replaced by Pope Clement V, a puppet of King Philip IV of France who moved the Holy See to ...

  3. Decompression sickness - Wikipedia

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    Decompression sickness ( DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can also result ...

  4. For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...

  5. Ray J - Wikipedia

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    Ray J's sister Brandy described him at the time of Houston's death as being "very distraught" and "disconnected" as well as referring to it as "a very hard time in his life." [ 17 ] Ray J and Houston became very close in the last years of her life, leading to speculation of a romantic relationship between the singers. [ 18 ]

  6. Reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia

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    Ansyaad Mbai, the head of Indonesia's counter-terrorist agency, said that bin Laden's death "would bring positive impact" and that "it would reduce movements organized by radical groups since their main figure had died". [153] Japan: Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto said, "I pay respect to the US officials concerned. While his death ...

  7. James Caan - Wikipedia

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    James Edmund Caan (/ k ɑː n / KAHN; March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor.He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) – a performance that earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

  8. Optography - Wikipedia

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    Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several ...

  9. A Death - Wikipedia

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    The Bone Church. " A Death " is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 9, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, [ 1] and collected in the November 3 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. In his "Introduction" to the latter book, King suggests that he was somewhat inspired by The Hair of Harold Roux (1975), a novel by Thomas Williams ...