Deluge
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A deluge is a large downpour of rain, often a flood.
Deluge may also refer to:
Mythical and prehistoric floods
- Flood myth, mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, and others
- Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths
- Genesis flood narrative, of the Bible, in which Noah builds an ark
History
- Deluge (history), the Swedish and Russian invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654–1667)
Firefighting
- Deluge (fireboat, 1923), a boat used in firefighting in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Deluge (fireboat, 1949), a boat used in firefighting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Deluge gun, equipment used in firefighting
- Deluge fire suppression systems, systems that have all sprinklers connected to the water piping system open
Books
- The Deluge (novel), Potop, an 1886 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about the historical event
- Deluge, a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough
- Deluge (novel), a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright
- The Deluge, a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert Payne
- The Deluge, a 2007 novel by Mark Morris
Film and TV
- 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
Music
- Le Déluge (Saint-Saëns), an 1875 oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns
- The Deluge (album), a 1986 album by Manilla Road
- Deluge, an album of 1997 of the artist Jocelyn Pook
- Deluge (band, 1978/1979), a three-person electronic popmusic band from Holland in the late-1970s, most well known for "Broom (with me)"
- "Before The Deluge" (song), a Jackson Browne song from Late for the Sky
Other
- Deluge (fine art photography), a museum exhibit by David LaChapelle
- Deluge (software), a cross-platform BitTorrent client written using Python and GTK+
- Deluge (Transformers), several Transformers characters
- Flame Deluge, a devastating nuclear war from Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
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