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Hell in a Handbasket was the title of a 1988 Star Trek comic book. Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2006 book (ISBN 1585424587) by American cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who authors the cartoon strip This Modern World. "Hell in a handbasket" was the name of an undescribed con requiring a trained cat referenced in the 2004 film, Ocean's Twelve.
Hell in a Handbasket is the eleventh studio album by Meat Loaf, released September 30, 2011, in Australia and New Zealand, through Legacy Recordings (Sony Music Entertainment). A wider global release followed in early 2012. [ 12 ]
The phrase "to hell in a handbasket" means to deteriorate rapidly. The origin of this use is unclear. "Basket" is sometimes used as an adjective for a person who is born out of wedlock. [3] This occurs more commonly in British English. "Basket" also refers to a bulge in a man's crotch. [3]
3 Origin. 7 comments. 4 Order of the Sons of Liberty. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: To hell in a handbasket. Add languages.
The Hearse Song" is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was popular as a World War I song , and was popular in the 20th century as an American and British children's song, continuing to the present.
Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy, followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himself through Hell , guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil .
"The Stranger at the Door" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hávamál (English: / ˈ h ɔː v ə ˌ m ɔː l / HAW-və-mawl; Old Norse: Hávamál, [note 1] classical pron. [ˈhɒːwaˌmɒːl], Modern Icelandic pron. [ˈhauːvaˌmauːl̥], ‘Words of Hávi [the High One]’) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age.
The geography of hell is very elaborately laid out in this work, with nine concentric rings leading deeper into Earth, and deeper into the various punishments of hell, until, at the center of the world, Dante finds Satan himself trapped in the frozen lake of Cocytus. A small tunnel leads past Satan and out to the other side of the world, at the ...