• The Snake Pit is a 1948 American psychological drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste...
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    A snake pit is, in a literal sense, a hole filled with snakes. In idiomatic speech, "snake pits" are places of horror, torture and death in European legends...
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  • snake pit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A snake pit is a place of horror, torture, and death in European legends and fairy tales. The Snake Pit...
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    also the only viperids found in the Americas. The groups of snakes represented here include rattlesnakes, lanceheads, and Asian pit vipers. The type genus...
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  • was swept up in a police raid on the Snake Pit gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in March 1970. The raid at the Stonewall Inn that had sparked rioting...
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    Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote...
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  • a trainer in the sport, he taught some of the leading post-World War II figures in catch wrestling at his training school "The Snake Pit" in Wigan, Lancashire...
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    inside the temple (on the praharam of gomathi amman's sanctum santorum) and it is believed that applying the holy sand/mud taken from the snake pit on one's...
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    called "The Snake Pit", which debuted on the first episode of WWF Wrestling Challenge in late 1986. "The Snake Pit" was patterned after "Piper's Pit", wherein...
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    65-foot-tall (20 m) tall waterslide complex known as Snake Pit would be opened for the 2014 season. Snake Pit features six water slides. Also new for 2014 was...
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    17. The 25-feet wide snake pit was dug beneath the Star-Picking Belvedere. Venomous spiders and exceedingly venomous snakes were put into the pit. Once...
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    Olivia de Havilland (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    distinguished herself for performances in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949), receiving nominations for...
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    semi-autobiographical book The Snake Pit was made into an Oscar-winning film. Ward authored eight books during her lifetime, the most noted being The Snake Pit, which received...
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    Manitoba. The dens are the winter home of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis). These pits are the largest known...
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    of Chithirai.The temple also emerged prosperous during the reign of Tenkasi Pandyas. A snake pit found in the prakaram located around the Amman Sannidhi...
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    Gunther (category Kings of the Burgundians)
    into a snake pit, where he plays the harp with his toes as his hands are bound. In the end, the snakes kill him. Gunnar's death in the snake pit is well...
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    Ragnar Lodbrok (category Deaths due to snake bites)
    and was thrown into a snake pit to die in agony. The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, Tale of Ragnar's Sons, and Heimskringla all tell of the Great Heathen Army that...
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  • her autobiographical novel The Snake Pit; Plath later stated that she had seen reviews of The Snake Pit and believed the public wanted to see "mental...
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  • competed in catch wrestling. At the 2018 Catch Wrestling World Championships hosted by The Snake Pit, Henry was the runner-up in the lightweight category. In...
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    (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). De...
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  • Snake City (also known as Snakes in the City) is a wildlife documentary television series that stars snake-catchers Simon Keys and his partner, Siouxsie...
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    featured at the Snake Pit. In the mid-2010s, the revelry in the Snake Pit has somewhat re-intensified, however, not to the levels witnessed in the 1970s and...
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    The Snake Man is the common name for a reptile show at La Perouse, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Also known as 'the snake pit', an occasional Sunday afternoon...
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    971 known snake species with around 600 venomous species in the world, and about 200 are able to kill a human. This is an overview of the snakes that pose...
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    Forest (1948), and The Snake Pit (1948). She continued to hold left-wing political views and admittedly attempted to join the Communist Party. In her...
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  • Karl Gotch (category Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics)
    (later dubbed "The Snake Pit"), run by the renowned catch wrestler Billy Riley. He debuted in 1950, wrestling throughout Europe under the ring name Karl...
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  • beaked snake Ball Python Bird snake Black-headed snake Mexican black kingsnake Black rat snake Black snake Red-bellied black snake Blind snake Brahminy...
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  • The Snake Pit is a wrestling gym and organisation in Aspull, Wigan Borough, England. It hosts the Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club. Founded in 1948 by Billy...
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    M72 World Tour (category Concert tours of the Netherlands)
    the "Snake Pit" to the center stage, the tour features two or more performances in the majority of cities played. On the announcement of the tour the...
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    Anatole Litvak (category French emigrants to the United States)
    He directed Olivia de Havilland to an Academy Award nomination for The Snake Pit (1948). He directed Jean Gabin in his screen debut and directed Elia...
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