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
• "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