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The most common usage of the word Hell is to refer to the afterlife of eternal torment.
Other meanings include:
- Hell or Inferno is the first book of Dante's Divine Comedy.
- Hell is a location in Michigan, United States. See Hell, Michigan.
- Hell is also a place in California, United States.
- Hell is also a place near Trondheim in Norway. See Hell, Norway.
- Hell is also a village in the Netherlands (municipality of Putten).
- Hell is also the site of unusual barren rock formations on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. The nearby post office of the same name is a popular location for tourists to send postcards "from Hell", complete with the postmark to prove it.
- Hell is also a word from the German language meaning "bright".
- In Norse mythology, Hell was an alternate spelling for the goddess of the underworld, Hel, see for more details.
- was a mid-1990s videogame that featured computer-generated representations of Hollywood actors such as Dennis Hopper and Grace Jones, as well as a novel based upon the game.
- Maximilian Hell, a Hungarian astronomer, born at Schemnitz in Hungary on 15 May 1720, died at Vienna on 14 April 1792.
- Hell crater on the moon is named after the previous.
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