Entelodonts are an extinct group of rather pig-like omnivorous mammals with bulky bodies but short, slender legs, and long muzzles.

Entelodonts lived in the forests and plains where they were the apex predators of North America's Early Miocene and Oligocene, consuming carrion and live animals and rounding off their diet with plants and tubers.

They competed with the Mesonychids and the Entelodonts and ultimately outlasted them by the start of the Oligocene and by the middle of the Miocene respectively, but lost ground to the carnivorans.

Entelodonts had a full set of teeth, including large canines, heavy incisors, and relatively simple, yet powerful, molars.

Entelodonts appear in the third episode of the popular BBC documentary Walking with Beasts, where in the program, the narrator always refers to the creatures as " Entelodonts ," rather than a more specific genus, such as Entelodon or Archaeotherium.

Entelodonts were also the main focus of Episode 4 of National Geographic Channels show Prehistoric Predators in an episode titled Killer Pig.

In the program, the narrator always calls the creatures " Entelodonts ", instead of the specific genus name.

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Two features of his view particularly resonated with the early spiritualists: first, that there is not a single hell and a single heaven, but rather a series of higher and lower heavens and hells ; second, that spirits are intermediates between God and humans, so that the Divine sometimes uses them as a means of communication.

Often most or all of the endurance, or at least the more serious ordeal, is concentrated in an orgiastic collective session, which may be called hell night, or prolonged to a hell week and / or retreat or camp, sometimes again at the pledge's birthday ( e. g. by birthday spanking ), but some traditions keep terrorizing pledges ( a common term for the initiation candidates ; alternative terms include newbie, rookie, mainly in athletic teams, and freshman ) over a long period, resembling fagging.

Those condemned to death were forced to wear a sambenito, a black cloak that had designs of hell ’ s flames or sometimes demons, dragons and snakes engraved on it.

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Thus, prayers were and are offered for all those in Hades, a word that refers to the abode of the dead who are not known to be in heaven, but that is sometimes rendered as " hell ".

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It made a hell of a fan, which you need sometimes for a fire but more often to shunt cows this direction or that.

His favourite themes can be described as the inner fight between good and evil in man, moving from lovely images of paradise to the terrible torments of hell, but with specific noble, philosophical insight ( however, he sometimes used colloquial language too ), enriched on occasion by modest humour, arising from a critical view of human society.

Eventually, the repository may become so different from the developers ' baselines that they enter what is sometimes called " integration hell ",

According to legend, the site dates from the fifth century, when Christ showed Saint Patrick a cave, sometimes referred to as a pit, on Station Island that was an entrance to hell.

However, some printed notes omit the word " hell " and sometimes will replace it with " heaven " or " paradise ".