* Mary Jane Ward authored several books including The Snake Pit, a Book of the Month Club selection which became a major motion picture starring Olivia de Havilland.

An after-hours gay club with no liquor or occupancy licenses called The Snake Pit was soon raided, and 167 people were arrested.

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

MotoGP racing at Indianapolis is counterclockwise, with a new Snake Pit complex past the start-finish line before heading down the Turn 1 short chute and into the infield section.

" She won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own ( 1946 ) and The Heiress ( 1949 ), and was also widely praised for her Academy Award – nominated performance in The Snake Pit ( 1948 ).

She won the New York Film Critics Award for both The Snake Pit and The Heiress.

* Coeur d ' Alene is home of Snake Pit Derby Dames ; an all-female flat track roller derby league.

During the next few years, with pictures like The Razor's Edge, Wilson, Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films.

** The Snake Pit

A good portion of this part of the novel closely resembles the experiences chronicled by Mary Jane Ward in her autobiographical novel The Snake Pit ; Plath later stated that she'd seen reviews of The Snake Pit and believed the public wanted to see " mental health stuff ," so she deliberately based details of Esther's hospitalization on the procedures and methods outlined in Ward's book.

The Ocean View Club ( also known as the " Snake Pit "), an open-air lounge on the ocean side of Kwajalein.

The motorcycle course runs counter-clockwise, in the same direction as the oval events at the Speedway, and completely bypass the banking of the oval with a new infield section inside Turn 1 (" Snake Pit complex ").

The layout can be run clockwise ( car use, without the Snake Pit complex ) or anticlockwise ( for motorcycle use, with the Snake Pit complex ).

Their playoff game against the Arizona Rattlers took place on July 27, 2000 with a crowd of 9, 471 at the US Airways Center ( then named America West Arena, dubbed " the Snake Pit ") in Phoenix.

During the ceremony intended to invest Temple with leadership, however, King Snake rebelled, declared himself the next Naja-Naja, and his followers healed his eyes in a Lazarus Pit the cult has access to ( which could only be opened by Temple, explaining Sir Edmund's subterfuge ).

Its most common nickname is " The Purple Palace ," though during the Rattlers ' season it is known as " the Snake Pit.

* " The Brute from the Ford's Snake Pit ".

* The Snake Pit ( 1948 )

The Upper Snake ecoregion is defined as the Snake River watershed above Shoshone Falls, which totally blocks fish migration.

The Snake is by far the largest tributary.

Compared to the Columbia above the confluence, the Snake is longer ( 113 %), and its drainage basin is larger ( 104 %).

Ex-soldier Snake Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is given 24 hours to find the President of the United States, who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One.

" Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is escorted to the prison on Manhattan Island by armed officers.

Snake finds the President in a railroad car, but he is captured by the Duke's men.

While Snake is forced to fight with a prisoner named Slag ( Ox Baker ), Brain and Maggie trick the Duke's men into letting them see the President.

Snake is lifted to safety, and the explosives are deactivated with seconds to spare.

" All that matters to Snake, according to the actor, is " the next 60 seconds.

The character Solid Snake is strongly based on Snake Plissken.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

New Line Cinema ( one-time video distributor of the original ) acquired the rights to the film from co-rights holder StudioCanal, who will control the European rights, and Carpenter, who will serve as an executive producer and said, " Snake is one of my fondest creations.

In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

While a hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain ( access via the Dead Sea Highway ) is considered part of the " Masada experience ," a cable car operates at the site for those who wish to avoid the physical exertion.

The more common theory is that the name originated in the Western regions of the United States, and is derived from a topical preparation made from the Chinese Water Snake ( Enhydris chinensis ) used by Chinese laborers to treat joint pain.

* Flåklypa Grand Prix: In this animated movie, Snake Oil is used as a name for a shady oil company.

Snake venom is produced by glands below the eye ( the mandibular gland ) and delivered to the victim through tubular or channeled fangs.

*** Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake ( 1990 ) is set on December 24, 1999.

Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River, thirty miles ( 48 km ) northwest of the Lower Granite Dam.

Because of dams ( and their locks ) on the Snake and Columbia River, Lewiston is reachable by some ocean-going vessels.

Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers.

* 1948: The Snake Pit-Thomas Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio

Until 1948, Snake Island was considered part of the Romanian coastal city of Sulina.

In 1948, the Soviets forced the Romanian side ( occupied by Soviet troops ) to accept the " transfer " of Snake Island to the Soviet Union, as well as to accept to move the Romanian border in the Danube Delta towards the west, in favour of the USSR ( resulting in the annexation of Limba Island by the USSR ).

After the war, Romania regained the Transylvanian territories lost to Hungary, but not those lost to either Bulgaria or the Soviet Union, and in 1948 the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Soviet-occupied Communist Romania also provided for the transfer of four uninhabited islands to the USSR, three in the Danube Delta, and one in the Black Sea ( Snake Island ),

* The Snake Pit ( 1948 )

* The Snake Pit ( 1948 )

He was in Green for Danger ( 1946 ) and The Snake Pit ( 1948 ).

* 1948 The Snake Pit

He was best known as the Academy Award nominated director of the 1948 film The Snake Pit.

At the end of the war, Litvak returned to filmmaking and was nominated in 1948 for a Best Director Oscar for The Snake Pit ( 1948 ), starring Olivia de Havilland.

* The Snake Pit ( 1948 )

* Northern Dobrogea ( including Snake Island ): today in Romania ( excepting some Danubian islands and the Snake Island which are located in URSS since 1948 and in Ukraine since 1991 );

During or after World War II Romania lost some of the above mentioned regions: Southern Dobruja ( in 1940 ), Northern Bukovina and Hertza ( in 1940 ), the Snake Island ( in 1948 ) and Bessarabia ( in 1940 ).