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| *'''Holocaust''', from Greek ''holo-kauston'' "all burnt", in its original sense refers to a completely-burnt ], see ] | |||
| *the wider sense of "massacre, destruction of a large number of persons" is attested from 1833. Some writers who use an ] style, such as ], have used the word in reference to other things--in Lovecraft's case, it was an extraterrestrial antichrist called ], and his unholy father was ] | |||
| * ], the systematic killing of mainly Jews, but also Gypsies, Poles, and other groups in Europe during World War II that killed 11,000,000 people in all, earlier known in Hebrew as '']''. Since the 1970s, this has been the main meaning of the English term. See also ]. | |||
| *Post-1970s coinings of "holocausts" in the sense of "]" or "mass murder" imply a comparison to the ''Shoah'' and are often used polemically | |||
| ** ], in Asia and the Pacific islands under the Japanese Empire | |||
| ** ], the death of Africans on slave ships | |||
| ** ], or Cambodian Genocide, the 1,800,000 Cambodians killed in the 1970s at the hands of Pol Pot's forces | |||
| ** ], in China during the Japanese occupation | |||
| ** ], the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that killed 66,000 Japanese immediately | |||
| ** ], the '']'' during Soviet collectivisation | |||
| ** Armenian Holocaust, or ] that killed 1,500,000 Armenians | |||
| ** Gay Holocaust, see ] | |||
| ** Native American Holocaust, or ] | |||
| ** Nuclear holocaust, the anticipated result of ] and ] | |||
| ** Rwanda Holocaust, or ] that killed 1,000,000 people. | |||
| ** Holocaust of the un-born (abortion), is a propaganda term used in combination with ] activism argument. | |||
| ** "Holocaust on your Plate" was the name of an exhibition by ]. See ] | |||
| * ''Holocaust!'' is the name of a book about the ], which killed 492 people in Boston in November, 1942. The book was published in 1959, and the word "holocaust" is used in its earlier meaning. | |||
| in popular culture: | |||
| * ], a Scottish heavy metal band | |||
| * ], an American rapper affiliated with Wu-Tang Clan | |||
| * ], a Marvel Comics super villain | |||
| * Holocaust, member of ], by ] | |||
| * ], 1978 television miniseries | |||
| * In '']'' a cloak that burns without harming the person wearing it is called a holocaust cloak. | |||
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