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The next world; the afterlife: The superpowers have enough nuclear warheads to blow the entire world to kingdom come. An allusion to the Lords Prayer: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. | 1 |
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| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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