Sodom and Gomorrah جبل السدوم in Arabic) which consists mainly of salt. In the Plain of Sdom (מישור סדום) to the south there are a few springs and two small agricultural villages, Neot Hakikar and Ein Tamar. "Operation Gomorrah" was the name given to the Bombing of Hamburg in July 1943, in which 42,600 civilians were killed, and where use of incendiaries caused a vortex and whirling updraft of super-heated air which created a 460 meter high tornado of fire. Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah () were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament,
The 120 Days of Sodom "Psychopathia Sexualis". Feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir wrote an essay titled "Must We Burn Sade?", protesting the destruction of "The 120 Days of Sodom" because of the light it sheds on humanity's darkest side when, in 1955, French authorities planned on destroying it and three other major works by Sade. Camille Paglia considers Sade's work a "satirical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau" in particular, and the Enlightenment concept of man's innate goodness in general. Gilles Deleuze considers "The 120 Days" along with the rest of Sade's corpus in conjunction with Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: "The work of Sade and Masoch cannot be