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Wormwood Scrubs
'''Wormwood''' is the name of the star, from the Book of [[Revelation]]. Wormwood is a translation of the Greek abdinthos and is a stupefying often lethal plant product<ref>Defefender's Study Bible by Dr. Henry M. Morris; Study Notes, Revelation 8:ll Wormwood</ref>.
'''Wormwood''' is the name of the star, from the Book of [[Revelation]]. Wormwood is a translation of the Greek abdinthos and is a stupefying often lethal plant product<ref>Defefender's Study Bible by Dr. Henry M. Morris; Study Notes, Revelation 8:ll Wormwood</ref>.
The [[London]] open space called Wormwood Scrubs (and the [[prison]] of the same name) does not derive its name from wormwood, but is a corruption of ''Wormholt'', 'the wood of the snakes' (''worm'': snake; ''holt'': wood).
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