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14 unusual facts about Giant


Bukit Jelutong

Nonetheless, Bukit Jelutong has close proximity to the Tesco and Giant stores, which are located just outside the suburb next to the GCE.

Classic X-Men

The first issue was a partial reprint of Giant-Size X-Men #1 of the All-New All-Different X-Men era (originally published in 1975), and the other issues reprinted Uncanny X-Men #94-206, with the exceptions of #106, #110, and the "Days of Future Past" story from issues #141 and #142.

Evening Jewel

Evening Jewel (foaled February 26, 2007 in California) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse by Northern Afleet out of Jewel of the Night, by Giant's Causeway.

Giant-Australian Institute of Sport

The fusion of the Giant-AIS and the Czech Husquarna team in 1997 extended its International profile, allowing to include foreign riders, such as Jens Voigt, Jan Hruška, Tomáš Konečný.

The financial support of Czech manufacturer of Airconditioning equipment enabled the Australian team to contract International riders, such as Jens Voigt, Jan Hruška, Tomáš Konečný and others.

Giant-cell tumor of bone

They are derived from an osteoclast-monocyte lineage determined primarily by expression of CD68, a marker for monocytic precursor cells.

Hexagon

From bees' honeycombs to the Giant's Causeway, hexagonal patterns are prevalent in nature due to their efficiency.

Kiringul

Despite the name, it was not literally supposed to have been a place where kirins lived, but was instead a mythical name akin to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

Michael McKimm

McKimm was born in Belfast but lived from the age of seven on the north coast of County Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway and the town of Bushmills.

Pikahsso

The hip hop duo created the Fat Albert N the Hood YouTube cartoon series, in which Giant Magazine describes as "a 180 from the original".

Provident Bank of Maryland

The deposit base, totalling more than $40 million, was from branches located in Giant grocery stores in the Baltimore area.

Susanna Drury

She was associated with the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society), which presented her with its first award in 1740 for her paintings of the Giant's Causeway.

She is chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, which brought international attention to the site.

The Frost-Giant's Daughter

While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was derived in its entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913).


Against the Giants

Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl pits the player characters against the evil Jarl of the frost giants.

Altes Stadthaus, Berlin

Some financing was contributed by British mobile phone company Vodafone, which paid 100,000 marks for a giant red advertising banner that concealed the scaffolding around the tower for a year.

Australia's First Families of Wine

Some industry commentators lay the blame for this negative opinion on the giant, publicly listed multinational corporations, such as Constellation Wines and Foster's, which have dominated the industry for years and concentrated on the cheap commodity end of the market rather than building the reputation of Australia's finer, regionally distinctive wines.

Bambi Meets Godzilla

After the credits, Bambi looks up to see Godzilla's giant foot coming down, squashing him flat (set to the final chord of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" played at half-speed).

Bora Yoon

Yoon’s wide-ranging talents have led to collaborative performances with electronics giant SAMSUNG, media philosopher DJ Spooky, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata in the America Project and multimedia swansong: The 51st (dream) state.

Canadian Pavilion

Open to the sky, its four inner sloping walls featured giant sculptures of a sun dial, hour glass, compass and Kyogen and Haida masks.

Circle of Iron

While they are talking, however, another seeker, a black giant (Earl Maynard) challenges Chang-Sha.

Co Hoedeman

Then, he made a series of animated films based on Inuit legends: The Man and the Giant, The Owl and the Lemming, The Owl and the Raven and Lumaaq.

Deep Sea Monster Reigo

The film, set in World War II, depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.

Destroy All Monsters

Kumonga, a giant spider who joins the fray with the Monster Island residents.

Detonography

Essentially a form of giant printmaking, with the explosive acting as the stamping press, it was created by Evelyn Rosenberg in 1986 with the help of the engineers of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico.

E. gigantea

Epipactis gigantea, the stream orchid or giant helleborine, an orchid species

Ferula tingitana

Ferula tingitana (the giant Tangier fennel) is a species of the Apiaceae genus Ferula.

Forgotten Silver

The film also shows fragments of an epic Biblical film supposedly made by McKenzie in a giant set in the forests of New Zealand, and a 'computer enhancement' of a McKenzie film providing clear evidence that New Zealander Richard Pearse was the first man to invent a powered aircraft, several months prior to the Wright Brothers.

Giant of Castelnau

The bones of the Castelnau giant were studied at the University of Montpellier and examined by M. Sabatier, professor of Zoology, at the University of Montpellier, and M. Delage, professor of paleontology at the University of Montpellier, in addition to other anatomists.

Giant stumptail stingray

Both known specimens of the giant stumptail stingray were caught in the Peter the Great Bay off Askold Island, near Vladivostok.

Gríðr

) is a female jötunn who, aware of Loki's plans to have Thor killed at the hands of the giant Geirröd, helped Thor by supplying him with a number of magical gifts which included a pair of iron gloves, and a staff known as Gríðarvölr.

GWR Hercules Class

:This locomotives was named after the Biblical giant, Goliah.

Haeundae District

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup match between South Korea and Togo more than 50,000 spectators filled the beach to cheer for the Korean team on a giant projector screen.

Het Steen

It depicts the giant Lange Wapper who used to terrorise the inhabitants of the city in medieval times.

I Am Australian

In October 2003, in conjunction with the sponsorship of the 2003 Rugby World Cup, Australian telecommunications giant Telstra launched a new campaign centered on the song remixed and performed by Lo-Tel.

IITB-Monash Research Academy

The Advisory Council is made up of leaders from scientific research and industry, including Narayana Murthy (founder of Indian software giant Infosys) and prominent Australian biologist Professor Gustav Nossal.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Jack is left stranded in the giant world after the beanstalk dissolves, apparently cut down by someone back on Earth, and discovers that the giant Thunderdell (Bill Barretta) was an extremely benevolent person: kind, honest, and a loving friend and father who had also adopted Ondine and raised her as his own daughter.

John Anthony Gallagher

Unfortunately though, Gallagher's defense came into question later in that game when giant Kangaroo second rower Paul Sironen scored two tries, both times running over the top of him.

King Kong Bundy

After joining The Heenan Family, Bundy feuded extensively with André the Giant, a feud which started during an angle where Bundy interfered in one of André's matches and delivered several splashes, giving the Giant a kayfabe broken sternum.

Lake Barrine

The surrounding rainforest contains giant kauri (Agathis microstachya), Red cedar trees and flowering umbrella trees (Schefflera actinophylla).

Liv Jagge-Christiansen

She participated at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, competing in downhill, slalom and giant slalom.

Madagascar at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Mathieu Razanakolona born in Montreal of Malagasy descent, finished 39th out of more than 70 starters in the men's giant slalom.

Mennen

At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a giant advertisement painted on the rock face of Maryland Heights.

MITES

Simmons Hall is an undergrad dorm designed in an unconventional style which resembles a giant Lego.

National Anti-Vivisection Alliance

The report focused on US-cargo giant Amerijet International who were, at the time, shipping monkeys to American laboratories.

Nidor

The author Poul Anderson, in a later story, imagined a planet circling such as star but originating around another star, from which it was captured by the giant star, sidestepping the stellar lifetime issue.

Red Giant Entertainment

Red Giant publishes a variety of webcomics with strategic partner Keenspot, most notably Wayward Sons: Legends, Exposure, Jade Warriors, Buzzboy, Medusa's Daughter, Katrina, and Porcelain.

Rubeus

Rubeus Hagrid; a half-wizard, half-giant serving as a Hogwarts teacher in the Harry Potter novels and films

Sister Kinderhook

The album revolves around a fantastical theme that explores subject matter such as the New Netherland settlements, Colonial Federalism, feral children, the Anti-Rent Wars of 1844, Early American portraiture, and the prehistoric Mound Builder giants of Illinois and Ohio.

Sökkmímir

Sökmímir or Søkkmímir was a jotun who appears in two sources from Norse mythology, suggesting that he was once a well-known giant in Scandinavia.

Son of Godzilla

Minilla comes to the aid of Reiko when she is attacked by a Kamacuras, but inadvertently awakens Kumonga (Spiga in the English-dubbed version), a giant spider that was sleeping in a valley.

Terminal moraine

One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm.

The Amazing Pizza Machine

The arcade has 140 video, token and prize-awarding games, including MarioKart, skee ball, Dance Dance Revolution and a giant crane.

The Hour of the Dragon

In 1974, the story was adapted by Roy Thomas, Gil Kane and John Buscema in Marvel Comic's Giant-Size Conan #1-4 and Savage Sword of Conan #8, 10.

The Ship Who Sang

In the popular 1992 science fiction computer game, Star Control II, the player can embark on an optional side quest to Beta Corvi, and meet a sentient alien race who inhabit a gas giant there.

Thomas Charles Lethbridge

In 2003, a group of admirers of his work calling themselves "The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge" (Doggen Foster, Kevlar Bales and Welbourn Tekh), with the aid of Julian Cope and Colin Wilson, released A Giant: The Definitive T.C. Lethbridge, a set containing a booklet and two CDs containing music accompanying discussions of Lethbridge's work.

Total Carnage

Ahkboob transforms into several forms, including a series of three giant heads, one head as himself, one as the German Nazi Party Dictator Adolf Hitler, and one deformed red head.

Tumblepop

Moscow, which is a circus-like stage, enemies being clowns, invisible conjurers, fire spitters; the boss is a giant clown held by balloons who juggles with bombs.

Urwerk

The ‘Ur’ in URWERK’s name refers to the ancient Sumerian city of Ur where over 6,000 years ago people used giant sundials to measure time; the ‘werk’ refers to the German noun ‘das Werk’ meaning ‘work’ or ‘creation’.

Wacaday

In fact, many of Timmy's trademarks, such as his giant pink mallet, Magic, Pinky Punky (introduced in 1990) and Timmy's 'bleugh!' catchphrase originated on Wacaday.

Wuxi New Area

It is home to many such companies such as hard disk maker Seagate, the Japanese electrical giant Sony and Matsushita Electric among others.