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He took a giant stride forward in understanding mechanical principles and in understanding gravity.

A giant underground ocean could exist as well, and clues to its presence could be inferred by the geology or chemistry of Pluto's surface.

It had coats of arms in the lobby and a giant statue of a king in flowing robes.

Reminds me of a true Stuff story: One of the original ideas for the mascot costume was. . . . . . a giant magic bean with legs.

The surface and the atmosphere form a giant battery, as the lightning discharges of thunderstorms demonstrate.

A giant wind turbine design that mimics the spiralling motion of a sycamore seed could revolutionise the wind power industry.

Burt picked up a small piece of paper. He drew an airplane that looked like a giant wing, and not much more. That was the beginning.

Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and authorities said at least 214 people were dead.

And we realized that there was a giant chasm between the state of the art of technology in 2004 and where we needed it to be.

It behaves as though it were a giant hash table, looking up key = value pairs. Give it a key, and set or get some arbitrary data.

Gulliver was a giant in the eyes of people in Lilliput. But when he got to Brobdingnag, he would become just the size of a weasel.

The Great Wall winds its way up and down the mountains like a giant dragon, disappearing into the vault of heavens.

The shuttle enabled its astronauts to see, every 90 minutes, how the sun ignited a giant rainbow over the morning Earth.

A week or so later, I was spending time with one of my favorite " guests" --a giant grizzly bear named Griz.

A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet in Germany cuddle up as if they were family after the baby pig was abandoned by its own mother.

Other parts include a flap which appears to be a giant SIM card cover, but actually opens up to let you look at the circuitry inside.

A fisherman opens an old jar and a giant comes out of it.

Domesek rolls it out, it expands into a giant and carefully categorized storage space with drawers with labels like 'tulle' and 'tubes.

And ground explosions would use water detonations for a while, so it felt like you were fighting on a giant sponge.

As I got closer, I could see it was in fact a hangar, shaped a bit like a giant crab, built into a berm.

and when a giant walking through the field brushed against her, he went straight through the hat as though it were a shadow.

Blue was the chosen hue for this racegoer, who looked like she had a giant gift bow stuck to one side of her head.

Mr Lu said the altercation happened while they were shooting a scene showing Japanese soldiers dancing to the beat of a giant drum.

Climbing to the top of the beanstalk, he found a castle and a giant, but with very modern problems that only Jim could help solve.

As he rambled on, about himself, his past life, the wind rose up against the cottage like the prodding of a giant hand.

He was a giant of a man with a long square face, a wide mouth and a complexion suffused with the colour of red sandalwood.

A few weeks ago my girls were playing in the driveway with sidewalk chalk and I thought it would be fun to make a giant number line.

Brilliant. Man's got mails in his heads. Let's put him in a giant magnet. You want films from three axis point and a C-arm in surgery.

Lamppost in downtown Vancouver became part of a clever optical illusion, appearing to pour coffee into a giant cup on the sidewalk.

The mother abandoned attending the match and instead watched it on a giant screen installed at a public area, said the newspaper.

A reader just wrote to say he had a dream this morning and he described this as if a giant hand were shaking the whole planet.

This might suggest a giant planet, at least the size of Jupiter and maybe up to four times as big.

He would say this is part of their cultural heritage. They should protect it as if it were a giant tree.

"It's as though a giant hand pushed the surface up and then after a while pulled it down again, " Lovell says.

She started the gig with aquamarine hair extensions on her bunches as she opened her set trapped in what looked like a giant spider web.

While being catapulted into the sky at the end of a giant rubber band is now allowed, jaywalking at bus stations is forbidden.

He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech.

Everything seems to be in order: don't you just hate it when a group photo is gatecrashed by a giant green dinosaur?

Located inside an actual office, this bed was designed to look like a giant net (or spiderweb) overlooking the bottom floor.

Iceland went bust because a country of fishermen was deluded into thinking it had become a giant investment bank.

A businessman who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up - in the belly of a giant cod.

Kratos realizes the only way to reach Jason is to stop a giant wheel of spikes blocking his way.

Without a global financial crisis, the global financial community might have criticized such a giant step back toward the planned economy.

Someone once told me that the ". . . Baby One More Time" video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

Because she came out of the sea, she was also the protectress of sailors, and she was often depicted sitting on a giant seashell.

If you were looking for a chance to make a giant leap in self-improvement, then I've got great news for you!

Mr Roberts next saw Him, in 1980, as he stood praying by a giant unfinished skyscraper in Tulsa.

Met in London on that moment, my mind filled with a fear, like a giant face was frightened child.

It would be forum for people's ideas about what they would like to see on a giant screen of this type.

All the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River from Texas to Saskatchewan used to be a giant expanse of prairie.

"Thank goodness, " returned Mr. Carelton, with a giant grin on his face, "I thought you were going to want me to pay with cash. "

I was there at his ranch when he wasn't even there on at least two occasions when he had a giant group of kids come up.

If God asked you to build a giant boat, don't you think you might have a few questions, objections, or reservations?

It seems to be someone over there that changed the world into a giant cage.

ICBC, say, might come with a much larger customer base, but a 20% stake in such a giant would be beyond even China Mobile's deep pockets.

Hmm, a giant statue of me. That could have a lot of uses. . . People could tip their hats to it, fear it, that kind of thing. Ill allow it!

The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.

But, this is not just a one step forward update. No, it's a giant leap to a new kind of Linux desktop thanks to its Unity desktop interface.

Lights made a giant of him as he stood motionless: one white, glittering, gloved hand raised, fedora pulled down at a slant.

At the end of each week John took a giant bucket of change to the bank to be counted out and returned in bills.

Just let the light in, clean everything out. If I could take a giant eraser and rub out everything, starting with myself.

As you contemplate the question, Gargoyles, Demon spawns, and a giant Black Dragon charge at you from within the keep.

And the entire crew is troubled by visions of a giant fanged serpent, which appears randomly around the ship.

It's not Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun.

A giant bowling ball of a head that melted into absolutely no neck, as if his skull had been glued to a barrel-chested body.

It lasts for a week like a giant sand painting, and then it all fades away afterwards.

It centers upon an old Cuban fisherman Santiago who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Coincidentally, according to the country said the United States, Zhou Yunjie left foreleg, and a giant LCD TV presence Eagle Building.

When I kissed her cheek, she awoke. "I've got something for you, Mamma, " she said, as a giant smile covered her tiny face.

AP off of a giant balloon out of control, and a serious threat to flight safety in the air the other aircraft.

Now, with his early retirement, there seems to be a giant national re-think on Yao's career.

"He brought me a giant wooden giraffe from Africa, " she said, adding that Clinton had also bought the Chanel watch she was wearing.

To get a sense of just how long, he says, imagine a giant with her head in Baltimore and her toe off the coast of South Africa.

Hitoshi's father had been a giant of a man with bushy eyebrows and shaggy hair.

I looked down upon the servants, and one or two friends who were in the house, as if they had been pigmies and I a giant.

Vicky: US Chemical is a giant in this industry. Why would you want to leave such a prestigious position?

There was also, running the length of the left wall, a giant waist-high cement trough filled with water and dead mosquitoes.

Spanning the length of two football fields, the footprints hint that a giant predator was a bit pigeon-toed.

It was as if a giant were pounding the house with his fist.

People associate creativity with taking a giant, blank canvas and letting our ideas flow without any sort of limiting structures.

The splendors of the depths are known to a fortunate few, like this biologist tagging a giant Pacific octopus in Washington's Puget Sound.

Now, we're in the Twilight Zone, where the sun never shines. Inhabitants include some exotic eels and a giant spider crab. . .

A giant in a Europe of diplomatic pygmies, Mr Bildt would make a fine EU foreign-policy chief.

There's an old folktale about a giant who removes his own heart, locks it in a series of metal boxes, and buries the whole conglomeration.

The complex is being constructed by the Bin Laden Group, a giant real estate firm, on behalf of the Saudi government, he said.

As exciting as marathon race day can be, it doesn't have to be such a giant roll of the dice.

He looked up. Wrapped in his furs and leathers, mounted on his great warhorse , his lord father loomed over him like a giant.

Todd Hoff calls it a " giant step into the fully distributed future"

He thinks there's gong to be a giant sucking sound as massive liabilities throughout the system swallow up assets and earnings.

The Olympics forced its closure, so the company is building a giant, state-of-the-art plant at Caofeidian, on the coast of Hebei province.

In essence, it would be a giant cable reaching tens of thousands of kilometres into space to an orbiting satellite.

The company is widely expected to launch a tablet-style computer, akin to a giant iPhone, during 2010. It would make an ideal e-book reader.

As if there was a giant magnet sucking them together.

For most of the six decades since the second world war, it has been a giant in chains.

The sky like a giant glass bell, the birds singing happy, the sun shone so warm.

China's love affair with cars seems increasingly to be turning its capital into a giant, nightmarish, gridlocked parking lot.

And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface?

a flying creature with the head , wings , and forelegs of a giant eagle and the body ( including hind legs and tail ) of a horse.

As you look at a tree, it takes a magnifying glass to see a giant tree.

Scientists once imagined galaxies forming by a sort of monolithic collapse, in which a giant cloud of gas suddenly fell inward.

Mission: Space really is a giant leap beyond the dark-room rides and merry-go-rounds that were for years the staple of theme parks.

During breaching the whale uses its powerful tail flukes to lift nearly two-thirds of its body out of the water in a giant leap.

Widespread flooding was caused by Irene pushing a giant storm surge, a wall of water, out of its way as it marched up the Atlantic Coast.

No storm can do slightest damage to a giant rock; badmouthing and attacks can't harm someone who has "no-self" .

It was, for him, as though the rock were a giant hard door into another world.

Ushi-oni (lit. "cow devil" ) is a malevolent sea monster with the head of a bull and the body of a giant spider or crab.

He does not see it as a proto -superstate, or a union cohesive enough to become a giant version of France, Germany or Britain.

As if to heed its call, hundreds of roller-skaters formed a giant smile in Place Vendome in the city center on Sunday.

A giant replica dung beetle was the star attraction of the ceremony, watched by an estimated 500million people.

Like a giant laser striking the Earth from space, this image looks like the first attack in an alien invasion.

Presented report deals with the case of a giant cyst of the left seminal vesicle with major diagnostic difficulties.

"They have a lexicon, just a giant word list, and they find the word most similar to what the recognizer produces, " he says.

One of the more unusual devices inside the test aircraft was a giant wheel at the very end of the plane.

A giant magnetostrictive actuator is designed for the active vibration control under instruction of these rules, and its trait is tested.

Being able to make a lot more stuff with fewer workers meant that even a small country could be a giant economic power.

So numerous are his portraits, driving through Chechnya feels a bit like travelling through a giant version of Kadyrov's family photo album.

The houses, churches and other buildings on the island seemed squeezed, as if by a giant grip, pressing skyward.

In the children's book Zen Shorts by Jon Muth, a giant panda named Stillwater tells three stories to young siblings Addy, Michael, and Karl.

Picture with me for a moment a giant needle and thread, two of them.

Nevertheless, the direction of change seems clear. If the world were a giant company, its return on capital would be falling.

Holiday Inn spokeswoman Jane Bednall said the idea was "like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed" .

Before a decision can be reached, a giant claw crashes through the ceiling of the building and snatches up some of the humans.

It's the logic and language of career number- crunchers , who believe an economy can be distilled into a giant input-output model.

A computer chip was attached to the brain of a giant beetle, so chosen for its bulk and ability to fly with a heavy load.

An acorn cannot decide whether to become a giant tree or to become food for the squirrels.

But if you become an established player, you'd love to be able to consolidate your gains and become a giant.

Some of those problems were inevitable and possibly instructive bugs in a system that was a giant beta test, with the alpha being Earth.

In February 2003, has been desperate party want him to own up to the hands of a giant panda specimen about 1 m sold.

Among the attractions is a giant rotating statue of the lower part of a nearly naked woman.

And right next to me here, is a giant articulated truck that's been picked up, turned over, crumpled in the front end, and smashed in, too.

They could think about brand extension - this would not be a giant leap and the sales force would take it in its stride.

After all, his previous job at Time Warner was to untangle an ill-conceived and poorly-executed merger that left a giant company adrift.

roy: look, officer, i can't spend all day chit-chatting with you. my friend is up there fighting, i don't know, a giant bear or something.

Close your eyes and allow The Creator to embrace you Spiritual Essence in a giant Cyber Hug.

The temptation of wealth, as the elves, to be released will be Dragon turned into a giant.

While we think of John Terry as a giant in the Chelsea team, the boys were: watched on Saturday by an absolute colossus.

But even if the character is not the best president, we still have to appreciate that Lister is a giant, no-nonsense man.

Then he heard some noise. A giant came into the kitchen and sat at the table. Jack hid himself behind the kitchen door quickly.

A giant, thought Cersei, dizzy, as he carried her with great strides toward the gatehouse.

That was it; something was watching her. The sky overhead was not blue but milky and opaque, like a giant bowl turned upside down.

To relax, they kick back in a giant 'sofa' made of tree stumps and twigs.

Rumour has it that there is a giant bunker somewhere near the Barbican in London.

For instance, you could draw a hallway in your home, but draw in a giant crack across the floor filled with lava.

The RM5 million production featured a giant imperial gate that opened up to a five-storey stage structure with magnificent props.

Officials are wrestling with possible permutations, essentially turning the institution's governance into a giant game of sudoku.

One way pro's do this is to use a giant silkscreen in between the sun and the subject to get a softer effect.

The same technique was subsequently used to determine the color of a giant fossil penguin.

Like a giant sieve, the web filters tiny flyers from the air, holding them captive until the owner of the web gets hungry.

A third is the local-hero model in which a local entrepreneur sees an opportunity, starts a business and turns it into a giant.

Oh, and a giant slide that led into a pool of steam-heated seawater piped in from the Pacific.

Effectively throwing yourself down a slope in a giant ball, or "Zorbing" , is one of the latest extreme sport craze to sweep the world.

If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.

Using this dish - essentially a giant mirror - he concentrated the light of a thousand suns onto the new panel. The result was staggering .

Thousands of people are flocking to the northern Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time.

Unexpectedly, he just rubbed three times, the sudden appearance of a great thing, is a giant.

We wanted a giant-screen TV, but Dad said the little one was good enough. What a stick-in-the-mud.

Example#2: Picture a giant ice cream with a scoop of every single flavor.

We act as if God is a giant genie -- just rub the lamp and whatever your wish is his command.

A giant eagle seeks warriors capable of traveling to the top of a dangerous mountain peak.

Yet at the age of 65 it has recast him as, possibly, a giant of American foreign policy.

Another has drawn a giant pair of scissors cutting a hole in the wall along a dotted line.

Every surface has been silvered , with giant icicles to hang from the beams, and a giant Christmas Tree sits at the head of the space.

Here's a giant flying replica of a pterosaur that has no tail.

Similarly, if your requirements specification is merely a giant list in no particular order, you will not be able to use it.

A giant radio telescope, installed in a rural area of western Virginia, began to pursue signs of extraterrestrial life on 86 planets.

Who wanted to hear from dismal economists warning that the whole thing was, in effect, a giant Ponzi scheme?

As for myself, to say something good, I am Antaeus of Greek mythology, standing in the bosom of mother earth, with the power of a giant.

A very rare case is presented of a giant teratoma malignum of the sacrococcygeal area in a fetus which caused obstetric difficulties.

Just mount the numerals and hands directly onto the wall and transform your wall into a giant clock.

Certainly. 2 this restaurant dining features: also called eternity, windowless buildings shaped like a giant coffin, for your food mourning!

It is originally the experienced man of a giant hotel to like many grandfathers.

Seemingly straight out of Hollywood; a giant sunshade in space could block the sun.

The containers can be stacked depending on a customer's needs, a quality Galvin says likens the finished project to a giant steel honeycomb.

No legal proof of this was obtainable, but Cowperwood was assumed to be a briber on a giant scale .

It was a reminder that, at the end of the day, it's still a large cog in a giant propaganda machine.

Thought it did not move, but it seemed it would jump up light a giant monter.

It is backed by a free and soon to be open source SDK, great Eclipse based developer tools, and a giant community.

Others believe it was a burial place or perhaps even a giant sundial to tell the time.

On her big day yesterday she had minders and hid behind a giant white parasol. . .

discipline. Or, as one model puts it, "It's like a giant complicated jigsaw puzzle you have to put together all the time. "

Think of China as a giant production machine that's growing 10 percent a year (this year, somewhat less).

The powerful young sculptor, a little over five feet tall, must have felt that he was the David, facing a giant enemy.

More likely to be a collection of millions or even trillions of small mirrors rather than a giant orbiting parasol.

But don't confuse him with the state lottery, which lures money away from poor people in a giant scam that promises to make them richer.

At the eastern end of the village, a cook brought in for the occasion from a larger village stirs a giant vat of veal palau with a shovel.

Once upon a time, there was a giant tree in the forest. Many many birds lived in this tree. And the wisest of them was their leader.

It showed a giant explosion in the heart of New York City and the Statue of Liberty's head being thrown down a street.

You could fit a giant penguin over there. That would be weird though. Okay, hug and roll time!

I sat in a giant cage in the middle of the store with people laughing at me.

The NY Post reported that choppy seas have grounded the tycoon's attempt propel himself across the channel strapped to a giant nylon kite.

We are no longer a foreigner in the eyes of the "sick man of Asia" , but the East has become a giant lion.

The Creator asks you when you return to the Earth Plane, to see yourself as a giant Lighthouse.

That morning , he had presented Luyuan with a huge bouquet of roses and other flowers wrapped in pink paper and a giant purple bow .

One of the attractions was a giant mural named "Water-Splashing Festival: A Paean of Life" .

In one of his poems he wrote, "An ant tries to topple a giant tree, ridiculously overrating its ability. "

Walking on the islands is like walking on a giant gummy bear, and if it's not patched well, a foot can go all the way through.

He needs to go on another campaign involving a tank modified with a giant flamethrower.

The Captain, always a giant swinging ego onboard ship, wore his own color - green, with the insignia worn swaggeringly low on his hip.

Out of my expectation, economic crisis brought about a giant impact to my company .

The hotel is a Chengfengpolang look like a giant yacht, 27 layers, up to 321 meters, is a masterpiece of architectural history.

What immense strength, with waves swelling like the muscles of a giant!

It wants to turn the hillside into a giant bauxite mine to feed its refinery at the foot of the mountain.

In Tibet and Egypt, the scorpion amulet is used for evil, the Egyptian goddess Isis to the natural with a giant scorpion bodyguard.

Zozobra is a giant puppet made of sticks covered with chicken wire and muslin, a cotton fabric. He is stuffed with lots of shredded paper.

Methane bubbles up, as if there's a giant champagne bottle under there.

Sometimes life feels like a giant bubble in the sun, shiny, shapeless and surreal .

Above is a still from video taken last October and uploaded onto YouTube of a giant halo in an overcast sky over Moscow.

That has to be the traditional cream tea- a giant home-made scone , caked with clotted cream and jam, and all washed down with a good cuppa.

"Grassroots, real people power, " he said, stirring a giant pot of chili con carne.

is one of the world's earliest bicycles, boasting a giant front wheel that has a 47 - inch diameter and a tiny back wheel.

It was not often that a giant shark was caught in these parts and soon, more people came as word went up and down the beach.

OCCASIONALLY, a politician comes along who seems too principled to be thrown into an electoral dogfight in a giant democracy.

Then one day we wake up and discover we have three dozen projects, a throbbing headache, and a giant, scarlet L tattooed on our chest.

Wildly impractical, but a giant-dipping-bird farm sure would be a sight to behold.

Ascension is a great event within the ever-ongoing process, which will be a giant step forward into the higher dimensions.

For years early settlers tried to cut these giants down. But that proved to be a giant waste of time.

From the air, they look like a chain of pearls wrapped around a giant opal. Twenty six tiny islands enclosing a turquoise and jade lagoon.

According to Daily Mail June 23, a little girl amazed her family by producing a giant, dolphin-shaped bubble in back garden in London.

Finally, at the end of the day it was a Fairly Odd Parents episode that needed a giant tentacled monster that was devouring the world.

To try to reach more parents, a coalition called Play for Tomorrow this fall staged what amounted to a giant play date in Central Park.

You could say that rather than running a carmaker, Mr Wagoner has been operating a giant value-destruction machine at full tilt.

As time went by, the sun was going down and his shadow grew bigger and bigger. So it looked a giant .

Like a giant hotplate , the plateau heats up in the spring and summer.

Many scientists think our solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula.

Mr. Yu was less reticent last week, when he denounced U. S. Treasury bonds as a giant 'ponzi scheme' boosted by Federal Reserve purchases.

Outside, he saw a giant cross -- the only thing standing in the remains of a Catholic church.

John Spedan Lewis launched his partnership in 1929, just as the world's economy was heading for a giant fall.

Before: I stopped for breakfast on my way into work, usually for a giant orange juice and a bagel.

Days earlier, a giant sinkhole swallowed up the entire playground of a primary school in the county.

At the center of this chamber, the deuterium-tritium target is held in place by what looks like a giant pencil tip.

All that was missing was a giant imaginary friend.

As you get closer, the hue becomes a wriggling mass; a giant cap of insects on every tree, devouring the tiny leaves.

Seven decades ago, efforts to balance the federal budget thrust a recovering economy into a giant tailspin.

Yet even if this list reads like a national letter to Santa Claus, the package is still a giant step in the right direction.

I treat the one near the train station more like a giant convenience store.

Inside, lightnings crackled among the falling sands. Outside, a giant turtle was engraved upon the glass.

For her sixth birthday, I gave my daughter a giant book of optical illusions.

Although made of granite boulders and reaching 24 feet high, it appears fluffy and soft like a giant stuffed animal.

A hominin "can have big teeth and not be a giant, " he said.

I felt as if a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

This is a giant vessel that was once a real existence coursed thousands of lives killed. Thus it became an unprecedented perils of the sea.

a giant, bloodthirsty werewolf able to cunningly adapt by blending into even the most innocent of surroundings.

Q2: In a world where mankind is ruled by a giant intelligent beaver, what food is no longer consumed?

Ultimately, the universe works as a giant computer, with answers to questions such as "Did the photon pass through this point? "

It even has an Antony Gormley outside, a giant human figure made of cubes that has generated some controversy in no-nonsense Anchorage.

This has forever been our passion, this desire to be a giant.

Rising on the south bank of the Huangpu River is the Chinese pavilion, a giant structure that looks like an upside down pyramid.

a giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.

In February Britain's BAE Systems, a giant arms company, was fined $400m as a result of a joint British and American investigation.

He initially conceived of a giant flame rock as the villain's backdrop because his weapon of destruction shoots fire and metal.