wiktionary GiantgiantGiant or Giants may refer to Giant mythology Giants Norse mythology Giants Welsh folklore Giants esotericism tocright Arts and entertainment Giant novel Giant novel , a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber Giant 1956 film Giant 1956 film , a film adaptation of Ferber s novel Giant musical Giant musical , a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber s novel Giant 2009 film Giant 2009 film , an Uruguayan ... Citizen Kabuto , a third person shooter video game 2000 Giant magazine Giant magazine The Giant Twin Peaks The Giant Twin Peaks , an inhabitant of The Black Lodge in the 1990s television series Judge Giant , two fictional characters in the Judge Dredd comic strip Giant Dungeons & Dragons Giant Dungeons & Dragons , a type of fictional character in games Giant TV series Giant TV series , a 2010 historical ... series In music Giant band , an American melodic hard rock band Giants band , an American post rock band The Giant opera The Giant opera , an opera 1900 by the child Sergei Prokofiev The Giant Dizzy Gillespie album The Giant Dizzy Gillespie album , a 1973 live album by Dizzy Gillespie Giant Herman D ne album Giant Herman D ne album , a 2006 album by Herman D ne Giant The Woodentops album Giant The Woodentops ... album The Giants album , a 1974 album featuring Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown The Giant , a song by Stan Rogers Giant , a song on Matthew Good Band s album Beautiful Midnight 1999 Giant , a song on The The s album Soul Mining 1983 Giant , a bonus track on Vampire Weekend s album Contra album Contra Businesses Giant Bicycles , bicycle maker Giant Food disambiguation GIANT Company Software , internet security developer Giant Hypermarket , chain in southern and eastern Asia Giant Records ... Giant, Richmond, California , former unincorporated community Giant Mountain , New York Giant Forest , in Sequoia National Park, California Giant Geyser , in Yellowstone National Park Giant Springs , near Great Falls, Montana Other Giant gymnastics , an artistic gymnastics skill The Giant ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Otheruses Giant disambiguation The Giant is a song by Canadian folk singer songwriter Stan Rogers . The Giant referred to is Fionn mac Cumhaill Fingal , an Ireland Irish Scotland Scottish mythical giant. The song is set in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia s rugged Cape Breton Island , and the lyrics contain enchanting imagery describing the island s landscape. The song also contains quasi pagan imagery, including the suggestion of worshipping the new moon by dancing around a bonfire, although it may be that characters in the song are using the full moon to have a party. In the album Home in Halifax , Stan Rogers claimed that the song was about Guinness. DEFAULTSORT Giant Category Stan Rogers songs Folk song stub ... more details
distinguish Giant disambiguation Giant Image Giant mag Rihanna cover.jpg right thumb 200px May 2007 cover of GIANT magazine featuring recording artist Rihanna. GIANT was a magazine headquartered in New York City New York geared to the urban music market. It began in October 2004 as a bimonthly publication catering to the interests of 20 something men, focusing on pop culture including reviews of video game s, movies , tobacco fine tobacco , music , everyday happenings and celebrity interviews. In August 2006, ref Larry Getlen, A Better Vibe , Wesleyan Wesleyan University alumni magazine , Issue IV 2006, 28 32. p. 32. ref the magazine had a makeover under new editor in chief Smokey Fontaine , ref cite web last Stephanie first Smith authorlink coauthors title Fontaine is Giant Editor in Chief work publisher Media Week date 2006 03 02 url http www.mediaweek.com mw news print article display.jsp?vnu content id 1002114881 format doi accessdate 2007 11 02 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20070608214705 http www.mediaweek.com mw news print article display.jsp?vnu content id 1002114881 Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2007 06 08 ref formerly of the hip hop magazine America . Under his leadership, the magazine began to focus on music, lifestyle, and entertainment for the urban culture urban reader. Currently, the standing Editor In Chief is Emil Wilbekin. Recent covers have included Beyonc Knowles Beyonc , Pharell , Sean Combs Diddy , The Killers , Ciara , Jennifer Hudson , Janet Jackson , and Eve rapper Eve . The June July issue offered two covers one of R&B artist Robin Thicke ... graced the cover. Along with the magazine, GIANT s website serves as a blog for GIANT readers to get ... Citation last The Write News first author link last2 first2 author2 link title Radio One Buys Giant Magazine date year url http www.writenews.com wnews.php?zone 210071 accessdate ref GIANT was Radio One ... External links http www.giantmag.com GIANT website Radio One DEFAULTSORT Giant Category Radio ... more details
Giant Food as a supermarket chain may refer to Giant Carlisle or Giant Food Stores LLC, a subsidiary of Ahold Giant Landover or Giant Food LLC, also an Ahold subsidiary Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York See also Food Giant disambiguation disambig ... more details
Giant Robot may refer to Giant Robot magazine Giant Robot magazine , magazine of Asian American popular culture Mecha , a piloted or remote controlled limbed vehicle Giant Robot Week , week long event that aired on Cartoon Network s Toonami in 2003 Giant Robo tokusatsu Giant Robo tokusatsu , a Japanese live action TV show, 1967 68 Music Giant Robot Buckethead album Giant Robot Buckethead album , solo album by Buckethead Giant Robot demo Giant Robot demo , a demo tape released by Buckethead in 1991 Giant Robot Giant Robot album Giant Robot Giant Robot album , by Buckethead s band Giant Robot Giant Robot band , Finnish musical group See also Giant Robo , a tokusatsu, anime and manga series Robot disambiguation disambig it Giant Robot disambigua ... more details
Giant Leap may refer to 1 Giant Leap , concept band and media project 1 Giant Leap album 1 Giant Leap album , 2002 album One Giant Leap , the third episode of the NBC supernatural drama series Heroes That s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind , the famous words of Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong when he became the first human to both set foot on the Moon, and the first human to step onto another world. Disambig ... more details
Giant animal may refer to Megafauna , the largest animal species Giant animal mythology and Megafauna mythology , large animals in mythology List of giant animals in fiction , the large animals in fiction See also Largest organisms Largest prehistoric organisms disambig ... more details
A Giant crab is a type of crustacean . Giant crab may refer to Japanese spider crab Macrocheira kaempferi , the largest crab species alive Tasmanian giant crab Pseudocarcinus gigas , another large crab species See also Giant Enemy Crab , a 2006 Internet meme disambiguation ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2008 80 Page Giant was the name used for a series of comic book s published by DC ... 25 cents, while other comics of the day were rarely above 12 cents. Many of these Giant issues ... , Batman , or Jimmy Olsen . The 80 Page Giant format and numbering would later be used for special ... began publishing 80 Page Giant specials which were special publications relating to a series including .... Number of pages Originally, the Giant issues were all labeled 80 Page Giant . When the number of pages ... to simply Giant or DC Giant . Types of Giant comics There were four types of Giant comics Issues G1 to G15 These issues were published under the 80 Page Giant title. They had 80 Page Giant G on the cover. 80 Page Giant 01 Superman 80 Page Giant 02 Jimmy Olsen 80 Page Giant 03 Lois Lane 80 Page Giant 04 Flash comics Flash 80 Page Giant 05 Batman 80 Page Giant 06 Superman 80 Page Giant 07 Sgt. Rock 80 Page Giant 08 Secret Origins 80 Page Giant 09 Flash 80 Page Giant 10 Superboy 80 Page Giant 11 Superman 80 Page Giant 12 Batman 80 Page Giant 13 Jimmy Olsen 80 Page Giant 14 Lois Lane 80 Page Giant 15 Superman and Batman Issues G16 and up These were published under other series titles such as Justice League of America 39 . In other words, 80 Page Giant 16 is the same as JLA 39 . These had 80 Page Giant G or DC Giant G or Giant on the cover for example, 80 Page Giant G16 . The following is a complete list of the issues, ordered by date 1965 11 80 Page Giant G16 Justice League of America 39 1965 12 80 Page Giant G17 Batman 176 1966 01 80 Page Giant G18 Superman 183 1966 02 80 Page Giant G19 Our Army at War 164 1966 03 80 Page Giant G20 Action Comics 334 1966 04 80 Page Giant G21 Flash comics Flash 160 1966 05 80 Page Giant G22 Superboy 129 1966 06 80 Page Giant G23 Superman 187 1966 07 80 Page Giant G24 Batman 182 1966 08 80 Page Giant G25 Jimmy Olsen 095 1966 09 80 Page Giant G26 Lois Lane 68 1966 10 80 Page Giant G27 Batman 185 1966 10 80 Page Giant G28 World s Finest Comics ... more details
Image Giant cells1.jpg thumb right 200px Multinucleated giant cells due to an infection. H&E stain . A giant cell is a mass formed by the union of several distinct cells usually macrophages . ref MeshName Giant Cells ref It can arise in response to an infection or foreign body . Types include foreign body giant cell Langhans giant cell Touton giant cell s Aschoff Giant Cells found in Rheumatic heart disease Also as in subependymal giant cell astrocytoma Additional images gallery Image Aspiration pneumonia 2 .jpg Foreign body giant cells in the lung. H&E stain. Image Suture micrograph.jpg Foreign body giant cell reaction to a suture. H&E stain. Image Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis cd68.jpg CD68 immunostaining demonstrating giant cells and macrophages . gallery Cementoblast s & osteoclast s are found normally during the shedding of deciduous teeth . They are also found after tooth extraction. See also giant cell arteritis idiopathic giant cell myocarditis large cell syncitium References reflist External links http jem.rupress.org cgi content full 202 3 337 Macrophage fusion the making of osteoclasts and giant cells Inflammation blood Category Cell biology cell biology stub immunology stub ar de Riesenzelle es C lula gigante ... more details
Giant horsetails are usually living species of horsetail that grow to very large sizes, more than 1.5 meters 5 ft . The following species are commonly known as giant horsetails Equisetum giganteum Southern Giant Horsetail, from Latin America Equisetum telmateia Northern Giant Horsetail, from North America Equisetum myriochaetum Mexican Giant Horsetail, from Mexico In addition, any giant member of the Equisetopsida horsetails and their prehistoric relatives is liable to be called giant horsetail even though they are not true horsetails. Most often, the term giant horsetail in this somewhat inaccurate sense refers to Paleozoic Calamitaceae in the Mesozoic , the term usually refers to the Equisetites assemblage. dab ... more details
Giant Magnetoimpedance GMI is the large variations that the electrical impedance of some materials exhibits as a function of an external magnetic field. It should not be confused with Giant Magnetoresistance , which is a totally different physical phenomenon. Category Electromagnetism ... more details
Giant s Grave may refer to Giant s Grave Northern Ireland , an List of archaeological sites in County Antrim archaeological site in County Antrim Giant s Grave, a district within the Briton Ferry West electoral ward, Neath Port Talbot, Wales Giant s Grave , a folk song about the docks at Briton Ferry Briton Ferry floating dock Briton Ferry Giant s Grave, a feature of the prehistoric site at Parc Cwm long cairn , Swansea, Wales disambig ... more details
Penhill giant is a giant mythology giant found in English folklore and legends . The giant lived in a fortress on Penhill in Wensleydale , Yorkshire . There are general legends and tales about the giant which claim the giant ate flocks of sheep and terrorized maidens in the local area. ref Rosalind Kerven, English Fairy Tales and Legends, 2009, p. 153 ref ref http www.halikeld.f9.co.uk traditions bartle bartle2.htm ref Ian Taylor wrote the book The Giant of Penhill in which he claimed the legends about the giant could have had some basis in fact and the giant may be a lost terrestrial figure. Taylor also linked ley lines to Penhill. ref Ian Taylor, The Giant of Penhill, Publisher Northern Lights, 1987 ref ref http www.northernearth.co.uk foxhaunting.htm ref References Reflist Category English giants Category English legendary creatures Category Yorkshire folklore ... more details
Sleeping Giant may refer to In geology Sleeping Giant Connecticut , a traprock mountain ridge in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. Sleeping Giant Kauai , a mountain ridge on the island of Kauai near Kapaa, Hawaii, U.S. Sleeping Giant Ontario , a formation of mesas on Sibley Peninsula, Ontario, Canada The Sleeping Giant Abercraf , local name for hill called Cribarth, Powys, Wales The Sleeping Giant mountain and ridge in Montana in the U.S., part of the Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area In other uses Sleeping Giant band , a Christian metal band featuring members of xDEATHSTARx Sleeping Giant , a song by progressive metal band Mastodon band Mastodon from Blood Mountain album Blood Mountain Sleeping Giant , a mixtape by Tajai The Sleeping Giant , an episode of the animated television series The Care Bears TV series The Nelvana episodes ABC The Care Bears See also Isoroku Yamamoto s sleeping giant quote , a disputed film quotation, attributed to a Japanese admiral during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor geodis http www.newportpembs.co.uk articles sleepinggiant newport pembs.php Article on the Sleeping Giant at Newport Pembrokeshire in Wales, UK. ... more details
wiktionary ice giant ice giants Ice Giant or Ice giants may refer to A type of gas giant composed largely of materials less volatile than hydrogen and helium The frost giants hr m ursar of Norse mythology, see also Hrimthurs Troll Discworld Ice giants Godlike beings in Terry Pratchett s Discworld series disambiguation de Eisriese ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Star nav The luminosity class II in the Spectral classification Yerkes spectral classification Yerkes spectral classification is given to bright giants . These are star s which straddle the boundary between giant star giants and supergiant s, and the classification is in general given to giant stars with exceptionally high luminosity , but which are not sufficiently bright or massive to be classified as supergiants. Well known stars which are classified as bright giants include Epsilon Canis Majoris Adhara a blue white B type bright giant Gamma Ursae Minoris Pherkad a white A type bright giant Theta Scorpii Sargas a white F type bright giant Beta Capricorni Dabih a yellow white G type bright giant Alpha Hydrae Alphard an orange K type bright giant Alpha Herculis Rasalgethi a red M type bright giant See also supergiant giant star red giant spectral classification Star DEFAULTSORT Bright Giant Category Bright giant stars Category Star types Star stub ar ca Estel gegant llumin s cs Jasn obr de Heller Riese es Estrella gigante luminosa fa ko hi it Stella gigante brillante lt viesioji mil in no Lyssterk kjempe pt Estrela gigante luminosa ru sk Jasn obor fi Kirkas j ttil inen zh ... more details
Refimprove date October 2007 Infobox Company company name Giant Food LLC company logo File Giant Food logo.svg 150px Giant logo company type Subsidiary of Royal Ahold foundation 1936 location Landover ... industry Retail products Grocery slogan You ve Got A Giant On Your Side Employees 27,000 homepage http www.giantfood.com giantfood.com File Old Giant Food Logo.svg thumb right Giant s longtime logo, used from 1963 to 2008 Image Giant Food store at 8th and O Streets NW in Washington DC.jpg thumb 250px right Giant Landover store at 8th and O Streets NW in Washington, D.C. Giant Food LLC is a supermarket ... Giant Food http www.giantfood.com corporate company press display.htm?press id 345 Giant Food Press ... Locations . Giant Food. Retrieved on September 6, 2011. 8301 Professional Place, Suite 115 Landover, MD 20785. ref Giant often is known as Giant Landover to avoid confusion with sibling company Giant Carlisle . Giant Landover formerly was Giant of Maryland even though it was never exclusively a Maryland grocery chain. Citation needed date July 2009 In 2004, Giant Landover merged with sister company Stop & Shop to create Stop & Shop Giant Landover , which itself is a subsidiary of Netherlands based Royal Ahold . In 2006, Giant signed a five year agreement with Starbucks Coffee to open Starbucks locations in several of Giant s stores. ref name Starbucks cite news first Marcus last Moore title Deal will bring Starbucks to some Giant stores url http www.gazette.net stories 022406 businew183918 31953.shtml publisher Gazette.net date February 24, 2006 accessdate 2007 06 17 ref Giant introduced ... news first Andrea K. last Walker title Giant Food to unveil new logo today url http www.baltimoresun.com ... Fisher first Eric title Dutch Retailer Royal Ahold to Wrap Up Acquisition of Maryland s Giant Foods ... Tribune Business News date 1998 09 21 External links commonscat Giant Landover http www.giantfood.com Giant Food http www.stopandshop.com Stop & Shop List of Ahold American Grocery Stores Category Companies ... more details
Infobox Software name GIANT AntiSpyware logo screenshot Image GIANT AntiSpyware screenshot.png 250px caption A former version of the software collapsible author developer Formerly GIANT Company Software, Inc released latest release version Windows Defender frequently updated programming language operating system Windows 2000 , Windows XP , and Windows Server 2003 Server 2003 platform size language status genre Category Spyware removal Spyware removal software license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.microsoft.com athome security spyware software Windows Defender GIANT AntiSpyware was a spyware detection and removal application developed by GIANT Company Software, Inc . GIANT Company Software, Inc. was acquired by Microsoft Corporation on December 16, 2004. ref cite press release url http www.microsoft.com presspass press 2004 dec04 12 16GIANTPR.mspx title Microsoft Acquires Anti Spyware Leader GIANT Company ref GIANT AntiSpyware is no longer sold and Microsoft stopped releasing spyware definition updates for it in August 2006. Microsoft s Windows Defender formerly Microsoft AntiSpyware program is built upon a restructured version of GIANT AntiSpyware. Sunbelt s Counterspy was based on GIANT and is still usable this day. But, the code is completely different now than GIANT. References reflist Category Computer security software Category Spyware removal Windows stub ... more details
distinguish Giant Food disambiguation Food Giant may refer to one of several unrelated food retailers United Kingdom Food Giant UK retailer , a defunct supermarket chain owned by Somerfield United States Food Giant Missouri retailer , a chain operating stores under both Food Giant and Piggly Wiggly names, now owned by Houchens Industries Other small, locally owned chains or single stores operating under the Food Giant name are located in Miami, Florida San Diego, California Birmingham, Alabama and Columbus, Mississippi disambig Category Supermarkets of the United States Category Supermarkets of the United Kingdom food company stub ... more details
Other uses Jolly Green Giant disambiguation Refimprove date August 2011 Green Giant and Le Sueur are brands of frozen and canned vegetables owned by General Mills . The mascot of Green Giant is the Jolly Green Giant . In Canada, the brand Le Sieur is used instead of Le Sueur . Company and brand history ... Giant was originally used for a large variety of pea, Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas , in 1925. The figure of a giant was introduced in 1928. The company was renamed to the Green Giant Company in 1950 ... Mills . ref Our Story , http www.greengiant.com pages our story.aspx Green Giant web page ref The Valley Image JollyGreenGiantBlueEarthMN2006 05 20.JPG thumb Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota . The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant refers to the Minnesota River valley around Le Sueur ... 169 in Minnesota U.S. Route 169 an enormous wooden sign of the Jolly Green Giant, along with Sprout ... on Route 169, in the City of Blue Earth, Minnesota , a statue of the Jolly Green Giant is also open ... on fiberglass statue of the Jolly Green Giant to commemorate the linking of the east and west sections ... US type landmark name Jolly Green Giant statue Blue Earth, Minnesota . The statue attracts over 10,000 visitors a year. The 55 foot statue of the Green Giant in Blue Earth was the idea of Paul Hedberg ... of each traveller interview Hedberg presented guests a sample of Green Giant corn and peas which had been canned in the local Blue Earth Green Giant plant. A common theme arising in interviews was a desire to see the Green Giant. In 1977 Hedberg contacted Thomas H. Wyman, President of Green Giant ... take a picture standing directly under the Green Giant. Blue Earth is at the end of the Minnesota River Valley and still has a canning plant formerly owned by Green Giant that continues to can corn and peas each summer. The Blue Earth Green Giant statue was erected in 1978 to coincide with the opening ... www.greengiant.com Green Giant homepage http adage.com century icon03.html History of the Jolly ... more details
Refimprove date June 2009 Ishi Giant , is a giant sequoia in California , United States. It is located in Kennedy Grove , which is part of a group of eight closely spaced giant sequoia groves situated in Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada U.S. Sierra Nevada in eastern central California . Ishi Giant was only found in the 1990s, which shows that there may be more supergiant sequoias yet to be discovered. The Ishi Giant has a ground perimeter of convert 105.1 ft m , one of the largest of all sequoias. This tree has a massive base, a rival to the famous General Sherman tree . The tree is badly burnt and stands at a height of convert 255.0 ft m . It has a volume of 1,110 cubic meters which ranks it as the List of largest giant sequoias 14th largest giant sequoia on earth and 15th largest tree of all due to the fact a coast redwood named Lost Monarch is larger, with a volume of 1,203 cubic meters . See also List of largest giant sequoias List of trees References reflist Category Trees of California Category Individual giant sequoia trees Category Kings Canyon National Park tree stub ... more details
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