Colossus the Fire Dragon came to Lagoon in 1983, to huge crowds and great reviews as it was selected by People Magazine in 1984 as one of the top 10 coaster rides in the country.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Wonders typically affect either the city in which they are built ( for example, the Colossus ), every city on the continent ( for example, the Hanging Gardens ), or the civilization as a whole ( for example, Darwin's Voyage ).

* In The Colossus of New York ( 1958 ), a father transplants the brain of his recently-deceased son into a large robotic body.

Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.

Of these, Thor was disqualified for throwing his hammer ( he was allowed to use it since he was powerless without it ), The Incredible Hulk was disqualified because the Champion refused to " soil his hands on a mindless animal ," Wonder Man was disqualified for tearing up the ring after being battered badly in the first round, Sasquatch was knocked out in the first round, and Colossus was defeated by technical knockout in the first round when he was unable to continue fighting.

Using about 1, 500 vacuum tubes ( 2, 400 for Mk2 ), Colossus replaced an earlier machine based on relay and switch logic ( the Heath Robinson ).

Other technological and engineering feats achieved during, or as a result of, the war include the world's first programmable computers ( Z3, Colossus, and ENIAC ), guided missiles and modern rockets, the Manhattan Project's development of nuclear weapons, operations research and the development of artificial harbours and oil pipelines under the English Channel.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

* Colossus ( Walt Mink album ), 1997

* Colossus ( comics ), a superhero in the X-Men comic book series

* Colossus ( novel ), a 1966 science fiction novel by D. F. Jones about a computer that takes over the world

* Colossus ( collection ), a collection of science fiction short stories by Donald Wandrei

* Colossus ( Six Flags Magic Mountain ), a wooden roller coaster in Valencia, California

* Colossus ( Ferris wheel ), a Ferris wheel

* Colossus ( Thorpe Park ), a roller coaster in Chertsey, England

These wings are composed of a hard, sharp, organic material that resembles the " organic steel " of Colossus ' body.

At the insistence of Marvel editors, Ellis also added Wolfsbane ( Rahne Sinclair ), a Scottish werewolf-like young woman from the New Mutants, and Colossus ( Peter Rasputin ), a Russian X-Man who could turn his flesh into " organic steel.

She was targeted by several Skrull impostors while staying in Japan, however, Elektra fought and killed most of these Skrulls ( including Siri ), before being blindsided and severely beaten by a Super Skrull manifesting Invisible Woman's invisibility and Colossus ' organic steel armor.

Colossus, who did not want any more people to suffer his sister's fate, snuck into McCoy's lab and injected the cure into himself and activated his mutant powers, transforming his body into organic steel.

Paige could also adopt specific " bio patterns " to affect specific individuals, including a complex acid that could affect the organic steel skin of Colossus and an energy form Shadowcat could not phase through.

* Colossus ( Piotr Rasputin ), a quiet, contemplative Russian who could transform his entire body into " organic steel ", increasing his size, strength, speed and endurance while making him virtually indestructible.

The two roller coasters seen in the film are Revolution, which can be recognized by the vertical loop, and Colossus, the double-track wooden roller coaster.

The park's first large roller coaster, Colossus, was added in 2002.

It has nine roller coasters, three of which are unique ; one of these being Colossus the Fire Dragon, which is the only Schwarzkopf Double Looping coaster still in operation ( Laser at Dorney Park closed at the end of the 2008 season ).

Entrance of Magnus Colossus, the wooden roller coaster.

In 1978, Colossus, at the time the fastest, largest dual-tracked wooden coaster, opened.

Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present.

* Cragon, Harvey G. From Fish to Colossus: How the German Lorenz Cipher was Broken at Bletchley Park ( Cragon Books, Dallas, 2003 ; ISBN 0-9743045-0-6 ) – A detailed description of the cryptanalysis of Tunny, and some details of Colossus ( contains some minor errors )

* Walk through video of the Colossus rebuild at Bletchley Park

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

A reconstructed working copy of one of the Colossus machines is now on display at Bletchley Park.

His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

At the end of the session, Colossus throws Wolverine at the robot and he beheads it.

* Colossus, a Reticulated Python, once considered the largest in captivity, when kept at a zoo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He also had the head of the Colossus of Nero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced with his own portrait, gave it a club and placed a bronze lion at its feet to make it look like Hercules, and added an inscription boasting of being " the only left-handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men ".

The existing Aqua Claudia aqueduct was extended to supply water to the area and the gigantic bronze Colossus of Nero was set up nearby at the entrance to the Domus Aurea.

The enormous stone foundations at the temple site, the function of which is not definitively known by modern scholars, are proposed by Vedder to have been the supporting platform of the Colossus.

* In the PlayStation 2 game God of War II, both Rhodes and the Colossus of Rhodes are featured at the start of the game, offering an interactive theory as to how the Colossus was destroyed.

Even what was widely accepted as the largest ever " accurately " measured snake, that being Colossus, a male kept at the Highland Park Zoo ( now Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1950s and early 1960s, with a peak reported length of, recently turned out to be wrong.

Things considered to be wonders of the world include several statues, with the Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the Moai of Easter Island considered for inclusion in various lists of wonders of the modern world.

The code-breaking Colossus computer, used at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill by a team led by Tommy Flowers.

Though they were not part of the team as featured in the animated series, the following X-Men have all guest-starred in at least one episode: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, Forge, Havok, Polaris, Cannonball, Banshee, Northstar, Iceman, Archangel, Longshot, Dazzler, Sunfire, Quicksilver, Psylocke, Cable, and Bishop.

Colossus and Guardian at first ask why the link has been disconnected, and then when told it was due to the insistence of both country's leaders, the machines then insist that the link be restored.

Guardian / Colossus then instructs the governments to redirect all nuclear missiles at those countries that are not yet under its control.

The exterior scenes of the Colossus control center were filmed at the Lawrence Hall of Science museum at the University of California, Berkeley.