His first cartoon was Lord Jack the Giant Killer, which showed Lord John Russell assailing Cardinal Wiseman.

World heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson ( boxer ) | Jack Johnson, nicknamed the " Galveston Giant "

Later Jack Johnson, nicknamed the “ Galveston Giant ”, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.

Fairy tales such as Jack the Giant Killer have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, sometimes said to eat humans, especially children ( though this is actually a confusion with ogres, which are distinctly cannibalistic ).

Giants figure in a great many fairy tales and folklore stories, such as Jack the Giant Killer, The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Nix Nought Nothing, Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon, Young Ronald, and Paul Bunyan.

John Arthur (" Jack ") Johnson ( March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946 ), nicknamed the " Galveston Giant ," was an American boxer.

In Charles de Lint's novel Jack, the Giant Killer, the Hunt is re-imagined in the modern world as riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

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He shared the stage with other prodigies, including his friends Jim Tarver, the Texas Giant ; Jack Earle, the Tallest Man in the World ; Koo-Koo the Bird Girl and many others.

One episode, " The Giant Jack Rabbit ", was the highest rated half-hour on television to that time and remains the most watched half-hour sitcom episode.

Many British fairy tales, such as Jack the Giant Killer and The Black Bull of Norroway, feature shapeshifting.

" Jack the Giant Killer " is a Cornish fairy tale about a plucky lad who slays a number of giants during King Arthur's reign.

Jack encounters a cattle-devouring giant called Cormoran ( Cornish: ' The Giant of the Sea ') and lures him to his death in a pit trap.

Tales of monsters and heroes are abundant around the world, making the source of " Jack the Giant Killer " difficult to pin down however the ascription of Jack relation to Cornwall suggests a Brythonic ( Celtic ) origin.

The title page from A Little Pretty Pocket-Book ( 1744 ) promises the reader two letters from Jack the Giant Killer.

In " Jack and Arthur: An Introduction to Jack the Giant Killer ", Thomas Green writes that Jack has no place in Cornish folklore, but was created at the beginning of the eighteenth century simply as a framing device for a series of gory, giant-killing adventures.

The tales of Arthur precede and inform " Jack the Giant Killer ", he notes, but points out that Le Morte d ' Arthur had been out of print since 1634 and concludes from this fact that the public had grown weary of Arthur.

She points out however that " Jack the Giant Killer " is rendered directly from the chapbooks except the English hasty pudding in the incident of the belly-slashing Welsh giant becomes mush.

Carol Rose reports in Giants, Monsters, and Dragons that the tale of Jack the Giant Killer may be a development of the Corineus and Gogmagog legend.

* In 2002, crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, in Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper — Case Closed, maintained that Sickert was Jack the Ripper.

Recent slasher examples are Hatchet and its sequel, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, The Pumpkin Karver, Hellbent, Slash, Holla, MTV's My Super Psycho Sweet 16, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, Grizzly Park, April Fools, The Legend of Bloody Jack, Trick ' r Treat, Killer Movie and many more.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed.

For example, American author Patricia Cornwell wrote a best-selling book titled Portrait of a Killer about the personality, background, and possible motivations of Jack the Ripper, as well as the media coverage of his murders, and the subsequent police investigation of his crimes.

This movie spawned a sequel: Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, also starring this version of Jack Frost.

In the version of " Jack the Giant Killer " recorded by Joseph Jacobs, Blunderbore lives in Penwith, where he kidnaps three lords and ladies, planning to eat the men and make the women his wives.

In 1962, United Artists released a middle budget film produced by Edward Small and directed by Nathan H. Juran called Jack the Giant Killer.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

`` Let's play with 'em '', Jack said, rising from where he sat on the ground and dusting off his overall pants.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

He had only agreed with Miss Ada about getting the valet, but he had actually suggested the photograph to Mr. Jack.

Jack Boissoneault, who was with us last month ; ;

Mrs. Molvar asked again that the board join in taking a stand in keeping with Jack Lowe's program.

I know a guy named Jack Hamrick, a very bright young engineer who was with Chrysler, and I took him with me to Allstates.

Spike-haired, burly, red-faced, decked with horn-rimmed glasses and an Ivy League suit, Jack Hamrick awaited William at the officers' club.

Secretary Hart had taught Jack, at least partially, to be content with small beginnings in all diplomatic matters ; ;

Jack Hobbs establishing himself as England's first-choice opening batsman with three centuries, while Frank Foster ( 32 wickets at 21. 62 ) and Sydney Barnes ( 34 wickets at 22. 88 ) formed a formidable bowling partnership.

Bradman and Jack Fingleton injured themselves during Hutton's marathon effort, and with only nine men, Australia fell to defeat by an innings and 578 runs, the heaviest in Test history.

image: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA.

Edited, with an Afterword by Jack F. Sharrar.

Capp peopled his comic strip with an assortment of memorable characters, including Marryin ' Sam, Hairless Joe, Lonesome Polecat, Evil-Eye Fleegle, General Bullmoose, Lena the Hyena, Senator Jack S. Phogbound ( Capp's caricature of the anti-New Deal Dixiecrats ), the ( shudder!

It was directed by George Abbott and produced by Hal Prince, with choreography by Jack Cole and uncredited staging and choreography by Jerome Robbins.

Along with Mostel, the musical featured a cast of seasoned performers, including Jack Gilford ( Mostel's friend and fellow blacklist member ), David Burns, John Carradine, Ruth Kobart and Raymond Walburn.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

His elder brother, Jack, initially went to work applying to the Police Service before also becoming a professional footballer with Leeds United.

It is only played with two bowls each, the Jack also has a bias and is only slightly smaller than the Bowls.