Hera then sent the giant Tityos to kill Leto.

One was the giant Tityos, a phallic being who grew so vast that he split his mother's womb and had to be carried to term by Gaia herself.

Euphemus's mother is variously named: Europe, daughter of the giant Tityos ; Doris or Mecionice, daughter of either Eurotas or Orion.

It is the eighth largest moon of Jupiter and is named after Elara, one of Zeus's lovers and the mother of the giant Tityos.

* A giant from Greek mythology ( see Tityos )

In Greek mythology, Elara was a mortal Princess, the daughter of King Orchomenus and mother of giant Tityos.

This was where she gave birth to Tityos, a giant who is sometimes said to be the son of Gaia, the Earth goddess, for this reason.

Alternatively, it may be the slaying of the giant Tityos, who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of the Niobids.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.

The passage of the Sherman Act was aimed at giant monopolies.

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

Only Cromwell, the giant boatswain, was mild-mannered and respectful.

The night we first met, at one of Mrs. Monmouth's giant parties, he was wearing a brown cashmere jacket with silver buttons and a soft pink Viyella shirt ; ;

In the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, right up to the early nineteenth century, the painter was a giant in the world.

Finally, there was also a strange group of giant marine amoeboids, the xenophyophores, that did not fall into any of these categories.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.

John Tzetzes says that it was the skin of the monstrous giant Pallas whom Athena overcame and whose name she attached to her own ( name ).

In the case of Arcturus, this was an interesting discovery as it is known that the redder ( more towards or within the M spectral class ) a giant gets, the more variable it will be.

The Murray River was formed when Totyerguil the hunter speared Otjout, a giant Murray Cod, who, when wounded, churned a channel across southern Australia before entering the sky as the constellation Delphinus.

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

There was a mighty hiss of compressed air from her tanks and the U-27 vanished from sight in a vortex of giant rumbling bubbles, leaving a pall of smoke over the spot where she had been.

Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom even the Greek gods feared.

Brian Marsden of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams noted that the comet lay only about 4 degrees from Jupiter as seen from Earth, and that while this could of course be a line of sight effect, its apparent motion in the sky suggested that it was physically close to the giant planet.

One of the great debates in advance of the impact was whether the effects of the impact of such small bodies would be noticeable from Earth, apart from a flash as they disintegrated like giant meteors.

This impact created a giant dark spot over 12, 000 km across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6, 000, 000 megatons of TNT ( 600 times the world's nuclear arsenal ).

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Industrial activities initially centred around tobacco and textile and boomed with the rise of lighting and electronics giant Philips, which was founded as a light bulb manufacturing company in Eindhoven in 1891.

The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star was made in 1995, when a giant planet was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51 Pegasi.

* Mimas ( giant ), son of Gaia in Greek mythology, one of the Gigantes slain by Hephaistos

* Leon: the lion headed giant slain by Herakles in the giants war

When the giant Ymir subsequently was slain by Odin, Vili and Vé ( the grandsons of Búri ), his blood ( i. e. water ) deluged Niflheim and killed all of the jötnar, apart from one known as Bergelmir and his spouse, who then repopulated their kind.

An even older British connection to Gog and Magog appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 12th century Historia Regum Britanniae, which states that Goemagot was a giant slain by the eponymous Cornish hero Corin or Corineus.

Arthal is to mean " bear ", while Morvidus was to have slain a giant " with a young ash tree torn up by the roots.

King Arthur's encounter with the giant of St Michael's Mount-or Mont Saint Michel in Brittany-was related by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae in 1136, and published by Sir Thomas Malory in 1485 in the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Le Morte d ' Arthur: Then came to Arthur an husbandman ... and told him how there was ... a great giant which had slain, murdered and devoured much people of the country ... journeyed to the Mount, discovered the giant roasting dead children, ... and hailed him, saying ... rise and dress thee, thou glutton, for this day shalt thou die of my hand.

Cormoran ( sometimes Cormilan, Cormelian, Gormillan, or Gourmaillon ) is the first giant slain by Jack.

The mountain range to the north which divides Archenland from Narnia includes Stormness Head and the double-peaked Mount Pire, which was once a two-headed giant slain by the warrior Olvin.

* Yamata no Orochi 八岐大蛇 " 8-branched giant snake " was an 8-headed and 8-tailed dragon slain by the god of wind and sea Susanoo, who discovered the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi ( legendary sword of the Imperial Regalia of Japan ) in one of its tails.

The tremendous energy released by giant rocket engines perhaps can be felt much better than it can be heard.

The Abernathy furnace consumed fuel like a giant ravenous maw that had to be appeased by hurling tons of coal into its evil red depths, and no matter how much coal they put in the house remained cold.

Recent observations by the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite may explain the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.

Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

The goddess held a lance whose gilt tip could be seen as a reflection by crews on ships rounding Cape Sounion, and a giant shield on the left side, decorated by Mys with images of the fight between the Centaurs and the Lapiths.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

Arcturus is a type K1. 5 IIIpe orange giant star — the letters " pe " stand for " peculiar emission ," which indicates that the spectrum of light given off by the star is unusual and full of emission lines.

Oil refining survived the shocks of the 1990s because of a continuing export market and the purchase of the Burgas refinery by the Russian oil giant LUKoil.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.

On the ground, four giant panzer armies encircled surprised and disorganized Soviet forces, followed by marching infantry which completed the encirclement and defeated the trapped forces.

Their residence, an old mansion, is guarded by a giant octopus of Dr. Vornoff's own creation which lives in the surrounding swamp.

The Eurypterids were also diverse, and are represented by such genera as Eurypterus, Glyptoscorpius, Anthraconectes, Megarachne ( originally misinterpreted as a giant spider ) and the specialised very large Hibbertopterus.

Cane toads have been confused with the giant burrowing frog ( Heleioporus australiacus ), because both are large and warty in appearance ; however, the latter can be readily distinguished from the former by its vertical pupils and its silver-grey ( as opposed to gold ) iris.

Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.

Astronomers were surprised by these " hot Jupiters ," since theories of planetary formation had indicated that giant planets should only form at large distances from stars.

MS Beluga Skysails is the world's first commercial container cargo ship partially powered by a giant computer-controlled kite ( 160 m² or 1, 722 sq ft ).

The flag has become a powerful symbol of Americanism, and is proudly flown on many occasions, with giant outdoor flags used by retail outlets to draw customers.

Farmer Giles is granted this antiquated sword — by then become unfashionable — as a reward for driving off a giant from his fields with his blunderbuss.

This approach was not favoured by most of the effects crew, who " couldn't believe " some of the things Tsuburaya asked them to do, such as Kong and Godzilla volleying a giant boulder back and forth.