The fossil record indicates that before 50, 000 years ago, giant koalas inhabited the southern regions of Australia.

By 1958, A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. was an industrial giant with over 50, 000 employees in a far-flung empire of 44 companies involved in coal mining, steel making, railway rolling stock, aircraft and aero-engine manufacturing, as well as computers and electronics.

Neither Britain nor Ireland has managed to produce much in the way of giant pike in the last 50 years and as a result there is substantial doubt surrounding those earlier claims.

The giant antenna, which was a landmark to sailors on Buzzards Bay, was erected on top of a 50, 000-gallon water tank.

Inside the park there sit 50 giant metal creatures designed by welding extra metal junk together.

Of these 50 there is a longhorn, a giant pink rocking horse, and a magic dragon.

There are also many mid-size firms, with anywhere from 50 to 200 attorneys and since the 1970s, some law firms have merged to form giant firms with 1, 000 attorneys or more.

In addition, fast electrons of energy over about 50 MeV may also induce giant dipole resonance in nuclides by a mechanism which is the inverse of internal conversion, and electron linacs can be used directly as sources of " virtual photons " that produce bombardment neutrons by a mechanism similar to that of photoneutrons.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way at about 50 kpc () from the Sun, contains a giant H II region called the Tarantula Nebula.

* Mokele Mbembe: A giant, aquatic sauropod that tried to eat Leo and his friends while they were trying to help Floppo in episode 50.

Larger aneurysms include those classified as large ( 15 to 25 mm ), giant ( 25 to 50 mm ), and super giant ( over 50 mm ).

The Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ), for example, reaches up to, feeds on fish and crustaceans, and has been known to live for more than 50 years in captivity.

The giant drew such crowds that showman P. T. Barnum offered $ 50, 000 for the giant.

Although officially an affiliated company of consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation, which owns 50. 6 percent of the company, Aiwa prides itself on its independent operation and competes head on with Sony in several product categories.

Water from the bore hole is collected into a giant master tank, which remains at least 50 % full at all times.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

Located on Calea Vitan approximately 1 km outside Bucharest's historic center, the four-story, 50, 000 m² mall opened in 1999, in a Ceauşescu-era abandoned hunger circus, or giant food warehouse, in an area largely shaped during the Communist period ( see Ceauşima ).

A giant 50 sqm screen was placed on the side of the opera house facing Kärntnerstraße.

This statistical parallax method is useful for measuring the distances of bright stars beyond 50 parsecs and giant variable stars, including Cepheids and the RR Lyrae variables.

Elasmotherium (" Thin Plate Beast ") is an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during the Late Pliocene through the Pleistocene, documented from 2. 6 Ma to as late as 50, 000 years ago, possibly later, in the Late Pleistocene, an approximate span of slightly less than 2. 6 million years.

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 ).

Kelps can range in size from the two-foot-tall sea palm Postelsia to the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera, which grows to over 45 m ( 150 ft ) long and is the largest of all the algae.

In an attempt to increase safety for the 2003 – 04 season, the FIS increased the minimum sidecut radius for giant slalom skis to 21 m ( 69 ft ) and for the first time imposed minimum ski lengths for GS: 185 cm ( 72. 8 in.

The giant, red concretions occurring in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, in North Dakota, are almost 3 m ( 10 ft ) in diameter.

Somewhat weathered and eroded giant cannonball concretions, as large as 6 meters ( 18 ft ) in diameter, occur in abundance at " Rock City " in Ottawa County, Kansas.

Photographic analysis of giant pines suggests volumes closer to 34 m³ ( 1, 200 cu ft ).

In the wild, giant danios live in clear streams and rivers among hills at elevations up to 1000 ft ( 300 m ) above sea level.

The vestibule and Palm House were built and opened to the public in 1892 and contain giant palms and rubber trees, including a 15 m ( 50 ft ) fiddle-leaf rubber tree planted in 1891.

Three giant desilting basins and seventy-two 770 ft ( 230 m ) scrapers hold and desilt the water ; the removed silt is carried away by six sludge-pipes running under the Colorado River that dump the sediment into the California sluiceway, which returns the silt to the Colorado River.

A raised-relief map made of wood representing all the provinces of the empire and put together like a giant 0. 93 m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 10 ft < sup > 2 </ sup >) jigsaw puzzle was invented by Xie Zhuang ( 421 – 466 AD ) during the Liu Song Dynasty ( 420 – 479 ).

One study of an extinct giant crocodilian, Deinosuchus, indicated that it grew at about the same rate as modern crocodiles, up to 0. 5 m ( 1. 5 ft ) per year.

The giant of the tiger snakes species, it averages 1. 9 m ( over 6 ft ) in length.

A crew of four could prepare and get all three airborne in 45 minutes, launching them with a 120 ft ( 37 m ) catapult on the fore deck of the giant submarine.

It is a street art where the performer balances a giant flag that ranges from 25 ft to 32 ft in height and about 60 pounds in weigh.

In June 1999 Hide faced the 6 ft 8in Ukrainian giant Vitali Klitschko, only the second world ranked fighter he had actually faced after Riddick Bowe.

In 2005 fossilized remains of a giant crocodilian, estimated to have been 46 ft ( 14m ) in length, were discovered in the northern rainforest of Amazonian Peru.

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.

These liquids are held in either special containers known as Dewar flasks, which are generally about six feet tall ( 1. 8 m ) and three feet ( 91. 5 cm ) in diameter, or giant tanks in larger commercial operations.

Their efforts are hampered by the arrival of a nosy reporter and by the sudden presence of 2-meter tall giant praying mantises.

This is in accordance with Bower who states that Wallace was " a tall man with the body of a giant ... with lengthy flanks ... broad in the hips, with strong arms and legs ... with all his limbs very strong and firm ".

* 11 January-Workers in a sandpit in the Dauphiné discover the skeleton of what is to be alleged to be a 30-foot tall man, the remains, it is thought, of the giant Teutobochus, a legendary Gallic king who fought the Romans.

Saul was chosen to lead the Israelites against their enemies, but when faced with Goliath he refuses to do so ; Goliath is a giant, and Saul is a very tall man.

The King James Bible ( KJV ) reports the giant Goliath as " six cubits and a span " in height — over nine feet tall, ( over 2. 75 m ) ( 1 Samuel 17: 4 KJV ), but the Septuagint, a Greek Bible, also gives Goliath's height as " four cubits and a span " (~ 2. 00 m ).

In Arabic, Imlik () is the singular of giant, and the plural is ( عمالقة, ʿamāliqah ) or ( عماليق, ʿamālīq ), suggesting the sons of this tribe were known for being unusually tall.

Despite the fact that Mary was tall for her age ( eventually reaching, making her almost a giant in the sixteenth century ) and fluent in speech, while Francis was abnormally short and stuttered, Henry II commented that " from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time ".

On the outside of another exit from Fraggle Rock, through a well, live a family of Gorgs, giant furry humanoids standing tall.

It was also home to eunuchoidal giant Bernard Coyne, who was over 8 feet ( 243 cm ) tall.

In the giant order pilasters appear as two-storeys tall, linking floors in a single unit.

Also, the BFG says that the evil giants are twice as tall as him, so he's a comparatively runty giant.

The Boreades were thus believed to be giant kings, around 3 metres tall, who ruled Hyperborea.

He is popularly said to have been extremly tall and well built, almost a giant.

According to a 17th-century ballad, he was a giant of a man ( at least seven feet tall ) who was named John Little.

Completed in 2008, Star of Lake Tai is a tall giant Ferris wheel on the shoreline of the lake.

Garganta was returned to human form by the Gammazons, a race of giant alien Amazon women, which left her tall with the mind of a passive sea mammal.

On the north side of the courtyard were storage rooms with giant earthenware pithos jars, up to two metres tall.

For example, removal of incense-cedar and white fir from 1 to 10 feet ( 0. 3 – 3 m ) tall in giant sequoia forests had little impact on western tanager density.

On the other hand, for the reviewers and the pundits and the critics and the net-stalkers who have done nothing but rag on this show for five years straight, it is also a giant middle finger composed of red neon fifty stories tall, that will burn forever in the night.

Perhaps the most common claim is that Meganthropus was a giant, one unsourced claim put them at 9 feet ( 2. 75 m ) tall and 750 to 1000 pounds ( 340 to 450 kilograms ).

Wallace noted in a notation on the script that Kong is 30 feet tall, thus establishing Kong as a giant ape.